>>91498945Yes. Pain and Prejudice only exists because of Burton's Penguin. Allow me to explain.
Most of the elements of Penguin's modern characterizations come from his portrayal in the movie.
Penguin had always struggled to be little more than a goofy James Bond villain with a penguin motif.
Burton's Penguin wasn't just The Penguin, he was a weird hybrid of Richard III + Penguin + Killer Croc who looked like the jewish bastard child of Dr.Caligari and Nosferatu. And in turn, defining The Penguin's more distinct traits as a character and gave a solution to the problem "how do we make a short fat guy in a tuxedo intimidating or interesting"
From Batman TAS to Gotham's Penguin, every iteration post-1992 owes something to this version of the character. Some of The Penguin's best stories like Odds Agaisnt or even Pain and Prejudice take from this movie.
You can dislike this version if you want, and I agree it is far too brutish and disgusting (which is why later versions of the character merged this version with the character's class and intellect), but it was extremely important in defining The Penguin.
>>91490794He's a decent Penguin desu. The only good about Gotham.
They get plenty of aspects of the character right like his relationship with his mother, his sniveling cowardice and his ambition. The actor himself isn't even bad (which I can't say for the rest of the actors in that show).
And some of the changes made to the character are fitting. I like that they made him look like Cesare, which fits since Burton's Penguin was a reference to Dr.Caligari, and they found other ways to deform him and make him disgusting, while making it clear he will balloon up in the future.
Really, they made a half-decent attempt to reinterpret The Penguin and I can appreciate that.
But the show is shit and I would not watch it again.
