The Dark Knight Rises is the end of the Nolan Batman Trilogy, putting up our masked hero against the likes of Bane and Selina Kyle
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Does Bane's voice change in this scene because of plot?
There's a part in The Dark Knight Rises that's stumped me - it sounds like Bane's voice is suddenly and significantly changed (beyond his normal post-production mask-speak). It sticks out to me so ...
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Why does Bane wear the mask?
Throughout the movie, we're given different versions of the past. I am also not sure if it's ever made very clear why Bane wears his mask.
So, why did Bane have to wear his mask?
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How does Blake know that Bruce Wayne is Batman?
In The Dark Knight Rises at the scene when Bruce first meets Blake (where the latter goes calling at Wayne Manor), the way Blake confidently asserts to Bruce that Batman is needed seems to suggest ...
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How did Batman survive when he was stabbed?
Near the end of The Dark Knight Rises, Batman was stabbed by Miranda. After a while Batman took his bat and flew away to detonate the bomb. Then at the end of the movie he was at the dining table with ...
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Fox's analysis of the Bat
Near the end of The Dark Knight Rises, Fox examines the Bat and finds out that an auto-pilot had been installed. This seems to me a bit strange, because we have seen the Bat carrying the bomb far from ...
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What's on Bane's arms in Dark Knight Rises?
In the underground tunnel scene where Bane and Batman fight, Bane has some odd texture covering the skin of his arms, mostly around the shoulders and upper arms. It almost looks like dry and cracked ...
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How does Batman know to rescue Selina Kyle outside the home of John Daggett?
In The Dark Knight Rises, Selina Kyle enters the home of John Daggett to confront his henchman for a copy of software she had been promised that would erase her name and criminal record from every ...
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Is the pit in Dark Knight Rises a representation of Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus pit?
Everyone familiar with Batman universe would be quite familiar with Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus pit. Given the realism shown in the Batman movies by Nolan, for instance Bane's character and his mask. In ...
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What kind of apparatus is Bane's mask?
During the course of the film, it is explained that Bane has to wear his mask in order to keep his pain level down to a bare minimum.
During the final fight, we see Batman start to disable this ...
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Why does Bane protect the girl?
In the final twist of the movie, it is revealed that Talia is actually the one to have climbed out due to Bane helping her get up the hole.
However, Bane's pure motivation during the events of the ...
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Were parts of The Dark Knight Rises a commentary on the Occupy movement?
A fair amount of the second act of The Dark Knight Rises has a class warfare plotline. This is foreshadowed in the trailers with Selina Kyle's "there's a storm coming" monologue. Some of the ...
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Why does Bane want to destroy Gotham city?
In The Dark Knight Rises, at the end of the movie Talia said, it was her father's dream to destroy Gotham city, and I accept that any daughter who was in that situation will definitely think to ...
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Why does Blake draw the Batman symbols all over town?
Late in The Dark Knight Rises, Gotham is closed off from the rest of the world and the police are forced underground (both literally and figuratively). We catch up with the action when the government ...
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Why does Alfred leave in The Dark Knight Rises?
Alfred leaves Bruce, telling him that he has buried enough members of the Wayne family. But, Bruce has been running around all this time as Batman. I think the odds of him being killed are pretty ...
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When was Blackgate prison built?
I don't remember Blackgate being mentioned in the first two of the Nolan Batman Trilogy. Was the prison built to house all the extra criminals imprisoned because of the Dent Act or was it there all ...
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What was the significance of the branded tattoo on Miranda?
After Bruce and Miranda shared an intimate moment, they cuddled by the fire.
At one point, Miranda gets up and we are given a clear shot of some form of branding on her skin.
It wasn't clear to me ...
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Is Ra's Al Ghul alive or dead?
Viewers are lead to believe that Ra's Al Ghul died when the train de-railed and crashed into Wayne Tower in Batman Begins.
But he appears to Bruce while he is in the pit during the Dark Knight Rises.
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Why does Christian Bale deform his voice when playing Batman
As almost every Batman fan, I like the Christopher Nolan's interpretation of Batman. But why does Christian Bale deform his voice when playing Batman?
Is it to scare off/intimidate people? Or to ...
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Why doesn't Bruce take a running jump when trying to escape from the pit?
When Bruce gets the hardest part of escaping the pit, the big jump, he stands at the edge and jumps from there.
There is clearly room on the ledge he is standing on for him to take a running jump. ...
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Why was Selina Kyle's character included in the Dark knight Rises?
From Wikia, we can see the importance of Selina Kyle's role in the Dark Knight Rises. So what are the important tasks she achieved(with respect to the movie only)?
Only two thing I can see(except the ...
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How did Bane get out of the pit/prison in The Dark Knight Rises?
In The Dark Knight Rises, till the end of the movie the audience would be think like, the kid get out from the pit was Bane. But, in the climatic scene the movie revealed that the kid wasn't Bane, it ...
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Why does Bane's henchman sacrifice himself?
So in the very beginning of the movie, the airplane scene, when Bane is about to leave the plane with the nuclear scientist, and they are putting on the parachutes, the following dialogue takes place ...
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Bruce Wayne's device
So in that movie, when Bruce Wayne makes his public appearance at the charity ball, when he gets out of his car, cameras start flashing and he has something in his hands and he presses a button when ...
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Does Christopher Nolan's Batman have an overarching theme?
With the conclusion of Nolan's Dark Knight movies, we are now able to look at all three movies as a single entity, broken up into three parts (acts, if you will). Is there a specific theme, or set of ...
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Why didn't the prisoners who helped Bruce try to escape from the pit themselves?
Batman could escape the pit because he got proper moral guidance from the prisoners. They made him understand what it takes to leave the pit successfully. But it seemed they never wanted to leave the ...
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Why didn't Alfred want Bruce to acknowledge him?
Alfred told Bruce of his hope that he had when Bruce was gone for seven years. There's this specific cafe he went to once a year when he took vacation. He would go there and look around and hope that ...
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Explain the plane scene in The Dark Knight Rises?
In The Dark Knight Rises, at the beginning of the film Bane kidnapped a guy from the plane, then he drew blood from the guy he kidnapped. And then throughout the movie I didn't see any news regarding ...
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Did the prisoners in the pit know who Bruce Wayne was?
During the whole imprisonment of Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises, did the prisoners know who he was, specifically that he was the Batman? I think they only knew him to be a friend of Bane.
Did ...
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What is the reason for the color scheming of Nolan's Batman franchise?
Throughout the three Batman films, there has been one running theme in common. Each movie has its own color scheme.
Batman Begins - Brown & Black
The Dark Knight - Blue & Red
Dark Knight ...
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Why didn't Ra's break into the Pit before?
If I understood the story correctly Ra's was spared the Pit but his wife took his place. Why didn't he break into the Pit to save her?
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What is the reason for setting the movie storyline 8 years apart?
In The Dark Knight Rises, it is stated many times that it's 8 years after the end of The Dark Knight. This personally threw the storyline off for me. Why did it need to be 8 years after? 4 years would ...
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The Ending of Dark Knight Rises
BIG SPOILER AHEAD
So either he has a crazy swim to do, or I'm being too picky.
Am I missing something?
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Why doesn't the bomb cause radiation poisoning to Gotham City?
The ending to me makes no sense.
Batman put his plane on auto pilot that was carrying the bomb away from the city, but they should be affected for many years to come just like Hiroshima.
How come ...
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What is Bruce's alibi in the end?
At the end of Dark Knight Rises, we see the twist of Bruce/Batman taking the bomb himself across the sea, presumably, to sacrifice himself to keep Gotham safe.
We know this isn't the case for Bruce ...
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Was Bane's dialogue spoken during filming or dubbed in during post?
In the film The Dark Knight Rises, Bane wears a mask that covers the bottom half of his face. This obscures his mouth and jaw such that it's pretty hard to tell when the actor is actually speaking. ...
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What did the Dent Act do?
After the passing of Harvey Dent, Gotham City passed the Dent Act, which allowed Gotham to clean up the streets quite a bit. It was stated that the act gave the police department the teeth it needed ...
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Was the opening scene in Dark Knight Rises there in the original script?
I know it was a great scene and established where the Dr. came from but it wasn't really necessary. If you take that scene out, Bane's first reveal is in the sewer. Was the opening plane scene an ...
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What happened to Bruce Wayne/Batman's knee?
Early in The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce is seen limping with a cane. Some characters allude to an injury sustained from a fight, but we never see this in The Dark Knight. At the conclusion of that film, ...
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Was Bane destined to die?
Its of no doubt that Talia was the mastermind behind the plan and Bane her executor. Did she plan for Bane to be sacrificed(if needed) for the successful execution of the plan?
I ask this question ...
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Talia and Bane age problems?
Bane saved Talia when she was a baby. He was pretty old maybe in his 20s or 30s. But then she grows up and wouldn't that make Bane 60? He looks young.
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How does Bane know that Batman is Bruce Wayne?
In The Dark Knight Rises, when the Catwoman Selina brings the Batman to Bane's place, she trapped him Bane's place, after a shot while Bane will come and call the Batman by his real name i.e Bruce ...
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How long did it take Bruce to recover?
In Dark Knight Rises, after Bane defeated Batman, he snapped Batman's spine, or at least sprained it seriously. In the pit, we see someone push his spine (or something) back in.
How long did Batman ...
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How can Batman run and climb in the pits without his knee brace?
Okay so after watching The Dark Knight Rises, I spent a bit of time thinking about the film, at first I didn't get it. I understood the storyline but this major plot flaw/continuity error really ...
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How educated is Bruce Wayne/Batman?
Sure he is a billionaire, trained by the League of Shadows, pretty smart too but how does he manage to fix a sophisticated piece of tech like the Bat's Auto-pilot on his own(I assume he did that on ...
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Why was Gotham City moved to New York City in The Dark Knight Rises?
The Dark Knight was shot in Chicago.
And so was Batman Begins.
But The Dark Knight Rises is clearly shot in New York City.
Why was Gotham moved to a new city for the last part of the trilogy?
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In the pit in The Dark Knight Rises, where was the rope tied?
The rope hanging in the pit has the end tied up near the top of the well, or somewhere around midway. So why didn't the climbers directly used the rope to climb rather than climbing manually? Is this ...
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Why is there no Robin in the Nolan-directed Batman movies?
Although Robin seems to have an pivotal role in ruining earlier Batman movies, he's still an integral part of the Batman series. Is there a reason why Robin does not appear in Batman Begins/The Dark ...
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In The Dark Knight Rises, what is the geographic location of the pit Bruce Wayne is imprisoned by Bane?
Is this prison in Gotham or somewhere else? Bane and Bruce seems to travel between the two rather quickly. It seems like a Middle Eastern location when Talia's mother is dropped in.
Any ideas?
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What is the device that Bruce Wayne uses to heal/brace his knee in Dark Knight Rises?
In the Dark Knight Rises movie, Bruce Wayne visits the doctor and is diagnosed with cartilage problems. That is, he has no cartilage. Is the knee bracing device that he uses meant to heal the ...
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What does Bruce Wayne pack on his third attempt of leaving the pit in Dark Knight Rises?
Right before Bruce Wayne attempts to leave the pit he packs up something in a towel and wraps it around his body.
Does anyone see what he packs?
