THE BATMAN: Why The Cinematography Stands Out
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Why the cinematography in The Batman 2022 stands out. In this video essay, I discuss the reasons why Greig Fraser's cinematography was so great in Matt Reeves The Batman and how he created a look that stood out. What was your reaction to the cinematography in The Batman and what amazing shots are your favourites from the film? Let me know in the comments below.
The Batman is an upcoming American superhero film based on DC Comics featuring the character Batman. Produced by DC Films and 6th & Idaho, and set for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is intended to be a reboot of the Batman film franchise. The film is being directed by Matt Reeves, who wrote the screenplay with Peter Craig, and stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Barry Keoghan, Jayme Lawson, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell. Set in his second year of fighting crime, the film sees Batman uncover corruption in Gotham City while facing a serial killer known as The Riddler.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:41 Why The Batman Cinematography Stands Out
4:58 Greig Fraser's Cinematography Is An Extension Of Character
9:36 The Simplicity Of The Batman's Cinematography
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The "dirtying up the lens" trick that Fraser used in "The Batman" is why this film looks so beautiful. You feel like a fly on the wall witnessing the events take place in Gotham, and the use of darkness and shadows, along with getting the lens dirty and making it a third party POV, is what makes this film have the visual style and flare it has from beginning to end.
Exactly, Matt Reeves said he and Greg Frasier tried to replicate that dirty, grainy frame look from 70s films like Chinatown, The French Connection and Klute and they absolutely delivered, never have I felt so immersed in the supposed dark and gritty setting of a blockbuster film like with The Batman.
Emmanuel Lubezki used this same method while filming the Revenant, he won best cinematography for that
It's a masterclass and I'm glad they chose Gotham as the vehicle. It's the most dense lore in comic history.
The texture too. It feels like it should be watched on VHS. Lol
@@yani2499 I loved that aspect of the movie. This Gotham felt lived in and like is has decades if not centuries of history behind it, just like the comic-book version of Gotham.
@@themadtitan7603 Yeah, the cinematography grips you like basically no movie in 2022. Just a quick question, but how would you rate a movie like The Batman out of 10?
It took Hollywood almost 30 years to realise how perfectly David Fincher had depicted Gotham City way back in 1995.
SE7EN looks NOTHING like Gotham City!!
@@vishnualcyone9170 the feel is right
Lived in NewYork city for 10 years. Never have I seen the dirtier and darker more foreboding side of its essence captured in such a way. There is the decaying iron smell, the sound of the rain, and the sense of loneliness that isn’t often captured in films only interested in the high-level picturesque side of it.
I've mentioned Greig Fraser's cinematography a lot in previous videos, but I haven't really gone into detail about why I think it stands out in the comic book genre. So here's my video essay discussing the kinds of techniques that he employed in The Batman.
I love how dirty Gotham City looks. It’s going to be amazing to see what Greig Fraser and Matt Reeves pull in the future.
The cinematography in the Batman is really awesome and super gorgeous.
It looked absolutely picturesque
This film is a masterpiece. A beautiful job by everyone involved!
I just can not stop thinking about this movie. I relate so much too this bruce wayne being quiet and closed off
And living in my own world
Thanks for covering relevant movies. I liked the hallway fight where the lighting came from the muzzle flashes. It reminds me of the opening hallway fight from Equilibrium (2002), where a more artful strobe effect did the work.
I feel with a lot of CBMs, the focus of the camera is to mainly jump around to things that are integral the plot without much effort put into how it could be used as a tool to get us to be emotionally present with the character or put certain props in focus to symbolize a meanings or foreshadow narrative revelations like Greg Frasier does here with The Batman. This sort of POV-style worked tremendously in engrossing us in this true first-person character study.
In other words, this movie was made like a movie, and that's something we're seeing less and less of regardless of genre in American films at least. A huge part of what made Nolan's trilogy excellent was that he left a thumbprint of himself and his crew on it, and this Batman has that same thing: a point of view. It's definitely more of a messy tortured Rothko type of "signature" but it's got that same quality as a lot of corporate films don't, visible, human, brushstrokes.
@@Antiganos Not quite my point but I do happen to agree that it does look like a film constructed by a personal human touch than other studio releases (particularly CBMs). But I was more so trying to elucidate the film's particular first-person POV sensibility that made me feel like I was immersed in this world and his psychology through his eyes. I also think that the film's messy, toutered oil paining aesthetic feels more authentic to Batman and Gotham than previous Batman's movie versions visual direction were, though I'm not arguing that they were any less valid.
It is all about chiaroscuro... dualism of choices, decisions, situations in which Bruce is, also applicable for others protagonists in the movie. More light means hope, a great will to fight against the crime, corruption, everything that is rotten in the city, or better in society.
Dark means despair, desperation, filth, all the worst in the city.
Fantastic breakdown. I'm a recent discoverer of your videos and a new fan. 😊
When he said the commissioner dismissed him he did mean Pete savage not Gordon
@@enoknivlac4148 Oops, my bad! Thank you for clarifying.
Most people dont seem to understand why, how and what the movie represents and the characters growth is. The pureness, the rawness is what sets this movie apart. Its not a cake in the face sillyness, its pure emotion with a sharp knife cutting through the story. People are so used to the lazyness of just quickly showing story elements so that even a pure dumbass can understand it. The Batman is an actual cinematic experience, on the same level as most highly praised movies like Godfather, crime thrillers like Seven, even elements from previous Batman films and creates its own by it. Theres nothing wrong with copying others if it works. Ive wanted something different from these crappy high budget but quickly put together blockbusters and now i got it 110 percent. Praise Reeves!
Love your video essay bro. This is particularly the kind of adaptations Batman comic fans want to see on the big screen. It's not clean, polished, perfect-looking, etc. In fact, it reminds me of a western where everything seems to go wrong. The hero is not invincible and his days are long. This film also looks like a cyberpunk version of Batman and it reminds me of the time when I used to do photography back when it was still film, negative and dark rooms as I gravitated towards night photography. It always felt that the images I captured were calling me, seducing me, instead of me merely going to such places, heading towards such objects. And for some reason, the places I'd frequent to were industrial areas/plant, junk yards, night street life, the homeless, mainly using ambient light, really noir kinda feel. And thus this film has captivated me, the cinematography, the performances, the balance between the slow and psychological pace and fast yet realistic action sequences. The score is also as impressive since it's the engine that propels the buildup of the scenes. Other than that Catwoman SJW bit regarding white privilege and a few forgivable nuisances, this film is really engaging and can easily compete with previous favorite adaptations and can even become a top one...eventually. And yes, in this day and age of plasticky movies, we need films like this that keeps you wanting to watch it again, a must-watch for aspiring filmmakers. Oh, please do a one about The Batman's suit, gadgets and technology whenever you can. Aloha!
I’ve had the opportunity to rewatch the movie on a larger TV screen and… holy crap, I’m still amazed by how good it looks. It does feel like an old movie, but a good old movie. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed a shot that felt off or wrong in terms of color or framing. Both Reeves and Fraser weren’t attempting to do a comic book film and it shows.
Yet, at the same time, if you pause the film every few seconds, you could easily put those images in a sequence and it would make for a great looking comic book.
GREIG FRASER AUTOMATICALLY BECAME MY FAVE CINE AFTER I WATCHED THIS.
After Dune 2, he is the GOAT
I'll be interested to see if they plan to do another Justice League and if so, how this version of Batman would blend with the established group of heroes. Not just character-wise, but also with regards to the cinematography style. JL was not a glossy superhero film per se so I think a JL2 could work. I'm a fan of the Marvel magic but this film truly surprised me in that I didn't expect to love so much about it, not the least of which being its look.
This Batman wouldn't appear in those JL films. That's s different Batman in a different universe. That was the snyderverse, which I very much doubt we'll ever see again.
This Batman wouldn't appear in those JL films. That's s different Batman in a different universe. That was the snyderverse, which I very much doubt we'll ever see again.
@@doc8013 I never knew that there were separate universes. Thanks!
@@MissV301 no problem.
Can you help me find the TB documentary, released last week, that you mention?
All the people that had a hand in making Gotham look this way should be applauded. It was amazing. Btw, Greig Fraser is really on a roll in his career the last decade. Killing Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, Lion, Rogue One, Vice, a few Mandalorian episodes…frrickin Dune man, now The Batman. He’s currently working with Gareth Edwards on his latest, True Love, then onto Dune: Part Two….. damn is this guy GOOD!!! What a 10 year stretch. Arguably better than any other DP in the game in this time frame. 👍🏼👍🏼
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This is such an underrated film. The whole singular idea, by Matt Reeves, that this is a man who is unhinged and unhealthily obsessed with fighting the criminal element at night who is constantly beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands and with his unlimited amount of vast resources at his disposal. All he sees in the criminal element, in this corrupt town that his family helped to build and found dating back to the late 1800s, are the people who killed his parents as a young child making him an orphan.
So, he dons the mantle of that which he fears the most, in the form of the Batman, after training for the majority of his life to rid his city of the evil that took his parent's lives. He dosen't know who was responsible for killing Thomas and Martha Wayne so every criminal he sees, to him, is the criminal that killed his parents on that fateful night when he was only 10 years old. He is addicted to this mission, like a drug, so as both Bruce and Batman, he spends all of his time, trying to succeed in this impossible task he has set up for himself. That's why he never sees the light of day as Billionaire Bruce Wayne and is a social outcast and pariah. He is a man driven by vengeance; by revenge. By the end of this journey, as we see Bruce on a physical, mental, emotional and psychological level and transform from a young, naive, impatient man who makes mistakes still early in his career as a crime fighter we see him then become something else by the end...a symbol of hope, an ideal, a form of inspiration that makes criminals terrified to step out at night and commit their atrocities that makes Gotham City one of the worst places to call home. A city with a history and a foundation steeped in corruption and crime that ties back to the Wayne family and and their vast fortune. It also plants the seeds that will give him the inspiration to step out in the light of day to transform into the billionaire, playboy industrialist more interested in dating models and driving fast cars in order to hide in plain sight so no one would be able to distinguish Bruce Wayme is actually the Batman. A man consumed by vengeance who transforms into a symbol of hope. Obviously a film inspired by the comic book mythos and Arkham video game series and Batman animated series from the 1990s.
Ironically, a film consisting of character arc transformations and worldbuilding moments that is actually one of the most faithful Batman comic book movies to the original source material in the 1940s. Such as Detective comics issue 27 from 1937 and batman issue 1 in 1940 created by Bob kane, Bill finger and Jerry Robinson.
Then, the new 52 comics such as court of owls and Zero year by tomeu morey, john ottley, Jim lee, Scott Snyder. Batman year one by jim lee, David Mazuchelli and Frank miller as well as Batman: the long halloween and Batman: ego and other tales. This essay is lterally just scratching the surface of why it's actually one of the best batman films yet up their with the likes of the Dark knight from 2008.
anyone know where I can find the behind the scenes documentary?
What I loved most about this movie was Batman. The best batman
It gives me watchmen vibes but it has more color and vibrant
Is @then and now your channel too????
This films cinematography is the one thing they did better than the Noland Dark Knight films
Everything about The Batman makes the Nolan iteration look and feel unremarkable, watchable but nothing special. As much as I love all three films there are too many scenes that derail the intended dark and gritty reality with unnecessary sillyness that has me wondering why the director believed they were needed since in my mind they downgrade each film.
But in The Batman I can't think of a single example of out of place nonsense, not one.
Matt Reeves demonstrates that you don't need the ridiculous in a superhero movie intended to be grounded and believable.
Where is the behind the scenes documentary
On itunes. Im hoping itll be on bluray releases too
Because his a GOAT ??!
*I love how people are acting like they have never seen a movie before when it comes to the Batman. Like all these people caught up in the hype of this shit. I liked the movie, it's a great film. But this culture has to OVERHYPE. EVERYTHING. PAST THE MAX AND LIMIT.*
Oh my god yes, I love this movie ok, but you don’t have to praise every single frame for being a masterpiece. People need to learn how to temper their praise and critique of movies, there is no middle ground anymore
The Batman’s cinematography was amazing and it’s saving grace. The story, and especially the dialogue, not so much. 😂
Okay, sure cinematotagraphy was outstanding. otherwise,............
Yep The Batman looks nice ... Too bad it's boring as hell just like Dune was ... two stale boring ass movies people are calling 'masterpieces' 😆 give me a break.
The Batman was absolute 💩