No clear link between Batman film, US shooting

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Is there any connection between deadly shooting in Colorado movie theater and movie's plot?

20 July,2012 08:55 pm

In The Dark Knight Rises, a masked villain leads a murderous crew into a packed football stadium and wages an attack involving guns and explosives. Its one of the more haunting scenes in what was one of the most anticipated movies of the summer.Its unclear whether the shooters motives had any specific link the film. The shooting happened early into the midnight screening that marked the films opening day.Violent attacks on the public by villains are key parts of most superhero movies, including The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-man, both in theaters now.By Hollywood standards, the Batman movies are more grim than bloody.But there are general parallels among the Colorado shooting, The Dark Knight and the comic book character:Bruce Waynes drive to become Batman arose from witnessing the deaths of his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, at the hands of a small-time criminal who shot and killed them after they left a movie theater.The Batman video game called Arkham City takes place in an abandoned movie theatre (The Monarch, outside which Waynes parents were killed).In the third issue of DC Comics Batman: The Dark Knight, a gritty retooling of the Batman character that was written by Frank Miller in the 1980s, the Joker kills an entire late-night TV audience with gas.In the same book, a man starts shooting up a porn theater after getting fired from his job.The Dark Knight Rises features at least two scenes where unsuspecting people are attacked in a public venue: the stock exchange and a football stadium.