Episode 48: Batman Begins
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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The LFTS team discusses Christopher Nolan’s grounded approach to the previously goofy Batman franchise, how the structure of Batman Begins accomplishes crucial setup work for the rest of Nolan’s trilogy, and why the social and psychological themes at the heart of all Batman stories remain so compelling.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 0:08.9 | Today we are talking about Batman Begins, the 2005 film directed by Christopher Nolan, |
| 0:14.5 | screenplay by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm joined by the Lessons from the screenplay team, Tr Trisha Arand. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. |
| 0:23.1 | Hello, hello. And Alex Gallegos. Hi. So this is going to be the first and a series of three podcasts |
| 0:28.4 | that we're doing on the Dark Night trilogy. And I'm very excited about it. Also, this month, |
| 0:34.3 | our patrons are voting amongst the other Nolan filmography for what our patron |
| 0:39.0 | exclusive episode will be. So patrons, keep an eye up for that. Very excited. It's a Nolan-filled |
| 0:44.6 | month because once upon a time, Tenet might come out this month. Maybe in another, in an alternate |
| 0:50.6 | universe it has. Batman Begins is really, really interesting. |
| 0:54.6 | Revisiting it was a fascinating experience for me |
| 0:57.8 | because the context is so different. |
| 1:01.6 | You have to talk about context when talking about Batman begins. |
| 1:04.9 | Because watching it now, and especially, you know, |
| 1:07.9 | after the Dark Night has come out, |
| 1:09.5 | the Dark Night overshadows Batman |
| 1:11.6 | begins in basically every single possible way, I feel. And so it's weird going back to Batman |
| 1:19.7 | begins and it feels kind of goofy and there are these weird things in it and which is |
| 1:25.6 | impressive also to realize that the Batman film that came before this one was hyper goofy. |
| 1:31.6 | And so it's weird that this one was a step down from that goofiness. |
| 1:34.8 | But then I did kind of shift my brain back to remembering being in the theater in 2005, going to see a new Batman film from the director that did that one Memento movie |
| 1:45.7 | and seeing something that I'd never seen before, which is the super serious trying to be |
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