What hope does Batman have?Ī Death in the Family Traditionally, eight-year-old Bruce Wayne's parents are murdered after watching The Mark of Zorro. This is a city that has lost the war to save itself. This isn't just a version of New York gone bad, Gotham is a city that has been bludgeoned by corruption and crippled by an insidious economical plague. Gotham is vibrant and its demise into poverty is explained in the film. It's one of the few noticeable CG images in the film, but the train plays a vital role. So large, in fact, that it feels inescapable.Ĭonnecting the sprawling city is a commuter rail built by Bruce Wayne's father just short of his murder. The altered Chicago is made to look like a vast metropolis, too big for its own good. It looks like a real city, in part, because it is a real city.
The Gotham City of Batman Begins, which was filmed largely in Chicago, is a sprawling Metropolis. It was surreal - beautiful to look at, but not an actual city. Burton's Gotham was like a twisted nightmare come to life. Gotham As we saw in Burton's films, the portrayal of Gotham is often directly related to the overall take on Batman. But if you're curious how the new Batman flick compares to comic-book epics such as Batman: Year One, read on. Don't worry, we won't be spoiling the movie for you. Instead, we've going to examine how Batman Begins stacks up against the comics.
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A full review can be found over at IGN FilmForce. Our purpose here, however, is not to discuss the greatness of Batman Begins.
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