{"id":145,"date":"2013-02-22T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/the-semiotics-of-double-dragon\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:46:00","slug":"the-semiotics-of-double-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/the-semiotics-of-double-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"The semiotics of Double Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>[Good stuff. My new knowledge about the sociological effects of leaded gasoline seems to be coloring how I read a lot of things these days. -egg]<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0&#8211; &#8211;\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Sent to you via Google Reader<\/h4>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/-w8vhvxeA4Q\/the-semiotics-of-double-dragon.html\">The semiotics of Double Dragon<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD.jpg?resize=625%2C262\" alt=\"\" title=\"DD\" width=\"625\" height=\"262\"><\/p>\n<p>Finally, someone has written the <a href=\"http:\/\/gameological.com\/2012\/10\/smacks-and-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth article about the cultural ethos of classic 1980s beat-em-up <em>Double Dragon<\/em><\/a>. Dan Whitehead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like its closest peers\u2014namely <em>Renegade<\/em> and <em>Streets Of Rage<\/em>\u2014Double Dragon represents the vigilante myth at its most naked and vicious. In brief: The hero is a square-jawed white guy, clad in a blue-collar uniform of wifebeater and sleeveless denim jacket. &#8230; It&#8217;s the Reagan-era fantasy in a nutshell\u2014the &#8220;one good man&#8221; of frontier myth updated for a world of crack dens and moral sleaze, taking down feral street punks with a bone-crunching kick to the face rather than a six-shooter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A great article. However, I&#8217;m going to be <em>that guy<\/em> and suggest that he&#8217;s not quite nailed the time period. <em>Double Dragon<\/em> was more a delayed echo of gritty 70s crime flicks such as <em>Death Wish<\/em> and <em>The Warriors<\/em> than Reagan-era neon paranoia (in arcades: <em>Narc<\/em>). Likewise, <em>Double Dragon&#8217;s<\/em> elements of mysticism were more akin to Roger Moore Bond movies and kung-fu exploitation flicks than the contemporaneous <em>Big Trouble in Little China<\/em>. The lurid late-eighties glow&#8211;as resurrected in a 2012 reboot that owes as much to Ninja Turtles cartoons as the original game&#8211;only became the focus with the movie and later franchising. And this stuff about corn-fed Skynyrd types fighting urban america to the death? Not sure about that at all.<\/p>\n<p>How it saddens me that Charles Bronson was not recalled from advanced retirement to play the the bad guy in a modern, Tarantino-esque <em>Double Dragon<\/em> film. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f00a169fae26e417fa98752ef0600a72&#038;p=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f00a169fae26e417fa98752ef0600a72&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/-w8vhvxeA4Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Good stuff. My new knowledge about the sociological effects of leaded gasoline seems to be coloring how I read a lot of things these days. -egg] \u00a0&#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 Sent to you via Google Reader The semiotics of Double Dragon Finally, someone has written the in-depth article about the cultural ethos of classic 1980s beat-em-up Double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-2l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}