Just saw Dark
Knight Rises. Cool stuff! I thought of this
piece when I watched it. Yeah, Bruce Wayne is definitely more of
a feudal lord than a Bain-style capitalist who spends all day
watching financial numbers go up and down and jumping in to make
quickie deals. Bruce is definitely more of a baron whose estate
largely runs itself so that he is largely free to concentrate on other things.
Is this
movie a story of a lone hero who singlehandedly saves everybody? Ehh,
not really. As
I noted with Thor, whose “posse” consists of the Warriors
Three, Thor isn't really a Superman-style lone hero as much as
he's the head of a small super-hero team who occasionally has to go
running off on his own. Batman definitely has a posse here and
clearly has to lean on folks to carry on in his absence when he's
taken out of action.
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