4. Two Face Showdown (The Dark Knight)
Tell your boy it's going to be alright, Gordon. Lie, like I lied. If you need one sequence to show how important a character Gordon is, its this. What could have easily been a Batman vs. Two-Face showdown becomes a high stakes confrontation between the three men who set out to bring down the mob. The film has set Harvey Dent up as the legitimate hero of Gotham, the successor to the vigilante antics of Batman and now presents him as a deformed madman. The scene itself is a dissection of the films events, presenting the human tragedy of what the Joker has done. Dent may think he is the only one to have lost everything, but in his deformation, the other two have lost much more. For Gordon its particularly horrific. His family has played an increased role in the film and we now get the emotional pay off. Words cant describe the horror on Oldmans face as he pleas for the life of his son (not necessarily the person he loves most, but the one at which Dent has pushed him too far), eventually having no choice but to accept his child's fate. In this moment we are the same as Gordon, tranfixed in horror, praying Batman will save him.