Well, There Is Nothing Brave About This

Paul Dano, another white guy, will be playing a role traditionally portrayed as a man of European descent, The Riddler.

Cry… come on… cry, baby boy… I can see you want to.

Why not cast a black male? Or a woman? 

After all, diversity is what the audience wants… right?

If The Riddler is so good with limericks, verbal trickery and such, why not cast an Asian since they statistically have much higher SAT scores?

Henry Golding would have gladly yellow-washed yet another role sacred to the fandom!

Sorry, I’m on a kick today because I’m trying to find something to write up and there is almost nothing but cuckoldry, communism and kents everywhere I look. 

So, I guess this is good news, yeah?

Who Is This Dano Guy Anyway?

He’s been in a few movies. Most of us know him from either Denis Villeneuve’s only great movie, Prisoners, or Rian Johnson’s only good movie, Looper

Recently Dano played prison escapee David Sweat in Ben Stiller’s well-made but unnecessary Escape at Dannemora.

He’s a decent actor, but he always plays someone small, slight and put upon, which might be a problem for the role of a villain who is constantly trying to prove how Big Brained he is.

Of course, Warner Bros. could be re-creating the character to be something pathetic and nebbish, like they did to Joker.

With both Riddler and Catwoman confirmed to be showing up in The Batman we are getting closer to realizing at least some kind of version of the classic Caped Crusader story The Long Halloween, which has long been rumored to be the basis for the movie.

And be patient, America, we will get to the promised land of government-mandated representation, eventually.

Maybe sooner than you think.