This 4-Minute Dark Knight Trilogy Scene Is The Best Of Christian Bale"s Entire Batman Career

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The Dark Knight trilogy houses several fantastic moments, but one specific four-minute sequence is the best of Christian Bale"s entire Batman career. Oftentimes, when concerning the best superhero movies ever made, the stories crafted by Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight trilogy are raised. It tends to be 2008"s The Dark Knight that ranks on these lists, with the middle installment of the trilogy widely considered the best Batman movie, not only from Nolan"s series but in the entire history of the Caped Crusader"s cinematic journey.
Over the course of the three films, Nolan and Christian Bale created some of the best Batman scenes in superhero cinema history. Many scenes in The Dark Knight trilogy improve with age, proving the movies to stand the test of time. Although the criticisms that The Dark Knight trilogy is too grounded in reality are valid and many are hoping James Gunn"s upcoming DCU movie will return the character to a more fantastical version of Gotham, they remain unparalleled as well-crafted, exciting movies. One four-minute scene proves this above all by remaining the best of Bale’s entire Batman career.
Why The Dark Knight Rise's Prison Escape Scene Is The Best The Symbolic Culmination Of Batman's Journey

The scene in question comes in 2012"s The Dark Knight Rises when Bruce Wayne climbs out of the prison in which Bane places him. The scene is the best in The Dark Knight trilogy for a variety of reasons that can be summed up by its thematic meaning, for one, but also how well-crafted it is to make it an exciting, chill-inducing scene. Starting with the former, Bruce"s climb typifies his character arc across the whole trilogy that started in Batman Begins.
Bruce"s climb also perfectly links to one of the film"s most iconic quotes: "Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
In climbing out of the prison, Bruce has to embrace his fear by doing so without a safety rope. This is exactly what Bruce does as Batman: takes fear, embraces it, and utilizes it. To make this symbolic culmination of Bruce"s arc even more powerful, it harkens back to his origins as Batman; Bruce fell down a well as a child and had to live with his fears before escaping. The same happens as he climbs out of the prison, complete with bats flying around him as he does so, overcoming his setbacks and rising above his failures.
On top of this deeper meaning, the scene is simply incredibly well made from a filmmaking perspective. The editing is brilliant, intercutting Bruce"s climb with the chanting inmates at the bottom of the well and those who aided his time in prison. This all comes after showcasing Bane"s terrorism in Gotham, making the climb moment that much more powerful. This editing combines with the fantastic direction, amazing performances, and Hans Zimmer"s epic score - titled "Why Do We Fall?" - to make for the best scene in Bale"s Batman career.
Why The Dark Knight Trilogy Is So Important To Christian Bale's Career Bale's Batman Casting Reignited His Career Close On perhaps an even deeper level than the reasoning mentioned above, The Dark Knight Rises" climb scene is about overcoming adversity and rising above darker times. In a way, this somewhat links to Christian Bale"s casting as Batman, highlighting how important the overall trilogy was to the actor"s career, specifically how he overcame a negative stretch. Before Batman Begins, Bale was best known for roles in movies like Empire of the Sun - as a child actor - American Psycho, Shaft, and The Machinist, to name a few. While Bale"s performances in these movies were widely praised, they were not commercial successes.
Christian Bale"s Earlier Movies
Domestic Box Office
Worldwide Box Office
Empire of the Sun
$22,238,696
$22,238,696
American Psycho
$15,070,285
$34,270,285
Shaft
$70,327,868
$107,190,108
The Machinist
$1,082,044
$8,655,397
Batman Begins
$205,343,774
$356,770,593
The Prestige
$53,089,891
$104,407,366
The Dark Knight
$534,235,491
$1,007,695,772
The Fighter
$93,617,009
$129,262,388
The Dark Knight Rises
$448,139,099
$1,082,228,107
This led him into The Dark Knight trilogy, which performed incredibly well at the box office. The latter two movies in the trilogy grossed over $1 billion worldwide, leading Bale into more mainstream roles that allowed his typically brilliant performances to be met with the commercial recognition they deserved. Thanks to The Dark Knight trilogy, Bale is now recognized not solely as an excellent actor in indie films, but also as a household name who can turn what would have been smaller films into commercially successful projects thanks to his name alone.

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