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In a soundstage outside Los Angeles, on the set of "Watchmen: Darkness Falls".

Peng Yicheng looked at the scenes and props that had been arranged, looked at Zhao Liansheng and other people from the photography and lighting team who were ready, and Huang Bo and Xiao Ou, who came to visit the class, he gave a thumbs up and signaled to all the staff on the scene that they did a great job.

He then lifted the director's horn and shouted, "Action!"

With his order, the clapperboard in the hand of the field attendant fell gently, the camera in Zhao Liansheng's hand began to run at high speed, the whole set came alive again, and the first scene of "Watchmen" officially started filming!

Looking at the scene being filmed in front of the camera, Peng Yichen couldn't help but recall the things he experienced in the plot world of "Watchmen", possessed by the big 'villain' Pharaoh.

That's right, in the movie "Watchmen", Peng Yichen plays the villain Pharaoh.

But in fact, in the story of "Watchmen", there is no absolute villain, or absolute decency.

In Peng Yichen's previous life, the reason why this movie was highly praised by professional film critics was because this movie dissected the deepest things of human nature extremely profoundly.

But because of this, the film had a great failure at the box office in its previous life.

A film critic once analyzed the reasons for the failure of "Watchmen", and his conclusion was: This is a suffocating dark movie, it is so sad!

Yes, that's the biggest reason why this movie failed.

Peng Yichen believes that another reason for the failure of this non-movie is that the entire cosmology of DC Comics was not incorporated into the whole movie.

Xiang Batman, Superman, Catwoman, Justice Woman, and other popular comic book characters in DC Comics do not appear in this movie.

This made the film lose its huge fan base of DC Comics.

A movie that has no support from comic fans and is very deep, gloomy, and dark, if it can do well at the box office, it would be strange!

On the basis of learning from the experience of his previous life, Peng Yichen changed this story slightly.

At the end of the movie, he adds Easter eggs of Batman and Superman, while giving the story a slightly brighter ending.

makes this film have a strong commerciality while taking into account profound artistry, which can attract audiences to watch this movie.

Of course, even after Peng Yichen's own adaptation, the core of the story of "Watchmen" is still tragic and dark.

At the beginning of Peng Yichen's entry into the plot world, he was deeply attracted by this incomparably profound world.

In the story of Watchmen, a total of six superheroes known as Watchmen appear.

Among these superheroes, in fact, only Dr. Manhattan has real superpowers, and the other superheroes are actually more like the pioneers of Batman, they all rely on their special skills and continuous efforts, with the body of an ordinary person, sitting on the superhero should do.

And Dr. Manhattan's superpowers are the basis of the background of the story of "Watchmen".

Dr. Manhattan was originally a world-class quantum physicist, and because of an accident, he had the ability to observe and manipulate quantum. It can be said that he is almost omniscient and omnipotent, except for retaining his character and emotional weaknesses as a human being.

Dr. Manhattan can know everything that happens in time, and can create and destroy another parallel universe at will. But he has an eternal problem, that is, he can't save the world he lives in.

Because of the appearance of Dr. Manhattan, the Star Flag Kingdom easily and completely won the Vietnam War, and the Cold War balance between the Star Flag Country and the Northern Bear Country was also broken.

As a result, the Northern Bear Kingdom began to panic stockpile huge quantities of nuclear weapons.

Although Dr. Manhattan can destroy the Northern Bear Nation by himself, he cannot completely stop the Northern Bear Nation's nuclear attack plan against the whole world.

Pharaoh Peng Yichen's possession once told Dr. Manhattan that even if he could intercept 99% of the nuclear warheads of the Northern Bear Kingdom, the remaining 1% would still destroy all living beings on Earth.

Therefore, Dr. Manhattan not only did not bring more security to the people of the Star Banner Nation, on the contrary, the Star Flag Nation society (and even all mankind) fell into a more depressing and terrifying apocalyptic crisis than the Cold War crisis in real history.

Among the six heroes, except for Dr. Manhattan, the only one who revealed his true identity was the Pharaoh possessed by Peng Yichen, a genius known as "the smartest man in the world".

He used his own model to predict that humanity would not be able to avoid destruction if he did not intervene in the situation.

But because of this, the Pharaoh made a huge plan, and this answer can be called the greatest irony of human civilization and human nature.

He took advantage of Dr. Manhattan's weakness to see through people's hearts, overcame Dr. Manhattan's ability to foresee the future, designed to deceive and use the energy in Dr. Manhattan's body, created a powerful bomb, destroyed several of the most prosperous cities on earth and fifteen million lives, and blamed Dr. Manhattan for the crime.

Because of this incident, the Pharaoh succeeded in forcing the Star Banner Kingdom and the Northern Bear Kingdom, two countries that could destroy human civilization at any time, but at the same time lived in fear of it, to finally end the confrontation between the two sides, turn enemies into friends, and work together against Dr. Manhattan, who has become the "enemy of mankind".

At the same time, with the help of Dr. Manhattan, the Pharaoh used the energy of Dr. Manhattan to effectively solve the energy crisis of the earth. In turn, the capital oligarchy that controls the world's existing energy sources is resolved, and humanity is saved from further disputes in the future.

He is arguably the "smartest man in the world", his ability to play with wits is superb, he has made himself the richest man in the world and a popular icon, and he has quietly turned the fate of mankind around.

When Dr. Manhattan discovered his purpose, the Pharaoh's plan was irreversible, and after weighing the pros and cons, just as the Pharaoh had predicted, Dr. Manhattan finally cooperated with his plan, willingly bearing the notoriety of being against humanity and bringing about peace for mankind.

Judging by these practices of the Pharaoh, he is undoubtedly the villain of this story.

But in this story full of all kinds of ironies, most of humanity's fate is saved by this villain.

Dr. Manhattan, the man who was dubbed a god by the Starflag Nation media, although he himself denied it, and although he had been helping the White House and the Pharaoh's cause, he did not necessarily believe that these efforts had real meaning for humanity as much as the Pharaoh did.

Because Dr. Manhattan saw and experienced so many things that humans could not see and experience, his immortality and his ability to perceive the human heart and foresee the future made him a true god.

He was a first-rate physicist with a deep and rational understanding of the material world, and he was puzzled only by the human spirit (human nature), and after he became a "superman", this confusion further bewildered him. Because he has transcended the form of life and reached a realm that no one has ever set foot in before—he can no longer see life and death like ordinary humans, and at the same time gradually loses the human instincts such as sorrow, joy, and fear.

His compassion for humanity was essentially an emotional remnant of his past when he was human, and the effect was fading away, because he was tired of even the humanity in himself.

In the face of the vast will of the universe, life is only a phenomenon, and the fate of mankind is not worth mentioning at all, it is meaningless.

So in the end, even Dr. Manhattan's girlfriend Laurie betrayed her boyfriend, just because Dr. Manhattan was no longer a real person.

Here's how Laurie said of Dr. Manhattan:

Now he sees things in a way that he has forgotten what they are, like the real world, for him, is just a fog, and humanity is just a bunch of shadows.

At the end of the story, when Dr. Manhattan and Laurie have a long talk on Mars, the two break up completely.

Dr. Manhattan has completely stopped caring about humanity.

As he himself said, Laurie was his last bond with humanity, and that bond had been completely lost.

If there really is an omniscient and omnipotent Creator in the world, who is blind to and never intervenes in our suffering.

Then this god must be the same as Dr. Manhattan - the right way to respect humanity is to ignore humanity and leave it to its own devices.

In contrast to Dr. Manhattan, Pharaoh was an activist and extremist, unlike the other heroes of the Watchmen League.

The Pharaoh has been plotting to solve the apocalyptic crisis of mankind once and for all by his own methods. He was a pragmatic man, a utilitarian who only thought about what was "beneficial" and not "right".

Therefore, the Pharaoh thought that the general superhero, the act of relying on violence to achieve justice and peace, was a ridiculous trick, although he himself was involved in it.

But the appearance of Dr. Manhattan changed him: under the shadow of the end of humanity, all good and evil, crime and punishment lost their meaning. Therefore, Pharaoh did not care about morality or principle at all.

From this moment on, the pharaoh became the most scheming and executing man in the human race.

His value logic is very similar to that of Roosevelt during World War II, but he is more radical and brilliant than Roosevelt, and he is also more creative.

He is the perfect successor of kings and great men who have pioneered in all fields of human history. But the great irony of his plan for the redemption of humanity is not original, but inspired by the Laugher.

The laughing man is also one of the most peculiar and out-of-towners in the story of "The Watchmen".

Peng Yichen is in the plot world, every time he sees the laughing craftsman, he feels a secret feeling of palpitations.

The laugher is the one who can satirize the world and the end of the world with the most cynical mentality.

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