HMSwolfe
Master Member
I also feel that hero deconstruction works better with characters like Bond or Batman who aren’t tied down to one interpretation or actor. Part of the reason I liked The Batman so much is because to me it plays like a meta-narrative rebuttal to “movie Batman”. In The Batman, Robert Pattinson’s Bruce/Batman start out as the pinnacle of what “movie Batmen” have been—they punch criminals and they brood and they drive cool cars. But Pattinson’s Batman learns over the course of the film that he has to be more—he can’t just inspire vengeance, he has to protect people. He can’t just hyper focus on “the element”, he has to use both his Batman persona and public Wayne persona to influence Gotham for good. He needs to be better at the detective side of things—if he had figured out Riddler’s plan in time, he could have stopped a lot of destruction and injuries and even deaths. So his Batman works as a deconstruction of previous film Batmen who were fine for a popcorn movie blockbuster, but didn’t measure up to all that Batman is as a character, the aspects that exist in comics and cartoons but not in films.