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Was Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne ever really friends with Commissioner Gordon?

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (19408)
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Yeah, he invited Gordon to his house for the party in this movie but considering that Vicki Vale was also invited without even knowing the man, shouldn't this hardly count as evidence that they were friends then? The only time in Batman Returns that I recall them interacting is when Gordon catches Bruce as Batman leaving so he could thank him for taking career of the Red Triangle Circus early on in the movie.

In Batman Forever with Val Kilmer, Gordon calls on Bruce personally for both Stickley's suicide and for helping out with Dick Grayson and is clearly on a first name basis with him, calling him "Bruce" instead of "Mr. Wayne".

[–] hurricane (1908) 3 years ago

My understanding was that the 1989 Batman movie was quite early in Batman's crime fighting career.

A lot of the low-life thugs seemed to act like he was just a rumour or a legend. Some didn't believe in him.

Maybe similarly Bruce's friendship with Gordon hadn't fully developed yet, and they knew each other better in later movies.

[–] DoctorThirteen (10197) 3 years ago

I think this is it, that Gordon was invited to Bruce's party in the first movie as a 'name' that would look good on the guest list (maybe it was a fund-raiser? I can't remember). By Batman Returns the respect that we saw hinted at with the reveal of the Bat-signal in Batman seems to have grown a little more, but it's still not what I would call friendship (I think Batman Forever was the first to hint at that).