I gotta dissagree with you there, Mr. Payasso.
I think the way Batman revealed his identity to Rachael is one of the BEST, if not the best, scene in BB by repeating something she said to Bruce (and then jumping off into the chaos of the night with her looking on, I LOVE THAT SCENE! sends chills down my spin.)
You just loved the dramatic vibe they tried to give to it.
Repeating lines is not only a well worn device, but Goyer specially uses it as if there's no other way to make audiences to "get" something. And then he used it way too much. That's why we have to hear the word "fear" thousands of times just to make us get it is a movie about fear (strictly speaking you don't have to verbally say "fear" not even once to make audience get the themes of your movie but Goyer made Batman begins the underlining and spoonfeeding festival).
Every "important" line is repeated at least twice in this movie. Goyer simply couldn't handle any other way to state things. By the time Batman reveals his identity to Rachel, the repeating as a whoa-worthy surprising item is just the 1000th repetition of a repetition.
That said, beyond the dramatic vibe, there's no actual reason for Batman to reveal his identity.
The movie stablishes that one of the main purposes for Batman to have a mask and a secret identity is to protect the ones he loves. By revealing his secret to Rachel, he's making her a possible target for his enemies under his own point of view.
If Batman thought he was going to die, his identity would have been known anyways.
If Batman thought he was going to survive his encounter with Ra's, then he just made Rachel someone knowing a too dangerous secret. If any Batman foe even thinks Rachel knows too much about Batman, she's dead. Stupid move.
It's the only time in a Batman movie that I thought it was well handled of Batman revealing his idenity.
Please tell me how it was well handled. It was pure wow-ment with no care for the consequences and implications of that action.
As oppose to of Alfred letting Vicki in the Batcave, Batman pulling his mask off in the middle of a fight for catwoman with Max Shrek looking on (I still can't figure that one out) or with a kiss or a bad biker chick finding out from a cd that was left behind for her y te one man in charge of keeping Batman's secrets.
Mh. the old previous-movies-did-it-worse-therefore-this-is-good argument. Old and not always true.
In B89, Alfred told Bruce multiple times to stop playing with Vicki just because of his double life. Alfred suggests to Bruce he could tell her but Bruce wouldn't listen. That only brought problems to Bruce and made Vicki to suffer and distrust him. Alfred was really pissed because of that. At the end, Joker prevented from Bruce to reveal his identity and Bruce never actually fix that up. So, Alfred, tired of seeing his master messing with other people's life because of his alter ego, forced his hand.
In BR, Bruce is totally in love with Selina. When he took his mask off he was actually quitting as Batman. It was his way to tell Selina, why keep going ruining our lives? Let's quit and go to my home forever. That's why he didn't care Max was watching; he was never going to be Batman again, there's no indentity to protect anymore. And he obviously rather to have Max watching that than to lose Selina.
In Schumacher movies... what can I say. He didn't care about bat-nipples or making bat-butt close-ups.
But Begins had a very unjustified identity revealing scene, no matter how many trembling violins were there.
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where no one finds out. It's tired.
