Articles I have read

I sit in front of this computer, having just read Cape fear, an article about how Batman, despite being one of those heroes that has constantly been revamped without getting boring is still an enduring figurehead for Comic book fans. Reading it, I found bullet points of interesting information that I wish to display in this entry and explain.

The article credits Batman begins, the first Christopher Nolan film on the revamped Dark Knight with links to Frank Miller, who draws on his work but never uses his name. The article describes Miller as "the Batman writer-artist to beat" his work has partially inspired Batman begins links to Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film, which started off the whole idea of the Batman Franchise in the first place and the many characters which he helped create, namely Bruce Wayne's bulter - Alfred, as well as other writers and artists creating other trade mark villains that have marked the Batman Universe as a rich heartland for supervillains. The most famous of this being the Joker (created by Jerry Robinson)

In addition though, the article also describes something about Nolan's attitude towards Gotham, which wasn't the original setting for Batman, back then it was just a sketchy New York. Nolan describes Gotham "as a film noir fantasy, but by showing the place as often at dusk as by night, rooting out the corruption in a supposedly ended 'Depression' and putting Arkham Asylum not outside the city limits but in a teeming slum area, Batman Begins creates a different noir cityscape epitomised by a rusting monorail which is Thomas Wayne's legacy to the town" this is shown in the film indeed, as a dark, foreboding place where corruption and ill practice is king and morality and justice has been long forgotten.

The villains as well in Batman begins are different to the prior idea of Batman's supervillains. In recent years, the Batman "freaks" as the author of the article describes them have been revamped, becoming more complex and more interesting. There is a better sense of character, shown in the precedence of the personality of Bruce Wayne over just Batman. The way Nolan has sculpted this movie perfects the ultimate criminal underworld. One of those principle villains in the Scarecrow.

Cillian Murphy plays a comparatively scarier Scarecrow, presenting both his corrupt, sinister desire to further his own ends but also to do the will of his own master in the film.

The article describes the Scarecrow as an "advance man for a worse villain...special[ising] in inducing fear..... this [being] a theme Batman begins returns to time and again" the way the Batman villains are created, developed and deployed furthers my own thoughts from this article. When Gordon speaks "about a war of escalation between cops and crooks" we know that there will be a sequel, furthering Batman status as the superhero to beat all superheroes. Batman will never be forgotten, by the everyday spectator or an avid comic book fan. Not ever. Christopher Nolan has now forever immortalised the figure of Batman again, the image of Batman restored from neglect, ready for the rise and conclusion of The Dark Knight Rises.