The Batman’s Latest Clip Comes From an Incredibly Weird Place

If you’ve already been on YouTube right now, you may need been fortunate sufficient to see an enormous clip from The Batman. Warner Bros. has, considerably mysteriously, determined to show a big, virtually three-minute preview of the film into a kind of advertisements that roll earlier than the video you need to see. Randomly putting it in entrance of YouTube movies is an odd place to stay new Batman footage when there can be actually tens of millions clicking on it if it have been only a regular video—however it’s even odder that they selected this explicit clip.

If you’ve missed it, right here’s what occurs. It begins at a packed funeral inside a church, which context clues point out is for a cop that the Riddler killed. Mayoral candidate Bella Reál (Jayme Lawson) talks to a stone-faced, silent Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson). Bruce stares on the fallen cop’s son, then overhears Lieutenant Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) speaking about how one other police officer has gone lacking. Then, there are 25 seconds of individuals mysteriously screaming outdoors the church till a automobile bursts by means of the church doorways, graphically hitting some individuals earlier than crashing to a cease on the far finish. As cops encompass the automobile with their weapons drawn, a determine finally emerges—it’s the lacking police officer, who has a telephone taped to his hand, a bomb round his neck, and an indication that claims “To the Batman” on his chest. A sly Bat-fan managed to snag the vid, in case you don’t need to root out a video that occurs to have the pre-roll advert:

It’s a bleak scene, and once more, an odd alternative to advertise The Batman provided that it doesn’t have… effectively, Batman in it (in costume, what we imply). In truth, aside from a determine seen utterly in shadows who exhibits up for a single second and is presumably Paul Dano’s Riddler, there’s not one of the costumed heroes and villains that are inclined to get individuals excited for a superhero film. Bruce Wayne doesn’t also have a line of dialogue. He’s simply there at a cop’s funeral, sees lots of people get damage by a dashing automobile, after which one other cop who will virtually actually die horribly on-screen. Honestly, the entire thing feels just like the cinematic love baby of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight films and Zack Snyder’s dour Batman from Batman v. Superman, besides that The Batman additionally needed to watch them get gunned down by a mugger in Crime Alley.

That’s to not say it’s dangerous, or that The Batman can be dangerous! People are, normally, very excited for what the film appears to be doing with Robert Pattinson’s tackle the Dark Knight. It’s simply that this clip is so completely bleak that it’s arduous to think about it would get individuals extra excited for the film, particularly in the event that they’re on YouTube to observe one thing as benign as a cooking video or one thing foolish and kitschy and get that interrupted. The tonal disconnect can be wild! If nothing else, it could certainly be much more palatable to see how grim-dark The Batman is that if we bought to see a man dressed like a bat, or perhaps a duct-taped riddle fanatic. Instead, we get Bruce Wayne, silently looking at individuals getting damage.

Of course, the tonal disconnect of The Batman’s advertising is already wild. It’s arduous to reconcile the truth that the above clip comes from a three-hour-long film that can be getting used to hawk extremely unappetizing-looking pizzas, nail polish, and Oreos.

Obviously, superhero product tie-ins are nothing new, and each Nolan’s and Snyder’s movies have been equally all over when it comes to promotions—hell, Batman’s cinematic legacy is tied into the evolution of blockbuster film tie-ins. I suppose the problem is that, for now, The Batman seems prefer it needs to push the mainstream superhero style right into a extra “real world” form of darkish crime film like Silence of the Lambs or Seven than what we consider as a conventional, trendy superhero film, even the darker DC movies. That could possibly be a extremely cool factor to observe, and Batman as detective just isn’t a aspect of the superhero that we’ve gotten to see a lot on display screen earlier than! But it’s simply bizarre to consider this being akin to a personality like Hannibal Lecter shilling Oreos.

Is it any weirder than Warner Bros. selecting such boring but bleak clip to promote the film after which solely letting random YouTube viewers see it? It’s all only a riddle which may be answered, when The Batman premieres on March 4. But in all probability not.

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