tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4611043893536637860.post7137519810485589162..comments2023-12-03T19:24:13.151+00:00Comments on the cellulord is watching: DARK KNIGHT RISESCellulordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14673507296965428476noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4611043893536637860.post-13338154709903594292013-04-02T15:42:24.297+01:002013-04-02T15:42:24.297+01:00Two things I wasn't prepared to discuss in the...Two things I wasn't prepared to discuss in the review - because it was written the week the thing came out and I didn't want to spoil *everything*.<br /><br />But now everyone and their pet bat has seen it ...<br /><br />I agree. Bane is given a massive build-up, but no climax. The need to have a script reversal in Act 3 (one of the few structural rules the script does observe) robs him of his motivation and his significance.<br /><br />As such, once he's reduced to secondary importance, it's entirely proper that he's killed by a secondary character! That's one of the things I loved, I must confess! That, to me, could have been the reversal, with no reason to have the inevitable-foreign-femme-fatale-who's-really-a-villain plot contrivance at all.<br /><br />But, since all the marketing turned on Bane, his reduction to irrelevance (whilst brave and surprising) was anti-climactic and comparable to that involving Darth Maul thirteen years previous.Cellulordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14673507296965428476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4611043893536637860.post-50736326299931360802013-04-02T15:07:01.390+01:002013-04-02T15:07:01.390+01:00From a story telling perspective, TDKR has two big...From a story telling perspective, TDKR has two big problems:<br />1) after all that build-up, Bane is reduced to nothing more than Miranda's lacky<br />2) allowing Selina/Catwoman to kill Bane ultimately stops Batman from overcoming all that external conflict that the entire film has built towards, and therefore robs the audience of the satisfaction it has paid to experience - not to mention it cancels out the first two hours of the story because it becomes meaningless...<br /><br />Just saying... ;-)<br /><br />Randall's Movie Mania.comhttp://www.randallsmoviemania.com/noreply@blogger.com