Harvey Dent - a negative character from the comics aboutBatman The former prosecutor of the city of Gotham, whose face turned out to be disfigured, hates Batman with his whole nature and always opposes him. The character appeared in many film versions of the story about Batman. How did the fate of Dent in the comics? Who played the supervillain in Hollywood movies?
Harvey Dent was created by authors Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Dent first appeared in 1942, in the 66th edition of Detective Comics.
Initially, Mr. Dent should have been surnamed Kent. But then the capital letter was changed, since the surname Kent already belonged to Superman.
After this incident, Harvey gets the nicknameTwo-faced and turns into a sophisticated villain - the leader of one of the criminal gangs of Gotham. The former prosecutor begins to use all his intellect, leadership skills, hand-to-hand combat and shooting skills for evil.
After an accident that happened toDent, the former prosecutor begins to terrorize Gotham. Harvey Dent opposes Batman, Nightwing, Robin, Batgerl, Spoiler and Commissioner Gordon. But it collaborates with villains Joker, Mysterious, Glinolic and Poison Ivy.
A two-faced person carries such a pseudonym not only because of the duality of his face, but also because of the duality of his nature: good and evil are constantly fighting in Harvey Dent.
One day a villain surgeon named Hash didDentou operation to restore the second half of the face. After this, his sanity returned to Dent. Without any resistance, he surrendered to Commissioner Gordon, and then he spent his term in prison.
After liberation, Dent meets with the Dark.knight and he invites him to take his post as defender of the city. After much training, Harvey Dent took over as Batman, and Batman himself left the city for a while. A year later, the Dark Knight returns and Harvey Dent again remains out of work.
Batman doesn’t trust Harvey, so whenin the city, someone starts killing petty crooks, suspicion falls on the former Two Faces. Dent was so offended by suspicions that he again doused acid on half of his face and turned into a former villain.
When Batman dies, Harvey begins to compete for power in Gotham with Black Mask and Penguin. But in the end, he manages to catch Manchanter.
Until getting the nickname of the Two-faced Dent was one ofthe best prosecutors Gotham saw. He was called the White Knight of Gotham. Accordingly, Harvey had deep knowledge in the field of criminology and jurisprudence.
Dent managed to imprison manythe criminals. And during the exposure of one of them - Holiday - he gets injured and turns into a two-faced. Soon, the Two-Faces become the boss of one of Gotham’s gangs thanks to his intelligence, hand-to-hand combat skills and good weapon skills.
In 1989The action movie about the Dark Knight, which was filmed by director Tim Burton, was released. The role of Batman was entrusted to the actor Michael Keaton ("Birdman"). The entire film was dedicated to the battle between Batman and the Joker by Jack Nicholson. Harvey Dent appears on the screen in the episode.
Harvey Dent in the Tim Burton film appears before the audience at that time in his life when he was still a normal person and served in the prosecutor's office. Dent did not take a special part in the development of the plot.
It is believed that a Tim Burton film about Batman in 1989 made a great contribution to the development of the genre of superhero action movies.
In 1995Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever movie is coming out in wide release. The producer of this picture was Tim Burton, and Harvey Dent reappears on the screens. The film is considered to be a continuation of the previous paintings of Burton about the Dark Knight, but, unfortunately, the integrity of the series is violated by the fact that the role of Batman was constantly performed by the new actor. So this time, the main role went not to the familiar Michael Keaton, but to Val Kilmer. Also in the frame appeared Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Chris O’Donnell as Robin, Drew Barrymore as Snowflake and Nicole Kidman as Dr. Meridian.
Tommy Lee Jones coped well with his role. For the role of Dent, the actor was nominated for the MTV Movie Awards.
To date, the best movies about Batman are paintings shot by Christopher Nolan. In the 2008 film The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent (Two-faced) becomes one of the main characters of the script.
Batman does not have time to save both - only Dent.However, after the explosion, arranged by the Joker, the prosecutor loses half of his face. After that, he begins to avenge the death of his bride to all who did not have time to save her. Trying to save Commissioner Gordon’s family from revenge, Batman kills Dent. But in order not to break the faith of the inhabitants of Gotham in good, Batman takes on all the crimes of the two-faced, and Harvey is buried with all the honors as a hero.
In 2014On the American Fox channel, the broadcast of the television series “Gotham” began, in which all the heroes of the superhero comics about Batman are collected. The role of Harvey Dent went to Nicholas D’Agosto - the star of the TV series Ambulance, Doctor House, Supernatural, and Anatomy of Passion.
On the universe of Gotham has been released a lot of animated films.
Harvey Dent appears in the 2011 cartoon film Batman: The First Year. True, the character appears only in the episode.
In 2012released a two-part cartoon "Batman: The Return of the Dark Knight", in which the fight Harvey Dent and Batman is given the main place in the plot. Only Dent here does not suffer from its disfigured appearance, and makes a successful plastic surgery, while remaining a villain.
