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Aug 28, 2019 · Martin Scorsese's vicious 1984 film The King of Comedy was the Joker origin movie we had before they started making Joker origin movies like the Joaquin Phoenix film.
- William Bibbiani
If, finally, in 1984, Orwell was presenting a satiric antiuniverse, with the expressed political intention of alerting democracy to the perils of its only and coming alternative, totalitarianism...
The primary literary model for Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered to be H.G. Wells's anti-Utopian satire When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), but Orwell was also influenced by the writings of the 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels (1726).
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote under the pen name George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
- George Orwell
- 1949
Abstract. Nilsson brings into conversation Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman, Frank Miller’s (1996) highly influential graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, and the film The Dark Knight (2008) to suggest a transmedia analysis of the Joker as satire. Nilsson relies upon a framework for understanding and analyzing satire suggested by Paul ...
Oct 4, 2024 · Yes, the Joker’s traditional story of a criminal and/or sad sack getting dunked in acid and turning pasty white, green, and red is fun, but the Joker might be more akin to a slasher villain,...
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These experiences provide much of the political satire of 1984. The Spanish Civil War catalyzed Orwell and made him highly critical of authoritarian tendencies on the left. Much of the Party’s brutality, paranoia, and betrayals are drawn from the Great Purges of 1936–1938 in the Soviet Union.
