The Dark Knight Rises completes Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. It is set in the extremely messed-up city of Gotham, which is clearly modelled on the less fictional, but equally messed-up, New York.
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Patrick Magee as Frank Alexander in A Clockwork Orange: "Recruiting brutal young roughs into the police, proposing debilitating and will-sapping techniques of conditioning. Oh, we've seen it all before in other countries. The thin end of the wedge. Before we know where we are, we shall have the full apparatus of totalitarianism."
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator: "Oh, come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook. Look Reese, I didn't ask for this honor and I don't WANT IT, ANY OF IT!"
Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rotwang in Metropolis: "Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the man of the future, the Machine-Man? ! Give me another 24 hours - and no one, Joh Fredersen, no one will be able to tell a Machine-Man from a mortal! The woman is mine, Joh Fredersen! The son of Hel was yours!"
Pauline Taylor as Psychiatrist in A Clockwork Orange: "Now then. Each of the slides needs a reply from one of the people in the picture. You tell me what you think the person would say. Alright?"
John Hurt as Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted all else will follow."
Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen in Metropolis: "Beginning today, I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son."
Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises: "Gotham, take control… take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!"
Benjamin Bratt as Alfredo Garcia in Demolition Man: [confused] "Did... did you say toilet *paper*?"
James Hong as Hannibal Chew in Blade Runner: "I just do eyes, j- j- just eyes… just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes."