It's hard to imagine most folks will be eager to rush into cinemas this weekend following the tragedy out of Aurora, Colorado, even those who've been anticipating the release of The Dark Knight Rises for months. While Matt Patches over at Hollywood.com thoughtfully wonders if audiences will return swiftly to theaters, The Wrap reports that Warner Bros. are themselves scrambling to figure out how to balance their multi-million dollar Dark Knight Rises roll-out campaign with common decency and empathy for the victims, their families, and a shaken nation.
It's not that audiences might recoil from Batman, presuming some direct link between the comics or the character somehow incited suspect James Holmes to allegedly pre-meditate his attack on the dozens of men, women, and children at Aurora's Century 16, despite unconfirmed reports that he may have had hair dyed in the style of The Joker; violence in media doesn't "make" people kill, though access to guns and combat paraphernalia helps sick people do terrible things.
And though fanboy ire this week had reached alarming levels with the hate-speech and death threats lobbied at critics of The Dark Knight Rises, any true Bat-fan knows that the DC hero not only fights to protect lives, he's staunchly anti-gun. (A scene in TDKR highlights this.) So let's not even start to blame the movies for what happened in Aurora. Besides: When tragedy strikes niche communities, it reminds us that we're not so divided after all.
Fandom is what made the Aurora victims sitting ducks for the gun man, who burst through the packed theater's emergency exit doors just minutes after the film had begun. These were people who had anticipated TDKR so much many of them likely bought tickets…
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