The Batman persona is meant to scare bad guys. He drives round in a tank, pancaking and barbecuing cars full of henchmen, spraying bullets all over the shop, casually sending grenades and knives back the way they came. This Batman, however, doesn't seem to have read the same comics we have. Up to now, Batman has adhered to one rule: no killing. If Superman is at the mardy end of the spectrum, this Batman is so dark you couldn't see him with a bag of carrots and night vision goggles. But Snyder thinks grown-up means Batman straight up mutilating people. It's perfectly possible to make challenging drama for younger audiences that's smart, considered and compelling. The world is an awful place, kids, and there's nothing you can do it about it.
And he lives in a world that's inherently frightening, full of sudden and pointless death, random mass destruction, anger and flame and horror. "Dawn of Justice" asks: What if Superman were a callous god? What if Batman killed people? What if the fictional world of fantastical heroes that has delighted and inspired kids of all ages for the best part of a century were a thoroughly joyless, miserable, awful place? It pushes to the very edges of the characters and makes fundamental, unthinkable changes. Instead, it's the most expensive "what if?" story ever made. I'd argue that this comes with a certain responsibility to make a movie that feels true to the stuff that makes a character definitive, unique, inspirational. The movie version of a character becomes the definitive version for a generation. The movie version of a character is, like it or not, the version that is seared on the public consciousness. More people see the movie, and not only that, they see the movie on billboards and on buses and on lunchboxes. And when they do appear, they enter the public consciousness in a way no comic can.
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