Yup, this is how it goes down.
- Blake and Bruce have met before (another crazy contrived explanation that's even unbeknownst to Bruce but not as bad as "when you were gone during Batman Begins for 7 years, I took a little vacation yearly to see if you were at . . . FLORENCE ITALY . . . and I drank a specific drink, hoping I'd see you with a woman and maybe some kids)
- Our very own John Blake (a new, undeveloped random character that we're supposed to now care about that takes on the legacy) was also . . . you guessed it! AN ORPHAN just like Bruce Wayne! Not just that, but he attended an orphanage that was funded by WAYNE ENTERPRISES.
- Supposedly, Bruce Wayne, breaking his playboy facade at some unknown time (certainly not the Bruce of Begins or The Dark Knight), visited "St. Swithin's" when Blakester was a young boy. And not just by himself but with some hot, smokin' girl and his cooooool car! Man, that drunk, irresponsible, pigheaded, narcissistic fool that burns down his family mansion and buys out hotels is a GREAT role model for the St. Swithins kids? Why, BECAUSE HE'S ALSO AN ORPHAN.
- Joseph Gordon Levitt identified with Bruce because he had an unshakable anger and a "feeling in dem bones" that made him hypothesize that Bruce Wayne was indeed, THE BATMAN.
- Blake claims that all orphans are angry fellows that nobody understands and that they
mask (lol, great writing) their pain by smiling like Bruce Wayne. This is orphans mind you,
nobody else does that. ONLY orphans are depressed and angry lads that hide their pain, cause you know, BATMAN IS AN ORPHAN AND WE GOTTA WRAP THIS STORY UP LIKE, RIGHT NOW, IN THIS ONE. ORPHANS (just in case you, the audience, never knew that Bruce Wayne/Batman was indeed an orphan at one time in the characters life).
- Kids supposedly made up stories about Bruce Wayne because, well, I guess a Billionaire orphan is cool to them. We're all orphans at some point in our lives, but, no, "OH MAN, THAT BRUCE WAYNE, HE'S A ROLEMODEL POSTER BOY TO US ORPHAN BOYS". Dumb.
- Cue "Legend" crap (as if that isn't beaten over our head enough along with, FEAR, RISES, etc.) That's right folks, Bruce Wayne, the irresponsible, billionaire playboy is a hero to children everywhere. They make stories about him I guess (what a bunch of losers, I'd make up stories about Batman and the Joker duking it out for eternity instead).
- Blake knows by a look, a look. That's the explanation. "Blah, Blah, Blah, you had that fake look on your face, the same 'orphan look' that I have that I taught myself to appear happy".
That's how it goes down, in all of it's ridiculous glory. You know what I'd buy more? That little Narrows Kid from Begins. You know, Joffrey from Game of Thrones. Yeah, I mean, what happened to him? While he might not have been an orphan, his parents were Narrows trash, fighting inside and you know what? Little Narrows Kid is the
only one who believed in the Batman. All those other kids thought he was full of ****.
I would have atleast bought Little Narrows Kid coming into this story and saying, "ya know Bruce, I knew it was you. The way you gave me that Wayne Enterprises gadget, the way you saved your girlfriend . . . the way she called you Bruce, it wasn't hard to deduce when everyone was saying that Batman had to have his hands on some industry or some form of wealth".
Not,
"I know dat feeling in mah bones and years ago at some unspecified, UNSHOWN time (hey, Nolan bros, Goyer, you guys do know that film is a
visual medium, right?), I saw you acting out of character, smiling like a hooligan with a hot girl, and you know what? I knew you were Batman. I KNEW from a
look. Not stories we made up of you man, no, I JUST KNEW, imma fellow ORPHAN, bro".
Terrible.