The Dark Knight Two Face Revealed

[S.D. Plissken]

Secretsquirrelly & Ecstacy--Agreed.

What's even more cool is that Harvey takes advantage of the officer's shock, and swipes his drink from him. The officer is heavily intimidated, you can see powerful fear in his eyes at what he's seeing.

I think Harvey is doing a 'Jules Whitfield' a la Pulp Fiction. I don't think the officer is going to be finishing that drink regardless. Harvey is purposefully taking it to scare him, and to show him what's coming.

I'm soooo glad I have my tickets for this movie.

 

[Victarion]

His voice sounds raspy, so I'm glad. From the way some of the others have been posting, I was thinking that his voice didn't change at all. My only problem was that the delivery was too fast. Oh, and would that alcohol burn the vocal chords like hell?

 

[gwynplaine]

Great clip.

 

[Ecstasy]

Secretsquirrelly & Ecstacy--Agreed.

What's even more cool is that Harvey takes advantage of the officer's shock, and swipes his drink from him. The officer is heavily intimidated, you can see powerful fear in his eyes at what he's seeing.

I think Harvey is doing a 'Jules Whitfield' a la Pulp Fiction. I don't think the officer is going to be finishing that drink regardless. Harvey is purposefully taking it to scare him, and to show him what's coming.

I'm soooo glad I have my tickets for this movie.

Oh crap, I didn't notice that.

LULZ

 

[Marden]

Everytime I watch that short clip, I'm amazed. I'm really happy with the voice in this scene and the "Half." part isn't said that fast. I'm sure he was ready for that question. I can't wait to see the movie and all the villians in it.

 

[mrbrownie]

I don't know, guys, I'm really skeptical about this.

How about this:

Why would they show a scene where harvey is bound and laying in a dangerous looking liquid (likely gasoline) screaming NO!!!!

AND

An elaborate courtroom scene with comic-book-esque scarring.

???

With the scarring, it's like **** or get off the pot. It's illogical, and generally bad writing to tease a possible disfigurement (what we have seen) and then go with the acid-comics-scarring (casing sides from a million years ago).

Is Harvey going to chew his way through the ropes??? Is he going to escape, go home and take a shower and wash the gas off, and say to himself "whew, that was suuuuure close" and then get scarred the next day in the courtroom?

No, that isn't going to happen, because it's needless, and it sucks.

The scene we see IS the scarring scene, or at least part of it.

I'm not saying NO ACID. I'm just saying, no courtroom scarring. We can't have both scenes, it's impossible. Literally impossible.

Has anyone considered, that what harvey could be soaked up in is one part of a compound? Is there such an acid that exists? Two chemicals that combine to form a corrosive liquid.

Douse harvey in the the passive part of the compound, and then pour the reactive part over part of his face???

This sense of knowing for harvey has just as much tension as the possibility of being burned alive. Just a different option, I guess.

• I agree with the part of the roped Harvey being just an attempt and not the actually scarring IS stupid, but we have to take in consideration that the Mob my attempt numerous times to kill him.

• And about the compound theory, I find it too complicated and unnecessary for the plot. Not to say, too smart and too thoughtful for the Mob to do it.

• I really can't find the poured acid to face in courtroom believable, but after give in it some tought. I came up with a good idea:

Dent doesn't get the acid thrown or poured to his face, but it has the bottle of acid smashed to his face, making the bottle break and getting all the acid in just that side of the face.

 

[MiniBond]

I had another good idea which I'm amazed nobody noticed before..........

 

[BatmanFanatic]

I just don't get where people are getting all this "oh that crooked cop is obviously SO SCARED..." from, he seems completely nonchalant to me, or at the very least, not so scared that he can't play it off really well. Personally I would have liked to have seen that crooked cop practically wet himself and not be able to say a damn thing for a few seconds from sheer shock and fear. THAT would have been cool But you know, it's not like I'm not going to think the film isn't fantastic because I would have directed it differently... just sayin'

 

[MaceB]

I love how Two Face walks into the shot in such a way that only his right side is within frame, and then the camera pans left to frame only his scarred, left side. It's cool that even the cinematography reflects Harvey's duel personalities It's little stuff like that which allows me to put a lot of trust in Nolan.

 

[Nepenthes]

^ have you read about the dual takes they did for every scene? you'd love that too

 

[That'ssuper!]

It would be cool, but if it's a long scene, it could get annoying with going back and forth after awhile.

 

[Aidan2209]

I just don't get where people are getting all this "oh that crooked cop is obviously SO SCARED..." from, he seems completely nonchalant to me, or at the very least, not so scared that he can't play it off really well. Personally I would have liked to have seen that crooked cop practically wet himself and not be able to say a damn thing for a few seconds from sheer shock and fear. THAT would have been cool But you know, it's not like I'm not going to think the film isn't fantastic because I would have directed it differently... just sayin'

He looks pretty scared to me. Maybe not as scared as you would look in his position, but then he looks like a pretty tough guy, and let's not forget that he's a veteran police officer in the world's meanest city. So I doubt it'd be easy to spook him, and when he is afraid, he'd know how not to show it. Given all that, I'd reiterate - he looks pretty scared to me.

 

[Nepenthes]

It would be cool, but if it's a long scene, it could get annoying with going back and forth after awhile.

Yeah it's all going to come down to the editing, very fine work. But that Nolan had the foresight and imagination to think of shooting that way, so they've got so many options later on, that's very admirable. But you're right I'd rather they use it VERY sparingly. It won't take much to feel browbeaten by Dents multiple personalties. Even with Gollum/Smeagol it was cheesy, I wouldn't want it anywhere near those levels (to be fair though all the acting directing in the LOTR movies was cheesy as hell). But how many times did Nolan hit us with the 'fear' hammer in BB? geez I hope he's realised how unnecessary that was by now. Hopefully with Jonahs hand on the scripting

.

 

[Balthus Dire]

It seems to me like the "half" line was a dub and won't actually be said that fast in the film, but maybe that's just me. Actually it seemed like his entire dialogue was a dub...

 

[deathfromabove]

Yeah, on that note he shouldn't have a split personality either just because his face got a little acid poured onto it.

well, as i'm sure you know, he doesn't develop a split personality just because a little acid is poured on his face.

 

[Crook]

That one flew right over your head.

 

[deathfromabove]

no it didnt.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Thats a freaky frikkin two-face right there. I think alotta parents are gonna re-think taking their youngings to this. With the joker and two-face.....wow. July 18th is gonna be a great day for psycho's

 

[Nightwing1977]

He looks pretty scared to me. Maybe not as scared as you would look in his position, but then he looks like a pretty tough guy, and let's not forget that he's a veteran police officer in the world's meanest city. So I doubt it'd be easy to spook him, and when he is afraid, he'd know how not to show it. Given all that, I'd reiterate - he looks pretty scared to me.

I agree. Cops see a lot of grisly stuff all the time from murders, accidents, etc. I think this cop's reaction is just different. It more like he was surprise Dent was alive with what happend to his face, where it seem impossible to still live & act like nothing happend. Hence, why he though he was dead. He does has some fear, but not a lot like some might expected. I has no problem with his reaction based on this.

 

[Mike_D202]

My only nit-pick is that I thought that Harvey had a split-personality disorder. But it looks like the events of the film just drives him to the dark side.

 

[BatmanFanatic]

Yeah it's all going to come down to the editing, very fine work. But that Nolan had the foresight and imagination to think of shooting that way, so they've got so many options later on, that's very admirable. But you're right I'd rather they use it VERY sparingly. It won't take much to feel browbeaten by Dents multiple personalties. Even with Gollum/Smeagol it was cheesy, I wouldn't want it anywhere near those levels (to be fair though all the acting directing in the LOTR movies was cheesy as hell). But how many times did Nolan hit us with the 'fear' hammer in BB? geez I hope he's realised how unnecessary that was by now. Hopefully with Jonahs hand on the scripting

.

Gollum was awesome. That blew me away in the theater.

And LOTR acting directing cheesy as hell? Are you kidding???

 

[secretsquirrely]

My only nit-pick is that I thought that Harvey had a split-personality disorder. But it looks like the events of the film just drives him to the dark side.

he does, but you can't really judge how this movie portrays it since we've seen all in all maybe 5 scenes involving Dent in total? Even in the comics he didn't snap until the disfigurement, his disorder is a very subtle one, but its there, and is the reason he snaps after getting his face burnt. Going wacko and suddenly getting a split personality due to burning would be very lame on Nolan'spart. I have faith they show his disorder somewhere in the 152 minutes. Also, I could have sworn I have seen both Eckhart and Nolan mention the illness in interviews.

 

[Mike_D202]

ohh okay cool as long as hes screwed up psychologically before hand haha

 

[hahaha119]

Don;t know if this has been posted yet or not but theres an interview with Aaron Eckart in the summer movie issue of Total Film and he directly reveals when speaking of his characters transformation from Harvey Dent to Two-Face that "He's had acid poured on his face".

That may clear up the burned/set fire theory.

 

[Vagrant Oner]

Hmm. Just thought of something... supposedly, Harvey's fiancee dies in the movie (Rachel?) and maybe he blames the police it... their incompetence, their apathy, their ineffectiveness. When he becomes Two-Face, he becomes sort of a vigilante, like Batman, but instead of going againts criminals who should've done a better job protecting Rachel, and the citizens of Gotham, from criminals, primarily the Joker, he goes against the corrupt police forece. That's why this off-duty officer, who clearly cares more about his down time than Gotham security, is a target for Two-Face's "reveal". Batman will also face Two-Face's wrath because of this.