TDK Trilogy: Part 1

THE ADDICTION OF

THE DARK KNOGHT TRILOGY

PART 1

 

Witness the journey of a hero who became more than just a man in this amazing voyage of the acclaimed director CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S   'Caped Crusader' . This Oscar winning film trilogy is considered the best by many and has even been quoted superior to the Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Toy Story and The Godfather trilogies.

 

 

I have been a Bale-Nolan Batman fan for over an year and the craze increases each time I see any of these movies. So how many times have I watched these three film? If we sum up all the three together it reached up to 40-50 times. So by this immense expenditure of my time for Batman, I have learnt each and every line of the screenplay, each and every string of the soundtrack, each every action of the characters and each and every face that has registered itself in these three films.  

 

You must be thinking I am going to review each and every film and going to tell how well the cast and crew performed. No, I am not going to  review it but I am going to write about the impact of this trilogy to me and the society. This will include of the incidents that lead Warner Bros. to make this trilogy and the ones caused by it.

 

As we are going to talk about a trilogy. I have divide this article into three parts: the Pledge, the Turn and the Prestige.

 

So lets get started by the Pledge: This part would be a beginning and will give you an idea of the Batman trend, fad enthusiasm or obsession whichever you may choose.....

 

In my recent trip to London, I visited the BFI IMAX, one of the finest IMAX screens in the world. When I was buying the tickets for Pacific Rim I saw a poster.

This was the Poster, read it completely:

 

Even I was shocked then surprises then overjoyed and when I saw the date I was devastated.

 

So the total length of the movie will be 458 minutes(141+152+165)?!?!?! This made me ask the cashier if people did come to see this 8 hour show. What he replied can be understood by the fact that I asked him this question on 16th August 2013 and the tickets were already booked by 13th August 2013.

"So what is the point of keeping this poster if it is houseful", I joked to him, nervously.

 

This is the craze guys!!

This is the craze cum love cum respect cum addiction to The Dark Knight Trilogy!!!

 

This was the reason why "The Dark Knight Rises", the conclusion of this trilogy was the most pirated main stream movie of 2012 followed by The Avengers and 21 Jump Street.

Nearly 8.2 Million downloads were recorded by TorrentFreak. Many experts considered this the reason for the loss of another $500mn which would have made this movie third highest grossing movie after Avatar and Titanic.

You may be surprised by the fact that when the Christopher Nolan Indian fans heard about the above, an oath-taking ceremony was held at Bangalore where they pledged never to download illegally any film. Even I was shocked to hear this from my friend.

Christopher Nolan fans are highly mad and crazy. They are plenty too. They relate themselves to his character which is highly illogical given the movies Nolan has made. They live with his movies. So a trend was started by the people and if someone did something unique, something strange and thrilling, they called it Nolanisation.

Another example of the irrationalism of the fans can be understood by the fact that murder threatens were given to the critics who gave a negative verdict to The Dark Knight Rises.

Even I am a crazy Christopher Nolan fan and his movies.
Currently I have a self-made sketch of The Joker (Villain in The Dark Knight)  and Bane (Villain in The Dark Knight Rises) and a lucky charm of the bat emblem given below.

 

 

 "ITS NOT WHO I AM UNDERNEATH, BUT WHAT I DO DEFINES ME"

 

Mars Orbit Mission (My views)

IS MANGALYAAN A WORTHWHILE MISSION?



 

On 5^th November '13, India celebrated its Diwali by successfully launching  the PSLV rocket  C25 carrying the Mars Orbit Mission(MOM).

 

                                           

 

MOM which is labelled as Mangalyaan is surely huge a leap for ISRO(if successful) for becoming a future Space Power. If it achieves success, ISRO would join the Elite club of Roscosmos, NASA and ESA for successfully executing a Martian mission. If ISRO continues its success by also executing the Venus mission( May 2015) and ADITYA-1 for sun(2015-16) then who knows even future Bollywood Sci-fi movies will also feature ISRO dealing with Aliens speaking HINDI. 

If this mission is successful and if MOM reaches Mars on 25^th September, 2014, THEN India would be the first Asian country to do this after failed attempts by JAPAN(1998) and CHINA(2011).

Japan's craft suffered lack of fuel and the spacecraft was lost in space which under the circumstances as obvious. China's craft (Yinghuo-1,wierd names!!)  was supposed to be destroyed by a fuel fire and it was also misplaced in space.

This yaan carries five scientific instruments for scientific experiment to indirectly also display India's scientific abilities in scientific field by scientific people (LOL).

 

THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE

 

The craft contains five scientific instruments for study of the MartianThe launch, on 5 November 2013, placed the Mars Orbiter Mission into Earth orbit. Six orbit raising operations will be conducted on November 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 16, by using the craft's on-board propulsion system, which is a derivative of the system used on India's communications satellites. These manoeuvres will raise the orbit to one with an apogee of 23,000 km (14,000 mi) and perigee of 238 km (148 mi),where it will remain for about 25 days. A final firing on 30 November 2013 will send MOM onto an interplanetary trajectory. Mars orbit insertion is planned for 21 September 2014,and would allow the spacecraft to enter a highly elliptical orbit with a period of 76.72 hours around Mars.

ABOUT THE SPACECRAFT

The spacecraft's dry mass is 500 kilograms (1,100 lb), and it carries 850 kilograms (1,870 lb) of fuel and oxidiser. The main engine uses the bipropellant combination monomethylhydrazine an

dinitrogen tetroxide for orbit insertion and other manoeuvres. The probe is expected to arrive in Mars orbit in September 2014 approximately at the same time as NASA's MAVEN orbiter.

So the above was just some gyan  regarding MOM, but that is not the focus for this article.

The primary objective of the Mars Orbiter Mission according to ISRO is to showcase India's rocket launch systems, spacecraft-building and operations capabilities. The objective include:

• Design and realisation of a Mars orbiter with a capability to perform Earth bound manoeuvres, cruise phase of 300 days, Mars orbit insertion / capture, and on-orbit phase around Mars.
• Deep space communication(really?), navigation, mission planning and management.
• Incorporate autonomous features to handle contingency situations.

I don't recognise these objectives as the primary reasons for these missions. There was a report released by NASA by its first successful orbiter that there is a certain amount of ice formed at the south-pole of Mars, so water is present on Mars!! Also it is believed that these fast-track project of 15 months to build this MO may have been stimulated by:

Some Sound waves emitted by Mars raising suspicions about LIFE over there. Yes, I believe that life can be present over there. Even some of the photographs sent by the "CURIOSITY" rover of NASA show similar light spots mainly believed to be UFO's. NDTV India broadcasted one show on which one scientist said that though not presently but life may have lived there in though not an intelligent one.

When I was in 8th grade, the first lesson in my science book was "L-1 OUR UNIVERSE". In that lesson there was a statement saying that there is a possibility that bacteria are present in space.

So what I feel is that if bacteria can live in space without any atmosphere, biosphere and stable temperature then they can easily live on Mars.

 

This photo is an imaginary Mars some hundred or

thousand years ago.

Also, as we know that bacteria need the least possible condition to survive then they can be present on any planet, asteroid, meteor and even SUN!!!

Even now some believed after 45 years that NASA sent Neil Armstrong to Lunar surface to examine a  crashed spacecraft of an Alien life-form!!!! The tragedy  is that no-one would believe it after watching Michael Bay's awful Transformers 3.

So these were my conclusions on what can be the reason of ISRO's hurried announcement, rapid production ad immediate execution.

 

 

So, is this project worthwhile??

Now let us ponder on these facts

1. 0.35% of GDP used for space research and enhancement.
2. 8% of this money spent in Mangalyaan.
3. INR 4.5 billion is the total cost
4. Mangalyaan costs each citizen of India approximately INR 3.6.
5. If a person earns INR 27/day, he/she is on the poverty line.

Why do I consider this project worthwhile?

1. It is important to show the world that India is more like spectrometer on Mars' circle like orbit and not like cows on the circle like CHOWK.
2. It is even more important to convey NASA, CNSA, ESA and ROSCOSMOS that ISRO has the ability and will become a SPACE super power.
3. The attempts of NASA and ESA to increase their tie-ups with ISRO as it can achieve big goals with least cost possible. INDIANS!
4. I can state to any FIRANGI that my country will soon be no less then yours probably more in SPACE science.
5. From 5 to 7 are the points given in the primary objectives of ISRO above.

The only reason why this can't be worthwhile is that, if it fails to reach the orbit, then INR 4.5 billion rupees would be squandered and all this buzz would terminate for nothing. It would be extremely tragic for the ISRO  scientists to start from a scratch.

All I can say is that ISRO has successfully launched Magalyaan and if it performs its total duty of 20 months, then "ISRO ka sub kuchh MANGAL MANGAL hua".