Neat. I sadly did not pick up on the “Z” until your post lol. My wife and I were both shown the old Zoro shows and movies when we were growing up and shared them with our kids. They only recently got old enough for the more recent movies that came out in my childhood/youth with Antonio Banderas.
I have actually seen some of the silent era Zorro. Guy Williams will always be who I think of when I think of Zorro. His turn as the fox was classic and at least based on my wife and my experiences watching the old re-runs on the Disney Channel growing up and my kids watching them on streaming it’s timeless.
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Fairbanks silent Zorro is legend, I saw a silent movie theater production with a live orchestra doing the music (using a classic Spanish score, acoustic guitar, violin, harp, trumpets, etc.) , in a revival theater, the way they would have back in the 20s. Don't think any of the DVDs or uploads on YouTube use the actual score from when it was first released.
- thanks for letting us slow types (that missed the posts in question) know.
I would. I'm not a completionist, I only purchase the characters I'm most fond of, so it's not as big of an ask for me.
While it's fine you don't see it , Star Trek is not exactly where his influence or legacy is felt, I certainly didn't open up the discussion to him here, yet I will gladly challenge your claim. Don't open spoiler if you want to continue to live in denial, (or can't recognize this is all in fun
, warning heavy visual info.)Batman:
Decades later, before Disney acquired the assemblage of masked heroes they put on screen and in their parks , their first inspiration and go-to was Zorro, again still inspiring what you see there today.Bill Finger - "Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks [who played Zorro] and Sherlock Holmes."
Bob Kane -"Zorros use of a mask to conceal his identity as Don Diego gave me the idea of giving Batman a secret identityBruce Wayne would be a man of means who put on a façade of being effete. Zorro rode a black horse called Tornado and would enter a cave and exit from a grandfather clock in the living room. The bat-cave was inspired by this cave in Zorro. I didn't want Batman to be a Superhero with superpowersSo I made Batman an ordinary human being; he is just an athlete who has the physical prowess of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who was my all-time favorite hero in the movies.
Bob Kane - "As a kid, I was a movie buff. One of my favorites was The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Zorro had the dual identity. By day, like Bruce Wayne, he feigned being a bored, foppish count, the son of one of the richest families.... By night, he became a vigilante. He would disguise himself, wearing a mask with the eyes slit out. He exited on a black horse from a cave underneath his home, and thats the inspiration for the Batcave and the Batmobile."
Alter Ego (Roy Thomas) - "Bill [Finger] maintained (well into the 1960’s) a file of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. photo stills. He showed me the file and said that he would attach selected photos to finished scripts for Bob [Kane] and his assistants to use as models. I recognized pose after pose. The stills I saw (and had never seen before that date) were the familiar swinging poses that characterized the Acro-Batman…"
Continued into a whole other genre of movie action heroes and influencing the next gen of creators and heroic action films of (Lucas & Spielberg) into the 70s-80s, who's impact in some of the biggest franchises is still felt to this day.
Ha, I always thought your handle was clever, plus leaving the "Z" signature.
So yes for the Don to die "fall away", he does ...go Masked.
Respectfully, that's an absolutely ludicrous statement.
Well, think about what prompted that conspiracy theory. The posts were moderator clippedThough to be fair the interpretation “Don die, go masked.” actually invokes the essence of the character, in the Mark of Zorro original McCauley Pulp: after removing his mask, and only the Don is left, he explains:
So yes for the Don to die "fall away", he does ...go Masked.
Maybe Nacelle will. I mean they are doing Peter Preston...No doubt.
Trek always cast a pretty wide net,
As well as the Swashbuckling Mirror Universe designs:
Don't know how deep ExO is gong to get into secondary characters and alternative costumes yet, I'de love to see it.
Don’t you know how to use the board’s search function?
