I wonder if that screen-test was made when Bale was fresh and skinny from "The Machinist", or was it later during the "Fatman" era? He seems to be pushing out of that cowl. He looks awesome though.
"I serve justice" How wonderfully cheesy
I am not going to buy the whole trilogy again, but it might be worth to snag the artbook and the 6th BD disc from Ebay, just for video clips like this. That was an awesome treat.
I prefer the TDK Gotham, just becouse of the way it was shot and presented. People bash it for lacking the mono-rail or the "sepia filter" of BB, but Pfister presented it in a way that I felt was much more cinematical and visualy pleasing. It was a great clean/gritty mix of expensive glass buildings, dark dirty alleys, wonderfully looking streets at night, all the buildings wide shots, old mafia bars, shipyards, courtrooms, buisness buldings, gritty interrogation rooms and more. The near perfect mix for Gotham. Plus, just the way it was filmed. Pfister made a lot more impressive shots in TDK. And though the movie lacked that "sepia, brownish filter" that BB had, it was still filmed in such a high contrast way, that a lost of scenes had that dark, gritty feel, especially the ones made during the night. The city feels more alive to me, rather than just a collection of artificial set pieces.
It did get much more 'bland' in Rises, though not without its own big scope.
