In what is not-at-all surprising news, Dark Knight is already shattering box office records, earning $60-63 million yesterday. Which is more than Meet Dave will make in, well, ever. One studio predicts Dark Knight will rake in $154 million this weekend, which is enough to break the second Spidey sequel’s opening-weekend record of $151.1 millon.
As always, the most entertaining part of the story is the fans themselves. A few pictures I found from various movie theaters across the country:
Art Institute of Seattle student Kale Avery spent months looking through thrift stores to find the perfect Joker costume.
A few, um, enthusiastic Dallas fans.
Buffalo representin’.
Clearly, a little too much time on their hands in Delaware.
- Switching to “Know it all boring guy mode” -
Cosplay is the name for that. It comes from Japanese comic book and anime fans. It growing in the west.
It’s a surprisingly big sub-culture that most don’t know of. I was surprised myself when I went to a Sci-Fi / Comic book convention in Brisbane Aus. FYI Brisbane was/is known for being conservative place.
So I was surprised to see _thousands_ of people dressed as characters like shown above. Some of them go to a lot of work, some don’t.
- “KIABG” mode ending -
All that said, refering to the pictures above I can’t see why you’d dress up as a character from a movie you haven’t seen yet. You might not like it. . . just s throught.
July 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pmAwww, I went to the Black Curtin screening in Perth, before the movie premiered and hoped for some people to dress up…I thought maybe someone would since it’s Heath Ledger’s hometown, but I guess Perth is wayyyy too boring for it.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:20 amNobody dressed up here either. Bah.
July 20th, 2008 at 12:43 pmI may have seen a woman with Joker make-up, but that may be because she laid in on THICK.
July 20th, 2008 at 8:03 pmmeh, I was doing it better in 1979 at the Friday night midnight screenings of Rocky Horror…. no, really.
July 20th, 2008 at 11:03 pmLet’s do the timewarp again! Let’s do the timewarp again!
(oh frewt you have put that song into my head, I may never forgive you)
July 20th, 2008 at 11:33 pmWe had a theatre in NJ that only charged fitty cent if you wore a costume for the midnight show. One time my friend wore just a bathrobe. Damnit Janet, I love you!
July 21st, 2008 at 1:30 pmFrewt: I believe you. I know folks will correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t this trend come to full flower with Rocky Horror?
July 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pmLibrarian Kathleen: I believe you are correct. You also had to know all the things to shout out e.g.
Audience Participaion: “Look between Janet’s legs!”
Frank N Furter: “You’re wet”
Janet: “yes, it’s raining”
“I’m just a sweet transvestite (sweet transvestite) from Transsexual Transylvannia- ha-ha”
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 amEize: Are you saying you saw Denise Richards? Haiku blogger Viper Tetsu memorably described her as a “needle-nosed, joker-faced automation” on the board here a couple of months back. Genius.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:01 amI believe it did LK.
Yes, same deal here Vern. We also had the props - the water guns to simulate rain, the newspapers, preempting the action with shouted direction: ‘kick the tire, KICK THE TIRE! Ahhh those were the days.
Moonlight, it could have been Achey Breaky Heart….:)
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:11 amHa Frewt-
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 amWe used to throw toast when they toasted stuff!
My fave line:
“It’s not easy being nice-smiling even makes my face ache!”
Bizarre coincidence: Little Nell sold her home in Boerum Place, Brooklyn to Michelle and Heath in 2005.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 am