“Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about.
Whoa there. Sounds like Ebert's never cracked open Dark Knight Returns or Killing Joke, or any of the other "dark" Batman stories that started cropping up in the 80s...
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Of course he hasn't read The Dark Knight Returns. At best, Ebert's seen a few episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, or saw Mask of the Phantasm or something. While these fine pieces of work do a great deal to move the common perception of Batman away from the campy "Blam, Zkeet, Whap! Gee golly knickerbockers Batman!" days, The Animated Series was still animated, still looked like a cartoon, so the uninitiated probably regarded the series as "kid stuff" and continued to see the original source, the comic, as kid stuff too. Comics rarely get the credit they deserve, and that's in a great part due to the horrible marketing the comics industry has had for their products. Only now will non-geeks possibly start walking into the comic store and say, "Hey, comic nerd, what were the books that inspired the movie? Let me get in on that action! Wanna go get some beers and ladies?"
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