Robert Pattinson vs Christian Bale: Which Batman Had More Realistic Gear?
The Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson versions of Batman each put a stronger emphasis on realism than any other cinematic iteration of the Caped Crusader, particularly where their gear is concerned. Christopher Nolan’s celebrated Dark Knight Trilogy differentiated itself from previous Batman film franchises by imbuing Bale’s Bruce Wayne with an unprecedented level of verisimilitude, showing how he built his arsenal of gadgetry, piece by piece. Matt Reeves took a similar approach in The Batman and made the scale even smaller and more personal than Nolan’s films, with a comparable level of realism as well. The two franchises have fundamentally similar depictions of Batman, but, depending on the gear, one is more realistic than the other.
Since the character's 1939 debut, the Batman mythos has often been depicted as a heightened reality, with many similarities to the real world but a fundamental layer of fantasy that allows many of the comics' lovably bizarre concepts to exist. The Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman films emphasized the fantasy elements of the mythos, with the former creating a macabre expressionist cityscape that was equal parts glorious and terrifying and the latter reimagining Gotham City as a brightly-colored futuristic environment. While Burton and Schumacher made little effort to ground their worlds in reality, they still told aesthetically-pleasing escapist fantasy stories.
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The 1960s Batman TV series and the DCEU’s iteration of Batman were both more concerned with replicating the comic source material and thus lean more towards fantasy than reality. The Nolan and Reeves franchises set themselves apart from the majority
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