2. How Aurora Changed 'The Dark Knight Rises'

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/how-aurora-changed-the-dark-knight-rises/260547/
       

        On July 31, Jason Biley, a writer at Flavorpill, wrote about the influence that the Colorado shootings incident now has on the movie 'The Dark Knight Rises'. The writer starts by telling a story that happend a while after the shooting that served as an exemple to how the shooting changed the whole environment of the people watching the film and the film itself. The exemple he used was about a boy and a couple fighting for a seat in the theater and after being annoyed by the woman having sat at the chair in question, the man says to his friend, "Did you bring the gun?", after that the police walked him out of the building due to his disrespect given the situation. Then, Jason continues by stating that in the second time watching the film, after the shootings, although the filmakers did not change a thing in the movie, it felt different and it always will from now on. Later in the article, it is stated that even though the movie wasn't blamed of this incident, some people blame it on Hollywood due to the Batman posted on the killer's wall. The article approaches the end with the writer's thought about how the shooting remembered him of a line on the previous movie, "The Dark Knight", "Some men just want to watch the world burn", and it ends says that that phase was a lot easier to take in when recent news didn't remind us of how real that frase was.

        Jason Biley uses different people's opinion and examples to prove his point. The purpose of this article was to demonstrate how circumstances really do make a change in people's views and thoughts, to explain different views about why there was the shooting and also to relate and create some sort of fear on the reader by expressing how reality is getting almost as cruel as some scenes in Hollywood movies.