Yeah, silly me for misinterpreting
someone surviving being shot 4 times at close range,
an electrical inferno, and being dropped from great heights
several times, and not a bother on them after any of it.
How silly of me and millions of others for not interpreting that
as normal human endurance
It's not supernatural. This is pretty standard stuff in Batman comic books.
In Batman #5 (1941), "The Case of the Honest Crook" by Bill Finger,
Batman is shot three times at close range, doesn't die and keeps coming after Smiley Sikes, and beats him,
plus forces a signed confession proving Joe Sands’ innocence and then drags him to the police.
Drops the paper and Smiley Sikes off at the Gotham Police Station,
then Batman goes to a doctor and collapses.
The doctor says "I don't know how he kept going the way he did with three bullets in him! Amazing...Amazing..."
In Batman #245 (1972), "The Bruce Wayne Murder Case" by Denny O'Neil, Batman is electrocuted with hundreds of volts of electricity,
doesn't die and recovers almost immediately.
Also in the comics, Joker, for example, has been dropped from great heights many times:
Been struck by lightning:
Appeared to have died many times:
And doesn't die. Does that mean Batman and Joker are supernatural?
No, and neither is Catwoman in Batman Returns.
I've actually never even seen Halle Berry's Catwoman movie.
She has kitty powers, too? Gee, I wonder where they got that idea from?
Wasn't Denise DiNovi, the producer of Returns also the producer on that movie, too?
And the writers of that movie were John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers, not Batman Returns writers Daniel Waters and Wesley Strick,
and the director of that movie was Pitof, not Tim Burton,
the "Catwoman" of that movie was Patience Phillips with kitty powers, unlike Selina Kyle.
Director Pitof said "It’s very different, and that’s the whole point. To make something completely different and to start something with her.
I mean, it’s a new start to “Catwoman.” Halle Berry is Catwoman and I think it’s been designed for her to make it very different."
http://movies.about.com/od/catwoman/a/catwmpi071904.htm
And director Pitof said "it's a different world. There's no link with Gotham City, and there's no link with any superheroes."
http://www.**************.com/catwoman/news/?a=892#int0
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"The idea is to develop this character in a relatively realistic world à la Spider-Man," he said.
"We'll probably set it in the near future but in a North American urban setting, which is more classic.
The main idea is to develop a female superhero and give her depth not to make her a bimbo or a sexy vigilante.
She's a woman's hero for women. There will be no direct link with Batman, nor will there be Batman-esque imagery and it won't be set in Gotham City.
The story will be different and the costume will be different.
We aren't keeping anything from Catwoman except the original idea: the character.
The idea is to begin her story from scratch, and possibly begin a franchise." http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0304164
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Look mate, if your only argument is "because Tim Burton said so", then we're done here.
Directors can be notorious for poorly conveying something in a movie,
despite what their intentions were, and this is a prime example of one of them.
I don't know who Burton's medical consultant was for this movie,
but they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground who ever they were.
I'm not knocking Catwoman's supernatural abilities, I think they were a very cool. But don't accuse me of being argumentative for the hell of it.
Trying to tell me that Catwoman had no supernatural abilities with everything she endured is like trying to say black is white.
If you want to interpret her amazing survivals of death as adrenaline rushes, then go for it.
I need a bit more meat to the debate other than "Because Tim Burton said so".
Just agree to disagree.
Tim Burton has explained this in the Batman Returns commentary so there is really nothing to argue about.
Tim Burton explains that it is deliberately ambiguous and intentionally mysterious, but not supernatural.
"The ambiguous nature of the Catwoman. You start out when you see the creation with the cats coming around
and it's not supernatural but we feed into the mythology of cats and 9 lives and all of that sort of thing,
so in the same way with Batman, wanting to keep him sort of mysterious,
we sort of treated the same idea with Catwoman a little bit and not come right out with it. It's not supernatural."
Here's a blog post dedicated to every hard-core Batman Returns fan that got fed up with reiterating many times that Selina Kyle/Catwoman is not supernatural. Time to spread the word around that this is a misconception on the part of film-critics, audiences and some fans.
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