Hollis Mason
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Batman (1989) for me. Burton knew how to make it such a beautiful dark place
Yep, this!1) Batman '89
2) Batman Returns
3) Batman Begins
Spot on description!Anton Furst's Gotham in '89, for my money, is one of the all-time great cinematic landscapes. It's dark and wondrously grim, but also realistic in the sense that it still feels tremendously old and lived-in. There's a great feeling of history there, with all the futuristic bizarrechitecture being headed off by this behemoth Gothic cathedral that looks like it came right out of the 1700s. Everything's dingy and cast in shadow, save for a few traces of light that still glitter faintly in the far-off corners of every shot. It's a beautifully dark fairy tale world.
Yeah, I shouldn't really leave 89 out now that I think about it .Anton Furst's Gotham in '89, for my money, is one of the all time great cinematic landscapes. It's dark and wondrously grim, but also realistic in the sense that it still feels tremendously old and lived-in. There's a great feeling of history there, with all the futuristic bizarrechitecture being headed off by this behemoth Gothic cathedral that looks like it came right out of the 1700s. Everything's dingy and cast in shadow, save for a few traces of light that still glitter faintly in the far-off corners of every shot. It's a beautifully dark fairy tale world.
1) Batman '89
2) Batman Returns
3) Batman Begins
Aye I would go along with this with this combination. I really loved Gotham in Begins just wish Nolan kept that aesthetic throughout.Batman '89, then Batman Returns, then Batman Forever.
Aye I would go along with this with this combination. I really loved Gotham in Begins just wish Nolan kept that aesthetic throughout.
The aesthetic you're talking about it mainly relegated to the Narrows in the Begins. The bulk of the city, showed in sequences like the tumbler chase, was still shot on location in Chicago. There's not really a tremendous amount of difference on how Gotham looks through the three films, it's just that each film focuses on different areas in the city. Nolan's Gotham is massive, and the "real world" aesthetic was more about amalgamating a panoptic visage of an American metropolis on steroids.
I don’t know why, but the thought of it not being “intentional” but instead being accidental makes me laugh. Like Christopher Nolan was shooting the TDK chase scene and kept getting frustrated by the deja vu.I found it a little weird that he shot two chase action sequences on Lower Wacker in the tunnel area. Maybe that was intentional, to make it feel a bit more familiar.