batmanby Matt Reeves It will be one of the great cinematographic events of the year. It’s not just about the return of the Gotham hero with a new face. At the same time, it is a novel approach that presents the character from a different perspective. Younger and more violent, it will apparently narrate the character’s first steps as the city’s vigilante.
But especially, the film will emphasize his brilliant deductive and detective skills. Reeves’ version is aimed at rescuing the essence of Batman from his first appearances in the comic. In addition to showing a realistic and brutal story that will show the most disturbing side of the character.
For this reason, it seems that the argument will integrate elements of real events into the well-known Batman story. Recently, news broke that Paul Dano based his Enigma character on the Zodiac killer, the serial killer who was never caught. In fact, the actor emphasized the fact that his villain will have the methodical and enigmatic characteristics of the criminal. It is an interesting twist, which opens space and place for the character’s new personality.
Batman vs. the darkest face of crime
Now, it is the director himself who comments that batman will include events based on true crime. Specific, on the idea of political corruption. Of course, the different versions of Batman in the cinema have dealt several times with power and its degradation. But according to Reeves, this time it will be an essential element to understand the character’s performances.
In an interview with MovieMaker, Reeves recounted that he made the decision to explore an adaptation of Batman from its origins. The idea led him to research his first appearances in 1939’s Detective Comics #27. By then, the creative duo Bob Kane and Bill Finger created a character very similar in essence to film noir private investigators. And of course, that allowed Reeves to reframe the idea of what and who Gotham’s caped crusader is actually fighting.
“This idea of a place that is corrupt, and you try to swim upstream to fight it and make a difference, is quintessentially Batman. There had to be a very deep conspiracy. So I saw (the film) All the President’s Men And I read the book again. I started to say: Okay, so how do we begin to describe how high the corruption went? It’s very similar to (that film) in that sense.”
All the President’s Men (1976) by Alan J. Pakula recounts what happened during the political scandal Watergate. Based on the book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, it traces the journalistic investigation that led to the impeachment of Richard Nixon. For Reeves it seems to have been of considerable importance, understanding how power can become enemies of the hero of the day.
Some of that history seems to mirror that of Gotham Mayor Rupert Penry-Jones (Don Mitchell Jr) and in all likelihood that of District Attorney Gil Colson (Peter Sarsgaard). Curious as it may seem, the Batman characters share last names with several key elements of the Watergate case. As Chuck Colson and campaign manager John N. Mitchell will remember, they were pivotal in the midst of the scandal.
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“I wanted snippets of those names, because I wanted the conspiracy to come with that force of history and credibility,” Reeves added. The director also explained that in terms of the plot of the Batman movie, power is everything. In fact, Dano’s riddle will end up assassinating relevant figures in the city’s politics. But at the same time, You will also discover his past and twisted ties to the criminal world.
In this way, the killer will make Batman and Jeffrey Wright’s James Gordon follow the clues to the true center of the crime. “It’s going to be kind of a classic detective story,” Reeves said. For Reeves, both characters have the same weight in the plot as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.