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they want their cake and eat their pie at the same time too....
They´re making a film, not a portrait foto of Catwoman as designed by Tim Burton and his people.
A film means, there´s probably going to be some kind of story.
Catwoman might or might not play a huge role in that story.
The story is made into a film by director Christopher Nolan, who in the meantime is rather well known for not making Tim Burton films.
Scarecrow, The Joker, Twoface, they all didn´t look the least bit like characters from Tim Burton films. Why should Catwoman all of sudden have such a design?
by your logic, then Nolan is free to make Batman costume poka dotted pink and purple!!
If the story Nolan wants to tell called for polka dots, then of course Nolan would be free to use those. Which doesn´t mean I´m sad he obviously has another story to tell, but that is beside the point ;-) .
It was very clear from the outset of BB on that Nolan does not pursue the approach of taking a certain image of a comic book character and build a film around that image. Quite the opposite, Nolan´s interest so far clearly was to have a story that shows as many realistic elements as possible and fit comic book characters into that story.
Ergo the costumes are chosen to fit certain purposes according to the whole story that´s being told, not designs taken directly out of comic book fantasy worlds.
The stunt woman for 'Catwoman' crashed into an IMAX camera on the set of 'TDKR'.
They said already in TDK that the Batpod is very difficult to steer, but it almost looks as if the stunt woman deliberately hit the camera.
Edit: No, apparently not. The rear wheel looks like it loses contact with the ground, thus rendering the bike impossible to steer properly. Poor camera.
Anyway, nice video, thanks @Creasy47.
And no problem, @boldfinger, thanks.
Nolan's Batman is much more of a cognitive experience than an affective one. Yet who's to decide that is the wrong way to go? The old Adam West Batman was campy to unspeakable extremes, yet it had its merits and there are days when I enjoy this version. This goes for the old Batman comics as well. The Burton Batman strikes a balance between the old Batman and the darker, more down-to-earth Batman from Year One, yet still heavily supported by Burton's extravagant style. I love his Batman films, yet once again, I see no reason why this should be the authoritative Batman. Many people embraced this Batman back in '89 as a welcome increase in seriousness compared to the Adam West Batman they grew up with and now, with Nolan going darker and colder still, they suddenly have trouble letting their ideal go. What they often fail to grasp, especially when they device pointless arguments as if only Burton's Batman is the 'correct' Batman, is that there is no 'one' Batman, no correct Batman. Batman can be viewed from a variety of different angles. Today, I can feel like reading the Long Halloween Batman, tomorrow I might feel more like reading an over-the-top Batman & Robin comic from the 1940's. There are days in fact, few though as they are, when I feel like watching the unspeakable evil that is Batman & Robin. It comes down to the mood I'm in.
I can tell from this and other threads that many here have a very fixed idea of what Batman should be like. Please understand though that you're merely working from the textbook of you own preferences. You can never successfully argue that your view is the only correct one. This involves story arcs, costume details, ... Only a minor few recurring and sacred elements can be considered closed to any form of change.
I love Nolan's Batman and I won't let anyone make me feel like a non-connoisseur over that. I have 1,5 meters of Batman comics and graphic novels sitting proudly next to me, and I've read many more. I've seen the cartoons, the Adam West series, the films, including most of the animated ones, and I've played Arkham Asylum multiple times already. I'm a Batman fan in my own right and no one needs to argue that fact based on silly bickering concerning Catwoman's costume or Nolan's style. I fact, I welcome that Nolan at least tried something new, without simply redoing what Burton did in '89.
If you don't like Nolan's Batman, I've got good news for you. There are 5 live action films available to keep you going for a while, and after TDKR, Nolan won't touch Batman anymore, or so he says. Someone else will step in, bring a new style and tone to the game, and a different crowd might be pleased. So let us all stop pretending that our views on Batman have the power of a law of physics and move on. Nolan's Batman films may be cold and cerebral, but since when is that 'proof' of bad filmmaking?
I think Burton is so often taken as reference because his first Batman film was really the first big movie at all that really looked like a comic. Ironically, if I´m not mistaken, the whole design is Burton´s and not from any comic book.
Burton's film worked from the same basis as did Batman Begins: Year One. It's one of the top ranking graphic novels in the Batman universe, and we owe our thanks to Frank Miller for that. However, the fact of Joker killing Bruce's parents, that's entirely new stuff. I suppose in the end, they put that in for the sake of romantic storytelling in a big Hollywood film. People who believe though that Burton's Batman is the very antithesis to the Adam West Batman are somewhat wrong. For starters, Nicholson's Joker is almost a replica of Romero's Joker.
Breaking the IMAX camera must be Nolan's thing. They also broke one when filming the chase scene in 'The Dark Knight.'
I hope the film inside the camera didn´t get damaged. It should be a cool perspective. I think I´ll sit in the film looking out for that one, so that I can then turn to my friends to tell them, ´you know they broke an IMAX camera filming that shot´. ;-)
no big deal about the camera - that's why they have completion bond insurance in their budget