Corrected entry: If terrorists took over the stock market, wouldn't trading be suspended for the day? Why would they need to physically breach the trading floor to plug in to a secure network? If you could breach a secure network, wouldn't you want to keep that fact secret?
Tailkinker
18th Feb 2013
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
18th Feb 2013
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: There's no way Daggett's plan to make Bruce lose his fortune and get kicked out of his company would have worked, Bruce wasn't on the trading room floor, the fact that terrorists seized the Stock Exchange would have cancelled and voided any trading that day, plus the fact that the trade happened whilst under terrorism control would have made it more that obvious that Bruce did not make the trade. To make matters even worse almost every single character and the news media acts like Bruce intentionally committed a kamikaze trade whilst the floor was seized.
Correction: As Fox specifically states in the movie, given time, they'd probably be able to prove the fraud, but that would need to be proven to the satisfaction of the courts, which would not be quick. You have to bear in mind that copies of Bruce's fingerprints were used to authorise the trades, copies that were made during a break-in that the police were never informed of and thus any subsequent claim of theft would be treated with considerable scepticism. Thus, for the time being at least, Bruce is broke and has to relinquish control of the company. Daggett believes that may be enough to gain him control of Wayne Enterprises in order to force a merger with his own company; he may well be wrong but you're overlooking the rather major point that this is not Daggett's plan. The real aim of the plan is to get Bruce to temporarily surrender control to Miranda Tate so that she can gain access to the reactor in order to weaponise it. That's all she and Bane need; after that, it doesn't matter in the slightest if the trades are proved to be fraudulent, because they have what they were after and their plan for the fall of Gotham can be set in motion. Long-term, you're right, the plan probably wouldn't work. But it never needed to.
While you are correct about them not needing the fraudulent trade to be permanent, the original mistake is still, for the most part, valid. If we assumed there is security footage of the exchange, it would prove that Bruce was never there. If we disregard security footage or assume Bane's crew destroyed it, they would have cancelled all trades made that day anyway because, for all they know, Bane may have kidnapped Bruce and forced him to make the trades under duress during the siege.
It would still take some time to determine this as trading was under way so it would take some time to decipher the legit trades from the fraudulent ones.
18th Feb 2013
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: When Batman and Bane fights in the sewers Bane takes off Batman's mask, but when the henchmen drag him out you can see the mask still on his head.
Correction: Bane takes off the right-hand side of Bruce's mask - in close-up shots it's very obvious that it's not the complete mask. When his henchmen lift Bruce to drag him away, we see the left side of Bruce's head, which still has the mask in place.
27th Dec 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: Sorry to spoil all the fun of the nail-biting finish - but let us remember that the "bomb" was actually a decaying neutron reactor. There is no forecasting, months from the moment, exactly when it will decay enough to explode - that will rely on catalysts such as heat (Gotham's climate) and oscillation (how much it is shaken about when moved around). Also Neutron bombs are big on radiation and low on blast compared to traditional nukes so getting the bomb 6 miles off the beach before it blew (whichever way the wind was blowing) would leave much of the East Coast of America a no-go for decades.
Correction: The bomb is a decaying fusion reactor, described in the film as being an experimental prototype of a clean energy system. This is not technology that exists in the real world, about which we only have very generalised statements are made. As such, no "factual" claims can be made regarding how it might behave in its weaponised form.
22nd Aug 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: When Bruce escapes from The Pit, he is undoubtedly somewhere in the Middle East. He escapes just a day before the bomb was scheduled to explode in Gotham (which is historically known to be on the East Coast of the USA). If Bruce lost most of his fortunes in the stock exchange virus, how did he manage to get back to Gotham so fast?
Correction: While he arrives back a day before the bomb goes off, he escapes much earlier than that (dialogue implies that it could be as much as three weeks), giving him plenty of time to return. As for having no money, Bruce spent seven years travelling the world with no money to support him. He picked up some tricks along the way.
18th Aug 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: When Gordon rolls off into the sewer, one of Bane's henchman says that it is impossible to determine where he'll end up. Yet somehow, Blake, having no idea of what Gordon did in that sewer, goes to exactly the right sewer exit, at exactly the right time, when Gordon was already there, but hadn't yet died yet from hypothermia, and saves the guy. Lucky lucky.
Correction: Blake knows the likely exit point, for the simple reason that he's seen bodies wash out of the sewers there before - a scene early in the film portrays exactly that. Bane's people don't have that information, so THEY have no clue where Gordon might turn up, but Blake does. He can't follow Gordon into the sewers after the explosion - it's too dangerous, so he does the only thing he can, get to the outflow in the hope of finding somebody alive. Yes, he gets lucky in that he gets there before Gordon expires. But characters are allowed to be reasonably lucky without it being a plot hole, and this falls well within the bounds of reason.
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Correction: They need access to the trading floor because they need to input Bruce's fingerprints into the system to authorise the trades.
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