Batman where is she
The transition was painful for Gotham, but no one seems to think it odd anymore for a famed cat burglar to turn her goggles into cat ears. This is admittedly speculation. Instead Rises begins with the war over, and Bruce all the bitterer for it.
It was a large pill to swallow for fans who dream of Batman as a crusader always ready for the next robbery, mugging, or burning building. David Crow DCrowsNest. David Crow is the movies editor at Den of Geek. He has long been proud of his geek credentials. Raised on cinema classics that ranged from…. Skip to main content area. Photo: Warner Bros. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Share: Share on Facebook opens in a new tab Share on Twitter opens in a new tab Share on Linkedin opens in a new tab Share on email opens in a new tab Comment: Comments count: 0.
Read more from David Crow. It's enough to make you wonder if the Joker is just taking regular strolls in Gotham in full face paint. Maybe everyone in Gotham is oblivious, but a man in bright clown makeup is pretty tough to ignore. During the bank robbery, each of the Joker's goons is referred to by a codename, most of them taken from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
If you watch the movie on Hulu , where it's currently streaming , the clown names don't appear onscreen. When Jim Gordon tells Batman about the robbery, he shows a surveillance photo of the Joker that appears on screen for a brief moment.
Perhaps a school bus was the perfect way to blend in on an afternoon in Gotham. But didn't the driver behind him think it was odd that a bus just drove out of a bank spilling dust everywhere? Didn't anyone else spot this rogue vehicle? When Batman confronts the Scarecrow, his new self-driving Bat Tumbler makes quite the entrance when it crashes its way into a multi-level parking deck.
The scene looks cool. But the moment is so distracting you may not think to ask where and how an estimated 5,pound vehicle magically dropped onto one of the higher levels of a garage. From our count, Batman starts out on, at least, level four of the parking garage. It certainly didn't get dropped out of a Batplane. In the novelization, Batman has his Tumbler parked on an adjacent rooftop. A narrow alleyway separates the two structures making it easy for the Tumbler to come through the side of the parking garage.
We later learn he's referring to Two-Face, which is the moniker he takes on in the film's third act. The one on the top has the name Kaiser on it. If you're familiar with "Batman: The Animated Series," Kaiser is a billionaire who tried to use the Joker to cash in on insurance money on an episode called "Joker's Wild.
In "The Dark Knight," it's the Joker who pulls one over on a bunch of Gotham's wealthy mobsters when he winds up setting their millions on fire. Others have speculated the file box reads Keyser Soze , a reference to Kevin Spacey's character in "The Usual Suspects," but you can make out that it says Kaiser.
In order to secretly travel to Hong Kong to extradite Chinese mob boss Lau, Wayne whisks the entire Russian ballet away on a boat. While on the boat, the women watch Wayne dive into the water with a giant black bag and swim over to a less-than-savory looking seaplane. Does everyone just accept that Wayne is off doing "CEO things"?
No one ever questions where he goes and the ballet performers aren't seen again in the movie. In the novelization, Bruce tells the dancers that "something's come up" and he needs to leave their company. The book also states they're on a foot yacht.
When Fox leaves Lau's building, a security guard tries to give him back his phone. Fox surprises him by pulling out a phone, suggesting he already picked his back up. The audience knows that's not the case, but the security guard should as well.
All he'd have to do is check security footage to see that Fox never retrieved his phone in the first place. When Harvey talks to Alred he mentions that the Butler has known Rachel her entire life. Alfred says, "Not yet, sir. That line becomes more harrowing upon a second watch when you know Rachel is living out her final days.
While the Joker is preoccupied with holding a knife to Rachel, Batman manages to not only sneak up on the clown, but he's miraculously undetected by the hundreds of party attendees and goons at Wayne's fundraiser. If you've played any of the Batman "Arkham" games, you know the Caped Crusader has a pretty top-notch stealth mode. Still, it's tough to believe he would have enough time to land beside the Joker, deliver a comeback, and strike him without anyone in the crowd reacting to him. You're so focused on the Joker's tense moment with Rachel that you probably don't even bother to wonder about Batman's entry to the scene.
According to the book, Rachel disobeys Bruce because she's "not the kind of woman to remain in hiding when she might be able to do something. She then almost immediately gets held at knifepoint by the Joker. Ad — content continues below. Noting these similarities is not a criticism. For many of them, The Dark Knight had left them on an adrenaline high. Maybe Catwoman could even play both sides of the underworld against each other?
Other than that last bit about Catwoman and her flexible loyalties, none of this came to pass. The Dark Knight Rises was a different beast, one that has its admirers and detractors. All of which is interesting to consider when watching The Batman trailer this weekend.