Batman: Gotham Knight
Batman: Gotham Knight is a collection of six animated short films set in between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, depicting Batman's transition from novice vigilante to experienced crime-fighter.
- It works too well. I'm willing to put my life on the line to do what I have to. But it has to be mine. No one else's.
- You're MCU, aren't you? Gordon's squad? Lieutenant Gordon is a good judge of character.
- It was just like that night in the alley, Alfred... the closeness of the walls, the gunfire. It seems I've been trying to stop those two bullets all my life.
- Now why would someone want to shoot me, Mr. Fox?
- Shoot your mouth off now, Deadshot.
- I admire a man who vows to rebuild the neighborhood and starts by building a golf course.
- You get the docks. You stay in the slums. That's the arrangement 'til I can get something on you. And then you can fight over who gets the top bunk in Blackgate. Got it?!
- It's like I've been trying to stop those two bullets my entire life. It's a fool's dream, Alfred. Sometimes I feel like I should just be done with it.
- It's something I manage.
Dialogue
- Ronald Marshall: Got any interest in some poker tonight?
- Bruce: I have some business to attend to.
- Ronald: Is that right? Blonde or brunette?
- Bruce: Half Russian, half Italian.
- Ronald: Wow. Now that's a handful.
- Homeless Man: Hey Bat, when you flyin', what the city look like from up on high?
- Batman: It looks dirty.
- Alfred Pennyworth: It's a bagful of tragedy, sir. I can't see how you could even bear to handle one.
- Bruce Wayne: You have to know your enemy, Alfred. I'd never use one, but even I can appreciate the attraction of a gun. The heft. The sleekness. The cool steel. The precision. And the power. The power to change lives, history. The power of God.
- Deadshot: He's either the bravest man I've ever faced, or a complete fool.
- Batman: Alfred, how's the satellite picture?
- Alfred Pennyworth: Splendid. I can almost see your pointy ears, sir.
- Sal Maroni: I'll do it! I'LL DO IT!
- Batman: No. You won't.
- Lt. James Gordon: Are you in pain?
- Batman: I work through pain.
- Alfred: Sir! Give me your hand!
- Batman: I... I can't.
- Batman: The Scarecrow's here with an army of escaped Arkham inmates and homeless. They've all be poisoned with toxin.
- Lieutenant James Gordon: Where are you, Batman?
- Batman: Beneath the East Reservoir, I guess. In the old Weir Chambers.
- Lieutenant Gordon: I'm sending reinforcements now. Just hold tight until we get there.
- Batman: No time for that.
- B-Devil: Yo, wait a minute. Batman never cut nobody's head off. Everybody knows he don't ever kill nobody.
- Meesh: I'm making it more colorful, yo
- Bruce Wayne: [W]hy don't you leave?
- Cassandra: Because, this is where I belong. In your life, isn't there such a place?
- Deadshot: Another happy customer.
- Lt. Gordon: Got a lead on your 'Killer Croc.' His name's Waylon Jones. He was an inmate at Arkham Asylum - and a former test subject in Dr. Crane's fear-aversion therapy program.
- Batman: Which means he's twice as twisted now that Crane's had a go at him.
About Batman: Gotham Knight
- If I have a story, if I have something to say, that’s my motivation. For this film, I had something to say about Bruce Wayne as a character, what his motivations are. That there’s something dark and wrong about what drives him. Batman is a super hero and he does good. But I think the Bruce Wayne part of the character’s motivation is slightly twisted. Bruce’s motivations don’t come from a good place. He’s angry and, in that revenge is really his goal, he’s a dishonest character. That’s why he has to wear a mask. He’s doing good, but he’s not doing all the right things for all the right reasons.
That plays into this story. It should be a story about non-violence, but that’s the lesson that Bruce doesn’t learn. On the surface, Bruce is on a spiritual journey, but his spirit was corrupted when his parents were killed. And it’s not something that I think he’s even interested in fixing.- Brian Azzarello, "Interview Brian Azzarello on Batman Gotham Knight", Major Spoilers, (05/09/2008).
- The image of Batman coming through flaming wreckage was pretty much exactly as I wanted it. I really was trying to get the psychological impact of seeing this man, who maybe isn’t a man if you don’t know, coming through the flames – literally a walking, talking, burning bush, standing and staring the villain down. If somebody was staring me down from the middle of flames, they could have anything they want. I think the animators executed that really well.
- Greg Rucka, “Interview with “Batman Gotham Knight” Writer Greg Rucka”, by Sam Sloan, Sliceofscifi, (May 23, 2008).
Cast
- Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne/Batman
- David McCallum as Alfred Pennyworth
- Jim Meskimen as Lt. James Gordon, Floyd Lawton/Deadshot
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Lucius Fox, Avery, Wounded Man, Bulky Man
- George Newbern as Man in Black, Guido, Man, Youth 3
- Gary Dourdan as Detective Crispus Allen
- Ana Ortiz as Detective Anna Ramirez
- Corey Burton as Yuri Dimitrov, Ronald Marshall, The Scarecrow
- Will Friedle as Anton, Cultist, Youth 1
- Jason Marsden as Cop, Doctor, Youth 2, Thomas Wayne
- Scott Menville as B-Devil, Cop
- Rob Paulsen as Sal Maroni, Mole Man, Youth 4
- Parminder Nagra as Cassandra
- Corey Padnos as Porkchop
- Crystal Scales as Meesh
- Alanna Ubach as Dander
- Hynden Walch as Young Bruce Wayne, Young Cassandra, Woman, Female Campaign Worker
- Andrea Romano as Martha Wayne, Dispatcher
- Pat Musick as News Anchor
- Brian George as Arman, Scruffy Man, O'Fallon
External links
Encyclopedic article on Batman: Gotham Knight on Wikipedia
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