2. Biggest disappointment is that this is as close as we're going to get to a Jack Kirby Fourth World movie & it banalizes Kirby's concepts.
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3. Key example here is the Mother Box, which in movie just functions as analogue to rings of power in Lord of the Rings.
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4. Kirby's Mother Box, by contrast, was bizarre & visionary: an AI handheld device with nurturing powers.https://twitter.com/BetaTestingTomK/status/929078035084660737 …
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5. Kirby's version of Mother Box was goofy but also resonates with how we've all become integrated with technologypic.twitter.com/CaLB27JFLH
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6. This goes to the larger tonal problem. Kirby did cosmic space opera but with varied tone, ranging from sublime to ridiculous.
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7. Kirby's cosmic comics were grandiose at times, but also buoyant, bouncy, kinetically goofy. Synder's tonal range is just dour & pained.
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8. At this stage I think most DC cinematic universe should be junked & re-built, maybe using Wonder Woman movie as template.
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9. Beyond that, people should read Kirby's Fourth World books, which have hundreds of ideas worth stealing (as George Lucas knows).
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10. Another thing about the Mother Box: it's a very suggestive Freudian name, deliberately so.
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11. I have no idea whether Kirby was in therapy or read Freud, but his 1960s/1970s work full of Freudian referencespic.twitter.com/zYvflnQ9h0
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