The Dark Knight Gotham City

[sasquatchs]

Or just people on the streets. There's way more day scenes this time, hopefully we see it during Bruce's daytime chase and the evacuation scene was obviously jampacked

 

[Eggyman]

I agree: it was huge, but sparse.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Yeah, more congestion!
Good idea.

Still want the gothic skyline though. A REALISTIC gothic skyline that is.
I just don't want to see squared off rooftops as much.

 

[Eggyman]

Good call.

 

[itsthebatman]

Gotham was a nickname for New York, not because of its Gothic architecture or origins.

Beat me to it. Batman was in New York back in 1939 (in the original Mad Monk at least). What year was Gotham invented?
EDIT: 1941, Detective #48

 

[GoogleMe94]

The Narrows was based on Kowloon Walled City

oh yeah, that screeeams gotham.


sorry guys, but japan inspired/looking gotham just isnt my bag. keep gotham dirty, but please dont make it look like japan.

 

[Bat-Mite]

the skyline of Gotham in BB wasnt Gotham like in the comics. It was a skyline of Chicago.

Don't know what comics you're reading, but it looked like Gotham from a lot of the comics I've read. Check out Gotham in No Man's Land, and pay attention to the maps in particular. It was Gotham. Sure, I would have preferred a few more gothic looking buildings, but it was pretty accurate.

I'm hoping that we'll see some cathedrals and gargoyles and all that good iconic Batman imagery in TDK, though.

 

[itsthebatman]

oh yeah, that screeeams gotham.


sorry guys, but japan inspired/looking gotham just isnt my bag. keep gotham dirty, but please dont make it look like japan.

Hong Kong is Chinese. Jus' saying.
Anyway, it's only inpired by it, as an example of urban decay, fits in quite nicely, I think.

 

[scifiwolf]

I really liked being able to relate to Nolan's Gotham city. That being said, I really don't see the harm in dressing it up a bit.

 

[sasquatchs]

Hopefully it doesn't continue to be as simple as all the scum live on the Narrows and everything else is hunky-dory. Need to actually see more of the corruption and misery Ra's talks about. But I like the idea that Gotham's all shiny and prosperous on the exterior but screwed just underneath the surface, now Batman can come along and upset the status-quo. Would be nice to see resistance to change from the elite of Gotham as well as criminality, and mixed opinion from the average citizens that we don't usually see. The vigilantes would be a nice way into that without getting too offtrack. TDK needs to be less black and white generally

Edit: This "White Night" event mentioned in the Omelete article is exactly the kind of thing I wanted t:

 

[MiniBond]

Hopefully TDK will get more daylight scenes so that we can fully appreciate the City I hope ! and as it has been said, more congestion would be nice, more people in the streets to emphasize that big fat city that is Gotham !

Batman89 did have that !

 

[JStorm]

I thought Gotham was fine in BB.

Nolan, to my knowledge, has yet to make a sequel. So like any director, I imagine we will get more of the same. More, meaning different buildings, roads, skylines, and same meaning... Gotham.

 

[Joe-ker]

Hopefully it doesn't continue to be as simple as all the scum live on the Narrows and everything else is hunky-dory. Need to actually see more of the corruption and misery Ra's talks about. But I like the idea that Gotham's all shiny and prosperous on the exterior but screwed just underneath the surface, now Batman can come along and upset the status-quo. Would be nice to see resistance to change from the elite of Gotham as well as criminality, and mixed opinion from the average citizens that we don't usually see. The vigilantes would be a nice way into that without getting too offtrack. TDK needs to be less black and white generally

Edit: This "White Night" event mentioned in the Omelete article is exactly the kind of thing I wanted t:

I agree that we didn't see much corruption in the heart of Gotham... but I think that might have been the point. The fact that it was so corrupt, that the real crime is almost invisible. Kinda means it could be any city really, all shiny and clean on the outside, but writhing beneath with criminal infestation and decay. In the D.C. universe, Gotham is that industrial, grungy city with a (sometimes) shiny veneer...

 

[hegele]

I really want to see POLICE BLIMPS flooding the sky like in Jim Lee's skyscrape.

Nolan said he wanted the film to look like Blade Runner, this would be a good step in that direction. Maybe they put a few up after the Arkham escape.

 

[BubbaGump]

I really want to see POLICE BLIMPS flooding the sky like in Jim Lee's skyscrape.

I wouldn't really call police blimps Jim Lee's idea.

 

[Conebone69]

I liked BB's gotham! I hope they leave it the same

 

[NoirMan82]

Gotham was one of the few bones I had to pick with BB. While I loved certain aspects of it, I still felt it wasn't quite the Gotham I knew and loved. That said, I think a lot of that was with the Sepia tone of the film, and that if Nolan sticks with a blue or green tone for TDK, that the true Gotham will be brought forward.

actually, he didn't. Chicago just looks that way at night, drenched in a creepy orangish color from the streetlights. If you actually are ever in Chicago, you'll see why it stands in for Gotham so well. Those gargoyles and stautes in Gotham, the towers here actually have them.

 

[Joe-ker]

actually, he didn't. Chicago just looks that way at night, drenched in a creepy orangish color from the streetlights. If you actually are ever in Chicago, you'll see why it stands in for Gotham so well. Those gargoyles and stautes in Gotham, the towers here actually have them.

When was it exactly that we stopped commonly placing gargoyles on large buildings? I mean, from an architectural standpoint... I think they're cool looking and they've got a neat history behind them. I'm all into that tradition and superstition stuff...

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Hopefully it doesn't continue to be as simple as all the scum live on the Narrows and everything else is hunky-dory.

lolt:

 

[CaptainClown]

Gordon looked like he lived on the island where Arkham was located

 

[Joe-ker]

Gordon looked like he lived on the island where Arkham was located

I said the same thing a few posts ago and got jumped all over with "NOOOOOOOOOOO! CAN'T BE!!!" or "IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!"

Glad to see someone shares my thoughts on that one...

 

[CaptainClown]

heh sorry I couldn't defend you earlier then haha, but it really doesn't matter but I always got the impression thats where he lived. Considering he wouldn't be getting that much.

 

[Joe-ker]

heh sorry I couldn't defend you earlier then haha, but it really doesn't matter but I always got the impression thats where he lived. Considering he wouldn't be getting that much.

Right, I figured the same thing... low income honest, not-on-the-take cop has no choice but to relegate himself and his family to the narrows, right in Gotham's crime central. It's kind of important to his character isn't it? Especially later, when he rises in the ranks and makes more honest dough...

 

[CaptainClown]

ya, I mean that might be why he is legitimate, he lives around corruption and it scares his family.

 

[sasquatchs]

If Gordon lived in the Narrows with his family I think he would have gone home after the convicts were set free and the fear gas released t: