jobloffski
Posts: 1837
Joined: 30/9/2005 From: elsewhere
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: justfontaine quote:
ORIGINAL: Alistair It's amazing to consider just what it is that the Nolans and Goyer have achieved with these Batman films - I mean here we are with reviews suggesting Oscars and not too long ago Batman was on his arse thanks to Joel Schumacher's abysmal films. Okay, so maybe The Dark Knight didn't quite have Bruce Wayne/Batman front-and-centre but then that wasn't the point in the scheme of the story. Bruce's story started with Batman Begins, and ends with The Dark Knight Rises, and he is most certainly front-and-centre once more. These films connect with people because of Bruce Wayne's journey and that's the genius of it. This. I couldn't agree more mate. I was thinking earlier today that, as you have mentioned, Batman was once associated with the dreadful 'Bat credit card' incarnation brought on us by Schumacher and all those concerned. We had abysmal stories with no heart, no politics of a story to be told, no character and all executed terribly by 'movie stars' and not actual actors. Now we talk about Batman in the same context as Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. We mention it in the same breath as Occupy movements and the war on terror and it's all acted by real performers like Bale, Caine, Ledger, Wilkinson, Freeman, Eckhart, Hardy etc... All credit to Christopher and Jonathan Nolan for crafting a Bat universe that now has real crdibility. This movies is going to be really something, I just know it. Response to what I've 'bolded'. Screentime is not necessarily needed to convey the character of Wayne/Batman. Equally good for audience identification with the hero is seeing exactly what kind of enemy he is up against then when wee see Bruce looming pensive, it hangs together as a portrayal of what is going on/the dilemma of the story. And of course, we had the portrayal of how he became Batman, and the second film is about that idealism, taken as read, portrayed via the consequences of his 'mission'. The dark shadow over the film cast by the failure to save rachel, and Mrs Gordon screaming at batman YOU DID THIS, the emotions conveyed by the film are as much a manner of portraying Bruce/Batman character as simply seeing him do something we can see. How helpless did people who enjoy the film feel the first time of seeing it and seeing Rachel Die, Batman Devastated, Gordon lost for words, Harvey losing it...how you felt then, that's how it felt to be Batman/Bruce. Conveying that without showing it is Nolan's genius.
_____________________________
Yes, dreamers dream and doers do. But if dreamers DON'T dream, doers don't have anything TO do. Everything that is only here because people exist, only exists because someone thought of it., or in other words, dreamed it.
|