
Bruce Wayne has consistently been portrayed in comics and other adaptations as dark haired (or at the least with brown hair).So you run out into the night to find another face, and another, and another, until one terrible morning you wake up and realize that revenge has become your whole life. it will happen this way: you make the kill, but your pain doesn't die with Harvey, it grows.
Batman Forever manages to set up Batman's "no kill" rule rather plausibly, strongly suggesting that after killing the Joker for killing his parents, Bruce wasn't satisfied and kept killing criminals before he realized he had become a monster and learned to let go of revenge.īruce. While the Tim Burton movies are for the most part praised and loved, many people were unnerved with Batman's willingness to kill.This movie actually dedicates a good portion to specifically Bruce Wayne and not just "Batman stops the bad guy." Many superhero movies (especially sequels) have a hard time managing the villains' origin and Evil Scheme while still making it feel like it is the hero's movie (even The Dark Knight has been criticized on that part).The integration of Robin merged together his younger, more carefree days with his older incarnation (before he became Nightwing) as a Deadpan Snarker foil to Batman's Unfunny.The novelization gives Riddler one when you remember who plays him in the movie during his triumphant raid on the Batcave, at one point he whispers, "Somebody, stop me!".You just know Val Kilmer would pick the aircraft. After the Batcave is destroyed, Batman is left to choose between a boat and an aircraft to go after the Riddler.
When Bruce insists Robin should be called "Dick Grayson, College Student." To which Dick replied "Screw you!" It's hard to blame Chris O'Donnell seeing how the last college he was in, involved nearly getting expelled and putting up with Al Pacino. In this film, the Riddler calls Two-Face out on having a serious impulse control problem. Jim Carrey once performed a standup routine about impulses and how important it is to control them. 90% of Your Brain : In the novelization, when the Riddler shows off his neon jacket, Chase gets an extra line where she warns Nygma that he's frying his mind with information: "There's a reason we only use twenty percent of our brains.". By the end of the film, while he may still desire for a normal life, he realize he can't give up being Batman either. That and moments before, he relived the pain of his parents' death while trying to tell Chase his secret, reminding himself why he became Batman to begin with. Too bad it's short-lived after Two-Face and Riddler raid Wayne Manor with their knowledge of his secret. 10-Minute Retirement: Bruce attempts to give up on being Batman in order to have a normal life with Chase, realizing the psychiatrist wants him over his crimefighter persona. Chase Meridian ( Nicole Kidman), something that naturally causes some problems because of his double-life. As a sub-plot, Bruce deals with a budding romance with psychiatrist Dr. Bruce finds an ally in orphaned acrobat Dick Grayson ( Chris O'Donnell), who discovers his secret and becomes Robin to take revenge against Two-Face, who killed his family. And for good or for ill, 1995's Batman Forever, the third movie in the Batman Film Series, was certainly different.īruce Wayne/Batman ( Val Kilmer) battles Harvey Dent/ Two-Face ( Tommy Lee Jones), a struggle that gets tougher when Edward Nygma/ The Riddler ( Jim Carrey) enters the picture, as both have personal vendettas against the Caped Crusader and his secret identity, respectively. By now, they wanted something different for the next film, limiting Tim Burton to the role of producer and hiring Joel Schumacher to take over directing duties. While they wanted to wallpaper their holiday mansions with $100 bills and Batman was obviously the franchise to bet on, the extremely dark and depressing storyline of Batman Returns made it a harder sell to their intended audience, namely everybody in the world. was in something of a difficult position. After the release of Batman Returns, Warner Bros.