HOME | DD

Description

This is a collage of Frank Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder (illustrated by Jim Lee) which explained that Batman ate rat meat and lived in the Gotham sewer to prove to himself that he didn't need the comforts of the Wayne billions inheritance. There are areas of the world, Asia, where rat meat is considered a treat. Indeed, in some parts of China rat meat sells for considerably more than chicken, pork and beef. Bruce Wayne traveled to Asia during his training with wise gurus to train for his war on crime. He likely developed a taste for rat meat there. It's public knowledge that Bruce Wayne traveled to Asia. It's public knowledge that in Asia rat meat is considered a treat. It's not difficult to see where this taste for rat meat likely comes from. He didn't force Dick Grayson to eat rats. He didn't force him to eat anything. He didn't say anything about eating rats raw, either. People think he didn't have any means of cooking rat meat? It doesn't take the Wayne billions to get a grill. It doesn't need to be stated in the story. It's not difficult to figure it out. Everything doesn't need to be spoon-fed. It's my assumption that the eating of rat meat was influenced from his time in Asia where he was trained, and where people do eat rat meat.

Batman moving temporarily into the underground subway system below Gotham as the first Batcave, with Catwoman, which Batman references to in Frank Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder # 10 (2008) is from Frank Miller's Batman: Year One film script which was an expansion of the Batman: Year One comic. Director Darren Aronofsky was once assigned to a live-action Batman: Year One movie project. Unfortunately a poor Batman who lives above a garage and was raised in the garage by a black ghetto mechanic called "Little Al" and the Batmobile being a rusty old black Lincoln with a bus engine in it were Darren Aronofsky's ideas for a Batman: Year One movie. Darren Aronofsky's concept was a Taxi Driver (1976) meets The French Connection (1971) style hard R-rated Batman set in the 1970s. Frank Miller said "I'm the lighter one of the team and I'm not used to that." www.avclub.com/article/frank-m…

Frank Miller also said "Darren and I had a blast on YEAR ONE but developed many a friendly difference. Mine lived in the subway and revealed Wayne Manor to Selina in time for a big climax with the Joker. Just to name a couple of the differences. We both submitted separate drafts but the whole works went south when Darren left as director and Warner cleaned house."
Miller and Aronofsky were both doing very different versions of Batman. The difference is Miller was just embellishing, expanding his Batman: Year One comic book story to try and make it into the Summer blockbuster movie Warner might want by adding more of Catwoman, and also the Penguin and the Joker, Batman moving temporary into the underground subway system below Gotham as the first Batcave, with Catwoman. While Aronofsky was just doing his own totally different "realistic" version.
There was a horribly misspelled "review" of Miller's version of the script at aintitcool.com which bashed the script for Gordon cheating on his wife with Sarah Essen, which is from the Batman: Year One comic book.
Miller's version also had to include some of director Aronofsky's influence, of course. Aronofsky wanted a black Alfred talking in urban slang, and the director has the power. Miller likely thought Warner would demand that Alfred be the old white Englishmen he's always been anyway. And Aronofsky wanted the film set in the '70s because Aronofsky wanted to give the film a period feel similar to The French Connection and Taxi Driver.
Miller said "Ideas pour out of him. In many ways I think I'm the lighter one of the team and I'm not used to that. I can't really talk about what's in the movie, though because I think Warner Brothers would have somebody beat me up. And asking a screenwriter what the movie's going to be like is like asking a doorman whether a building is going to be condemned." www.avclub.com/article/frank-m…
Aronofsky said "I was never planning to direct Year One. I was more interested in writing a screenplay with Frank Miller on Batman. My pitch was always very realistic. I wasn't interested in fantasy I was interested in the psychology of a real man dressing in a disguise to pay out real vengeance. The Batmobile was a souped up Lincoln continental with a bus engine. It was technical and rusty and extremely violent. They would have never let us have violence." www.deadprogrammer.com/categor…
Miller disagrees with such a realistic Batman. On the documentary Legends of the Dark Knight History of Batman, Miller said, "People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big."
Aronofsky said, "It was a hard R-rated Batman. What I pitched them was Travis Bickle meets The French Connection - a real guy running around fighting crime. No super-powers, no villains, just corruption. For the Batmobile I had him taking a bus engine and sticking it in a black Lincoln. Real low-tech geek stuff." www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/a…
Aronofsky also said, "I never really wanted to make a Batman film, it was a kind of bait and switch strategy. I was working on Requiem for a Dream and I got a phone call that Warner Bros wanted to talk about Batman. At the time I had this idea for a film called The Fountain which I knew was gonna be this big movie and I was thinking, 'Is Warners really gonna give me $80 million to make a film about love and death after I come off a heroin movie?' So my theory was if I can write this Batman film and they could perceive me as a writer for it."
www.cinemablend.com/new/EIFF-0…

Description

This is a collage of Frank Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder (illustrated by Jim Lee) which explained that Batman ate rat meat and lived in the Gotham sewer to prove to himself that he didn't need the comforts of the Wayne billions inheritance. There are areas of the world, Asia, where rat meat is considered a treat. Indeed, in some parts of China rat meat sells for considerably more than chicken, pork and beef. Bruce Wayne traveled to Asia during his training with wise gurus to train for his war on crime. He likely developed a taste for rat meat there. It's public knowledge that Bruce Wayne traveled to Asia. It's public knowledge that in Asia rat meat is considered a treat. It's not difficult to see where this taste for rat meat likely comes from. He didn't force Dick Grayson to eat rats. He didn't force him to eat anything. He didn't say anything about eating rats raw, either. People think he didn't have any means of cooking rat meat? It doesn't take the Wayne billions to get a grill. It doesn't need to be stated in the story. It's not difficult to figure it out. Everything doesn't need to be spoon-fed. It's my assumption that the eating of rat meat was influenced from his time in Asia where he was trained, and where people do eat rat meat.

Batman moving temporarily into the underground subway system below Gotham as the first Batcave, with Catwoman, which Batman references to in Frank Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder # 10 (2008) is from Frank Miller's Batman: Year One film script which was an expansion of the Batman: Year One comic. Director Darren Aronofsky was once assigned to a live-action Batman: Year One movie project. Unfortunately a poor Batman who lives above a garage and was raised in the garage by a black ghetto mechanic called "Little Al" and the Batmobile being a rusty old black Lincoln with a bus engine in it were Darren Aronofsky's ideas for a Batman: Year One movie. Darren Aronofsky's concept was a Taxi Driver (1976) meets The French Connection (1971) style hard R-rated Batman set in the 1970s. Frank Miller said "I'm the lighter one of the team and I'm not used to that." www.avclub.com/article/frank-m…

Frank Miller also said "Darren and I had a blast on YEAR ONE but developed many a friendly difference. Mine lived in the subway and revealed Wayne Manor to Selina in time for a big climax with the Joker. Just to name a couple of the differences. We both submitted separate drafts but the whole works went south when Darren left as director and Warner cleaned house."
Miller and Aronofsky were both doing very different versions of Batman. The difference is Miller was just embellishing, expanding his Batman: Year One comic book story to try and make it into the Summer blockbuster movie Warner might want by adding more of Catwoman, and also the Penguin and the Joker, Batman moving temporary into the underground subway system below Gotham as the first Batcave, with Catwoman. While Aronofsky was just doing his own totally different "realistic" version.
There was a horribly misspelled "review" of Miller's version of the script at aintitcool.com which bashed the script for Gordon cheating on his wife with Sarah Essen, which is from the Batman: Year One comic book.
Miller's version also had to include some of director Aronofsky's influence, of course. Aronofsky wanted a black Alfred talking in urban slang, and the director has the power. Miller likely thought Warner would demand that Alfred be the old white Englishmen he's always been anyway. And Aronofsky wanted the film set in the '70s because Aronofsky wanted to give the film a period feel similar to The French Connection and Taxi Driver.
Miller said "Ideas pour out of him. In many ways I think I'm the lighter one of the team and I'm not used to that. I can't really talk about what's in the movie, though because I think Warner Brothers would have somebody beat me up. And asking a screenwriter what the movie's going to be like is like asking a doorman whether a building is going to be condemned." www.avclub.com/article/frank-m…
Aronofsky said "I was never planning to direct Year One. I was more interested in writing a screenplay with Frank Miller on Batman. My pitch was always very realistic. I wasn't interested in fantasy I was interested in the psychology of a real man dressing in a disguise to pay out real vengeance. The Batmobile was a souped up Lincoln continental with a bus engine. It was technical and rusty and extremely violent. They would have never let us have violence." www.deadprogrammer.com/categor…
Miller disagrees with such a realistic Batman. On the documentary Legends of the Dark Knight History of Batman, Miller said, "People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big."
Aronofsky said, "It was a hard R-rated Batman. What I pitched them was Travis Bickle meets The French Connection - a real guy running around fighting crime. No super-powers, no villains, just corruption. For the Batmobile I had him taking a bus engine and sticking it in a black Lincoln. Real low-tech geek stuff." www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/a…
Aronofsky also said, "I never really wanted to make a Batman film, it was a kind of bait and switch strategy. I was working on Requiem for a Dream and I got a phone call that Warner Bros wanted to talk about Batman. At the time I had this idea for a film called The Fountain which I knew was gonna be this big movie and I was thinking, 'Is Warners really gonna give me $80 million to make a film about love and death after I come off a heroin movie?' So my theory was if I can write this Batman film and they could perceive me as a writer for it."
www.cinemablend.com/new/EIFF-0…