DKN: FAN ROUNDTABLE 5

Hey! Kristina here,

This is the fifth Fan Roundtable. As Rountables go, I take the most interesting comments that I find and place these comments as discussions for  the Roundtable. Please do remember, Roundtable can only happen if there are interesting conversations or comments on DKN Facebook or on the site. This means you would have to comment on the site for the Roundtable to continue. So far everyone has been commenting and giving great feedback. You guys are awesome! In light of MTV Movie Awards last week showing The Dark Knight Rises trailer # 4.  Dustin Spence on DKN Facebook asked a very interesting question along with Marty Jay and Phillip Heath who answered:

Dustin Spence (DS): soooo Bane is using (what I believe is) Grand Central Station as his Execution/Throne room? & using the Subway tunnels as his way to get around Gotham?

Dark Knight News (DKN): yup yup yups!

Phillip Heath (PH): That’s Union Station in LA bro

Marty Jay (MJ): And Scarecrow is the Judge 🙂

DS: How many days do you think TDKR takes place? Bruce returns as Batman, Bane breaks out prisoners to create his army, Catwoman goes to Prison, Bruce gets captured by Bane, & Gotham(from what we’ve seen in trailers) is pretty much ashes.
so I’m thinking at least 2 Months?

DKN: I think in the ball park of 3 months b/c it is literary number for a lot of movies to go w/ the number three. Good question.

From trailer # 4, there seems to be makeshift courtroom in what seems to be either at Gotham City’s Stock Market or in some other Gotham City building where the elite will

be tried, convicted, and persecuted for their crimes by one judge. When you first look at the scene, Bane is on the side closest to the scene. Bane has served his purpose as enforcer to gather the troops and bring the persecuted to trial. Bane does not serve as judge because he does not deal with pity situations of court and jury politics. He is much too intellect to engage in such silly power in judging others. Bane’s ultimate goal is much bigger than living in the moment of power that only last temporarily, he knows this and prefers to leave it to someone like Scarecrow, Dr. Crane. Now, now there is not much evidence from the trailer to suggest this, but rumors have since flew about Scarecrow being the judge of these executions that take place. Here is the thing… thatwe all know.

After Crane turned into the Scarecrow, a development that he himself acknowledges, he turns into a much different man. An overdose of his own fear toxin pushed him away from being the intellectual that did not need to lay a hand on anyone to win, to murderous man that lives in the moment.

I was not convinced of Scarecrow being the executioner, I was more into Miranda Tate (Talia al Ghul) being the executioner. As Ra’s al Ghul’s daughter, she would be perfect for such a role. What I believe is that Bane works for or with Miranda Tate to take down Bruce/Batman as a revenge scheme for killing her father, Ra’s al Ghul.  However, the belief that is going around is that Miranda Tate is an ally to Bruce/Batman. So, I will have to take my theory and place it down until the movie comes. Sadness…

Anyway, Dustin also asked how long would it take in TDKR for all this madness to take place. I believe that this whole thing could take up to three months. The number three is very popular among literature, books, and movies. The number represents many things such as the bewitching hour such as 3 in the morning, the number of days it took Jesus Christ to resurrect, or the fact that it is such an odd number that determines a winner or a loser in a battle. I would like to think that since this is third movie, that this entire situation for Gotham’s soul would take place within three months. This is also the same number of books that Charles Dickens wrote to make Tale of Two Cities. The first book was called “Recalled to Life” and was about introducing resurrecting the characters. The second book ,”The Golden Thread,” and about finding out the identities and importance of those characters for the plot. The third book, “Track of the Storm,”  was about the fight between the French peasants and the French elite. I am so sorry I just gave away the whole movie. I think I am going to get sued…oh well! It was fun! I am of course joking, Nolan ruined it in the first place for stating how Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities sheds light on what is happening in Gotham City.  Yea…sue yourself Nolan. I love you, you beautiful minded man.

-Kristina