Batman 1943 The Electrical Brain Part 2

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

HE DID HE SAY SHIFTY-EYED JAPS????

[pandatanto415]

@BRUTUALTRUTH yea most tv shows and movies at the time were quite racist comapred to today's standards

[dil007britt]

Zombies are supposed to be the undead. Not mind controll

[13biglou1992]

@dil007britt there are different kinds of zombies. The mind controlled zombie, the voodoo zombie, the undead zombie, and the virus or disease zombie.

[rocknrollfanatic96]

Why is everyone getting so upset over something that was of the time period? It was fine to hate Japs, Nazi's, and Italians then. Wouldn't you hate someone who was going to potentially take over your country?

[jahaniman]

I seem to have missed many of the political overtones when I watched this at the age of 10, still, it hold up well enough.

While a zombie's life can't be easy I'm inclined to feel more sorry for the caveman keeping watch outside the secret entrance. Having to stand in that pose all day can't be easy.

I wonder if anyone ever said: 'Hey, what sort of club is this?'

[ghettosweep]

Batman gets drafted: Goes to Europe. Punches out Hitler and handcuffs him to a lightpole. War over.

[RUMALDO71]

!!!!LA CIA ES.. O SON UNOS PERROS, UNAS CUERDAS DE MIERDAS.. QUE HAN JUGADOS CON NUESTRAS MENTES DURANTE UN SIGLO A TRAVES DE PROYECTOS, COMO MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD, CHATTER, STARGATE, Y MUCHOS MAS .... SON LOS (CANCERBEROS DEL INFIERNO?

[Rexco33]

Japanese Elmer Fudd!

[snakes3425]

I find it odd that the Joker and Catwoman had been introduced in the comics and yet they went with a made up character as the villain, J. Carrol Nash could've made a convincing Joker for 1943

[superhamzah85]

Nolan Movies tend to be anti-war.

The reference to the patriot act at the end of TDK, with the monitoring of all cell phones, which was portrayed as wrong, because Morgan Freeman said so, and he's infallible really.

[Marvcohen]

shifty eyed Japs ?????? hatered was ramped back then

[snakes3425]

@Marvcohen

This did come out at the height of the Second World War so a lot of Anti-Japanese, Anti-German and Anti-Italian propaganda is to be expected in films from that era owing to the war

[RyanPig]

1:30 ftw

[doginstine]

No more so than when the Japs killed Chinese, Koreans and the Bataan Death march.

[Treemeadow]

...our "Japanese" fellow performs like Alan Rickman. Rofl.

[karoloandria]

this is too much propaganda, i need a cigarette

[darthluke97]

3:34 That guy looks like Hitler

[r0bw00d]

We're supposed to believe that guy's Japanese? LOL!

[conyo985]

This is actually good! The serials got homages and references to other batman media. I remember a BTAS episode, beware the creeper, showing a reenacted batman with similar costume design with this one.

[winguln]

Avvincente.

[trans8010]

Bobby Lee's Blind Samurai sounds alot like Dr. Daka

[bigkellyr]

Racism was rampant in those days especially since we were at war. Propaganda was also a big part of all movies during this time. The announcer talked about a "wise government" Taking the"Japs" away. This refers to executive order 1066 in which thousands of Japanese Americans were taken to internment camps because so many people were afraid of another attack such as Pearl Harbor. What about today after 9-11 look how people mistrust anyone muslim. It;s a shame but part of our history.

[webranger1962]

The Japanese and the Germans caused the deaths of at least 60 million people. 600,000 of those were American soldiers. Life goes on for Americans with some semblance of normalcy despite Muslim extremists. Not so in 1940.

If Muslims caused people the same kind of trouble that the Germans and the Japanese caused in WWII, don't you think we'd be just as nasty or twice as nasty.

After the war it was "forgive and forget". Americans are pretty nice after all.

[bigkellyr]

The basic fault with what you said was that the "Japanese and German people" caused the deaths of all those poor souls. It was the governments of Japan and German (and let us not forget Italy) not the people per se. My main argument had to do with the propoganda used at the time. To say "Our wise gov't " took the "Japs away" placed American born citizens of Japanese descent in the same catagory as the enemy (Japan). Besides we did not inter German-Americans or Italian-Americans.

[bigkellyr]

As for "Forgive and Forget" that was only after we obliterated their infra-structure and then forced our form of Democratic governement on them. Which is what we did to Iraq (after using false information from the CIA). As for being "just as nasty or twice as nasty" to the Muslims, again you are equating Muslims with the enemy. Just because the terrorists follow a form of the Muslim faith does not make all Muslims bad and from what I've seen some people have been treating them pretty nasty.

[webranger1962]

Oh yeah, we *forced* them to adopt a non genocidal, non combatant society and destroyed their capability to rebuild one. Big sin!

If your hypothetical Muslims did more damage..... like say killing tens of millions of people... and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. and ran gas chambers and concentration camps... public opinion would change...

German and Italian Americans were here longer and were more tied to mainstream society. They escaped *some* of the racism. My grandfather was German.

[bigkellyr]

So was my Grandfather. He was first generation German-American. Skin color had a lot to do with the racism as well.Interesting you refer to "hypothetical Muslims" when they are very much real.

[webranger1962]

Muslims aren't that persecuted. Give me a break. Perhaps I should have said "hypothetical persecution".

People are rude to each other all the time. For liberals it's only important if it's racially based.

[webranger1962]

I guess it's fashionable to encourage minority groups to be very thin skinned. When we round the Muslims up and stick em in a camp, then we'll talk.

[chucknorriscaca]

@webranger1962: non combatant society, so the US are the only ones who have the right to combat because their belief is the good... I think you are blind with patriotism, let the government be a monster, but don't become one yourself by supporting their killings that, of course, had a reason just as a mass murderer will "have" a reason. Every war is a failure of humanity, but let governments fail, machines fail, not humans fail

[EltonJThe]

@bigkellyr A parliamentary government is hardly Federal.

[webranger1962]

While the concentration camps poured the smoke of human flesh into the air and the SS rounded up the Jews and the Japanese worshiped their Emperor the rank and file citizens claim that they didn't know anything about all the atrocities.

That would have been impossible.

[DuaneMThomas]

I am by no means implying that the interment of Jap Am was either right or necessary, but fear in combination with a nation at war, often makes people do crazy things. Also, the physical traits of the Jap immigrants (made them stand out) in combination with their failure (normally) to publicly utilize the English language as well as their tendency to sale & trade primarlily with only their kind, brought suspicion down on them from a nation at war & a nation that was operating in a near panic.

[fabiancortez83]

Why the Fuck are shifty-eyed japs played by round eyed crackers?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[marlboro555555]

Herro! This is hirariousry racsist! Not a good thing, but nonetheless a super funny thing, but then again I'm not Japanese. Hory compound sentence asshore!

[BobbyDes]

Three Stooges episodes at the time also made fun of the Japanese and Germans

[FlintIronstag]

Japanese cyberzombies. Sweet.

[Renfield2056]

I love the racist 40's lol. Shifty-eyed Japs lmao, gotta love WWII era things.

[deadman00]

before this serial Alfred was overweight in the comics.

after this serial in the comics alfred lost weight and grew a mustach to match the actor in this serial.

[jamusthebartender]

Not much different from the way Jack Bauer is a propaganda tool for the War On Terror.

[FiswaT]

@jamusthebartender Exactly.

[apvideogame]

Finally Batman is taking on those goddamned shifty eyed japs!

[PrinceCaranA]

3:40 lol, they have americans *act* like japanese people

[bekzzo]

Damn, even Batman was used as a propaganda tool!

No matter what kind of movie or cartoon appeared during those days, it allways contained war messages.

[kevinh898]

all comic from 40's and 50's did that

[capitalmindz]

Wholy Crap....Did they say "Shifty Eyed Japs"!?!? WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

[snakes3425]

@capitalmindz

This was made in 1943, at the height of the war, why the went with Japan as oppose to Germany (Gotham looks more like a city you'd find on the East Coast not the west coast, and is also a nickname for New York City), is beyond me but I think the reason is that the Battles of Guadalcanal and the Bismarck Sea had ended a few months prior to the serial's release and there was little progress in the Pacific at the time

[usframe]

@bekzzo think it might have been on the peoples' minds regardless?

[FiswaT]

@bekzzo It's the same these days.

[Dharkllama]

@bekzzo they all still do.

[tubomi0]

Wow. I can't believe Robin was played by Bud Bundy.

[adamnitro]

Wish these could come out on DVD ...

=(

[deadman00]

its on amazon.

[DNchap1417]

all the shows at the time show even worse anti-Japanese and anti-German references, but I don't why this one seems to have caught the most attention.

[jamesnoble07]

excellent i loved watching the batman stuff

[deadman00]

the first part you posted is no longer up.

menwhile..

this came out before the other batman serieal.

this serial introduced the batcave.

orginly there was just a long tunnel under wayne manner.

here it becomes a fleshed out cave.

which is intergrated into the comics.

yes sadly this can be offensive.

you have to remeamber the mind set and the time period.

america was at war with japan

[FanOfBats]

I still see the first part.

[13biglou1992]

@FanOfBats it was removed for copyright purposes.

[DNchap1417]

The original that started it all!

[FanOfBats]

This portion is especially insulting to Japanese and asians, but it is what it is. I hope no one is bothered.

[paladin313]

@FanOfBats Consider the era it was done: the mentality then was different then compared to now. There was a war on and, sadly, the Japanese were our enemies.

[BradRapstars]

@FanOfBats But it's totally the same kind of treatment Arabs get in the media now.

[pumpkinman30]

@FanOfBats i don't really think so - its just wartime propaganda. they didn't make a japanese caricature or anything - he just happens to be the villain. if it is offensive it doesn't even compare to mickey rooney in breakfast at tiffanys.

[usframe]

@FanOfBats we sure as hell were not on friendly terms at the time. There are massive amounts of propaganda materials still out there remaining from the war on the Japanese side. Was not a one way street.