“I’m not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me.”
Right before delivering the iconic “I’m Batman” line, Batman establishes himself as a presence for the criminals of Gotham City to fear.
This introduction to Keaton’s Batman stripped away any of the lingering camp associated with the character onscreen at this point, and also brought the character back to his roots as an urban legend in Gotham.
PHOTO CREDIT: WARNER BROS./ COURTESY: EVERETT COLLECTION
“Now you wanna get nuts? Come on! Let’s get nuts.”
As Bruce Wayne, Batman (Michael Keaton) tells the Joker (Jack Nicholson), grabbing a fire poker and smashing the décor in Vicki Vale’s apartment during a confrontation with the Joker.
The line comes before a pivotal moment in which the Joker asks, “you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?” which reveals to Wayne that Joker is the man who murdered his parents decades ago.
PHOTO CREDIT: WARNER BROS./ COURTESY: EVERETT COLLECTION.
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