Timeline for Why were Harvey Dent's sins covered up?
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| Dec 26, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | @AlexandreHoldenDaly There is no doubt that Harvey was no longer fit to be a district attorney (or anything legal) after his tragedy, but my problem is with his work "being undone" but what he did after the tragedy. As we saw in "The Dark Knight Rises", someone did have guts to take up Dent's prosecutions, since Gotham was quite thoroughly cleaned of crime after his death. | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 15:07 | comment | added | Alex Dalyac | @VedranŠego maybe because you can't be an attorney if you have a criminal record? And no one would have had the guts to take up Dent's prosecutions | |
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| Nov 23, 2013 at 12:12 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | Yes, it was during that final dialogue. The same reason was mentioned before, when Harvey was threatening Thomas Schiff (paranoid schizophrenic from Arkham, played by David Dastmalchian), but it made sense then, because Harvey still didn't go through the personal tragedy that drove him mad. | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 12:05 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | @VedranŠego Hmm, don't remember that. Did he say that during the ending dialogue in The Dark Knight? But then again, you never know how stupid bureaucracy is. I could really imagine his persecutions getting doubted once it was revealed how crazy he'd become (now just convince the court in all those revision trials that he wasn't crazy before his accident). But maybe Gordon meant something different. I'd still not dismiss it as a lame technical excuse, given how stupid bureaucracy can be. But I don't know. | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 11:52 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | Yes, I understand your answer. My question is about Jim Gordon's sentence "Harvey's prosecution, everything he fought for... undone". Is this "prosecution [...] undone" not literal (as in "criminals walk free")? | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 11:01 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | @VedranŠego No, it is not a technical excuse along with a moral one, but a moral one only. His persecutions would certainly not be undone. It is not so much about the criminals getting free again, that would not happen. It is about the people of Gotham losing their hope in this city. That would be far worse for the soul of Gotham, even if there wouldn't be any "hard" consequences from publishing Harvey's crimes. That's what the whole answer is about in the end. | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 3:44 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | +1 for the answer. Still, I don't understand the hype about all Harvey's persecutions being undone if his crimes are unveiled. It makes no sense to me, since the crimes were done after he got convictions for those criminals and after a great personal tragedy. Is this just a lame technical movie excuse (along with the moral one that you describe) for Batman's sacrifice, or is there something more to it? | |
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| Nov 22, 2013 at 12:34 | history | edited | Napoleon Wilson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2013 at 12:13 | history | answered | Napoleon Wilson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |