Featuring an iconic performance from AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Jack Nicholson that landed the Joker on the American Film Institute’s list of cinema’s great villains and helped elevate the superhero genre from its four-color origins, BATMAN (1989) laid the foundations for the cinema landscape of today – blockbuster spectacle realized with grand ambition worthy of its larger-than-life heroes. In the title role – and as the Dark Knight’s alter ego of Bruce Wayne – Michael Keaton earned a place on the AFI’s ranking of the art form’s greatest heroes.
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