![]() To misquote Shakespeare: try to prick him, he will not bleed. He may look Homo sapiens, but he is not human. He is also, to all intents and purposes, a god. Yes, he is, like Wayne, an orphan, but one brought up by a loving couple in the heart of apple-pie country. It is far harder to get inside that invulnerable and morally burnished exterior. Bullets bounce off his boulder-like pectorals. Superman can literally jump over the moon. With Batman, as Christian Bale found and exploited so well, you can climb inside and get your hands dirty. The troubled childhood, the phobia, the anger, the guilt, the discipline. There’s an interior to explore there, a whole murky cavern. Batman’s someone to really get your teeth into. Thick-necked, square-jawed, serious and utterly benevolent, he hardly provides an actor (or even a writer) chewy material. Or at least, to make interesting on screen. Superman has never seemed the easiest character to realise.
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