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Why isn't Dick Tracy as a character really relevant in popular culture anymore?


Is Warren Beatty clinging on to the film rights part of the problem?

https://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/598052/tracy-1990-30-year

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Dick Tracy was Beatty's pet project, was it?

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Apparently, he still maintains the rights to it today. He won't give them up for someone else to use. Is he hoping to have another shot at the character?

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Why isnt a straight while male who is a cop not more popular in today's political correct world?

Easy....because of liberals

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Relevant? There's little, if anything "relevant" about most movies. They just have to be entertaining.

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Does he have any interesting superpowers or skills other superheroes don't have? Because in the movie he doesn't have any, he's nothing special, easily lured into obvious traps many times.

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now that makes for a great movie character!

Whats fun about a guy with unlimited superpower who never makes a mistake?

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In this sanitized environment that is our mainstream cinema market, the very thought of any studio investing in a movie that has a gritty, urban noir setting and lots gun fire has the main studies pissing their pants

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Have you seen a platypus in the wild?

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I think one factor is that Batman, Superman, etc. can pretty easily be detached from the decade they originated in. I can't imagine Dick Tracy in a modern setting without the character either becoming a generic "badass cop" or being comically out of place.

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I can see him - like Austin Powers - thawed out of a cryogenic sleep after some decades. But then with less childish humor and plenty of sarcasm instead... 🤔

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