The direct-to-video – Batman: Soul of the Dragon – might have more to do with Bruce Wayne than Batman
Before billionaire and playboy Bruce Wayne, whose alter ego ‘Batman’ became the ferocious defender of Gotham City, he was just a privileged man.
Though Batman established himself (time and again) as a terrifying vigilante but before he achieved this status, he was just Bruce Wayne, the billionaire heir who struggles to find inner peace.
In
Batman: Soul of the Dragon, we’re introduced to one of his mentors who also doubled as a friend. He hung out with him while under his tutelage.
Another Batman movie is here
February 10, 2021
Batman: Soul of the Dragon is the DC Universe’s 40th animated original movie.
It takes viewers back to the 1970s. As a young man, Bruce Wayne journeyed to a secret monastery in Nanda Parbat to study martial arts under the renowned O-Sensei.
Now, Bruce must face off against a great evil from his past; a serpent deity that will bring the world to ruin if it is allowed to roam free. But he does not have to fight alone.
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Year One-style story actually centers around a quartet of DC characters, one being Batman, and the other three being people he trained with during his time in Nanda Parbat. In the movie, Batman (David Giuntoli), Richard Dragon (Mark Dacascos), Bronze Tiger (Michael Jai White), and Lady Shiva (Kelly Hu) take on a cult being led by one of their former peers under the martial arts master O Sensei (James Hong).
Soul of the Dragon is one of the coolest and most innovative of DC s long line of direct-to-DVD animated movies, in part because the whole thing is played like a 70s kung fu/action movie, with nods to Bruce Lee, James Bond, blaxploitation, and other ideas and genres that aren t naturally at home in a superhero movie. Between this and the recent