#**him 'transforming' as reeves puts it during the monologue. vs him 'transforming' again at the end with the baptism+flare combo

[banghwa]

(on Robert Pattinson’s original screen test) "I was like, 'I’d love there to be no color but red.' I just want to see him come out of the darkness. I want him to come out of that- come out of the shadows- readable dark- and I want him to walk up to the mirror. We had the light right over the mirror. So he's coming into this top light that felt to me like the red version of the Godfather or something, right? And he- he looked like- he looked like a young Marlon Brando or something, right? I mean, he just had such a beautiful face, and he just stared at himself and I said, ‘I just want to see what that moment is, Rob, when you're deciding to transform,’ and he did that and there was something in that moment where I was like, ‘Well this is- this is the movie.’ I don't know why, I just know it is."

THE BATMAN (2022) - dir. Matt Reeves (insp.)