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Title: Batman (1989)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Michael Keaton | ... | Batman / Bruce Wayne | |
| Jack Nicholson | ... | Joker / Jack Napier | |
| Kim Basinger | ... | Vicki Vale | |
| Robert Wuhl | ... | Alexander Knox | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Commissioner James Gordon | |
| Billy Dee Williams | ... | Harvey Dent | |
| Michael Gough | ... | Alfred Pennyworth | |
| Jack Palance | ... | Carl Grissom | |
| Jerry Hall | ... | Alicia Hunt | |
| Tracey Walter | ... | Bob the Goon | |
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Lee Wallace | ... | The Mayor |
| William Hootkins | ... | Lt. Eckhardt | |
| Richard Strange | ... | Goon | |
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Carl Chase | ... | Goon |
| Mac McDonald | ... | Goon (as Mac Macdonald) | |
Gotham City. Crime boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) effectively runs the town but there's a new crime fighter in town - Batman (Michael Keaton). Grissom's right-hand man is Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson), a brutal man who is not entirely sane... After falling out between the two Grissom has Napier set up with the Police and Napier falls to his apparent death in a vat of chemicals. However, he soon reappears as The Joker and starts a reign of terror in Gotham City. Meanwhile, reporter Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) is in the city to do an article on Batman. She soon starts a relationship with Batman's everyday persona, billionaire Bruce Wayne. Written by grantss
Burton opens Batman with a scene which recalls The original animation series (also the scene Batman stands on a high-rise building), so you almost get that you won't be disappointed, because it is a signal that the director is 'conscious'. On the rooftop, two muggers and The Dark Knight. The atmosphere? Misty, dreadful, unsafe and mysterious places that thrill you, the mobsters seesaw between being colorful and being dark etc. However, this is not a shallow or childish adaptation. Yes, may be to compare Burton's Batman movies with Nolan's Batman movies are wrong, but I want to say a few things. Nolan's Batman movies were fundamental reconstructions, but they were very conventional on all counts. Tim Burton's Batman movies are not, those movies are peculiar. By the way, I am one of the people who say that the best Batman was Michael Keaton. Nolan is interested in ideas, Burton is interested in details. If you have seen The Dark Knight, remember Two-Face's screen time for example or Joker character was not highlighted. Tim Burton's characters are interpreted in great detail, with their actions, accessories (my favorite is the dentures), costumes (the best Batman costume is here), personalities etc. Plus the story telling (as said for example, the tone of the movie is very similar with the animation series or comic book) Jack Nicholson deserves all the titles as Joker. A superhuman performance. I would not just say that Jack Nicholson is pretty good as Joker. The scenes he appears are riot of colors, I love this. By the way, Tim Burton shows us the personality of Joker by only one scene, the goodbye talking when he visits Vicki Vale in her house. By the way, in the final, we hear a mysterious and sad sound and the commissioner's face when he finds out. That scene effected me when I watched it for the first time, I was almost a child. After Nicholson, to play Joker would be unthinkable, but Heath Ledger did it that happens once in a blue moon. Watching this new Joker was very amusing, interesting and Heath Ledger's acting was like Daniel Day Lewis style, excellent, but my favorite Joker is always Jack Nicholson. By the way, I don't want to compare Nicholson with Ledger, but want to say that Burton's Joker is much more active than Nolan's Joker. Burton's Joker does many crazy and very interesting things. He kills a mafia boss in a funny and also very sad way, he reshapes hundreds of photos, paints the restaurant (this scene deserves being put in the cinema anthology) Jack Nicholson's Joker is teaser, acute minded, so he leads Batman on a merry chase. Thus, Batman Joker encounter does not become disappointing. You care about what will happen, because you want Joker to be caught, on the other side, may be because of your sympathy for Nicholson or for his Joker character (he has an accident, he losses his magnetism, so you cannot dislike him exactly), you don't want him to be caught or dead. While I was watching the movie for the first time, years years ago, I pleased every time, when Joker dodges Batman. May be it is because you know that if Joker is caught or killed, the movie ends. Action scenes are may be less and mild, but great, so we get that Burton is good at making action scenes too. I love the restaurant scene, the chase scene comes next and the scenes which Batplane arises are great too.