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'Dark Knight' Cast: Earliest Batman Memory?

Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, and more tip caps to Adam West, Tim Burton versions of Caped Crusader
By Erin Strecker Updated July 17, 2012 at 12:15 PM EDT
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Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises | ''It would have been the Adam West one. [I liked it because] it was silly. [Ours] aren't so silly, yeah. But they're just as justified…
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''It would have been the Adam West one. [I liked it because] it was silly. [Ours] aren't so silly, yeah. But they're just as justified as the others. Nolan had a different take on them. But I'm proud to be in these and [in] the reinvention of it.''

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Dark Knight Rises | ''My mom made me a Batman costume. She sewed it when I was like four and I would run around in the cape and the…
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''My mom made me a Batman costume. She sewed it when I was like four and I would run around in the cape and the mask. Batman is beyond movies or comics or the TV show or any one thing like that. It's just a character that's in our psyche.''

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Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises | ''I saw the one with Jack Nicholson — the one that's just called Batman — when I was young, and I just thought it was…
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''I saw the one with Jack Nicholson — the one that's just called Batman — when I was young, and I just thought it was so cool. I was a bit too young to understand how all the plot points followed each other, but I just thought it was this wonderful, weird, alternate reality that felt similar but was also very different. I really liked it.''

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Gary Oldman, The Dark Knight Rises | ''It would be the TV [show]. I was 6 or something and I thought it was the coolest thing. Kids now [have so many choices],…
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''It would be the TV [show]. I was 6 or something and I thought it was the coolest thing. Kids now [have so many choices], with movies, television, games, iPads. When I was growing up, Batman with Adam West was like the highlight of the week. It's the greatest thing on TV. And I completely believed in it. It's only years later that you go back and re-watch it and realize it was quite camp.''

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Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises | ''My earliest memory is the Batman who has the rubber shark on his foot — he's kicking it. That was Batman for me.''
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''My earliest memory is the Batman who has the rubber shark on his foot — he's kicking it. That was Batman for me.''

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Marion Cotillard, The Dark Knight Rises | ''Ooh! It was Tim Burton's Batman . I fell in love with that and the characters. It's very different from Christopher Nolan's version, but I…
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''Ooh! It was Tim Burton's Batman. I fell in love with that and the characters. It's very different from Christopher Nolan's version, but I love [both] versions, and I just think Chris totally reinvented the superhero. The failure and the humanity and [all that]. He did an amazing, amazing job.''

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Nestor Carbonell, The Dark Knight Rises | ''As a kid, I remember watching Batman the TV show and thinking I hadn't seen anything like it. To see now what [Christopher] Nolan has…
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''As a kid, I remember watching Batman the TV show and thinking I hadn't seen anything like it. To see now what [Christopher] Nolan has done with the genre, it's a whole different thing.''

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