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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8198971" data-attributes="member: 3400">I think a lot of people would argue that Tim Burton didn't really 'get' Batman, or even comics, either. He certain said some pretty unflattering things about the genre at the time.I think there's one thing that has been pretty consistent over the years and in comic adaptation after comic adaptation - before the MCU, at least. Movie makers aren't thinking of the same story conventions as comic book writers. They're thinking more along the lines of movie heroism and morality based on what will sell with the movie-going public - a public at least partly shaped by westerns and gun-laden, violent fantasies like Death Wish and Die Hard. Comic morality, particularly with long-standing IP like Batman and Superman, was at least partly shaped by the Comics Code. That eroded with the Bronze and Iron Ages in the comics, but it makes up a substantial aspect of heroes that dominated the Silver Age (and who still dominate the Silver Screen Age).</blockquote>