In the second of my three spoiler-ish TDKR-related articles, we will talk about the mighty twist, that made us all stop breathing in the theatre for a couple of seconds. The mighty twist was that Miranda Tate backstabbed Batman (literally) and revealed herself as the child of Ra's Al Ghul and the real villain in this movie. Now I've seen some people complain that the twist ruined the film as it completely crushed the whole Bane thing of "a child, born and raised in hell on earth" and altought I have to admit that his death was far less epic then it should be, a twist was needed or else the movie would just feel like it's missing something. In most cases, twists are what makes a story good and with this twist, the Dark Knight Rises definitely has a good story.
I also have a pretty interesting story regarding this twist. Around six months ago, before we got any trailers showing more then Gordon coughing in a bed I clicked on some random Dark Knight Rises-related video on YouTube. There was this one comment with lots of negative votes, but curious ol' me still decided to click on the "show" button. And even tough I clicked on the "hide" button almost imediatelly, I still read a bit of the text that spelled: "Miranda Tate is the real villain".
Believe it or not, I actually overcame the spoiler. The problem with spoilers is that, even if you never think about it again and try to bury it deep down inside your mind, you will automatically get reminded of it, the moment you see anything regarding the spoiler (in this case, the movie). But I managed to convinced myself, that the spoiler was simply untrue, that there was no possible way for a random Internet troll to know something like that. When I watched the film, I was realistically surprised at the twist (again) but then remembered that guy who know it half a year ago. How was that possible?!
There are many explanations for this, but even the most logical ones are quite unbelieveable. Maybe the Internet troll was psychic. Maybe he was a crew member. Most likely, he was a hacker of some sort that leaked the info just for him. But what I don't understand that if any of these situations would be true, why would he just post something like that on a random YouTube video? If I got some info like that (and woudn't give a shit about the movie and planned to reveal it anyway) I would try to make some money with it or something. Who knows, maybe he just guessed and got lucky.
Anyway, what was amazing about the twist was also the way they covered it up. When Marion Cotillard was cast in the film, many people tought she would play Miranda Tate. Some people tought she could be the villain Talia Al Ghul, avenging the death and finishing the job of her father. But the studios and the media quickly denied all that and said only that Marion Cotillard will play Miranda Tate, Bruce Wayne's love interest and that Anne Hathaway will play Selina Kyle / Catwoman, the movie's villain. That's what they made us believe and then switch-a-roo-d the two roles around.
So what did you think of the twist? Do you think it ruined the film, made it better? And what you think, how the hell did that troll know it? Comment below, let me know!
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