This film is a key work for Burton to become a leading Hollywood director, and it also laid the foundation for the re-popularity of Hollywood comics. Burton’s overcast visual style has brought even a positive hero Batman with a strong dark psychological background, which not only makes the film unique in style among many superhero films, but also affects many of the same kind in the following. The film enriches the types of heroes of Hollywood movies.
In 1989, besides Superman, DC's other comic "Batman" that swept the world was finally put on the screen. The first adaptation with the camera was Tim Burton, who created the original film scene in "Dark Gothic style", which fits very well with the story environment set by Batman. Burton used his usual surreal techniques to create a dark city of Gotham. The film "Batman" also became the most successful commercial film of the year, setting a box office record for Burton's work, with a box office of US$251 million in the United States, and won the Oscar for Best Art Director the following year. The first Batman starred by Michael Keaton, and the clown played by Jack Nicholson perfectly performed the "horrible madness", enough to be included in the "performance textbook." The film has since laid the aesthetic trend of Tim Burton.
