The Dark Knight Anyone meet someone who "didn't get it?"

[highscorefilms]

I've been to two Dentmobile stops so far, and in each one without fail, I met a person who told me I was ruining the political discourse in this country by vampaining for a candidate that didn't exist. I can kind of understand their argument, but it's still totally stupid. I call it a case of Social Darwinism: if other people think it's real, it's an indictment of them, not us.

Has anyone else come across someone with a similar argument?

 

[Symbiotic]

I've been to two Dentmobile stops so far, and in each one without fail, I met a person who told me I was ruining the political discourse in this country by vampaining for a candidate that didn't exist. I can kind of understand their argument, but it's still totally stupid. I call it a case of Social Darwinism: if other people think it's real, it's an indictment of them, not us.

Has anyone else come across someone with a similar argument?

Pfft.

 

[GPM]

I'm curious: Who said that to you?

And I'm not sure how a marketing campaign for a comic-book movie ruins the political discourse in this country. Pretty sure it's the politicians themselves!

 

[SpideyForPrez]

Who cares what people like that think. If they don't get it, it's their problem.

 

[krinshaw2]

I got that all day in NY. They thought HD was a real candidate. Some people got reeeeeeeealy mad too. Wow. People really are retarted sometimes.

 

[krinshaw2]

Blaaaah Im a Vampaigner, I'm here to suck you're Vote.

 

[Ecstasy]

People on 5th Ave. thought we were serious. Unfortunately, they didn't know it was for the new Batman movie.

 

[lollycop]

I dont know why WB and 42 is spending a ton of money on barely advertising...

 

[krinshaw2]

We did a huge amount of advertising for them today. That's probably why. I gave out a couple hundred of each of the buttons stickers etc... and still have tons.

 

[Redd]

I still have a lot of buttons too.

The stop in LA was a lot of fun

 

[Ecstasy]

One guy stopped by our march and screamed (playfully),

"NOOO! Harvey Dent is bad! He has two sides! Don't trust him!"

It was hilarious. And he kept on covering half of his face the whole time, which made it even more humorous.

 

[highscorefilms]

I'm curious: Who said that to you?

And I'm not sure how a marketing campaign for a comic-book movie ruins the political discourse in this country. Pretty sure it's the politicians themselves!

Personally, I got it twice today: once from an older guy who felt we were kind of exploiting Heath Ledger's death ( which is insane unto itself, but I'll drop the subject here) and another "hipster" lady who felt we were using the guise of politics to sell something.

Most of the other people I met today fell into two categories: not knowing where Gotham City is (which I can understand; maybe they aren't Batman fans) and people who got the joke and were cool. These other people are way the minority, which I take as a good sign. Not everyone has lost their sense of reality

 

[Goddamn_Batman]

I got a lot of confused people, a couple happy people, and one very angry crackhead. And mean I say crackhead, I don't mean weirdo, I mean he probably smoked some crack a few minutes before we walked by because he was yelling some crazy stuff. LA, man. LA.

 

[StefanGrey]

Had a few of them at the two stops in Philly (South Street last Saturday, Chestnut on Friday) I think a lot of the stuff on South Steet had to do with the bar across the street on St Patrick's day weekend, but the chestnut street stop had some good ones. One lady was yelling about how the guy with the Megaphone should be telling people he's running in Gotham City, so people didn't think he was running in Philly (the guys response was posted in one of the vids on IBIHD). A crazy hobo who kept asking where Gotham City was (between Seattle and NY, duh!), and another one who joined up and started screaming gibberish. A couple of girls who kept saying that Harvey Dent was the guy from Thank You for Smoking (he does kinda look like Aaron Eckhart). And one guy who was yelling that Harvey Dent is going to turn into Two-Face.

Still, I enjoy the confusion, and really tried to get into character. It's more fun when you act serious, and tell people it's not a movie, it's a real thing, and it's important for the future of Gotham. When they walk away confused and/or mad, I know I did a good job and had a lot of fun doing it.

 

[harleyquinn19]

We got all sorts of questions, goofy looks, and a few nasty comments. Some lady got all sorts of annoyed because we were campaigning and not clearly stating what Harvey was running for. So the guy with the megaphone proceeded to yell DA over and over.
We also got the "Gotham City? Isn't that Batman?" "Wait, Harvey Dent...that's two face, right?"

 

[Figs]

At the first stop in San Francisco we were on the sidewalk yelling out "Harvey Dent for DA". Some lady trying to turn right on that street stopped her car with a confused look on her face.

Me and my friends were laughing our asses off. She looked scared like we were going to mob her car. There was a good 20-30 of us from what I can remember.

 

[silentstorm]

One dude came over to the first one we were at. Stands there with his hands in his pockets. Looks me right in the face and goes:

"The Dark Knight. I don't think it's going to be a good movie at all."

Just before I shot him in the kneecaps I asked him why he was even there. He said nothing because a lot of people there were glaring at him and proceeded to grab some swag. Then he asks the campaign manager how he got involved with the viral campaign. The manager goes, "I don't know what you're talking about, I'm from Gotham." Then the tard left.

 

[Redd]

YES!

That is so awesome! People like that dont have anything better to do in there day so they try and get a rise out of other people to make them mad because they are bored with there lives.

 

[BANEparkour]

Well, we ddin't have any swag to hand out. so we didn't do an AWEFUL lot of stuff with the general public. we get get petition signatures from a few random people, one from the guy in our local comic shop too. Most people were grand about it! and the comic shop guy even said he would put up a BRING GOTHAM BACK sign we printed out! we did get an awful lot of WEIRD looks when we were at the construtcion site taking pictures of myself and my friend shaking hands with a spade in the ground, set to look like we were turning the first sod in a construction project for harvey dent , it was good fun

 

[Ion Kenshin]

personally i think its kinda fun when people dont know.... i like to keep in character and in spirit of the movie. i speak about Harvey like he is a real person. Some people get it others don't no big deal. Besides, at the rate this country is going i'd rather campaign for a "fake person" than some of these real politicians we have now anyway.

 

[Bookster523]

I was at the rallies in Ann Arbor, and at the 2 PM one there was some guy that kept yelling at us "no one cares", and something about Osama bin Laden (sp?). That was pretty cool. There was also another guy at the rallies that kept yelling "No more two faced politicians!" We all cracked up at that. I loved the people who would play along. One guy walking by yelled "Down with Wayne Enterprises", which was neat. But yeah, the people walking by clueless were great. We got all sorts of strange looks from pedestrians.

 

[highscorefilms]

personally i think its kinda fun when people dont know.... i like to keep in character and in spirit of the movie. i speak about Harvey like he is a real person. Some people get it others don't no big deal. Besides, at the rate this country is going i'd rather campaign for a "fake person" than some of these real politicians we have now anyway.

I liked staying in character as well, but my morality wouldn't allow me to deliberately confuse someone. I kept up appearances unless someone asked me point blank if this was for a movie, and then I spilled the beans to that person. I found that we got more smiles and laughs out of people when they knew it was a gag. One instance I can think of was at Madison Square Garden, when we were doing our final lap around the block, we walked up on these three middle-aged people who were probably out for dinner or going to see a show. Someone next to me gave them a few posters and, when greeted with looks of confusion, explained that it was for the new "Batman" movie. Then their faces brightened up and they even joined us in the chant for a few moments. Personally, that made me feel better than someone looking at me like I'm a Scientologist trying to give him or her a stress test. But, just to keep the record straight, I never gave the secret away unless I was directly asked, because there is some fun in trying to improvise answers when someone asks you who Harvey Dent is.

Finally, Harvey Dent is the only politician I've felt good about supporting. That's what's great about this country: we can use our freedom of speech to make fun of the political system and support a candidate who doesn't exist.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

I liked staying in character as well, but my morality wouldn't allow me to deliberately confuse someone. I kept up appearances unless someone asked me point blank if this was for a movie, and then I spilled the beans to that person. I found that we got more smiles and laughs out of people when they knew it was a gag. One instance I can think of was at Madison Square Garden, when we were doing our final lap around the block, we walked up on these three middle-aged people who were probably out for dinner or going to see a show. Someone next to me gave them a few posters and, when greeted with looks of confusion, explained that it was for the new "Batman" movie. Then their faces brightened up and they even joined us in the chant for a few moments. Personally, that made me feel better than someone looking at me like I'm a Scientologist trying to give him or her a stress test. But, just to keep the record straight, I never gave the secret away unless I was directly asked, because there is some fun in trying to improvise answers when someone asks you who Harvey Dent is.

Finally, Harvey Dent is the only politician I've felt good about supporting. That's what's great about this country: we can use our freedom of speech to make fun of the political system and support a candidate who doesn't exist.

i will explain it to people who are genuinely nice and want to actually know about or have a basic idea of who harvey dent is...but for the people who get all upset and pissy about it ..why try to calm them down their pissed already that we are making a so called mockery of the political system i wouldnt waste my time explaining id rather just let them be angry and ignorant

 

[Redd]

Something happened to me, similarly, when I went to the Chicago spot.

A guy walking on the street said "No way am I voting for Harvey Dent. I'm voting for Bruce Wayne."

 

[Alixyveth]

Something happened to me, similarly, when I went to the Chicago spot.

A guy walking on the street said "No way am I voting for Harvey Dent. I'm voting for Bruce Wayne."

Haha, some guy did that with our petition... he wouldn't sign it, saying he'd support Bruce Wayne instead, and he wouldn't sign until we told him that Bruce Wayne was supporting Harvey Dent. XD