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41 - Gregg Hurwitz - Patterns in Politics and Storytelling

The Symbolic World

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Batman's a Bully

"I just had a sense of how I want to do it and what I wanted to do was if you're the penguin if you're short and stout and unattractive yeah Batman's a bully" "If your antagonist is complex and has a worldview that we can almost relate to our protagonist can engage with that ambiguity and chaos and still come out and emerge and win the day," he says. He also talks about an origin story for Bruce Wayne in his new book, The Dark Knight Rides Again.

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