From the Minds of Imagination
Being Batman
Posted by Joel Witmer on July 22, 2008
My impression is that 80% of the people in our office saw The Dark Night over the weekend (and 100% of the people sitting near me). And while few people might admit it, I think one of the attractions of Batman as a superhero is his relative ordinariness amongst his superhero brethren. True, Bruce has an ungodly sum of money and no one I know could afford to live in a mansion with its own tricked out cave, but there is little about Batman’s physical prowess that smacks of something from another world. He can’t fly. He can’t breathe underwater. He can’t run faster than the speed of sound. Everything he does seems within the realm of human possibility.
Right?
According to E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and author of the upcoming Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero, the answer is yes. Sorta.
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