The Dark Knight The James Gordon / Gary Oldman Thread

[Quinzel]

I hope they don't have to recast.

 

[Two-Face]

Yeah me too, Oldman is Gordon!

 

[JonnyQ]

Gary Oldman was definately one of the best parts of this film. His acting was spot on, his delivery of lines always amazing.
The scene when he turned out to be the SWAT van driver was badass.

 

[The Caped Knight]

I love this line by Oldman as Gordon

Sal Maroni : This Craziness is too much .

Comissioner James Gordon : "Well you should've thought about that before you let the Clown out of the box ."

 

[The Caped Knight]

Gordon is the man

 

[Marx]

^That's a great picture!

 

[DACrowe]

He was really good in this movie and goes the unsung hero. I just loved every little scene he did, he is so buried in his characters.

My favorite moments for him are

1) Of course when he comes back from the dead and owns Joker
2) When Joker gets really deep under his skin by talking about the corruption in the GCPD.
3) When he loses his calm with Batman and thinks Dent is one of Joker's hostages and shows how guilty he feels for how things have transpired.
4) When he is pleading with Dent not to kill his son.


He is so good. Along with Eckhart's Dent/Two-Face, I think these movies have given us the best interpretation of Gordon to date. He is so unnoticed, but so good in it.

 

[Finlandman]

It was wise to give Gordon so much screen time. He's awesome character.

 

[ronny]

When you saw The Dark Knight at the cinema did people in the audience start clapping when

Spoiler

Gordon arrested The Joker

? It happened when I saw the film, but whilst it was a great scene I just wondered if it was particularly special to other people.

 

[nolan's roll'n]

When you saw The Dark Knight at the cinema did people in the audience start clapping when

Spoiler

Gordon arrested The Joker

? It happened when I saw the film, but whilst it was a great scene I just wondered if it was particularly special to other people.

No, they clapped when the movie was finished.

 

[The Chris]

My theater did. Couldn't hear what Gordon said.

 

[nolan's roll'n]

My theater did. Couldn't hear what Gordon said.

He said "we got you, you son of a b****."

 

[The Joker]

When you saw The Dark Knight at the cinema did people in the audience start clapping when

Spoiler

Gordon arrested The Joker

? It happened when I saw the film, but whilst it was a great scene I just wondered if it was particularly special to other people.

I've seen it five times now, and nobody clapped at that part in any of the shows I went to.

 

[Jokers_Wild]

When you saw The Dark Knight at the cinema did people in the audience start clapping when

Spoiler

Gordon arrested The Joker

? It happened when I saw the film, but whilst it was a great scene I just wondered if it was particularly special to other people.

At the two IMAX shows I've been too, when Gordon returns people have cheered and clapped loudly.

 

[Quinzel]

When you saw The Dark Knight at the cinema did people in the audience start clapping when

Spoiler

Gordon arrested The Joker

? It happened when I saw the film, but whilst it was a great scene I just wondered if it was particularly special to other people.

yeah people started clapping in the one i was in too.

and i love gordon and all, but i was a little dissapointed.

cause i kinda wanted to see what Mistah J would do.

 

["V"]

I thought Gordon was brilliant in this; they really built on the foundations laid in Begins. Is so nice to have a competent, fully realised Gordon compared to the previous renditions we've had. I never felt like any film/series nailed the character before, but I think that Nolan and Oldman have done this. It's such a relief to not have Gordon standing around in his pijamas on the Gotham PD rooftop asking who switched on the bat signal, or saying "No... I'm not to old..." and walking around like he's soiled himself.

My only quibble is that Oldman's accent seemed to drop in a couple of scenes, and this amazed me because I have never, ever heard his natural accent break through in a performance before!

Does anybody have any more information about the rumour that he tried to drop out of The Dark Knight?

 

[Marx]

[quote="V";15393831]I thought Gordon was brilliant in this; they really built on the foundations laid in Begins. Is so nice to have a competent, fully realised Gordon compared to the previous renditions we've had. I never felt like any film/series nailed the character before, but I think that Nolan and Oldman have done this. It's such a relief to not have Gordon standing around in his pijamas on the Gotham PD rooftop asking who switched on the bat signal, or saying "No... I'm not to old..." and walking around like he's soiled himself.

My only quibble is that Oldman's accent seemed to drop in a couple of scenes, and this amazed me because I have never, ever heard his natural accent break through in a performance before!

Does anybody have any more information about the rumour that he tried to drop out of The Dark Knight?[/quote]

Are you referring to the scene with Dent, Gordon, and Batman on top of GCPD?

 

["V"]

Are you referring to the scene with Dent, Gordon, and Batman on top of GCPD?

Yep!

 

[DACrowe]

I recall people clapping on my first viewing on opening night when Gordon appeared. The audience roared so loud I couldn't hear what he said very well when he arrested Joker. In my second screening the audience had a wave or sound of "yes" if you know what I mean but no clapping.

Interestingly though, on my second viewing of TDK when Dent punched out that witness and told Maroni to buy American some woman in the back row started clapping profusely. It was really funny, actually.

 

[DACrowe]

P.S. Yeah Oldman's accent peaks through on the GCP rooftop and also when he meets Dent for the first time and is back-handily insulting Dent when talking very fast. I was surprised that a) Oldman would make such a mistake and b) Nolan would be satisfied with those takes.

 

[LostSon88]

[quote="V";15393831]Does anybody have any more information about the rumour that he tried to drop out of The Dark Knight?[/quote]

He never said anything about dropping out. He simply stated that he is considering retiring from acting very soon...

 

[Quinzel]

He never said anything about dropping out. He simply stated that he is considering retiring from acting very soon...

I hope he stays acting.

I love 'em.

 

[ronny]

He never said anything about dropping out. He simply stated that he is considering retiring from acting very soon...

When it's your time it's your time, you can't stop it.
Although I do hope he stays acting, he's the greatest actor we have from these fair isles.

 

[Quinzel]

The sad thing is, Gary Oldman isn't as well known as he deserves to be.

He's an amazing actor, but because he's not in his forties and looks like he's in his thirtys dating someone in their twentys, he isn't.

 

[Va3H]

I hope Oldman does not retire from acting soon, because that will be the day the music dies.