Monday, August 13, 2012

DC vs. Marvel (or: incessant hollywood incest) OR Six Degrees of Dawson Leary

I cracked up laughing a few years ago while watching the film Wonder Boys an realizing that there is a scene where Toby Macquire ends up in bed with Robert Downey, Jr AKA - respectively - Marvel's SPIDER-MAN and IRONMAN. Since then a lot of actors have taken
Roles in DC or Marvel films and the intertwining nest of incest has just gotten stranger and stranger... Off the top of my head:
(might just be easier to make a video?)
not sure if it even matters were we start, so I will start with...

The Amazing Spider-Man
AKA
Andrew Garfield 
first seen acting across from 
Health Ledger 
AKA
the Joker 
in that weird Terry Gilliam film
(the Cabinet of Dr. Parnassus?)
Anyhow,
Ledger
AKA
the Dark Knight's
Joker
first becomes famous in the late 1990s 
for his role in 
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
where he schools the young 
Joseph Gordon-Leavitt
AKA
Robin "John" Blake
selected by BATMAN himself 
to become the presumed
heir to the Dark Knight's throne as
NIGHTWING in The Dark Knight Rises.
Ledger, 
lover of Jake Gyllenhall's
character who ignored
Anne Hathaway
AKA Catwoman's
advances in Ang Lee's 
Brokeback Mountain
-or whatever happened- who remembers
anyhow,
Jake, real-life
brother of 
Maggie Gyllenhall who
took over for the role of 
BATMAN's love interest
formerley filled by 
Katie Holmes who was also the
love interest of 
Toby Macquire
AKA
SPIDER-MAN
in both the films
the Ice Storm
and
Wonder Boys 
when he goes to bed
with 
Robert Downey Jr
AKA
IRON MAN.
Not to mention is 
the Ice Storm he is obsessed 
with the Fantastic Four...
of whom
Chris Evans
was the Human Torch
but who also reappears 
as Captain America, 
an Army subordinate of 
Tommy Lee Jones, 
AKA Two-Face in 
Batman FOREVER.
Evan's fellow Avenger, 
HULK,
also appears in a
film of the same
title
directed by Ang Lee.

There are probably more,
this is probably just the tip of the iceberg
I mean, shoot, Kenneth Branaugh 
directed THOR...
not to mention Gwenyth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson... 
but like I said -
that was just off the top of my head.
I'll stop here.

Might I also add that - in the Bret Easton Ellis universe- Sean Bateman (aka actor James Van Der Beek aka Dawson Leary) is brother of Patrick Bateman aka American Psycho aka Chrisitan Bale aka Batman - and Dawson's girl-next-door / true love is Joey Potter aka Katie Holmes aka Rachel Dawson aka Christian bale Batman's girl-next-door / true love. Yep.

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