I dunno about you but when I was a child I was in a grocery store robbery and people shut the **** up and stay quiet. That scared me **** less. People panic and scream when its like an earthquake, but when someone says sit down and shut up with a gun they pretty much do what they say in order for the person to go away and leave them alone.
Only if you aren't familiar with the character. He's been shown putting hidden passageways his home and work place plenty of times in the comic books and other media. If he had a secret passage into his bat bunker (or whatever you want to call it), why would he not have a secret exit as well? Even at Wayne Enterprises, he had a secret elevator for him and Fox to use when they were going down to discuss Lau.
Totally! I mean, ok Nolan, we get that the war has escalated, we get that you want to move on and explore different angles of the character, we get that you dont want to copy your predecessors by showing batman throw roses in Crime Alley, but goddamnit, a batman movie without a single mention of his parents?I was a bit dissapointed at the failure to mention Bruce's parents, even a subtle hint would have been enough
Agreed, we know why he became batman and thats why i am not asking for any of that. i would just like to see Thomas' reaction to his son's antics. The closest thing to that was in a BTAS episode where batman being gassed by the Scarecrow has a hallucination where his father is shouting at him about how ashamed he is to be his father and how ridiculous batman is. Batman finally comes to his senses and tries to fight the hallucination by understanding (and shouting) that his father would be proud of him. All this while holding on to the edge of a zeppelin...hehe....I don't think we need to be beaten over the head with why he became Batman. This was covered pretty well in Batman Begins and was already well known by the general public, anyway. And from what I recall, Batman Returns didn't have any mention of Bruce's parents, either.
I do think spending time on Bruce's parents (with all the other stuff already going on in this film) would have seemed a bit out of place. Though I do hope they mention them in the third one, as it would be a nice way to help wrap the trilogy up.
Well for the Pent house scene it is pretty obvious people in the room saw Batman before Joker. The goons who were looking onto the crowd weren't paying attention as they figure Joker can handle himself. Joker also looked really into telling his story.
1-Batman is not on a mission of vengeance. His crusade as Batman has become so much bigger than his parents that they really don't need to be brought up every 5 minutes.
That's what I thought was really cool about TDK. It's clear that Bruce has been influenced by his parents' death because it inspired his mission, but it's not about his pain anymore, it's about the fact that Gotham society is unjust and he wants to set it right the only way he knows how, just like his parents tried to set Gotham right the only way they knew how. He's inherited their philanthropic way of life, which is a more positive way of gleaming influence from their existence rather than just having them influence him by dying.
