Yeah, her interpretation of being Zorro is rather …..unusual 😆
At this point in the story, she is more like a villainess than a heroine.
I really enjoy the scenes a lot where she is masked. It’s a good disguise (apart from the face paint she is also using without the mask) and besides her people and him, nobody knows who she is underneath that mask.
The secret identity is intact. But that might change in a future episode… 😉
The quick self-unmasking and re-masking here is also a nice treat in this one.
I will post more from this show in the upcoming weeks.
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Here is the IMDB page of the TV show (scenes are from episode 4):
Well, I love the tension! How she hides under that mask so that her evil prisoner won’t find out who she is.
It drives me mad that he recognized her eyes and her voice and thereby found out who she is … even with the pretty good mask she used.
She was one of dozens of patients that guy had in the last weeks… so I find it really hard to believe that he would recognize her from her voice and the little of her that he
can see.
If that would work like that most superhero masks would be pretty useless 😉 … even a good disguise like the Batman cowl.
As I watched this movie I really hoped that the bad guy would be able to free himself and then unmask her in a nice struggle.
But he failed big time… 🙁
Nonetheless, I really like this scenario and the tension… as long as he didn’t know who the masked woman was.
Batman Returns is my favorite Batman movie… and you know why 😉
The two Tim Burton Batman movies are really very special to me and I love “Batman & Robin” for one reason as well (starts with “Bat” and ends with “girl”).
I stumbled upon some videos about certain aspects of these early movies and what could have been… if some other decisions would have been made back in the day.
Here is the first one (not my video or upload):
Fascinating!
The fact that McDonalds promoted “Batman Returns” with toys in Happy Meals is just hilarious.
The movie is awesome… but definitely not made for kids.
Seemingly WarnerBrothers and McDonalds were surprised by that?!? 😆
Sadly the movie didn’t make as much money as they hoped and the plan with a Catwoman Spin-off movie was never greenlighted.
But we got the Halle Barry Catwoman flick instead… oh my god! 🙁
That is the real tragedy here.
Imagine a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman as the main character! I might sell my soul for that…
But the quest for toy sales for those damn kids ruined that… and the two toy commercial movies with Schumacher followed.
Even I always will defend “Batman & Robin” as some minutes of Batgirl in that costume just made it so remarkable for me.
And the fact that “Batman Forever” made more money than “Batman Returns”…. is just insane when you compare the quality of the movies.
All the damn kids were allowed to watch “Batman Forever”… the money that “Batman Returns” missed to get.
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So, what might have happened if Joel Schumacher had made a third Batman movie?
Verrrry interesting!
A darker movie with that storyline… yeah, would have been interesting to watch for sure, especially with Catwoman appearing again, even if it seemingly would have been just a hallucination.
Scarecrow and Harley as the villains, and hating Bruce Wayne and one hating Batman… yeah, sounds like a good idea!
But yeah, it would have been quite difficult and expensive… to have made that one.
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An alternative script for Batman Returns:
Hmh, yeah… these Catwoman scenes could have been awesome as well!
There are basically two Catwoman aspects that I don’t like in “Batman Returns”:
– The fact that she is a secretary who then goes on to have her revenge on her boss (instead of being a master-class thief)
– And that Selina and Bruce learn each other secret identities by re-phrasing that one dialogue that had as Catwoman and Batman.
These two aspects could have been improved for sure with a different script.
But it’s really hard to tell if that script would have made a(n even) better movie.
So, last Sunday I was in Dortmund (Germany) at the Comic Con… or MovieComicCon as it is now called.
Before the whole Covid thing I was there 4 times already, but the last time was in late 2019… so, it’s been a while.
It was a little smaller than the last time and it was less crowded, maybe because this was “only” the spring edition and the main event in Dortmund is the ComicCon in the winter each year.
Also, I guess that there are more people on Saturday than on Sunday…
I made only a couple of pictures and some mini videos with the phone… I didn’t even start the GoPro, which was a mistake in the end.
All in all, it was a kind of a disappointment for me.
My main reason to go there is to see some good female cosplays of masked characters from DC and Marvel.
And in that regard… there was verrrry little…. at least from what I have seen by spending more than 5 hours there.
Haven’t bought anything in terms of Merch.
Of course, no Black Scorpion was to be found. I guess only very few even know that she exists at all and I have NEVER seen a single picture of a cosplay of her.
Only the original and stuntwomen in the costume at some promo tours. So, that would be kind of the holy grail of cosplay 😆
No Batgirl or Batwoman 🙁
No Catwoman… not even one! At one ComicCon I saw 4 or 5… but not a single one this time.
Kind of weird as there were a few Harley Quinns and female Jokers.
And getting a solid Catwoman costume isn’t difficult or very expensive.
Yeah, some Spider-girls… but only one of them had her mask on at first …and unmasked quickly as I then saw her again without it later on.
There was a nice female “Winter Soldier” with a mask, but sadly got no picture of her.
There were one or two masked female soldiers/mercenaries with a skull-bandana mask… guess out of a video game that I don’t know.
There are so many dressed up as characters from Animes and Manga… which doesn’t interest me at all.
There were two nice Lara Croft cosplays, a Skeletor + evil empress couple, and a fantastic Alf-cosplay (actually a woman).
And in terms of guest stars… it was… just “ok” for me:
Yeah, Richard Dean Anderson… but I’m not a fan of McGyver. Edward Furlong (Terminator 2) was quite interesting and a panel with German voice actors.
And there was Katherine McNamara, who was in mask and costume in “Arrow” and William Fichtner (Prison Break etc.)
Not bad… but there have been more famous/interesting guests in the past.
It would be SOOOO great if there was a ComicCon just with DC and Marvel… but I guess that won’t happen.
That Batgirl movie that was made but not shown…would have helped a LOT to motivate some female cosplayers to be Batgirl at a ComicCon!
Another reason why I hope for some masked women in movies or TV shows in the near future.
Some selected pictures:
Fallout display
Fallout display
Edward Furlong
Spider-Gwen
Alf
Female(?) Nightwing (90% sure)
(click to enlarge)
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Well, the next Comic Con in Dortmund will be in December.
Thanks to the nice guy who recommended me this TV episode!
In this one, we have 3 female bank robbers in gas masks(!) as they rob a bank 🙂
Preview:
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Here is the video:
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Ok, well…. that sounded (much) better on paper… in my opinion.
First, the scene is very short.
Then you have verrrrry unfitting girl-pop music and weird slow-motion in it! WHYYYYY??????!!!???
Two really horrific choices 🙁
But…. on the good side, you have 3 women in gas masks (and a dude) who rob a bank! Great scenario 🙂
Certainly, this scene would also fit my Frogwoman.org blog as the gas masks are not only to keep their identity a secret but also they are needed as a breathing device against
the tear gas.
Also, I like the quick costume change (also much too quick) where they change from menacing bank robbers in gas masks to innocent women in seconds.
They are perfectly disguised with these jumpsuits and Kevlar vests. #goodjob
All in all…. this scene could have been much better with such a great scenario! Imagine a security guard or a cop grabbing for one of those gas masks!
Trying to unmask them in order to use the gas mask for himself/herself and thereby exposing that unmasked face to witnesses and/or cameras….
Sadly, they don’t appear again in those outfits later on in the episode.
Side note: Baywatch beauty Yasmine Bleeth is also in the episode… and she made it into some videos on my other blog.
Well, some days before I wanted to go to the cinema I read the first reviews about it…. and they were… quite… bad!
One aspect especially annoyed me to read: The extremely limited screen time of the women in their costumes.
I decided not to watch the movie in the cinema back then.
By now I have watched the movie… and yeah… it is indeed disappointing, and the marketing before it was misleading… at best.
But more on that later…
I edited all the scenes with the women in costume and mask in one video!
Preview:
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Here is the video:
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Yeah… that is it. A little over one minute… a real shame! 🙁
As I had seen the promo pictures with the women in costume… I really feel cheated and betrayed.
And the worst part: Both scenes with them, aren’t happening in the movie for “real”.
The first scene is a nightmare that the bad guy always has (well, I would love to have such “nightmares” ;-)) and the second mini scene is a vision from Madame Web.
So, we have a pretty boring movie with little interesting action and barely any screen time at all with the masked ladies.
And not surprisingly the movie flopped big time… what a missed opportunity …once again.
3 more scriptwriters that should be thrown into the movie dungeon for such a horrific job.
Plus the folks who greenlighted it.
Even with the bad critics, I watched the movie for 2 reasons:
Spider-ladies … and… Sydney Sweeney
But everything else… isn’t interesting or well done, so… I certainly won’t watch the movie a second time.
I could write a lot more about this movie… but well… I already spent enough time on it.
Damn, I really hope that there will be a good movie or TV show with a masked woman in the lead role… soon.
The last years offered verrrry little in that regard.
