after what Ben Affleck Refusing to direct and star in ‘The Batman’Matt Reeves, a former partner of JJ Abrams and the animator of the ‘Planet of the Apes’ series, a project dating back to 2015, took over production, changed the script, separated the character from any connection with the Justice League, and the decision was made. Focus on fighting crime and corruption in Gotham. The new Batman, played by Robert Pattinson, battled criminals and psychopaths for two years, as he himself said. this is a fdark and almost realistic film, an eerie ‘thriller’ rather than a traditional superhero story. Here are five key elements to enter the enchanting and dark world of the new cinematographic master of the night.
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antagonists and villains
‘Batman’ features a Catwoman with more edges With Halle Berry in Tim Burton’s second film, Batman Returns (1992), where she is portrayed by a Michelle Pfeiffer dressed as Musidora, the protagonist of the French TV series, or starring in the movie dedicated to the character ‘Catwoman’. As such, Zoë Kravitz is black. Selina gives Kyle more dramatic features and tensionespecially when it comes to her past and the identity of her mom and dad, and she transforms into a nimble and aggressive catwoman with a stark and minimalist Fantômas mask.
If Kravitz, in the role of the antagonist who takes an interest in Batman, is recognizable in all the shots in which he appears, his existence is Paul Dano and Colin Farrell as the two villains of the role more understanding than anything else. The former appears as Enigma obsessed with puzzles and chaos, disguised in a green mask and large glasses, while the latter is unrecognizable in the dark. make-up and prosthetic layers Carmine Falcone carries with her to give life to one of her henchmen and future Penguin, Oz Cobblepot. John Turturro as Falcone looks like he stepped out of a realistic gangster movie.
some good guys
Jim Gordon and Alfred Pennyworth are two mainstays for both Batman and Bruce Wayne.. Gordon is a black cop for the first time and that doesn’t take into account many other considerations. Jeffrey Wright, the actor who plays him, recently said – after sparking countless and absurd discussions about this change – that “nothing Gordon is and represents forces or forces him to be white.”
Here Gordon is an honest and uncorrupt lieutenant; Gotham is years away from being the police commissioner. As much as Alfred, Bruce Wayne’s butler, adviser, and confidant, remains honest and loyal; In short, its protector. It is shaped by Andy Serkis, who has previously worked with Reeves on ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ (2014) and ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ (2017). digital features anthropoid Caesar. Alfred cares for Bruce as he took care of his family before. At one point in the movie, he reveals his past in the Circus, the name John le Carré gives to the British intelligence service in his novels starring George Smiley.
political corruption
In the city of Gotham featured in the movie, no one can be trusted at all. The mayor, the police commissioner, and the district attorney are corrupt. They are in the service of gangster Carmine Falcone, placed in her club, closing their eyes and receiving bribes of not less than 10,000 euros per month. One of the thugs working in the club is the police. Try Batman and Lieutenant Gordon Destroy the dense crime network as you search for the Enigma killer. The model Reeves inspired was undoubtedly Sidney Lumet’s ‘thriller’ of the misery of the system, the corruption of the police force in ‘Serpico’ (1973), ‘The Prince of the City’ (1981). , ’34th District: Total Corruption’ (1990) and the political intrigues of ‘Night Falls on Manhattan’ (1996) or ‘Power (Power)’ (1986).
In a darker and almost nihilistic way, ‘Batman’ shadowy recesses of institutionalized power. This is not new, as the character Falcone is vital in the comics Batman, Year one (1988) by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, and The Long Halloween (1996-1997) by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. , but it fits perfectly with the new vision Reeves wanted to give Batman.
terrible ‘tension’
‘Batman’s other big influence’ ‘Seven’ (1995)The terrifying ‘thriller’ starring David Fincher as Machiavellian with two policemen chasing Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, in which an anonymous psychopath nicknamed John Doe (Kevin Spacey) purges his victims by watching gruesome scenes of the seven deadly sins. As sinister as the ‘Seven’ killer, Enigma also plays with Batman and Gordon at will.. His crimes are as complex as they are lethal, as well as ingenious and perverse as well as the tests he scattering. Reeves’ mise-en-scène is in line with Fincher’s in showing discoveries of corpses or apartments filled with filing cabinets and Enigma-encoded books. The Batman franchise has something sinister in both the comics and the movie, and ‘Batman’ uses it to its fullest.
darkest night
Visually, Reeves’ movie is one of the most consistent with the dark side of the Batman character. He assures himself that at the beginning of the movie he believes criminals are hiding in the shadows, “but I am the shadow,” he says. He uses fear as one more weapon with his terrifying and spectacular masked figure and the ‘bat signal’ that crosses Gotham’s sky forever at night, instilling fear in criminals before he appears. There is very little daylight footage on the tape., basic viewing in cinema. Batman is the lord of shadows and darkness, uncompromising and granite. When the vigilante takes off his mask, Bruce Wayne is still an expressionless mask. a black shadow under the eyes This makes him look like the tortured hero of an expressionist movie.