Further Parallels

I loved The Dark Knight Rises. Hmmm...That didn't come across correctly, so let me try again: I absolutely LOVED The Dark Knight Rises! That's more like it. I'm not going to write too much about it. There's a million billion bloggers sat behind a million billion laptops banally blogging about how super awesome the conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy was. I don't want to follow that trend. (It really was super awesome though). All I'll say about it was that it was the best movie in the trilogy, that Bane made The Joker look like a total chump, and that I am amazingly happy with where the story finished. And that's that. I loved it.

What I want to talk about today is the experience I had that furthered the parallel I drew previously between Batman and The Phantom from Phantom of The Opera (or between Batman and The Phantom of The Opera). It was amazing. I would never have realized what was going on if my wife hadn't pointed it out.

So...

We're sitting in the movie theater waiting for the previews to start. We were early because I'm a slight Batman nerd and I didn't want to miss a damn thing. I'd drank a pint of Coca-Cola at dinner and was already desperate to urinate, even though I'd already been 2 times in the twenty minutes between dinner and entering Screen 1 of the Glasgow Quay Odeon...but I digress. We were sitting in our seats, the room buzzing with anticipation, the smell of  Jalapeno Nacho's wafting around the room (they had a special going; you got a free Batman magnet with every purchase), and there was atmospheric background music playing. What music you ask? FREAKING PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MUSIC!!!

It was amazing! 24 hours before this I'd been blogging about the similarities that I see between Batman and Phantom. Then I'm sitting in the theater waiting for the biggest film of the decade when out of nowhere my wife points out that they are playing Phantom of The Opera music...unbelievable, right? I know!

There are no coincidences when it comes to this shiz right here yo! This shiz is serious!