Anyone else find it hard to Accept Keaton as Bruce Wayne

[GuestStar2004]

now dont attack me for saying this as this is just my appinion, and i grew up watching batman 89 and BR and thought they were great, but i was watching the original 89 movie and thought keaton makes a really good dark batman and maybe even the best batman, but as bruce wayne i felt personally he wasnt that good or just missed the mark

maybe it was tim burtons direction but for me sometimes i found it hard eccepting him as bruce wayne

i actally felt Val Kilmer made a better bruce but abit of plain batman

i cant work out what it is about keaton for me, anyone else feel this way?

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I wouldn’t say I had a problem eccepting “Keaton” as Bruce... so, much as I just didn't care for the way he was portrayed in those movie...
I don't know what it is exactly.. I think like they tried to make him too much of a every man...?

I agree about Kilmer... but, I think it was more that his Bruce was write better

 

[El Payaso]

I had serious problems from the moment I was told Keaton was going to be Bruce/Batman until the minute I saw him on screen.

I've said this many times but Keaton personified perfectly the serious traumatized Bruce Wayne. He is the man who finds difficult to smile, who is perpetually hiding a secret, remembering that crucial moment of his childhood. He's the man who's constantly obsessed with revenge, he's still that scared angry child who's looking for an answer.

Keaton didn't just do the classic hero who's always in control of things and of his emotions. In a certain way, he made me re-imagine what a real Bruce Wayne would be.

 

[Brother Jack]

He never looked the part, but he acted it well, or at least acted Burton's version.. Better than Val Kilmer anyway, who I think is given some unfair kudos for his performance.

 

[RustyCage]

To me, Keaton was fine for the simple fact that Burton was painting a somewhat different picture. I'm completely open to artistic interpretation, so long as it's tastefully done. This applies to Nolan as much as it does to Burton.

@ Happy Jack: Yeah, he seemed kind of like a mannequin being posed or something to me. Dunno why, could never shake that impression. - Edit: Val, I mean.

 

[The Joker]

He wasn't the traditional take on Bruce Wayne, but then Penguin and Catwoman were not the traditional takes on their characters either, and I loved them, too.

I did prefer him as Batman more than as Bruce. But I still liked him as Bruce.

 

[MadVillainy]

Yes it was hard for me to accept Keaton as Bruce Wayne. I never liked him as Wayne

 

[Franklin Richards]

No.

 

[Cain]

To me, Keaton was fine for the simple fact that Burton was painting a somewhat different picture. I'm completely open to artistic interpretation, so long as it's tastefully done. This applies to Nolan as much as it does to Burton.

@ Happy Jack: Yeah, he seemed kind of like a mannequin being posed or something to me. Dunno why, could never shake that impression. - Edit: Val, I mean.

I agree with this which is why I've learned to appreciate the Nolan movie's Tony Stark Wayne facade. Even if public Bruce in the books always acted a lot closer to BTAS, Adam West and Kilmer's public facade & not Tony Stark.

Though to his credit in TDK he seemed more "Bruce" than in BB (Ie: the Harvey Dent function thing). Keaton for what Burton was aiming for worked well. As El Payaso insinuated, the purpose was "what would a guy who had this terrible trauma really be like?". In that sense it was far more "realistic" an interpretation than Nolan's.

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

He was a different interpretation of the character, but still great. Much as Ledger was 20 years later.

 

[Rebel]

I never had a problem. I always thought Keaton's hidden pain and uneasiness with the public made him a perfect Wayne. I also like Bale's Wayne... but Bale doesn't give off the subtle vibe of a tortured soul like Keaton did. Kilmer was the worst Wayne, imo. I even liked Cloony's Wayne more than Kilmer's, although they were both weak Batman's, imo.

So it's a toss up for me between Keaton and Bale for the best Wayne (and like many others have said, I believe Keaton was the best Batman).

 

[Mace Dolex]

I think what Keaton's Bruce Wayne needed was more girls hanging around him when he see him first in the Wayne Manor charity ball after all he's a playboy.

I remember a discussion a while back about how not even Alexander Knox or Vicky Vale who both work for the newspaper knew who Bruce Wayne was.

 

[GothamAlleys]

I've said this many times but Keaton personified perfectly the serious traumatized Bruce Wayne. He is the man who finds difficult to smile, who is perpetually hiding a secret, remembering that crucial moment of his childhood.

Fully agree. Even when taking the Batman side aside, his Wayne is what Bob Kane created and represented in the first place. Someone who keeps it all to himself. Someone who's a puzzle. Someone with quiet, but bug internal demons. Someone who sits down in the dark alone deep in his thoughts

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I find it hard to accept anyone but Keaton as Bruce Wayne.