Anyone else think Harvey Dent was too rushed?
I’ve been rewatching the trilogy for the millionth time and I always feel Harvey dent was so rushed. He is a side character in TDK yet they introduce him, his relationships with Batman, Bruce Wayne, Rachel and Gordon all in act one. Act two he takes on joker and loses. Act three a heel turn that made Daenerys in GOT look like a slow burn.
I feel like he should have been slowly developed over three movies.
Batman begins - he is “making a name for himself at internal affairs” as Gordon puts it. Jim is the one clean cop surrounded by corruption. He neither gets his hands dirty nor does he turn rat. Maybe we see Dent try to make a name for himself through Gordon which causes friction.
TDK- he’s the DA and his relationship develops with Rachel as it does but instead of it coming to a head in the second act, the final scene of the movie is dent crying, holding his coin exactly as it was in TDK. We look over to Batman looking depressed in his penthouse, Alfred hiding the letter all as originally played out. But all the main good guys are damaged, battered and bruised (almost a homage to the
Empire strikes back)
TDKR- we scrap the whole tale of two cities/dent act/Bane/Talia storyline and instead it’s two face on a rampage and Batman and Gordon needing to stop their old friend.
One other thing I would change would be to introduce catwoman earlier. Anne Hathaway was criminally underrated IMO. She fitted the grounded world so well and the way she delivered the duality of her as a crying vulnerable damsel in distress straight to a deadly femme fatale. I thought she was great but they wasted so much time developing talia who had zero chemistry with bale and had one of the most wooden performances I’ve ever seen. She could have been a background character in the first two movies that becomes a major ally to Batman in the third movie.