
Batman & Bill
- Year:
- 2017
- 93 min
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(camera shutter clicking)
(cat meowing)
(soft whirring)
Good morning, guys.
Good morning.
Have you heard of Batman?
Yes.
Just checking and just kidding.
Of course you've
heard of Batman.
So I have had the honor
speak all over the world
to tell the story that
you're about to hear.
And everywhere I go,
whether it's Tanzania in Africa
or Hong Kong or Thailand
or the United Arab Emirates,
everywhere I go,
I show that symbol,
and I have not been to a school
anywhere in the world where
someone doesn't know it.
Now don't worry if you're
not interested in superheroes
because I've done
this many times,
and I can guarantee everyone
here, including staff,
that you will walk out
of this room in an hour
with a different perspective
than you have right now,
I guarantee it.
since the first in 1939,
there was only one name
in the credit line.
"Batman created by Bob Kane."
Here he is.
And here's the thing
about that credit line:
It is not true.
that I like superheroes
is a little bit pat,
and it maybe is a
little bit disingenuous
because I wasn't thinking
like this as a kid.
But I do like stories
of selflessness
and I like stories of sacrifice,
and superheroes sacrifice
something on a daily basis.
Superheroes are not doing this
to get paid or praised,
and it is not about them.
They are doing something
for the greater good,
then they disappear
into the night.
The notion of that is
so rare in real life.
I mean, we know so few people
that can afford to be selfless.
As a six-year-old,
I wasn't thinking like that,
even as a 12- or 15-year-old.
I just liked a good story,
a good adventure,
and I still do,
so it was a combination
of those things,
this purity of purpose
and then just a
great cliff-hanging,
rollicking adventure.
Here is the Batman section.
One, two, three, four
full... almost full shelves.
And compare that to Superman.
Not knocking Superman,
but just looking at the reality.
Here's Superman
up to about there.
Batman is not only
the most identifiable
and recognizable and famous
and beloved superhero,
but he is one of
the most recognizable
fictional characters
of all time.
Can take almost any
Batman book off the shelf
and open to the title page.
"Batman created by Bob Kane."
Bob, for the few people who
come from another planet,
who may not know what you do,
what is it that
you're known for?
You've got to be kidding.
I am, of course.
Bob Kane is the original
cartoonist of Batman
and the man who has
been credited on Batman
for most of Batman's history.
When I was 18, I tripped across
Bat... how do you
pronounce that?
- Batman?
- B-A-T-man.
It was called
"Batman by Robert Kane."
In 1938, two gangly kids
from Cleveland, Ohio
sold an idea for a
character named Superman.
Superman was a huge
influence on Bob Kane,
not the creative side,
the financial side.
So I thought of, yeah,
"How much money is
Siegel and Shuster making?"
They were the
creators of Superman.
And in those days, in '39,
they were making
$800 apiece a week.
When Bob Kane found
out how much money
making on a weekly basis
which was $800 at the time,
he went to an
editor at National.
He said, "Listen, Bob, can
you do another superhero?"
I said, "For that kind of money,
you'll have it on Monday."
For that kind of money,
you'd be the superhero.
I'll steal it somewhere.
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