20 Things You Didn't Know About The Dark Knight

4. A Bit Of Foreshadowing€And A Red Herring

aaron eckhart two face For anyone who knows who Harvey Dent really is, there are a few nice little bits of foreshadowing in The Dark Knight€™s screenplay. Dent referring to the €œmob giving you second chances€, and Bruce referring to Harvey as €œthe face of Gotham€™s bright future€ spring to mind, but one of the cleverer bits of foreshadowing turns out to be a red herring. For anyone paying attention, the address the Joker gives where Dent is supposedly being held is €œ250 52nd Street€€is there any way they could€™ve possibly fit more number twos into that? It€™s a ruse, of course €“ Dent is actually at Avenue X and Cicero (named for the Roman lawyer and philosopher), but considering 250 52nd Street is the address where Rachel meets her demise, and Rachel€™s death is the event that sends Dent over the edge, perhaps it is indeed the (fitting) birthplace of Two-Face.
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