“When I did finally share the edit on Twitter, it was in response to a prompt tweet.
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“I never shared the Batman edit to Twitter until recently because I was frankly still figuring out how to utilize Twitter at the time,” Crew told Polygon. It wasn’t until this past week that Crew’s silent film edit of Batman went viral, which Crew credits to Twitter. The full edit was completed in February of 2021 and put online, again garnering little response. “The response I got from Muppet fans with Gatsby encouraged me to make this idea happen for Batman fans.” “It wasn’t until I wrote “Muppets Present The Great Gatsby” that I realized my ability to go viral working with properties that I loved,” Crew told Polygon. Before I even knew how to use editing software, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to watch Batman as a silent film?’” Image: Benjamin Crew/Warner Bros.Īlthough the edit took a month to complete, the first eight minutes were completed and put online in October of 2019, to little attention. “I love films that inspire you to seek out other films and Tim Burton’s Batman was that for me.
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“I’ve always been a big fan of Batman and of Burton, his movie Ed Wood is my favorite film of all time,” Crew told Polygon over email.
And wouldn’t you know it - it’s still fantastic.īen Crew, a Chicago-based documentary filmmaker who went viral last year for his fan-made script “ Muppets Present The Great Gatsby” last year, is the man behind the re-edit. Mow, someone went and re-edited Burton’s gothic superhero opus into a silent movie, complete with color-tinted cels, artificial film grain, and stylized intertitles. The popularity and success of Burton’s film gave rise to Batman: The Animated Series, and inspired retroactive changes to the comics’ depiction of Gotham City as well as its own limited comic series more than 30 years after its release. Released in 1989, the feature-length adaptation of the Dark Knight starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson stands shoulder to shoulder with Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman as one of the most influential superhero movies of its era, arguably eclipsing the latter in the scope of its impact on popular culture, superhero or otherwise. It’s probably safe to assume by now that Tim Burton’s Batman needs no introduction.
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