Batman Begins

Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Release Year: 2005
Country: USA
Runtime: 140
Rating: 6.7 (0)
Languages: Mandarin, English
Director: Christopher Nolan
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
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Writing by: Bob Kane - (characters)
David S. Goyer - (story)
Christopher Nolan - (screenplay) and
David S. Goyer - (screenplay)

Produced by: Larry J. Franco - producer (as Larry Franco)
Benjamin Melniker - executive producer
Lorne Orleans - producer (IMAX version)
Charles Roven - producer
Emma Thomas - producer
Cheryl A. Tkach - associate producer
Michael E. Uslan - executive producer

Cast: Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne / Batman
Michael Caine - Alfred
Liam Neeson - Henri Ducard
Katie Holmes - Rachel Dawes
Gary Oldman - Jim Gordon
Cillian Murphy - Dr. Jonathan Crane
Tom Wilkinson - Carmine Falcone
Rutger Hauer - Earle
Ken Watanabe - Ras Al Ghul
Mark Boone Junior - Flass
Linus Roache - Thomas Wayne

Music: James Newton Howard Hans Zimmer
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Plot Outline: The story of how Bruce Wayne became what he was destined to be: Batman.
Plot: Eight-year-old Bruce Wayne falls into a cave where he encounters a swarm of bats. Bruce develops a fear of bats, and later urges his parents to leave an opera featuring bat-like creatures. Outside the theater, Bruce Waynes parents are both killed in a robbery by mugger Joe Chill. Bruce blames himself for his parents murder: had he not been frightened, the Waynes would not have encountered Chill. He is taken in by a mysterious instructor named Ducard and urged to become a ninja in the League of Shadows, but he instead returns to his native Gotham City resolved to end the mob rule that is strangling it.

Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
There are no opening credits besides the DC logo. Not even the title is shown, only a swarm of bats flying across the screen making out the new Batman symbol. The title card "Batman Begins" does not appear until the start of the closing credits.

Goofs: We know about 21 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: After Rachel slaps Bruce in the car outside Falcones, his hair is messed up; the next shot its nicely combed; and the next its messed up again.

Trivia: There are 95 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The device, on the heel of his boot, that the Batman uses to summon a swarm of bats is taken directly from Frank Millers "Batman: Year One".
• A second stage Scarecrow look was created for the hallucination scenes but was never shown on film. The mask was more organic and tighter around the actors face.
• Before Christopher Nolan took over, director Darren Aronofsky was attached to make a Batman movie based on the graphic novel "Batman: Year One" and have the author Frank Miller write the screenplay. By 2003 there was a first draft screenplay with story boards, which are properties of AOL Time Warner. Warners decision for not producing the film is unknown, but based on the details that have since leaked out, it would probably have to do with the screenplay, which strayed a considerable amount from the source material, making Alfred an African-American mechanic named "Big Al," the Batmobile being a souped-up Lincoln Towncar, and Bruce Wayne being homeless, among other things. This is all detailed in David Hughes book "Tales from Development Hell."