In Batman Begins, we meet the doctor before he's gone fully bananagrams off a dose of his own supply, but Murphy's small tics-an unmoving set of reptilian eyes atop an icy wax-sculpture grin-paint a blazing neon sign toward the fact that something is definitely.off about Arkham Asylum's resident psychologist. There's an underlying menace to even his straightest faces, a trait particularly useful in the case of Dr. Murphy has one of the most unique presences in Hollywood, in that he's both achingly attractive but also looks like he's housing a piece of a dark wizard's soul.
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You have to ride one hell of a thin line when you're crafting a naturalistic comic book movie that includes a psychiatrist with a bag on his head who sprays fear gas into people's faces.Ĭillian Murphy essentially established the standard for riding that line. The burden fell on Murphy to really show what one of the more cartoonish members of Batman's Rogues Gallery looked like in a grounded, realistic Gotham City. Of course, Scarecrow isn't the main villain of Batman Begins, but Liam Neeson's characterization of Ra's Al Ghul can best be described as "Liam Neeson with an ill-advised goatee". Scarecrow, who set a new bar for every live-action supervillain to follow. But in the shadow of Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning Joker and Tom Hardy's melodramatic Gold's Gym member Bane, a key part of the secret sauce often goes overlooked: Cillian Murphy's Dr. A Gotham City with nary a giant rubber duck in sight.
Christian Bale's brutal boulder-voiced Batman. Obviously, the blueprint worked, and all this time later Batman is still, somehow, the Serious Auteur's Superhero, and there's plenty in Batman Begins that led to this reality: Nolan's no-fat-necessary filmmaking style. This very clearly mentally ill billionaire who dresses up like a flying rat to do knee strikes on criminals until they are in comas? He was now Serious Business, baby. It wasn't so much a movie as it was a seismic shift in the way we talked about the Caped Crusader. Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy has become such a towering monolith in pop culture that it's easy to forget that, when the film hit theaters 15 years ago today, Batman Begins was simply the first Batman film since Joel Schumacher dead-ass stuck nipples on the Bat-suit.
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