Good God, the SoundThe Batman‘s Batmobile Makes

Much of the modus operandi of Robert Pattinson ’s Dark Knight inThe Batmanis about thetheatricality of his fearsome persona . “ They retrieve I ’m enshroud in the shadows , but I am the shadows , ” Bruce monologues at one point . But it ’s far from the Bat himself who provides the film ’s most fearsome staginess : it ’s his drive .

The Batman ’s Batmobile was actually one of the first things we saw of Matt Reeves ’ movie , but its actual presence in the final film is largely confined to one vista about midway through . After Bruce and Jim Gordon stick with thetrail of the Penguinto a deal that escort Catwoman interrupt proceeding on her own quest for payback , a full on gunplay between Gordon and Penguin ’s strong-armer breaks out , as sound and fierceness as yells and gunfire from both sides deaf the film ’s soundscape .

But suddenly , there ’s another rumble — one that chop-chop transforms to anearsplitting , unnatural shriek . The gunshot finish , the yelling stops , even the roaring of the heavy Gotham rainfall gives way to this ever - deafening screeching . The rumble returns as a patronage chorus to this horrifying , exotic sound — expose itself to be the banshee - like vociferation of the Batmobile ’s souped up locomotive screaming to life , equally alien blue flames licking from its exhausts to complete the demonic paradigm .

Also me when the Batmobile starts up in this movie, tbh.

Also me when the Batmobile starts up in this movie, tbh.Screenshot: Warner Bros.

It ’s an perfectly incredible moment — made all the more incredible by the vivid chase successiveness that follow , as Bruce ardently hunt down a defiant Penguin . But beyond the high - octane boot , it ’s a moment that stands in stunning analog to Bruce ’s approach to veneration and intimidation throughout The Batman . There has always been a staginess to Batman , irrespective of iteration , the fearsome visage that makes the human race into something else , a symbolical fear against the equally theatrical criminal filth of Gotham City . But The Batman plays with this in some fascinating ways , from Bruce ’s embrace of becoming the shadow , to the raw viscerality with which he fights his foes . But , for the most part , it ’s defined by silence . Multiple times , Batman heroically enters a tantrum in that stark quiet — slink out of the shadows to beat up the clown - make-up goons we see ravishment a caravan passenger early on in the film , stalking his way through the Iceberg Lounge masked by dull lighting and the pulsation of the club ’s music . Even his descentin the final actto take on Riddler ’s followers is a theatrical knock follow by a little , sharp interruption as he fall in like pelting on their parade . That ’s what we so often link Batman ’s dreadful repute with , that skulking still dark .

The Batmobile ’s arrival in that gunfight is the same affair , but with sheer , deafening dissonance . It ’s the intent to put the fear of the Batman into his enemy , but or else of that unnatural slinking in the shadows , it ’s the bursting forth of this wild , inhuman creature , screaming an unimaginable , horrifying noise . The Batmobile itself in that moment becomes the Batman ’s visage , and we see Bruce almost become one with the fomite in the ensuing pursuit , roaring to himself with a fury to match the roar of its locomotive engine as he jam the gas , the railcar slinking and slide through traffic like Bruce gliding through a fistfight . tenaciously sticking to the Penguin ’s fomite , the Batman and the Batmobile itself become an unstoppable object , barrelling through anything confound at them , driven by a sole desire to hunt down their objective . It verbalise to the rawness that defines Pattinson ’s vernal Batman throughout the picture show , an animalistic fit of rage from man and machine alike that convey his anger , his desire , as he stagily calls himself at one point , to be Vengeance itself .

Like all well Batman second , it ’s something immediately , fear - inspiringly cool . But beneath that theatrical flourish , there ’s something there almost a petty horrifying to equal .

Screenshot: Warner Bros.