I forgot to mention that for me what I felt was best about keatons perfromance and what put him higher up the llist then Bale was his protrayl of Bruce Wayne, the true mask in the batman/Bruce Wayne persona. For years now the comic book (and correctly so I might add) push has been that Batman is the real person and Brice Wayne is the mask. WIth that said both Bale & Keaton played this up but Keaton played Wayne as an ansent minded rich guy; someone who could never be mistaken for the masked vigilante. Bale portrayed the rich party guy who can be stuck on himself (see party at Wayne Manor in Batman Begins). Both are good masks but Keatons is more representative of the comic book.

I believe that had keaton not already done his potrayal the way he did that we just might have seen Bale do it that way. I believe Bale’s ego made him, no change that; forced him to pick a different take on Brice Wayne so he could make it his own.

I would if I had a Pro memebership. Was kinding of hoping someone else with a Pro memebrship (perhaps VIc?) would do the honors.

why not just tell us what it says? Be a sport.

Thanks.

I’m sure loads of people will jump down my throat for daring to say something bad about TDK, and I really dont hate it, and I don’t hate Bale at all. He was excellent in Batman Begins, and he was at his career best in the Prestige, which is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen.

I simply prefer Michael Keaton’s take on the character, he managed to mix the conflict of Bruce/Batman’s duality perfectly, and he never gets enough credit for his performance. Keaton had a tortured look in his eyes, you could obviously see it as Batman, but it remained there when he was Bruce as well.

As great as the Nolan Batman’s are, I hope people don’t forget how groundbreaking and brilliant both of Tim Burton’s Batman movies truly were.

“And as for Bale being the only one who approached the character with psychological approach, I’m fairly certain Keaton did the same thing, and did it better!..”

Amen to that one. Bale was good and I know this is probably going to spawn hate posts from “TDK is the end all to batman movies” from certain posters whose name I won’t drop here but I agree that of all who have potrayed Batman, Keaton has proabbly come the closest to representing the true Batman/Bruce Wayne dual persona.

@ Kofi Outlaw

I find it odd that you didnt mention Michael Keaton!

And as for Bale being the only one who approached the character with psychological approach, I’m fairly certain Keaton did the same thing, and did it better!

BTW, I’m a huge Batman fan, and Iron Man is probably my favorite movie franchise to come out of the Marvel stable.