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Be like alfred batman12/1/2023 Like just another person we can blame for why the movies aren’t quite working anymore.Ĭhristian Bale’s Bruce Wayne - like all Batmans who don’t have a Robin - doesn’t have a lot of friends, but he does have more than one friend, and so his reliance on Michael Caine’s Alfred as a trusted companion and a live-in therapist makes their relationship feel pure, and not like a contrived box being ticked because it’s from the source material. But when Keaton is no longer the Batman, that energy no longer bounces off this Alfred, and the character ends up feeling like the new guy's babysitter/manager or something. It makes this Alfred feel like a guy who must be pretty cool, too, to keep up with this guy. This twitchy, morosely offbeat loner who’s so in his head that he lets his villains eat all the scenery in his movies. In Gough’s scenes with Michael Keaton, he brings a cool dignity to a character charged with being not just Bruce’s steward and good friend, but the steward and friend to this Bruce. Their Alfred is iconic (and perhaps a generation’s template for the character) and the casting through-line across all these films, which is not bad. In a world with no nostalgia for them, it is hard to imagine what would eke through as value outside the lore itself, Batman Returns especially. These movies are absolute bangers, even the essentially bad ones that Joel Schumacher directed.
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