In his and Goyers conversation compared Horowitz “Batman begins” Richard Donners 1978 “Superman: The Movie,” as also Takes the time to Superman in the suit. Goyer added that he, Nolan and CO. mapped its structure compared to other comic book films, such as “Superman” and Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man,” To show Batman’s late arrival was not to late.
“We were ready to prosecute the case with (WB),” Goyer explained. He confirmed that there was a draft that started with a cold open Batman on the roof of Arkham Asylum that spreads his cape when the police persecute him (which happens later in the film), “but very quickly, thank you, God we avoided it.”
When you read between the lines with Goyer’s words, you can pick up what the root of Warner Bros. ‘Concern Was: No Batman during the first hour of the movie would mean there would be no action during the first hour. However, Goyer and Nolan were aware of the potential problem themselves. To ensure that the audience did not think that Bruce Wayne was boring, they decided to show that he could kick ass without a bat.
“We knew pretty early that we needed to get the audience in love with Bruce Wayne,” Goyer explained. “We needed (…) a fantastic action sequence, as amazing as everything from ‘Indiana Jones’, which involved Bruce Wayne and not Batman.”
That action scene stopped being when Bruce escapes the Burning League of Shadows Fortress. Even before that, however, there are documents, as when Bruce roof with ducard over a frozen lake. This ensured that the audience did not consciously made the connection of “Bruce Wayne scenes = boring talkative scenes, where is Batman?”
1987’s “Batman: Year One” by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli (One of the most important source material for “Batman Begins”) does something similar. The book has four chapters (“Batman” questions #404-407), but the first does not show Bruce in the batsuit. Instead, the first chapter follows him when he goes out and fights crime without costume and fails because the criminals do not fear him. At the end of the chapter, he realizes that he must “become a bat” and he debuts as Batman in Chapter 2. Like “Year one”, “Batman begins to” understand that Bruce Wayne’s origin can and should be an engaging, atmospheric and action -packed story in his own right, not just table setting for Batman to debate.
