My answer: Yes, but I still like the movie.
Okay, so we get the idea that Harvey Dent died a raving madman, and there?s no way that this can ever get out because Gotham City needs him as an inspirational figure and not just one more politician chewed up and spit out by the brutality all around him.
Batman heroically volunteers to take the fall for this, letting Commissioner Gordon paint him as the murderer who pushed Dent to his death (which is, um, more or less the truth, because Christian Bale?s Batman really isn?t that good at the whole ?not killing his enemies accidentally-on-purpose? thing.)
But this is a Really Bad Idea. For one thing, it gives the Joker the victory he was craving just as surely as if they?d let the truth slip out. The Joker?s endgame was to break Gotham?s spirits by proving that its inspirational figures could become vicious murderers under the right circumstances, and Batman was (in his own way) just as inspirational as Harvey Dent. Actually Batman inspired Dent
If Batman is seen to be a cold-blooded, irrational killer, it works to serve the Joker?s ends just as surely as if Dent was. It also has the additional problem of being difficult to believe; despite the fact that Bale?s Batman actually has a pretty good body-count, Maroni is fully confident that he doesn't have the guts to kill him when push comes to shove. (Actually, push did come to shove. It was after that when Maroni decided Batman didn't have the guts to kill him.
Just blame the Joker. Tell everyone that the Joker had one more plan, that his goons kidnapped Gordon?s family and Harvey Dent. While Batman was across town capturing the Joker and bringing him to justice, The Joker?s thugs killed Dent and fled when Batman arrived, sneaking past a police cordon and escaping into Gotham, but they?re now leaderless with the Joker behind bars. Let this just another unsolved case of the GCPD, like many others.
Honestly, why wouldn't this work? The story?s entirely believable, and nobody involved is really going to be interested in exposing Dent?s mania anyway. Gordon's family would go with it. If Ramirez (the cop who Dent punched, and the cop who gave Gordon's family to Dent) says something, everybody would think that she is crazy, and also she would expose herself as being a corrupted cop. Actually everyone who might say that they saw Dent killing people would look crazy.
The Joker might insist it isn?t true, but it?s not like he?s really got a whole lot of credibility here. ?Well, yes, I did kidnap thirty or forty people, plant bombs all over Gotham, murder a bunch of cops by slicing Glasgow smiles into their faces, blow up a hospital, and disfigure Harvey Dent?but this kind of thing is really beneath me!?
Okay, so we get the idea that Harvey Dent died a raving madman, and there?s no way that this can ever get out because Gotham City needs him as an inspirational figure and not just one more politician chewed up and spit out by the brutality all around him.
Batman heroically volunteers to take the fall for this, letting Commissioner Gordon paint him as the murderer who pushed Dent to his death (which is, um, more or less the truth, because Christian Bale?s Batman really isn?t that good at the whole ?not killing his enemies accidentally-on-purpose? thing.)
But this is a Really Bad Idea. For one thing, it gives the Joker the victory he was craving just as surely as if they?d let the truth slip out. The Joker?s endgame was to break Gotham?s spirits by proving that its inspirational figures could become vicious murderers under the right circumstances, and Batman was (in his own way) just as inspirational as Harvey Dent. Actually Batman inspired Dent
If Batman is seen to be a cold-blooded, irrational killer, it works to serve the Joker?s ends just as surely as if Dent was. It also has the additional problem of being difficult to believe; despite the fact that Bale?s Batman actually has a pretty good body-count, Maroni is fully confident that he doesn't have the guts to kill him when push comes to shove. (Actually, push did come to shove. It was after that when Maroni decided Batman didn't have the guts to kill him.
Just blame the Joker. Tell everyone that the Joker had one more plan, that his goons kidnapped Gordon?s family and Harvey Dent. While Batman was across town capturing the Joker and bringing him to justice, The Joker?s thugs killed Dent and fled when Batman arrived, sneaking past a police cordon and escaping into Gotham, but they?re now leaderless with the Joker behind bars. Let this just another unsolved case of the GCPD, like many others.
Honestly, why wouldn't this work? The story?s entirely believable, and nobody involved is really going to be interested in exposing Dent?s mania anyway. Gordon's family would go with it. If Ramirez (the cop who Dent punched, and the cop who gave Gordon's family to Dent) says something, everybody would think that she is crazy, and also she would expose herself as being a corrupted cop. Actually everyone who might say that they saw Dent killing people would look crazy.
The Joker might insist it isn?t true, but it?s not like he?s really got a whole lot of credibility here. ?Well, yes, I did kidnap thirty or forty people, plant bombs all over Gotham, murder a bunch of cops by slicing Glasgow smiles into their faces, blow up a hospital, and disfigure Harvey Dent?but this kind of thing is really beneath me!?