{"id":5490,"date":"2014-08-02T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T10:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:36:05","slug":"the-united-states-is-channelling-daggett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"The United States is channelling Daggett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>This is from the screenplay of The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>INT. DAGGETT&#8217;S PENTHOUSE &#8211; DAY<\/p>\n<p><em>Daggett bursts in, furious. Stryver tries to placate him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nHow the hell did Miranda Tate get the inside track on the Wayne board?! Was she meeting with Wayne? Was she sleeping with Wayne?<\/p>\n<p>STRYVER<br \/>\nNot that we know of &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nClearly you don&#8217;t &#8216;know of&#8217; anything, do you?! Where&#8217;s Bane?!<\/p>\n<p>STRYVER<br \/>\nWe told him it was urgent &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nThen where is the masked &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BANE (O.S.)<br \/>\nSpeak of the devil&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Daggett turns. Bane is already there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BANE<br \/>\n&#8230;and he shall appear.<\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nWhat the hell&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>BANE<br \/>\nThe plan is proceeding as expected.<\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nYou see me running Wayne Enterprises?! <em>(Moves towards Bane.)<\/em><br \/>\nYour stock exchange hit didn&#8217;t work, friend. And now you&#8217;ve got my construction crews working all hours around the city? How&#8217;s that supposed to help my company absorb Wayne&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p>BANE (TO STRYVER)<br \/>\nLeave us.<\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nYou stay right there! I&#8217;m in charge!<br \/>\n<em>Bane places a gentle hand on Daggett&#8217;s shoulder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BANE<br \/>\nDo you feel in charge?<br \/>\n<em> Daggett is taken aback. Stryver leaves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve paid you a small fortune &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BANE<br \/>\nAnd that gives you power over me?<br \/>\n<em> Daggett considers the heavy hand on his shoulder. Nervous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nWhat is this?<\/p>\n<p>BANE<br \/>\nYour money and infrastructure have been important. Till now.<\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nWhat are you?<\/p>\n<p>BANE<br \/>\nGotham&#8217;s reckoning. Come to end the borrowed time you&#8217;ve all been living on&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>  Bane gently takes the terrified Daggett&#8217;s head in his hands&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DAGGETT<br \/>\nYou are true evil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BANE<br \/>\nI am necessary evil.<br \/>\n<em> Stryver, on the steps outside the living room, flinches.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY7stDTWjRI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think that the United States (by which I mean: the small group of profoundly naive and ignorant in the State Department guiding US policy, not the US as a people &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2286\" target=\"_blank\">see this<\/a>) has lost its way in the world, and has placed its trust in Mammon. Whether it is Russia or China or ISIS that plays the part of &#8216;Gotham&#8217;s reckoning&#8217;, that moment of truth is closer every day.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the screenplay of The Dark Knight Rises INT. DAGGETT&#8217;S PENTHOUSE &#8211; DAY Daggett bursts in, furious. Stryver tries to placate him. DAGGETT How the hell did Miranda Tate get the inside track on the Wayne board?! 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