3. Escalation (Batman Begins)
'We start carrying semi automatics, they buy automatics, we start wearing Kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds.' The final scene of Batman Begins is one of the best in the trilogy. We get to see the new bat signal for the first time, theres the downplayed Joker tease and a great back and forth between Gordon and Batman. The formers been promoted to lieutenant and now exudes confidence. His speech on escalation is a perfect foreshadowing of whats to come and shows how forward thinking he has become. Whats refreshing is that this is a scene between the two characters that doesnt occur in the middle of the plot; it feels calmer and they can both act without the pressures of a greater scenario. Gary Oldman feels completely one with the role by this point and you can see the increased comfort in dealing with his masked partner. If there is one scene that fully embodies him as a representation of Gotham, then it is this one. This feels the start of something big for both characters, making it completely unsurprising that two more films would follow.