case study - chris nolan joins the lodge here's how i think it goes: you're an indie director. you have a hit indie movie. you get approached. "would you like to join the lodge? lots of others like you have. it's the way to get ahead in this town". of course what you hear is "if you don't......" so anyway, once you decide to join you've got to make one or more of these movies to let them know you're "on message", so to speak.  so after memento a large pile of cash is hurled at nolan and he is given batman.  batman is a bit special. you know it's special. jack nicholson talked about how dangerous it was to play "the joker" and let yourself be taken over. this is because the joker is azazel. the antichrist. the artist even admitted that back in the day. that's why there's always media wankery over when a new actor is chosen to be the joker. there's always hype.  anyway, there's three batman movies and they feature batman (samyaza/satan), the joker (azazel) and then rhas al-ghul, bane and talia al-ghul. who are the latter three? god the father god the son god the holy ghost (the feminine elusive aspect) act 1 has rhas al ghul. he heads up the league of shadows (the angels). batman joins the angels to be trained by rhas al ghul. then there's a bit with a hallucinogen which shows batman the true nature of the angels - shining eyed robots who move in synch (because regular angels who don't rebel can't think for themselves, right?) this "hallucinogen" is no such thing. it shows "reality" hence when someone huffs it later in the film he sees batman as a huge horrible demon, which he is, he's fucking satan.  anyway batman/satan kills god in a train accident or something, not sure, i damn near fell asleep in this movie.  the dark knight aka everyone loves azazel. let's face it, batman is boring. the joker is the cool one. he has the clown face because he taught mankind cosmetics, he's the agent of chaos (he says so) cont...
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