Although in the minority, I don’t mind that the film made the rddler in silence, because I have never found Thomas Elliot as silent to be a satisfactory response in the comic strip. Hush’s interest is that he is someone intimately familiar and obsessed with Batman, then inventing a new character to fulfill this role has left little impact. In addition, even in comics, Riddler is the real Mastermind, so the torsion of the film is more faithful to the source material than you think.
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Now where the film falls shorter is the fate of Riddler. In the comic strip, although the riddler knew the true identity of Batman, he always loses. As Batman deduces, the constraints of Riddler will prevent him from overthrowing the truth; He cannot reveal Batman’s identity, because what is a puzzle for if everyone knows the answer? In the film, Riddler falls at his death in a melted metal basin; Batman (Jason O’Mara) tries to save him, but Catwoman (Jennifer Morrison) drops him. The original and the adaptation end with them separating, but in the film, the death of Riddler is the breakdown.
Since “The Long Halloween”, Loeb has focused a lot on the romance of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. “Hush” is based on this, as Batman slowly trusts Catwoman, while Selina realizes that the two men with whom she is in love are the same person. In “Batman” # 615, Batman takes off his mask and shares completely with Selina: “I have two halves. I want you to be part of the two.”
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The animated “Hush” rightly understands that Batman and Catwoman’s complicated love is the heart of history. For all film cuts, everything on this relationship is preserved. But like Batman and Catwoman, “Hush” (and the whole saga of Loeb Batman) two The hearts, and the film leaves the other completely.
It would be Harvey Dent / Two-Face. Although the absence of Tim dirty blurs the connection a little, “Hush” is a spiritual suite of “The Long Halloween”. This comic strip is all about the fall of tooth; How he goes from the Gotham district prosecutor and the Batman ally to become one of the city’s super-household “monsters”. “Hush” is Harvey’s redemption; Elliot uses her skills in plastic surgery to repair Harvey’s marked face, and this also heals his mental scars. In the last chapter of “Hush”, Harvey saves Batman and beats Elliot. Batman reflects that he lost a friend, but may have found another.
Hush’s bandaged look also evokes Two-Face design Batman’s most influential Batman’s comic strip, “The Dark Knight Returns” by Frank Miller.
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Hush is one of many bad guys conceived as a mirror image of Batman, but no villain fulfills this role as well as Two-Face.
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“The Dark Knight Returns” suggested that not even surgery to cure the look of Two-Face would tame its bad side. “Hush”, however, relies on the heroic and determined Harvey Dent that we met throughout “The Long Halloween”. The story of tooth there was a tragedy, while “Hush” ends with hope for him.
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The animation “Batman: Hush” understands that comics is a story of Catwoman and Riddler, but I forgot that it is also a two opposite.
