Tim Burton’s GOTHAM CITY

Enjoy some of my favourite clips show casing Tim Burton’s amazing design of the home of The Dark Knight.

[@ericmedina1032]

Glad to see someone else appreciates Tim Burtons amazing depiction of Gotham. A filthy dystopia hellhole

[@ImTheDudeMan471]

Do you mean Anton Furst's set design that he won the Academy Award for in 1989? Anton's sketches and design are available on YT.

[@z-rex6068]

@@ImTheDudeMan471 I’ve probably seen these already but do you have a link?

[@coldramentpm1013]

yeah

[@rclark777]

A beautifully designed dystopia hellhole, though.

[@elfsieben1450]

HELLYEAH!

[@roguescorner9042]

This is the perfect Gotham. Perfect blend of modern city skylines, with a dark and somber gothic aura.

[@mattbernabe]

This is the Gotham City I want to return to in a new Batman movie. Always loved the gothic, dark, nightmarish vibes from the visuals. It's so iconic and haunting. Love it! Thanks to Tim Burton and the set designers Peter Young, Anton Furst.

[@coreygreenhouse4670]

Y 7

[@samuelsperling9321]

We will return to this city in the next flash movie with Keaton

[@mattbernabe]

@@samuelsperling9321 True, but I want a stand alone film where it only centered on Burton and Keatons Batman universe.

[@z-rex6068]

@@mattbernabe Same

[@kenallenchannel3911]

And Matt Reeves also having his own Gotham look gothic in his own way but inspired by Tim Burton design of gotham

[@coreym162]

I love this Gotham City best because, it's like an endless city unlike the rest that are just New York/Chicago clones. This Gotham is like it was built after some global cataclysm with stilts, tresses, cantilevers, arches, pipes and bridges holding it all together. Very strange city but, has a very special place in my heart.

[@goatamatix894]

Batman begins Gotham was pretty cool too.

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

Actually burtons Gotham was based on 1940s New York

[@elfsieben1450]

Looks as if partly inspired by Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".

[@JoaoPedro-ol7sl]

​@@goatamatix894 it wasn't really, it was pretty much just another cliche metropolitan city

[@oofiethetroll2059]

@@JoaoPedro-ol7sl the narrows were pretty cool, the rest of the city, not so much.

[@lonophonic117]

My favourite look of Gotham City. It has that dark, dirty, metropolis look and even at some points having the look of architecture from the 1930s. It is probably the best design for any Batman film and although, murky and dark, it stimming looks futuristic (e.g. dirty sci-fi).

[@adriboy01]

Gotham architecture is unique even in comics. I think Nolanverse and the DCEU didn't depict the city as well as Burton did, probably because they wanted to make it look like another metropolitan city like New York or Chicago or smthn.

[@daustin8888]

They both forgot that Gotham is as much of a character as Batman is.

[@jackmarshall3255]

Now that what gotham should be.

[@johnpauldriskill8737]

My ideal Gotham city would be sorta like this. Gothic with hints of places like the narrows from Nolan’s trilogy with some aspects of Joel Shoemockers Gotham

[@lvr6114]

This gotham city really screams Tim Burton’s style

[@lyinginertia]

The best depiction. Hoping to experience it in a game someday...

[@peeeekachue8972]

I love Tim Burton’s Gotham. The neon lights, massive statues…the gothic feel. Oof

[@RampantDaydream]

I never really felt like Nolan captured the vibe of Gotham City. His depiction just felt like a generic American metropolis. Burton, and the animated show - really captured that putrid gloomy elegance, and sense of danger that lurks in Gotham.

[@armorpro573]

Agreed. I wish he had taken inspiration from Burton.

[@flipflop4396]

​@@armorpro573 Nolan is obsessed with realism

[@armorpro573]

@@flipflop4396 Well yeah, but from Dark Knight Rises, it’s way too obvious Gotham is NYC. He should’ve kept the original design from Batman Begins

[@flipflop4396]

@@armorpro573 ive read a lot people opionion on this topic and one dude on reddit caught my attention... Nolan missed a lot with Batman, he tried to be realistic and put him outside from his fantasy world to modern day world...which he failed at start...in modern day world man walking down in costume and cowl and beating up thugs makes no sense, sky mask and flack jacket would be just effective. Even his existance of him as vigalante whos true identity is unknown is unrealistic. But if you create a world where silly, weird and total nonsensical somehow works...then you can have Batman, catwoman, penguin, joker feel like they are part of fabric...Burton this this perfectly, Nolan missed by a mile.

[@armorpro573]

@@flipflop4396 Which is exactly my point

[@Neillan]

1:09 *Easily one of the most impressive shots in cinema history.* WOW!

[@armorpro573]

Ikr? Reminds me of that movie Metropolis

[@Laufield]

This is real Gotham City like comic. The Dark Knight trilogy looks nothing like Gotham City. It’s just New York City and Chicago

[@armorpro573]

Well Batman Begins sort of looks like Gotham, but yeah. The rest don’t fit the bill

[@plejra]

Anton Furst's Gotham from 1989 was very different, more European than version from Batman Returns. Maybe due to the fact, that he was Englishman. However fans can explain these differences due to the presentation of different city areas. Both slightly different cityscapes are stunning.

[@flipflop4396]

For me Returns Gotham is by far best Gotham, omg simply perfection...and atmosphere surrounding it was art...whish Tim Burton made more Batmans...

[@adrianlomelli205]

So cool

[@theyellowcouchreviews8982]

Glad you like it. It’s one of the best depictions we’ve ever had of Gotham.

[@coreym162]

@@theyellowcouchreviews8982 I'd say the best depiction of Gotham ever.

[@NicholasWingoldenkiwi2095]

@@theyellowcouchreviews8982 If I built an entire set of Gotham City it would be something twice as big as Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher's and Christopher Nolan's versions of Gotham City because I imagined it could be something I dreamed of as a Filmmaker

[@shawntipton5078]

This is in many ways how Gotham City is supposed to look, it was always planned as a rather gothic aesthetic city. perfect for the dark knight, though Burton's Gotham is by far overstated and a extreme gothic City and is a city that was built out of control effectively, the Burton films remain the best Batman movies to date

[@thebatman911]

Such a Gotham needs to be saved!

[@cabassushi4007]

I love it

[@rlfpotatoking9253]

This looks incredible, I've never watched this movie before but i'm a big fan of batman, especially the games like Arkham knight which introduced us to freeroaming in gotham city, I thought that looked good until I saw this. my jaw dropped and now i really want to watch the 1989 Batman movie! the 1989 batmobile design has also become my favourite, it looks aggressive built for speed and not all techy. I also watched dark knight trilogy and the city in that was boring, it was just an average United States city

[@armorpro573]

Yeah Idk why they didn’t CGI a couple more skyscrapers, or a few hundred

[@WERV2003]

​@@armorpro573Nolan wanted everything to look "Real", the suit, the Batmobile, the city, etc.

[@armorpro573]

@@WERV2003 Eh maybe, but they could've at least changed the aesthetic instead of using footage of New York/Chicago.

[@alexandrealves308c]

When you compare it to other film adaptations, like the traveling Carnival parade in Joel Schumacher's films; the common American metropolis, like Chicago or New York, in Christopher Nolan's films, the nothingness of Zack Snyder's films; this expressionist gothic city in Tim Burton's films has been, to this day, the best Gotham City ever made in live-action.

[@shestputeykitaytsa]

It's perfect...

[@jbloun911]

🦇

[@daustin8888]

I love how claustrophobic and dirty everything is. It is the worst of 1930s New York on steroids.

[@ilcanalediwilly]

Burton made a grave mistake in changing the set, the style and the scenery of this Gotham in Returns. Gotham is a different city, too clean and fairytale-like.

[@WERV2003]

Maybe it's because it's Christmas in Returns? I don't know, it looks a little different (Maybe because they had a much bigger budget for Returns), but you can see a consistency between 89 and Returns, it was in Batman Forever when Warner took out Tim Burton that there was a drastic change that no one believes anymore that they were from the same universe.

[@filthycasual8187]

Easily my favorite Gotham City design. Iconic as hell; wish we'd get this back.