Two-Face
As great as Aaron Eckhart’s performance as Harvey Dent was in The Dark Knight, he’ll always be overshadowed by Heath Ledger’s masterful portrayal as the Joker. And now, it looks like The Joker is screwing over Two-Face again. The character of Harvey Dent is one of Batman’s most tragic figures and he deserves to have an in depth story detailing his villainous transformation.
Most people are aware of Dent’s backstory. He was Gotham’s upstanding District Attorney and after half of his face was horribly disfigured, he was driven insane. He’s most notable for being obsessed with duality and the number 2, basing all of his decisions off a coin toss. Later versions of the character had Dent suffer from serious mental illness and the disfiguring of the face released that side of the character.
Two-Face is someone that deserves his own movie because his backstory is not one that should be confined to a subplot of a Batman film. To truly understand how far Dent fell from beloved District Attorney to deranged villain, you would need to take the time to actually develop his character to get inside his head.
Let’s flip a coin. Heads, we make a Two-Face movie. Tails, we also make a Two-Face movie. Sound good?
