The LA Times recently sat down with Mr Eckhart (aka Harvey Dent) to discuss his role as a villain in The Dark Knight. Beware, spoilers lurk below.
“I can tell you that, basically, when you look at Two-Face, you should get sick to your stomach. Being the guy under all that, well, that was a lot of fun for me. It’s like you would feel if you met someone whose face had pretty much been ripped off or burned off with acid. I can’t talk about it beyond that because I don’t want to give away too much of the plans by Chris.”[…]
“The difference between Batman and Two-Face is how far they are willing to go and how they make their point,” Eckhart said. “Otherwise, we’re talking about vigilante crime-fighting. That’s what Batman is all about. He has a strong sense of justice. And Harvey Dent has an extremely strong sense of justice. His fiancée is killed. He’s horribly injured. But he is still true to himself. He’s a crime fighter, he’s not killing good people. He’s not a bad guy, not purely.”
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“You look at a good guy too long and it’s not that exciting, it’s the Boy Scout always doing the right thing. I’m interested in good guys gone wrong. They’re not the bad guy, they’re the good guy doing bad things.”
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“Really, all of it is more than an adventure tale, it’s somewhat of a mirror of our times. It deals with some fundamental questions of what’s going on in society. To me, this film is about how Batman feels about justice, how he takes care of the city, how he feels about the Joker when he meets him and sees what he is capable of doing. How he feels when Harvey Two-Face takes matters into his own hands. It’s not simple, and it gets ugly. I think people will be surprised.”
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Who was his fiancée? Was she Gilda Dent (not in the movie)? Or was she Rachel Dawes? I saw Rachel fall in the last trailer.
What if Harvey Dent has two girlfriends. One being Rachel, and the other, his fiancée. I highly doubt that Rachel will die, I’m pretty sure Maggie Gyllenhaal was signed for two movies. If not, oh well. I think that really need to bring in another hot girl to be either Selena Kyle or Vicki Vale!
Initially, I though Dent/two-face’s character played both sides of the system, having both a hidden criminal side vs. being a public DA seeking justice. Now, I get the impression his story is one of tragedy. It would make sense that Gyllenhal would be playing his love interest/fiancée since their careers are in the same field. And considering that it has been revealed that Dent’s fiancée is killed and seeing Maggie G fall off the roof of some skyscraper it’s easy to speculate that given what we’ve read.