Nice post!!
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The difference is that you can eliminate anything related to Batman from the Nolan movies and have the same exact movie.
No, you really can't. Not for Begins, anyway. A character like the Scarecrow or the fear gas plot would have no place in a generic crime film, both elements are ludicrously implausible and over-the-top. The massive train stunt at the end would never be done in a generic crime film, because most crime film protagonists do not have physics-defying capes that convert into functioning gliders. The Henri Ducard "twist" is a pretty classic Ra's Al Ghul gambit. That movie is Batman through and through.
The Dark Knight I'm of two minds about. It's actually very similar to a certain type of Batman comic book story, told primarily through the late 90's and the earlier part of this decade. It would be written by Greg Rucka or Ed Brubaker, drawn by some guy with a scratchy ink-heavy style, and feature Batman appearing on like two out of twenty-four story pages for most issues. This is not actually a type of Batman comic I personally like all that much, but anything's fair game for an adaptation, I suppose.
Modern-day Frank Miller can go screw. He made The Spirit, he doesn't get to have opinions about movies that anyone should take seriously.