The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight Risessaw Bruce Wayne ( Christian Bale ) pushing himself mentally and physically to escape from a prison known as The Pit , and this place has a cryptic meaning than you reckon . After coming across Ra ’s al Ghul ( Liam Neeson ) , Carmine Falcone ( Tom Wilkinson ) , and Scarecrow ( Cillian Murphy ) inBatman Begins , and the Joker ( Heath Ledger ) inThe Dark Knight , Bruce Wayne was pull back into action inThe Dark Knight Riseswith the arriver of Bane ( Tom Hardy ) , who was part of a bigger architectural plan to bring Bruce and Batman down and put down Gotham City .
Set eight yearsafter the events ofThe Dark Knight , The Dark Knight Risessaw Bruce putting on the Batman costume again for confront Bane and his collaborator , but Bane was a mountain stronger , smarter , and more barbarous than Batman could have look for . Bane broke Batman ’s back and institutionalise him afield to a prison cave known as The Pit , where Bane had grown up along with Talia al Ghul ( Marion Cotillard ) , Ra ’s al Ghul ’s daughter . Bruce healed while at the Pit and managed to escape , and while the prison house is seen as a metaphor for Batman ’s rebirth , its meaning is cryptical than that thanks to its mirthful Quran inspiration .
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Dark Knight Rises’ Pit Is The Nolanverse’s Lazarus Pit
As pointed out by aReddituser , The Dark Knight Rises ’ Pit prison house is the Nolanverse ’s eq of the Lazarus Pit . In the comic strip , the Lazarus Pit is a puddle of observational chemical substance accidentally get wind by Ra ’s al Ghul . The pool has revitalizing chemical substance herculean enough to bring around those close to demise , but the healing properties of the pool come with a price : those who come in the pitfall are temporarily driven insane . The Lazarus Pit can not only bring around the sick and injured but can also resurrect the dead , and in some type , it has also decreased the age of the drug user , but it can only be used one clock time . Now , Nolan’sDark Knightuniversewas more realistic and did n’t have any charming / phantasy elements , so the Lazarus Pit was adapt as a prison house , where some characters heal and come back to lifespan , though not in a literal room .
As refer above , when Bruce was taken to the Pit , he had just had his back burst by Bane , so he go through a physical healing mental process in the prison house , but he also move through a mental and excited healing operation . At that compass point , Bruce had lost everything , but his healing process permit him to recover spirit , and he came out of the Pit physically and mentally stronger than before . The visual modality of Ra ’s al Ghul that Bruce has while in the Pit , in whichRa ’s al Ghul tells him there are “ many forms of immortality”might be a reference to the Lazarus Pit , but in the Nolanverse , Ra ’s make “ immortality ” through Talia , who was born in the Pit and managed to scat when she was a child , and later carry on with his legacy .
Why The Lazarus Pit Didn’t Work For Bane In The Dark Knight Rises
If the Pit inThe Dark Knight Risesis the Nolanverse ’s version of the Lazarus Pit , it raises the question of why it did n’t work for Bane the style it did for Bruce . Just like Batman , Bane had already lost everything after helping Talia escape , after which he was attacked by the other convict ( this is another possible acknowledgment to the insanity elicit by the Lazarus Pit).Bane was forget badly injuredand did n’t get his heal - and - get - stronger moment like Bruce did ( in part due to the incompetency of the Dr. who serve him ) , but he did become Bane while he was there , so it was a different , darker type of rebirth , though he still had to be rescued .
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