![]() ![]() ![]() Nowadays, it’s even treated as shocking news when Marvel’s Eternals featured a love scene between two characters. Yet one can still only count on one hand all the romances that felt like a pivotal part of the storytelling or character development, as opposed to a box being checked. There is of course an irony in this since conventional studio wisdom suggests there should always be a “love interest” in a four-quadrant blockbuster movie, and in the nearly 15 years since Marvel Studios began oversaturating the multiplex with movies entirely about the conventional, we’ve seen a lot of them. More than 30 years after Batman Returns opened in theaters and horrified parents groups around the country, the film’s enduring understanding of who Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne are, or at least who they should be, is what makes the film the rare thing in superhero cinema: a picture where the romance works. And when she’s with Batman, they make two. She had a live bird in her mouth while the camera was rolling.” But then, like Burton, Pfeiffer knew a character who dressed up in an animalistic costume to prowl the rooftops of Gotham City at night had to be a little bit of a freak. Still, looking back at the moment years later, he told THR in 2017 that “I don’t think I’ve ever been so impressed. ![]()
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