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Batman Begins is a 2005 film based on the original DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane. The screenplay was written by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer and also directed by Nolan. It starred Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne. The film refreshed the Batman franchise and tells the story of how the Bruce Wayne's alter-ego came into being. Nolan's Batman was a darker and deeper film than previous incarnations, and explored Wayne's inner struggles to get past the death of his parents in his youth to become a hero.
Unlike previous, recent Batman films, Batman Begins won praise from critics and fans, and Bale's performance was lauded. A 2008 sequel, The Dark Knight also proved enormously successful.
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Plot
Following the death of his parents in his youth, Bruce Wayne grows up not with the goal of filling his father's shoes but of avenging their death. In his pursuit of revenge, he comes to the conclusion that he must understand the nature of the criminal mind, and he visits the Far East in pursuit of further knowledge. There he encounters the cult of Ra's Al-Ghul. The cult trains him in fighting, but ultimately their philosophy is not his own and they part on violent terms. Wayne returns to Gotham City to find the city overrun with organized crime, poverty, and injustice.
Wayne, with the help of a lone scientist in the Wayne corporation, Lucius Fox, and butler Alfred Pennyworth, he begins to explore various means of fighting the crime in the city. He comes up against the villainous Dr. Jonathon Crane (The Scarecrow) and his nemesis, Ra's Al-Ghul, returns with a plot to destroy Gotham.
Concept
In Christopher Nolan's Batman, the superhero exists in a world without superheros. His transformation of himself into a hero is an original conception that occurs independent of any influence from other heroes in the DC Comics universe. Nolan considers this to be in line with Batman's comic origins. In the later comics Batman becomes a part of the Justice League alongside DC Comics heroes Superman and Wonderwoman. However, Nolan does not see his variation on the character as being suitable for a similar crossover. According to Nolan, the existence of other heroes would have lent Bruce Wayne's transformation into Batman a different meaning.
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