Burning Rubber After Nosediving Through Four Movies, There's Only One Hope for Batman: An Actor with Superhuman Powers. Can Christian Bale Break the Mould and Help the Pvc-Clad Hero to Bounce Back?
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On an overcast day in the middle of April, dark clouds and drizzle conspire to throw a sombre blanket over Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. It is a fitting atmosphere as we duck into a small editing bay in the bowels of the sound department. Here, the director Christopher Nolan is putting the final touches to his latest creation, Batman Begins - the film set to re-ignite Warner Brothers' dollars-1bn-grossing superhero franchise.
Sprawled across the deck are posters for the film. The startling images sum up Nolan's intent: Gotham City's infamous caped crusader, surrounded by bats and silhouetted against a skyline as gloomy as the one forming outside. The message is clear: this is not the Batman from the camp 1960s television series with Adam West, nor is it the PVC-clad caricature from the four preceding films. This is more than just an overhaul: it is a complete reinvention of the character.See the full content of this document
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Burning Rubber After Nosediving Through Four Movies, There's Only One Hope for Batman: An Actor with Superhuman Powers. Can Christian Bale Break the Mould and Help the Pvc-Clad Hero to Bounce Back?
The London-raised Nolan has selected a chiefly British and Irish cast to deliver the goods, including Michael Caine, Linus Roache, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman - and, most importantly of all, the Welsh- born Christian Bale in the dual lead of Batman and his millionaire alter-ego Bruce Wayne.
With his mop of brown hair and cherubic face, Bale is a genuine enigma. A chameleonlike actor, he can slip with ease from playing the alpha-male villain in Shaft to the earthy Mandras in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.When we meet, he is sporting a thick Robinson Crusoe-style beard for his latest role as a 17th-century tobacco plantation owner in Terrence Malick's forthcoming The New World. Were it not for his pressed, navy trousers and button-down shirt, you'd assume a tramp had wandered in off the street. Yet although he has a habit of keeping his interviewers at arm's length, the 31-year-old is candid enough to talk honestly about the film that looks set to turn him, finally, into a genuine A-lis...See the full content of this document
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