Batman: The Dark Knight
by Pauisdead2221This is a complete revamp of BATMAN FOREVER. Trimmed for a less cheesy and faster paced version, this now way more comes in the spirit of the Burton Batmans.
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(13 votes, average: 5.92 out of 10, rated)
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note: this fanedit has nothing to do with Chistopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT.
original film name: Batman Forever
new film name : Batman: The Dark Knight
film studio name : Warner Bros
edit crew name : PaulisDead2221
Original Film Was Released : 16 June 1995 date
Date Edit Was Released : 28 August 2007
Original Runtime : 122 min
New Runtime : 81 min
Amount of time Cut/Added : 41 min
Stylistically, the color has been greatly desaturated, the shadows have been emphasized, and high tones diminished. The entire film has been darkened just a little bit, and the aspect ratio has been cropped to appear wider. The beginning of the film is reassembled to open up at Wayne Enterprises, where Bruce Wayne meets Edward Nigma. In the midst of the conversation, Bruce notices the Bat signal outside, dismisses himself, and visits Two-Face at the bank heist. After the Statue of Liberty sequence, the film continues with the Murder of Stickly, and the film progresses as normal, with over 40 minutes of cuts along the way. There is no longer a love triangle between Bruce Wayne, Chase Meridian, and Batman. Edward Nigma’s character, though not as calm and calculating as he is portrayed in every other manifestation throughout the franchise (except the Adam West version of course), has been trimmed to kill the more “Jim Carey” moments. The city of Gotham has been toned down greatly, with the black light sequences cut, and generally just being greatly pushed out of sight whenever possible.
The musical score has been completely revamped. Though not the intention to completely abrogate Goldenthal’s score, Mostly cut out is the revamped Batman Forever Bat Theme, replacing it with Elfman’s theme. Goldenthal’s score has been left alone in the development sections, as it mostly isn’t bothersome or cheesy. Action sequences have been sourced mostly from Danny Elfman’s themes from the original Batman, and Shirley Walker’s score from Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. A Khachaturian Ballet Suite is utilized as a theme throughout the film. A Prince song also enjoys a short cameo, a nod to the original film.
Time needed for the edition: Five days
persons involved: PaulisDead2221
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It had been many years since i last saw this movie (probably ever since it first came out) and i must say your work has indeed made it a much more enjoyable experience. The music really makes sense and is timely edited it, but just a little too loud in some points. Sadly Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carey’ acting in this film cannot be remade into a more truthful representation of the characters; but this makes it a good movie rather than a complete trainwreck. Kudos!
Review by havok1977 — October 20, 2007 @ 2:53 pm
I watched this after watching the Red Book edition and I have to say that I preferred that version. This version is just to damned short. Before I knew what was happening, it had finished. I like what you did in toning down this campy nightmare and adding the Burton score, but I’m not entirely convinced it works. It feels like a TV episode, rather than a film. Perhaps insertion of some deleted scenes? But then again, the Red Book edition already does that.
Anyway – well done for this attempt.
Review by white43 — November 9, 2008 @ 11:52 pm
i think most of the creative processing of the film works quite well, but the story really suffers here. unlike the mentioned “red book edition”, this doesn’t seem complete, and unfortunately seems to be the edit with the most potential. 3/5
Review by joebshmoe — February 13, 2009 @ 7:01 pm
I am sorry but this was just not a very good edit. I had high hopes for seeing this and keep in mind I have not viewed The Red Book Edition yet…although now I wish I had. Paul, you can really tell this was one of your earlier works, the editing is nowhere as good as it was in Batman: Year One or Batman vs. Superman. There are many terrible cuts containing images that are on the screen for less than a second, the music gets repetitive and you can also hear the original score trying to be hidden. Your best bet would have been separating channels. And one of the biggest things that urked me and knew that this wasn’t going to be good was a typo in the credits, “Jim Carey” rather than Jim Carrey. Thank god you have gotten so much better.
Review by JackTourette90 — March 28, 2009 @ 9:04 am