A dumb movie question from the Dark Knight Rises
So based on Dave’s review and my own love of Batman I went as saw this yesterday. I enjoyed it a lot, but there was one point that bugged me during the film and has been bugging me ever since.
By the way, big spoiler coming in so if you have not yet watched the film better bail out.
Anyway, at one point Bruce Wayne is at the bottom of a prison pit. The only way out is to climb up the pit wall and make some kind of jump or something. They tie a rope around his waste so he won’t die when he falls. He then has to attempt the climb over and over again.
Here’s the question. If there is a rope that goes all the way up to the top of the pit wall why didn’t he just climb up the rope? Or just use the rope to walk up the wall in relative safety. They even did that in the 70’s Batman movie. For that matter it looked like the rope was on some kind of pulley that a big dude held the end on. Why didn’t they just pull him up to the top? Dumb.
The image I got from Dave’s Batman t shirt collection. He has a lot of them.
Jason
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Gene Ha July 22, 2012 at 4:50 am
I was wondering the exact same thing! Perhaps it’ll make more sense if I look at it on DVD some day, but the safety rope seemed to go almost to the top. I’d love to ask this on FB, but such a spoiler.
The Adam West “Batman” movie was released in 1966. The original TV series spanned 1966-1968.
macandqueso July 22, 2012 at 12:42 pm
It’s because the rope only went up to the halfway point where he had to jump. I guess he could have been pulled up or climbed up a different way to that ledge, but as it was shown that first part of the climb was the easy part, it was the jump that couldnt be done therefore that first half of the climb wasnt as much of a worry.
I’ve seen the movie twice already and I am almost 100% sure that I am right with where the rope was placed. I made notice of it because as watching I knew he wouldnt be able to make the jump with the rope around him because it didn’t give enough slack to make it from point a to b.
Dave July 24, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Yeah I corrected Jason on the year of the Batman movie. He’s kind of lazy on the research IMO.
Dave
Austin July 30, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Yes i was wondering that but i did see the movie the second time and this is where i saw it, it only went up so far, if you can remember that when he was on the ledge before the jump that the rope was hanging off the ledge and not up, someone must have tied it to the highest they could reach