![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Keaton is brilliantly cast as Riggan Thompson, who was once famous for playing the superhero named Birdman back in the early 90’s. The playfulness includes a satirical metacommentary on society’s adoration of celebrities, especially in the form of superheroes. I find myself feeling about 80/20 on the matter with the weight going to playful. ![]() Playful or pretentious and gratuitously structured? This question can also address the film at large. Instead we have this oddity that either strikes one as amusing through the eccentricity or annoying for the attention-drawing nature of that same eccentricity. If they made sense grammatically, they would start before “or.” If they were necessary, we could cut the “or” altogether. Immediately there is either a playfulness or pretention to the double title–and audiences will likely fall into seeing it as one or the other. But unlike Strangelove’s title, Birdman’s is given completely unnecessary, misplaced, and/or absurd parenthetical marks. Stranglelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. In it we have a title-subtitle set-up, like in Dr. ![]() Erin: superreal magical real and hyperrealĬassandra: you can’t make a statement about breaking a few walls Erin’s Take:īirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is so metaphorical and metafictional, a direct analogy can be drawn from film to title. ![]()
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