Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
IMO, at least that's not as bad as Batman telling Dent that he's gonna turn himself in but then just standing there during the press conference and not doing so.
he was ready to go up and blurt the secret, you could see that he had stood straighter and was arranging his suit, and he even took a step forward, but then dent realized : if i let this happen, then batman will never be able to do good again. that's why he told the press he was batman, i think. i always thought that he had planned that press conference for the purpose of throwing people off-track, but obviously bruce didn't know that...
ETA: for a moment there when i first watched it, i thought that scene was going to be an "i am spartacus" moment, with harvey making some sort of comment about how there's a bit of batman in everyone, as long as the solo dude was doing his stuff, everyone had the hope of batman in their hearts.
but then it happened how it did, and i saw the "i am spartacus" deal as waaay too cheesy for nolan to pull out in the middle of the film.