The Dark Knight Rises ***USE SPOILER TAGS***

[crows]

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They should cancel the 2012 release, Redo the movie with a better Catwoman Costume, and have it ready for a 2014 release, THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

 

[Sachiel]

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"The Joker didn't care-he just wanted to see the world burn, and he was a master of chaos and destruction, unscrupulous and crazy. Bane is not that guy. There's a very meticulous and calculated way about Bane. There is a huge orchestration of organization to his ambition." -Tom Hardy

Anne Hathaway's blunder as she went into a meeting with Nolan; She convinced herself that Nolan wasn't interested in reinterpreting a character who had already been done well enough (Hathaway loves Pfiefer's Catwoman) and was instead casting a lesser-known villainess from Batman's rogue's gallery named Harley Quinn. Nope. "About an hour into our meeting he said, 'It's Catwoman and I went 'Oh no, I played this wrong' says Hathaway. "I didn't think they would revisit that character because Michelle's performance is so iconic. But Chris just does his own thing"

"He has created an epic disaster film." -Anne Hathaway.

Rises is set eight years after the events of the Dark Knight. Gotham City is at peace and prospering, but Bruce Wayne is still recovering physically and emotionally from the tragic battles with the Joker and Harvey Dent. Batman, who took the fall for Harvey's crimes so Gotham could remain inspired by the lawman's former idealism, continues to be reviled and MIA as the story begins. While old allies Alfred and Lucius Fox and potential love interest Miranda Tate try to revive Bruce's spirits, two new threats to Gotham force Batman to end his exile."

Bane's motivation as a villain remains one of Rises' best kept secrets-although the trailers suggest his master plan requires the razing of Gotham and the death of Bruce Wayne. Does Bane represent a specific political or philosophical complaint? The answer is...maybe. "I think the politics of the film are going to be hotly debated one way or another, as they were in the last film," says Nolan.

There has never been an explicitly detailed, throughly mapped-out master plan guiding Nolan's Batman franchise. "The approach has always been to put every damn good idea you have into each movie, so that when you're done, you feel like there's nothing left", says co-screenwriter Jonathan Nolan. However, the director has always aspired to create a unified trilogy with a continuous character arc for Bruce Wayne, and one detail has been in place for years. "From a fairly early stage in the process of making the three films,' says Christopher Nolan, 'we knew how Bruce's story would end."

And so Rises was conceived and written to bring a sense of unity-and finality-to the whole franchise. "It stands alone, yet completes a cyclical work," says Hardy. "Think triplets instead of one child after another-the Dark Knight triplets."

Listening to Team Nolan talk about the film, you find yourself wondering: 'Will Batman actually survive till the end credits?"...."We wanted to show a character who is aging, who is damaged, who may not be in his prime," says Bale. "He has never encountered anyone with such blunt force as Bane, and this is not the best time for him to encounter him."

Nolan says that he's naturally drawn to Batman's more iconic villains-as long as they can live credibly within his more realistic neo-noir treatment of Gotham...Hence Catwoman was irresistible to Nolan both because of her pop culture stature and the fact that the crafty cat burglar is Batman's earthiest of baddies. That said Nolan's Selina Kyle is presented as an enigma, maybe even to herself.

"Who is Selina Kyle? She's someone who wants you to think she can answer that question."

Nolan cast Hathaway because he believed the actress could handle the role's biggest challenge; suggesting a whole history for the character that's not in the script and never spelled out to the audience.

Hathaway prepared by devouring old comic books and watching movies starring Batman creator Bob Kane's two inspirations for Catwoman, Hedy Lamarr and Jean Harlow.

 

[batfan08]

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I'm thinking they're going with a bulkier Batman this time around. The more pictures I see, the more I think that he fills out the suit a lot more than last time. (Maybe HT got their v.1 right after all...just for the wrong movie).

 

[intothevoid]

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Epic disaster movie.

I like it I like it.

 

[intothevoid]

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Maybe HT got their v.1 right after all...just for the wrong movie

No. HT didn't get any TDK or would be TDKR Batman right.

 

[greygoose]

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Really liking this costume look on Bane.

 

[DiFabio]

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Great article. Neat little tidbits in there.

However, I KNEW the writers would try and claim that they had the plot and ending in mind for Bruce Wayne since the beginning "for years". George Lucas tried to pull the same crap and he has arguably the worst canon between all of his Star Wars films.

No they didn't. They took one film at a time. Unless Nolan is contradicting his previous statements about how he focuses on one film that he's working on. I have a hard time believing that when they were creating the Dark Knight they were thinking "yeah, this is how we're going to end the story". Bull crap. This is what I hate about trilogies. Fans are going to take this nugget and run with it. I knew at some point it would be suggested, that's how it always goes. "I wanted to make a three arc film since the beginning". No, you wanted to tell Batman's origin story in 2005 and it snow balled into what we have now.

As far as I'm concerned, when I'm watching Batman Begins, Bane, Catwoman/Selina Kyle, John Blake or what have you don't exist. They weren't even conceivable back in 2004 I'm sure.

 

[batfan08]

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No. HT didn't get any TDK or would be TDKR Batman right.

I meant the body type, genius.

 

[intothevoid]

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I think you're reading way too much into it - I read that as they knew how his story would end ie he will retire or he will die martyr or whatever ending they have in mind (if they were to ever get that far, which they have now), not that they knew HOW he would get there

Those are two very different things.

 

[batfan08]

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I'm not too sure about Bane's look there. I dig the leather, but that striped vest thing is...different, to say the least.

 

[intothevoid]

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I'm not too sure about Bane's look there. I dig the leather, but that striped vest thing is...different, to say the least.

It just looks like a disguise to me actually, perhaps to infiltrate the stock exchange?

 

[Sachiel]

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Doesn't seem like a very good disguise then.

 

[intothevoid]

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Well clearly he would have his face covered somehow

It's obviously a disguise to my eyes, he's wearing a name tag for Gods sake

 

[Pennyworth]

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I'm not too sure about Bane's look there. I dig the leather, but that striped vest thing is...different, to say the least.

I'm ok with Bane's look from what we've seen so far, but for some reason, in that shot, he reminds me of a bell hop or something.

 

[DiFabio]

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Well if it's a disguise (I personally think it's just his biker jacket) it's not as cool as those leaked spoiler pics of Joker as a cop and a nurse from TDK. Those pics were extremely cool. I remember saving them instantly before they were taken down.

 

[intothevoid]

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How do you explain the name tag then?

I went into TDK with no idea about the cop or nurse scenes

 

[DiFabio]

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True about the name tag. If he's posing as a Stock Exchange guy I don't see how. They all wear colored jackets.

It's really odd seeing Bane dressed up like that. I know he's a man of action but I thought he'd lay low and have his followers do his dirty work until he's ready to reveal himself and claim the city.

 

[thenammagazine]

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It's obviously a disguise to my eyes, he's wearing a name tag for Gods sake

What if it says Bane?

 

[intothevoid]

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What if it says Bane?

Contrary to your belief, this is not a comedy

 

[thenammagazine]

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Contrary to your belief, this is not a comedy

You got me then, because I was laughing my ass of at how stupid Bane looks in that pic. "Maybe they won't notice the apparatus covering half my face if I dress like a steampunk bellhop/valet."