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38 thoughts on “Batman (1989) | *First Time Watching* | Movie Reaction | Asia and BJ”

  14. Vicky's hair bothers me. She changes it in every scene. The straight hair makes her look absolutely stunning…and young. Well as the curly hair ages her big time. Doesn't suit her at all.

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  18. As for the twist of Joker being the one that killed Waynes, that’s unique to this film only. Generally, it’s a low level thug named Joe chill who randomly killed the Waynes in most stories.

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  24. Originally the Joker had nothing to do with Batman's parents death. What we see here is an example of creative liberty. And it works, becouse it makes the conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist more personal. And also don't forget, this movie is an adaptation – it doen't have to be 100% acurate with the comics, and it isn't (Batman kills people; Joker's past and identity is known; Joker dies at the end).

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  25. Batman Franchises

    Batman (1989) & Batman Returns (1992):Tim Burton
    Batman Forever (1995) & Batman & Robin (1997):Joel Schumacher
    Batman Begin (2005) Dark Knight (2008) Dark Knight Rises (2012):Christopher Nolan
    The Batman (2022):Matt Reeves

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  28. Billy Dee Williams = Lando Calrissian (Star Wars)
    Jack Nicholson was a huge Prince fan which is one of the reasons why Prince was part of the soundtrack. And Prince was a huge fan of the Batman comic. Another fun fact, Michael Keaton wanted to date Kim Bassinger and Prince stole her away. Kim Bassinger's intimated moments with Prince are on Prince's song Scandalous (sex suite).

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  29. My favourite batman plus its sequel. Tim burton was already to do the third and final batman with billy dee Williams as two face and robin Williams as the ridder but the studio's did not not like the dark tone of the second one as this interfered with merchandise sales and cancelled that one and got a different director and recasted everyone, could have been the best of them.

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  30. 36:00 – You're right, in that canonically, the Joker was NOT the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents. This film is the only time that connection has been made. In the comics, they were two very separate events.
    But I gotta say that the way they set it up in this film, it really does work. And casting the young "Jack Napier" was terrific; Hugo Blick's eyebrows and smile looked just like Nicholson's.

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  31. Nicholson's Joker in this film is THE single best live-action Joker ever. Others have played the character, but none have gotten the balance between cold-blooded killer and maniacal jokester. Some are too much jokes, not enough death. Some are too much brooding, not enough laughter. The writers wrote the perfect character, the director made all the right choices, and Nicholson lived the part better than anyone. I actually feel badly for anyone who has come after this, because once someone has hit the bullseye so squarely in the center, what else is left to do? If you also hit the center, you'll be accused of copying. If you hit anywhere else just to be different, you've missed the core.
    There are many ways that this film is not "canon" for the character of the Joker, from the comic books. For one thing, the Joker is not the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents in the comics. But in this film, that connection works. The comics have always left Joker's origins shrouded in mystery; this film gives him a very specific "before and after" from gangster to pure villain: from hired killer with an edge and an ambitious ego, to completely unhinged megalomaniacal maniac. But in this film, it totally works.
    When he's brooding and sad and angry, there's menace, but he punches the TV with a joke fist on a spring, and he kills a rival with an electrocuting hand buzzer. His killer instincts are seen through with gags and jokes and with real joy in his work. When he's having fun and just joking around, it's with a macabre fascination with death and violence. It is that mixture that makes the Joker the character that he is, and if you lean too far one way or another you miss it.
    Ledger's villain in The Dark Knight was very well acted, very menacing, a very good foil for that Batman, in a very good film. But he was too brooding. Too depressive, not enough manic. That's why for me he is a very good villain, but not THE Joker.
    Romero in the 60's TV show ("pow!" "sock!" "blam!") was a clown, but because the show was television, aimed at a daytime audience, he could never be truly deadly, truly menacing. He was fun, but not as deadly as the Joker should be.
    This 80s film came after the 60s TV show and showed how dark Batman could be, and how deadly Joker could be, at a time when that show was the biggest pop culture reference most people had. We've had much darker and more grounded, serious portrayals of this world since then. But nobody has come close to portraying a Joker as perfectly as Jack Nicholson did.

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  34. None of the Batman films have been "remakes" of anything. They're all original stories about the characters from the comics. So their core character elements are there (Bruce Wayne's parents are killed, he's an orphan, he devotes his life to fighting crime, he's a rich guy with no superhuman abilities, just a brilliant mind and a drive for justice, and a lot of money for equipment.) But every story is different and unique and unrelated to anything before or after.
    Some film franchises have been series: this film spawned a series of sequels, went through different directors, different actors, but all theoretically in the same universe and continuity. The "Dark Knight" trilogy 2005 – 2012 was a trilogy of films in continuity. The TV show from the 1960s was its own telling of stories about Batman.
    This film is not "the original," it's just another story. The character of Batman was first written as a comic book character in 1939. Everything since then has been an evolution, a re-telling, developing that character through different lenses and mediums and stories.

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