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Kim Basinger with red hair


Would she look nice with red hair? Making her look like comic book Vicki Vale.

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All the changes and deviations from the comics:
http://www.batman-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=1606.0

BATMAN
- Wayne not being a socialite
- Joker: not being Red Hood, having a revealed name, killing Waynes
- Vale being blonde
- Batman having a yellow oval from the beginning and having an all black body suit and eye makeup
- Waynes not seeing Mark of Zorro in the theater
- Gordon not being a smoker and not wearing glasses
- Dent being black
- Alfred isn't a thin, balding man with mustache

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You can't really count the one about Alfred, because in the comics he was a very heavyset fellow the first few years he was around. They actually changed his appearance to accommodate the movie serials of the 40s, where Alfred looked more like the Alfred we know now. I also believe the Joker being the Red Hood, and the Mark of Zorro film were retroactively added several decades into the comics history.

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With all due respect to TMC-4, who I like, most of the changes he highlights are minor and cosmetic ones that don't significantly change the essence of these characters (Bruce Wayne turning out to be a socially awkward hermit rather than a suave playboy, and the Joker ending up as the murderer of Bruce's parents, as opposed to Joe Chill, are arguably the only substantive ones). Still, with respect to, the admittedly wonderful, Michael Gough as Alfred, he neither resembles the thin, balding man with a moustache that has long been the most popular visual incarnation of the character, nor the very heavyset fellow from the character's first appearances in the comics.

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Imagine Kim dressed like All Star Vicki in pink bra and panties.

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I like Kim Basinger. But I'd have preferred it if she'd been cast as Silver St. Cloud, who she does physically resemble, or that they'd have cast a red-haired actor, like say Dana Delany, Amy Yasbeck or Geena Davis, to play Vicki Vale circa 1989.

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