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 In fact, he's almost too good: "Heath has done such a good job that if Chris decides to make a third movie he said a real challenge would be, how do you up the ante with any villain after Heath’s Joker?" But while everybody gapes at the Joker's clown makeup, facial tics, and stringy green-tinged hair, check out Batman's suit. It's been totally revamped from the first film in a way that makes sense to the plot and fully avoids the campy, there-are-nipples-on-the-batsuit quality of Batman Forever and -- ugh -- Batman and Robin. "It was much more comfortable, heavy, but much more comfortable," Bale confirms. "There was ten parts to this one and there were three to the original. It was more mobile, it was compatible with the fighting method that we used, whereas in the first one I had to fight against the suit to do the fight sequences. In every way it was more advanced -- and also it's in keeping with images that the military have of future soldiers." And the best part? He could actually turn his head. "There were certain just very personal requests that I had made, and I know Chris had been adamant about how you’ve got to be able to move the head, you know? Batman has never moved his head in any of the other movies." The Dark Knight opens today, but already the buzz machine is moving on. Next week, Terminator Salvation -- in which Bale plays future leader of men John Connor -- will get a big boost of hype from San Diego's Comic-Con. What attracted him to the role was the same thing that attracted him to Batman. "It's a fresh take, [but it's also] continuing the mythology. Not ignoring the mythology. I see there is great potential for reinvention, revitalization of the mythology of it and that is what I am aiming to do. That is what I feel our responsibility is. Otherwise there is no point in making it." It's Public Enemies that Bale seems especially excited about. "[Director] Michael Mann is one of the most thorough researchers that I have ever come across, so I had more than an abundance of information," he says. "I traveled to the FBI headquarters, went to Quantico, met with the family of the character I was playing. We shot at all of the locations where the actual events took place. It was uncanny on a number of occasions that we were filming on the dates that the actual gunfights had happened. It stays true to the events, but as with many movies, when you are trying to condense a story into two hours, there is some license taken. But ... |
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