Chapter 549: This World Is Going to Be Messed Up
The time is in July.
The United States and Daewoo belong to the same northern hemisphere, and the four seasons are synchronized, and the scorching heat of summer is officially coming.
The scenery on the street is becoming more and more beautiful, and the beauties with good figures and delicate faces bring many colors of life to ordinary men and women who yearn for beautiful things.
"Batman" has finally reached the climax of the publicity - the premiere.
A movie premiere, as the name suggests, is the first public screening of a newly filmed film.
At the premiere, the main cast of the film is usually present and also interacts with the audience.
During this time, media reporters can interview celebrities up close.
After the ceremony, a movie will be shown, but this does not mean that the film will be released worldwide immediately.
Only a handful of people can see the film at the premiere, and they often need to be connected to get a ticket.
"Batman" premiered in Gotham City, not the City of Angels with Hollywood.
Two days before the premiere, after Wang Zi'an and the crew arrived in Gotham City, they did not stay in the hotel provided by the crew, but stayed in Ivanka's mansion.
Ivanka once showed Wang Zi'an the video of this mansion worth 180 million, which was given to her by Cardad.
Invincible sea view, rooftop terrace, private swimming pool, one sea view, one city view, all in one.
Living inside, basking in the sun and looking at the sea, you can squander your time willfully, and staying at home is also a pleasure.
Wang Zi'an couldn't help but sigh, feeling that life was boring, and people who didn't want to live were too superficial.
I haven't enjoyed such a house, such a life, what reason is there to feel that life is boring and can't wait to die?
The prince settled in Ivanka's mansion, but did not meet Caddy, who did not live here, and had his own mansion and family.
Wang Zi'an once had dinner with Ivan in the City of Angels, and Caddie said that he didn't want Ivan to do business now, saying that the Ashima brand had wasted too much time for Ivana, and she should be more exposed now to earn popularity.
Ivanka's popularity is high, and Kadad's popularity will also rise.
Now Ivanka is in America and is almost a household name.
And a considerable number of people who know her existence will know about the existence of Kadella.
This is mainly due to the fact that Caddy is too high-profile and brings Ivan out on various occasions.
Wang Zi'an knew what Kadi was thinking, and accepted Kaddy's suggestion to help Ashima find a professional manager.
Originally, Wang Zi'an didn't plan to look for Ivanka in this self-directed and self-starred movie, but in the end he found her.
One is the lack of money, and the other is that he wants Ivan Ka to have more acting qualifications to meet Cadad's expectations.
Ivanka didn't study acting, and her acting skills weren't very good, but it didn't matter.
has Wang Zi'an, an actor-level actor, who can train her anytime and anywhere.
In the long run, it is not impossible for Ivanka to enter the film and television industry and have a place.
Accompanied Ivanka and Heikami Sakura to go shopping, staying at home, two days passed quickly.
The premiere was held in a theater in Gotham City.
This time, the main actors of the "Batman" crew were all present, such as Bell, Allen, Maggie and others.
Although there were various long guns and short guns at the premiere, they were all media friends who were extremely trusted by Nolan and the distributor.
Most of the questions asked by the reporter were communicated in advance, and when the questions were answered freely, some of them were questions outside of communication.
ran with the crew for a month, Wang Zi'an was already familiar with the road, answering questions in the panacea mode, and the protagonist gave up to Bell.
The titular protagonist of "Batman" is Bale, and Wang Zi'an has never been in the limelight.
No matter how much Nolan and Bell tout him, he is humble.
This made the media and American fans very relieved and proud, look, the uncrowned king from Daewoo is very kind.
However, they all felt that Nolan and Bell were out of politeness and respect for the world's first-class Daewoo people.
Wang Zi'an's performance in the movie, they think that it is estimated to be just passing, and it is impossible for Bell to perform well.
If that's the case, why doesn't the protagonist give it to Wang Zi'an?
The truly powerful Daewoo people, who occasionally come to Hollywood to play tickets, are an indispensable part of being crowned an international superstar.
There is an unspoken rule in the film and television industry, stars have achieved fame in Daewoo, the center of the universe, and it feels like something is still missing.
These things are to prove their strength in Hollywood, the second center of the universe.
But this is a bit like showing off from a high-level world to a low-level world, and the difficulty is much lower.
On the contrary, he proved his strength in Hollywood, and wanted to go to Daewoo again to prove his strength and be crowned an international superstar, but there were many failures.
In the eyes of many Hollywood media, Wang Zian did not come to Hollywood to win the final honor because he had proven his strength in Daewoo.
On the contrary, he was forced to do so and did not win the title of actor in Daewoo.
His experience is a bit pitiful.
Some media wanted to pick out this topic in person, but they were stopped by the organizers.
This kind of question cannot be asked.
If you ask, you are the enemy, and don't want to participate in the various press conferences hosted by the organizers in the future.
During the free Q&A, the media present followed the spirit of the contract and did not deliberately make things difficult for Wang Zi'an, but some media unsurprisingly asked Wang Zi'an about his expectations for the box office.
Wang Zi'an didn't pull hatred and let it go, but only said that of course the more the better, the specific box office data is definitely not easy to guess, everything is handed over to the fans, and after the finale, his mission has been completed.
In a warm and harmonious Q&A, the interview session ended and the movie was played.
Whether it is the media or fans, all the communication tools are handed in, and then they enter the theater in turn.
No one could have predicted how much of a shock they would have to watch the premiere of "Batman".
Everyone was in a relaxed mood and had happy expressions, and they took their seats one by one, waiting for the opening.
There were a lot of media and senior film critics present, but there were no real ordinary audiences.
Because in the past month, at the publicity meeting, Nolan and Bell were full of praise for Wang Zi'an, which made the media and film critics have a strong curiosity and want to see the movie as soon as possible.
For the content of the film, the crew did a very good job of keeping it secret.
Whether it is the audience or the media, I only know that this is a superhero movie, and the storyline and plot can be seen in the trailer.
And the promotional point of the trailer is not Wang Zi'an.
For North American audiences, Bell's popularity and qualifications are much higher than that of Wang Zi'an.
As a result, the audience did not feel how good Wang Zi'an's performance in the film was.
Nolan and Bell praise him so much because he is a Daewoo person.
Chongyu is flattering, and in the country outside Daewoo, it can be seen everywhere.
In fact, a considerable number of Bell fans are quite disappointed in him, and they like Bell's literary films.
Commercial films, they don't catch a cold.
Intended to watch it just because they liked the actor.
Anyway, you always have to look for spiritual food, find entertainment, and watch whose movie is not, then watch Bell's movie.
Literary and artistic young people don't like commercial films, mainly because commercial films are too detached from reality and too cool.
But if a commercial film is not happy, it is a literary film.
Most literary films are just breaking beautiful things for people to see.
It didn't take long for the big screen to light up.
There are no ads, and the movie starts straight away.
The film kicks off with a bank robbery orchestrated by a Joker.
His first appearance was with his back to the audience and a clown mask in his hand.
Seeing this scene, the audience was shocked.
This back seems to have an evil nature.
What the specific evil nature is, everyone can't say for a while, and they don't have time to think about it, because the picture is advancing and the plot is changing.
Bell hasn't seen the feature film, and today is the first time I've seen it.
This back has the greatest impact on him.
It reminded him of the years of filming, and no one knew what Wang Zi'an had paid.
But he knew that it was palpitating and extremely uncomfortable.
In the theater, there is a senior film critic named David.
He stared intently at the screen, with a notebook in his lap and a pen in his hand.
The premiere is only shown once, and film critics have to seize the opportunity to write a film review.
Here's the deal.
Otherwise, why let him watch the premiere?
Of course, there will be no spoilers in the film reviews, that's the consensus.
In the picture, just like the mysterious clown himself, the clown who was shown in front of David for the first time, could not see his appearance, but could only see a depersonalized clown mask from his calm back.
During the robbery, the other gangsters chatted about the mysterious clown, allowing the audience to further understand the clown's planning.
After completing their tasks, they began to kill each other in order to reduce the number of people who shared the money.
The one who can survive to the end is, of course, the clown himself.
Seeing this, David and many media who originally thought that Wang Zi'an was just an excellent supporting actor had a numb scalp.
This is not what they imagined, this clown, always makes people feel like they have pores.
They looked at it without blinking.
When the clown left, he took off his mask, and the camera gave him a huge close-up, which once again made David and others shudder at the true face of the clown.
The audience can see that the clown's face is also painted with clown makeup, and it stands to reason that the clown who has put on makeup does not need to wear a mask anymore.
But here again, the mystery of the clown's identity is expressed, even if he takes off the mask, there is still a layer of clown makeup on his face, hiding his identity.
More importantly, the Joker's first dialogue accurately describes his character.
The bank administrator said that the clown had messed with the wrong person and had no criminal beliefs.
The clown said to him, "I believe that what doesn't kill you will only make you weirder......"
This sentence clarifies the Joker's outlook on life, which means that if people change and grow from harm through painful evolution, eventually these hard persecutions will make them stronger.
David was shocked in his heart, the first sentence of the clown's opening showed that he was a ruthless character, and his IQ and scheming were beyond ordinary people.
This is also the reason why the Joker did not kill the bank administrator, because he does not take pleasure in killing, he has a higher evil faith.
Unknowingly, David completely entered the plot.
The bank where the clown robbed was a place where the gangsters laundered money, thus attracting the hostility of all the gangsters.
But he actually took the opportunity to get into the gangsters' meeting, wanted to form an alliance with the gangsters, and pointed out that their real enemy was Batman.
Among the gang leaders, there is a black man who looks at the clown very unpleasantly, so he hires a killer to kill the clown, only to be countered by the clown.
The clown talks to the black boss of the gang about the origin of his scars, which leads to his tragic childhood, which seems to be false and difficult to distinguish between real and false, and the "famous saying" is born: "Whysoserious?"
David's goosebumps on his arms, and the image of the clown with a hippie smile and a crazy face are the strongest irony of seriousness, and on a deeper level, the clown has a "whysoserious" attitude towards money, human life, order and justice.
It must have become one of the audience's most memorable lines for the Joker in "Batman", and it is also another iconic word and deed in addition to the Joker's smiley face makeup. David shuddered and was excited.
The story continues, and the new prosecutor of Gotham City, Harvey Dent, is known for his incorruptibility and efficiency, and has the title of Knight of Light.
Batman joins Sheriff Gordon and Harvey Dent in an investigation into a bank robbery.
And the number one financial accountant of the gang hid the money and absconded to Daewoo by himself, and based on the letter of the law, the American police had no way to do it.
At this time, Batman, who was wandering in the gray area of the law and had his own set of rules, ran to Daewoo and personally arrested the accountant.
In order to save his life, the accountant provides a list of money launderers of all the gangs.
Overnight, all the gang leaders in Gotham City were arrested, but due to the complicated legal process, they could not be prosecuted for the time being, but it also greatly weakened the crime in Gotham City.
The gang leader has to hire the Joker to help them destroy Batman.
The Joker's first threat is to capture an admirer of Batman and threaten to kill one person every day if Batman doesn't show his real body.
After that, the Joker committed two more murders, killing the justices who handled all the gang boss cases, as well as the police chief of Gotham City.
At the charity dinner hosted by Bruce Wayne for Harvey Dent, many celebrities from all walks of life were present, and the Joker himself came to try to stab Harvey Dent, but Batman took the lead and rescued Harvey Dent.
The Joker makes a big fuss about the dinner party, dismisses these high society, and also kidnaps Batman's ex-girlfriend Rachel and mentions the scars on his face again.
This time, the origin of the clown's scar is not caused by his father, but by the clown himself.
No one knows which of the scars is real, and perhaps none of them are true, which also hints at the clown's nonsense, his deranged spiritual world, and his mysterious life experience.
The Joker's interpretation of memories says, "Memories are a dangerous thing that can get you lost in joy one moment and take you back to things you don't want to remember the next." Memories are dark and damp, and sometimes the things you wish to be forgotten are blurry. Memories are like a child, can be mean, disgusting little beasts. ”
The more the Joker describes his own outrageous background, the more reminiscent of the Joker's inhuman tragic experiences in the past.
Immediately afterwards, the Joker's next target is the mayor of Gotham, at the police chief's first seven memorial events, the Joker and his accomplices lurk in the police force, and at the critical moment, Sheriff Gordon was unfortunately shot in order to protect the mayor.
Enraged, Batman goes directly to the gang boss and uses lynching to force the gang boss to tell the Joker's whereabouts, but the answer is that he faces the Joker who has no rules to find, only Batman takes off his mask, and the Joker will naturally come to him.
At this time, the conflict between the Gotham people and Batman began to intensify because of the Joker's murderous purpose, and seeing that Bruce Wayne was about to turn himself in, Harvey Dent lied that he was Batman and was arrested by the police.
On the way to Harvey Dent's transfer, the Joker really appeared, and led his accomplices to kill Harvey Dent, and the long-lying Batman and Sheriff Gordon teamed up to arrest the Joker, which turned out to be a plan by Batman and them to divert the tiger from the mountain.
But in fact, being caught was also a conspiracy of the clown, and he did it on purpose.
In this process, the Joker faced the rushing Batman, deliberately did not dodge, wanted to challenge Batman's authority and beliefs, and Batman, who never killed people, faced the Joker who had no bottom line and order, he could only choose to self-harm and avoid to maintain his moral bottom line.
From the perspective of spiritual and moral confrontation, the duel between the Joker and Batman has just begun, and the first head-to-head confrontation between the two has their own losses.
After the Joker is caught, Harvey Dent mysteriously disappears.
In the interrogation room, Batman and the Joker have a second confrontation, and the dialogue between the two reveals the spiritual world of the two, and this scene can be called textbook level.
The Joker first talks to Sheriff Gordon, who is completely defeated by the Joker, and the Joker crushes Sheriff Gordon speechless.
Sheriff Gordon can only leave and let Batman fight the Joker.
Batman first hit the Joker's head and beat his hands, but apparently violence is just his original nourishment for the Joker, and these actions completely make the Joker even more arrogant.
So Batman and the Joker began their first verbal confrontation and mental confrontation.
One of the most insightful of the Joker is a passage from the Joker's evaluation of Batman, Batman asks the Joker why he didn't kill him, and the Joker laughs wildly: "I don't want to kill you, what can I do without you, and then go back to blackmail those gangsters? No! No! No...... You make me whole. ”
Obviously, Batman's attitude towards the Joker is still stuck here as just a Joker who kills people to make money, but the Joker thinks that Batman completes his life, if Batman is regarded as the embodiment of justice, then what the Joker hates most in his life is justice itself.
What is justice, in simple terms, justice is the principle of righteousness, goodwill, fraternity, kindness, generosity, sympathy, these words are the embodiment of justice.
And the Joker wants to smash these righteous lies, perhaps in the Joker's previous life experience, he has never experienced these words of justice, so that the Joker stands on the opposite side of justice, which may be the driving force for the Joker to live, so Batman, as the embodiment of justice, naturally becomes the object of the Joker's pursuit of destruction.
Batman then said, "You're a piece of trash who kills people for money." ”
At this time, the Joker was a little angry that Batman actually looked at him like this like a couple arguing.
"Don't be superficial like them (the police and the populace), you're not like them, even if you want to be one of them, but for them you're just a freak, like me," the clown said.
They need you now, and when they run out of you, they will kick you away, like a leper.
You can see that their morals, their codes, are just a bad joke, they forget everything when they get into trouble, they only act as good people when they are in peace, and I will show you that when everything falls apart, these civilized people, they kill each other......"
The Joker's long words are the title of "The Dark Knight", which perfectly interprets the Joker's personality and analyzes Batman's predicament.
In the previous plot of the film, the people forgot all the good Batman had for them overnight because of the fear of the Joker, and saw Batman as an accomplice to cause chaos and panic, the people demanded that Batman turn himself in, and the police arrested Batman.
Isn't this kind of logical operation equivalent to the cooperation between the people and the terrorists in reality?
Then the Joker takes advantage of the victory and chases after him, pointing out that Batman is actually essentially the same as himself, and he is an outlier and a freak in the eyes of everyone, but most of the time, the people need Batman.
But when Batman poses a threat to the public, or when the people no longer need Batman, Batman is abandoned faster than expected.
This is the fragile humanity and civilization in the eyes of the Joker, and the Joker's words, at the same time, also make Batman have no power to fight back, and even from Batman's trance eyes, it seems that for a moment, Batman fell into the dark abyss of the Joker.
But Batman soon returns to his righteous position, drags the Joker out of the whole person, and uses violence again.
At this point, the Joker unleashes another trick to let Batman choose between Harvey Dent and Rachel.
If Harvey Dent is the representative of the Knight of Light, and Rachel is a personal selfish desire, then this time Batman's choice is obviously that the Joker has the upper hand, because Batman chooses to save Rachel.
At this time, the Joker also deliberately reversed the addresses of the two people, and let Batman go to Harvey Dent's address, but tragedy still happened, Rachel was not rescued in time and died in the fire.
Rachel's death hit Batman hard, and at the same time, the blow to Harvey Dent was not light, and Harvey Dent's face was half burned off, and the balance of justice in his heart was also collapsing.
At this time, the Joker bets again, and his next target is the Wayne Group lawyer who knows Batman's true identity, but this time the Joker leaves the choice of killing to the people, and if the people don't kill the lawyer within the specified time, then he will blow up one of the hospitals in Gotham City.
This undoubtedly magnifies the evil of human nature, staining the hands of the people with blood and sin.
Sure enough, some of the radical people tried to kill the lawyer, but they were saved by Batman, and the Joker blew up the Gotham Central Hospital.
In the process of blowing up, the Joker once again shows his keen insight into human sin, and his words to Harvey Dent are also an indictment of the world, where the rules that people thought were rock-solid seem to be fragile and rotten, and if someone gently pushes them, the entire edifice of civilization will collapse.
As a result, the Joker succeeded in unleashing the hatred and anger of the Light Knight Harvey Dent, turning him into an accomplice of the devil and a two-faced man, and Harvey Dent used his own way to complete his revenge on Rachel.
In the end, the Joker unleashed a killer move, he loaded bombs on two ferries full of prisoners and civilians, and swapped the bomb detonators of the other party, leaving the other party to decide his own life and death.
This time, the Joker still wins, he does not underestimate the goodness and brightness in human nature, and neither ferry finally pressed the detonation button, not because there are fewer votes against it, on the contrary, there are many more.
It didn't blow up just because someone was "autocratic" and forced to make decisions.
Batman caught the Joker, and the Joker played the last hole card, he knew that Harvey Dent had become a two-faced man and was taking revenge in his own way, if the people knew the truth and knew that the former Knight of Light had degenerated into a Knight of Darkness, then the last faint light of goodness in the hearts of the people was likely to be annihilated.
In order to prevent such a thing from happening, Batman decided to hide the truth and stop himself from all the charges of Harvey Dent for killing those people, making himself a dark knight.
Although in the end, the Joker was brought to justice and Batman won, but such a victory was extremely reluctant and hard, and it smelled of hurting a thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred.
In the confrontation with the Joker, Batman lost the support of the people, lost his reputation, and lost the lover he wanted to protect.
And Batman himself has also suffered an unprecedented mental blow.
The two-and-a-half-hour "Batman", when the broadcast ended, made the audience feel that only a short time had passed, and they were dumbfounded.
In the playing hall, it was so quiet that you could hear a needle dropping on the ground.
Everyone was shocked by the movie, by the performance of the clown in the movie.
Unexpected, unprepared, caught off guard......
They just wanted to see Nolan and Bale perform.
Watch how Nolan directs this superhero movie, and see how Bale plays a superhero.
But now, they found that during the viewing process, there was only one person in the whole film for them to look forward to, expecting him to appear.
When there is no footage of him, everyone hates to fast forward.
He's - the clown!
David looked down and saw that not a word had been written in his notebook.
This has never happened before.
Bell, Batman, has completely become the green leaf of the Joker.
David reminisced and found that the clown had no trace of acting skills.
It seems that the clown in it is not acted, but a real, living person.
Many film critics feel the same way.
Nolan and Bell really didn't have a hint of suspicion of praising Wang Zi'an.
He deserves it!
There is no trace of performance, but the image of the clown is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and I shudder when I think about it.
Hiraka Ruzakura and Ivanka also came to watch the premiere, and the whole time, they were staring blankly at the screen.
Ivanka has never studied acting, and she has not been deeply exposed to it, but she can also see Wang Zi'an's acting skills.
Pingxiang Liuying has even learned acting, and in front of Sansan's clown, she seems to see a mountain that she can't surmount in her ultimate life.
The mountains are very deep, so deep that during the movie, Hiraka Sakura shed tears more than once.
It's not because the plot is sad and sensational, but because she jumps out of the plot a little and thinks of Sansan in reality, she wants to cry.
Three is a book, and she never reads it.
Suddenly, sitting on the seat, David, who had been in a calm mood for a long time, remembered something, and his face changed slightly.
"The main character, not Batman, is the Joker. The world is going to be in chaos. ”