How is Donald Trump's keynote speech similar to Bane's in Batman?
It is unlikely that the new president of the United States has taken pieces of Bane's speech, although both messages share a line of argument: we must take power away from the privileged and hand it over to the less favored.
Shortly after the conclusion of Donald Trump's inaugural speech when he assumed the presidency of the United States, a rumor began to spread on many Internet sites and on social networks that the candidate had extracted some fragments of his speech from the words of the supervillain Bane during a scene from the Batman movie. The Dark Knight Rises.
Although it is highly unlikely that the new president of the United States has taken pieces of Bane's speech, the truth is that both messages share an argumentative line: we must take power away from the privileged and hand it over to the less favored. Throughout his campaign, this line was Trump's flag on his tour of the United States.
Almost at the beginning of his speech, Trump stated: Today's ceremony ... has a very special meaning because today we are not simply transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, DC, and returning it to the people.
With the power of Washington, Trump is referring to the political and administrative leadership of the American capital, which he has attacked since he ran for president of the United States for the Republican Party.
In one of the main scenes of Batman. The Dark Knight Rises, in which the supervillain Bane besieges the fictional city of Gotham, this is the message he gives to the citizens of Gotham: We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of entire generations who have kept them down with myths of opportunity. And we deliver them to you, the people. Gotham is yours! No one should interfere, do what you want.
These are the fragments of both discourses that are most closely related. However, in both messages the speakers incite confrontation and resentment. On the one hand, Bane encourages the people of Gotham to rise up against the rich and powerful and on the other, Trump positions himself as the savior who has taken power from the political and economic leadership of Washington to hand it over to the town.
Here is one more excerpt from Trump and Bane's speech:
Trump:
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but jobs left and factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. His victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And as they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for families fighting across our land.
Bane:
Let those who will serve step forward. Because an army will rise. The powerful will be plucked from their decaying nests and cast out into the cold world we know and endure. The courts will be summoned. The spoils will be spent! Blood will be spilled. The police will survive if they learn to serve true justice. This great city will endure. Gotham will survive.
The most basic difference between Bane's speech and Donald Trump's is that the former is delivered by a fictional character who within the cinematic narrative is effectively an outcast whose intention is to liberate the citizens of Gotham through violence and violence. merciless justice.
While Trump's speech was delivered by the newly appointed president of the United States, who has taken up the banner of watching over those whom the establishment has displaced. Donald Trump congratulated himself for having taken power from the privileged in Washington DC to hand it over to the people, while he himself is one of those privileged and powerful, against whom he calls so much to fight.
