This has created a landscape where both Adam West and Robert Pattinson have played this character, and each version is perfectly valid.īut while all Batman movies might be valid, not all Batman movies are created equal. As the template for many superhero characters, he lends himself to cinematic reinterpretation and elasticity. There is something elemental about Batman. After all, Batman co-creator Bob Kane once described the character as “half-Zorro,” and for most folks of his generation, Zorro was synonymous with Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro (1920), the movie which made the story of a daring rogue in a black cape and mask (when he wasn’t playing the rich fop by day) famous. Much of the iconography Batman would come to define in superhero comics was on the silver screen first. The visceral mystique of a dark cowl and cape the shadowy world of an urban landscape crying out for a hero even the universally relatable origin of an orphan who seeks to fill the void left by his parents’ deaths. There’s good reason for that ubiquitousness too. He’s certainly been the most adapted to the big screen, with the Caped Crusader starring in 12 theatrically released films when you count animation and William Dozier’s Batman: The Movie tie-in from 1966. A case can be made that Batman is the quintessential cinematic superhero.
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