Batman, mentioning the relevant film and television works of this superhero, I believe that the most impressive thing for everyone should be Nolan's Batman trilogy.
Nolan's Batman series, personally, is considered to be the deepest and most thoughtful superhero series to date. Pay attention to the keywords, series of works. Of course you're going to be better than the box office and influence the Marvel Universe has gone to heaven.
I also believe that even if there are more Batman in the future, Nolan's Batman trilogy will be a classic that cannot be avoided.
So, today's article, let's open the first part of Nolan's Batman series, "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow".
Before Nolan took over Batman, the first three works were "Tracking" (following), "Memory Fragments", and "Insomnia" (confrontation), and the protagonists of these films had in common that they were all traumatic characters.
For the Batman character Bruce Wayne, who is also a person who has experienced great trauma inside, Warner wanted to explore Bruce Wayne's deepest emotions and why Bruce Wayne became Batman's original motivation, then Nolan is the best person to direct Batman.
Even now, throughout almost all of Nolan's works now, the characters are almost always traumatic personalities, especially most of the male characters have lost their beloved.
Nolan's version of the Batman series, whether from the video style or the character's mental journey, has become more realistic, and in the preparation of the plot, it has become more able to reflect more realistic topics in today's society, and in depth and breadth, it has explored more human speculation, thought experiments, class contradictions and anti-superhero issues.
As Nolan's fourth feature film work, "The Mystery of the Shadow" is a real global large-scale commercial blockbuster and the beginning of the Batman series.
Many people say that this work was underestimated at the time, and this sentence is personally half right.
The reason for the underestimation is because before "The Mystery of the Shadow", the previous Batman screen image, and even the superhero screen image were somewhat flat, but the realism of Nolan Batman let everyone see the multi-dimensional shaping and mental journey of a rich ordinary person, and for the first time, the super British theme movie focused on the role, rather than the confrontation of the positive and negative.
This also invisibly influenced the direction of The Ultra British theme works after Warner DC, realistic, dark, serious, and in Zach. Schneider's guidance has been carried forward and expanded, adding more religious interpretation meaning.
It is also from the beginning of "The Mystery of the Shadow" that the superhero movie theme has entered a new turning point, so that filmmakers and audiences really realize that the superheroes on the big screen are not only the display of superpowers and action scenes, although these are also very important, but the shaping of superheroes themselves is a new development direction of superhero movies.
But why I say that "The Mystery of the Shadow" is only half right, because the film was very well received when it was released, with a 84% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 94% audience rating, and the film was named one of the 500 greatest movies of all time by Empire Magazine, ranking 84th.
Therefore, I personally feel that "The Mystery of the Shadow" is not underestimated, and the achievements of the film have been recognized by everyone.
And if you're a Nolan fan, you can feel that "The Mystery of The Shadow" is relatively low in freedom compared to Nolan's other works, and even relative to the Batman trilogy.
Because the film is the beginning of Batman, in order to allow more people to enter the world of DC superhero, a lot of explanatory dialogue has been placed, and in the weaving of the script, it is also very neat, less Nolan's personal style of image language.
In terms of plot fluency, the second half is also slightly too tight, although the length of the film is 2 hours, but because the first 1 hour is shaping the character of Bruce, the real event flashpoint is placed in the middle of the film, rather than the 30th minute of the traditional classic, but it is clear that the film finally wants to return to the big event showdown mode, that is, to give Batman a mission to save Gotham City.
I guess if Nolan also likes to play director's cuts or extended versions, if "The Mystery of the Shadow" is 3 hours long, it can better integrate bruce character development with big events.