If DC can take a hint, Todd Phillips needs a script for 'Transmetropolitan' ASAP

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2019)

With all the goofy, CIA-Project-Mockingbird Media surrounding this, PR firms starting fights in the blogosphere, oligarchs in silicon valley (and so DOD) raking in the ad revenue- with all the hype- 'The Joker' is really just a cartoonish character study, and really more of an homage to a certain type of character- a meditation on absurdity and chaos, than it is some 'brilliant psychological' work. The hype surrounding it sort of shot themselves in the foot, considering the violence, agitation, and chaos was coming more from their assumptions, anodyne analyses of the film, than from the film itself. The American people, and others around the world, are just sick and tired of being dismissed, and any characters who can animate this in an accurate way are bound to get attention- they strike a chord, and they should. And for those of you who think this was some brilliant piece of psychology- see the films of Bergman, Cassavetes, Haneke, Dreyer- those are some of the true masters of psychology in film. Not to play down Todd Phillips effort here- he did as good a job as someone could probably do w this material, and it was cool that they had no problem admitting it's homage to films like Taxi Driver and Fight Club. The truth is, until Frank Miller came around, the Joker really wasn't this interesting- people kind of built him this way, especially after the death of Heath Ledger cemented the role's legacy. A much better, more controversial DC character- and better comic in my opinion- has yet to see the screen- Transmetropolitan. Today's environment, with the indictment of Assange, mysterious death and labyrinthine past of Jeffrey Epstein- as Whitney Webb has chronicled on Mintpress News- this cynical, yet noirish technocracy- that is the world of Transmetropolitan. And the hero, or anti-hero, Spider Jerusalem, is what this new Joker wishes he could be. DC- get the best script of Transmetropolitan to Todd Phillips, pronto! You've got territory here that Marvel is clearly scared to explore- the territory of the counterculture.