




- Movie
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Year
- 2012
- Character
- Commissioner Jim Gordon
- Actor
- Gary Oldman
Commissioner Jim Gordon is the world weary but utterly incorruptible police officer who battles tirelessly to keep Gotham from falling into the abyss.
The Dark Knight Rises – Commissioner Jim Gordon Quotes
Jim Gordon on his predecessor, the heroic figure on whom the city depends:
Jim Gordon: I knew Harvey Dent. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone inspires us the way he did. I believed in Harvey Dent.
Reading from the book “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens:
Jim Gordon: I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Commissioner Gordon talkes about the difference between policing in principle, and policing in practice:
Commissioner Gordon: When you’re out there, the rules aren’t weapons anymore… they’re shackles, keeping you from the bad guy.
Jim Gordon: We were in this together, and then you were gone. Now this evil… rises. The Batman has to come back.
Bruce Wayne: What if he doesn’t exist any more?
Jim Gordon: He must… he must…
Commissioner Gordon: The people ought to know the hero who saved them!
Batman: Anyone can be a hero, even a man who did something so simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders, to let him know the world hadn’t ended.
Commissioner Gordon: Bruce Wayne…
Jim Gordon is hauled into the kangaroo courtroom:
Judge: So what will it be Jim? Death or Exile?
Gordon: If you think we’ll willingly walk the ice, you’ve got another thing coming.
Judge: So death then?
Gordon: It looks that way.
Judge: Okay then, death, by exile.
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