A Tim Burton unleashed and full of inspiration. Michael Keaton perfectly imitated his character. A fascinating and terrifying Gotham with a captivating atmosphere. Danny DeVito as the unforgettable Penguin. Michelle Pfeiffer as (final) Catwoman. Fast-paced action. Blood and snow. Explosions and licks. Bites and hits. Tension and sensuality. Epic and emotion. “Batman Returns” is a masterpiece.
And that, at the time of its premiere, there were not a few rumors that attacked a film that, in fact, he gave far more attention (and affection) to his unforgettable villains than to Batman. A courageous narrative decision and, above all, consistent with the spirit that has characterized the best and most compelling works of its director. Weird, lonely, misunderstood and marginalized characters dress up as penguin and cat. The bat, meanwhile, tries to survive its own trauma amid cheers, parties and dollars.
10 fun facts about ‘Batman’s Return’
1 feline grooming
When it came to getting into Catwoman’s skin (and costume), Michelle Pfeiffer was exercising kick boxing for six months, weight training and karate. A set of exercises to which we must obviously add the train with a whip over three meters, who kept it busy for three months. Seeing what I saw, it was worth it. And with revenge.
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Two penguin father
In the beginning, Tim Burton and his team they wanted to count on the presence of the great ones Burgess Meredith, actor who played the character of the Penguin in both 1966’s “Batman” and the same year’s “Batman: The Movie”, but was ultimately unable to do so due to illness. The wonderful idea was that he was playing Danny DeVito’s father in the film.
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3 Gotham in detail
The filming of ‘Batman Returns’ took place in the famous Warner studios in Los Angeles and its size was so large that only the re-creation of the hypnotic Gotham took up half of the whole territory. Almost nothing.
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4 Keaton’s salary
11 million dollars, this is the amount that the good Michael Keaton has pocketed for having starred in ‘Batman Returns’. A very high salary for that period which made many of the studio executives responsible for the film openly show their disagreement. Quite the opposite of Tim Burtonthe most faithful defender of the actor, who assured that Keaton deserved every one of those tickets.
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5 Burton’s fears
When Tim Burton found out that Christopher Walken was going to play the hateful Max Shreck, he ran to the film’s casting director, Marion Dougherty, to confess that he was very uncomfortable with the decision. The reason? He was afraid of the legendary actor. Fortunately, that feeling changed during filming …
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6 passing the hours
When Danny DeVito found out that he would have to put on more than three hours each morning of filming to transform into the Penguin, he made up his mind: remove one of the cabinets from the room and place a Laserdisc machine and a TV in that space. In this way, the actor had the opportunity (and time) to see many of his favorite films as he went through the transformation process to play the memorable villain.
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7 Renovated wardrobe
Compared to the magnificent ‘Batman’, another of history’s great superhero films, ‘Batman Returns’ offered some significant changes in terms of the protagonist’s wardrobe. And it is that, on this occasion, the batman suit provided for the combination of colors and the logo of the plate on the chest, also adding, at the request of Michael Keaton himself, a zip on the pants. Convenience issue.
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8 Sequel requests
Despite the huge success of “Batman”, neither Tim Burton nor Michael Keaton had been hired early to direct and respectively star in a Batman sequel. In fact, until both of them joined the ‘Batman Returns’ project, it took a lot of encounters to carry out changes to the scriptan aspect on which the director was particularly demanding, and the negotiations in this regard salary increases, a field in which Keaton was heavily involved until he reached the very high figure we have previously commented on. Additionally, the actor did not agree to star in the film until Burton assured him that he would be an independent story and not a direct sequel to its successful predecessor.
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9 the first cat woman
While it’s hard to imagine a better Catwoman than Michelle Pffeifer, the “Batman Returns” casting directors at the beginning they chose to, attention, Annette Bening to play the famous character. However, the ‘American Beauty’ star had to abandon the project when she became pregnant.
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10 The adventure that didn’t happen
In the first version of the script written by Sam Hamm, the characters of the Penguin and the Catwoman would have starred in a plot in which they went in search of a hidden treasure. Read to believe. Granted, this idea didn’t have the approval of a Tim Burton who turned to Daniel Waters, a screenwriter who came up with the idea of an evil business tycoon who supported the political career of the character played by Danny DeVito.
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It is therefore a visually fascinating film, dazzling in every detail of its staging, and above all masterful in its ability to convey the loneliness, melancholy and nostalgia of beings in search of their salvation. ‘Batman Returns’ is as much an exceptional Christmas story tinged with darkness, external and internal, as it is a one-of-a-kind superhero film. That said, a masterpiece.
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