J'ai un question

[pet_the_zebu]

Ok, I totally have a question for those of you who have seen The Dark Knight, under the cut:

All right, so, Harvey Dent...is he dead? Cause I've just seen the movie twice, and I could SWEAR that Batman was taking the fall for the shit he did because he wanted Dent to continue to be a white knight for Gotham and that the event Gordon was at, with the

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[ffiferoo]

I think the end of the movie was pretty conclusive on Dent being dead, though I think that if the production had known that Heath Ledger was going to die, they may not have killed him off (as Two Face would have been a really convenient villain for the next movie). I was pretty disappointed that they killed him off, actually, since he was only Two Face for like, an hour, and they really just eliminated a perfectly good Batman villain that they could have used later. I guess his backstory in the movie (especially involving Rachel's death) was more conducive to him dying, but I still thought it was a bit silly

[pet_the_zebu]

I don't want him to be dead. He was awesome and he would be good for the next movie. :( Boo

[ffiferoo]

I thought maybe the Joker gave them the wrong addresses, but that does seem counterproductive to what he wanted them to do, plus Batman didn't seem all that surprised when he got there and saved Dent. I would think he'd have said something about it at some point if he was tricked out of saving Rachel. I just went and looked around a little, and it does seem to be the case from what people are saying that the Joker switched the addresses on them.

The only third person I can think of who would have been Rachel, though obviously she didn't have a say in the matter at the time. I don't actually remember that part, so I'd have to see it again to figure it out.

[indaleciogod]

But the Joker was never straightforward! After Rachel died, and Batman found Joker's location, they saw Joker's goons with guns to hostages' heads. Gordon wanted to go in immediately because of his sense of loyalty to Harvey, but Batman begs him to wait because he's smart enough to know there's more to the game that Joker is playing--he knows there's more because of what happened with Rachel. That was him acknowledging that the Joker switched the addresses on him

[pet_the_zebu]

I suppose...