Leaked images from highly anticipated blockbusters often
arrive without the proper context or explanation. Even when taking that inconvenient truth into
account, this shot of Tom Hardy in full costume as Bane from The Dark Knight Rises leaves me
scratching my head. I haven’t the
foggiest idea as to what Nolan is trying to accomplish here. Bane looks like a street vendor at an open
air market in a dystopian sci-fi flick. How
is a character like this supposed to fit in to the pseudo-realistic Gotham that
Nolan has spent two films establishing?
There’s no way of knowing until the completed film is released, but the costume
design shown here is just plain baffling.
Then there are the pictures of a camouflaged tumbler that
looks as though it’s about to be deployed somewhere in the Middle East. I almost expect to see a life sized version
of one of Hasbro’s G.I. Joe’s action figures sitting in the cockpit when the
hatch opens. I’ve never pictured any of
the Bat-vehicles in anything but all black, so it should be interesting to see
just how this design will be used in the film.
Of all Nolan’s Batman films, The
Dark Knight Rises is proving to be the hardest to pin down in terms of its
vision. We have the caped crusader
tooling around in a Batmobile that looks like it’s been outfitted for desert
patrol, and Bane looking like Gotham’s City’s answer to The Humungus from The Road Warrior. Perhaps The
Dark Knight Rises takes place after some kind of nuclear cataclysm
decimates Gotham?
*Special Thanks to
Just Jared for the scoop.
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