The Dark Knight Rises - Horizon of Expectations

The Dark Knight Rises is inarguably one of the most highly anticipated and talked about Movie in year 2012. I have been a huge Batman fan  long before Christopher Nolan (Director of this epic trilogy ) could manage it  picturise to the general audience on the big screen. Although Hollywood is never allergic to revisiting a successful franchise (see "The Amazing Spider-Man"), Nolan has said this is the last Bat trip for him .

Here’s what Nolan had to say:

          “We feel a tremendous challenge and responsibility to finish our story. We have to give the audiences something they haven’t seen before, but also fulfill their expectations of what they enjoyed in the first two films. That’s the tricky balance.

“With a sequel there is always the challenge of trying to meet or indeed exceed expectations. And some of those are based on the size, scale and world of the film. We traveled to many different places because we wanted to give it a broader canvas.”

Storyline

Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight, in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its police force which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city.

Too Big to Fail

It would hard to go much bigger. About half of the 160-minute film was shot in the IMAX format (as opposed to 28 minutes of "The Dark Knight").

The opening sequence -- involving a midair hijacking/kidnapping -- will likely be regarded as a classic. The vehicles are cooler and do cooler things. (The Tumbler, aka Batmobile , returns, and Catwoman gets to ride a Bat-pod.) The wreckage is more extensive. And, for good measure, there's a nuclear explosion.

Budget -  250 Million $.(Estimated)(It will be a Visual Treat for sure).

Production Houses –

Warner Bros Pictures, DC Entertainment , Legendary Pictures (All Hollywood Biggies).

Runtime – 164 Min.

SoundMix – SDDS, Datasat, Dolby Digital.(The best sound exp ever in IMAX theatres).

Plot

If you recall the last two Batman movies –Batman Begins & The Dark Knight – you might remember how things tend to go haywire everytime Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) throws a party.

Going by the trailers of TDKR it looks Bruce is entertaining a lot of people in his re-constructed manor when Selina Kyle warns him about an impending “storm”.It would be no surprise if this would be the first faceoff between the good and the bad.

A Reputation  for the visual

With "The Dark Knight Rises" -- co-written with his brother, Jonathan -- Nolan may further his reputation as a director whose plot lines exist only to serve his visual art. Bane (Tom Hardy ) and his fellow terrorists, acting like a muscle-bound Occupy Movement, attack Wall Street and its ruling 1 percenters, but their supposed anti-capitalist policies are soon exposed as a mere ploy, a means of terrorizing Gotham into submission.

But Bane believes in what he's doing. And so does Batman. Both Bane and Batman wear masks. Both their voices are distorted by their disguises. They both suffer excruciating pain (Batman has to go through major rehabilitation in "The Dark Knight Rises" before he can once again answer the Bat Signal). In some ways, you might say, they're the same guy -- which may be Nolan's mischievous last word on the whole subject.

Stunning One Liners

Remember the Joker’s Legendary Quote “ This is what happens when an unstoppable force,meets an immovable object “.

In Batman Begins , Thomas Wayne’s “ Why do we fall ? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up”.

TDKR will be of no surprise remembered with its earth-shattering dialogues/liners from the protagonists and villain.

Bane:  “Gotham, take control... take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!”.

Bane to Batman - “When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die.”

Star studded  'Dark Knight'

Like any big Hollywood  movie, "The Dark Knight Rises" has its "stars" -- in this case, 

·        Christian Bale as Batman,

·         Tom Hardy as Bane 

Anne Hathaway as Catwoman 

·        Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Robin-like police officer John Blake. 

But in what suggests classic Hollywood studio tradition, the film also features a wealth of name actors in character roles -- performers who can, and have, starred in their own films, and can contribute their own fan base to the "Dark Knight" pot. 
The following are just a few of the bigger names in a cast that also include

·          Juno Temple and Tom Conti.

·        Michael Caine  (Alfred Pennyworth)

·         Morgan Freeman(Lucius Fox)

·        Marion Cotillard (Miranda Tate)

·        Gary Oldman  (Commissioner Gordon)

·        Liam Neeson  (Ra's al Ghul) .

The  Surprises expected to  blow-off  the audiences Worldover  :

Nolan’s movie are known to keep its audience on its toes always ,whether it’s the adrenaline –rush of the very first visuals of the opening scene and the sensational ,awe-inspiring climaxes.

Here is the list of some obvious surprises that one can expect to see & is ruling & rumored on the internet these days :

• ·        Batman breaks one of his rules and comes out during the day.
• ·        Ra’s Al Ghul is resurrected using a Lazarus pit.
• ·        Bruce falls in love with Miranda Tate(only to be betrayed).
• ·        Someone other than Bruce Wayne dons the Batsuit.
• ·        The League of shadows has a role in “making Bane”.

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Box Office Mojo, one of the Internet’s most widely-used sites for financial information pertaining to movies, is predicting that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will make something in the neighborhood of $500 million, stopping short of overtaking records set by The Dark Knight .

But I my predictions looking at the depth and epicness of this legendary movie ,it will surely surpass the previous record collection of 1 billion $. Looking  at the stupendous TDKR premiers review and responses from the exclusive celebrity  and  technocrats  that were invited and advanced booking of tickets getting filled 6 months before its release in many countries across the World ,its an indomitable opinion that TDKR will bedazzle the World on 20 th July,2012.

EPIC !!!.