The Road to Gotham

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

The next episode of HDYR is going to be our 100th and to celebrate that milestone we'll be revisiting the most influential movie of Chris' childhood - Batman. But before we head into Gotham City, he wanted to take a step back and take a broader look at the Caped Crusader as a character.

So this time we're trying something a little different as Chris tracks his entire history with The Dark Knight - his earliest memories and introduction to the mythology, the numerous reasons he connected so strongly to that world, how his feelings about Batman have changed over the years, and why this all still means so much to him.

And you'll hear from some other familiar voices along the way, because this isn't just about Batman - it's about the profound effect fictional characters can have on our lives. How they reflect us. How they shape us. And sometimes... how they save us.

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About The Show

Music Included In This Episode:

"Epic Dark Hollywood Trailer" (license)
"Metropolis Epic Cinematic Trailer" (license)
"Relentless" (license)
by Jon Wright

"Dark Times", "Inspired", "Resignation", "Killing Time", and "Reawakening"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Transcript

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0:00.0	Where'd they go?
0:04.3	What's this?
0:07.5	Batman. Sorry we couldn't hang around. Joker.
0:11.7	Oh my head.
0:13.5	You dark, you ruined my brain cells.
0:15.7	Get off.
0:17.0	You just made the mistake.
0:18.3	What?
0:19.0	You let me up without handcuffs.
0:22.0	Oh!
0:23.7	Riddle me this, Batman.
0:27.8	What you're hearing is a clip from a movie I made when I was 12 years old called Legends of Batman.
0:33.8	And in this scene, the Cape Crusader realizes that while he's been waging two separate wars against the Joker and the Ridler, his fearsome foes were actually working together the entire time and he's walked right into their trap.
0:46.2	Not sure if the Sorkin-esque dialogue like, you dork, you ruined my brain cells, gave it away, but I wrote the script myself.
0:53.9	I also made most of the costumes and the
0:56.0	props, except for the bat suit that was rented from a local costume shop. Mom let me borrow her
1:01.4	camcorder and build rudimentary sets in our basement, and then I twisted the arms of my closest
1:06.5	friends to come over one weekend and help me bring my favorite comic book characters to life.
1:12.0	I'll be honest, while I had always been interested in telling stories and was already curious
1:16.9	about how movies were made, there's no question that at this point in my life, this had more to
1:22.0	do with being able to dress up like Batman than anything else. Yeah, that's me in the title role. So if you thought Michael
1:29.1	Keaton was a controversial casting choice, you should have seen the reaction from my friends when
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