- The title changed from the original "Batman 5", "Batman: The Frightening" and "Intimidation Game" to the final "Batman Begins".
- Christian Bale said that he was a little bit skeptical about starring in Batman, after all, the name is already a cultural symbol. "On the day the movie started, a little boy saw me next to a grocery store. He came and hugged me and looked at me with his face up. He said to me,'You are my hero'." At that time, he confirmed his choice.
- The costume designer of this film is Lindy Hemming, who has worked on "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Tomb Raider". The bat suit designed by her is not only modeled on Christian Bale’s figure, but also has Waterproof, heat preservation and other functions, and the production of bat clothes is carried out in a 24-hour security workshop.
- The Batmobile in the film cost as much as 1.5 million pounds, and one gallon of gasoline is only enough to run one mile.
- The actual speed of the Batmobile in the film often reaches 105 mph, and sometimes even the helicopter can't catch up.
- During filming on the streets of Chicago, a drunkard once ran into the Batmobile and said that he had seen an alien spacecraft.
- Before the filming started, the director organized all crew members to watch the 1982 "Blade Runner" as a model.
- In a car chase scene in the film, the crew used more than 30 stunt drivers.
- A lot of Batman's equipment comes from military technology.
- The daylight shining through the window of Wayne Manor came from a 100,000-watt floodlight.
- The violent storm in the film was not generated by CG, but a real high wind speed of 75 miles per hour, and some crew members were even blown down.
- The fighting scenes in the film are not produced with suspended steel wires, because the director thinks that this kind of fighting is too graceful and lacks real threat and tension. The action director of "The Last Samurai" David Foreman uses the KFM (Keysi Fighting Method) fighting mode in this film. KFM appeared 20 years ago and requires strong leg and torso strength, and emphasizes spirit and will. Of concentration.
- When Christian Bale and Liam Neeson were fighting on the ice, there was a sound of breaking the ice. The next day, the ice was completely disintegrated.
- Christian Bale insisted on the American accent in this film.
- Christian Bale participated in the audition for "Batman Forever" in 1995 and was the candidate to play Robin.
- Ashton Kutcher, David Brunners and Hugh Dancy were all candidates to play Batman.
- Anthony Hopkins was invited to play Alfred, but he declined.
- Christian Bell, who plays Batman, received half a year of training before the filming started. Not only did he recover the weight he lost for appearing in "The Mechanic", he also gained 20 pounds.
- Lawrence Fishburne was once the candidate to play Fox.
- Chris Cooper, Kurt Russell and Dennis Quaid were all candidates to play Gordon.
- Rachel, played by Katie Holmes, is not a character in the original book.
- In order to shoot the Batmobile at high speed, the crew used a new Mercedes-Benz ML camera modified by AMG, using an advanced remote-controlled robotic arm to shoot the chase scene without slowing down the Batmobile.
- This film is the first Batman movie shot with a screen ratio of 2.35:1.
- During the film's release, "Forbes Magazine" estimated in detail the cost of becoming Batman, and the result was about 3.5 million U.S. dollars.
- The film broke the box office record for the first week of IMAX theaters.
Batman Begins behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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The Scarecrow: [riding through a riot on a hooded horse] There's nothing to fear but fear itself!
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Batman: [has laid a snare-trap which yanks Flass by his leg 70 feet into the air] Where were the other drugs going?
Flass: I never knew. I don't know. I swear to God...
Batman: Swear to *me*!
[He rapidly lowers a screaming Flass and then yanks him back up]
Flass: I don't... I don't know. I never knew. Never. They went to some guy for a couple of days before they went to the dealers.
Batman: Why?
Flass: There was something... Something else in the drugs... something hidden.
Batman: What?
Flass: I never went to the drop-off point. It was in the Narrows. Cops only go there when they're in force.
Batman: Do I look like a cop?
Flass: No...!
[rapidly lowers Flass once more before dropping him to the ground]