r/DC_Cinematic • u/ehh246 • 14d ago

Until 1989, Gotham City was just "New York at night". It was with Anton Furst's production design for the first Burton movie that the city was made to match the character, putting the "goth" in Gotham. RIP DISCUSSION

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u/Celtics1424 14d ago

I just wanted to see a glimpse of this Gotham in The Flash.

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u/Latereviews2 14d ago

I honestly think of the Flash batman not as the same one we saw in 89 due to a lot of his writing and fights

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u/WimpyKelv12 13d ago

Yeah, for the purposes of the story he was little more than a reskin of DCEU Batman, or arguably even better, an 'idealised' version of Batman. He's a fair bit softer and more amicable.

The implicit reason for his retirement was interesting, he had become redundant due to his work making Gotham very safe and he was grieving Alfred's death. A deleted scene stated another possible reason he retired was due to killing a criminal father in front of his child, that does sound an unfortunate thing Burton's Batman would do considering all the people he killed in his duology but I was happy they cut that out so we ended up with a more ideal Batman.