Batman Returns isn't just one of the best superhero movies, it's the best Tim Burton movie. As it turns 30, rockmarooned looks at the poetic melancholy and grandeur that make it essential Burton:
“Things change.” It’s a pithy line delivered by the Penguin to Batman , and then, pithier still, from Batman back to the Penguin moments later, in Tim Burton’s. It’s also a simple truism that the movie nonetheless experienced firsthand, as the landscape of summer blockbusters was in the midst of multiple shifts back in 1992. Its general financial success was simultaneously preordained , unusual and a disappointing underperformance .
Though Bo Welch’s stunning art-deco-gothic production design is as distinct as that of any comic book penciller,isn’t especially faithful to the comics, and takes some influence from the ’60s TV show that only becomes more explicit inspiration for the Joel Schumacher sequels that followed. The Penguin’s attempts to become mayor of Gotham City are nicked from an old episode, and some of Catwoman’s quips could almost pass for TV dialogue, sharpened into claws.
No, Burton’s whole deal is the refashioning of cultural iconography and detritus alike. He filters popular culture through his suburban-goth tastes, applying sinister cartoon cat faces, black-and-white stripes, and/or rain-wilted pastels to familiar images and texts. For some, this has long become a shtick, ever since, well, take your pick: Was
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