@vikings: People fail too lok at the fact they call it the pit.
There is a Spiderman 3 poster in TDK
Bane coat is a reference to Hush
The Trail scene was used in the animated series, with the Joker as the judge, they put the Scarecrow, but lets be honest the Joker is the mian man, no small cameo guy.
Rises ending is exatly like The Batman Adam West movie, where Batman cant ger rid of a bomb and people belive he died
Why do we fall?, is a reference to The Man who falls, inspiration for Begins plot.
The man that was introduce as Ras in the party scene, is using a green cape, like he does in the comics.
Christian Bale was introduce to a Batcostume with nipples, he knew it was joke.
Also the reason for no blood in this movies, they didnt want to make the movies too dark.
Jerry Robinson who created the Joker concept, help the production crew to design him as a character, take that Ledger haters.
Ras and Bane use the same posture.
Batman always counter his villains signature lines before finish them.
Storm is coming was use by Batman in Begins and Catwoman in TDKR.
Thalia was obssesed with using the same phrases that Ras algun used, like doing what is necesary, resto the balance , he said when some one interfiers with justice you stab him in the heart, again Thalia did this,
The spikes of his arm was his best weapon, since it breack Ras sword, put new scars to the Joker and destroy Bane mask.
In some point ins Rises some one talk about flipping a coin, again a joke about Two Faces.
When Batman take down the Al Ghuls is playing the exact same music, besides he take them down in the same fashion.
Ras used a mask that looks like Darth Vader mask on Begins, Bane mask is also based on Darth Vader Mask and Batman Costume is based on Darth Vader costume, not surprise since Nolan is a Star Wars Fan.
Fox tell Bruce all the thing that will happen to him, during the scene he show him the new costume, he say he will be stab and shot very damn close.
For some bizarre reason he was asking for directions in all the 3 movies.
This were ones i found in some website.
When Bruce's parents die, his stance is inconsistent; in one shot he is standing up then sitting down in another. This may be a deliberate, as the scene is a subjective view of a confusing, traumatic moment, when memory can become unreliable.
The position of tree branches over the water well young Bruce falls in changes. The branches look one way (from the bottom looking up) when Rachel calls down, but it appears to be a different tree when Thomas Wayne lowers himself to rescue Bruce. This may be a deliberate, as the scene is a subjective view of a confusing, traumatic moment, when memory can become unreliable.
Commissioner Loeb is a character from Year One, also it could be a joke about Jeph Loeb, Batman comic book writter.
Carmine "The Roman" Falcone is a character from Year One and The Long Halloween.
Henri Ducard was created by Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm. The character was in the movie's original script, however was dropped. Hamm later during his comic book writing debut on Detective Comics series incorporated the character into the Batman mythos.
A pair of Batman pajama bottoms can be seen hanging from the line in the scene where Batman talks to the little boy in the Narrows.
The Gotham Police cruisers' color scheme is based on that of the New York Police Department. Gotham is meant by Bob Kane to be a caricature of New York City.
Batman's journey to Tibet, and his ninja training, were both elements introduced into the comic book by writer James Owsley in Batman #431 (March, 1989). The series editor,Denny O'Neil, made the issue part of the Batman Writers Bible that he would hand out to each new writer on the series, thus confirming the story's place in canon.
The opera that young Bruce attends with his parents is "Mefistofele", composed in the mid-1800s by Arrigo Boito.
The character Ra's al Ghul was co-created by comic-book writer/editor Denny O'Neil and artist Neal Adams. O'Neil also wrote the Batman Begins novelization, O Neil talked about Ras daughter in this.
The movie references the comic, Batman Year One by Frank Miller with Detective Flass, the corrupt cop, being partnered with James Gordon. It further follows the storyline by showing Gordon refusing to turn in the corrupt cops.
Lucius Fox even when is a comic book character, in the movie takes the job of Harold Allnut Batman's trusty engineer and the resident mechanic of the Batcave.
John Nolan, Christopher Nolan: the birthday party guest who tells Bruce Wayne that "the apple has fallen very far from the tree.
Jeremy Theobald: The male lead from Following, Christopher Nolan's first film. He plays the younger of the two Gotham Water Board Technicians.
Lucy Russell: The female lead from Following, Christopher Nolan's first film. She plays a guest in the restaurant, and has the second most lines of any female in the movie, second only to Katie Holmes (Rachel Dawes).
During the interrogation scene when Gordon leaves the room and the lights come on, you can see the Joker close his eyes and brace himself to have his head slammed into the desk before Batman touches him. However, he was probably blinking from the bright lights coming on after he was in the dark for so long.
The length of The Joker's hair changes throughout the course of the movie on several occasions. It begins mid length then changes to long, then back to short. This is suitable for this chameleon-like, disguise-loving character.
When Two-Face is in the hospital which The Joker plans on blowing up, you can see make-up on his pillow which has rubbed off from the "burnt" side of his face. Actually the burnt part of his side is completely CGI, and the "make-up" is supposed to be "ashes" or pieces of Two-Face's burnt side rubbing off onto the pillow.
Batman asks Alfred to find the names of any police officers who have family members staying in the hospital. Alfred texts Gordon with two names "Ramirez, Berg". Charles Ramirez-Berg is an acclaimed professor of radio-television-film at the University of Texas at Austin who, among other honors, was mentioned in Robert Rodriguez 's autobiography as his favorite professor.
Gotham City's civic heraldry combines elements of New York City's and Chicago's municipal emblems. Examples include Gotham-area license plates (based on Illinois tags found throughout Chicago) and Gotham's garbage trucks (whose door emblems directly quote New York City's old Sanitation Department logo: a large red sans-serif capital letter S atop a medical caduceus, all within a circle with a text border).
During the chase scene, when the Joker takes over driving the semi after his driver is killed, the bullet holes on the windshield form a smiley face.
The ferries used for the ferry scene in which a boat of convicts and citizens are forced to detonate a bomb in the other boat, the ferries depicted are CGI models of the Molinari-class of Staten Island Ferry. The Staten Island Ferry, which is run by the New York Department of Transportation, offers a free 25-minute ride across New York harbor from St. George in Staten Island to South Ferry in Manhattan.
When Harvey Dent disarms the witness in court, he removes the magazine from the stock and holds it in his small finger. This is actually the correct procedure for emergency reloads and correcting malfunctions.
Bit actor Paul Birchard also acted in Tim Burton's Batman, making him one of the very few actors to have been in both Batman franchises.
The Joker (Heath Ledger) falling from the Prewitt building mirrors a scene from the very first Joker story in 'Batman' #1 (Spring, 1940) in which the Joker falls from a penthouse scaffolding, but is caught by the Batman.
During the Hong Kong action scene (to bring Lau back), Batman shoots time-bombs on the glass which has a time of 2:22 minutes. The bombs explode almost exactly after 2 minutes 20 seconds in real time, which shows that the action could happen in almost 2 minutes.
Buster Reeves, Christian Bale: a Joker thug. He appears in the trailer of the Joker's semi-truck, as he hands The Joker his weapons as he fires them at the police transport. He then rides in the passenger seat of the cab of the truck as The Joker drives.
There are many elements from various Batman graphic novels, either verbatim or slightly recast. In The Long Halloween, Batman, Gordon, and Dent fake Dent's death. In The Dark Knight, Gordon's death is faked. Also in The Long Halloween, Batman poses as a SWAT officer. In the movie, Gordon does. The Joker's reference at the end of the film to "pushing Dent over the edge" mirrors his social experiment with Gordon in The Killing Joke, in which The Joker attempts to drive Gordon insane by making him have a really bad day. A lot of the interaction between Batman and The Joker is taken from The Long Halloween, specifically the interrogation scene in the film. It's reminiscent of the end of The Long Halloween and also is similar to elements of The Dark Knight Returns.
the policeman that is clearing the hospital out which he shoots with a pistol while in a nurse uniform. This character choice is a reference to the graphic novel 'The Man Who Laughs' in which it is mentioned that The Joker "just opened fire and didn't even look at the people while he killed them".
Harvey Dent's scarring in this film due to an explosion is not what happens in the comics but rather is closer to the Batman episodes Two-Face Part I and II.
In Batman Batman uses the grapple gun on the Joker, causing him to fall to his death. In this film, Batman also uses the grapple gun on the Joker, this time to save him from falling.
Throughout the movie, the Gotham City Police Department uniform and cars show GPD and GCPD inconsistently. It is not uncommon for police forces to change vehicle liveries and/or styles of their uniforms every once in a while. New vehicles would be added to their fleet and given the new livery - to change every other older vehicle in the fleet to the same new livery would not be cost-effective.
Early on in the film Bane makes a big point about how he was born in the dark and never saw light till he was a grown man. Later when we see the pit it is not only well lit but we get another speech about how the view of the sky is a key part of the prison's design. He never said he was born in the prison. Simply in the dark.
At the end, when they found out its program was tampered, Fox was running analysis on "The Bat", which would have been obliterated inside a nuclear explosion. This Bat however, is the original model, light blue, shown to Bruce by Fox during their meeting. Fox explains that "it does come in black," indicating that it is quite possible he had more than one of these vehicles in his possession at Applied Sciences at that time. Considering this, any software patch used by Bruce to fix the autopilot issue would have transferred onto all of the models, making it quite possible that the vehicle seen at the end is not the one piloted by Batman during the film.
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When Bane enters the stock exchange trading floor, he wears a backpack that has a logo 'DCS courier services.' Batman is a DC Comics superhero.
A close look on the handheld walkie-talkies used by the Gotham City Police Dept reveals an old DC Comic logo.
The character Barsad, Bane's right-hand-man played by Josh Stewart, is a sniper and heavy arms expert. He is always shown wearing a bulletproof vest which has large bullets on it and a red scarf. This is a take on the Batman villain DeadShot, a character which co-writer David S. Goyer had expressed interest in bringing to the big screen.
The orphanage where Blake grew up and visits in the film is named St. Swithin's. In England, St. Swithin's day takes place on July 15th and is a tradition where whatever the weather is like on this day it will be like for the next 40 days, and it is said that if it rains that day it will rain for the next 40. The rhyme goes: "St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain nae mair." Water and rain are common motifs in Christopher Nolan's films.
Christopher Nolan used a heavy mask motif through out the movie; Batman, Bane, and Catwoman all wear masks, Bruce Wayne has a collection of African tribal masks in the room where he and Officer Blake first talk in Wayne manor, and Miranda Tate hosts a masquerade party.
Batman doing action during the day time could be a reference to the Batman Ada West Show.
Patrick Leahy: US Senator from Vermont cameos in the movie as a Wayne Enterprises Board Member. Leahy, a fan of Batman, previously cameoed in The Dark Knight and Batman and Robin.
Miranda Nolan: The cousin of writer-director Christopher Nolan and co-writer Jonathan Nolan appears as the maid gossiping about Bruce Wayne.
Bane has a triangle shaped scar on the side of his head, most visible during the stock exchange scene. Miranda Tate has an identical scar on her back, noticeable during her love scene with Bruce, thus hinting at her membership in the League of Shadows and true identity as Talia.
When Cillian Murphy first appears as the sentencing judge, he is wearing a heavily tattered coat that looks like it has straw coming out of the shoulders. This is a clear nod to his alter ego, Scarecrow.
There are several moments in the film where it is hinted that the child was not Bane. Bane tells Batman he never saw light 'til he was already a man. Furthermore the child that escapes from the pit is not scarred despite the fact we know Bane was treated within the prison.
Ras coming back fromthe grave is a joke to Star Wars where he as Qui Gon can do the same, Liam Neeson killed death.
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