Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Green Hornet: Seth Rogen > Ben Affleck?



So, here's my thing.

If Green Hornet is better than Daredevil, does that mean that Seth Rogen is better than Ben Affleck?

Posted by _J_ at 9:38 PM

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8 comments:

Andrew said...

Any reason the sign at the beginning was written upside down?

June 23, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Unknown said...

A.) I prefer Daredevil to the green hornet as a concept.

B.) I prefer Seth Rogen to Ben Affleck

C.) I MUCH prefer Cameron Diaz to Jennifer Garner

D.) Casting alone will make this movie better than Daredevil.

June 23, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Roscoe said...

... Really? The Green Hornet concept is so... strangely simple and pulpy that it works for me..

.. well.. it does when you weed away some ancilliary revival attachments.

I wonder.. is it the core concepts that grab you more, or the fact that DD has a stronger publishing history, backlog of stories to stick in your awareness?

June 23, 2010 at 4:34 PM
Unknown said...

The concept of DD is just better. Blind ninja attorney to me is more awesome than publisher vigilante with asian sidekick.

Also the play on justice being blind just does it for me.

June 23, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Mike Lewis said...

also, The Green Hornet is really the sidekick to Kato.

June 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
_J_ said...

Truth be told? Prior to watching this trailer my only knowledge of The Green Hornet was "something something car something something Kato something something old time radio".

Now I know...slightly more than I previously knew.

Also, every time I type "Green Hornet" i accidentally type "horney" and then have to backspace.

Because, apparently, in my life I type "horney" more than "hornet".

Which I guess makes a bit of sense.

June 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM
_J_ said...

Though, I do like the idea of a super hero who has a valet. There is something wonderful in that.

"I may be a masked vigilante, but I am wealthy and white. So I'm not driving myself around. I need a fucking asian to drive my car."

Then there's the irony of freely choosing to have an asian be the one to drive one's car. No one in their right mind lets an asian drive a car. Drive a calculator, sure.

Just for reference, here is the racial preference list for valets:

1) white
2) black
3) inuit
4) hispanic
5) asian

So, you would think that Green Hornet would follow Batman and get a white guy to drive his car. But apparently we need to keep a racial heirarchy in place (whites cannot be subservient to whites). So, white is out.

Next would be black. But I mean, if you're going to be a vigilante, you can't have a black guy be your sidekick; he's not going to be able to be that close to crime and not turn to a life of crime himself. It's just science.

We're not fighint seals, we're fighting people. So we're not going to have an Inuit be our sidekick.

One would prefer to have a hispanic driver to an asian, but we're talking driver / sidekick. And there's no way you let a hispanic be the sidekick to a wealthy white publisher unless he's sidekicking into roof repair.

So, then we're left with asian. Because, sure, an asian can make a nice sidekick (all asians know karate) and you just accept that "drive" comes along with it.

It's sad, really.

Ideally this would be the breakdown:

Green Hornet: Hero.
Black Guy: Valet.
Asian Guy: Sidekick.
White Guy: Sidekick for parties and galas

But that's a lot of casting work to do.

June 23, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Caleb said...

God, J!

June 24, 2010 at 12:04 AM

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