The Dark Knight Rises Anticipation Station

[Saul]

McGinnis doesn't have to be a teenager.

[Mage]

I just rewatched the trailer, and I don't think anymore that this will deal with the death of Bruce and a new Batman as some have speculated.

Looking at some of the lines from the trailer, and some of the hints we've recieved sofar, I think that Bruce has lost his identity, since Batman has not been needed for a while now that Gotham is at a sort of peace. His company is appereantly not doing well (this is from rumors). And I personally feel that when Alfred says he can no longer protect Bruce, he means he can't protect him from himself anymore.

I feel that the 'Rises' part of the trailer will be about Bruce coming to some sort of closure to who he really is, and what it means to be the Batman. He became Batman to fight evil, to become something more then a man. And although he took the hood and cape and fought crime, during the first two movies we've seen him as much as a man and as a figure that fights crime. During TDK he was even hopefull that he could stop being Batman and have a life with Rachel, which was taken from him (both by Rachel choosing Harvey and Joker killing Rachel). Perhaps at that moment he chose to become the figure more then the man, but not because he wanted to; because he had nothing else left.
Now, after 7-8 years of peace in Gotham, the Batman is no longer needed (again, this is pure speculation on my part) and Bruce feels he has nothing anymore.
Now, with the peace in Gotham over, Batman is needed more then ever, and 'rises'. Because of one little line by Selena and the little dialogue between the two men over Gordon being dumped by the mayor, I feel that Gotham is on the verge of becoming what it once was, a decadent city run by the rich where the poor are left to rot, a city where no one has learned the lessons from the past. This might even give reason to the Legaue of Shadows and Ra's Al-Ghul rumors, that they are returning to finish the job they started in the first movie.

Again, all speculation, from the rumors sofar and the bits from the trailer.

[Capt_Pickirk]

Saul wrote:

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McGinnis doesn't have to be a teenager.

Sure he does! That's his entire gimmick!

That's like saying that Batman doesn't have to dress like a bat, he could dress like a Ostrich.

[Broccoli]

Capt_Pickirk wrote:

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Sure he does! That's his entire gimmick!

That's like saying that Batman doesn't have to dress like a bat, he could dress like a Ostrich.

He also has to be named Terry McGinnis, which John Blake is not.

[Captrek]

Mage wrote:

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I feel that the 'Rises' part of the trailer will be about Bruce coming to some sort of closure to who he really is, and what it means to be the Batman. He became Batman to fight evil, to become something more then a man. And although he took the hood and cape and fought crime, during the first two movies we've seen him as much as a man and as a figure that fights crime. During TDK he was even hopefull that he could stop being Batman and have a life with Rachel, which was taken from him (both by Rachel choosing Harvey and Joker killing Rachel). Perhaps at that moment he chose to become the figure more then the man, but not because he wanted to; because he had nothing else left.
Now, after 7-8 years of peace in Gotham, the Batman is no longer needed (again, this is pure speculation on my part) and Bruce feels he has nothing anymore.
Now, with the peace in Gotham over, Batman is needed more then ever, and 'rises'.

I for one hope that The Dark Knight Rises means something more than The Dark Knight Puts on the Batsuit and Fights the Villain. We've seen that rise before. For example, every Batman work ever created. If the film is to justify the title, the Dark Knight must "rise" in a sense we haven't seen a zillion times before, and most importantly in a sense we haven't yet seen in the Nolanverse.

[JarodRussell]

Maybe he ends up creating Batmans in every city in the entire world. That's actually the thing Ra's al Ghul did. Recruiting wannabee ninjas and sending them everywhere in the world, not only Gotham.

[sonak]

captrek wrote:

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I for one hope that The Dark Knight Rises means something more than The Dark Knight Puts on the Batsuit and Fights the Villain. We've seen that rise before. For example, every Batman work ever created. If the film is to justify the title, the Dark Knight must "rise" in a sense we haven't seen a zillion times before, and most importantly in a sense we haven't yet seen in the Nolanverse.

um, why? "Batman Begins" didn't mean "Batman begins in an entirely new sense we've never seen before," it just depicted how and why he got started as Batman. Pretty straightforward.


If the plot of "dark knight rises" is that Batman returns triumphantly as a hero after being framed as a villain and then disappearing for years, the title makes sense.

[Admiral_Young]

^ Exactly. The whole trilogy as I mentioned maybe last page now is about Bruce Wayne training AND becoming Batman. I think this film as I've stated from the start is of Bruce rising up and finally accepting the burden of being Batman. Is it possible that Nolan will toss in a twist or two? Sure. I vehemently am against the notion that Bruce will be killed off. Really doesn't make sense except as just one of many different fan theories.

[sonak]

yeah, Bruce Wayne getting killed off would be a bad idea.


But in a larger sense it wouldn't matter too much-they can just reboot the film series again, and Nolan's not making any more anyway.

[Captrek]

sonak wrote:

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um, why? "Batman Begins" didn't mean "Batman begins in an entirely new sense we've never seen before," it just depicted how and why he got started as Batman. Pretty straightforward.

Of course. It was the beginning of this particular version of Batman.

If the plot of "dark knight rises" is that Batman returns triumphantly as a hero after being framed as a villain and then disappearing for years, the title makes sense.

Putting on the batsuit and fighting a villain isn’t exactly new territory for this Batman, even if the new film posits that he’s been out of action in the interim. It’s not “rising” in a very dramatic sense, it’s more like The Dark Knight Gets Up and Goes to the Office for Another Day of Work.

[Admiral_Young]

As with all of Nolan's film the "Rises" is probably a psychological notion. I think this is going to play heavily in this movie. We know or should know if you've watched Nolans movies that psychology seems to be a major subject he loves to explore. In this case it is Bruce Wayne's. Bruce has been really hesitant to fully accept being Batman...it is very much a burden. He isn't like his comic book counterpart where he's one hundred percent dedicated to the "mission". This one has to be forced to accept that he has to be Batman and live with that decision no matter what.

[Saul]

Capt_Pickirk wrote:

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Sure he does! That's his entire gimmick!

That's like saying that Batman doesn't have to dress like a bat, he could dress like a Ostrich.

His gimmick is that he is the next Batman.
I don't see any character named Dick Grayson in this movie either but it hasn't stopped people from speculating that JGL is Robin.

[Mage]

captrek wrote:

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Putting on the batsuit and fighting a villain isn’t exactly new territory for this Batman, even if the new film posits that he’s been out of action in the interim. It’s not “rising” in a very dramatic sense, it’s more like The Dark Knight Gets Up and Goes to the Office for Another Day of Work.

Putting on the suite, yes, he's done that before. But what I'm trying to say is that there is a difference between putting that suite on and fighting, and actually becoming something. During his first year as a crimefighter, Bruce was already hoping he could give it up, because of Rachel and a normal life with her. His plan of 'becoming' something was already thwarted the moment he returned to Gotham and realized he had unresolved issues with Rachel. That nagged at him. After Rachel's death, he thought he could become what Gotham needed, but only because he had nothing left. His reasons were wrong. But what do we find out now? Not long after TDK, Gotham entered a period of peace and things were pretty good in Gotham, or so it seems. According to a line by Selena in the trailer, it looks as if things are going back to a point when Bruce returned to Gotham, where the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. Enter Bane, who makes things worse somehow I'm guessing, and now it's the time for The Dark Knight, and Bruce (who seems at a loss in the trailer), with nothing to hold him back anymore, can rise and step up to finally become what Gotham needs and wants.

Rachel already understood this when she wondered if there would be a time that Bruce didn't need Batman. The thing is, right after he got back to Gotham, Bruce was torn between his commitment to fighting crime and his love for Rachel. He NEVER fully commited to being Batman, hoping that he could have a normal life with Rachel. When that was taken from him, and peace came to Gotham, he has nothing. His company is falling (according to rumors) Gotham doesn't need the Batman anymore. So when Bane enters the stage, and things start falling in on themselves in Gotham, Bruce can finally let go of the man, and truly, fully become the symbol that Gotham needs.

[JarodRussell]

sonak wrote:

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yeah, Bruce Wayne getting killed off would be a bad idea.


But in a larger sense it wouldn't matter too much-they can just reboot the film series again, and Nolan's not making any more anyway.

Yet the only way to make sure that the studio never bothers Nolan or Bale with annoying phone calls is to kill off Bruce Wayne.

[sonak]

JarodRussell wrote:

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Yet the only way to make sure that the studio never bothers Nolan or Bale with annoying phone calls is to kill off Bruce Wayne.

ha! That's what Arthur Conan Doyle thought about Sherlock Holmes, too.