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Consciously Or Not, 'The Dark Knight' Pays Homage To Tim Burton
Posted by Seth at 10:35 AM on April 29, 2008
A clever mashup from CollegeHumor.com suggests Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight—the hotly anticipated, second chapter of his radical re-envisioning of the Batman franchise for Warner Bros.—might be less of a radical re-envisioning than we might have been led to believe. Frankly, they could prove the entire thing was lifted frame-by-frame from an NYU film school thesis project, we wouldn't be any less excited about it. Dark Knight! Whooo! Movie of the summer! The side-by-side "trailers" are after the jump:
- Batman vs The Dark Knight Trailer [College Humor]
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Tommy C
Posted May 2, 2008 6:35 AM
That is the dumbest thing ive seen..The reason they look similar is because they are the same characters and for the record jacks joker looks nothing at all even close to heaths joker.
Kunderemp
Posted May 3, 2008 12:33 PM
If you think the scene where the-should-be-intelligent Batman tried to kill a single person (even that was The Joker but still.. a single person) using missile rockets launched from his batplane was cool and the movie was the best of all Batman movies, well, you would find me heavily disagree with you.
However, the part when Batman face-to-face with The Joker using his batpod was so similar with batplane vs The Joker in 1989's Batman.. only, Nolan executed the scene in a better and clever way.
Brian
Posted May 4, 2008 3:05 AM
If the writer of this article did his homework, he'd find that this is not the original 1989 preview from Burton's Batman; it's a highly edited version made to look like Nolan's trailer done by a fan.
Pablo
Posted May 21, 2008 1:13 PM
Very very funny... I love both versions, Burton and Nolan...
But in my opinion, both movies are diferent, you can´t discuss about diferents perspectives or about the character treatments... Maybe we can discuss about wich version is more popular, or likeable... for a market..
Greetings from Argentina my friends...
Senator Boomdog
Posted 1:27 PM 29/4/08
They're also both blatant ripoffs of a comic book in which a man dressed like a bat chases around a guy in white facepaint.
Senator Boomdog
Dr. Spaceman
Posted 12:41 PM 29/4/08
Scene a faire?
Dr. Spaceman
Dimo
Posted 1:59 PM 29/4/08
Dude, It's just like Darkside of the Moon and The wizard of Oz. I gotta stop getting high.
Dimo
Monsieur.Mind
Posted 3:45 PM 29/4/08
So, wait a minute, I'm confused... Michael Keaton, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine were in a movie together?
Monsieur.Mind
CakeAndDeath
Posted 4:11 PM 29/4/08
Ripoff? I care not. Joker will make me shit my pants regardless.
CakeAndDeath
regisgoat
Posted 10:11 PM 29/4/08
Well, that's proof positive, but It's hopeless, isn't it. I still have to be there for it, first day front row center. Same thing with James Bond. I KNOW it's crap. But it's like trying to be a Christian Scientist convincing yourself that you don't have malaria. Every two or three years, the new attack comes and the shivering starts.
regisgoat
ron2112
Posted 11:16 PM 29/4/08
No one believes the upper frame is an actual Tim Burton Batman trailer, right? We all know that's just a selection of clips meant to emulate the Dark Knight trailer, right? Okay, just making sure.
ron2112
TurdBlossom
Posted 1:26 AM 30/4/08
They had me at "Why so serious?"
TurdBlossom
Benovite
Posted 1:47 AM 30/4/08
Batshit: The Movie
Benovite
Benovite
Posted 2:16 AM 30/4/08
Don't worry, he still doesn't make any attempts to disturb his beautiful face with any show of emotions.
Benovite
Victor Ward
Posted 2:14 AM 30/4/08
I don't care how creative it is, as long as Christian Bale's face is invoved.
Victor Ward
mr hotpants
Posted 8:00 AM 30/4/08
More importantly, Christian Bale is shirtless throughout the movie, correct?
mr hotpants
gedimin
Posted 4:59 AM 30/4/08
Pure homage. It would be useless to suggest otherwise. I like it, good homage, nicely done sir *pat *pat
gedimin
meism
Posted 10:14 AM 30/4/08
Right. Who needs facial expression when you've got flesh-colored nipples.
meism