"With the news this week cautiously announced in the Hollywood Reporter that Sebastian Stan will be playing Dent in Matt Reeves' highly anticipated forthcoming sequel to The Batman, it's quite possible the new episode will be less interested in the masked theatrics of the 20th-century big screen caped crusader, and more in the idea that the very concept of justice is about to slowly disintegrate."
"Tommy Lee Jones' shrieking, neon-splashed Batman Forever iteration turned the character into a dissociative identity slot machine, endlessly pulling its own lever, while Billy Dee Williams' take in 1989's Batman was a promise of future ruin. In Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, the downfall of Aaron Eckhart's crusading district attorney signalled the dangers of placing too much faith in the moral resilience of a single individual, especially in a city where the very idea of justice is already under existential strain."
Harvey Dent's arrival in Gotham brings consequences for the city's idea of justice. Past portrayals ranged from Tommy Lee Jones' shrieking caricature to Billy Dee Williams' promise of future ruin. Aaron Eckhart's Dent in The Dark Knight showed the danger of overreliance on one individual's moral resilience in a city already under existential strain. Sebastian Stan's casting suggests a Dent whose morality erodes gradually, aligning with Matt Reeves' vision of Gotham rotting politely from the inside. Reeves' approach favors slow, self-justifying descent over theatrical madness, potentially moving beyond the Nolan era's symbolic ethical thought experiments.
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