After years of absurdity, Batman Begins gave the James Bond franchise something gritty to chew on. Some film franchises find themselves at a point of no return due to the lack of realism, playing into the audience’s expectations, or trying to outdo a predecessor in wackier and unhinged ways that don’t serve the story. Some franchises need to return to their origins. In the early to mid-2000s, two reboots, Batman Begins and Casino Royale, created a tonal shift in their respective franchises that would completely change how their characters would exist in pop culture. Instead of being the outlandish films that were expected, these two films took themselves seriously by establishing a grittier tone that would come to define these characters as men with a dark side. The gritty reboot is something we have seen before and come to expect in films to restart a franchise. The audiences want something darker that felt like it was made for adults and not children. Martin Campbell and Christopher Nolan delivered just that. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 27 October, 2021