The Dark Knight wouldn't it be cool if Batman moved like this in the next movie?

[circa81]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jquXcwooV6A

 

[FaT_tONle]

Um.... no...

 

[Saint]

Of course it would be. That's how Batman moves.

 

[FaT_tONle]

that's how spiderman moves....

 

[bunk]

Yeah, thats pretty much how he'd move all the time if they didn't have him gliding so much. Batman invented parkour as far as I'm concerned.

 

[circa81]

I always pictured Batman jumping across buildings just like that. And besides, you guys keep saying you want a more acrobatic Batman.

 

[Saint]

that's how spiderman moves....

Yeah, because those guys have super powers.

Whoops.

 

[Mr.Wednesday]

Yeah, thats pretty much how he'd move all the time if they didn't have him gliding so much. Batman invented parkour as far as I'm concerned.

Agreed! I always pictured Batman jumping buildings like that... But I guess we´ll never see this on film... His "armour" as a uniform wont let him do that...

 

[Hobodeluxe]

absolutely I wish he would be more agile and nimble in his movements. I've always wished that the suit wasn't so bulky and cumbersome. It's the biggest disappointment in the movies so far. Well other than schumacher's travesties.

 

[lujho]

Yes. That's what Batman does - at least those are the kind of skills and skill level Batman has. It shouldn't look exactly like that of course, that's just jampung around and doing stuff for the hell of it - but at that level.

Same for Daredevil/Catwoman/Robin/Nightwing etc. All the acrobatic but non-powered heroes.

I saw a doccumentary about these free-runners... when you start to get really really good at it you're on a whole new level of awareness and improvisation. They say it's almost like a form of meditation, you just do it, without thinking. These guys are physically about as strong as you can get and still be extremely mobile/agile/acrobatic. They can jump further from a standing jump, jump from a height to the ground and land safely with a little roll from higher than you'd think possible.

They're really the type of peak-humans that Batman is supposed to be - or at least as close as it is really possible. Add in Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan/Tony Jaa level martial arts and acrobatic capabilities and make it all look like the roof-running sene in The Crow (I wish someone'd put that on Youtube... doesn't seem to be there). THAT is ****ing Batman.

And it's all possible, for real, in the real world, more or less. No cgi and breaking of physics. You just have to build sets and use locations that allow for long runs of such displays of ability... without looking contrived - the city shouldn't look like it was obviously built for Batman to run across, but it should be. Frankly I'd find such roof-running and the odd bit of rope/grapple swinging to be about 100 times as visually interesting and believeable than magic cape-gliding.

You watch - a few months from now when Casino Royale comes out EVERYONE will be saying "hey, did you see the opening scene, Batman should be like THAT!".

When Ra's says that Batman spends his nights running across Gotham's rooftops, for God's sake, I wanted to SEE it.

People who want to see more should search for Parkour in youtube. Search for "Ong Bak", "Tom Yum Goong" AKA "The Protector", and Tony Jaa too. ESPECIALLY if your name's Christopher Nolan.

 

[Motown Marvel]

some parkour is defenitely warranted...but nothing too flashy like some of it was in that footage....you dont want to showcase parkour moves for the sake of showcasing parkour moves.

 

[El Payaso]

Absolutely. Hire those guys as stunts men. At once.

 

[KalMart]

They should also hire some LA gang-bangers to teach him how to jump fences.

 

[El Payaso]

They can afford that.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Christian Bale could probably pull that off.

Someone needs to start training him!

 

[ampersand]

Wow that was so damn cool.

 

[cryptic name]

Christian Bale could probably pull that off.

Someone needs to start training him!

god, he'd be down for that too. the guy's nuts, he'll do anything for a role.








BALE DAMMIT!

 

[The Kid]

Of course it would be. That's how Batman moves.

Why do you speak what is in my head?

 

[Kaizer]

No!

 

[The Kid]

Daredevil does some of that stuff in his movie. He ran on the walls and everything. I'd like to see batman move like that and actually see it.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Looks more like Spider-Man or Daredevil than Batman to me.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Wouldn't Daredevil have been a lot more cool if they used some of this parkour guys instead of those horrible difital puppets?
A cheaper to do, too.

 

[afan]

First and foremost these moves are live action recreations of the type of action that is graphically depicted in comics. The type of action that may give versimmilitude to a bullet dodging Batman, something of course that the "realists" among us cannot swallow, posting the oft stated,"what works in comics can never translate to live action," position. So we have an encumbered armored Batman, laden with impossibly high tech devices(read enormous glider cape)to allow him to maneuver the rooftops of Gotham, making movements like these alas impossible.

That being said........

Robin would move exactly in this way, including all the theatrical flips. They would be very much in keeping with his acrobatic background, reinforce an exuberance of youth character trait, and by employing these moves in a fight make the idea that a young boy can take down an adult very believable.

Batman would surely be capable of such acrobatics, but his use of them would be economical, almost considering them undignified and showy. He would use them to cover the rooftops of Gotham, but without any unnecessary flash. The free wheeling glee angle would belong solely to the Boy Wonder.

 

["V"]

The cowl would restrict his vision and awareness, and the cape would get in his way if the Batman were to use parkour.

Also i'm not sure a man of his size would be able to pull that off either, he's built like a bodybuilder.

 

[afan]

The cowl would restrict his vision and awareness, and the cape would get in his way if the Batman were to use parkour.

Also i'm ot sure a man of his size would be able to pull that off either, he's built like a bodybuilder.[/quote]


Not if you think outside the box. True in the guise of armor a padded rubber suit make these moves impossible, but a bat-costume would not in and of itself make them so.

No he isn't, at times artists draw him as such, but his physique is more like an olympic gymnast's.