There is a beautiful moment before he travels to
Lex’s home for his gala ding-dong that has Affleck’s Bruce Wayne captivated by
the unmanned batsuit. He stares,
unblinking, into the hollowed out eyes of the cowl and all but utters what would you have me do? The suit wants to be taken out. Bruce Wayne wants to do this next bit as
Batman but it must be Bruce. The
destruction of Metropolis has torn open the eternally raw wound that is his
parents’ death and in doing so has made him more cold-blooded, more ruthless, and
more cruel than he’s ever needed to be.
Affleck is perfect. The finest
ever Bruce Wayne, the best Batman and the brightest star in the DC crown.
3. Batman
Begins (2005)
Christian Bale || Batman
Eleven years on and it might be easy to underplay
the importance of this film. Batman had
been cinematically dormant for eight years (the same length of time Bruce Wayne
was inactive between TDK and TDKR).
Failure at this point would have set the character back decades and it
wasn’t the first imagining of Batman they had tried to get off the ground post Batman & Robin. Wolfgang Petersen was at the development
stage with a Superman vs Batman movie
which didn’t get out of the script stage.
Then you had Darren Aronofsky’s Year
One which would have seen a young Bruce Wayne living with a garage mechanic
but Warner thought it moved too far from the origin. Finally you had George Miller’s (Mad Max) vision for the Justice League
and we even had a Batman cast in Armie Hammer but the writer’s strike put an
end to that.
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Gratuitous up-cape shot |
When Christian Bale stepped into Wayne Manor he did
so with a universal acknowledgement that his
Batman would be a different kind of Batman.
With the director of Momento and
Insomnia behind both script and
camera this was a vigilante for the “real world” and in all that Nolan
delivered. Not only did he serve up an
origin story that managed to hit everybody’s
expectation but a Batman movie that had him in the cowl for a long time,
and squaring off against a different kind of villain than we’d seen before.
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Stu Hogan is idolized by every child walking Hollywood Boulevard apart from his own. Working the star-studded street as a Batman impersonator alongside good pal Brian (Superman) and steroid shooting Ricky (The Incredible Hulk), Stu's love of alcohol, gambling and strippers have left him behind with his alimony, down on his luck and looking for a quick fix for both.
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