The Dark Knight Rises Batman out in the daylight

[Alixyveth]

Instead of criticizing without knowing the whole story, I would suggest taking clues from what's being filmed. Obviously, if Batman is out in full uniform in the middle of the day, some serious **** is going down story-wise.

 

[Mister Meddle]

Would rather have it happen at night but obviously Batman's gonna have to make exceptions instead of doing what's convenient for him.

It was right before Bruce went out to save the dude that wanted to blackmail him with his sports car. Alfred asked if he was going to take the Batpod and he said something like "not during the day, Alfred".

 

[John McGuirk]

It's called post-production anyways...

And Bane has to be drawing Batman out.

 

[Manosman]

Wow, you are the only guy who sees the validity of my question.

I mean yeah, perhaps its quite quick, and with the confusion of the snow and people, Batman is a blur to them and even Bane.

I get where you're coming from, and didn't mean to be snobby, but hopefully we will all be completely engaged with everything that is going on in this movie story-wise, the more than likely beautiful cinematography by wally, camera angles, imax film, chaos, that we won't even notice or even care that taking place during the day, if that is in fact true.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I REALLY doubt they are turning the scene into night. Yeah, there will be color correction/timing/balence done in post, but Nolan isn't going to completely change this scene into night. Stop..PLEASE STOP IT with the "it'll be turned into night in post" stuff. IT'S NOT HAPPENING. This scene takes place in the DAYLIGHT and it's part of the story as to why that is. JUST DEAL WITH IT!

The reason why it ISN'T being turned into night is that if Nolan wanted a NIGHT SCENE....He would have shot it at night. "but in TDK the Hong Kong scene was shot in day and turned to night." YEAH..Because it's insane and unsafe to pull that stunt in the movie off during the night and the country wouldn't allow it to happen that way. BUT this scene here is just simple stunt work on the ground, with snow falling and a ton of extras and no need of a CGI Batman stunt either. It would be insanely stupid and expensive to shoot in the day, only to turn around and turn it into night. Plus this scene extends to a chase scene on the streets...so they're going to shoot all this footage (city hall, batpod chase scene..ect) and use a lot of post/time/money to convert it to NIGHT? They may have $250million of a budget, but it's a BUDGET..not a check book to waste time and money!

So please..can we STOP IT with the convert the scene to night talk? PLEASE? IT'S NOT HAPPENING.

Thank you.

 

[Troy_Parker]

Bane drawing Batman out to fight in the day would be badass.

There's nothing wrong with that. At all.

 

[Manosman]

I REALLY doubt they are turning the scene into night. Yeah, there will be color correction/timing/balence done in post, but Nolan isn't going to completely change this scene into night. Stop..PLEASE STOP IT with the "it'll be turned into night in post" stuff. IT'S NOT HAPPENING. This scene takes place in the DAYLIGHT and it's part of the story as to why that is. JUST DEAL WITH IT!

The reason why it ISN'T being turned into night is that if Nolan wanted a NIGHT SCENE....He would have shot it at night. "but in TDK the Hong Kong scene was shot in day and turned to night." YEAH..Because it's insane and unsafe to pull that stunt in the movie off during the night and the country wouldn't allow it to happen that way. BUT this scene here is just simple stunt work on the ground, with snow falling and a ton of extras and no need of a CGI Batman stunt either. It would be insanely stupid and expensive to shoot in the day, only to turn around and turn it into night. Plus this scene extends to a chase scene on the streets...so they're going to shoot all this footage (city hall, batpod chase scene..ect) and use a lot of post/time/money to convert it to NIGHT? They may have $250million of a budget, but it's a BUDGET..not a check book to waste time and money!

So please..can we STOP IT with the convert the scene to night talk? PLEASE? IT'S NOT HAPPENING.

Thank you.

It could happen.....haha

 

[Hurm...]

Okay, not sure if this has been addressed.
But does anyone see problems with Batman fighting in the day in a massive crowd?

I thought the whole point of Batman was he was a ninja, who uses stealth, and tries to keep himself concealed.

Wouldn't fighting in a massive crowd in broad daylight be defeating the whole purpose of batman? He is fighting in snow and is in ALL BLACK, which means he can EASILY be seen.

Just need someone to explain how this works...

cheers

Let's say...


If Bane threatened to murder a row of cops, and it happened to be daylight, Batman would intervene. Batman won't say, "Damn! It's daylight! I can't save them!" No. It doesn't matter if it's sunny as hell or a blizzard is approaching, if Gotham calls for Batman's help, he will arrive. Even when the odds are stacked against him.

 

[film4life]

Bats are nocturnal. Hence the dark knight must "rise" out of bed in broad daylight and fight crime.

 

[jazzmatik]

This one particular scene with Batman fighting Bane in daylight might turn out to be a cinematic masterpiece.

 

[Bat-Mite]

Spoiler

Great post! Here's some moar.

And because I know someone will try to claim that that's the moon in the last picture, here's the panel that precedes it.

 

[hegele]

Two things guys...

They are shooting this on IMAX stock, so the chances that they'll do digital color correction to make it night are zilch. Nolan doesn't like digital color correction and neither does Wally and the traditional day-for-night developing technique wouldn't get past the audience on the resolution of IMAX stock. Plus... this is a 200+ million dollar movie. If they want the scene at night, they would shoot it at night. It would be less cumbersome to shoot at night in a downtown metropolitan area anyway, so the fact that they are shooting during the day means it is SUPPOSED to be set during the day.

Secondly, it makes sense to draw out a vigilante who calls himself Batman (a man and who takes advantage of his mystique under darkness) out in the day. I actually like the idea. I'm sure we'll also get plenty of scenes at night after all.

 

[DaveMoral]

Okay, not sure if this has been addressed.
But does anyone see problems with Batman fighting in the day in a massive crowd?

I thought the whole point of Batman was he was a ninja, who uses stealth, and tries to keep himself concealed.

Wouldn't fighting in a massive crowd in broad daylight be defeating the whole purpose of batman? He is fighting in snow and is in ALL BLACK, which means he can EASILY be seen.

Just need someone to explain how this works...

cheers

First of all, ninjas definitely did not operate only at night. The whole black outfit thing was often for that but the definitely had methods for broad daylight. And i'm pretty certain a ninjaStorm clan wouldnt allow their villagers to be attacked in daylight because ****, it's light outside.

I'll say this, these films are sorely lacking in Bruce's other personas... like Matches Malone. Something like that would have been perfect for saving Reese and that whole thing with the sniper team and attack on Gordon in TDK. The absence of those features is yet another indication that Nolan's Batman is not the detective his comic counterpart is.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I agree that Batman looks out of place in broad daylight. However, that may be the point. Bane has taken him out of his element.

Justice League has a lot of cases where Batman just looks hilariously out of place. The best one is probably where he's in a cafeteria waiting in line with a bunch of people. Cowl, cape and everything. But then, who's going to laugh at Batman?

 

[MMoralN10Tion]

I completely agree with this; part of the reason I really liked BB was the way in which Batman was protrayed. In TDK he was bought out into the light more, which in all honesty you can make a good point as to why (symbolicaly) but I just wasn't impressed with Batman's skills as displayed in TDK).

Not to mention TDK suit was horrid in the daylight - which is why they seriously need to re-design it - which I doubt they will.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

Not to mention TDK suit was horrid in the daylight - which is why they seriously need to re-design it - which I doubt they will.

Since when was he out in daylight in TDK? Unless you're talking about the set pics.


I'm a Batman at night guy. But this daylight scenario could work.

 

[hegele]

looks great to me outside.

 

[Manosman]

I think he means in the set photos from the past few days.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Bats are nocturnal. Hence the dark knight must "rise" out of bed in broad daylight and fight crime.

 

[Polaris23]

It works because Batman can't use his skills AS Batman (play with shadows, hide, stealth, etc.) so he's wide open and Bane can easily spot him as well as anyone else. This works AGAINST him. The odds are against him, wouldn't that make a better movie?

 

[Thundercrack85]

Not all bats are nocturnal, just saying.

 

[Cats]

If Batman is indeed drawn into the daylight to fight, I'd expect that he's already exhausted from the night's work (like he was in Knightfall), as well as out of his element and wouldn't necessarily be at his peak to fight Bane.

I do hope this is represented on film.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

So Batman is supposed to let the world burn because there is daylight outside?

This has to be the most pointless complaint thread on these boards.

 

[Harley2004]

Not to mention TDK suit was horrid in the daylight - which is why they seriously need to re-design it - which I doubt they will.

Well its obviously the same suit which is fine. The suit in Begins looked good, but was too slow for the fights with Bane. The TDK suit was more realistic, so it was better for Nolanverse.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Eh, I hate the Batman suits but I'm used to them now so whatever.