I think we need to talk about Corporate Kane, and more exactly how much of an underrated kino it is.
It's a genius gimmick, that which the obese smarks watching wrestling could never understand, just ponder it, the demon becoming a business man, wearing a suit, it's a genius social commentary akin to a Dostoevsky novel.
It's a statement on the death of noble ideals, subjugated by the capitalism of the modern world, to the point where even the untamed mythical like demon can be bought for money, it reminds me of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, though I can see how people might see similarities with the manifestos of Ted Kaczynski and Karl Marx.
There's also the very obvious comparison to American Psycho by Brett Ellis, with the blunt anti materialist message,the sharp contrast of the monster wearing a clean designer suit, but I also see a bit of a Leon Czgolgosz in the performance.
I also feel some Cormac McCartthy influences in the gimmick, the cynical, almost nihilistic even, nature of it, the implication that evil is simply a natural part of life that we must live with, that even something so inhuman and evil is simply another cog in the corporate machine that is modern society.
It's very rare in wrestling to see such an accurate portrayal of modern society, a reflection of the ugly world that we live in reduced to a simple face on television, the fight turning from philosophical to physical, the dominance of the capitalist regime that crushes your soul now in the form of a 7 foot tall monster, and what a monster it is.
It truly speaks to the deep philosophical undertones of what comprises true spiritual evil, and the corruption of man's mythos from one of Giants and Monsters to that of Shysters and corporate inside groups.
Smarks who enjoy flips and mudshow wrestling could never understand the intricacies.
I could go on, but I think I made myself clear by now.