Review of Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" - why it doesn't work as a comic book movie

[lizfrombritain]

REVIEW OF BATMAN BEGINS, DIR. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

By Elizabeth Kaspar

Or, "British Documentary-Maker's Take on Batman Mythos", or "Come back, Tim Burton, All is Forgiven".... etc.

"C'est un peu magnifique - mais ce ne'st pas un film de B.D....." Apres le general Bosquet.

(Translation: "It's a little bit magnificent - but it's not a comic book movie

Comments

The Kennedy Scenario lurking behind Batman Begins... (and the entire comics mythos).

[lizfrombritain]

CONSPIRACY TIME

[ex_commonpl]

Well, I went back and read some of the first Batman comics (DC has a new collection of them out) and can see Batman as a Roosevelt liberal. The first story, The Case of the Chemical Syndicate is of course about a shareholder in a chemical corp trying to kill of his fellow shareholders so he can take sole control of the company. At the end, he falls into a vat of his own company's chemicals and Batman wonderfully exclaims, A fitting end for his kind! (I read that the same day the Wal-Mart heir died of being a bad amateur pilot; it was a great juxtaposition!) So I think that Bill Finger (who wrote those stories--not Bob Kane!) would perhaps not approve of Batman Begins's portrayal of Bruce Wayne as the heroic almost-sole shareholder.

Anyway, I like your CIA conspiracy idea. It's a lot like Oliver Stone's JFK, where the CIA and the wealthy American and Cuban elites get together to kill Kennedy (not really a very left-wing figure) for being insufficiently aggressive against the forces of anti-capitalist revolution in Cuba, Vietnam

"Look how far we've fallen"

[lizfrombritain]

Precisely, my friend