Starring Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz, “The Batman” was one of the most anticipated films of recent years. We examine the movie "The Batman" directed by Matt Reeves, from the script to the atmosphere, from the actors to the costumes, and by comparing it with Christopher Nolan's Batman series.
We finally got "The Batman", the most anticipated movie of recent years and the most talked about movie of this year. The pandemic situation that has been going on for the past two years has done a lot of damage to the cinema industry. The screening of some movies that I found extremely successful, such as "No Time To Die", was blocked by the pandemic and was released, albeit late, but the number of views fell short of expectations.
"The Batman", on the other hand, coincided with a time when the pandemic took a breather in terms of its release date, and I believe it will continue its release momentum. It continues on its way, making $248 million at the box office in its opening week and meeting its $200 million budget. Well, "The Batman", which moved to a completely different dimension with Christopher Nolan and that no one dared to make a Batman movie about him, is Matt Reeves' Is it successful with the touches of? So here we go.
Matt Reeves, Director of "The Batman":
The rest of the article contains spoilers. I would like to warn our readers who have not watched the movie yet and are sensitive about it. First of all, I would like to briefly talk about the director of the film, Matt Reeves. In recent years, he has made a name for himself with films such as "Dawn of the Planet of The Apes" (2014) and "War for the Planet of the Apes" (2017). But I think his most remarkable film to date was 2008's "Cloverfield."
You can remember him with this movie, which is a successful example of atmospheric dominance and getting the audience into the event. The cinematographer of the film is Greig Fraser, who was nominated for an Oscar this year for "Dune". Fraser, who also worked as a cinematographer in productions such as "Star Wars Rogue One" and "The Mandalorian", I think his most successful work is the 2021 production "
Matt Reeves' "The Batman" vs Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight":
The biggest challenge Matt Reeves faced in "The Batman" was that Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy set the bar incredibly high. So much so that creating a new Batman world was no longer as easy as it used to be. Blending the power of the script with naturalness, Nolan presented us with a real-world, far-from fantasy Batman universe. This universe, which is far from the old fantasy line and built on extremely convincing and solid foundations, almost broke new ground in the world of cinema. When we look at the present day, it would be correct to make a grouping as the three main Batman series. Tim Burton's "Batman" in 1989, Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy from 2005 to 2012, and Matt Reeves' "The Batman" in 2022. At this point, we can say that Reeves has made a good blend of the previous Batman series.
The terrific dark Gotham atmosphere that Tim Burton provided for those years and Nolan's natural, realistic world. Of course, while doing this, he added the effect of other successful examples of the cinema world to the film. The dark atmosphere of David Fincher's unique productions such as "Se7en", "Zodiac", "Mindhunter", and "Fight Club", which everyone who watched the movie agrees with and I am a big fan of, is felt intensely in this movie. The city of Gotham is depicted as dark, restless, frightening, with constant rain and a lack of sun.
Although you want to show the power of character with the effect of music, you actually feel like a Batman who is afraid of being in those dark, unsettling streets. Just as we feel the dust, dirt, and desert heat in the boots of cowboys in Western movies, we also feel the wet darkness and the uncanny in Batman's boots. In fact, here we see that Batman is not a 'superhero' but a human being who lives with his fears. I think this is one of the best aspects of the movie. The fact that Batman emphatically presents that there is a human in his costume increases the sense of reality in the movie. There is a Batman who gets hurt when he is hit during the fight, crashes hard on high falls, and even gets himself up with adrenaline after being injured in the last scenes of the movie. We feel the uncanny deep to our bones.
In fact, here we see that Batman is not a 'superhero' but a human being who lives with his fears. I think this is one of the best aspects of the movie. The fact that Batman emphatically presents that there is a human in his costume increases the sense of reality in the movie. There is a Batman who gets hurt when he is hit during the fight, crashes hard on high falls, and even gets himself up with adrenaline after being injured in the last scenes of the movie. We feel the uncanny deep to our bones. In fact, here we see that Batman is not a 'superhero' but a human being who lives with his fears.
I think this is one of the best aspects of the movie. The fact that Batman emphatically presents that there is a human in his costume increases the sense of reality in the movie. There is a Batman who gets hurt when he is hit during the fight, crashes hard on high falls, and even gets himself up with adrenaline after being injured in the last scenes of the movie. It adds a lot to the sense of reality in the movie. There is a Batman who gets hurt when he is hit during the fight, crashes hard on high falls, and even gets himself up with adrenaline after being injured in the last scenes of the movie. It adds a lot to the sense of reality in the movie. There is a Batman who gets hurt when he is hit during the fight, crashes hard on high falls, and even gets himself up with adrenaline after being injured in the last scenes of the movie.
The Cast and Robert Pattinson of Batman Past and Present:
As for the characters, Batman, played by Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan's trilogy, later returned to the big screen with Ben Affleck, but after Affleck left the role, the search for a new Batman began. Frankly, I was biased when Robert Pattinson was chosen for the role of Bruce Wayne / Batman, but I can say that he successfully handled the role. His naive and weak appearance left a question mark in everyone's mind. But when you feel the atmosphere of the movie, you realize how compatible Matt Reeves is with the world he has established. The movie starts with narrations from the Batman diaries and we see a Bruce Wayne who has been Batman for just two years.
He is a novice yet and has little experience. But as always, he is ambitious. Being alone since childhood tells about this dark hero to whom he surrendered and his world. We see that she has been sensitive to sunlight for almost two years since she has lived at night. In fact, he has begun to surrender to the dark hero he is in so much that his assistant Alfred says that if he continues like this, he will go bankrupt and he has to take care of his business. Instead of the rich, cool, billionaire, quick-witted, smug 'playboy' Bruce Wayne successfully portrayed by Christian Bale in the Nolan films, we watch an ambitious and lonely Bruce Wayne in this movie. When we look at Bale's acting background, I would like to point out how he successfully transformed the rich psychopath character of New York into Bruce Wayne in the 2000 movie "American Psycho". We see that she has been sensitive to sunlight for almost two years since she has lived at night.
In fact, he has begun to surrender to the dark hero he is in so much that his assistant Alfred says that if he continues like this, he will go bankrupt and he has to take care of his business. Instead of the rich, cool, billionaire, quick-witted, smug 'playboy' Bruce Wayne successfully portrayed by Christian Bale in the Nolan films, we watch an ambitious and lonely Bruce Wayne in this movie. When we look at Bale's acting background, I would like to point out how he successfully transformed the rich psychopath character of New York into Bruce Wayne in the 2000 movie "American Psycho". We see that she has been sensitive to sunlight for almost two years since she has lived at night. In fact, he has begun to surrender to the dark hero he is in so much that his assistant Alfred says that if he continues like this, he will go bankrupt and he has to take care of his business.
Instead of the rich, cool, billionaire, quick-witted, smug 'playboy' Bruce Wayne successfully portrayed by Christian Bale in the Nolan films, we watch an ambitious and lonely Bruce Wayne in this movie. When we look at Bale's acting background, I would like to point out how he successfully transformed the rich psychopath character of New York into Bruce Wayne in the 2000 movie "American Psycho". In fact, he has begun to surrender to the dark hero he is in so much that his assistant Alfred says that if he continues like this, he will go bankrupt and he has to take care of his business. Instead of the rich, cool, billionaire, quick-witted, smug 'playboy' Bruce Wayne successfully portrayed by Christian Bale in the Nolan films, we watch an ambitious and lonely Bruce Wayne in this movie. When we look at Bale's acting background, I would like to point out how he successfully transformed the rich psychopath character of New York into Bruce Wayne in the 2000 movie "American Psycho".
In fact, he has begun to surrender to the dark hero he is in so much that his assistant Alfred says that if he continues like this, he will go bankrupt and he has to take care of his business. Instead of the rich, cool, billionaire, quick-witted, smug 'playboy' Bruce Wayne successfully portrayed by Christian Bale in the Nolan films, we watch an ambitious and lonely Bruce Wayne in this movie. When we look at Bale's acting background, I would like to point out how he successfully transformed the rich psychopath character of New York into Bruce Wayne in the 2000 movie "American Psycho". Instead of the billionaire, responsive, smug 'playboy' Bruce Wayne, we watch an ambitious and lonely Bruce Wayne in this movie.
When we look at Bale's acting background, I would like to point out how he successfully transformed the rich psychopath character of New York into Bruce Wayne in the 2000 movie "American Psycho". Instead of the billionaire, responsive, smug 'playboy' Bruce Wayne, we watch an ambitious and lonely Bruce Wayne in this movie. When we look at Bale's acting background, I would like to point out how he successfully transformed the rich psychopath character of New York into Bruce Wayne in the 2000 movie "American Psycho".
"The Batman" Filminde Catthean, Alfred The Penguin vs The Riddler:
We watch Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. However, even if it was or not. I think he's a character that doesn't contribute much to the story. As in the Nolan trilogy, the Catwoman costume is unfortunately unsuccessful in this movie. If we look at the Catwoman costumes in the history of cinema, the most successful one is the costume of Tim Burton's character played by Michelle Pfeiffer in "Batman Returns" (1992). While talking about this mask and costume thing, I can't help but point out that in the previous Batman movies, the director shows us the black paint around his eyes under Batman's mask for the first time.
Although it may seem small, it has always bothered attentive viewers for years. Because when Batman took off the mask while his eyes were painted, we could see the area around his eyes bright. Matt Reeves noticed this detail and turned it into an advantageous situation, and earned another plus point by presenting us the depressive portrait with bled under Batman's mask. The Penguin character, played by Colin Farrell, does not appear with acting that will prevent his successful make-up. It's almost impossible to get to know Farrell thanks to makeup! I think the star of the movie after Batman was definitely The Riddler character.
Paul Dano, who is remembered for his role as Eli Sunday in "There Will Be Blood" (2007), was magnificent both with his physical appearance and his performances such as movement, speech, and facial expressions. We make these comparisons all the time in the movie, but The Riddler character is a mix of John Doe in "Se7en" and Jigsaw in the "Saw" series. This character, who appeared in the first scenes of the movie, blends perfectly into the atmosphere of the movie with his movements and facial expressions. I think the costume designed for The Riddler character is also fantastic.
This character was previously played by Jim Carrey in the 1995 movie "Batman Forever." Even Jim Carrey couldn't save the movie or this character in "Batman Forever", one of the worst movies in the Batman series. The character of Alfred, the loyal assistant of the Wayne family, who is indispensable in Batman movies, is rarely seen in the movie. Andy Serkis played the character in the movie. In terms of appearance, a stronger structure has been created compared to previous Alfreds. As if the strong Alfred character in this image was in Nolan movies; Michael Caine in the Nolan movies It would have been better if the older Alfred played by Alfred was also in this movie. Because the Nolan trilogy is more monumental and powerful, this movie is 'noir' and depressing.
The atmosphere in "The Batman" Movie:
The city of Gotham is beautifully depicted in the movie. While the camera was wandering through the dark streets of the city, I had the feeling that my eyes were going through the frames in Batman comics one after the other and moving on to the next page. In order to reflect the dark feeling of Gotham, shots were made in more gothic-looking cities such as London and Liverpool. While Nolan presents us with a New York-style Gotham with more skyscrapers; Matt Reeves, again using his preference for atmosphere, presented a dark, lonely and uncanny Gotham like the Batman character he created, to us viewers, on a golden platter.
Batmobile in "The Batman" Movie:
Not without talking about the Batman movie and talking about the 'Batmobile'. Batmobile, which appeared in different designs in previous Batman films, appeared in Nolan films with a futuristic design, similar to a flattened Hummer. In "The Batman", it was created as a modified vehicle, a mixture of Dodge Charger, Camaro, and Plymouth Barracuda, in accordance with the 'film noir' atmosphere. It looks very similar to the vehicles in the "Mad Max" movies. Appearing in the high-tension chase scene of the movie, the Batmobile almost greets 2015's "Mad Max Furry Road" with its highway chase scene.
"The Batman" Movie Script:
Let's talk briefly about the script of the movie. It can't compete with Nolan's "Dark Knight", that's impossible. At least we will see this in the sequels of this production. But this movie winks at "Batman Begins." As I have emphasized many times throughout the article, this is not a Batman movie presented with an ambitious scenario. This is a Batman movie that really gives us the dark feel of the comic book world. The fact that Batman does not present cliché elements in the script, such as the over-dramatic scene in which his parents were killed before his eyes as a child; Instead, it was a detail I liked in this movie that Bruce Wayne's family was also involved in various crimes, and they didn't actually have a very clean past.
There are no highs in the script like in the Nolan movies, but in the longest Batman movie of three hours, that didn't bother me at all. I watched the movie in a private screening and this three-hour flow without interruption satisfied me without getting bored. By the way, I watched the movie at the gala organized by my friend Ertan Ergil, owner of JBC Publishing, which owns the publishing rights of Batman comics in Turkey. The light calibration was very well adjusted for the premiere screening of the movie in the cinema. Thank you once again for this organization. As a result of keeping these settings low in some cinemas, the director Matt Reeves sent a general letter to the movie theaters and requested that the projection devices be adjusted to achieve a value of 14fl so that the already dark film does not become darker and the viewing pleasure does not decrease. I watched it at the gala organized by my friend Ertan Ergil, owner of JBC Publishing, which owns the publishing rights of the Batman comics. The light calibration was very well adjusted for the premiere screening of the movie in the cinema. Thank you once again for this organization. As a result of keeping these settings low in some cinemas, the director Matt Reeves sent a general letter to the movie theaters and requested that the projection devices be adjusted to achieve a value of 14fl so that the already dark film does not become darker and the viewing pleasure does not decrease. I watched it at the gala organized by my friend Ertan Ergil, owner of JBC Publishing, which owns the publishing rights of the Batman comics. The light calibration was very well adjusted for the premiere screening of the movie in the cinema.
Thank you once again for this organization. As a result of keeping these settings low in some cinemas, the director Matt Reeves sent a general letter to the movie theaters and requested that the projection devices be adjusted to achieve a value of 14fl so that the already dark film does not become darker and the viewing pleasure does not decrease. Thank you once again for this organization. As a result of keeping these settings low in some cinemas, the director Matt Reeves sent a general letter to the movie theaters and requested that the projection devices be adjusted to achieve a value of 14fl so that the already dark film does not become darker and the viewing pleasure does not decrease.
Thank you once again for this organization. As a result of keeping these settings low in some cinemas, the director Matt Reeves sent a general letter to the movie theaters and requested that the projection devices be adjusted to achieve a value of 14fl so that the already dark film does not become darker and the viewing pleasure does not decrease.
If we gather the subject in the light of all this, is it possible to ask ourselves; Is it Batman, which Nolan presents as extremely realistic with a flawless script, or Batman with the perfect dark atmosphere created by Matt Reeves using the touches of cinematic geniuses?
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