Batman fans help please?!?
I’m writing a review of The Dark Knight for my GCSE English coursework in the style of Empire (magazine). For one of my paragraphs I am comparing it to Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher’s versions of the Batman franchise. I never read the comic books but can you tell me how close each movie was to the comics (all of them Tim Burton’s, Joel Schumacher’s and Christopher Nolan’s), why and how did they do well/failed in your opinion?
Detailed and serious answers would be very helpful.
What lots of people don’t know is how dark Batman was in its very beginning; in the 1049′s Batman killed a man on purpose, and carried a gun for a while. In that sense, Burton’s take was close to the original incarnation (even though Bob Cane hated it) as the character wasn’t as ethical as we now know him to be. BUT it WAS set in Burton’s perpetual gothic timeless universe.
Schumacher’s work was quite cartoonish and shallow (who can forget the nipples…), much more intended as a summertime eye-candy. His two films were reminiscent of the 60s and 70s Batman, lighter in tone and setting like the very campy Adam West-led TV show was.
Chris Nolan’s take follows, or more precisely expands on the work of (mainly) Frank Miller whose “Dark Knight Returns” and other contributions brought back the darker temperamental and introspective Batman. Nolan’s contribution can be singled-out for making the character as believable and grounded in reality as he could ever be.
Isaiah Wilner – “The Man Time Forgot”
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