CATWOMAN HERSELF LETS OUT SOME MEATY DARK KNIGHT RISES DETAILS (+ HIGH RES STILLS)

"It would seem, Commissioner, that Ms. Hathaway has let the cat out of the bag".

I'm starting to think Nolen's making a Bane movie, with Batman in it.

Hm, how vexing.

How public a figure is Selina Kyle anyway? It makes sense she would be the public face of the League, given that she can get access to Wayne Manor parties and be glamorous. But then, why the mask and costume? And why would she warn Wayne? Doesn't seem like a very League of Shadows thing to do.

And I suppose this is best left for the other thread, but we've gotten so many plot developments in the last few weeks - what's the Joker's story? Eight years later, and I feel like, in the midst of all this chaos, for him to just be unseen in the background kinda stinks.

I liked it when she released some meaty parts in Love and Other Drugs.

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Originally Posted by Gabe T 

Hm, how vexing.

 

How public a figure is Selina Kyle anyway? It makes sense she would be the public face of the League, given that she can get access to Wayne Manor parties and be glamorous. But then, why the mask and costume? And why would she warn Wayne? Doesn't seem like a very League of Shadows thing to do.

 

And I suppose this is best left for the other thread, but we've gotten so many plot developments in the last few weeks - what's the Joker's story? Eight years later, and I feel like, in the midst of all this chaos, for him to just be unseen in the background kinda stinks.

She's probably just like the Scarecrow, she's affiliated, but it's unlikely that she's true LOS. She doesn't seem to be warning Wayne at all, she's fucking with him. My guess is that she's working with them for profit or for revenge or both, and when she sees just how far they're planning to take shit (coupled with some unexpected - for her - feelings for Wayne), she turns on them.

Also, one can play lip service to The Joker, I mean the Harvey Dent Act is obviously directly related to the shit-storm he kicked up 8 years ago, but if Bruce is going to be leaving Batman behind, alive or dead, his relationship with The Joker goes with it.

Finally, although the villains tend to take up a lot of time and attention, I don't think this is looking like a Bane movie with Batman in it. People don't know who Bane is, so giving them some context and playing up the threat he poses is a good move, it makes him seem like a worthy follow-up to the Joker (at least as far as the narrative is concerned, culturally he simply will not match that impact for a number of reasons).  

Edit: On a personal note, it's a fun coincidence that Hathaway brings up Hedy Lamarr in relation to her performance, as I've been researching Lamarr as the basis for a character at the center of a screenplay I'm toying with.

To the person suggesting that the woman in black is Talia (in the comments under the article), I doubt it. I understand why someone would think that since she has traditionally worn an all-black catsuit-like outfit, but I can't see the movie having two characters dressed that way. We already know Selina Kyle will be wearing one of those dealies.

In the official photos of Coitillard hanging out around the camo tumblers, she's wearing what looks like a female version of the outfit Ken Watanabe wore in "Batman Begins". I imagine that's probably the only outfit we'll see the character in, or at least the one she'll be wearing most of the time. And I think the idea of Catwoman being "the public face" of the league is a little strange. If any woman is leading them, shouldn't it be Talia? Those official photos suggest that she is. This is all, of course, just speculation at this point, though.

Except for that one shot of Bane above, where his arm make-up is looking particularly cakey and probably wouldn’t do to be seen at 20 megapixels.

I think that's intentional detailing; it's supposed to be 'roid acne.

I'm sure Selina doesn't know Wayne's other side when she talks to him at the party.

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Except for that one shot of Bane above, where his arm make-up is looking particularly cakey and probably wouldn’t do to be seen at 20 megapixels.

 

I think that's intentional detailing; it's supposed to be 'roid acne.

It all directly lines up with where Tom Hardy's extensive tattooing sits on his arms. It's also not very good in a lot of pictures, no matter what the intention is.

1) I don't mind Bane's arms. I think they're fine

2) I support these images of Anne Hathaway as THE CAT WOMAN. IMHO she is well 'suited' to the role, and audiences should expect to be pleased with her work in TDKR come summer 2012

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Originally Posted by Princess Kate 

1) I don't mind Bane's arms. I think they're fine

 

2) I support these images of Anne Hathaway as THE CAT WOMAN. IMHO she is well 'suited' to the role, and audiences should expect to be pleased with her work in TDKR come summer 2012

The Fleed/Kate singularity draws ever nearer.

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Originally Posted by Chris Myers 

I'm sure Selina doesn't know Wayne's other side when she talks to him at the party.

So "batten" down the hatches is just a regrettable, nautical pun?

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Originally Posted by MikeI 

 

So "batten" down the hatches is just a regrettable, nautical pun?

I didn't think of it as a pun at all. It's just something people say

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Edit: On a personal note, it's a fun coincidence that Hathaway brings up Hedy Lamarr in relation to her performance...

 

 
 

 

That's Hedley.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001443/

Check your facts before you try (and spectacularly fail) to correct someone. Her birth name is Hedwig.

Perhaps he was thinking of this?

Probably, but I'm feeling pissy and had my Internet Tough Guy Wheaties this morning, so...

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Originally Posted by Princess Kate 

I didn't think of it as a pun at all. It's just something people say

When you say it in a Batman trailer, it's a pun. And.. who says that? Besides poorly scripted weathermen.

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Originally Posted by MikeI 

 

When you say it in a Batman trailer, it's a pun.

 

The hell kind of reasoning is this? Just because it's a play on words in a Batman film doesn't mean we're back in Adam West or Schumacher territory.

Am I missing something? Maybe I'm just slow, but aside from being an oddly antiquated idiom, how is "batten down the hatches" a play on words in relation to Batman? Because batten begins with "bat"? I have no idea what the hell anyone is going on about.

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Originally Posted by JacknifeJohnny 

Maybe I'm just fucking slow, but aside from being an oddly antiquated idiom, how is "batten down the hatches" a play on words in relation to Batman?

It ain't. It just sounds sexier than Selina Kyle whispering to Bruce, "Tharr be stormy seas ahead".

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

It ain't. It just sounds sexier than if Selina Kyle whispered to Bruce, "Tharr be stormy seas ahead".

 

Not if she had a parrot on her shoulder while saying it. That'd have me making a mess of my 501's.   

Well, Mike seemed to be implying that it was meant to be some sort of pun, so I was going off of that.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

It ain't. It just sounds sexier than Selina Kyle whispering to Bruce, "Tharr be stormy seas ahead".

 

Wait... I think if Anne Hathaway whispered in my ear "Tharr be stormy seas ahead," with that look, she was promising to rock my waterbed. To which my only reply would be, "Aye Aye, Captain."  Unless batten your hatches is a reference to something else, but even then, it is much sexier if she is steering my rudder and bringing me amidship.

[This nautical fancy is too much. Off to write my Batman/Catwoman/Master and Commander crossover fanfiction]

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Originally Posted by Chris Spider 

Well, Mike seemed to be implying that it was meant to be some sort of pun, so I was going off of that.

Actually, I was implying that she chose her idiom to indicate she knew he was Batman. Otherwise, it is a really odd turn of phrase.

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Originally Posted by MikeI 

 

Actually, I was implying that she chose her idiom to indicate she knew he was Batman. Otherwise, it is a really odd turn of phrase.

...Yeah, I'm not seeing it yet. I figured she was just singling him out as the top dog of the Gotham elite.

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Originally Posted by Chris Spider 

...Yeah, I'm not seeing it yet. I figured she was just singling him out as the top dog of the Gotham elite.

This was my impression as well.

Because he is.

Exactly. One odd thing I just realized: no Morgan Freeman in what we've seen so far. Presumably, he's in the movie, so might he (and possibly Alfred as well) get killed off as a sacrificial lamb of sorts?

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Originally Posted by MikeI 

Actually, I was implying that she chose her idiom to indicate she knew he was Batman. Otherwise, it is a really odd turn of phrase.

It's not a particularly odd turn of phrase, especially once you've started with a storm metaphor. Perhaps it depends where you come from though.

And to me the fact she goes on to accuse Wayne of being a fat cat able "to live so large and leave so little for the rest of us" suggests she doesn't know he was Batman - a guy who crusaded, in a caped manner, to clean up the town - at all.