Posted by Placenta Jones at 198.109.1.30 on December 21, 1999 at 16:02:55:
In Reply to: Re: Affleck as batman? posted by Neil on December 21, 1999 at 15:43:59:
: : ... and if they hardly even showed him in the batman suit, not until the end...
: That's a terrible idea.
I agree with this. Actually, I would love if the Batman: Year One flick could use stuff from the animated Mask of the Phantasm movie as source material. The year one flashbacks in that movie are brilliant.
Finally, the reason why Batman wears the suit makes total sense. In Phantasm, Bruce Wayne goes out for his first night of crime fighting wearing all black and a ski mask. When he meets some criminals, they laugh at him and attack him. He wins, but he gets his ass kicked. He goes home and tells Alfred: "They weren't afraid of me, Alfred. I have to make them afraid of me!" That's when he gets his inspiration to fight crime in a costume. It makes so much sense.
Well, I know Warners owns the rights to Frank Miller's Year One comic and they're using that as a basis for their script. Hopefully, they'll follow that example and use bits of Phantasm (which they also own) too.