The purpose of that post was that the creators and story writers want the audience to respond by responding for them and to me it feels forced. I love Michael Caine but, he, that stuff with him was making me gag. I was looking at my hand and wondering if I should choose two fingers or my fist.
I mean like the crying between MJ and Peter. The crying between Sandman and Spider-Man. The emotional scenes with Peter and Harry. All that stuff. "HERE, LOOK AT THEM, THEY'RE CRYING, THIS IS EMOTIONAL, IT'S THE THIRD FILM, THIS IS SAD BRO".
I understand, I just don't think it necessarily has to be a flaw. It all depends on how this fits to the story and how it's potrayed in the movie.
I for one, loved Caine in this. It's the kind of actor that can not only sell the kind of dialogue he has in TDKR, but actually make it hit You.
Like I said before, Caine's Alfred is the only potrayal of the butler that has any significance and meaningful presence in the story, rather then just making Bruce's bed and ironing his suits.
His love and care for Bruce is palpable. Plus the acting chops and natural, cockney charisma of Michael Caine, are one of the strenght's of this trilogy.
"Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice"
"Perhaps both Bruce and Mr. Dent believe that Batman stands for something more important than a terrorist's whims, even if everyone hates him for it."
"That's the sacrifice he's making, to not be a hero, to be something more."
Bruce Wayne can't accomplish the same good that Batman can, and vice versa.
Alfred's out of line and out of character in TDKR. He knows that the League of Shadows is involved with the city, he knows that the city and police can't handle it (and they can't) without Batman's help. They couldn't do it in Batman Begins, why would he expect that now?
But that was a bit differen't situation wasn't it? When Alfred told Bruce to "endure it" in TDK, he meant taking on all the deaths in the city. Bruce was worried that his actions resulted in civilan casualites, but Alfred knew that in the end if Joker wasn't stopped there would be even more corpses. He meant that as an outlaw, Batman can do the right thing that the police won't.
In TDKR it's a different situation. He sees the toll that being Batman has taken on Bruce, even worse he sees Bruce's self-destructing patterns and the possibility that this confrontation will end up with Bruce dead. Of course he wasn't going to encourge him. Also from his Alfred's point of view, I guess the situtation was a little different, since Gotham didn't really needed Batman. He thought the bolstered police forces that managed to help clean the city, would be enough for Bane. Wheather he was right or not is another matter, but You can't blame him.
I mean this guy has been with Wayne for so long. He raised him, he sticked with him while he went about his crazy, bonkers plan of terrorising crime in a rubber bondage suit. But he sees that if Bruce will keep doing this, he'll end up dead. He knew that Bruce could be semi-suicidal, becouse he lived with him for the past 8 years and he knew how funky his psyche was. He wasn't just going to let him die. Even if one disagrees with his decision to leave, one cannot blame him for caring for his surrogate-son. He understood(and supported) the sacrafices that Bruce made so far for the city, but watching him kill himself was too much for the old sod.
