Quote: r3x29yz4a said: I liked that. It would be the normal reaction to gun down the killer if he was going free.
Then fate stepped in and saved him from making that mistake, and the speech from Daws drove home what his parents would want.
The whole point of the movie was showing how he became Batman and why, not silver age logic of "my parents are dead, I'll dress as a bat. 'nuff said."
It destroys the element of the character. If they're basing a movie on a character they didn't make, the least they could do, logically, is get the origin correct so people can experience a film with the real person. You wouldn't change Long Jon Silver or Scarlet O'hara. Why do it to Batman?
And it's not simply logic of "my parents are dead, I'll dress as a bat. 'nuff said." It wasn't just his parents dying that led him to crime-fighting in a Bat-suit. It was falling in the cave and seeing the Bat, Mask of Zorro, the perfect family, watching the perfect family get gunned down and die (the gun in the murder is definitive as well. Show's why he wouldn't use a gun), and then there's the faceless killer that represents Gotham and its contagion of crime--And especially how it breeds insanity within Gotham (See also: Joker, See also: Scarecrow, See also: Two-Face). Batman's a victim just like them. His character's ability to empathize with them along with the idea that he fights not to protect, but because it's simply in the nature of the Bat is what makes his character unique...Notable.
