Aaron Eckhart’s Harvey Dent/Two Face Performances In The Dark Knight Revealed?
Before you head out this Friday to wrap your hands around a cold brewsky, try wrapping your head around the following description ofAaron Eckhart’s performance(s) asHarvery DentandTwo Facein July’sThe Dark Knight. Over atCHUD, Jeremy Smith spills all he knows about whatChristopher Nolanhas in store for us. It is prettyWTF, so here we go…
“Basically, Nolan shot complementary takes of Eckhart in Two-Face makeup so he could visually represent the duality of Dent in a less cartoony fashion,” says Smith. …[Harvey/Two Face] is a fifty-fifty split of the same actor giving two wildly divergent performances in the same shot.
And because he has two takes of each scene, Nolan has the luxury of shaping Eckhart’s performance in post; it’s just a matter of switching the dial between normal Harvey and bug-fuck Two-Face. Again, both will be present in the shot, but only one will dominate the poor bastard’s conflicted consciousness at any given moment. The technical audacity required in pulling this off may be the reason Two-Face was held back in the trailer."
So, anyone who was hoping that Nolan’s Dent/Two Face would bear resemblance to Mel Gibson inThe Man Without a Faceor Tommy Lee Jones inBatman Forever…shame, shame! If the following report is on the money, Nolan is literally going to split Eckhart’s performance in half and launch the film’s crazy factor into outer space. In fact,The Dark Knightmight turn out to be one of the darkest, most ruthless PG-13 movies ever, summer or not, from the sounds of it.
Discuss: How do you imagine Nolan’s rather ballsy technique turning out on the big screen?
