Miller and the Bat

Batman Year One, the story detailing the first year of Batman and Gordon on the job in Gotham. Pretty much an origin story of the two and how their partnership happens. Between Frank Miller's Year One and its animated adaption with the same name was pretty much identical. The animated counterpart is an extremely close adaptation where it seemed as if they took the panels from the graphic novel and just animated it. In fact most of the lines spoken was also pulled directly from the graphic novel of the same name. Also the animation style was more clean and new, they tried to imitate and incorporate Frank Miller's design and look into the film including Batman's grey costume (different from the black or blue costume we often see today and the purple from the earlier Batman comics). No elements were dropped and some were added but the added elements didn't really mess with the story line, rather it served to help explain it a littler better (i.e why Barbara was with Gordon at Bruce's mansion or how Bruce was at the bridge to help save Gordon's baby). Repeating what I said earlier about how there was practically no difference between the graphic novel and the animated film, I feel that they were trying their best to illustrate the intentions of the text's author making the adaptation a Transposition. I think the filmmaker wasn't trying to create any new meaning with their film Batman Year One. It felt more like a tribute film to Frank Miller because they kept all his elements, character designs and even their camera angles looked as if it was pulled straight from the graphic novel. So to conclude, Frank Miller's Batman Year One is a must read classic and the art was ahead of its time and the animated film Batman Year One is also a great watch and it feels like you are watching a comic book .