The Dark Knight I hope there is no love interest.

[Dangerous]

TDK will hopefully rule even more than BB.
But the one weak link in BB was Racheal's character.
A Batman film does not need a pointless love interest that adds nothing to the story.

Do you think TDK will just be given one anyway out of tradition?
Here's hoping not. If the title of the film is anything to go by this entry might be breaking w/ a few traditions.

 

[Two-Face]

So you think Bruce/Batman should be gay?


I mean comics always had Bruce dealing with women why not in the movies?

 

[fabman]

I think there has to be a love interest. It IS part of The Batman and Bruce Wayne.

 

[Dangerous]

Have a love interest IF it adds something to the story.
NOT is it is just for the sake of it like in BB and thus adds nothiung to the film.

 

[Two-Face]

What do you mean Rachel didn't add nothing to the story? I suggest you watch BB again on DVD. Rachel was childhood friend of Bruce and she helped him and she told him how Gotham was corrupt etc. She wasn't just a love-interest

 

[baronghede]

So you think Bruce/Batman should be gay?

That is some wonderfully asanine logic.
No female love interest=obvious male love interest?

 

[Two-Face]

That is some wonderfully asanine logic.
No female love interest=obvious male love interest?

I was being sarcastic, do I always have to use smiles to show that?

 

[Chris Wallace]

Have a love interest IF it adds something to the story.
NOT is it is just for the sake of it like in BB and thus adds nothiung to the film.

Agreed. Plus one of the main weaknesses in the Burton/Schumacher films was all the rotating love interests. It's fine for him to date, but in every film it seemed he thought he'd found the one true love of his life.

 

[Chris Wallace]

What do you mean Rachel didn't add nothing to the story? I suggest you watch BB again on DVD. Rachel was childhood friend of Bruce and she helped him and she told him how Gotham was corrupt etc. She wasn't just a love-interest

She added to the story as a character, yes, but not as a lover. Their chemistry as adults was bad. Katie was out of her element & it showed. No plausible reason for a romance emerged. It would've been better had they just stayed platonic rather than having her refer to him out of the blue as "the man she loved".

 

[baronghede]

I was being sarcastic, do I always have to use smiles to show that?

How in the blazes, without me having any previous knowledge of your character or humor, am I supposed to discern between what is sarcastic and what is not when you type it plainly?

To answer your question, yes, you always have to.

 

[CConn]

She added to the story as a character, yes, but not as a lover. Their chemistry as adults was bad. Katie was out of her element & it showed. No plausible reason for a romance emerged. It would've been better had they just stayed platonic rather than having her refer to him out of the blue as "the man she loved".

My arguement has always been though, isn't it better than she added to the story as a character, and had that one pointless scene at the end, rather then being totally a superficial love interest? With WB demanding it, I thought Nolan and Goyer sorta made the best of a bad situation...

 

[Chris Wallace]

I'll give you that, CConn. But a character's final scene can hurt the way the audience receives them overall. Just like a good movie w/a bad ending.

 

[Dangerous]

Like you say Rachael’s character did not enrich the film in anyway and was basically there just to tick off ‘love interest’ on the WB checklist.

I hope w/ TDK, WB let Goyer and Nolan get on w/ it themselves w/ no checklist.
If a love interest can be used to make the film more interesting and add purpose to the proceedings then go for it, but I hope they just don't stick one in again out of tradition.

 

[Kool-Aid]

Have a love interest IF it adds something to the story.

I get what you mean and agree.

So you think Bruce/Batman should be gay?


I mean comics always had Bruce dealing with women why not in the movies?

wtf? how does it make him gay if there's no love intrest in the movie? Arkham Asylum ASHOSE didn't have one neither did The Killing Joke, Dark Knight Returns, etc etc etc.......he doesn't always deal with women as far as love intrests go.

 

[Bullseye]

The last time I heard of there being a possible love interest for Bruce was a report from BOF saying that Isla Fisher may play a role in the sequel as a love interest. But that report was quite a long time ago, and it may no longer be in the plans for TDK.

 

[Dangerous]

Personally I hope there ain’t one.
Like Kool-Aid said, many of the best Bat's stories don have one.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Batman isn't a very loving guy. Chasing booty only seems to get in the way of him doing his job & cloud his judgment. I think they only throw these girls in to give Bruce a "James Bond" kind of appeal.

 

[ReptileOrion]

I would prefer just to see Bruce Wayne with two European hotties who like waddle in fountains like in Begins. The only love interests I would enjoy seeing would be the ones from the comics like Talia or Selina Kyle.

If Burton actually fleshed out the Vicki Vale love interest in Batman and then having her return in Batman Returns it would have worked better. But in that film you have Vale enters the cave and telling Bruce Wayne "I've loved you since the day I met you" ...how unrealistic is that... It appears Nolan has learned from the mistakes of the previous movies. At least Rachel Dawes had some history with Bruce Wayne. That is the sole reason why I don't mind her character in Begins and that he revealed his identity to her.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Having Vicki come back would've been a bad move, honestly. Batman can't be happy.

 

[EagleVision]

It wouldn't be a bad thing if there wasn't and TDK stuck solely to detective work and action. Let him be just the bachelor flirting with girls to heighten his playboy persona but as far as relationships and a key girl in the film; I'm with ya on that. It isn't needed. But it's a superhero code they have to follow in movies. Doubt it will happen though just like Bats swinging on cables in the Gotham skyscraper jungle like he does in the comics. Too much like Spider-Man y'know?

 

[Wolfwood]

I don't mind him having a love interest, I would just hope he'd manage to keep his identity a secret from them this time. It annoyed me when in almost every movie, Batman revealed his identity to random girls he barely knew.

 

[7Hells]

TDK will hopefully rule even more than BB.
But the one weak link in BB was Racheal's character.
A Batman film does not need a pointless love interest that adds nothing to the story.

Dawes played a crucial part of Bruces development into Batman. She was his moral compass and is ultimately the one that explained to him the difference between a criminal and a hero.
That being said, I can only appreciate her character within Nolans story because of the time limits he was facing. Had there been no limit I think she would never have been created. We would have seen his deliberation played out instead of being metaphorically characterized as Dawes.

 

[Two-Face]

I don't mind him having a love interest, I would just hope he'd manage to keep his identity a secret from them this time. It annoyed me when in almost every movie, Batman revealed his identity to random girls he barely knew.

Yeah, long as the woman he's seeing doesn't have to know.

 

[agentdawes]

I want continuity with Bruce and Rachel not a la James Bond with different babes to romance coming off as cartoonish.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Batman can't be happy. Besides, Rachel getting w/Bruce would go against what she told him before. I'd rather he just be the playboy he is in the comics rather than fall in love in every movie.