Batman Dead End
Heavy incidental music, the sound of an orchestral hit on an
empty (black) screen with titles slowly appearing in the centre of the screen a
compilation of someone putting on the ‘Batman’ clothes that we know to be the
Batman still with incidental music and a voice over from what sounds like a
police radio talking about “trouble in Gotham City” and “The Joker once again
escaped from Arkham Asylum.” We never see the face of the actor playing Batman
as he is getting ready by putting on the classic Batman gear all of the shots
in the opening of the short film is medium close up shots so we never reveal
his face leaving a layer of mystery over the opening.
Establishing shot of a building we can assume is ‘Wayne
Enterprises’ to set the location of the short film (the shot was clearly
archive footage possible taken from one of the Christopher Nolan Batman films) we
see a few forward tracking shots following Batman and the Joker as they run
through the allies of Gotham City, there is a use of shots which transition
into each other a close up shot of Batman as he lands into a puddle so all of
the water splashes around him leaving his cape laying around him on the floor,
to an amazing crane shot showing him crouching on the floor and seeing his cape
almost into the Batman symbol, with orchestral music playing as he slowly rises
up bringing the cape up as he rises.
We see a lot of shot reverse shots between Batman and the
Joker as they fight and speak to each other about the Joker’s face and calling
the Batman “Daddy” because the Joker believes that the batman created him
because without Batman, Joker wouldn’t have anyone to fight so without each
other their lives would be pointless.
Through a twist of events we see the Joker being snatched by
a Xenomorph (Alien from the Alien’s Saga) we see an extreme close up of the
Joker’s knuckle duster as it falls to the ground, we then see a Xenomorph rise up from behind Batman from an over the
shoulder shot from Batman’s front. We
then see an extreme close up of Batman fighting a Xenomorph as we see Batman
struggling with the Xenomorph we see the three iconic dots of the Predator’s
shoulder cannon, and we hear a blast noise as the camera swaps showing the
Predator for the first time.
There is a fight between Batman and the predator, this shows
the conventions of a short film extremely clearly by having the equilibrium of
Batman fighting the Joker and taking him back to Arkham something any Batman
fan knows is the normal situation in Gotham, we then have the Twist where we
see the joker be killed by a Xenomorph something unknown to the Batman universe
causing distress to the characters in the film, we continue with the un-
equilibrium of the Predator being introduced into the mix and finally the
equilibrium at the end when the Predator is defeated by a heavily beat up
Batman, but then questioning the conventions there is another twist as more
Predators take appear from nowhere clearly turning off their cloaking
device. This is a good example of a
short film as it mainly sticks to the conventions of a short film with all of
the twists etc. it also doesn’t give us a back story on any of the characters
but this could be because most people know the story surrounding Batman and the
Joker but it keeps to the convention of short film by keeping the story short
and full of action.
NA nananananana Batman!
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