The Batman Fits Snyder's Watchmen Vision Far More Than BvS Ever Did
Audiences and critics are largely in agreement that The Batman is the most comic-accurate Batman movie ever made and, as a result, the character of Rorschach in Watchmen is a far better deconstruction of this Batman than the DCEU’s Batman (the first of the now three Batmen in recent movies). Zack Snyder was behind the 2009 Watchmen movie adaptation and attempted to bring the same superhero deconstruction to the DCEU Batman in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Despite this, The Batman finally gives a movie version of the Caped Crusader which shows the character archetype on which Rorschach was based.
Watchmen was originally a limited DC comics series, written by Alan Moore and first published in 1986 and 1987. As well as playing on the anxieties induced by the final years of the Cold War, Watchmen was intended to be a satirical deconstruction of the entire superhero concept – in other words, it takes a close look at the meanings behind superhero stories and picks them apart to find their eccentricities and contradictions. The result is a story about god-like beings and antisocial vigilantes who’ve become totally removed from the world they’re supposedly protecting. Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation is somewhat divisive among fans of the comics, but it still manages to reflect most of these basic ideas.
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The Batman begins with grim shots of Gotham city streets and a narration monologue from Batman himself. The style is immediately reminiscent of Rorschach's narration which peppers Snyder’s Watchmen. As Snyder took this part of the character directly from the comic source material, this is not by chance. Rorschach was intentionally a caricature of comic book vigilante
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