| | ''The Dark Knight Rises'' is considered to be one of the [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies|best conservative films ever]] due to it's depiction of [[Occupy Wall Street]]-esque protesters as the villains<ref>http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/occupy-batman-storms-gotham-city/</ref> who, under the lead of terrorists Talia al Ghul and Bane, orchestrate a takeover of Gotham City and force capitalists from their homes before sentencing them to a grisly "exile" from the city. In addition, Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne's company, Wayne Enterprises, is shown in the film to have a significant drop in stock after investing in an [[environmentalist]], progressive business endeavor to install a clean energy source reactor to power Gotham City, which is revealed to hold a nuclear bomb in it's core deliberately created by the villain Talia al Ghul to destroy the city. Finally, Batman is shown in the finale as willing to sacrifice himself to save the people of Gotham from destruction by nuclear annihilation, despite the city having branded him as a villain for the murders caused by Two-Face in the previous film, ''The Dark Knight''. This is not unlike [[Jesus]] enduring death on the Cross to save us from our sins. | | ''The Dark Knight Rises'' is considered to be one of the [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies|best conservative films ever]] due to it's depiction of [[Occupy Wall Street]]-esque protesters as the villains<ref>http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/occupy-batman-storms-gotham-city/</ref> who, under the lead of terrorists Talia al Ghul and Bane, orchestrate a takeover of Gotham City and force capitalists from their homes before sentencing them to a grisly "exile" from the city. In addition, Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne's company, Wayne Enterprises, is shown in the film to have a significant drop in stock after investing in an [[environmentalist]], progressive business endeavor to install a clean energy source reactor to power Gotham City, which is revealed to hold a nuclear bomb in it's core deliberately created by the villain Talia al Ghul to destroy the city. Finally, Batman is shown in the finale as willing to sacrifice himself to save the people of Gotham from destruction by nuclear annihilation, despite the city having branded him as a villain for the murders caused by Two-Face in the previous film, ''The Dark Knight''. This is not unlike [[Jesus]] enduring death on the Cross to save us from our sins. |
| − | However, renowned conservative commentator [[Rush Limbaugh]] aptly pointed out that the movie, released just a few months before the [[2012 presidential election]] featured the villain ''Bane'', a character who first appeared in Batman comics in the 1980s, and whose name resembles [[Bain Capital|''Bain'' Capital]], the former company of Republican candidate [[Mitt Romney]]. If this was intended as a not-so-subtle attack on the Republican party, it is consistent with Christopher Nolan's financial and verbal support for leftist politicians in both the United Kingdom and America. | + | However, renowned conservative commentator [[Rush Limbaugh]] aptly pointed out that the movie, released just a few months before the [[2012 presidential election]] featured the villain ''Bane'', a character who first appeared in Batman comics in the early 1990s, and whose name resembles [[Bain Capital|''Bain'' Capital]], the former company of Republican candidate [[Mitt Romney]]. If this was intended as a not-so-subtle attack on the Republican party, it is consistent with Christopher Nolan's financial and verbal support for leftist politicians in both the United Kingdom and America. |