Kratos
06-11-2005, 01:28 PM
Alright, this is one of the first review's I've writte so bear with me and read the disclaimer first.
DISCLAIMER: THIS REVIEW WILL HAVE SPOILERS FROM THE MOVIE SCRIPT AND WILL PROBABLY ALSO SPOIL THE BATMAN: YEAR ONE GRAPHIC NOVEL FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ IT. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED ON THE STORY, THEN DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.
Ok, now that that's out of the way. I started reading Frank Miller's script to Batman Year One last night and I have to say that after finishing it today, It was pretty good. I'm open minded and can accept change in a character. For those of you who can't, this script isn't for you. A few of the aspects that change radically are:
-Alfred is a big black guy named Little Al
-Bruce Wayne works with Little Al at an auto shop
-Bruce Wayne is dirt poor, He's not the millionaire playboy... yet.
The script starts with a paranoid schitzophrenic Bruce Wayne. There isn't ever a big difference between Bruce and Batman. They are both seen as psychopaths. I works alright though as I've always seen that the playboy millionaire thing is put on as an act, and Batman is more what Bruce Wayne really is. It makes perfect sense for him to be as disgruntled as he is because he doesn't have to put on the persona of millionaire playboy for the public. The character of Little Al serves as a father figure to Bruce. He's of course not a butler, but serves the same purpose as the same Alfred in the father figure sense. They both live in a garage across from an old theater that is the site of where Bruce's parents were killed, and where the now deceased Big Al and Little Al found young Bruce. The old theater is a brothel where Selina Kyle does buisness for a pimp named Chi-Chi. The story progresses and Bruce Wayne makes his transformation into Batman. He fights crime in makeshift costumes until he gets the inspiration to be the Batman from the mark of a bat that a signet ring of his fathers has been making on the faces of criminals he beats up. There is an intertwined T and W on the ring that makes the mark. They explain how Bruce gets all of his gear. He goes to sporting goods stores and hardware places and all of his Bat suit and gadgets are pretty well explained. A suped up ilncoln continenntal serves as the batmobile and Late in the story we find that an abandoned underground subway service station that used to be owned by Wayne Corp. runs tunnels under all of gotham and is under Little Al's Garage. This subway station serves as the Bat cave.
Apart for Bruce Wayne and Batman, the characterization of Jim Gordon is done pretty well. Gordon, Flass, Loeb and Harvey Dent are all pretty much the same as they are in the Year One comic. Instead of the Roman and Gotham mafia though, ther is a Pimp named Estrada that Loeb and all the other corrupt gotham officials make deals with. Dent is also trying to bring down Estrada and later on helps Gordon out. The abandoned tenemant scene between Batman and the SWAT team in the comics is present towards the end of the script. We also get a brief glimpse at the Joker when Dent and Gordon visit Arkham Asylum. The script ends with Selina Kyle taking on the role of Catwoman and robbing a penthouse. Also, by the end, Bruce Wayne has reclaimed his fourtune and takes on the role of head of Wayne Industries and has Wayne Manor. He uses the excuse that he has been studying in Europe all these years for his absence.
That's all I feel like typing for now. If anyone has quesions, ask and I will answer them for you. :boogie:
DISCLAIMER: THIS REVIEW WILL HAVE SPOILERS FROM THE MOVIE SCRIPT AND WILL PROBABLY ALSO SPOIL THE BATMAN: YEAR ONE GRAPHIC NOVEL FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ IT. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED ON THE STORY, THEN DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.
Ok, now that that's out of the way. I started reading Frank Miller's script to Batman Year One last night and I have to say that after finishing it today, It was pretty good. I'm open minded and can accept change in a character. For those of you who can't, this script isn't for you. A few of the aspects that change radically are:
-Alfred is a big black guy named Little Al
-Bruce Wayne works with Little Al at an auto shop
-Bruce Wayne is dirt poor, He's not the millionaire playboy... yet.
The script starts with a paranoid schitzophrenic Bruce Wayne. There isn't ever a big difference between Bruce and Batman. They are both seen as psychopaths. I works alright though as I've always seen that the playboy millionaire thing is put on as an act, and Batman is more what Bruce Wayne really is. It makes perfect sense for him to be as disgruntled as he is because he doesn't have to put on the persona of millionaire playboy for the public. The character of Little Al serves as a father figure to Bruce. He's of course not a butler, but serves the same purpose as the same Alfred in the father figure sense. They both live in a garage across from an old theater that is the site of where Bruce's parents were killed, and where the now deceased Big Al and Little Al found young Bruce. The old theater is a brothel where Selina Kyle does buisness for a pimp named Chi-Chi. The story progresses and Bruce Wayne makes his transformation into Batman. He fights crime in makeshift costumes until he gets the inspiration to be the Batman from the mark of a bat that a signet ring of his fathers has been making on the faces of criminals he beats up. There is an intertwined T and W on the ring that makes the mark. They explain how Bruce gets all of his gear. He goes to sporting goods stores and hardware places and all of his Bat suit and gadgets are pretty well explained. A suped up ilncoln continenntal serves as the batmobile and Late in the story we find that an abandoned underground subway service station that used to be owned by Wayne Corp. runs tunnels under all of gotham and is under Little Al's Garage. This subway station serves as the Bat cave.
Apart for Bruce Wayne and Batman, the characterization of Jim Gordon is done pretty well. Gordon, Flass, Loeb and Harvey Dent are all pretty much the same as they are in the Year One comic. Instead of the Roman and Gotham mafia though, ther is a Pimp named Estrada that Loeb and all the other corrupt gotham officials make deals with. Dent is also trying to bring down Estrada and later on helps Gordon out. The abandoned tenemant scene between Batman and the SWAT team in the comics is present towards the end of the script. We also get a brief glimpse at the Joker when Dent and Gordon visit Arkham Asylum. The script ends with Selina Kyle taking on the role of Catwoman and robbing a penthouse. Also, by the end, Bruce Wayne has reclaimed his fourtune and takes on the role of head of Wayne Industries and has Wayne Manor. He uses the excuse that he has been studying in Europe all these years for his absence.
That's all I feel like typing for now. If anyone has quesions, ask and I will answer them for you. :boogie: