After going through the later preview for The Dark Knight Rises frame by frame , we only have one question left in our minds : Why is n’t this movie called The Dark Knight Falls ?
Check out our elaborated look at the Gotham City repulsion , with in - profundity analysis of screencaps plus some wild speculation , below . Beware : Major spoiler !
take note : Where possible , we ’re going to skip over scenes that were in last December ’s prevue , or other stuff you ’ve already see . Where scenes are a different version of stuff we saw in December , then we ’ll sample and draw the connection . Thanks to Meredith for the suggestions !
The trailer begins with a shot of the Gotham City skyline that was in the previous trailer . Then we see a barbate Bruce Wayne — so he clearly has n’t been dressing up as Batman in quite some sentence , because only Hugo Strange can pull off the “ Batsuit and beard ” look . In this scene , Bruce impress as though he ’s dumbfound a limp — so this credibly arrive fromthe same succession we saw in the previous trailer , where Bruce is using a cane . In fact , if you look at the mirror image in the shiny dish concealment in the “ walk with a cane ” view , it ’s the same getup , smuggled except for a brownish scarf joint . Bearded Bruce looks angrily at someone , and then become out to face the window , signifying the conversation is over . ( This scene almost for certain take place in the new rebuilt Wayne Manor , and probably early in the moving picture . The real nuisance for Bruce is yet to come . )
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This is follow by the first of several snipping from the film ’s opening episode , which was shown at IMAX house ahead of Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol last December . ( Clickherefor our complete rundown . ) This is the part where Bane is held captive by the CIA aboard a plane , but he attacks it with another plane and essentially plain scores of bottom , before abscond with the CIA ’s prisoner , a doctor . We ’ll skip over the other bits from this prologue , for the sake of time . You already construe it , right ?
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Alfred carries something to Master Bruce in Wayne Manor — likely that covered plate we saw Bruce ’s observation in in the previous trailer .
Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle dance , while they have a conversation — which we ’ve already been hearing over the rest of the prevue . We heard part of this conversation in the earlier dawdler . Selina : “ You consider this is all going to last . There ’s a storm issue forth , Mr. Wayne . You and your champion better batten down the crosshatch . Because when it hits , you ’re all endure to inquire how you all thought you could subsist so large and pull up stakes so minuscule for the balance of us . ” Bruce : “ You fathom like you ’re looking forward to it . ” Selina : “ I ’m adaptable . ”
Notice that Bruce has no limp in this sequence , so either the hobble was something he ’s get over ( a leg injury , maybe ) or this is earlier in the film .
Here is actorBen Mendelsohn , whose visual aspect in the film was a surprise to everybody . ( Hat tip toCelluloid and Cigarette BurnsandFirst Showingfor identifying him . )
We do n’t live who he ’s playing , but the snappy tie and cause suggest perhaps a banker . Or a undercover agent , mayhap . He sure attend freaked out to have Bane ’s hand on his neck . “ What are you ? ” he asks . “ I ’m Gotham ’s counting , ” says Bane , who is sure as shooting much , mucheasier to translate than he was in December . fortune are , Mendelsohn ’s character is dead a few second after this second , which takes place in a nice office staff somewhere .
We see a glance of Bane hit the detonator inthe “ football game implosion ” sequencefrom last December ’s drone . And then we ’re looking at Nestor Carbonell , once again playing Gotham Mayor Anthony Garcia . ( assume he ’s not an ex - mayor by now . ) In December ’s laggard , we heard people saying the Mayor desire to dump James Gordon as Police Commissioner , because Gordon was a warfare submarine , and this is peacetime . In any case , the Mayor looks calmly at a readiness of big windows — until the window break loose in his steering . The visible light is almost blinding . Is this the sports stadium affair or a whole unlike blowup ? Does the Mayor survive this fourth dimension ?
A huge team of police force are running down an access route or burrow at night , until they turn over in reply to a loud noise of some sort . And then they get buried under a cave - in . This is intercut with the bowl disaster , but that takes place during the daytime and this is apparently at night . And this episode is patently part of the same sequence in which James Gordon gets nearly buried under debris from a burrow collapse , that we saw in December . Some of the shots are almost the same . There are also some shot by and by in the trailer of cops view in a tunnel burst , which may or may not be the same incident .
A mathematical group of thugs with simple machine gun come into a nice edifice , with gold trim and molded - iron balconies . It looks very similar to the place where Ben Mendelsohn was having his merging of the minds with Bane . Note the trash can fire , irregular firing and makeshift cots . Best guess : this is a courteous hotel or spot building , which has been converted into a refugee centre during the prostration of Gotham City ’s normal club . We see a mint of this sequencein December ’s trailer .
This conduct to a sequence wheresomeone tries to obliterate under a decent bureau while everyone else is fleeing , but then gets yank out from under there by the thugs , which we learn more of in December ’s trailer . The distress of ordinary loaded people during Bane ’s attack seems to be a major root word here .
Our first look at Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Gotham law police officer John Blake . He ’s stomach on a bridge circuit during a blizzard , ascertain something in full horror . Behind Blake , a schoolbus has been crashed into the side of the bridge circuit , effectively block it off .
Bane has blown up two major bridges go into Gotham City simultaneously , thus cutting the metropolis off from the outside world . ( Except for the subway , of course . But see above — there are some scene of tunnel being collapsed too . ) The trailer implies this is what Blake ’s looking at , except that it ’s not snow in this bridge deck wipeout sequence — plus why would the bridge deck Blake ’s standing on be left undamaged ?
A grouping of youngster watch something awful , with daze expressions . Once again , it ’s snowing . Almost certainly the same episode where we see John Blake gaze a import before . The kid in the center of attention is probably Blake ’s boy , since a moment later we see him talking to Blake .
A dirty , ragged figure is dragged along by two piece , and he ’s ostensibly either A ) unconscious or B ) too badly spite to walk . At one point , the man examine to put one foot on the earth , so atomic number 5 ) seems more likely . This is probably Bruce Wayne , after being dreadfully beaten by Bane to the point in time where he ’s hardly able-bodied to move .
John Blake , wearing a nicer getup , asks Selina Kyle if “ they ” killed him . Almost certainly meaning Batman / Bruce Wayne , although it could also be Jim Gordon — who we knowwinds up in the hospitalin this celluloid , too . But it ’s believably Bruce .
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Skipping ahead slightly , Selina react that she ’s not sure if “ they ” drink down him . She face like Hell , and it ’s the full opposite of the gloating Occupy Wall Street spokeswoman who dance with Bruce Wayne and cod him about the tempest that was coming . She probably joined Bane ’s crusade , or endeavor to gain from it , and now she ’s grief stricken . She ’s in some kind of hospital or doctor ’s function , with a loge of tissues , flower in a vase , and powder magazine on a tabular array ’s lower shelf . Is she queasy ? Or visiting a sick somebody ? ( chew the fat James Gordon , even ? )
Bruce Wayne look up from the bottom of a cryptic well . Notice that he ’s bear the same getup and light beard that he had in the scene we saw in December ’s trailer , where he ’s visitingthe Monastery of Ten Thousand Stairs . He ’s uninjured , too . This is probably not where Bane stick him after he ’s beaten to a pulp magazine . In December ’s house trailer , we saw Bruce ( assume this outfit ) inquire an onetime humanity in the elbow room full of staircase what it mean . The older man responds , “ come up . ” Bruce is probably on a fact - finding mission here . Chances are the Monastery of Ten Thousand Stairs is where Bane came from , and Bruce is there to memorise about his opposition . Or it ’s something to do with Ra ’s al - Ghul , who ’s powerfully rumored to be in the film .
Bruce climbs up out of that well . He has a R-2 , so he ’s flummox help from the outside . Or supplies . Again , extremely doubtful this is where Bane jug him .
A sternly wound Bruce Wayne regains consciousness , to see an ultra - fuzzy Bane stare at him . This is a successiveness we glimpsed in last July ’s tormentor , and again in December . Bruce require why he ’s not stagnant . “ Your penalisation must be more hard , ” says a profoundly earnest curse . Chances are , this is followed by the bit where Bane secernate Bruce:“When Gotham is in ash , you have my permission to die . ” This tantrum definitely take place in some variety of prison — you could glimpse bar in the background — but it ’s not the place with all the staircase and clobber . in all likelihood , it ’s in Gotham , since Bruce has to be able to see Gotham reduced to ash . It could even be the prison house where Banebusted out all the inmates .
Oh , and a side note . I never miss an opportunity to cite from Denny O’Neil ’s novelization of Knightfall , in which Bane fantasizes about save an injured Bruce Wayne prisoner and feeding him scab :
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Bane could see it . Batman , wan , blind by light , smeared with filth , arrange in tatters , so thin out his ribs almost burst from his pelt , his arms and stage flopping , drool leak down his mentum . “ Give him a roach to eat , ” Bane says . “ Give him a live mouse . Then put fervour to his feet . I need to hear him shout out . ”
A lone figure lower him- or herself into what seems to be the well that we see Bruce rise out of . Could this be Bruce descending into the Monastery of Ten Thousand Stairs to do some recon ? Bear in mind , in December ’s trailer , we saw a whole gang of ninjaslowering themselves into this same well , and alsoattacking the staircase chamber . Bruce Wayne could have some ninja visitors during his stay in the Monastery .
That kid we saw earlier depend out the window sop up a bat symbol on his own jeans leg , using a piece of chalk . “ Do you consider he ’s coming back ? ” he asks John Blake , who ’s sit next to him , bear a police force uniform .
“ I do n’t have it off , ” Blake respond , looking crinkle - browed . Again , arrogate they ’re talk about Batman , specially since the child just drew a Bat - symbol .
That ’s interspersed with a blastoff of Bane holding a shatter Batman cowling , which he drops on the footing . It ’s raining andBane is standing next to an overflow water tank .
Catwoman , looking passing upset , looks down at something through a bar windowpane . It ’s imply she ’s take care down at …
… a Tumbler painted in camouflage colors , tramp down the snow-white street of Gotham . notification that it ’s now play false again . We ’re guessing that Bane ’s takeover of Gotham take on place in December , and coincide with winter falling on the city , since most of the coarse scene boast snow . Last December ’s trailershowed this camouflage Tumbler shooting at the crowdduring the big fighting scene between Batman and Bane on the step of what look like City Hall .
Also in this new trailer , we see that there areactually two camouflage Tumblers attacking the crowdduring the fight between Bane ’s men and the cop on the steps . Later in the trailer , we also see a few more shot of the melee on the steps , withBatman and Bane punching each otherandBane charging towards the camera — but it ’s all pretty similar to what we figure in December ’s trailer .
John Blake tangle with a big bald man wearing paramilitary gear ( who is not Bane , just some random mook ) … andgets tossed into a hole full of snow-covered debris .
The Gotham Stock Market explodes ! This is worse than Sarbanes - Oxley .
Then we hear an telephone exchange , which I ’m venture is still from the scene where Selina is talking to John Blake . It sounds like their voices . John Blake says : “ How ’d you bleed , eh ? ” To which Selina replies : “ You should be as afraid of him as I am . ” Selina ’s always telling people what they should be afraid of . Meanwhile , we see Selina riding on a Batpod along a city street — notice , no snow , so it ’s belike originally — and this is in all likelihood her running away from Bane .
John Blake runs into an overflowing pool of flamboyant body of water , towards something reasonably horrendous , estimate from the feeling on his face . This come along to be the same place where we project Bane set down the broken Bat - cowl sooner , so hazard are Blake is work to try and keep open Bruce . Too belatedly .
Bane looks down at someone on the ground , and then kneels down to polish off inflicting grievous scathe . Notice that Bane is don his same fleece - lined jacket that he had on during the stadium implosion sequence from December ’s trailer . This is probably part of that same scene , and those fancy columns behind Bane are probably part of the stadium . We glimpse a man support behind Bane — credibly one of his piece . The trailer sorting of implies that Bane is about to fuck up Bruce Wayne , but this is credibly a totally different “ Bane be intimate someone up ” scene .
This is actually a bully eye blink - and - you - miss - it sequence in the trailer . Two of Bane ’s motorcar - gun wielding strong-armer are standing in a concrete tunnel someplace , shooting at something inside a dark burrow . The auto gun flashes briefly light up what they ’re shooting at — it ’s Batman ! He leaps out and takes them both out before they can off him with their wild shots . Notice there ’s a plenty of water flooding down there . mayhap shortly before the scene where Batman gets consider out by Bane .
Batman stands at a wire fencing , in what looks to be the same underground quickness , and slowly turns to facial expression …
… Bane , who is waiting for him at the other end of a walkway .
scourge boost towards Batman , adjusting something perceptibly on his vest . The provision of drugs ? Or something else ?
Alfred declares that he wo n’t bury Bruce . He ’s buried enough members of the Wayne crime syndicate already . This is from the same sequence in the other trailer , where he tell Bruce that he call Bruce ’s parent that he ’d protect Bruce , and he has n’t . They ’re in a tatty blue hall , not Wayne Manor , and Bruce is clean - shaved — so this is n’t the same period as the “ Bruce has a beard and a limp ” epoch . Alfred is essay to speak Bruce out of doing something dopy — like become Batman again , perchance .
James Gordon lights a flare , and Batman appears . This is probably former in the movie , since Gordon is uninjured — or deep in the flick , after he ’s miraculously reclaim . Chances are , now that the Bat - signal has been destroyed and Batman is officially a fugitive from judge , this flare pass - lighting business is something they ’ve worked out , that tolerate Gordon to adjoin Batman in secret . Batman steps forward into the pot from Gordon ’s flare . ( See first picture show . )
Badass shot of Batman standing on top of a building looking down at Gotham City .
Selina tell Batman , “ You do n’t owe these citizenry any more . You ’ve given them everything . ”
skip ahead slightly , Batman responds , “ Not everything . Not yet . ” And it ’s noticeably not the distinctive Bale Batman growling . Which mean either that Batman is letting down his guard duty a second with Selina , and no longer trying quite so hard to do The Voice . Or that this is n’t Bruce in the Batsuit any more . Take a facial expression at Batman ’s sassing in this shot — it looks a lot like Joseph Gordon - Levitt ’s . Do n’t believe us ? learn this out …
Batman saying “ Not yet ” is juxtaposed with John Blake raising his hands in surrender , while closing his eyes in everlasting torture . He ’s wearing the same kit he has on in that snowy “ watching Gotham fall ” sequence in the beginning in the trailer . And notice how his lips are fuller than Bale ’s ? And his chin is more jutting ? We could be guess things , but that ’s how Bats looks in that previous shot , too .
Lucius Fox controlling some high - tech user interface in a subterraneous concrete burrow …
… perhaps the same one with the flooding pool , where Batman is getting his hindquarters kicked by Bane , just prior to the “ shattered Bat - masquerade ” segment .
After a prompt shot of Batman speed along on a Bat - cycle , we cut to this shot of James Gordon , wait the worse for habiliment , with an apparently dead consistence behind him . mark it ’s snow-white again , which seems to be the sign of “ Bane in charge of Gotham . ”
An unknown captive catch another prisoner ’s hands and does a weird cartwheel inside the prison , while a bemused sentry go and warden sentinel . This is probably the overture to the prison severance we saw in the last trailer .
Cops and criminals rush towards each other in an all - out street fight , with two camou tumblers standing by .
Bruce Wayne kisses Miranda Tate , a Wayne Enterprises board extremity who ’s rumored to be Talia al - Ghul .
An armored truck drives through plosion , await mistily military — can anybody make sense of those markings ? subsequently in the prevue , we see one of Bane ’s camouflaged Tumblerscrash into it and flip over , bristle into flames . So it ’s decidedly running a gantlet . This might be the same episode as the bit we see in both drone , where the at-bat - planegets into a skirmish with a couple of Tumblers .
Batman and Catwoman team up to fight a clustering of goon . Probably around the same time as the conversation where Catwoman tells him that he ’s already give them everything .
A umbrageous figure face a kettle of fish in a wall underground , where an detonation has just gone off . ( A rocket launcher , maybe ? ) This seem to be connect to the tunnel cave - in that hurt a crowd of Gotham copper , probably including Gordon , since we see lot of shots of cops catch in a tunnel where a fireball is going off . The sheer amount of death in this film is going to be staggering , as Bane takes the city apart piece by piece . Around this time in the trailer , we get another glimpse ofBatman raise his high - tech grease-gun .
We finish out with Catwoman vex into Batman ’s vehicle and saying , “ My mother warned me about getting into cars with foreign man . ” To which Bats replies , “ this is n’t a car . ” And this metre , he sure as shooting fathom a bit more like Bale ’s hallmark growling , although still more whispery than growly . So perhaps we ’re off fundament about it being John Blake in the Batsuit in that other view — or perhaps this is just earlier in the movie .
In any case , it unquestionably is n’t a car — the Bat - Plane lifts off and zoom over Gotham , leave confused law officers eat on its exhaust .
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