The Dark Knight Rises What should the final scene of the trilogy be?

[Reek]

I think the ending of batman 89 was awesome...and id love to see something very similar to that.

or i read a great idea in the "whats next" thread, where batman 'dies' or really dies. and the bat symbol is turned on every night out of respect. end the movie with the first night without batman, with peace, and the symbol in the sky.

 

[MadVillainy]

as much as I would like it to be, there is no official word that It will end with BB3
but the idea of Batman dying is :

 

[Lightning54SC]

end it liek the first with gordon saying thank you and batman saying "i told you never had to say that"

 

[tarekk]

I love Batman (1989) ends
We really need victor likes Batman (1989)
The bat symbol in the sky and he look at it with victor smile
Best end of this trilogy

 

[Travesty]

It should be Batman in the Batwing giving Gordon the thumbs up.

 

[MadVillainy]

^^^I actually always loved that scene.....lol

 

[Motown Marvel]

batman at his parents grave.

 

[darknight7]

It all depends if you want a happy finished ending. Hence: Batman crouched atop a roof top...like a gargoyale with epic music.

Or

having the night seem like it just ended...he rolls into the cave, Alfred welcomes him home...the signal goes off once again, and he puts his cowl on and takes off into the night...as the camera pans up to the signal playing a nice hans zimmer score. Thus giving the idea that Batman never rests, his war on crime is ongoing.

--dk7

 

[frodawgg]

i've pictured this...in the newly rebuilt manor, he receives some sort of news, so he heads to the grandfather clock, adjusts the time (can't remember the time, but it was when his parents were killed), he swings the clock-door open, and then the camera zooms into darkness (descending into the batcave). meaning although the series is over, his story is not.

 

[MaceB]

In most cases the third film is - in part - a return to the first. Batman Begins was really about Bruce escaping his crippling past. Whereas before he used to dwell on what his father would do, he learned how to obey his own moral compass and do what he thinks is best.
I figure BB3 will be about Bruce recognizing and accepting that his past has shaped who he is forever... and Batman is here to stay because of it. If that's how it pans out (and god who knows), I'd love to see Batman going to his parent's graves, only to see the Bat signal turn on in the distance. The end.

 

[weezerspider]

I honestly don't want the third to be the end. A lot of Bat-fans do because they know the franchise is doomed to be run into the ground. Batman has been around for 70 years. He's yet to become unappealing. If Good writing and Good filmmakers continue to work on Batman's films why can't they last for decades? Yes, I realize that most likely, heck a 99& chance of failure after 3 or 4, but hey, I'd like to see them try.

 

[Figs]

I think the ending of batman 89 was awesome...and id love to see something very similar to that.

or i read a great idea in the "whats next" thread, where batman 'dies' or really dies. and the bat symbol is turned on every night out of respect. end the movie with the first night without batman, with peace, and the symbol in the sky.

You pretty much said it.

Not sure about final climax but as for the actual final scene, I also want something similar to the last scene in Batman '89.

Have it end with Batman watching over his city. Preferably after a script/plot that has the citizens of Gotham knowing that Batman is there to stay whether they like it or not. That he'll always be there to protect them and stop crime.

 

[zmystico]

Technically we've already had the "watching over Gotham" scene in Begins, I'd like the final scene to be Batman "flying" over the city, and not a parade but some citizens seeing and cheering him then (prepare your bread and crackers for alot of cheese) Batman smiling, nothing huge, but just a small smile are he continues to fly.

 

[colonel sanders]

I think the penultimate scene should be Bruce visiting his parents' grave (and maybe Rachel's if there is no real love interest in the film). Then the actual final scene should be a scene similar to '89 or mask of the phantasm. I like the phantasm one more because batman actually jumps off the building to go answer the signal rather than just stare at it like in '89.

 

[Blaztro]

If this is the end, then I think that it should take a leaf out of a manip seen in the manips thread. It shows batman standing, watching the signal, and then fades out, to a futuristic gotham, with a rusted statue of Batman in the middle of a plaza of sort, and then, something large, black, and winged wooshes by, and a redux of the Batrman Begins theme plays.

 

[simplysuperhero]

batman at his parents grave.

Good suggestion.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Who said it's gonna be a trilogy?

 

[Malone]

I am a fan of the '89 ending as well.

 

[david icke]

Bruce supervises the construction of two poles being built joining the mansion to the bat-cave.
The idea to have him at his parents grave is the best one I've read on here though, don't want something so similar to Batman 89.
Maybe have him at the grave and then cut to him coming out of teh shadows and stopping a mugging, letting us go away with teh feeling that even though he has been at the lofty heights of stopping the microwave transmitters, clown faced terrorists and stopping Catwoman dropping the crown jewels down a chimney, he will always be out there dealing with the everyday crimes and criminals preventing the kind of tragedies that made him.

 

[ronny]

I think it should end with a night view of the Gotham skyline. Gradually we see time progress and that skyline change, but the constant is the bat-symbol in the sky.
I think that would be pretty cool.

 

[TheScarecrow]

end it liek the first with gordon saying thank you and batman saying "i told you never had to say that"

Bingo. The final scene will be Gordon and Batman talking. It's a trademark of Nolan's movies that they end with two men discussing the events, and it's a trademark of his Batman movies that it's Gordon and Batman.

The other thing is that he seems to like to link dialogue throughout the movies. There's a number of lines repeated in TDK in the same circumstances they were said in BB. One of those examples is in the final chats between Gordon and Batman. In BB it was:

Gordon: I never said thank you.
Batman: And you'll never have to.

In TDK it was:

Gordon: Thankyou.
Batman: You don't have to thank me.

So I think you're right, it will be something along those lines - quite possibly Batman even thanking Gordon.

 

[redfirebird2008]

BB and TDK are two of my favorite movie endings. If Nolan does a third movie, hopefully the ending involves a Batman/Gordon conversation.

 

[luke1234]

i say mix it up a bit, i wanna see a batman alfred conversation.

 

[The Guard]

The grave ending only makes sense if they bother to explore that theme. Thus far, they haven't done much of that, which is a shame. THE DARK KNIGHT pretty much ignored the Waynes role in Batman's life.

There's no way to borrow from the 89 ending without it feeling like a complete ripoff. Have a scene where he responds to the new signal before the final sequence, sure, but...

this franchise needs to end with a panoramic shot similar to that image in WAR ON CRIME. Batman watching over Gotham laid out beneath him, etc. Not in motion, as he's been in the first two films, but right where he belongs.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

They should echo the convo Gordon and Batman had at the end of Begins. Show it has come full circle, if Batman is redeemed anyway.