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Originally Posted by anglewitch
Oh, I thought leatherface was some member of crazy cannibalistic family that like making head cheese out of people for a living.
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Well, it's not like that's an exaggeration. Tobe Hooper gave the world an image of pure mania in Leatherface.
If ever you were spooked about your car breaking down in the afternoon while on a cross-country drive, forcing you to use the telephone at a strange-looking house, you really feel the goosebumps now --- i.e., "Let's hope Leatherface doesn't live there!"
I mean, what do American comic book superheroes such as Green Arrow (DC Comics), a super-archer, and Spider-Man (Marvel Comics), a web-soaring urban vigilante, symbolize? They represent partly our gratitude for cops and firefighters and those who are real heroes in civilization.
Well, Leatherface represents the super-infamous criminal (or 'bad guy') --- i.e., Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, Ted Bundy, etc.
That's why I like the description of
Arkham Asylum (DC Comics), a fictional housing center for the criminally insane and the place where the masked urban crusader Batman places his criminally insane adversaries for study/treatment.
Arkham helps us understand the ethics characterization complications in society art that reflect controversial portrayals of 'intolerable evil.'
