Pattinson's ''Freak'' Batman Avoids The Only Problem With Bale's Dark Knight
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Batman.
Christian Bale's Batman portrayal is widely praised, but it has just one problem that Robert Pattinson's performance in The Batman managed to avoid. The first film of his The Dark Knight trilogy was released in 2005, and only grew in its massive success until it concluded in 2012. Given the multiple recasts of the titular character from its 1989 reboot, what Christian Bale achieved as Batman is rightfully lauded. However, Bale's Dark Knight performance still has one particular flaw that Pattinson deftly manages to sidestep.
Tim Burton's 1989 Batman set a lot of precedents for future incarnations of the character. In particular, Tim Burton and Michael Keaton put a lot of focus on portraying Batman as a ''freak.'' Rightly so, there is something inherently odd about an orphaned child who learns exemplary hand-to-hand combat in order to fight crime, whilst dressed as a giant bat. Coming from such a notorious and wealthy family, Bruce could easily find solace in other forms of escapism, but he instead marries himself to justice. Pattinson taps into this ''freak'' in The Batman, which highlights one issue with Bale.
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The problem with Bale's Dark Knight is that he isn't a ''freak", and in fact is arguably the exact opposite. Though Bale's duality of Bruce Wayne is clearly a facade to avoid people looking too closely into his life and discovering what lies beneath, he still appears as a self-confident playboy vigilante to viewers. He's a smooth talker even when he doesn't have a crowd to impress, and carries a little knowing smirk that suggests he knows how cool he is. The difference between his and
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