This Classic Neo-Noir Is Essential Viewing For Fans Of The Batman
Matt Reeves’ The Batman is a breathtaking three-hour character study of Bruce Wayne with riveting action sequences, fresh takes on well-worn DC icons, and a gorgeous vision of Gotham City that audiences look forward to revisiting in the future. Viewers who enjoyed The Batman and want to watch similar movies are being recommended grisly horror noirs like Se7en and Shutter Island – and those are essential viewing for The Batman fans – but the biggest influence on Reeves’ vision of the Bat mythos was the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s.
In the early ‘70s, directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola rejuvenated Hollywood cinema by injecting some much-needed edge and darkness into its stories. Reeves included nods to many classics of this era in The Batman. Shooting the opening murder from the point-of-view of the killer is a nod to John Carpenter’s Halloween (and it even takes place on Halloween night). The shocking revelation that Carmine Falcone is Selina Kyle’s illegitimate father is a reference to a much more harrowing paternal plot twist in Chinatown. With the Bat’s voiceover narration of his diary entries, Reeves frames the Bat’s vigilante crusade like Travis Bickle’s own futile war on crime in Taxi Driver.
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The most overt ‘70s movie homage in The Batman is Batman’s dynamic with Catwoman, which evokes Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda’s dynamic as a detective and a person of interest-turned-co-crimefighter-turned-love interest in Alan J. Pakula’s 1971 neo-noir masterpiece Klute. Followed by The Parallax View and All the President’s Men, Klute was the first chapter in Pakula’s unofficial political paranoia trilogy. Sutherland plays a cop searching for
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