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August 7, 2008 6:23 PM

Andre Perkowski has remixed various classic silent films, including The Bat and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to create a silent 1920's version of Batman: Origin Story, Rogues' Gallery.

Also: Adam West in The Dark Knight Returns.
posted by EarBucket (11 comments total)

Note that this theme has been explored in comics as well:

Batman and Dracula: Red Rain (1991)
Batman: Nosferatu (1999)
posted by XMLicious at 6:58 PM on August 7, 2008

The silent films ran a little longer than their "interval of interesting," and aside from the Joker, a lot of those Rogue's Gallery picks were real stretches. Was the Penguin originally Ben Franklin?

However, the Adam West Returns link was pure fucking gold. I'm gonna go back and read it again right now.
posted by EatTheWeek at 8:25 PM on August 7, 2008

"Holy ladies of the night, Batman!"
"You're not kidding, Robin, though I think you mean to say WHHHOOOORRRRES!!!!"
posted by Hollow at 8:30 PM on August 7, 2008

This is excellent. A bit of a stretch for the rogues' gallery, sure, but man, that was fun.
posted by middleclasstool at 8:37 PM on August 7, 2008

Far, far too many intertitles.
posted by goatdog at 8:52 PM on August 7, 2008

Heh. I get a post deleted and then someone links to something I made.

The Dark Knight Returns thing came out of a conversation with a friend, when it was mentioned that Frank Miller used Adam West as his template for Batman in DKR. One thing led to another, badda badda badda...BAM.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 9:04 PM on August 7, 2008

beaucoupkevin, you admitted it too soon. You should have waited a couple of hours and taken note of all the people who said "meh." Then you'd have a proper MeFi Enemies List.

I thought the Adam West/DKR thing was pretty funny. Nice.
posted by the_bone at 9:21 PM on August 7, 2008

beaucoupkevin, you admitted it too soon. You should have waited a couple of hours and taken note of all the people who said "meh." Then you'd have a proper MeFi Enemies List.

Oh, GodZILLAdammit.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 10:04 PM on August 7, 2008

Adam West speaking lines from Dark Knight Returns = win. Very funny beaucoupkevin.

Coincidentally I just started re-reading DKR last night. Weird.
posted by stumcg at 1:15 AM on August 8, 2008

BeaucoupKevin: a present for you.
posted by Ian A.T. at 7:06 AM on August 8, 2008

Will The Dark Knight Return?
posted by homunculus at 3:51 PM on August 8, 2008