Hey, this questions for all of the batman fans out there. I just wanted to know- which actor do you think made a better two-face? Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever, or Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight?
Tommy Lee Jones wasn't even two face, he was just evil, when he flipped the coin, he kept flipping it to get the result he wanted, that's not two face, TF leaves it completely up to chance.
Not seen aaron eckhart's version it has to be better than TLJ. I swear those guys were all on cocaine in their trailers.
eckhart's two face looks more like two face meets terminator... TLJ's face seems a lil more "realistic".. i mean i totally understand this is a comic.. but still
The only unrealistic part of Nohlan's two-face is that he wasn't in pain, it looked perfectly normal.
Aaron by far. His acting and understanding of the character was (as well as the writing) exceeded Tommy Lee Jonses' version. In defense of Tommy Lee Jones however, his version was POORLY written... it was almost like they wanted the Joker to return, but couldn't, so they made Two-Face much more goofy. ***SPOILER*** Some people are upset that he died in the Dark Knight (who knows, maybe he was really locked away) but I feel like doing what they did really captured the essence of the character. He was always self destructive... I mean, the Joker makes himself out to be self destructive and loves the thrill of cheating death, but he always coordinates things to the nth degree, or uses his cunning to keep himself alive on a fly by the wire basis. Two-Face however, really just doesn't care anymore. He has ALWAYS (always, meaning as soon as he became a main-stay villain) been a revenge bound character, and people so bent on revenge can never make it. Also, if he just kept getting caught and set free and caught and set free over and over and over again, it would really lose the gravity of the situation. In The Dark Knight they really used the essence of Two-Face from The Long Halloween and some of the better versions (including the original Animated Series from the nineties) to create a villainous masterpiece whom you really can sympathize with, thus making him much more superior.
Well, the TLJ Two-Face had zero character development, and wasn't the slightest bit interesting, but neither was the film around him. It was more about what famous actors could dress up like which Batman villains, and nobody in that movie gave a shit about who the characters were or what they were all about. On the other hand, I don't think the Two-Face story in The Dark Knight was as well-developed as it should have been. I just didn't buy his bitterness... he seemed like he was an amazing person who would never do anything wrong, and then suddenly he's flipping coins to make decisions. It's not even that I don't think this was approached unconvincingly... it just happened too fast, and it was cut up with three other things at the same time-- the ethics of the sonar thing, the hostages, the boats... it was too much. He was a great character and he deserved more. I think they should have set up his story arc in this one, then completed it in the next one.
Just wanted to add that in 'The Long Halloween' comic book, they made his transformation more convincing by having him live in the sewers for a week or so and then had him come up fully transformed into his Two-Face persona... that would have been a good way to handle it...
