I Summon Icy Sparklies upon You!

I Summon Icy Sparklies upon You!
Originally uploaded by Don a/k/a that pinto guy

Last night was me getting some stuff done. Okay, it was me getting a haircut and a few more bottles of migraine pills. All the same, I went out and saw The Dark Knight on IMAX. A huge nerd speculation will now follow.

Cinema
The Dark Knight managed to excel in its performance with a second rewatching. After seeing it, I started to find more things that are very suggestive through the film.

*Ramirez sort of flinching when first asked about her mother, it’s a very subtle but guilty response.

*I can see the accountant becoming E. Nigma now. In fact, it’s practically an open and shut case. After the events that transpired through TDK, it’s obvious that he undergoes witness protection of some sort due to all the revenge schemes.

This might not happen for another two movies though, as right now the character who becomes the Riddler is too much a schemer than an actual villain. The next movie might revolve around him becoming corrupted into hating Bruce further and blaming him for what happened to him.

*Rachel became more annoying with each rewatching. Before, she seemed to be a little sympathetic to Bruce, but now she’s practically frigid to the man. This kind of annoyed me, but it made the relationship between her and Harvey more palpable.

*Speaking of Rachel, there is a very obvious opportunity for a love interest to replace Rachel. I think Catwoman would be palpable to Nolan’s “real world” model of the DC Universe, perhaps having a sort of push-pull relationship between Bruce wanting Selina and Catwoman wanting Batman (this makes all the more sense since Batman was what repulsed Rachel), but a more appropriate choice would be to have Ra’s Al-Ghul return to Gotham as his daughter and to perhaps show Bruce that not all of his cult thinks the same way as he did.

This could be used as a reverse theme as well: perhaps as a way of proving Dent’s ideology wrong, that villains can become redeemable, and that perhaps the curse of Batman’s mantle is also what brings hope to corrupted character, and even to Bruce when all the chips are down thanks to the big FUBAR left for him in TDK.

*I still think Harvey’s dead. It would just feel right with the idea of “dying a hero or living to see yourself the villain”. If I find out he’s in the next movie, although I would be glad Aaron Eckhart was back (since he’s still a favorite of mine compared to Heath), I would feel like it would cheapen what TDK’s intentions were.

ALSO: I just realized: no one has any idea about the Joker's creation, right? What if it was in the "best interests" of Ras' organization to create something like him to begin with as a trump card in case his plans were foiled? The intentions of the Joker and Ras are one in the same if you think about it, so it would only make sense that you would create a monster that would undo all the "damage" created by Batman. This might be the main agenda of the third movie, with the Riddler only being a minor villain hidden behind the much greater cause.

I Summon Icy Sparklies upon You!

I Summon Icy Sparklies upon You!
Originally uploaded by Don a/k/a that pinto guy

Last night was me getting some stuff done. Okay, it was me getting a haircut and a few more bottles of migraine pills. All the same, I went out and saw The Dark Knight on IMAX. A huge nerd speculation will now follow.

Cinema
The Dark Knight managed to excel in its performance with a second rewatching. After seeing it, I started to find more things that are very suggestive through the film.

*Ramirez sort of flinching when first asked about her mother, it’s a very subtle but guilty response.

*I can see the accountant becoming E. Nigma now. In fact, it’s practically an open and shut case. After the events that transpired through TDK, it’s obvious that he undergoes witness protection of some sort due to all the revenge schemes.

This might not happen for another two movies though, as right now the character who becomes the Riddler is too much a schemer than an actual villain. The next movie might revolve around him becoming corrupted into hating Bruce further and blaming him for what happened to him.

*Rachel became more annoying with each rewatching. Before, she seemed to be a little sympathetic to Bruce, but now she’s practically frigid to the man. This kind of annoyed me, but it made the relationship between her and Harvey more palpable.

*Speaking of Rachel, there is a very obvious opportunity for a love interest to replace Rachel. I think Catwoman would be palpable to Nolan’s “real world” model of the DC Universe, perhaps having a sort of push-pull relationship between Bruce wanting Selina and Catwoman wanting Batman (this makes all the more sense since Batman was what repulsed Rachel), but a more appropriate choice would be to have Ra’s Al-Ghul return to Gotham as his daughter and to perhaps show Bruce that not all of his cult thinks the same way as he did.

This could be used as a reverse theme as well: perhaps as a way of proving Dent’s ideology wrong, that villains can become redeemable, and that perhaps the curse of Batman’s mantle is also what brings hope to corrupted character, and even to Bruce when all the chips are down thanks to the big FUBAR left for him in TDK.

*I still think Harvey’s dead. It would just feel right with the idea of “dying a hero or living to see yourself the villain”. If I find out he’s in the next movie, although I would be glad Aaron Eckhart was back (since he’s still a favorite of mine compared to Heath), I would feel like it would cheapen what TDK’s intentions were.

ALSO: I just realized: no one has any idea about the Joker's creation, right? What if it was in the "best interests" of Ras' organization to create something like him to begin with as a trump card in case his plans were foiled? The intentions of the Joker and Ras are one in the same if you think about it, so it would only make sense that you would create a monster that would undo all the "damage" created by Batman. This might be the main agenda of the third movie, with the Riddler only being a minor villain hidden behind the much greater cause.

I Summon Icy Sparklies upon You!

I Summon Icy Sparklies upon You!
Originally uploaded by Don a/k/a that pinto guy

Last night was me getting some stuff done. Okay, it was me getting a haircut and a few more bottles of migraine pills. All the same, I went out and saw The Dark Knight on IMAX. A huge nerd speculation will now follow.

Cinema
The Dark Knight managed to excel in its performance with a second rewatching. After seeing it, I started to find more things that are very suggestive through the film.

*Ramirez sort of flinching when first asked about her mother, it’s a very subtle but guilty response.

*I can see the accountant becoming E. Nigma now. In fact, it’s practically an open and shut case. After the events that transpired through TDK, it’s obvious that he undergoes witness protection of some sort due to all the revenge schemes.

This might not happen for another two movies though, as right now the character who becomes the Riddler is too much a schemer than an actual villain. The next movie might revolve around him becoming corrupted into hating Bruce further and blaming him for what happened to him.

*Rachel became more annoying with each rewatching. Before, she seemed to be a little sympathetic to Bruce, but now she’s practically frigid to the man. This kind of annoyed me, but it made the relationship between her and Harvey more palpable.

*Speaking of Rachel, there is a very obvious opportunity for a love interest to replace Rachel. I think Catwoman would be palpable to Nolan’s “real world” model of the DC Universe, perhaps having a sort of push-pull relationship between Bruce wanting Selina and Catwoman wanting Batman (this makes all the more sense since Batman was what repulsed Rachel), but a more appropriate choice would be to have Ra’s Al-Ghul return to Gotham as his daughter and to perhaps show Bruce that not all of his cult thinks the same way as he did.

This could be used as a reverse theme as well: perhaps as a way of proving Dent’s ideology wrong, that villains can become redeemable, and that perhaps the curse of Batman’s mantle is also what brings hope to corrupted character, and even to Bruce when all the chips are down thanks to the big FUBAR left for him in TDK.

*I still think Harvey’s dead. It would just feel right with the idea of “dying a hero or living to see yourself the villain”. If I find out he’s in the next movie, although I would be glad Aaron Eckhart was back (since he’s still a favorite of mine compared to Heath), I would feel like it would cheapen what TDK’s intentions were.

ALSO: I just realized: no one has any idea about the Joker's creation, right? What if it was in the "best interests" of Ras' organization to create something like him to begin with as a trump card in case his plans were foiled? The intentions of the Joker and Ras are one in the same if you think about it, so it would only make sense that you would create a monster that would undo all the "damage" created by Batman. This might be the main agenda of the third movie, with the Riddler only being a minor villain hidden behind the much greater cause.