20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Dark Knight Rises

Ever wonder why the unsettling beast that is Hardy's Bane can often be found passing the time with a spell of casual knitting throughout The Dark Knight Rises?

In all honesty, the character detail itself was largely overlooked by many upon their first few viewings of the trilogy's conclusion, but Bane is definitely threading the needle in many a scene. But why?

Well, in what acted as one of the many Rises nods to Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities tale, this act is actually Bane's way of tipping his mask to that story's villain Madame Defarge; another entity who enjoyed a spell of knitting.

Elsewhere, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan would explain later down the road that, "'A Tale of Two Cities' was, to me, one of the most harrowing portraits of a relatable, recognisable civilisation that completely folded to pieces with the terrors in Paris in France in that period." And director Christopher Nolan was also quick to note that "When I did my draft on the script, it was all about ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.”