Rache der Fledermaus

[winter]

I just saw Batman Begins again, in IMAX no less. Mmm, Liam with crystal-clear surround sound <3


- my research on Bhutan shows me that it's quite possible that people can speak English in a Bhutanese prison camp, or in a remote village; apparently English is the official language in school, since otherwise there are two languages: Nepali and Dzongkha. It also means that it's not a Chinese prison camp, even if we discard the fact that an American would not be imprisoned in a Tibetan lao gai camp, but transported to China proper.

- I need to find out what language Bruce is speaking in the arrest flashback. For the purposes of Snow and Steel, I'm assuming he can speak Dzongkha, which is a vernacular Tibetan dialect and national language of Bhutan. He'd certainly make an attempt to learn in the prison, he's that kind of guy. My bet's on Ducard also speaking it, and certainly Mandarin as well.

- OMG Liam squee!!!!!!!!! <- right, that's taken care of. Moving on.

- After taking the blue flower from Bruce, Ducard puts it in his buttonhole. Squee.

- Ducard's vicious, ambitious, driven, and convinced that he can impose his will on the world. There's a word for that attitude, and it's Sith.

- The phrase is "Always mind your surroundings". Right.

- Somewhere between Bruce entering the fortress and the birthday party, Ducard changes from calling him "Mr Wayne" to "Bruce". Fic fodder.

- What I didn't catch the first time around was that the flashbacks are stories Bruce tells to Ducard. Also fic fodder.

- Ducard is way too gleeful about being bested by Bruce. *shakes head*

- If they had been near the fortress, they wouldn't have spent the night outside by a fire, leaving Bruce to catch a chill. Therefore I was right about the hiking trips.

- Alfred: apart from the Michael Caine love, there are shades and layers to his character. This needs thinking about.

- I want to write about the kid from the Narrows turning into Anarky a few years down the road :S

- Come to think of it... Oooh, series idea. Or rather an idea for a loosely connected series of drabbles, which is what I do best, and what doesn't make me stress. Go me.


EDIT:

- Bruce starts off the party encounter with "I saved your life". There goes my theory of Ducard not being told who dragged his carcass down the mountain.

- Batman drowning in the crowd, before he hooks the railcar with his grapple: wonderfully iconic. They all fear, but he's a guardian demon for them, and so they flock under his wings.

- I think I've already identified a fanon point: more than one fic I've read referred to all of Ducard's pupils being Asian. To the contrary, each time we're shown a selection it's 100% politically correct - 1 white, 1 black and 1 Asian.

- Everyone in this movie is way too fond of throwing people's words in their faces.


Also, jewelry, but I don't have a camera right now :/

Comments

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Forget about the cast commentary. Look at the actor interviews on the Fellowship EE dvd. Christopher Lee recited the One Ring poem in the Dark Tongue of Mordor from memory!

And turned into a 13-boy when he talked about meeting JRRT at a talk.

If you can transfer *that* onto Alfred... wow. Though Bruce will have a hard time when Alfred wants the weekend of to attend book signings and literary conventions.

[winter]

The only reason I wasn't completely floored by the poem was because, well, I used to be able to do it myself once ^^; I've never watched the whole appendices - where does he talk about meeting Tolkien?

I think I have a grasp on how to work fanboy!Alfred into a fic, though it'd have to be Batman Begins. Canon!Alfred is... stiffer.