'Get It Done'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
P-C, that's from the last movie, yeah?
No, it was early on in the movie, and it was a constant source of tension between Gordon and him. He knew Gordon's team had corrupt cops because he had investigated them for IA, and that's why he was so royally pissed at Gordon when Rachel got killed because it was one of his corrupt cops who took her.
(You people have NO IDEA how much I am looking forward to finally seeing Batman tomorrow, and then going back and reading all the whitefont. Aaaaauugh!)
Ah. I didn't see him on the ferry. Again, I say, whuh?
Maybe he is friends with Nolan? Or will come back in some future iteration? It just seemed so...throw away!
It was, but I think it was also in the spirit of the comics, in that Batman's rogue's gallery is always THERE, even if they're not the focus.
That makes sense P-C. I've seen that in the books...and the tv show, to an extent.
But that still doesn't explain how that character went from scourge, riding off into the night to hanging out with good-hearted but below-average-thinking good guy wannabe.
Mystery!
But that still doesn't explain how that character went from
Well when he rode away he had a brain full of his own fear spray, so that may have altered his thinking a bit. I did love his line after Batman says he doesn't need any help - (paraphrasing) "That's not my diagnosis."
I thought Scarecrow and good-hearted dumb guy were on opposite sides in the melee Batman interrupted but he bundled them together for the police to find.
Ah, I must have missed that. Makes sense.
I think I'm confusing this guy with Cillian Murphy .
Anyway, I didn't think that Harvey Dent was supposed to be pure of intent; I thought that he was supposed to -- at the very least -- have a history of being, well, two-faced.
Well, this is emblematic of my whole problem with the movie -- it was at the end that I realized Dent was supposed to be a white knight. (Which is why I am whitefonting) I think that with Nolan movies, plot comes first and theme gets layered on second, and the result in TDK was that the themes were often incoherent, internally contradictory, and expressed in dialogue/speeches/narration. So as this relates to Dent, we have a character with baggage from the comic books, played by someone who plays it a little smarmy (that courtroom scene was fucking RIDICULOUS), that at the end of the movie we realize was supposed to represent pureness driven to the dark side.