The Dark Knight Rises
Summary
More than a decade after Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight trilogyended , there still has n’t been a solo Batman moving-picture show . TheDCEUgave us another version , played by Ben Affleck , but his solo project was , of course , canceled . In that time , perceptiveness forThe Dark Knight Riseshas only grown . Somewhat divisive on discharge - mostly because it was n’t as good as its precursor - it remains hugely entertaining .
The Dark Knight Risesdoesn’t get enough credit for being one of the most quotable Batman movies ever made . And that ’s saying a lot . It may not have been perfect , but it presented huge ideas , wrapping up Nolan ’s trilogy in a satisfying and memorable agency . And inTom Hardy ’s Banein particular , and Michael Caine ’s ruin , emotionally baste Alfred , it had two quotation mark machines . These areThe Dark Knight Risesquotes that have gravel with us for more than a tenner since its release .
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15"Save Yourself. You Don’t Owe These People Anymore. You’ve Given Them Everything"
Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle
Anne Hathaway ’s Selina Kyle evidently end up as Bruce Wayne ’s felicitous end , reconstruct his heart after Rachel ’s decease broke it into slice . After their initial friction , she sees Batman for who and what he is , which is exactly why their human relationship break so quickly . She ’s also the grounds he quits , and this line underlines exactly why he makes the decisiveness . Ironically , it ’s well considered as the full - check to Alfred ’s entire bow of pleading with Bruce .
14"You Do Not Fear Death. You Think This Makes You Strong. It Makes You Weak"
Uri Gavriel as Blind Prisoner
One of the best thing aboutThe Dark Knight Risesis the way it challenges the idea of Batman . This is not a reinforcement of the concept of the Dark Knight as a God , and his weakness is a rich vein running through the threequel . And while it ’s Bane who fall in the Bat physically , it ’s Bruce Wayne who has to check hsi alter - ego down right in parliamentary procedure to win . And it all starts with a unreasoning captive .
Blind Prisoner : You do not fear death . You think this draw you stiff . It get you watery .
Bruce Wayne : Why ?
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Blind Prisoner : How can you move faster than potential , fight longer than possible without the most powerful nerve impulse of the spirit : the fright of destruction .
Bruce Wayne : I do fear death . I fear dying in here , while my metropolis burns , and there ’s no one there to relieve it .
Blind Prisoner : Then make the acclivity .
Bruce Wayne : How ?
Blind Prisoner : As the tyke did . Without the rope . Then veneration will find out you again .
13"A Hero Can Be Anyone, Even A Man Doing Something As Simple And Reassuring As Putting A Coat Around A Young Boy’s Shoulders To Let Him Know The World Hadn’t Ended"
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne
WhileThe Dark Knight Trilogyis Batman ’s story , it simply would n’t lick without Jim Gordon . He is arguably a bigger hero than Batman , because he operates alongside the putrefaction unprotected . He makes a base when it could imperil him , and it ’s very merely because he is a unspoiled human race . And in Bruce ’s admonisher of that , when he reveals who he is , we get a beautiful reminder of everything Gordon made a stand for .
12"Innocent Is A Strong Word To Throw Around Gotham"
Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate
The contradiction in terms of Batman ’s desire to keep open Gotham City has never been turn a loss in Batman pic . Hisability to see any good in arguably the forged city ever drop a line in DC lore is not so much a superpower as a unreasoning - spot . And Talia al Ghul pose that painful truth to Batman when her true identity is revealed . And honestly , it ’s surd to argue with her , but that ’s what makes Bruce ’s commitment all the more admirable .
Batman : He was try out to kill millions of destitute masses
Talia al Ghul:‘Innocent ' is a strong word to throw around Gotham , Bruce . I respect my Fatherhood by finishing his oeuvre . payback against the man who vote out him is merely a payoff for my patience …
[ Talia twists the tongue in Batman ’s side ]
Talia al Ghul : You see , it ’s the slow tongue … the knife that accept its time , the knife that hold off years without forgetting , then slip quietly between the bones … that ’s the knife that cut deepest .
11"There’s A Storm Coming, Mr. Wayne…"
The most compelling villain are the one whose evil plans are rooted in truth . InThe Dark Knight rise , it ’s Selina Kyle who set up up Bane as that type of villain ( before the twist undoes the picture of him economize Gotham from itself).This quote is the perfect sum-up of what Gotham has become : a cesspit of self - serving corruption and capitalist economy where the ample get fat and the poor get screwed . It ’s also a reminder of just how successful Bruce Wayne ’s disguise is .
" There ’s a tempest coming , Mr. Wayne . You and your friend better batten down the hatches , because when it hit , you ’re all gon na wonder how you ever thought you could inhabit so large and leave so picayune for the rest of us . "
10"I Never Wanted You To Come Back To Gotham…"
Michael Caine as Alfred
Long before the ending showed Alfred discovering Bruce had fake his death , Batman ’s happy ending was lay out up utterly by Alfred ’s heartbreaking revelationthat he knew his surrogate son was always good off staying away . It ’s as if Alfred knew the substance of Bruce , and that he ’d never be capable to escape his hurt .
" retrieve when you go away Gotham ? Before all this , before Batman ? You were go seven days . Seven years I hold off , hoping that you would n’t follow back . Every year , I took a holiday . I went to Florence , there ’s this coffee bar , on the banks of the Arno . Every fine evening , I ’d sit there and order a Fernet Branca . I had this fantasy , that I would face across the table and I ’d see you there , with a wife and perchance a couple of kids .
You would n’t say anything to me , nor me to you . But we ’d both know that you ’d made it , that you were happy . I never wanted you to come up back to Gotham . I always knew there was nothing here for you , except pain and disaster . And I want something more for you than that . I still do . "
9"The Idea Was To Be A Symbol. Batman Could Be Anybody, That Was The Point"
The Dark Knight Rises ' endingcontroversially introduced the thought that Batman was never restrict to Bruce Wayne as an idea . This was , ab initio , difficult to take , because Wayne ’s injury was exactly why he ’d taken up the cowl and cape as Gotham ’s protector .
He was a symbol precisely because he was sinful , unconventional next to the metropolis ’s criminal grime , but just a Superman was a symbolization of hope , Batman being a symbolic representation of guardianship was a compelling young take . It ’s also a reminder of Bale ’s origin words fromBatman Begins :
“ People require spectacular examples to stimulate them out of apathy , and I ca n’t do that as Bruce Wayne . As a man , I ’m physique and parentage . I can be ignored . I can be destroyed . But as a symbolization , as a symbol I can be incorruptible , I can be everlasting . ”
8"I Won’t Bury You. I’ve Buried Enough Members Of The Wayne Family"
Alfred ’s arc inThe Dark Knight Risesis one of nuisance - a theme Nolan bosom wholeheartedly . He is , essentially , a admonisher of the cost of heroism , and the reason why Batman only cultivate if he does n’t have personal connections . Alfred is Batman ’s tragical collateral damage , and by this power point , he ’s bene through so much that he defy his sentiency of duty to assure Master Bruce straight .
7"No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask"
Tom Hardy as Bane
Disguise has always been an important part of Batman ’s mythology , and something the movies have explored head on . In this line from Bane , he ’s reinforcing their similarity in the same perverse way the Joker didinThe Dark Knight . He ’s hash out the magnate of symbolization and judgment of conviction , which is at last what helps Batman have his Three Kings’ Day that go to his retirement . Even without pronounce it to Batman , he set the timbre utterly .
6"I’m Still A Believer In The Batman. Even If You’re Not"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake
JGL ’s John Blake is the wholesome moral heart ofThe Dark Knight rise : an incorruptible force who present the corking challenge to his organized religion when he study that Jim Gordon insure up Harvey Dent ’s criminal offense for the heavy good . In one extended language to Bruce Wayne , Blake confirms himself as everything Batman believe he involve to economise in Gotham .
And Blake ’s confrontation of Wayne is also a huge pace in the latter ’s determination to prefer the cop as his replacement . He recognizes himself in Blake , and someone who can finally take over his duty .
" Uh , he does n’t know or care who you are ; but we ’ve meet before . It was a long time ago , I was a youngster , uh , Saint Swithin ’s used to be funded by the Wayne foundation ; it was an orphanage . My ma go bad when I was small ; it was a car accident , I do n’t really remember it . But , uh , my dad got shot a mates days later over a gambling debt . And I recall that one just fine .
Not a lot people make out what if feel like to , uh , be raging … in your bone . I intend , they understand , your surrogate parents , everybody else read … for a while . But then they want the furious little kid to do something he have it away he ca n’t do . Move on .
So , after a while , they block up understanding . They send the angry nipper to a boys ' home . I figure it out too late . You make to learn to hide the choler . Practice smile in the mirror . It ’s like putting on a masque .
So , you showed up this one sidereal day in a cool motorcar , pretty girl on your branch . We were so unrestrained ! Bruce Wayne ; billionaire orphan ! I mean , we used to make up stories about you , man . caption . And , you know , with the other kids , that ’s all it was , just stories , but … right when I see you , I knew who you really were . I ’d ensure that look on your face before . It was the same one I taught myself . I do n’t bonk why you took the crepuscle for Dent ’s murder , but I ’m still a believer in the Batman . Even if you ’re not . "
