Batman Codes & Conventions
Batman Begins has a lot of typical superhero codes and conventions, such as an origin story. This tells you all about Bruce's past life and what made him want to go into a life of fighting crime. In this case his parents were killed so he wanted to fight to take his mind off it,
This scene here is where Bruce's parents have been killed in a failed attempt of robbery, this shows the type of tone/mood we are going to experience throughout the film. Throughout the whole film the setting is set in a dark and serious mood.
In mostly every superhero film that has been made is a villain, now this villain is usually very hard to defeat as it wouldn't be a good movie if the villain was easy to kill. This villain usually wants to take over the city (Gotham) or the world, in order to save the world the hero must risk his own life for the people of the city and usually succeed in doing so. The villain in Batman is The Scarecrow.
In a lot of modern day superhero films there is now a false hero. A false hero is someone who pretends to be the hero's friend but then goes on to help the villain or become the villain. In Batman the false hero is Ra's Al Ghul who pretends to help Batman and Batman then saves his life but in return he tries to destroy all of Gotham.
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