For a few months now, The Batman It is available on HBO Max, and there are many fans who have not stopped getting details of the Matt Reeves film. The movie that began as hated Due to the choice of having chosen Robert Pattinson as the protagonist, it became a work quite acclaimed by the public for its great detective plot. A few days ago, a Twitter user tried to mix one of the chases we saw in The Batman with the musical themes of other previous films. And the result is simply impressive.
What would The Batman have been like in another era?
He calls himself ThatGuy, and is a screenwriter according to his biography on social networks. His Twitter account is monothematic, since he practically only talks about the Dark Knight and 'Snyderverse' productions.
A few days ago, ThatGuy uploaded a video on Twitter that has given a lot to talk about. The user has cut the chase scene from The Batman in which he flees down the stairwell using the grappling hook and has repeated the snippet in a loop changing the music every time.
The Batman chase scene restored with every cinematic Batman theme. Posting because this shit's fucking amazing. pic.twitter.com/2mTVgKN95l
—ThatGuy | Insanity Era (@OSthatguy) August 11, 2022
In the two-minute video, you can see the same cut, but with all the musical themes that he has had Batman throughout his history in the cinema. It may sound crazy, but we can affirm that all the tracks work really well, demonstrating to some extent the interesting timeless character that it has. The Batman of Matt Reeves and the good job they have done with the bat character all the composers who have worked on it.
An interesting debate has been generated in the comments. Which theme works the best out of the ones ThatGuy has shown in the video? Some suggest that the sequence is perfect with the music composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, that is, the composition they made for Batman Begins in the year 2005 that began Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy.
Others prefer the version of Shirley Walker, which is the second one that appears in the video. This composer was in charge of making the music for Batman: the mask of the ghost ('Batman: Mask of the Phantasm'), an animated film that was released in 1993, and that inspired the animated series. In fact, the user Bradley Nelson has made a small note about Shirley Walker, since he considers that history has not given the necessary importance to this work by Walker. Apparently, her composition for the animated film served as the basis for Tim Burton's Batman films, released in 1989 and 1992 with music by Danny Elfman.
There's the receipts before anyone calls me out on the Batman 89 stuff, didn't know she worked on Batman Forever as well. So basically she's worked on the themes for 4 Batmen. Considering she worked on Batman Beyond as well. pic.twitter.com/ieRbeWyGsv
—Bradley Nelson (@captain_Nelson) August 12, 2022
According to the user, Shirley Walker helped Elfman with the soundtrack for the two films, but was not credited enough. The same user points out that she is probably the only artist to have worked on four different compositions for Batman, since he also worked in Batman Beyond.
And you? What Batman theme song do you think hits the most in this cut? We invite you to leave us your opinion in the comments.