Brad Pitt [fight Club and Troy],Leo Dicaprio [Shutter Island,Inception], Micheal C Hall [Dexter The TV Show],Tom Hardy [Inception],Timothy Olyphant [Live free or die Hard\Hitman]Ewan McGregor [Deception\I L

Christian Bale is really the straight man in about every scenario he gets into and needs a decent antagonist to carry the weight of his metal facade appropriately. Can Joseph Gordon-Levitt carry the weight and measure of a man who could break the entire mystery of Bruce Wayne and Batman as one who has survived both sensi and self?

Can any of you guess where I am going with this??? Look at it this way, Batman and Nygma have a history and its sordid in more ways than Batman can imagine sort of like Bale does his best work when he is faced with the task and the timeline exclusively. Bale is not the sort to mush things up and gets a bit thin in the margin when asked to as we saw with an American Psycho. He is significantly suited for the Bruce Wayne dilemma of managing so many decisions and levels of social framework that the personal nuance is lost for him many times. He really needs the master of manipulation and chameleon of crime to if he is to be ruffled and stirred up enough to let something major like the Bat Cave entrance slip through the radar and be detected.

Who is this Master of Manipulation and Chameleon of Crime you ask??? Ah well, do you really think it will be some wet behind the ears geeky trickster who can formulate some mayhem or a dashed-off-the-top cream face high school bandy ready and willing to play the part in tights opposite the likes of Bale in his Kevlar Armor? Well then…think again!

Edward Nygma needs the sort of mystery and finesse which is both entrance and brooding in its torment… He needs a bit of sinister which has been aged like a fine wine which comes from the cellar far from the light of day to re-emerge with a glint at the sun. Edward Nygma needs a specifically telling way of stepping on the scene again which erases the funhouse that was a joke for real. He needs a touch of the Egyptian to remind us that all mysteries are eternally lingering for each person to ponder their ability in the realm of masterminds and idiot savantes.

Edward Nygma is best suited to a man who has cultivated a sense of torment and destiny in his very gaze which cannot be stolen by anything going on around him nor rattled by the weapons of the legendary Batman. Edward needs to come with the air of a man with nothing to lose bearing a riddle which has multiple answers but only one that allows you to live.

The Riddle of this Riddler is, in fact, as much about how the Riddler knows what he knows and from where he will next emerge within the social framework that is the Empire of Bruce Wayne… This is how we should come to see the character of Harley and possibly a cameo of other foes.

The Riddler should baffle the Catwoman and toy with her as though she were a kitty tangled in some string…. The Riddler should be Johnny Depp and he should walk with a Cane not because his limp is so bad but because he has spent some time studying Egyptian arts as a Magician of both illusion and deception which would remind us of the calm and cool terror that people experience when the meet up with a character such he.

The riddle of Edward Nygma should be borne by an actor who has bested every role with his own way of weaving together all the stories and symbols and intricacies of intonation. The way the riddle is told and presented is always where we find ourselves gripped by the fear of unknowning and yet suspended on the brink of thinking we know only to veer dangerously close to a very wrong answer. I believe that Depp can deliver this role better than many actors who have come before and with his natural air of mystery might even provide a twist that the director had not yet thought of such as starring as himself in the movie at various points to confuse Bruce Wayne as to who he is really dealing with.

Talk about nervy… this is the job of the Riddler and I do think that Bale and Depp had this very sort of tension in Public Enemies to the degree that I would love to see it play out further. Bales performance in the The Prestige and also in The Machinist let me know that he can rise to the occasion and subtlety of Depp’s Characterizations in an epic Fantasy/Mystery/Action Plotline devised as a mousetrap built for two.

Obviously I will be down front center on this one….

In interpreting the true meaning of the Riddles, Lucious Fox was able to count up to 8 different coordinates in the drawings, followed by 2 by 4 coordinates in a battle plan. 8*8=64, 64 squares on a chess board.

Lucious byes a beautiful big chess board as a beautiful rendition to the the Wayne mansion in the beginning of the movie. And keeps moving the pieces all throughout the movie without either Alfred or Wayne understanding why.

Finally its explained near the later middle of the movie. That each faction of Gotham was made into a chess piece, Batman very conveniently is the black (dark) knight piece. Its a mystery, but they finally decipher that Bruce Wayne is also another piece on the board; he’s the black king that the riddler is trying to checkmate! Very, shockingly, this lets them know that Edward Nigma knows Batman’s true identity, and that he’s going to be checkmated in the very next move unless he does something.

Black, but how? Its just that Edward and the nick named penguin are in control of the “white” government. And because of Batman’s bad reputation at the end of Dark Knight, he, and like wise, Bruce are enemies of the government.

Not that Bruce is siding with the mafia and thugs, its that Bruce Wayne has to control their movements to instigate Edward to do something.

Bruce does not want to play this chess game, he just uses this to try to figure out his next move. And then interpreting it on real life conditions.

Its possible in chess to checkmate with just a knight and a king. But the king must be employed strategically. So, Bruce must confront the infamous Edward Nigma before he sends in Batman for the kill. Which is actually part of Edward’s plan to maybe lose this chess game to win something far greater….

Morgan Freeman can once again be that ingenious wise man. He can bring back that detective character of Seven to a far greater level as he has to be the good professor that saves Gotham.

It will be so interesting as he figures it out and explains it to Bruce how magnificent it really was, and how much it really makes sense. It was starring us in the eyes the whole time. The clues were all there, people can rewatch it to find out. Make it so that only the few truly gifted people can figure it out before the end of the movie. This may have it really hit home. But as for the rest of us, we just didn’t get it.

Let it hit home that we ourselves would have been fooled. What will we do? Admit that we are not geniuses and we need the help of wiser men to survive? Or continue to prove that we know everything, putting ourselves in the field of intellect, where Edward can win.

The only way Gotham can save themselves is to leave this battle of intellectual superiority and follow their hearts to do what is right; even if it means being stupid.

We can have Edward Nigma like a Bill Gates; a man who got rich through his glorious inventions. His true name is not really reveled until later in the movie. At first he can be portrayed as someone good, for, we can have him and Bruce become friends (the viewers really do not have a clue that he’s Edward Nigma in disguise.

In the beginning of the movie we can have Batman fight other foes; but when he defeats them the movie isn’t over yet, but more foes keep coming. The secret Edward Nigma is behind it all, but no one knows that he is even in the movie until later on.

We have such reverence for the most ingenious hackers, and that’s what he is and a lot more. Just like the greatest identity thieves, Edward Nigma gained control of his very identity. And only Batman with the help of Lucious Fox can discover his true identity [By not finding the simple (wrong) answers to the complected riddle].

The Riddler is a character he uses in his great strategy to fool everybody and fulfill his purpose by his most ingenious strategic plans. By leading people to believe he’s nothing but a crazy serial killer that paints question marks and plants riddles at murder scenes, he leads Gotham into the greatest trap.

The ploy was that the riddles being solved literally, he led all Gotham to do exactly as his grand strategy envisioned. By making people feel that they were smart, he proved exactly how stupid they really are. Lucious Fox has to help Batman discover that the Riddles are nothing more than a trap. But will it be too late???

Penguin is not a literal half human half Penguin type of deal. To the best of my knowledge that is his NICK NAME, because he always carries a black umbrella, and wears a black suit with a white dress shirt, and is over weight, with a caucasion white face; hence, he looks like a penguin.

He’s the hypocritical politician, smiles in public and then back stabs his own people.

Second, the Riddler. The comic books due take it to the extream, but in the actual story, the Riddler is like the famous professor gone mad. He did have a rough child hood, and, not fully mentally sane. But a literal riddle making clown???

Jim Currie’s interpretation was not to my liking. It was just nothing to respect. Like some Power Rangers kid’s story version. There’s no way in the world I can believe some guy that crazy could ever be of a extreme threat to Gotham.

I think the best route is to have Johnny Depp invent a caracter using a combination of the most respected utopias of intelligent caracters, like House and Sherlock Holmes. We love these caracters for their great intelligence; it would be nice to have the same reverence-fear for the riddler.

In almost all these stories the genius is the hero. Now lets imagine if someone like Sherlock were to turn evil? How much of a threat they would really be? We could feel the same fear as we did with the Joker.

Jim Carrey took that character and made a Power Rangers figure out of it, very, childish. It just is not going to fit at all in the Christopher Nolin Series.