Abishai100
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Isn't it funny how modernization (and urbanization!) has changed the 'quality' of our social networking themed Utopia-inquiry films?
Look at this change, from the days of William Keighley's frills-film The Prince and the Pauper to today's urban-noir shaded films such as Robert Rodriguez's crime-moisture film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
However, 'comic book stylized storytelling' always pulls the heartstrings back to 'civics sobriety,' no?
Anyone a fan of Spawn or Dark City?
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Felicia Hardy was sold into prostitution in a crime-riddled American city at the age of 14 after her parents were killed (her father worked as a small-time enforcer for a local mafia group). Felicia grew up very troubled and always suffering from money, even becoming a drug-addict for two years. When Felicia turned 24, she decided to hone her hard-earned 'street-smarts' skills and became a small-time runner and messenger for the local mafia (which employed her father) to secure her welfare. Felicia was given a special 'mock' vigilante costume and called 'Black Cat' by the mafia-boss, but she carried the name with honor.
Black Cat was able to interfere in smuggling shipments of rival gangs and mafia groups and even assassinate the son of one rival mafia group about to transfer seats of power. When Black Cat's mafia group capitalized on this assassination, they promoted Black Cat and instructed her to make a love-marriage with a member of a new rival mafia group (the son of its leader) and secure a new Triumvirate in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Black Cat (Felicia) did as she was told and her husband, the Prince of Cats (soon to be leader of his mafia-family), turned out to be a real demon. He forced Black Cat to carry out tortures in the name of street dominion (on captured enemies).
Felicia realized she had become a 'waste' of God's world. She never aspired to anything great and hence ended up a proverbial 'Harlot of Babylon.' As Black Cat, Felicia scrounged around with odd-jobs, criminal activities, etc., etc. She never had any children with her husband (the 'Prince of Cats') and ended her last days pondering all the evil she had done in the name of pure survival in the modern American urban landscape. As Black Cat sat on the perch of her lavish loft (which her husband purchased for her) in Manhattan, she ate delicious mango kulfi (Indian ice-cream) and said to herself, "Junk food is not as sweet as blood-theatre."
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Look at this change, from the days of William Keighley's frills-film The Prince and the Pauper to today's urban-noir shaded films such as Robert Rodriguez's crime-moisture film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
However, 'comic book stylized storytelling' always pulls the heartstrings back to 'civics sobriety,' no?
Anyone a fan of Spawn or Dark City?
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Felicia Hardy was sold into prostitution in a crime-riddled American city at the age of 14 after her parents were killed (her father worked as a small-time enforcer for a local mafia group). Felicia grew up very troubled and always suffering from money, even becoming a drug-addict for two years. When Felicia turned 24, she decided to hone her hard-earned 'street-smarts' skills and became a small-time runner and messenger for the local mafia (which employed her father) to secure her welfare. Felicia was given a special 'mock' vigilante costume and called 'Black Cat' by the mafia-boss, but she carried the name with honor.
Black Cat was able to interfere in smuggling shipments of rival gangs and mafia groups and even assassinate the son of one rival mafia group about to transfer seats of power. When Black Cat's mafia group capitalized on this assassination, they promoted Black Cat and instructed her to make a love-marriage with a member of a new rival mafia group (the son of its leader) and secure a new Triumvirate in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Black Cat (Felicia) did as she was told and her husband, the Prince of Cats (soon to be leader of his mafia-family), turned out to be a real demon. He forced Black Cat to carry out tortures in the name of street dominion (on captured enemies).
Felicia realized she had become a 'waste' of God's world. She never aspired to anything great and hence ended up a proverbial 'Harlot of Babylon.' As Black Cat, Felicia scrounged around with odd-jobs, criminal activities, etc., etc. She never had any children with her husband (the 'Prince of Cats') and ended her last days pondering all the evil she had done in the name of pure survival in the modern American urban landscape. As Black Cat sat on the perch of her lavish loft (which her husband purchased for her) in Manhattan, she ate delicious mango kulfi (Indian ice-cream) and said to herself, "Junk food is not as sweet as blood-theatre."
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