The Batman Movies
It’s a fact that bats fly but Batman became a sensation when the first movie hit the big screen on June 23, 1989 without flying. He did know how to scale walls and make it up to rooftops. The movie was professionally directed by Tim Burton based on the DC Comic hero Batman. In the first movie the multimillionaire Bruce Wayne was portrayed by Michael Keaton. The character Wayne transformed into Batman to fight the forces of evil after he witnessed the murder of his parents as a child.
The first movie villain is mob henchman Jack Napier played by Jack Nicholson. He has a bad run-in with Batman and winds up falling into a vat of acid at a chemical factory. As a result he doesn’t die but is badly disfigured and becomes the Joker. Seeking revenge he first kills his boss who set him up played by Jack Palance. Now the Joker starts playing evil jokes on the citizens of Gotham City. In the first movie Batman or Wayne becomes smitten with a lovely newspaper reporter called Vickie Vale played by Kim Basinger.
Keaton was not the first to be chosen to play Batman. Other leading men considered for the part were Dennis Quaid, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford and Kevin Costner. Burton preferred Keaton because they had previously worked
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I was sorry to see that when “Batman and Robin” was released in 1997 that Batman was portrayed by George Clooney. Somehow I just couldn’t put him in that role. However it was an exciting film with lots of action and interesting villains. Arnold Schwartzenegger as Mr. Freeze and Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and helping Batman was Robin by Chris O’Donnell. In 2005 we got a look at what Bruce Wayne’s childhood had been like in “Batman Begins” starring Christian Bale as Batman. Amazingly this movie got the best reviews of all of the other movies and was a huge box-office
Batman, Robin , and Alfred the butler are all in the quest movie The Dark Knight Rises. Batman is the quest hero, Robin is the helper/guide, and alfred is the wise old man who gives advice. This quest story has a lot in common as the book True Grit by Charles Portis. In the quest novel Mattie Ross fits the description of the quest hero. Reuben (Rooster) Cogburn fits the wise old man because he acts as a fatherly figure towards Mattie Ross, and knows the gang that Tom Chaney (the villain) is with. LaBoeuf fits the helper guide because he is Helping to catch the murderer Tom Chaney.
Batman is regarded as one of America's most loved heroes, despite his lack of super powers. This is perhaps why he is thought to be a more realistic character than the likes of Superman, Wonder Woman, or most other DC characters.
The differences between the films are shown while looking at batman’s resources, the Batmobile, Gadgets, and the Bat Cave. Keaton`s Batmobile first appeared when Batman went to go rescue Vicky Vale from the Joker, which is when its features were shown. Keaton`s Batmobile had a rocket blaster that causes the car to go faster. Keaton`s Batmobile also has the feature of being able to shield itself when commanded by voice control, which was shown when Keaton commanded the car to shield itself after him and Vicky Vale had escaped. Keaton`s Batmobile also has many other features such as being able to drop bombs and produce guns to shoot. The gadgets are also different from Nolan`s version of Batman. In Burton`s Batman film, the gadgets used by Keaton are the batarang, grapple gun, utility belt, communicator, sky hook, smoke pellet, gauntlet and the bat suit. Another one of Burton`s resources that is different from Nolan`s is the bat cave, the bat cave has a vault for batman`s batsuit, computers for investigation, and it looks similar to an actual
...ussell Crowe did not have their hearts in the story. Whatever the cause, viewers seem to have expected Gladiator or Kingdom of Heaven and were left wanting. Box office sales and critic reviews showed this film will not likely have a large or lasting impact as anything other than a cautionary tale on movie making.
In order to truly understand the things that Batman does, one must know how he came to be. Batman’s true identity is that of the multi-billionaire owner of Wayne Enterprises, Bruce Wayne. The first movie in the Dark Knight trilogy, Batman Begins, tells the story of how Bruce came to don the cape and the mask of Batman, from the perspective of the director, Christopher Nolan. When Bruce was a boy, he was leaving a theatre with his parents Martha and Thomas. As they started walking down the alley to get home, his parents were shot and killed by a mugger. This traumatic event happens right in front of Bruce without him doing anything to stop it as he is stricken by fear and powerless. Years later, Bruce starts training with the League of Shadows, a group of assassins that live the mountains. Under the tutelage of their leader Ra’s al Ghul, Bruce it taught that to “conquer fear, you must become fear, you must bask in the fear of other men,
In the 1989 Batman film, before the Joker was introduced as the Joker, he was a man named Jack Napier. As a young man, Jack and his partner in crime mugged and killed Bruce Wayne's parents. Before murdering
From what we know about his past, Wayne had a pretty normal childhood until one day when he witnessed the murder of both of his parents’ murder. Since that day, Wayne decided to rid Gotham of the evil criminals like the one that taken his parents from him. That day released a part of Wayne he never though possible; a dark side. He fought, tortured, and injured every criminal in Gotham in order to avenge his parents’ murders. Although he is seen as a hero by the general public, some critics believe he is the true villain of the film because of the mayhem he causes in Gotham while dueling with the criminals. After looking at Batman’s history, it is clear that he began his life as a vigilante after his parents’ death in order to get revenge on the criminals who killed his
While the Batman’s are facing certain obstacles so are the villains. The villain in each movie is the Joker. The joker character is a sadistic genius. Batman: 1989 has the Joker created by being exposed to chemical waste while The Dark Knights Joker just appeared in the city. Both Jokers’ main...
There was only one person that knows and that was his butler, Alfred J. Pennyworth. He knows that Batman really is the billionaire, Bruce Wayne. Bruce along with Alfred have been fighting crime in Gotham for the past year. People first caught a glimpse of him when he was fighting his old mentor, Ra’s Al Ghul. Ra’s had taught him everything he knows, but when he wanted to destroy Gotham, Bruce had no choice. Bruce first sought his guidance after his father and mother had died. A common criminal shot them outside of the theater right in front of young Bruce. Ra’s taught him how to fight and handle pain. After learning this he became the guardian of Gotham City and even started working with the
“The film was shot using a wider than usual lens so that it could be shown in I-MAX cinemas nationwide. Today’s audiences want an experience bigger than reality. We have to go that extra mile to give them that something extra.” Chris Nolan also insisted that the film should have a distinctive style which included making the film feel sincerely dark and sinister. Very rarely were the cameras sat still instead the cameras used very technical tricks e.g.: tracking, zoom. This film was originally promoted using a very unique style. Instead of paying for adverts they decided to promote the film using an alternative route. One of the ways this was accomplished was by de facing thousands of fake dollar notes by putting the jokers smile on top of the original face. A sane yet effective way was when many “Batman” recruits placed Joker cads into hundreds of books in libraries to do with death, this had the desired effect as many people became stirred up as to what this meant. The next alternative was to send out spam emails to the site named www.whysoserious.com. But when did Batman evolve as part of our lives. It was in 1939 when the world was introduced to a new hero. Bob Kane’s simple vigilante, Batman. The comics were e-introduced during the 50’s period. Yet due to Comic Book Censorship the violence was forced to gradually become weaker. The well anticipated Batman retuned in the 1970’s. Yet to intrigue a wider variety of audience he appeared more complicated and violent than previous comics. Today’s Batman comics show Batman as a real man with realistic and varied dilemmas. Due to these changes Batman is now one of the most original and adored comic book heroes. Nolan’s interpretation is a variety of the previous comics. It includes the violence of the First Batman mixed with the complexity and realism of today’s modern comics.
Bruce came back to his home in Gotham, and became Batman, at the age of 25. How did he achieve so much in so little time? Bruce adopted the Uberman sleep schedule.
We all know that Robin has always played a part as Batman’s faithful sidekick. The most famous one of all the Robins over the years is Dick Grayson who is the original Robin. Known also by the moniker Nightwing, he hung up the Robin cowl, handing it to Jason Todd.
Batman was created after Detective Comics (D.C.) wanted a new super hero to follow-up after Superman. In May of 1933, Bob Kane and Bill Finger created Batman. Bob was born on October 24, 1915 and died November 3, 1998. Bill was born February 8, 1914 and died January 1974. Bill always loved comics as a child and still when he went to high school at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx New York. He and Bob went to the same high school but never socialized because they were in different classes. Bob meet Bill when Bill was working as a shoe salesman. They worked on many comics together for kids comic books and local newspapers. When they found out that Detective Comics (D.C.) wanted a new super hero they went to work. One day Bob came to Bill with a character, Batman. Bill liked the idea but said it looked too much like Superman. The original illustration had a Robin style mask and red outfit. So Bob took a Webster’s Dictionary and found a picture of a bat. He added bat ears to the mask, giving the full mask a more mysterious look. He changed the colors to black and yellow and added a cape that was cut like bat wings. When writing the comics Bill made Batman’s personality a...
Good thing Hackman did take the role, because he ended up winning a Golden Globe for his performance. The film having as much star power as it did probably swayed more average moviegoers into seeing it. A typical movie going audience reacts differently to a film depending on a number of different factors. These factors can include the type of film, the nature of the viewer, level of identification, ideological perspective and aesthetic considerations. One of the most important ones in relation to TRT would probably be the type of film.
The plot of Batman Begins mainly focuses on the origins and psychology behind Batman, and how he copes with the struggles he faces. One major thing that changed the course of the story, was the death of the Thomas and Martha Wayne. It formed an emotion change in the story that effects Bruce Wayne and all of Gotham to arise the struggles and problems that will be faced in the rest of the movie. Another key point in the story was the seven-year disappearance of Bruce Wayne. When in the Chinese prison it would also discipline him, which was something that he hadn’t had much of before. The meeting of Ras Al Ghul and his further training were also key experiences to develop Bruce Wayne into Batman. These were the some of the building blocks in the plot. The plot of The Dark Knight was very different to Batman Begins. The main plot is that Batman has limits and Gotham needed a different hero, whereas, in Batman Begins, Batman was the hero and didn’t think he had any limits. The foundation of the Dark Knight was more of what had happened in the few absent years between the two movies, and not what would happen. The