I think what Tim Burton was trying to achieve in his tak on the character is that these two archetypes are such complete opposites and yet share such a mutual hate because they created each other.
But if that where true, they could just defeat each other and be done with it. Batman is fighting more than just the Joker. It's even arguable if Batman really
hates the Joker; in DKR he seems to, but
The Killing Joke has another take; that the Joker is just one in a long line of pitiful, batman-created villains.
Look on the bright side: they changed it back to being a non super villain who did it last year!
Yes, a little better. My favorite version is where Batman never finds out who the killer was.
I loved Tim Burton's Batman in spite of the changes.
If an adaptation makes changes, the changes should be of such nature that we love the adaptation
because of the changes, not
in spite of the changes. (Or at least feel that the changes are "also good" even if they're not our favorite version.)
If I where to reexamine Burton's Batman and come to like it, it would be in spite of this change, and thus I think it's a bad change.
Other possibly acceptable changes are for brevity or clarity, if they don't detract so much.
And btw, we don't even know if it was Burton who changed the origin or someone else.
Sign. alleywaykrew in this thread posited that it was. I know the change isn't in the script, but I thought it might've been a studio decision.
As for the love interest, keep in mind that Vicki Vale was in the comics at the time (they broke up just before the second film came out). She obviously didn't know Wayne's identity,
That wasn't the problem as much as she was a somewhat one-dimensional character. Actually, I think Rachel Dawes in
Batman begins is much less believable, especially how (
*very minor spoiler warning*) she seems to flip-flop on the Batman issue.
but when you're asking for believeability in the film, how believeable is it that Superman and Batman are bosom buddies who know each other's identity?
It's totally believable. They're the world's finest. I think they should become "best friends with benefits", too, since they can probably understand and satisfy each other more than anyone else since they're both costumed heroes, outcast and misunderstood from the rest of the society. In fact, that's why I like the Batman/Catwoman relationship more than all the Vickies and Rachels in the world.
It's similar to how Night Owl II and Silk Spectre II can understand each other in
Watchmen.
Lois is OK, since she's such a headstrong and deeply defined character that the readers are kind of meant to both like and dislike.
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