Last week I posted some quotes from a Hero Complex article on Michael Keaton. In the article he was reflecting back on different issues surrounding Tim Burton's
Batman. As soon as I posted the article the comments immediately lit up about Keaton or Bale (depending on your point of view) being the best
Batman or Bruce Wayne or both (again, depending on your point of view). The topic of
Batman's voice in both films also came up relatively quick.
Today, HERO COMPLEX posted some more from Keaton on the subject and I thought it was interesting that he covered both of these topics with a fair amount of detail. Below he discusses not only how he approached the character as Bruce Wayne and then
Batman, but also how he thought up the voice for Wayne while he was in costume.
On obtaining Batman's character through Bruce Wayne...
“The coolest thing from the get-go is that he doesn’t have superpowers, there are no magical things. He is a hero of intuition and inventiveness and discipline … I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn’t Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key. The only reason to do it, really, was to come at all of this from this guy’s point of view. It was risky in my approach to it but not from my point of view. It was obvious to me that there was one way to play this role. There was no other way I was going to do it. The movie was different from what had come before. The discussion from the get-go was to do a hero that was based in the psychological. Then from there we had to figure out how to make the Batman half of this thing work. The suit really just amplified everything for me. It was really claustrophobic. It was a struggle every day because I’m a claustrophobic dude. It was all such a challenge and that was perfect for me at the time. I felt it was given to me for a purpose. I took as a mental exercise. I just used the isolation of it all and the feeling of 12 and 13 hours days in this mask and trapped in the suit.
Keaton also goes on to talk about his appreciation for Nolan's version of
Batman. He also states that Burton's version essentially paved the way.
There is much more interesting information from Keaton in the article and it is really worth clicking on the link below to check it out at HERO COMPLEX.
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