I wrote this on a friend's FB wall as a
reply but was amazed at Nolan's thinking once I put all things together.
I may be wrong in some of my interpretations but only Nolan can confirm
that. :P so sharing it below.
First movie had scare crow who works
with league of shadows to destroy Gotham. Ra's Al Ghul is almost as
powerful as Bruce Wayne but not Batman. It showca
ses
Batman as a powerful hero who can beatup any thug from behind the mask.
In second there comes a man who is unbeatable because he doesnt have a
personal motto. He wants chaos.Peace disturbs him. He is physically weak
but mentally unstable enough to create chaos. Second part is mainly
about how most of the people "either die a hero or live long enough to
become a villian" like Harvey Dent. It shatters Batman mentally because
Dent shows him it's not easy to stand for what is right all the time. In
third he is weak now physically from the injuries, he is weak mentally
from the loss of Rachel and loss of hope that there can't be another
batman. When Bane comes into picture as very powerful villain, even more
powerful than himself, he is beaten and as Alfred says wants to die
now. But Bane does not let him die, because his(or accomplice's) victory
is in making Batman watch Gotham burn. There Batman learns his lesson,
like he learned in first part. When he became batman he realized he has
to conquer his fears to become powerful and instill fear in others. But
he never feared death. In third part he is taught to fear death more
than fearing failure. Remember his father coming to rescue him when he
was a kid and saying "why do we fall Bruce?so we can learn to pick
ourselves up." He learned to pick himself up from the prison hole in
this part by learning to fear death which he lost after losing his
parents and then Rachel. So all the antagonists in three parts made
Batman what he is from an aimless rich kid who was hell bent on revenge
in the beginning. Now his hope is Robin as new Batman. As per Nolan,
Robin and Batman are not two people. Only problem with TDKR was the
twist in the end. Bane should have been on his own with a stronger
motto. In some of comics, Bane is challenged by the stories of Batman
and chooses him as his opponent. But by doing so, the motto becomes
similar to what Joker had. So Nolan changed it but it was not good
enough.
Nolan set his standards so high and he always sets new high with his latest. Myself or anybody are not qualified to say he did not reach his standard in this. Its definitely not a bad movie. The only debatable point is the magnitude of the greatness of the movie.
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