19th June 2005, 9:31 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:Gothic-Gotham was cool in the animated series. Had a lot German influence like in film noir and such. I liked it.
Thats actually how Batman Begins is , Nolan was a fan of the Dark knight comic book and Frank millers "Batman" efforts the visual style is in sink with that as well as the writing that he got Goyer to do, The idea of the movie was to take those comics and sort of "novelize it" instead of "Tim Burtons" or "Joe schmuck" attempts to take Batman and put their own spin on it, Tim Burton did pay attention to the frank miller comics although he couldnt help changing the story making "Joker" the killer of Bruce Waynes parents instead of Gill which it always was.
Joe just wanted to pay homage to the 1960's batman tv show with adam west ignoring everything "Tim burton" had done and the comics at large , Thats why it got all campy corny and ludicrous.
The 1950-1960's were not good times for batman no thanks to "Bitch Mother groups" complaining about the violence who had waterd it down and castrated it through censorship turning it into crap that only kids would love.
Batman was sort of voice out agiast 1930's great depression america , Inspired by Zorro were the law was the criminals and the vigilante was the only last vestige of integrity but into a "urban" modern american context turned into a symbol of struggle and rejuvenation.
The Adam west tv show you could accept because it never tried to take itself seriously, It was better then any satire paraody anyone could do.