{"id":416005,"date":"2022-03-14T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-gotham-city-has-changed\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:15:58","slug":"how-gotham-city-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-gotham-city-has-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Gotham City Has Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2413864c2c9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2413864c2c9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-gotham-city-has-changed\/#%E2%80%9CHow_Gotham_City_Has_Changed%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How Gotham City Has Changed&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-gotham-city-has-changed\/#Batman_and_Batman_Returns_1989-1992_Dir_Tim_Burton\" >Batman and Batman Returns (1989-1992, Dir. Tim Burton)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-gotham-city-has-changed\/#Batman_Forever_and_Batman_Robin_1995-1997_Dir_Joel_Schumacher\" >Batman Forever and Batman &amp; Robin (1995-1997, Dir. Joel Schumacher)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-gotham-city-has-changed\/#The_Dark_Knight_Trilogy_2005-2012_Dir_Christopher_Nolan\" >The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012, Dir. Christopher Nolan)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-gotham-city-has-changed\/#The_Batman_2022_Dir_Matt_Reeves\" >The Batman (2022, Dir. Matt Reeves)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_Gotham_City_Has_Changed%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How Gotham City Has Changed&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<span class=\"article-alert\"><em>This piece includes very minor spoilers for The Batman <\/em>(2022)<em>.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #1! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: Below First Paragraph! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: mid intro! --><br \/>\nSince Tim Burton&#8217;s <em>Batman <\/em>in 1989, we&#8217;ve seen Gotham city re-imagined on-screen by a slew of different directors all with new, separate visions. Out went the 90-degree angles of Adam West and Burt Ward scaling buildings via gr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ling hook, and in came a rightfully gloomy and gothic approach that fit the character to a T. With the addition of Matt Reeve&#8217;s <strong><em>The Batman<\/em><\/strong>, we have been introduced to a rain-soaked <strong>Gotham<\/strong>, dreary and grim. Its pavements drenched in as much crime as it is raindrops.<\/p>\n<p>The 1989 screenplay to <em>Batman <\/em>by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren introduces the city <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyscript.com\/scripts\/batman_early.html\">as such<\/a>:<em> <\/em><br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><\/p>\n<div id=\"adsninja-ad-zone-MW-Reg-Org\" class=\"adsninja-ad-zone\">\n<div id=\"dynamically-injected-refresh-ad-zone-MW-Reg-Org\" class=\"dynamically-injected-refresh-ad-zone\">\n<div class=\"ad-current\">\n<div id=\"ad-zone-container-MW-Reg-Org\" class=\"ad-zone-container ad-zone-container-content-character-count-repeatable-1\" data-no-fill-collapsable=\"false\"><strong class=\"ad-zone-advertising-tag\">MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe city of Tomorrow: stark angles, creeping shadows, dense, crowded, airless, a random tangle of steel and concrete, self-generating, almost subterranean in its aspect&#8230; as if hell had erupted through the sidewalks and kept on growing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #2! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: native in content! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"batman-and-batman-returns-1989-1992-dir-tim-burton\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Batman_and_Batman_Returns_1989-1992_Dir_Tim_Burton\"><\/span> Batman and Batman Returns (1989-1992, Dir. Tim Burton)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Over two films, Tim Burton&#8217;s <strong>Gotham <\/strong>was allowed to be grimy. From the get-go of 89&#8217;s <em>Batman<\/em>, we overlook a midnight city with high arching buildings. Smog and fumes bellow from vents. Chemical plants are conveniently placed nearby for villains to drop into vats. Aesthetically, Gothamites dress like they reside in the 1940s, with fedoras and long trenchcoats straight out of a noir, while the gangsters sport brash pins<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>e suits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Batman<\/em>&#8216;s establishing shot tells us that this is no mere New York or Chicago, but &#8220;<strong>GOTHAM CITY<\/strong>&#8220;. Burton&#8217;s Gotham im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely delights in its many alleyways for innocents to get lost in, and its hidden villains concealed like spiders waiting patiently in their webs. Over the (arguably too frequent) iterations of <em>Batman <\/em>on screen, alleyways have become something of a parody now, where someone is bound to be murdered, begging the question as to why any resident of Gotham would ever even risk it. But back then, they were almost part of the architecture, consumed beneath the high and suffocating DNA of the skyscrapers.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #3! --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.09375%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gotham-needs-edit.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gotham-needs-edit.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gotham-needs-edit.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gotham-needs-edit.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"718\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Tim Burton's Gotham was created from scratch and won an Oscar for it to boot\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gotham-needs-edit.jpg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Set designer Anton Furst, with concept artist Nigel Phelps, created this Gotham at Pinewood Studios, devoting a whopping $2 million (in 1989) to their stand-in New York, and the result is a smattering of different designs. Physically, <strong>Gotham <\/strong>is made of steel and concrete, while featuring different varied colloquial designs like some unpleasant mashup (the church tower in <em>Batman<\/em>&#8216;s finale, for example, closely resembles La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, by Antonio Gaud\u00ed). Recognized critically for their efforts, Furst and Peter Young (set designer) would go on to win the Oscar in 1990 for Best Production Design.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"related-single\">Related: These Are the Best Moments From Tim Burton&#8217;s Batman <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Penguin-sewers.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Penguin-sewers.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Penguin-sewers.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Penguin-sewers.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Batman Returns showed the underbelly of Gotham and its sewers\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Penguin-sewers.jpg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As Burton had two movies to work with, he could expand on this groundwork further, plumbing the depths, leaning in to his eerie roots and adding a quite literal further level by revealing Gotham&#8217;s (and Penguin&#8217;s) lair in <strong><em>Batman Returns<\/em>.<\/strong> Set during Christmastime in the city, the film makes Gotham look physically cold and uncomfortable with its position at this time of year, its buildings even more so impossibly high than before. When Batman, Catwoman, and Penguin overlook the citizens below, they gawk downwards like aptly grotesque gargoyles overlooking the normal life that they have been denied.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #4! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"batman-forever-and-batman-amp-robin-1995-1997-dir-joel-schumacher\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Batman_Forever_and_Batman_Robin_1995-1997_Dir_Joel_Schumacher\"><\/span> Batman Forever and Batman &amp; Robin (1995-1997, Dir. Joel Schumacher)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gotham-schumacker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gotham-schumacker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gotham-schumacker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gotham-schumacker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Schumacher's Gotham is a city that's done a line of cocaine with a Viagra chaser\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gotham-schumacker.jpg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As maligned as they are, Joel Schumacher&#8217;s versions of Gotham present something wholly different to anything seen elsewhere. Comic in every sense of the word, this city is gargantuan and loud. Reflecting the director himself, this setting is big, elaborate, overbearing, and queer. Tower blocks are lit with neon, in garish reds and greens; muscular Adonis statues physically hold the surrounding buildings aloft, overwhelming them. These two depictions of <strong>Gotham City <\/strong>are consumer 1990s meets Greek sensibilities, all billboard advertising meshed with six-packs and togas. Schumacher&#8217;s Gotham is a city that feels like it&#8217;s done a line of cocaine, with a Viagra chaser.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-Forever.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-Forever.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-Forever.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-Forever.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Batman Forever\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-Forever.jpg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These cities are the most interactive, as if they had been made out of Lego for a bored child to come along and kick to pieces (which may have inspired <em>The Lego Batman<\/em> movie). Take any of the chase sequences in these movies, and you&#8217;ll see how much of the city&#8217;s architecture is actually involved. In <strong><em>Batman and Robin<\/em><\/strong>, the Batmobile closes in on Mr Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his henchmen&#8217;s getaway vehicles. Thinking fast, Freeze creates a shortcut by way of the head of one of these statues and scales it from the shoulder down to the hand <em>\u2014<\/em> successfully jumping the chasm by the statue&#8217;s middle finger.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #5! --> <\/p>\n<p>Long before Zack Snyder&#8217;s heavy-handed Jesus allegories, <em><strong>Batman Forever<\/strong> <\/em>and <em>Batman and Robin<\/em>&#8216;s Gotham proposed a landscape which tells its citizens that gods live among us <em>\u2014<\/em> and you have no choice in the matter.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-dark-knight-trilogy-2005-2012-dir-christopher-nolan\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Dark_Knight_Trilogy_2005-2012_Dir_Christopher_Nolan\"><\/span> The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012, Dir. Christopher Nolan)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <em>Batman <\/em>proposed a billionaire in a (mostly) realized world. Nolan&#8217;s team asks If<em> the crime-ridden Gotham was a real city, which would it be?<\/em> Then answers loudly, &#8220;Hey! What about Chicago?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the only director with a trilogy of Bats to his name, Nolan could show a Gotham that evolves, devolves, and then repeats. By <em>The Dark Knight<\/em>, Nolan would utilize first-of-their-kind IMAX cameras to display his vision of the city. As a result, Gotham became a stretched landscape that was there to be blown up.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #6! --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/joker-hospital.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/joker-hospital.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/joker-hospital.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/joker-hospital.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"With no black bars to stifle our view of this metropolis, it was a place ripe to be blown up and torn apart by any manner of psychopath mad enough to take it on\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/joker-hospital.jpg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Like our eyes having to adjust to a new light, or a gritty version of<em> The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, <strong><em>The Dark Knight<\/em><\/strong> trilogy was a take on a character and genre we had never seen before. Scenes of quieter moments between men, and ethical ideas of right and wrong, were juxtaposed against intense action segments that filled the screen. With no black bars to stifle our view of this metropolis, it was a place ripe to be blown up and torn apart by any manner of psychopath mad enough to take it on.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"related-single\">Related: The Batman Team Told Christopher Nolan They&#8217;re Trying to Top the Dark Knight Trilogy<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Christian Bale&#8217;s Bruce Wayne is also the best example of the ongoing series to really highlight the class differences in the city. Again bringing their own sensibilities to the table, London-born Nolan presents a class system at war with itself. Outside the super-elite trappings of Bruce Wayne&#8217;s mansion (a location that can be burnt down and then rebuilt through inherited money, and shot in the very real Wollaton Hall in Nottingham), is a city with entirely Americanized structures and setups: straightforward, obtuse and by-the-numbers skyscrapers that tower over bums crouched over trashcans, and criminals preying on women at train stations.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #7! --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joker.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Nolan's Gotham was straight forward, obtuse and by the numbers skyscrapers that house bums crouched over trashcans, and criminals preying on women at train stations\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joker.jpg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Interestingly, as the weakest addition to the trilogy, <strong><em>The Dark Knight Rises<\/em><\/strong> has the most room to show off Gotham at its most desperate. Among a drastic turn of weather, whole football stadiums are reduced to rubble, and bridges are blown out. The citizens are reduced to slums and freezing to death under the rule of a dictator and his lackeys. As recognized by the slimy Phillip Stryver (Burn Gorman), <strong>Gotham <\/strong>presents a floating wasteland, and a walking-on-water moment (an escape, finally, from this horrible place) that could and will crack underfoot at any second.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:58.333333333333%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dark-Knight-Rises-SNOW-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dark-Knight-Rises-SNOW-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dark-Knight-Rises-SNOW-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dark-Knight-Rises-SNOW-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Interestingly, as the weakest addition to the trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises has the most room to show off Gotham at its most desperate. \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dark-Knight-Rises-SNOW-1.jpg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"the-batman-2022-dir-matt-reeves\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Batman_2022_Dir_Matt_Reeves\"><\/span> The Batman (2022, Dir. Matt Reeves)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Echoing its tone and quasi-whodunit approach, Matt Reeve&#8217;s <strong>Gotham <\/strong>is vile. It resembles the weather reports of <em>Se7en <\/em>and the <em>Blade Runner<\/em>s before it. With its obnoxious and in-your-face advertising boards below skyscrapers with Victorian-style toppings, it is old meets new.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #8! --><br \/>\nIn such a brilliantly simple aesthetic choice, Gotham looks cold and uninviting, with almost constant rain. Shadowy doorways are specifically observed for far too long, making us believe that something (or someone) is on the other side. Gotham is shot so chilly and dank that if it isn&#8217;t the dead of night and raining, then the sun is only about to go down so that the obligatory darkness may then resume.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<figure>\n <picture>\n <!--[if IE 9]>\n <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-header.jpeg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-header.jpeg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-header.jpeg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-header.jpeg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Gotham City feels once again naturally grotesque - real and scrappy, but with comic book trappings.\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Batman-header.jpeg\"\/>\n <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">DC Films<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Tube trains trundle along with gangs of thugs in cheap face paint taking in young and impressionable ne&#8217;er-do-wells. It feels like the people who live in this city were born here, but never left because their spirits had already been broken. Incel-turned-terrorist, Riddler, lives in a one-bed squat surrounded by obsessive <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper clippings. On the opposite end of that, Gotham Manor is never properly revealed outside the far more prominent Batcave below.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #9! --><br \/>\n<span class=\"related-single\">Related: Familiar Foes, Batman! Here&#8217;s Why We Keep Seeing The Same Batman Villains<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a kind of full-circle back to Burton, Reeve&#8217;s <strong>Gotham City<\/strong> feels once again naturally grotesque: real and scrappy, but with comic book trappings. Unlike Nolan&#8217;s city (which feels like a place his Batman was constantly adapting and reacting to), this Gotham feels like it&#8217;s <em><strong>The Batman<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s home, and that he will shape its structure accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            <!-- No winning ad found for zone: above next button! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"next-btn-img\">\n<div class=\"bc-img responsive-img img-article-next-btn\">\n<figure>\n        <picture>\n            <!--[if IE 9]>\n            <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"320px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/article\/cq4DmEl8jxYp1hIP5G4QgvSN6irHEm.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=320&amp;h=240&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"140px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/article\/cq4DmEl8jxYp1hIP5G4QgvSN6irHEm.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=140&amp;h=140&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n                            <img width=\"2620\" height=\"1380\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"The Batman Has a Gotham Like No Other Says Jeffrey Wright\"\/>\n                    <\/picture>\n            <\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"next-btn-text lines-trim\">\n            The Batman Has a Gotham Like No Other Says Jeffrey Wright\n                    <\/div>\n<p>        Read Next<\/p>\n<p>                                                <!-- No winning ad found for zone: below next button! --><br \/>\n        <!-- No winning ad found for zone: below sharing options! --><\/p>\n<p>    About The Author<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-article-author-bio\">\n<div class=\"author-bio-img\">\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/authors\/61d6e5f148ac0-Jon_Holmes_headshot.jpg?fit=crop&amp;w=100&amp;h=100\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>\n                            <\/div>\n<div class=\"author-bio-text\">\n<p>            <strong class=\"bio-title\">Jon Holmes<br \/>\n                                    <span class=\"amount\">(18 Articles Published)<\/span><br \/>\n                            <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bio-desc\">\n                Jon Holmes is an English writer and actor. His films have been showcased across the world via prestigious film festivals. Outside of his analytical work and joke writing, his fictional side leans in to the taboo with an aim to satirise that which most definitely deserves it.\n            <\/div>\n<p>                            More<br \/>\n                    From Jon Holmes\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                <!-- Zone: below the author. --><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Since Tim Burton&#8217;s Batman in 1989, we&#8217;ve seen Gotham city re-imagined on-screen by a slew of different directors all with new, separate visions. 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