The Dark Knight Rises Why Would Nolan Make A Batman That Is Outta the Rest of the Superheroverse

[Keyser Sushi]

Batman would continue to operate because, even though there are good superhumans, there are many more bad superhumans, and he wouldn't leave it to faith that someone as powerful as superman has genuinely altruistic intentions.

Man, exactly. I just felt the need to quote this because... because it seems like people understand that Batman and Superman don't entirely get along, but so few people ever seem to understand why. And that, right there, is the why.

 

[Bubastis]

Nolan's batman movies are about one man learning how to take care of gotham, and in the process he figures out and creates the formula of how to become a superhero. What he does needs to be done on his own, seperate from anything Superman does.

 

[lukedoggwalker]

because nolan isnt being a director, he's being something more..

 

[BlueLightning]

because nolan isnt being a director, he's being something more..

That is EPIC

 

[The Guard]

Man, exactly. I just felt the need to quote this because... because it seems like people understand that Batman and Superman don't entirely get along, but so few people ever seem to understand why. And that, right there, is the why.

That's why Batman is slightly paranoid about Superman. That's not why they don't get along. They don't get along (sometimes) because they have differing ideas about what methods should be used in respective missions.

 

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because nolan isnt being a director, he's being something more..

 

[I Am The Knight]

Are we still getting excited about TDK quotes after several months...?

 

[Anita18]

The whole things always been a buncha bull to me. There is no reason why these characters can't coexist. There hasn't been a damn thing in any of the two Nolan Bat movies that shows that they can't coexist in the same universe. It all comes off as just a silly excuse.

I don't think Nolan specifically mentions this in the recent LA Times interviews, but DP Wally Pfister spoke in an article about going about BB and TDK, grounding a superhero in an ordinary world. It doesn't necessarily have to do with actual "realism," but treating the story and characters as if the universe is essentially normal, and basing the production design and cinematography around that concept. If they brought in superheroic elements into the universe itself, it would take apart everything that Nathan Crowley and Wally Pfister have tried to do from the very beginning.

All of the other comic book movies I can think of involves superheroes in an non-ordinary world. Whether that is with extensive lightness or cheese, or with extensive sci-fi elements, depends on the movie. If you took any frame from a Spiderman film, you could pretty much tell it was from a comic book movie. It looks lighter somehow, due to the lighting and the photography. Take any frame from TDK, and you can't, necessarily. You'd probably peg it as a crime drama unless Batman, Joker, or Two-Face (or the Tumbler/Batpod ) were directly on screen. That was an artistic choice, not just a story one.

Why would Nolan make a Batman that is outta the rest of the Superhero-verse? Because he can.

Yeah, that's pretty much the short answer.