Friday, April 12, 2013 1:10 PM | permalink | comment


I drew the Batman. He's one of my favourite hero.

I mean like, the feeling he gives me is different from how the X-men, Avengers, etc give me. I really admire him, in my real life, & I think he's the true definition of a hero. Yes he's not like the X men or the Avengers. He doesn't have any superpowers. He can't save the world by letting out an optic blast like cyclops, or have super telekinesis like Jean, neither a demi god like Thor. He's a normal human being. Who felt that the world can be better. Who wanted to change the world. Who wanted to protect his own beloved city. He's so small, yet so large. So vulnerable, yet so strong. That's what makes him a hero.

I wasn't a Batman fan at the start. The first Batman movie I watched was actually The Dark Knight rises, the last of the trilogy. By the time TDKR, Bruce wad already a frail man who needed the help of a walking stick to support himself. Hence, he failed to attract me. During the scene where he had boxing with Bane, I was like "WTF he doesn't even have superpowers and takes so long to defeat someone."

If you were actually thinking like I used to, then you need to take some time out to watch the The Dark Knight trilogy. Although Batman's origin was a comical cartoon where he would always go out with Robin & do silly stuffs etc, but I must say that Christoper Nolan's movie series of Batman was really inspiring. He pratically took Batman out of a comic book and changed it into something entirely different, someting philosophical.

"Your parent's death was not your fault. ..But if you make yourself more than just a man..if you devote yourself to an ideal...then you become something else entirely."

"which is?"

"A legend, Mr Wayne."

Batman Begins started with how his parents were murdered and how the murders managed to get away. Just because Gotham City was so corrupted. He tried to avenge them, but came to realize revenge was something small. Something's bigger and more important was going on. He realized it's not just about his own world, he and his revenge. Its the city that needs saving. Literally and psychologically. Hence basically he went being a life of a criminal, to understand criminal's psychology before he can change his world. Then, he took up the identity of Batman, something that he feared the most-BATS. Cause he wanted his enemies to share his fear. He met Ra's Al Ghul (previously his mentor) and ppl like Scarecrow, who felt that the city is beyond saving and wanted to destroy it. But he believed that there's always hope for the city so he fought them. And yeah, like superhero movies, he managed to save his beloved city in the end.

The Dark Knight was something different and more complicated. The villian's bascially only the Joker, but who is sick mentally and therefore a difficult opponent to defeat. Batman begins to think about himself, doubts his own capablities of "saving the city/world." Then there's Harvey Dent, the White Knight, the lawyer who managed to bring down a large number of corruption, therefore being an exposed/known hero, unlike Batman. Batman thought of letting Harvey Dent to save the world and let himself step down. Moreover, the Joker went around killing, claiming that it will continue if Batman does not expose himself. The whole city then hates him and finds him responsible for all the chaos. The plot moves. Harvey's loved one Rachel Dawes is being killed by the Joker, & somehow the Joker managed to drive Harvey mad and brought him down to the lowest level-being a villian. Batman managed to bring Joker down in the end, but is confused about the explaination of Harvey Dent to the public, as he's the symbol of justice and hope to the people. Therefore in the end he decided to take the blame himself as the villian, claiming responsible for all the chaos, & let the people continue to worship Harvey and embrace hope in their hearts.

The Dark Knight rises started with Batman with the identity tag as a "villian". Therefore he was hiding all the while. He became frail due to all his years being Batman and taking down all those criminals. He meets Bane, the terrorist. He's defeated and imprisoned in a well by Bane. There's an escape from the prison, but bascially no one has succeeded except a boy, supposingly Bane. Its that kind of either you escape or you fall to your death. Batman's the guy who's not afraid of anything. He learnt how to feel fear, like how he learnt to conquer it in the first film. He then feared of dying, feared of leaving the world & not being able to save the city. He then got out, saw the city in Chaos due to works of Bane. He met with betrayal, where his romantic interest was actually the mastermnd of the evil. But Batman's still Batman. He saved the city the third time, by taking the nuclear bomb with him & perishing with it. Supposing, he died. But he became a legend.

That's my really short summary of the trilogy. There's a lot more to understand in the real one. Fighting scenes were little, & you'll find that Batman's actually not a good fighter. Batman's actually more of a symbol of hope than a fighter, which is miles more important to the people. The city needs hope. Not a fighter. & through the trilogy we got to see Bruce Wayne as Batman, and his character. It's his character that's heroic and you would admire, not his fighting and those. He believed that there's still hope among the worst. He's willing to take the role of the villian and be despised for his people. He's willing to die for his city. But yet he's vulnerable, he's human, he's normal. That's what makes him.

He's a fighter who had the heart of a hero.

I salute Christoper Nolan for coming out with such an awesome trilogy.
& I applaud Christian Bale for such a good potrayal of Batman.

"It's not who I am underneat, but what I do that defines me."