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    <body>Son tantas las curiosidades que se encuentran por Internet, que hemos decidido mostraros algunas de las &lt;em&gt;frikadas&lt;/em&gt; que no nos importar&#237;a tener en Alta Definici&#243;n. Va, reconocedlo, todos tenemos nuestro lado freak para seg&#250;n qu&#233; cosas.

Si mezclamos a dos de los personajes m&#225;s nombrados y famosos de 2008 nos sale el primer 'Queremos Uno' del a&#241;o: una camiseta con la efigie del &lt;strong&gt;Joker / Heath Ledger del Caballero Oscuro&lt;/strong&gt; con la idea de cartel del Hope (Esperanza) del nuevo presidente de EE UU, &lt;strong&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/strong&gt;:

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[La camiseta se puede comprar en &lt;a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/jameslillis/t-shirts/1953509-4-the-audacity-of-joke" title="http://www.redbubble.com/people/jameslillis/t-shirts/1953509-4-the-audacity-of-joke" id="link_0"&gt;Red Bubble&lt;/a&gt; por 25 d&#243;lares + gastos de env&#237;o] 

Abajo os recordamos c&#243;mo era el famoso cartel de Obama:

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    <title>Queremos Uno: Yes we Joke</title>
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    <body>Con la &#250;ltima pel&#237;cula hasta el momento de la saga de Batman ha ocurrido un hecho curioso: se convirti&#243; en una leyenda antes de estrenarse. Muertes, accidentes, detenciones, una extra&#241;a maldici&#243;n parece rodear a la pel&#237;cula. Y la leyenda, inevitablemente, surgi&#243;. 

Pero, &#191;habr&#237;a merecido la pena convertir esta pel&#237;cula en un mito? Eso s&#243;lo se pod&#237;a saber una vez visionada la cinta. Sin embargo, para sorpresa de todos, s&#237;, lo merec&#237;a. &lt;em&gt;&lt;a id="link_4" title="http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/" href="http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;El caballero oscuro &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;no se ha quedado atr&#225;s como pel&#237;cula y est&#225; a la altura del mito que ha visto crecer entorno a ella. 

Nadie duda de que la muerte de &lt;a id="link_0" title="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/"&gt;Heath Ledger &lt;/a&gt;facilit&#243; mucho las cosas: es la mejor publicidad que nadie pod&#237;a imaginar. Cuando los productores se enteraran de la noticia, reaccionar&#237;an lament&#225;ndolo en un primer momento, para luego pasar a tener en los ojos dos dibujos con una ese may&#250;scula y dos l&#237;neas verticales cruz&#225;ndoles. Y lo mismo con el accidente de &lt;a id="link_1" title="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/"&gt;Morgan Freeman &lt;/a&gt;o la detenci&#243;n de &lt;a id="link_2" title="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/"&gt;Christian Bale&lt;/a&gt;. As&#237; es la vida. 

Sin embargo, la pel&#237;cula y su director, &lt;a id="link_3" title="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/"&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/a&gt;, han respondido con contundencia. Para empezar, nos saltamos las introducciones tediosas de &lt;em&gt;Batman &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Begins&lt;/em&gt;, donde la pel&#237;cula tarda demasiado en arrancar, demasiados preliminares. Nolan tiene ahora la tranquilidad y la seguridad de haber andado ya este camino, conocer los personajes que se tratan (o bien por la entrega anterior o por anteriores pel&#237;culas), y la experiencia que da haber hecho mucho y buen cine. 
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Pero, sobre todo, Nolan ha estado ayudado por un equipo de actores que no desfallece en ning&#250;n momento. Cada personaje es tratado como se merece. Pero hay uno que se ha hecho con la pel&#237;cula. No har&#237;a falta mencionarlo, pero es lo justo: el Joker, una nueva versi&#243;n del Joker que se aleja del que interpret&#243; Jack Nicholson y que nos lleva al lado lun&#225;tico y psic&#243;pata de un personaje que da mucho miedo. Gestos, tono, caracterizaci&#243;n... todo. Un nuevo Joker que renace de sus cenizas y en el que Ledger nos deja posiblemente su mejor interpretaci&#243;n, una especie de regalo p&#243;stumo. Y lo mejor es que no hace falta saber de cine para valorarlo. 

Se habla de un Oscar p&#243;stumo. No s&#233;, creo que hay que demostrar que hay otras formas de ganar un Oscar que no sean interpretando a un psic&#243;pata asesino. Pero no me parecer&#237;a tan descabellado. Lo merecer&#237;a. &#201;l y la pel&#237;cula, posiblemente la mejor de la saga. Todo un regalo veraniego. 
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    <title>El caballero oscuro, una leyenda</title>
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    <body>&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;div class="post-header-line-1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SJvq2kkZdPI/AAAAAAAAAYA/G5kzgVnVcHY/s1600-h/Heath_Ledger.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232033615371138290" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SJvq2kkZdPI/AAAAAAAAAYA/G5kzgVnVcHY/s400/Heath_Ledger.jpg" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/howie_berlin/2219880817/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;Photo source&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Uploaded to Flickr by &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/howie_berlin/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;Howie Berlin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on January 26, 2008 and released under the license &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;Creative Commons by Attribution-Share Alike 2.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ust to continue, the saga at New york City, yesterday morning a taxi driver, a 62 year-old man, &lt;a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&amp;amp;id=6311954"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;was shot, dry and cool, in the face &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;without mercy at Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, (famous because of the first film of Sylvester Stallone, "&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071772/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;The Lords of Flatbush&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;". It just has passed to my mind that "the world is Flat Bush") while the perpetrators, intended to rob him the couple bucks [dollars I meant] that he had made while working. I only see and hear more and more news about the escalating violence and just now Russia exploded against Georgia in an anti-&lt;a href="http://www.nato.int/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;NATO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; gesture, it seems.

It appears as if we have become highly unstable nowadays all over the place, and even more now, with that Joker syndrome, every maniac and many children in their school age and beyond, are trying to impersonate or imitate that character by acting as crazy as it was interpreted by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;Heath Ledger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who tragically died right after he completed his part of what would be his last film. It is one of the best pieces of acting ever produced, just compare Ledger's delivery of Joker with that of Jack Nicholson or Cesar Romero, both incredible actors who portrayed hilarious jokers, but even though as they might have been, both seem too far from achieving that mysterious halo, that darkest dark humor that seemed to be a strange magic hyperrealism conceived by Ledger's skillful utterance of his now infamous "Jokerrrzzzss" or something like that. For some reason this Joker felt a little too close to us, so that its presence is sensed by the audiences far too real and scary to just forget about it and might live with us for awhile, it is disturbing in a way. Nope, it is not, "The Joker" is not a Joke or about a Batman's movie anymore, it is about a legend and it is a piece of art, the Monalisa and the Leonardo put together in the same body and before our eyes at the same time. 

It is "unreal", but this is the type of life that we are all living somehow, it is like living at the Gotham City. However, everyday I watch my plants and the beautiful colors they have and how quite they seem to be and I think what type of project or plan these plants might have concocted if they only could? The question is silly, but relevant for our days, because they depend on me for their watering, and so without myself doing it, they would not be able to survive. Therefore, by extension, all the rest of the plants in this Earth are in the same awkward position. Some time before this Web-era, plants did not have much of a problem, they were naturally equal and endowed by the privilege of being part of this planet, but now, it all depends which is the park that is taking care of them and more specifically who are their gardeners. Notwithstanding, plants remain quite, immutable and most of the time as green as they should be. In my life, I want to have their strength and patience, till I must, and in the middle of all these nonsense. I find it very difficult though to achieve just this, I might start learning Yoga and Tai Chi besides of playing guitar everyday.

We need to become more ethical with our environment too. I am not a good example though but I am striving to become a better person everyday. For once, I have secluded myself from the rest of the world and for awhile now, I have reexamined my soul, deeds, debts and acts, and I know that I still have plenty laundry to do, but somehow I have become more happy with those "sins" because I know that I did them as an individual, and so were mistakes made, by me, based upon the information that I have had at the time of my decisions, assuming good faith from everyone, with good will and intentions towards all and with ill-intention towards none. I know that many people exploited my vulnerabilities, but I am ok with it, because I chose to be an open person and not a fearful or a deceitful one. I still, and even now, prefer to be a fool than a rich man seating over other people's heads and coffins. However, I did not exploit or wanted to take advantage of anybody whatsoever. Therefore, of the things I have lost in my life, I would perhaps never recover any of them at all, nor I want them back neither. In contrast, the very few things that I have preserved until now, I want to keep them for as long as I live. This is one of things that this Joker brought to my mind and soul while I was digesting his intrinsic and hidden message. Therefore, I highly recommended to everyone an act of contriction. It might be hard to do and could end in so many misunderstandings with your family members and the rest of the people that lives around you, but it works and I believe, it is much needed to do, because we are all traumatized somehow by the tremendous impact of these last days and the every day's news. The media is like a ubiquitous hammer, hitting us in our more sensitive areas, up to the point that we could become very insensible towards our own feelings, let alone regarding other people's feelings. The most important lesson that I have learned from the unforgettable Ledger's personification of "Jokerrrzzz" or something like that, it is the remainder that the real evil could be or is within and among us. Money, work, family everything that make us, in the end it could also be the cause and excuse that could propel us or that we might use, or force to use, as a pretest for destroying other people's lives, who in turn also have families, houses, children and deserve to outreach their own dreams. They need to work and have money to survive, just like us. I think in here about the sufferings imposed to those children in Iraq, for instance.

Education is just one part of the equation, but learning to live with less is at the other side. Education has become the means and not the end, that is a big problem. We are so dependent of the futile, it seems; for instance, we have just paid 400 million dollars to watch a caricature, Batman. However, and surprisingly we did it right this time, perhaps the "word of mouth" (by the way, the make-up was excellent too) played its part in it. However, the acting was so marvelously done that it feels as if Heath were giving us the best lecture for our times. So terribly wrong and much more because unknowingly to him, it was his last lecture. It is all too ironic, a piece of art, a portrait that reveals the inner anxieties of our ages, perhaps. Well, let us watch it while we can. I pledge to leave this video in here, since is just an eternal piece of the Heath's acting. The movie has already earned a fair amount of money, and this "cut" will make no difference whatsoever, for and in the lives of the producers or actors as well; besides everybody knows who made the film and they would be credited at the Oscar's ceremony, next year, we are all expecting for that moment already, perhaps we want some closure, especially about Heath Ledger's tragedy. Anyway, readers let us watch this video, if they leave it as is. I think, in that they should because it is just fair. Here is the "Jokerrrrzzss" or something like that. &lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;(I am working to contact Time Warners to ask them for their permission, but in the mean time I am thanking them very much indeed for allowing me to share this works of art with our readers, thanks.) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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Nevertheless, far from being a comic, the scenario is not a joke anymore or a simple "jokerrrzzz's" stanza. It seems to be, again, the portraiture of our reality, the landscape showing the darkest places of our human maladies through the expressions and behaviors of this fictional hyper villain. At least, it is an accurate graph of what our "civilization" has probably become to be, I am too afraid about the truth of this last statements; as I hope that by the same token I am making a big mistake over the state of our cultural current affairs. In the end, Heath Ledger would &lt;a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Movies/story?id=5287395&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#776644"&gt;mysteriously die&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by combating an apparent depression and right after he so well incarnated that personality. It makes me think even more "so serious" about what he felt while he was enacting that monster, because at the movie, he was the mere Joker, a stamp of madness; and thereafter, I barely imagine how someone like him could deal or survive with the effects, impacts, and struggles of performing the evil with such a sublime and incomparable level of perfection. Well, the answer was instantaneous, he just could not handle it at all. It reminds me of a Peruvian sculptor that died terrified from just watching his own creation, which it is made out of wood and should be located, still up to this date, at same place inside the Cathedral of Lima in Peru. Moreover, Heath was able to recreate or translate for us the many meta-memes, here is the metasemantic analysis of our world that he was able to capture with his histrionic efforts; again his acting is a piece of the finest art possible, it is a new benchmark, he has raised the bar, "you have changed things forever" from now on and for every actor, it is going to be very hard to do something like Ledger had done to us. He knew how to use the "Jokerrrzzss" to uncover those places where nobody of us would go, He was a "Dante" and certainly we felt the hell out of his performance, even more problematic we never doubt of his existence, he was real. Every sound, gesture, corner and in every frame by frame "shot", Heath Ledger was just great, perfect.

Such as these are sometimes my quick and dirty musings an impressions. I use them, as a way to "bath" my brain cells, with some serotonins and neurotransmitters, just before I need to deliver my outputs of the sorts or when I am about to "dump" my attention into those daily errands of life. It did not take me too long, I wonder if it finally did; but now and anyway, I feel a little energized to continue up to the end or until my end. Now I am glad, almost release, but not up to the extent in which I am completely convinced or relax about that the "Jokerrrzzss" after all is just as a bad joke, or a nightmare, for which I have paid to watch and enjoy, and so I could forget it at ease thereafter, because it is really not what is going on; perhaps and after all, Heath Ledger was finally able to draw the closer "Spoof of Our Own". &#9689;JMK&#9689; @ 2008.&lt;/div&gt;</body>
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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Esta compleja, tensa y trepidante pel&#237;cula es &lt;strong&gt;una de las mejores pel&#237;culas de acci&#243;n de la d&#233;cada&lt;/strong&gt;. As&#237;, a lo bestia. A m&#225;s de uno aburrir&#225; su excesivo metraje, a los puristas se les torcer&#225; el ce&#241;o con el distanciamiento entre la pel&#237;cula y el c&#243;mic, y el p&#250;blico familiar se tapar&#225; los ojos ante las escenas m&#225;s crudas&#8230; Pero el segundo acercamiento del director y escritor &lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan &lt;/strong&gt;al mito de Batman es una apisonadora de acci&#243;n con el dep&#243;sito lleno de gasolina, una tragedia postmoderna sobre nuestra capacidad para hacer el mal con unos actores en estado de gracia y, por &#250;ltimo, una obra total con un dise&#241;o de producci&#243;n marcado por una fotograf&#237;a y un montaje cortantes que, en dos horas y media, lleva al g&#233;nero de los superh&#233;roes all&#237; donde nadie lo hab&#237;a llevado antes: a la realidad.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;
















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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Con la ayuda del teniente Jim Gordon (&lt;strong&gt;Gary Oldman&lt;/strong&gt;) y el fiscal de distrito Harvey Dent (&lt;strong&gt;Aaron Eckhart&lt;/strong&gt;), Batman se propone desmantelar las organizaciones criminales que infestan las calles de Gotham. La asociaci&#243;n demuestra ser efectiva, pero pronto se ver&#225;n atrapados en un reino del caos desatado por una mente criminal en auge conocida por los aterrorizados habitantes de la ciudad como Joker (&lt;strong&gt;Heath Ledger&lt;/strong&gt;). Mientras tanto, Bruce Wayne (&lt;strong&gt;Christian Bale&lt;/strong&gt;) se debate entre su amor por la justicia y su amor por Rachel (&lt;strong&gt;Maggie Gyllenhaal&lt;/strong&gt;), ahora novia del fiscal del distrito.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;
  
















&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Rodada en &lt;strong&gt;IMAX&lt;/strong&gt; (&#161;pantallazo!) y prescindiendo casi por completo de efectos digitales, &#8216;&lt;a href="http://wwws.warnerbros.es/thedarkknight/" title="http://wwws.warnerbros.es/thedarkknight/" id="link_0"&gt;El Caballero Oscuro&#8217;&lt;/a&gt;  habla sobre la necesidad de creer para no caer. De creer en algo superior cuando todo va mal: desde nuestras cabezas bien pensantes hasta el poder institucionalizado pasando por nuestra familia y entorno. Y lo hace mimando las distancias largas con una fotograf&#237;a y un montaje n&#237;tido, cortante y por momentos tan grandioso que salpica agorafobia. Y lo hace mimando por igual las distancias cortas con un gui&#243;n que habla sobre la necesidad de no dejarse llevar en tiempos revueltos gracias a un mito, en este caso Batman, desde ya tan universal como el mal o &lt;st1:PersonName productid="la Coca-Cola." w:st="on"&gt;la Coca-Cola.&lt;/st1:PersonName&gt;
















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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Punto y aparte para la interpretaci&#243;n de Heath Ledger. El australiano nos sorprendi&#243; por su capacidad para la contenci&#243;n en el drama &#8216;&lt;strong&gt;Brokeback Mountain&lt;/strong&gt;&#8217; con una interpretaci&#243;n memorable. Ahora, en &#8216;El Caballero Oscuro&#8217;, Ledger sorprende por su capacidad para el histrionismo contenido. Donde &lt;strong&gt;Jack Nicholson&lt;/strong&gt; pon&#237;a los fuegos artificiales en la versi&#243;n fallera de &lt;strong&gt;Tim Burton&lt;/strong&gt;, Ledger se acerca al punk m&#225;s psic&#243;tico, guarro y demente. Si la imagen del mal ya ten&#237;a nombre y apellidos con el personaje de &lt;strong&gt;Anton Chigurh&lt;/strong&gt; interpretado por &lt;strong&gt;Javier Bardem&lt;/strong&gt; en &#8216;&lt;strong&gt;No es pa&#237;s para viejos&lt;/strong&gt;&#8217;, ahora el mal tiene un nuevo hermano. Maquillado.
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&lt;em&gt;En suma, una cima en el cine de acci&#243;n que t&#233;cnicamente roza la perfecci&#243;n y que art&#237;sticamente inyecta sangre, y no p&#237;xeles, en el mito del hombre enmascarado.&lt;/em&gt;
  

&lt;strong&gt;Lo mejor: Todos los aspectos t&#233;cnicos y en especial la fotograf&#237;a y el montaje.Y, claro, la interpretaci&#243;n de Heath Ledger. 

Lo peor: M&#225;s de uno se perder&#225; en los recovecos de la historia. &#161;Cuidado que va MUY r&#225;pido&#8217;&lt;/strong&gt;















&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&#8216;El caballero oscuro&#8217; se estrena en Espa&#241;a el pr&#243;ximo 13 de agosto. ELPA&#205;S.com te ofrecer&#225; en exclusiva entrevistas con sus protagonistas. Adem&#225;s, con El Pa&#237;s (edici&#243;n impresa) puedes ganar merchandising de la pel&#237;cula. 
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    <body>2008 vuelve a ser otro a&#241;o (m&#225;s) de los superh&#233;roes de c&#243;mic en el cine. &lt;A id=link_0 title=http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/ href="http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/"&gt;Batman&lt;/A&gt; (por sexta vez), &lt;A id=link_1 title=http://ironmanmovie.marvel.com/ href="http://ironmanmovie.marvel.com/"&gt;Iron Man&lt;/A&gt; (primera) y &lt;A id=link_2 title=http://incrediblehulk.marvel.com/ href="http://incrediblehulk.marvel.com/"&gt;Hulk&lt;/A&gt; (segunda y con un &lt;A id=link_3 title=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20191802,00.html href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20191802,00.html"&gt;cabreado Edward Norton&lt;/A&gt; a la cabeza) llegar&#225;n en los pr&#243;ximos meses dispuestos a salvar a la humanidad. 

Al Batman de este a&#241;o le va a hacer sombra el &lt;STRONG&gt;Joker &lt;/STRONG&gt;del fallecido &lt;A id=link_4 title=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/censura/ultima/pelicula/Heath/Ledger/elpepucul/20080414elpepucul_2/Tes href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/censura/ultima/pelicula/Heath/Ledger/elpepucul/20080414elpepucul_2/Tes"&gt;Heath Ledger&lt;/A&gt;. Hoy se me han mezclado en la mente dos historias:


 - Una, lo dif&#237;cil que va a ser olvidar el Joker de &lt;STRONG&gt;Jack Nicholson:&lt;/STRONG&gt;

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- Y dos, y tras haber visto &lt;EM&gt;&lt;A id=link_5 title=http://www.bekindmovie.com/ href="http://www.bekindmovie.com/"&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Be Kind Rewind&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/EM&gt;(&lt;EM&gt;Rebobine, por favor&lt;/EM&gt;), me he acordado de una peque&#241;a pel&#237;cula &lt;STRONG&gt;hecha por fans &lt;/STRONG&gt;a modo de tr&#225;iler, que ha sido todo un triunfo en Youtube, en la que el verdadero h&#233;roe no es el h&#233;roe sino el subh&#233;roe, el segund&#243;n, el compa&#241;ero... en este caso, Dick &lt;STRONG&gt;Grayson&lt;/STRONG&gt;, m&#225;s conocido como &lt;STRONG&gt;Robin&lt;/STRONG&gt;. Una peque&#241;a curiosidad para un d&#237;a lluvioso de domingo: 

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    <body>Las aficiones de uno surgen a veces en la vida de forma inesperada y accidental. A m&#237; jam&#225;s me llamaron la atenci&#243;n los c&#243;mics cuando era ni&#241;o, salvo Mortadelo. Y nada hac&#237;a prever que eso cambiar&#237;a...

Ten&#237;a diecis&#233;is a&#241;os, as&#237; que lo sab&#237;a todo sobre la vida (por supuesto) y ten&#237;a perfectamente claros mis objetivos, prioridades y gustos. Y uno de ellos era leer. Por entonces viv&#237;a, provisionalmente, en Oxford, libre de ataduras familiares y con algo de pelas (entonces eran pelas... 1988!!!). Y me las pul&#237;a casi todas en libros, porque otra cosa no tendr&#225; Oxford (como... un equipo de f&#250;tbol decente, por ejemplo), pero librer&#237;as las hay a punta pala.

&lt;img class="imgizqda" id="img_0" src="http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/blogfiles/danmacgill/00_baker.jpg" height="212" width="292"&gt;Mis favoritas eran Blackwell's (todo un cl&#225;sico) y Dillon's (ahora es Waterstone's), mucho m&#225;s moderna, enorme (4 plantas) y que ten&#237;a entre otros alicientes estar frente al cementerio de St. Mary Magdalen's (entonces ten&#237;a yo el punto t&#233;trico subido) y que pod&#237;as sentarte a leer lo que quisieras, cuanto quisieras, antes de comprarlo. 

All&#237; sol&#237;amos echar grandes ratos un grupo de tres jovenzuelos imberbes y sabiohondillos. Jacobo (&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;El Bar&#243;n Rampante&lt;/em&gt;), Adolfo (&lt;em&gt;Govinda&lt;/em&gt;) y el que suscribe (&lt;em&gt;Byron&lt;/em&gt;). Y all&#237; fue donde Govinda abri&#243; los ojos hasta donde daba de s&#237; su anatom&#237;a.

- Tienen lo &#250;ltimo de ALAN MOORE!!!

El Bar&#243;n y yo nos miramos perplejos. Est&#225;bamos hojeando los nuevos manuales de Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons (era joven, &#191;vale?), a&#250;n sin editar en castellano, y maquinando nuevas aventuras&lt;img class="imgdcha" id="img_0" src="http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/blogfiles/danmacgill/250px-Killingjoke.JPG"&gt; para nuestros personajes favoritos. Y no ten&#237;amos ni remota idea de qui&#233;n era Alan Moore. Govinda sosten&#237;a entre sus manos, como su fuera un reci&#233;n nacido o un incunable, un c&#243;mic con un nota rar&#237;simo en portada con una c&#225;mara y un mensaje sucinto.

Yo no sab&#237;a qui&#233;n era The Joker y ten&#237;a s&#243;lo una idea borrosa de qui&#233;n era Batman. Govinda, por toda explicaci&#243;n me tendi&#243; un ejemplar. Eran las diez y media de la ma&#241;ana.

A las seis de la tarde sal&#237; de Dillon's con la cara que se le debi&#243; quedar a san Pablo camino de Damasco. Hab&#237;a le&#237;do docenas de historias y hab&#237;a entrado en una mitolog&#237;a completamente nueva. Hab&#237;a descubierto un arte cuya existencia ignoraba. Que no hablaba de superh&#233;roes, sino de personas con vidas dif&#237;ciles, con traumas y frustraciones, con historias que los obligaban a enfrentarse a sus demonios.

Qu&#233; puedo decir de "The Killing Joke", una novela gr&#225;fica que ya es un referente absoluto en el universo Batman. Lejos de las aventuras de estilo follet&#237;n que yo recordaba de mi ni&#241;ez, nos plantea la desquiciada l&#243;gica de Joker como una consecuencia irremediable de su vida. Algo no tan distinto de lo que le sucede al propio Batman (&lt;em&gt;"That's haw far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day... You had a bad day once, am I right? Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?"&lt;/em&gt;). Un relato que me hizo pensar lo espantosamente cerca que puede estar la locura de nuestras vidas normales y acomodadas.

Despu&#233;s vinieron muchos m&#225;s autores, (Chuck Dixon, Frank Miller, Will Eisner...) otros personajes y otras historias (The Watchmen, The Dark Knight, Sin City, Camelot 3000...), pero todo comenz&#243; con esta portada y con el entusiasmo de un buen amigo de quien el tiempo, mi desidia y la distancia me alejaron. Nunca te lo dije, Govi, pero gracias, t&#237;o. Gracias de verdad.

Por supuesto, entre mis c&#243;mics (s&#243;lo soy un aficionado modesto... tengo entre 100 y 1000) a&#250;n conservo la edici&#243;n original brit&#225;nica de "The Killing Joke". 2.25 libras, seg&#250;n la contraportada. 

Y permitidme recuperar esta escena definitiva al final de la historia, cuando Joker casi se plantea dejar su vida de crimen (&lt;em&gt;"It's too late for that... far too late"&lt;/em&gt;) y se permiten un momento de respiro mientras Joker cuenta la siguiente historia:


&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum&#8230; and one night&#8230; one night they decide they don&#8217;t like living in an asylum any more. They decide they&#8217;re going to escape! So like they get up on to the roof, and there, just across the narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in moon light&#8230; stretching away to freedom. 

Now the first guy he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daren&#8217;t make the leap. Y&#8217;see he&#8217;s afraid of falling&#8230; So then the first guy has an idea. He says &#8220;Hey! I have my flash light with me. I will shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk across the beam and join me.&#8221; 

B-But the second guy just shakes his head. He says &#8230; he says &#8220;What do you think I am, crazy? You would turn it off when I was half way across."
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;"Ver&#225;s, est&#225;n dos tipos en un psiqui&#225;trico... y una noche... una noche deciden que ya no les gusta vivir all&#237;. Deciden escaparse. As&#237; que suben al tejado y all&#237;, simplemente cruzando un peque&#241;o vac&#237;o, ven los tejados de la ciudad, extendi&#233;ndose bajo la luz de la luna, hacia la libertad...

El primer t&#237;o salta sin problemas. Pero su amigo, su amigo no se atreve. Le da miedo caerse, &#191;sabes?... Entonces el primer t&#237;o tiene una idea. Dice "Oye, tengo aqu&#237; mi linterna. Puedo iluminar el espacio entre los tejados y tu podr&#225;s caminar sobre el rayo de luz".

Pe-Pero el segundo t&#237;o menea la cabeza. Y dice... dice "&#191;Te crees que estoy loco? Seguro que la apagas cuando estoy a mitad de camino".
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Aunque tratan de evitarlo, ambos terminan ri&#233;ndose a carcajadas como viejos colegas. Las sirenas de la polic&#237;a ahogan las risas de los dos mientras cae la lluvia. Fade to black.
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    <body>&lt;IMG class=imgcen id=img_0 height=178 src="http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/traslaspuertas/ledger.jpg" width=300&gt;
Ayer por la noche, viendo el informativo de la 2 me qued&#233; impactado al escuchar la noticia. El actor australiano &lt;STRONG&gt;Heath Ledger, de 28 a&#241;os de edad, hab&#237;a fallecido&lt;/STRONG&gt;. Su cuerpo fue hallado en un apartamento de Manhattan, seg&#250;n informaba la polic&#237;a neoyorquina, en circunstancias extra&#241;as.

Por si las moscas, nada m&#225;s escucharlo, llam&#233; a mis compa&#241;eros de &lt;STRONG&gt;CADENASER.com&lt;/STRONG&gt;, la web de la &lt;STRONG&gt;CADENA SER&lt;/STRONG&gt;, donde actualmente
trabajo. &#201;stos hab&#237;an sido r&#225;pidos y ya hab&#237;an incluido la noticia. Hoy, es la m&#225;s vista de la jornada y no me extra&#241;a.

Todo el mundo recordar&#225; su grandioso papel como protagonista de la pel&#237;cula &lt;STRONG&gt;"Brokeback Mountain" (2005)&lt;/STRONG&gt;, de Ang Lee, por el que estuvo nominado al Oscar.

&lt;IMG class=imgcen id=img_1 height=197 src="http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/traslaspuertas/joker.jpg" width=260&gt;
Su &#250;ltimo trabajo, que podremos ver pr&#243;ximamente, ser&#225; en el papel del "joker" en la &lt;STRONG&gt;nueva entrega de Batman&lt;/STRONG&gt;, titulada "The Dark Knight", de &lt;STRONG&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/STRONG&gt;.

Las causas de la muerte en el fondo dan lo mismo. Se nos ha ido (otra vez) un actor joven y con futuro.
Heath, descanse en paz.

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