I wrote this for a friend and am sharing it with Tumblr.

So I’m probably sure everyone realizes that on some level the trailer 3 is heavily focused on Catwoman as a character than anyone else. This is the obvious use of the trailer and the one I’m least interested in but in case someone didn’t get it:

Catwoman’s dialogue throughout the trailer starts off one way and slowly progresses into something else. Her first line being, almost bragging,”There’s a storm coming” and being adaptable and as it goes on shows that maybe perhaps even for her this wasn’t what she wanted. The most telling part of the trailer in terms of Catwoman is the line “You don’t owe these people anymore” because it shows us where her mind is at. All those people who insisted she would have a Robin like place in the film are essentially silenced with this line. It shows she’s not as aligned with the Gotham plight as Batman is. She can abandon them but as we know Batman can’t. This will keep them at some sort of odds and I wonder if it’ll drive a wedge between them.

Now the real trailer breakdown is much more interesting and I’ll take it step by step.

Opening credits, blah blah, whatever old Bruce… There’s a storm coming, their conversation is being juxtaposed with images of the prologue. This is the storm, while they’re dancing something serious is going on, Bane is hijacking planes and crashing them with no survivors. Now as I mentioned in the other breakdown there’s a very interesting dynamic of the visual image of rising compared to the title. How much rising do we see? Not a lot and I don’t think that’s accidental.

Our first falling images if Bane as he hurls towards the camera but catches himself, like the monster he is falling towards the audience. Bane is coming and he’s not going to enter Gotham, he’s going to land on it.

Something interesting is that the difference of characters looking at each other is presented only through adversaries. Rises being a theme in it, you’d think there’d be a lot of subtle ways to look up but in the trailer the only looking up we see is through fear or angst. I’ll come back to these but the first is “What are you” he’s looking UP at Bane in total fear and calmly the villain is looking DOWN at him as he says “I’m Gotham’s reckoning”

Pushes the button the cave FALLS sealing some cops in, the stadium COLLAPSES killing the team.

Joseph Gordon Levitt looking at what? COLLAPSING bridges.

Again adversaries looking at one another, not eye to eye but rather Blake looking DOWN at Selina and she looking UP at him in a tense conversation, where clearly they are on opposite sides of right,

Our first rising image is Bruce, climbing…This means so much. It is the title of the film, it is the goal, the question is whether it can be fulfilled.

Next images? Bruce looking UP at Bane and Bane looking DOWN at Bruce followed by Bruce (presumably) falling DOWN the well. Our hopelessness is rising, through all these images of falling.

“Hope is lost”

blake and kid looking down

Bane DROPPING the cowl.

Catwoman looking DOWN at something or someone, seemingly regretful, if this is Bruce it’s still adversary, perhaps she lead him there. Not one person has looked UP to Bruce yet…

Judge;s character knocking Blake DOWN that thing.

Bane looking down at the Camera and kneeling just as “You should be AFRAID of him as I am.” a position of dominance.

But as things start to climax we got a lot of eye to eye shots. Batman and Bane, Alfred and Bruce.

Gordon and Batman…

Batman looking DOWN at the city, a position of dominance and power.

Catwoman looking at Batman, slightly upward as she tells him he doesn’t owe them anymore.

Bane furiously eye to eye with someone

Blake looking UP holding his hands up a position of weakness.

Fox looking DOWN at a screen but then suddenly eye to eye with something in the room “You’ve given them everything” *HINT HINT*

Batman fighting Bane after that line *HINT HINT*

“Not everything” = Shot of Gordon *HINT HINT*

“Not yet” Batman looking down at Catwoman…here we go…the hope is returning.

Then the most important shot of the trailer. Gordon, wind blowing looking increasingly up as something rises in front of him.

Every shot from here until the car thing is eye to eye notice… The Battle lines have been Drawn, these are our fighters.

The last part is more humor but the cop is looking up astounded at something. This isn’t a car…

So the potential is there, the question is are we going to get Bane looking UP at Batman and Batman down at Bane. This is the only shot left desired from the given context.

What do you think
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So I have been doing it right…

fishingboatproceeds:

neil-gaiman:

Actually I suspect you can skip the first 8 if you just do the last one.

Yeah, seriously. I don’t fancy myself a great novelist, but perhaps it is because I don’t have a neglected spouse or a loyal pet.

But just for the record:

Childhood trauma: Limited.
Miserable job: Yes, but who hasn’t had at least one of those?
Moment of Self-Discovery: Not that I recall.
Episode of debauchery: I’m only allowed one?!
Pathologic ambition: Check.
Loyal pet: Nope.
Neglected spouse: I hope not.
Personal demons: Well, sure, but again, who doesn’t?
Years of boring hard work: Yes, although as years of boring hard work go, it beats, like, silver mining. And finance.

Finally some common sense thinking about John Blake’s character from someone on Tumblr.

Most of this is right! 

thedailyknight:

There has been much speculation over Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s role in the forthcoming The Dark knight Rises. Director Christopher Nolan has revealed very little about the character beyond his name, John Blake and the fact that he’s a Gotham City police officer. So if we want to know more we’ll…

badassfilms:

Nolan has just made The Avengers, a 200 million dollar movie, his bitch.

Of course it’s real.

Old news.

crashingthisplane:

If this is real, I’m going to lose it.

Oh Blanche…

…Is the one who picks up the slack after Batman is beaten in TDKR, with the help of his “special task force” which includes John Blake.

John Blake is only John Blake. No one else. He’s a good cop, confused with what to think about the new world Gotham is thrown into. He’s not Robin, he’s not Azrael. He’s John Blake and he’s probably going to be fucking fantastic.

dolans-cadillac:

The only thing important about 4/20 is that it marks three months until The Dark Knight Rises comes out.