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The Dark Knight Rises Characterization of the Knight - Nolan and Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman - Part 2

I said it before, but Bale's Batman will definitely be topped. His performance as Batman was really inconsistant. Sometimes he's amazing, but sometimes he's pretty terrible. All in all, his Batman will be beaten, but I doubt his Bruce will.

Also, I love Bale's chin. :D

I agree 100%. I loved him as Wayne, but sometimes his Batman could get downright laughable.
 


Jayden Meets Batman

A 4-year-old Boardman boy with terminal cancer and his family were flown to California this week to meet Batman.

Jayden Barber, who was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, and his family spent Wednesday with superstar actor Christian Bale, according to a Facebook page post by the family.

“Finally can share!!! Christian sent us to LA and we had lunch at Disney club 33 on wed!! He and his family were so awesome and down to earth!!!,” said a post on Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden page.

The family also posted pictures of Bale posing with the family on the site.

Jayden’s favorite character is Batman, and on Aug. 23 the Caped Crusader visited Jayden at the Boardman football stadium. That day was declared Jayden Barber Day in Youngstown.

Last week, Barber’s family said Jayden was in remission.

The community first learned of Jayden and his family in February 2010. Jayden was at Akron Children's Hospital in Boardman battling bone cancer. One year later, Jayden's parents learned the chemotherapy for the first cancer had caused a second, different form of cancer called MDS leukemia and this time, it was attacking Jayden's blood and bone marrow.

Jayden got a bone marrow transplant in February from a female donor, but it was not working well enough. And July 19, doctors told Jayden's parents their son was terminally ill.

Then last week, new test results showed Jayden's blood is 99.6 percent donor T-cells, meaning he's in remission.

Jayden will celebrate his 5th birthday Sept. 17.

http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/lo...s-Batman/7-6JxEyEW0GbpMuq4SP-jw.cspx?rss=1661
 
I agree 100%. I loved him as Wayne, but sometimes his Batman could get downright laughable.

If you can laugh Bale's Batman, you can laugh anything i guess. Not just most darkest & serious Batman but also superhero on screen. (Rorschach is more pyschopath than hero)
 
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Bale must be one of nicest guys in Hollywood. Shame media tried to make a monster out of him when he got mad at someone in set couple of years ago.

Alfred was there for him though.:woot:

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He's not anymore. That's why a lot of this was able to get fulfilled. He's got 6 more weeks until he's bed-ridden for 6 months, then..... :csad:

What? I must have missed that part. That's a real bummer.
 
Dammit Bale. You always make it so easy for me to have a man-crush on you. Absolute legend he is.

I saw the discussion come up again about there being a lack of Batman in Rises. While I do agree in most regards that he didn't have as much this time around, I would argue that this is a great case of quality over quantity.

I mean come on. Who else was like me when everytime Batman showed up. I was pretty much almost jumping for joy in every one of his scenes. Besides the "WHEREZ DA TRIGGUR!?!?" scene :p
 
I didn't even realize Batman wasn't on screen much. For me, they made Bruce is Batman. That's quite an accomplishment. Most of the superhero movies, you wouldn't care about the man in suit.
 
That's one of the things I also love about the trilogy. I gave a damn about Bruce. I never really felt like that with any of the previous films (except for the comics and Animated Series).
 
He's not anymore. That's why a lot of this was able to get fulfilled. He's got 6 more weeks until he's bed-ridden for 6 months, then..... :csad:

The article says that his parents were told the cancer was terminal, but then last week doctors discovered he was in remission.
 
Bale has been simply outstanding with coverage before, during and after TDKR. Very much a contrast to TDK.
 
More details of how the whole thing came about from Jayden's mom:

http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/sep/08/batman-bale-rises-to-the-occasion-for--y/

“Can I help you beat up bad guys?”

That’s what Youngstown’s Jayden Barber asked actor Christian Bale in California’s Disneyland this week.

His mom, Charlee Barber, said it was one among many special moments in a whirlwind trip for Jayden and his family.

The 5-year-old has captured the hearts of Mahoning Valley residents with his cancer battle.

He was diagnosed as a terminal cancer patient in July, and while his most recent tests have shown some remission, Jayden’s been there before.

The family is happy, but cautious.

His diagnosis, however, launched Charlee and dad, Tim, on a pursuit of Jayden’s wishes.

One of those wishes was to meet the real Batman.

The community joined the effort as 30,000-plus supporters took part in Facebook’s “Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden” page.

The Barbers flew this week to California to spend a few days at Disneyland in Anaheim.

Part of their stay was spending three hours Wednesday with Bale, the star of this summer’s hit film “The Dark Knight Rises.”

“We talked about lots of stuff,” Charlee said. “But a lot of it was Jayden and Christian talking the whole time. It was just really awesome. He genuinely cared about Jayden and our situation.”

Bale and Jayden chatted about costumes, the movie and more, Charlee added.

Bale, a native of England, even explained to Jayden why his voice is different in person than in the movie.

The three hours with Bale and his wife and daughter was special, Charlee said. But Bale made sure their entire four days was special, too.

As a guest of Bale, the family:

Had airfare for seven people.

Stayed in a top suite in the Grand Californian.

Had all food and extras paid for, including a $500 gift store account.

Saw the “Batman Live” stage performance and went backstage to meet the cast.

“We were treated like royalty, and it was all because of Christian,” Charlee said.

Their biggest challenge: Not being able to say a word for two weeks.

The family found out about the trip not long after the Aug. 23 Batman special event at Boardman Middle School, where a team of well-wishers put on a super-heroes show for Jayden and a stadium full of people.

It was complete with a lighted bat signal in the sky.

“[Bale] strictly wanted no publicity during or before but said we could share afterward. He went to great lengths to keep it private. It was just like old friends visiting,” Charlee said.

The trip actually was launched by one of “Jayden’s Warriors,” the many people who follow the Jayden story.

Lisa Lewis Wallace of Greenford Christian Church, who has yet to meet the Barbers, read about them just before the Boardman event.

She’s part of a ministry within her church — Big Reach Center of Hope — and has done plenty of celebrity contacting to get autographed memorabilia. So she was comfortable calling celebrity offices.

But asking for a celebrity visit was a first.

“I honestly was not going to call his office,” Wallace said. “Everyone on [the “Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden”] Facebook page was calling, and I did not want to harass them.”

So she called actress Anne Hathaway’s publicist first. Hathaway portrayed Catwoman in the film.

“They were so nice; it gave me the courage to call Christian’s publicist,” she said.

It actually helped that hundreds of “Jayden’s Warriors” had called.

Wallace said by the time she called, they were eager to help so as to curtail the phone calls.

A week later, Bale’s office called back with the plan.

The Barbers returned to the Valley this weekend, and back to Jayden’s regimen.

His last bone-marrow test showed 99.6 percent donor source, Charlee said. The goal is 100 percent.

Last spring, he had hit 99.8 percent, only to have cancer take over again.

He will have weekly blood-work tests that will monitor his health.

“We’re very skeptical at this point,” Charlee added.
 
^That really does melt my heart, reading more about that.
 
I absolutely loved the entire character arc they gave Bruce Wayne in this movie. Christian Bale is by far the best Bruce Wayne and Batman ever put to the big screen. He's the one Bruce Wayne you can really connect with, and feel for when he's not Batman, which I think the other movies really lacked. That's why I had absolutely no problem with Bruce Wayne being the center part of the movie rather than Batman, because he's a great character period. How anyone can have a problem with that is beyond me because it was really needed giving the plot of this movie. While I still think The Dark Knight is the best film in the trilogy (love all three of them though), I do agree that it definitely lacked Bruce Wayne, but I understand why completely. I felt so bad for the guy in this entire movie (well the entire trilogy, but especially Rises). He goes through so much hell in this movie :csad:, and it's really depressing honestly to see how broke he was from the events of The Dark Knight. I like that we get to see a lighter side of Bruce when he's around with Selina Kyle like he is mostly when he's around Alfred and Lucius.

When he got stabbed by Miranda/Talia, I'll have to admit I get pretty emotional. I was so shocked by the twist (didn't read any rumors), that I was so scared that he was gonna die at that moment. :csad:. And if he had it would have been the first time I felt like screaming at Christopher Nolan, lol. If you're gonna kill off a superhero, that's certainly not the way to do it. Sacrifice by saving people, not in vain. I literally wanted to scream at the screen and be like, "get up, get up dude, you're the only one that can save Gotham from a bomb. Finish off Bane, and go after that *****" :yay:. But I would have been embarrassed because so many people would stare weirdly at me haha. And I love that after Talia leaves, Bane disobeys her orders instantly because he wants Bruce dead right away because he just got totally beaten and felt his own pain, and no matter how much pain he causes Bruce, he just won't die or give up haha. So what better way to kill him than a shot gun? The look on Bane's face when Bruce returns to Gotham is classic :woot:.

About Bane's, and Batman's second fight, he definitely defeated him easily after getting a hold of his mask which he knew was his weakness. I think some people just look at it the wrong way because he gets back up, but that's only because Talia saved his ass, and Bruce was in pain at the moment from the stab wound. He doesn't really dominate Bane until he gets the mask because that's really the point of Bane. He's the one villain that is really physically superior to Bruce/Batman. But if you notice Bruce was much more patience in his second fight with Bane, because he knew where to strike or what to do in order to take down Bane. Yes the fight at first is definitely a draw, or Bane had the slight edge, but I think Bruce was really just looking for the perfect moment to strike. And when he finally got the jump on him, I was basically jumping up and down :woot:.

Bane's death scene was a bit disappointing, because Bruce is the one that deserves to finish him off, and he definitely would have killed him if it came down to that. He honestly looked like he was ready to. But, I ended up accepting it because it showed the really good side of Selina Kyle/Catwoman and how she'll save other peoples lives especially when it's someone she cares about. And she's right, she likes gun, and he doesn't :yay:. And it did give Bruce even a much better reason to forgive her for her betrayal by basically saving his ass. If she hadn't betrayed Batman earlier on, I probably wouldn't have accepted it as much. Plus, he was distracted and focused on killing Bruce which led to his downfall, and he's a monster, so the best way to kill him is with a missile.

And I LOVED the cafe scene. I'm so glad that we finally saw Bruce Wayne get the happy and peaceful ending he deserved and my theater erupted with cheers :yay:. And I loved that Selina was there with him and damn with the pearls that she originally stole on. They had great chemistry, and were a believable couple even if they weren't one yet, and even if they didn't devolve into it as much as they could, but they didn't need to. They work well together as lovers and partners. It was a great and really satisfying ending to an amazing trilogy. Bruce Wayne completed his goal :yay:. Keep it as it is.
 
The panda eyes! :wow: First time I've seen them (even if they're old pics):

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^ In the words of Pat Hingle's Commissioner Gordon...

"Oh. My. God"
 

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