TedStixon

10th Sep 2021

Batman Begins (2005)

Trivia: A drunk driver reportedly crashed into the Batmobile/Tumber during filming. The driver had panicked when he saw the vehicle, and in his inebriated state thought it was an alien spacecraft.

TedStixon

20th Jan 2019

Batman Begins (2005)

20th Jan 2019

Batman Begins (2005)

Trivia: In something of a rarity for a big-budget studio film, director Christopher Nolan didn't want there to be a second unit during filming, and personally worked on every shot that was filmed.

TedStixon

10th Jun 2018

Batman Begins (2005)

Revealing mistake: When the train crashes and then explodes during the climax, there's several major flaws that give it away as a pretty obvious and unconvincing miniature. First, the scale of the fire and sparks aren't right at all. Second, the cars it crashes through in the parking garage don't move normally or receive realistic damage when they're impacted, giving them away as very small plastic models. (You can see at least two cars simply being shoved along unnaturally.) And finally, when the train-car explodes, if you watch carefully during the second shot, you can see the (supposedly concrete) ground ripple briefly in an unnatural way at the start of the shot, and even see the train car wobble at the end of the shot, again very unnaturally, as the pyrotechnics make the small-scale model move.

TedStixon

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