What Each Movie Batsuit Reveals About Its Director's Batman Vision
The Batsuit is an essential part of the Batman mythos, and a look at each movie version of the Dark Knight suit can reveal a lot about its director's vision for the superhero. While most Batman costumes in both comics and movies usually follow the same basic pattern – a cape and a cowl – 83 years of history can make for some notable different approaches to the Batsuit. That becomes even more obvious in the movies, as the Batsuit has to work both in terms of the story and the practicality – all while representing what the director and the world created for that Batman movie stand for.
Batman was already a comic book giant and even had a popular TV show, but it was not until Tim Burton's Batman (1989) that the character became a movie star. Not only did the Tim Burton film manage to dissociate itself from the silliness of the 1966 Batman show, but it also told a Batman story that could work for those who had never picked up a comic book. The result was a box office success, and from then on, Batman became one of the most steady and popular movie franchises.
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One of the reasons why theBatman franchise continues to work so well more than 30 after the first Batman movie is how it can adapt to different eras and filmmakers. One downside, of course, is the constant need for Batman reboots and recasts. Each new Batman iteration would usually be a response to the previous one, either by a shift in tone or by bringing something that was absent from a previous movie. That is reflected by Batman's movie villains, supporting characters, the Batmobile, and more specifically, the Batsuit. From Tim Burton to Matt Reeves, each Batman director wanted to leave their mark on
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