Deleted Scenes: Batman Begins
Apparently, shortly after Christian Bale was signed as the eponymous hero in Batman Begins, this scene was added to the script and actually shot but, unfortunately, never made it into the final cut.
Batman
Alfred, it’s Batman, Patrick Batman. You’re my Butler so I think you should know: I’ve killed a lot of people. Some thugs in the apartment uptown uh, some syndicate people maybe 5 or 10 um and a mugger I met in Central Park. I left him in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Selena Kyle with a nail gun, and some man, uh some corrupt faggot with a penguin last week. I killed another hooker with a BatSaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can’t remember maybe an addict, but she’s dead too. And Jack Napier. I killed Jack Napier with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a vat of toxic waste in Hell’s Kitchen. I don’t want to leave anything out here. I guess I’ve killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the cops have seen the tapes. I even, um… fed the bats some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I’m not sure I’m gonna get away with it this time. I guess I’ll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I’m a pretty uh, I mean I guess I’m a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, meet me at The Bat Cave, so you know…, keep your eyes open….”
(Well… it might have been! :P)
I never quite got in American P if he did or didn’t actually kill all those people.
Comment by Adrian — June 27, 2005 @ 12:10 pm
I was left with the rather strong impression that he did not.
Comment by Destructor — June 27, 2005 @ 1:47 pm
I personally think he did but the point was that although he thought he was different (he says at the beginning “I just want to fit in”) it turns out that everyone else is exactly like him - amoral, shallow and materialistic. The old woman who is selling the flat when he goes to clean it out obviously knows why he’s there and ushers him out, knowing he’s in no position to complain or do anything about it. His lawyer isn’t interested in getting embroiled in a big legal defence case and so ignores him. He did kill all those people but, in the power crazed, money obsessed New York of the eighties, even that wasn’t enough to set you apart from the rest.
Comment by The Stalker — June 27, 2005 @ 3:07 pm