Nolan's Batman Begins - Did You Notice The Hidden Occult Undertone?

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Jay Dyer

Arts, Education, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.6 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Nolan’s Batman Begins – In 2005, Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman movies, full of occult imagery depicting the interplay of secret societies and billionaire capitalists as played out against the gothic noir landscape of Gotham City. It is also the tale of our protagonist learning to use fear as a means of changing the world around him. In many ways, Bruce Wayne’s rise as the dark knight is like the ascendance of Gautama Siddhartha as Buddha. As the archetype of Buddha brought peace through enlightenment, the archetype of the bat brought peace through fear; something which would bring about the end of corruption in Gotham, but would eventually cause the fall of our hero.

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0:00.0	Is there a deeper, hidden, more esoteric meaning behind the Hollywood films that we all love to watch?
0:19.0	I'm Jay Dyer.
0:20.0	And I'm Jay Widener, and this is Hollywood Decoded.
0:23.1	Christopher Nolan was who rebooted the Batman series starting in 2005.
0:38.3	And then the big blockbuster trilogy that emerged from that was full of all kinds of
0:43.3	esoteric hidden occult meanings.
0:45.3	And that's what we're going to do today is dissect that and look at the interplay
0:49.3	of secret societies, of giant geopolitical wars between the east and the west,
0:55.0	of billionaire capitalists like Bruce Wayne,
0:57.0	and how this all kind of operates
1:00.0	under the veil of a comic book story, interestingly.
1:03.0	Yeah, it's a very mature comic book story.
1:06.0	Right.
1:07.0	In this trilogy, he does an incredible job.
1:10.0	And the entire ethos of the trilogy is really a vigilanteism in a way and how there is a place in the world for vigilantes.
1:23.6	I think what's fascinating for me was I wasn't expecting Bruce Wayne to get into a secret society.
1:29.3	Although if you watch the old series with Adam West, it's actually referenced in the series that his father was a member of skull and bones.
1:36.3	So we get the idea that there is this secret society background to the character of Batman.
1:41.3	So what does he do? Well, he decides he wants to go a left-hand path,
1:46.0	the path of darkness and difficulty for his initiation.
1:49.0	He travels to the Far East.
1:51.0	He gets a part of the secret society.
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