Question: Toward the end, when the island is closed off from the rest of Gotham and some of the poison has been vaporized and is drifting around, why isn't the little boy in red affected? Rachel and Gordon have been vaccinated, but everyone else is breathing the stuff in, and we see the some of the hallucinations that those others experience - why is the little boy immune?
Ariane Schultheis
8th Aug 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
Answer: I don't recall it ever being expressed that he is immune. I think it was an editorial decision on the director's/film editor's part just to not show us the effects of the drug on the little boy. It's similar to how they didn't show us Rachel's perspective of Batman while she was drugged. He's also being calmed by Rachel, which helps to minimise the effects.
3rd Aug 2005
General questions
How many Oscar-winning actors/actresses have reprised their roles in sequels to the winning film (for example, Anthony Hopkins, who won for Silence of the Lambs, and later played Hannibal Lecter again in Hannibal and Red Dragon, or Gene Hackman, who won for The French Connection and played Popeye Doyle again in French Connection II)?
Chosen answer: Paul Newman in The Hustler/The Color of Money, Al Pacino in The Godfather/The Godfather II and Bing Crosby in Going My Way/The Bells of St. Mary's.
22nd Jul 2005
General questions
What was the first film to be released in cinemas in stereo sound, and which was the first to be released in surround sound?
Chosen answer: Fantasia, released in 1941, became the very first film to incorporate surround sound. During the '70s, Dolby experimented with placing two separate sound signals on the film. Because of the reduction in the detail that could be incorporated when reducing the area available for the analog signal, Dolby also incorporated noise reduction with a resultant change in the playback response from the Academy Curve. The first film to use this purely stereo sound was "Lisztomania" in 1975.
25th Jul 2005
General questions
What movie originally had the following quote in their advertising: "This time it's personal"?
Answer: 'This time it's personal' was the tagline for the 1987 movie, Jaws 4.
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Answer: They did show he was affected. Rachel was already immune. So the visual of Scarecrow when the horse was breathing fire and Crane had flames in his eyes was what the boy was seeing. He had no other perception of Batman because he wasn't afraid of him. He knew from earlier in the movie that Batman was good and had no reason to fear him.