Batman Begins e a identidade contemporânea

Abstract

The adaptation of the story of man-bat to the big screen in the trilogy created by Christopher Nolan presents a more real and gloomy scenario where the hero is presented to us as a contemporary of the XXI century, and the original of the comic, Bruce Wayne had a year Birth 1916. Therefore, being set in our times, many of the issues presented in the film (plot, problems and ideologies) come from our society and allows us to glimpse some of the anxieties, certainties and uncertainties of the beginning of the third millennium, as well as allows us to discuss the issue of identity of contemporary man who, indirectly, is featured in the movie pretty much all the time. In our study, we analyze the real components of the historical production time broadcast in the film Batman Begins, the first of the trilogy considered the darkest adaptation of man-bat for the film industry which, coincidentally or not, was produced in a period corresponds to one of the darkest times of American history and the post Cold War world, where fear of terrorism, economic crises, social problems and difficult wars to win make up the environment creation of this new adventure of Batman. In this process, we analyze the stages of production, dissemination and reception of the film to do our analysis, using literature review, trilers analysis, component elements of the film and specialized reception, turning our attention to the concept of identity of contemporary man.