Capes, costumes, and the ones worth rewatching
Nolan's Batman sequel plays like a crime procedural about impossible choices, and the cape is almost beside the point.
Every frame is doing something no other film in the genre had tried. It also has the cleanest emotional throughline.
Brad Bird's film is about a man who peaked at 25 and cannot stop reliving it. The capes are almost incidental.
A superhero origin story where nobody becomes a hero, made for almost nothing.
How do you make an invulnerable character interesting? Donner's answer was to make the film sincere without being naive.
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