"Better make it TEN"

[batass4880]

How tall would you say the cathedral in '89 was? The script says 30 stories but it looks way taller.

[Rob the Goon]

I read somewhere, (either in the making of book or novel), that it was 1000ft tall!! 

[Reevz666]

the Cathedral was never built full scale.....here's a shot of it being built

[The Dark Knight]

I think it'd take a lot more than 10 minutes to climb the Cathedral as seen in the movie. That thing looked scarily high.

[Dark Knight Detective]

I think it'd take a lot more than 10 minutes to climb the Cathedral as seen in the movie. That thing looked scarily high.

Agreed.

And as for Batman going up those stairs, that was a display of strong will, because the average person would not have had the strength to climb those stairs after going through a plane crash like that. Pure Batman, through & through.

[Azrael]

We all know cathedrals were the highest building as well as the town's focal point in medieval Europe, something that is of course not the case in modern American cities with skyscrapers, very high-rise residence and business buildings etc.

Yet, it's funny that in Furst's Gotham City, which is obviously a retrofuturistic/ deformed New York, the tallest building is the Cathedral belltower, and not a city landmark (a huge statue like Lady Liberty), a corporate building or anything similar.

I always loved this whole sequence as well as Gotham's Cathedral. It looked insanely high. It's a wonder Joker remained in one piece after his fall. 

[Paul (ral)]

I think the depiction of an abandoned cathedral tells us a few things

Gotham is a god-less place.

It is a very old city with, as silenig rightly points out, historical focal points.

Since most european settlers are responsible for building the cities we know today (wasn't new york known as new amsterdam first) we could deduct that gotham is older than new york.

[The Dark Knight]

I think the depiction of an abandoned cathedral tells us a few things

Gotham is a god-less place.

It is a very old city with, as silenig rightly points out, historical focal points.

Yep, God left Gotham a long time ago.

The Cathedral reminds me of Edward's mansion in 'Edward Scissorhands' for some reason. Everyone in the City knows that this massive out of place building is there, yet people avoid it. It has a certain creepy mystique about it, over shadowing everything around it.

[Dark Knight Detective]

Yep, God left Gotham a long time ago.

The Cathedral reminds me of Edward's mansion in 'Edward Scissorhands' for some reason. Everyone in the City knows that this massive out of place building is there, yet people avoid it. It has a certain creepy mystique about it, over shadowing everything around it.

The same could be said about Artic World.

[BTTFSpencer]

yes yes it could, i like batman.