Starring Gary Oldman as

Commissioner Jim Gordon

in The Dark Knight Rises

Posted by Vin on October 13th, 2012 in Characters

Commissioner Jim Gordon - The Dark Knight Rises - Gary Oldman

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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The Dark Knight Rises

Cast and Characters

Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises: "Gotham, take control… take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!"
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises: "I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns."
Gary Oldman as Commissioner Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises: "I see a beautiful city and 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."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake in The Dark Knight Rises: "Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry, in your bones. I mean, they understand, foster parents, everybody understands, for a while. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do, move on. So after a while they stop understanding. They send the angry kid to a boys home. I figured it out too late. You gotta learn to hide the anger, practice smiling in the mirror. It's like putting on a mask."
Morgan Freeman as Lucious Fox in The Dark Knight Rises: "I call it The Bat. And yes, Mr. Wayne, it does come in black."
Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate in The Dark Knight Rises: "Innocent is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce. I'll honor my father by finishing his work. Vengeance against the man who killed him is simply reward for my patience."
Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises: "Do you think this is gonna last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."

Random Dystopia Quotes

Brigitte Helm as Machine-Man Maria in Metropolis: "You know that I have always spoken of peace...but your mediator has not come... You have waited long enough! Your time has come -! Who is the living food for the machines in Metropolis!? Who lubricates the machine joints with their own blood?! Who feeds the machines with their own flesh?! Let the machines starve, you fools! Let them die! Kill them - the machines!!"
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Michael Bates as Chief Guard Barnes in A Clockwork Orange: "Shut your filthy hole, you scum!"
Edward James Olmos as Gaff in Blade Runner: "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?"
Oskar Werner as Montag in Fahrenheit 451: "Behind each of these books, there's a man. That's what interests me."
Theodore Loos as Josaphat in Metropolis: "I put on this disguise to escape from the Thin Man. But for ten days, your father's spy has been making even the workers' city risky..."
Stephen Fry as Gordon Deitrich in V For Vendetta: "You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it."
Gloria Foster as The Oracle in The Matrix: "... It means know thy self. I wanna tell you a little secret, being the one is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are in love, you just know it, through and through."
Godfrey Quigley as Prison Chaplain in A Clockwork Orange: "Choice! The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. The insincerity was clear to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice."