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Batman (1989)
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Jack Nicholson's Joker treats criminality as an exhibition that Gotham has been invited to admire. His delighted pauses and expansive gestures make the museum sequence feel like a performance within the film. Michael Keaton's Batman is deliberately watchful and withheld, which gives Nicholson nearly all the room to spend. The preference is for that disruptive theatrical rhythm, rather than a claim that the quiet hero has been miscast.
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Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of villains. But when a deformed madman known as 'The Joker' seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld, Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis ever while protecting both his identity and his love interest, reporter Vicki Vale.