# Thought about Anne Hathaway and The Dark Knight Rises **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201 "2012-08-21T19:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/21 "2012-08-22T09:00:53Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > I thought her an unneccesary distraction honestly. She wasn’t needed in the script, and we could have done the whole film without her. Pretty much. Plus, her motivation didn’t make sense - she wants a piece of software that can wipe her criminal record? When anarchy comes to Gotham, why doesn’t she just go to the courthouse and _burn_ her criminal record? For that matter, why is still _in_ Gotham? Someone with her survival instinct should have bailed at earliest opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/22 "2012-08-22T09:19:43Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > why doesn’t she just go to the courthouse and _burn_ her criminal record? It’s all digital. And if it’s important (criminal records tend to be) there should be several offsite backups. > [@](#): > > For that matter, why is still _in_ Gotham? Someone with her survival instinct should have bailed at earliest opportunity. You got the part where the army helps out keeping everybody inside, right? Not to say they’re infallible, but with the surveillance and firepower they have at hand, I would overthink my escape plans thoroughly. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/23 "2012-08-22T09:21:32Z")
Towards the beginning of the movie a newspaper headline is seen which reads something like, “The Cat Strikes Again.” Yes, she is supposed to be Catwoman. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/24 "2012-08-22T09:29:01Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > It’s all digital. And if it’s important (criminal records tend to be) there should be several offsite backups. I know that during hurricane Katrina there was talk that criminal and vital records in some parts of Louisiana were plain lost and how this was going to cause pain for a lot of people. That was 2005, ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/25 "2012-08-22T09:52:02Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > It’s all digital. And if it’s important (criminal records tend to be) there should be several offsite backups. Then that software she wanted must be conveniently magical. > [@](#): > > You got the part where the army helps out keeping everybody inside, right? Not to say they’re infallible, but with the surveillance and firepower they have at hand, I would overthink my escape plans thoroughly. For several months? Anyway, there were people being sent “into exile” by being made to walk across the ice. It seemed to me that this was a potentially feasible escape route, if instead of walking, you just lie flat to distribute your weight and slide across the ice like a harp seal, and more so if you’re a relatively light person, i.e. a slim woman like Selena Kyle. It was just another dumb oversight in a fairly dumb movie. ---
**Author:** ![Baboonanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@Baboonanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baboonanza)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/26 "2012-08-22T11:47:43Z")
Maybe she knew that turning a fusion reactor into a bomb is pure bullshit and that therefor she was in no danger? Arguing plot holes in DKR is a pretty pointless exercise. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/27 "2012-08-22T13:02:05Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > She’s bloody Catwoman. And he’s “[the goddamn Batman](http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/234/GoddamnBatman.jpg)”. Of course they’re a perfect match! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/28 "2012-08-22T13:16:28Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > I thought the film was intentionally playing down the “sexy” thing for that character. Yeah, Skin tight leather and she’s sitting on the batpod with her ass up in the air, waggling it at the camera. That’s downplaying it? If that’s downplaying it… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/29 "2012-08-22T13:16:59Z")
Jeez people; it’s a movie based on a comic book. Suspend some disbelief and have a little fun. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/30 "2012-08-22T13:23:23Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Jeez people; it’s a movie based on a comic book. Suspend some disbelief and have a little fun. We are…? For some of us it’s fun to take it apart, too. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/31 "2012-08-22T13:30:42Z")
[Modding] > [@Leaffan](#): > > Jeez people; it’s a movie based on a comic book. Suspend some disbelief and have a little fun. This isn’t a disbelief issue, it’s a question about the character. Please don’t threadshit. [/Modding] And Selina Kyle is Catwoman. There’s no two ways about that. This is their interpretation of the character. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/32 "2012-08-22T13:36:16Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Modding] > This isn’t a disbelief issue, it’s a question about the character. Please don’t threadshit. > > [/Modding] > > And Selina Kyle is Catwoman. There’s no two ways about that. This is their interpretation of the character. Wow. I didn’t interpret my remark as threadshitting at all. We’re getting into technical discussions on electronic record destruction, the feasibility of turning fusion reactors into bombs, and how to properly disperse ones weight while traversing thin ice. Continue on then. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/33 "2012-08-22T14:00:31Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > And Selina Kyle is Catwoman. There’s no two ways about that. This is their interpretation of the character. So I guess I’m wrong about my interpretation. Meh, I’ll hold onto it anyway, because it’s fun for me. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/34 "2012-08-22T14:06:48Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > So I guess I’m wrong about my interpretation. Meh, I’ll hold onto it anyway, because it’s fun for me. Ok, but it sounds like your interpretation is based on some mistakes about the way the character has been used over the years. It actually sounds more like what I _thought_ they were going to do with her character based on the first pictures they released. When I saw Hathaway on the Bat Cycle I thought maybe they were going to have her play an unstable Batman admirer who insists on getting involved. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/35 "2012-08-22T14:56:52Z")
Googling around, it looks like in prerelease there was a lot of speculation that Hathaway was going to be Batgirl. So I’m no the only one that made that association. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/36 "2012-08-22T15:00:27Z")
That would’ve been before they announced she was playing Selina Kyle. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/37 "2012-08-22T16:38:59Z")
I think she also refers to herself as “the Cat” a time or two. Something like “Did they really think that they could catch the Cat?”. As an aside, has anyone else noticed that, despite all her class-warfare talk, the very first time we see her she’s attempting to steal something extremely valuable from what appears to be an ordinary working schmo? Surely, she could have just left no fingerprints at all, at least as easily as leaving false prints. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/38 "2012-08-22T17:31:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think she also refers to herself as “the Cat” a time or two. Something like “Did they really think that they could catch the Cat?”. > > As an aside, has anyone else noticed that, despite all her class-warfare talk, the very first time we see her she’s attempting to steal something extremely valuable from what appears to be an ordinary working schmo? Surely, she could have just left no fingerprints at all, at least as easily as leaving false prints. What? The first time we see her stealing something, it’s from Bruce Wayne, one of the richest men in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/39 "2012-08-22T17:34:53Z")
What she was stealing from Bruce Wayne was a single string of pearls, a drop in the bucket for a man of his wealth. But at the same time, she was also stealing the freedom of some fat balding guy, by wearing his fingerprints to crack Wayne’s safe. That’s a _much_ bigger deal than the pearls. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201/40 "2012-08-22T17:44:17Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Jeez people; it’s a movie based on a comic book. Suspend some disbelief and have a little fun. I’m having more fun deconstructing the movie than I did watching it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-about-anne-hathaway-and-the-dark-knight-rises/632201.md?page=3)