Six minutes is hardly enough for a movie to make a big impression on people’s mind. Fortunately, Christopher Nolan is a God. He showed 6 minutes of The Dark Knight Rises and it already made such an impression on me.
Remember that big set piece with the bank robbery on the first scene of Dark Knight? Remember how awesome it was? The first six minute of Dark Knight Rises is basically that, shot on a plane and 10x more awesome. The prologue focuses on Bane, who will be the main villain in the movie. I read the whole “Knightfall” saga in the comics where Bane establish himself as the only man to ever break Batman (quite literally)
Despite all this, and the fact that Joel Schumacher used him in the franchise-destroying ‘Batman and Robin’, I never liked the character. He’s too brute and seems to straight forward to be viewed as Batman’s biggest threat. It seems like my view of the character might have changed after seeing the prologue and the trailer of TDKR. For the first time in my life, I actually worry about Batman. Bane here showed that he’s not all muscle, but he’s actually very intimidating, menacing, and extremely intelligent. When you see Joker, he’s undoubtedly Batman’s equal, wants to hurt Batman but for some strange case, I never believe he would’ve killed Batman. He’s his equal and he wants to keep Batman alive because Batman keeps him going. To some extent, he exists because Batman exists.
Bane seems like a bigger threat. He’s got Joker’s scheming intelligence (at least in the movie) and he wants to hurt Batman. Bad. It seems like from the teaser, trailer and poster, he might succeed! Nolan has successfully created a persona that made people believe that Batman might lose. Now the anticipation is just killing me. I mean, this is IT! The end of the whole Dark Knight saga. I really hope Nolan will deliver and so far it looks like he’s going to nail it! 2012 can’t come any sooner!
