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A benevolent patrician fights a vulgar populist in Tim Burton's game-changing comic-book adaptation BATMAN (1989). We discuss the film's distinctly Reagan-era vision of an urban hellscape, and theorize how Michael Keaton's Batman and Jack Nicholson's Joker symbolize two different style of corporate branding.