The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – Is John Blake Batman?

    Christian Bale was an amazing choice for the Batman role. The best Batman ever, who can never be replaced. But, John Blake is the next Batman. Yes you read it right Joseph Gordon Levitt is wearing the Bat suit to protect the Gotham city on behalf of helpless Bruce Wayne. The Darkknight Rises is the epic conclusion to the legend. A conclusion that is going to end Bruce Wayne’s journey and hence retire leaving the legend to be continued by John Blake. John Blake, a unheard Comics character is going to the Nolan’s version of Azrael . The pictures you see below are actually JGL in Bat suit. Yes this is going to be little disappointing to see a short batman with thin shoulders again. But hope it will look good on the Big screens.







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Plot:

   After the Joker has been taken down, having assumed responsibility for the crimes of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman is chased into exile by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later Gotham reaches a situation that it no longer needs Batman, in the presence of true patriots like Gordon and sincere Gotham cops. Gotham celebrates its peace time and Wanye starts living his own life and keeps helping people of Gotham without the need for the mask. But Gordon always fears that something wasn’t right and feels some hidden conspiracy at midst the official bodies.

   Meantime, weak underground Dons still survive in the Gotham and decides to spread outside Gotham and one of them is motivated to hunt down a distant Mafia gang, lead by mysterious leader, for the enormous diamonds they are rumoured to possess. They succeed in capturing the gang but couldn’t find the treasures. So their leader is made to surrender before the Don and unmasked to find that it was Bane, a notorious villain who knows no mercy or pain. Bane then kills the Don and escapes to Gotham to claim the underworld with new proposals. It is also seen that he answers to a secret leader and his entry to Gotham was after all a part of a master plan.

   Selina Kyle is a Gotham’s prostitute who lives with her sister Holly Robinson and sorts to burglaries in order to give a better life for Holly. She manages to stick around Gotham’s powerful men of both extremes and overhears that there was a conspiracy to destroy Gotham, when she was trying to loot some diamonds from a underground gangster. Initially she doesn’t use any armoury. Bruce Wanye gets her attention and she attracts him to dance with her while wearing a party mask. In a drunken state she admits Bruce, that he has to hide from Gotham, since there was a storm coming in the form of a evil called Bane and his men. Bruce is then robbed of his car by Selina. Selina now realizes that wearing a mask has its advantages.

   Bruce couldn’t totally ignore Selina’s hint about the upcoming threat. And starts to feel the trace of League of Shadows in this. Meantime during these years he has also come too close to Miranda a librarian.

   People celebrates Harvey Dents Memory and in a game tournament, Bane makes his first appearance in public to blow the stadium and strike terror into Gotham’s peace. Gordon and his men tries to hunt Bane and as a result Gordon is severely injured and left to die at the hospital. Bruce meets Gordon at the hospital and learns the danger that Bane posses to Gotham before Gordon dies and realizes the need for Batman to rise again.

   Bruce trust Mirada as his source for normal life. Bane sounds familiar to Bruce and he starts researching on him and finds that he was formerly trained by LOS to become its successor before Bruce met Ras. But Bane had disappeared suddenly and thus leading to Ras’s search for new leader to LOS in the form of Bruce. Bane has undergone physical experiments that has made him invulnerable to pain. Now he is hired back by the hidden LOS secret leader to take over Gotham.

   So Wayne decides to wear the Bat suit again but he is found to be not fit for it, so Lucius suggest that he must look for a alternative way to fight Bane. Before Bruce could prepare himself Bane kidnaps Rich and good men of Gotham including Bruce with the help of Selina and starts to torture them for changing Gotham’s destiny which is total chaos. Helpless Bruce also suffers the tortures from bane and tries to know of his abilities and plan, but is further mortally wounded by bane. Bane also declares to the public that Batman is guilty of Harvey’s murder and he had escaped because of guilt.

   After the death of Gordon and silence from Batman, the secret society of LOS claims control of the Gotham slowly and it has its men in all the official bodies. John balk a Gotham beat cop is also a loyal member of LOS, now gets concerned about the innocent people of Gotham  when he gets close to orphan boys who reminds him of his childhood. So slowly he starts investigating of the secrets of the LOS leader which might help him change the situation. He investigates all the local prostitutes and burglars and seeks them for clues about Batman and his enemies. Meantime Selina has acquired a Bat suit and some of Wayne’s weaponry from the destroyed Wayne’s House and confesses John Blake that Batman has gone and won’t return to Gotham. Selena’s sister is also raped and imprisoned by Bane’s men and so she has a grudge against Bane and wanted to fight against him to save Holly.

   The Leader of the LOS orders bane to stop his actions on helpless Gotham’s men as they posses no harm to their plan and will eventually pay. But Bane continues to be a sadist and he disagrees the LOS leader and goes out of control in exercising his sadism over Gotham’s innocents. The Los leader is later revealed to be Miranda Tate aka Talia Al Ghul, the daughter of Ras, who regrets that she had disappointed her father motives and decides to rectify it.

   Suddenly when Bane’s injustice reaches uncontrollable limits, a Batman rises and confronts him. Though the new Batman doesn’t get into actual fight with Bane, he save the children and also manages to kill the bad guys, which are contrary to the Batman ethics. Batman is also accompanied by the Black dressed Selena Kyle. This creates confusion in everyone’s mind, as Bruce is still imprisoned. So Bane gets confused and diverts his attention on the Batman on the streets. Bruce now gets more concerned that the new Bat character is destroying the legend that he managed to create and is confirming Batman for Harvey Dent’s crimes.

   The new Batman and Selina work together to solve local crimes and thus give hope to Gotham people. Since Bane has already managed to convince the people that Batman is also evil. The Batman is hunted down by both Bane and Police men. Unable to escape new Batman tells Selina to betray him to Bane and escape herself, where as he will try fighting Bane to death. Selina agrees and Batman is made to get trapped in Bane’s place thereby confronting him face to face. Bane fights Batman and during the fight he brutally wounds the Bat and uncovers his identity. During the fight, Catwoman manages to free the prisoners by fighting Bane’s men. Bruce Wayne learns from Catwoman that Batman was fighting Bane to save them and Catwoman had set bomb to destroy the facility.  Bruce realizes the danger and rushes to the place where he finds unmasked John Blake in the bat costume being beaten up by Bane. To Bane’s Surprise Bruce confronts and diverts Bane. During the explosion and chaos Holly dies and cabwoman manages to escape with unconscious John before the place would blow.

   Bruce returns back to Wayne’s secret laboratory and seeks the help of Alfred and Lucius to help him get back to the game to save Gotham. Frustrated Bane tears down Gotham apart to revenge Bruce and finish the Batman. The dark knight then rises to confront all his odds which includes ferocious Bane with vengeance, unethical John Blake in Bat costume, selfish Catwoman, LOS and the people of Gotham.

   The story concludes with Bruce defeating Bane and LOS by risking his life and finally decides to hand over the crusade of Batman to be carried out by trustworthy men. Thus leaving the idea that the legend of Batman will continue forever.

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Cast: Credited cast:
	Tom Hardy	...	Bane
	Liam Neeson	...	Ra's Al Ghul
	Christian Bale	...	Bruce Wayne / Batman
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	...	John Blake / Azrael
	Anne Hathaway	...	Selina Kyle / Catwoman
	Gary Oldman	...	Jim Gordon
	Morgan Freeman	...	Lucius Fox
	Marion Cotillard	...	Miranda Tate / Talia Al Ghul
	Juno Temple	...	Holly Robinson
	Aidan Gillen	...	CIA Agent
	Michael Caine	...	Alfred
	Joey King	...	Young Talia Al Ghul
	Matthew Modine	...	Deputy Commissioner Foley
	Daniel Sunjata	...	GPD Special Operative
	Josh Stewart	...	Bane's Mercenary

Conclusion:

  All that I discussed above are just my own concepts and views and are only assumptions. I am a huge fan of the Darkknight and can't wait to see the movie. I also can’t wait to know the secrets in the movie. I kept browsing everyday to see different people giving their different assumption on the plot and none of them are based on facts. Who is John Blake? He seems to be some important character for sure, otherwise he won’t be casted so often everywhere whenever there is a topic of the Darkkinght rises. So when some one have the privilege to spread spoilers, then why not me? After all I have been a huge Batman fan for more than 15 years. So be cool don’t be serious if I disappointed you. Who know may be, the above might even be close to the real plot. And we will find it soon. Wont we?

   The Darkknight Rises everywhere in the next 15 days and the count down starts now..

   Let me know if you like this story and also share what else would you like to see in the movie as a surprise.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

The Amazing Spiderman movie gets released worldwide on 3rd July, just 17 days before the Darkkinght rises. But I watched the movie on 29th June on the very first day of release in my country. And it was a really an awesome experience. I personally felt that a Spiderman Movie can never be any better. The movie with its brilliant cast has plot that is close to the comic book story line. Better and realistic special effects were a mind blowing experience to be watched in 3D. Hats off to the team! Finally the skinny, nerdy, talkative and amazing Spiderman that we all have been wait for has arrived.

The movie starts with childhood Peter Parker  playing hide and seek with his father. Suddenly his father, Richard Parker  comes to his room and takes out a secret document from his office and starts packing up their belongings with Mary and Peter. The couple then leaves Peter at  his Aunt home and unwillingly bits goodbye to Peter and disappear. Peter then grows up along with Uncle Ben and Aunt May and reaches his teenage period . At school, Peter is constantly disturbed by a bully called Flash, while his class mate Gwen Stacy expresses her care for Peter and they both become friends. Back at home Peter finds out a hidden leather bag at their storage room and learns that it belongs to his father from Uncle Ben. Peter finds some documents and a photo of his father with an another man.   Uncle Ben tells Peter that the man was Dr.Curt Connors who was Richard Parker's colleague. Peter then seek out to find Dr.Connors and learn that he works in Oscorp Industries on cross-species genetics, that his father might also have been involved in the earlier stages.

Peter then goes to Oscorp to meet Connors pretending as an intern where he meets Gwen. Despite of Stacy's request as not to get into trouble Peter breaks into a secret facility in the Oscorp, where he finds that some experiments were being done using spiders. In curiosity while peter tries to understand the equipment in the lab he disturbs a spider web and all the spiders collapses on Peter. He then manages to escape from the facility on the escalation by Gwen. In the meantime a spider that Peter carried from the labs bits him. Spider Bitten Peter then finds himself empowered with unseen powers while returning home in a train. Due to his weird behaviour he gets into an involuntary fight with the train passengers. At home he shows same kind of behaviour with Aunt May and Ben and the next day he find the bitten spider and leans that he has acquired some super human abilities. At midst of his confusions, at school Flash tries to bully Peter but is humiliated by Peter. Peter also accidentally breaks a basket ball facility at school and uncle Ben is summoned by the authorities to counsel Peter.

Uncle Ben advises Peter and then ask him to pick up Aunt May in the evening as he has to go on  a night shift because of Peter's irresponsibility. While leaving, Ben sees Gwen standing nearby and comments if she was the girl that Peter had in his desktop. Peter then flirts with Gwen and she reciprocates it.

Peter then visits Connors at his home and learns that his father has disappeared at midst of a science research and caused difficulty to Cornnors and Oscorp. Therefore in the belief to rectify his father's fault Peter share the algorithm that he had learned from the hidden documents he found back at home. The algorithm works and Connors appreciates Peter for his brilliance.

Peter returns home forgetting his Uncle request to pickup Aunt May and they get into a family fight. As a result Peter leaves home at night and uncle Ben follows to convince him. Peter escapes from Ben's follow up and encounter a robber at the shop. But Peter lets the thief to escape because of his grudge on the shop owner. This thief  then encounter Ben on his way and shoots him to death. Peter then find dead Uncle Ben on road and feels guilty for his irresponsibility and seek out revenge on the killer by wearing a mask. He also manages to create a web shooter from a technology invented by his father for Oscorp. He actually gets those tablets from the very same bag he found the formula.

Later with his newly created costume and web shooters Peter Parker sets out as a masked vigilante to protect the innocent. This gets the attention of Captain Stacy who is Gwen's father. Captain issues strict order to the cops to arrest Spiderman.

Gwen invites Peter to her house for dinner where Peter gets into word fight with Captain regarding the Spiderman issue and Gwen takes Peter outside. Meantime back at the laboratory Connors is forced to experiment the new regeneration formula he found with the help of Peter by an Oscorp authority.

Since the experiment worked fine on rats due to the pressure from Oscorp Connors injects himself with the serum. But unfortunately the formula backfires and thereby mutating Connors into a giant lizard. Lizard mutated Connors then seeks out to stop the Oscorp agent Ratha who was planning to try the serum on dying Osborn. Back at Gwen's home Peter confesses Gwen that he is Spiderman and kisses her before he leaves.  Lizard man creates chaos in the bridge and Spiderman arrives at the scene and fight the Lizard man.  Spiderman also manages to save the people and a boy trapped in a burning car.

The Lizard mutation of Dr.Connors becomes very unstable and it reverts back to human form. Connors then recovers and find himself in a drainage tunnel. The next day Spiderman meets Connors at his home seeking for some answers regarding lizard’s characteristics. Seeing the scaly side effects in Dr.Connors body and the monstrously mutated rat in Connors house, Peter learns that the Lizard was the end result of Connor’s experiment on his attempt to regain his lost limb. Peter then persuades Captain Stacy to believe that Dr.Connors was the Lizard roaming in Newyork, but Stacy disagrees, yet he ask one of his men to collect details of Dr.Connors.

So Peter sets out to fight Connors on his own. He find that most of the lizards hides in the sewage. So as Spiderman, Peter locates the central hub of the tunnel and waits there for Connors. Connors continues his experiment in the tunnel and this time he transforms back to more stable lizard form and fights Spiderman. Spiderman is wounded in the fight but manage to escape from the lizard and reaches Gwen Stacy home who treat him of his wounds. Realizing the danger that the creature can post to the public, Peter determines to control the lizard at any cause since he was the one who led to this by sharing the algorithm that his father had hidden from Oscorp. Back at the tunnel the Lizard finds the mobile phone that peter has left to snapshot the Lizard and learns that Peter Parker was the Spiderman.

Lizard reaches Peter’s school through underground and creates havoc searching for Peter Parker. Peter then fights the Lizard in the campus and at midst the fight the Lizard encounters Gwen. But Spiderman saves Gwen before the lizard could harm Gwen. Police arrive to the spot and the lizard escapes.

The escaped lizard starts spreading the formula in the form of gas in the Newyork city and as a result of this even the cops who fight the Lizard are also mutated into lizards. This starts spreading like a disease and the Lizard decides to transform the whole of the Newyork city into lizard crowd by spreading the gas from the Oscorp tower instrument. Knowing this Spiderman rushes to stop the lizard. Meantime he also conveys Stacy about the lizards plan and ask her to initiate the cure for the lizard as per the guidelines in Dr.Connors office. But the cops shoots Spiderman with the Maze and remove his mask. But Peter manages to fight all of them except Captain Stacy. Having no choice Peter reveals Captain Stacy that he is the Spiderman and convinces him that he has to stop the Lizard and save Gwen in the Oscorp tower. Stacy agrees to release Peter but a fellow cop shots Spiderman in his leg before he would fly. Spiderman gets wounded and finds it difficult to fly to the Oscorp tower. The crane operators of the city operates their crane ahead of Spiderman and supports him. Spiderman gets motivated by the public support and covers his bleeding wound with his spider web and flies to the tower. But before Spiderman would reach the Oscorp the Lizard finds Gwen at the lab but it ignore her and steals the instrument and heads to the tower top to spread the lizard Virus.

Spiderman finally reaches the tower and fight the lizard from initiating the Virus Bomb. Gwen hands over the cure to her father and request him to save her boyfriend aka Spiderman. Evacuation of the city was also in progress.

Lizard overpowers Spiderman and threaten to kill him. But Captain Stacy arrives to the spot and shoots down the Lizard and saves Spiderman. Spiderman then rushes to replace the virus with the cure formula in the bomb while Captain Stacy engages the Lizard. But the Lizard heals quickly and kills the Captain and starts to interrupt Peter from disengaging the missile. But Peter brilliantly manages to replace the virus with the cure in the missile and the missile gets launched and blows to a blue gas cloud. The Lizard then realizes that it was the cure but it gets exposed to and starts transforming back to Connors. The tower collapses and both Peter and lizard falls of the building. A human hand lends out to save the falling Peter which turn out to be Connors. Then Connors transforms back completely to human form and regrets of his deeds and ask him to save Captain. But wounded Captain dies at the hands of Peter after getting the promise that Peter would always stay away from his daughter Gwen, since he would be fighting powerful enemies in the upcoming days. Peter agrees and stays away from Gwen.



After someday Peter starts to reach the classes late and gets warned by his Professor on his failure to be on time. The movie end with Peter realizing his responsibility and flying out to the sky as Amazing Spiderman.

The End

“We all have secrets; the ones we keep, and the ones that are kept from us.”

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