Chapter 128: Ellen Show
Mark appeared on "The Ellen Show" three days after the party, this show he had appeared on before and after the explosion of "The Hangover", and Ellen DeGenele was an acquaintance, and the current "Ellen Show" has not yet grown into one of the four major talk shows in the United States, and Allen is very honored to invite Mark, the popular king, to be on the show.
Allen, like many talk show hosts, Ellen DeGeneres also started from "stand-up comedy", Allen, who first started performing in a small coffee shop comedy club, after several years of national tour, in 1982, that is, when she was only twenty-four years old, she was already known as "the most interesting person in the United States", and in 1986 she was invited by John, a legend in the talk show industry, and debuted as a talk show actor, and the real popularity was in the ABC comedy talk show that started in 1994.
Mark likes her hosting style, any guest on the Allen show is more like chatting with an old friend than being interviewed, Allen is not sharp, she doesn't ask questions that embarrass the guests, she follows the guests' words more, seems to be inadvertently half-jokingly wrapping the guests in, and there are many guests laughing and slumping on the sofa of the Allen show.
Allen often has unexpected but very heart-warming acts of kindness in the show, such as she will invite hardcore fans who have difficulties in life to the studio to watch the show, and then suddenly send money and cars to surprise them, she will even invite the audience's husband who is stationed overseas as a soldier to give a family reunion gift, etc., compared with the no-limit spoof of many late-night talk shows or variety shows, Allen Show's spoof is much milder, in other words, there is much lower limit.
The most famous feature of the Allen Show is that Allen will dance with the audience as a group, and those in the audience who dance particularly well, dance particularly badly, dress specially, etc., may be discovered by Allen.
Sure enough, as soon as Mark sat on the sofa, Alan said: "Mark, I heard that you are a master of dance, and you showed off your dancing skills with your girlfriend Blake at the finale party of your new film. She said as she bent down to invite.
As we all know, Allen is an aggressive lesbian, loves to wear suits to show people, as the funniest talk show host in the whole meter, Allen's words and deeds are very witty and funny, she just bent over, which made hundreds of viewers applaud and laugh, and the audience included Blake and her girlfriends.
"Here?" Mark said, surprised, "Didn't you just invite the audience to dance?"
Alan said: "Do you still want to dance with your girlfriend? No? Today you are my dish, can you put it dear, I won't do anything to him?" The latter sentence was said to Blake, causing the audience to laugh and applaud together.
Mark was a little inexplicable, these crooked nuts, what's so funny? When everyone stopped laughing, Mark suddenly laughed, laughed so much that he bent over and tears flowed, and he remembered that Allen was a well-known lesbian in the country.
The scene is more interesting, when everyone laughs, Mark is inexplicable, when Mark laughs, everyone is a little inexplicable, hundreds of people in the audience look at him, what is this thing laughing at?
Alan said, "Honey, what's so funny?"
Mark stopped laughing before saying, "Alan, your meme was so funny. ”
Alan laughed angrily, the fart smelled for a long time, this guy found that it stinks, she laughed: "Is my joke as fluttering as the wind?"
Mark finally accepted Allen's invitation, and danced this classic dance step in the tango music that was only one step away from the scene, and as he expected, when he danced seriously, Allen was dancing again, or like a twist and turn, or like an electric shock to perform the noble and elegant tango steps, she also pointed out from time to time that Mark was not standard here and there, and the dance steps and body were not beautiful enough, which caused the audience to laugh constantly.
After a hilarious performance, everyone returned to the couch, and she praised Mark's dance steps as standard as a pro, and she laughed: "Remember to call me when there is a party, I want to compete with you." ”
Mark said: "No problem, I invited you to the last party, but unfortunately the schedule is not suitable." ”
Alan said: "Next time I will definitely be free, if necessary, just move the show to your house." After a few casual remarks, they got down to business and moved on to today's topic, Mark's understanding of superheroes.
Mark said: "I grew up in China, but I spent a lot of time studying and observing here in order to integrate here, and I knew that my basic education was not good, so I stayed in junior high school for two years, and I still went to junior high school at the age of 20. ”
Mark has the qualifications to be arrogant, and now that he's a billionaire with the same peaks of work in the entertainment and cultural worlds, there is no one who can beat him in either direction.
Allen, of course, understands this, and she laughs, "What do you think of superheroes?"
Mark said: "The birth of superhero movies can be traced back to the rice western with a long history, because the rice country does not have a rich heroic history like other Western countries, so he can only use his own unique way to make up heroes on the basis of classical heroes, if the cowboy in the western film is a heroic legend created at the expense of historical authenticity, then the superhero movie is the standard "rice country spirit" Superheroes were almost all born in turbulent years, such as "Superman" and "Batman" were originally born in the context of World War II in the thirties of the twentieth century, and the mutants in "X-Men" are very similar to the status of blacks in American society in the sixties. ”
Alan said: "For superheroes, wearing masks to fight crime and uphold justice, some people think that this is an act of daring and not daring, what do you think of this. ”
"Superheroes, from comics, almost all superheroes wear masks and uniforms, these superheroes ritually gain the ability to enforce the law above the social system, fight crime in the city without constraints, and the cool figure becomes a fixed representation in people's minds, and nothing can shake the connection between this image and the status of the hero," Mark said. ”
Allen said: "Because it's cool, there are fans." ”
Mark said: "Superheroes are also people, people who are used to living a dangerous life, more yearning for an ordinary life, once the superhero takes off his mask and transforms into an ordinary person, then this imaginary society similar to a western will contradict the modern society with a perfect legal system, and the special rights of superheroes are difficult to be recognized, in "Spider-Man 2", Doctor Octopus destroys everywhere in the city, and people ask Spider-Man, who has taken off his suit, to make a comeback, and Spider-Man tears off his mask for the first time in the fight with Doctor Octopus. ”
"People want heroes. ”
"Superheroes are not born with a duty to do justice, they often have tragic experiences such as the destruction of their families, the betrayal of relatives and friends, or the abandonment of others, and these experiences often allude to some common social problems. Banner was his father's test subject since he was a child, and as an adult, Banner had an accident to protect a young colleague during a gamma-ray experiment, but instead of being killed by the radiation, the radiation source activated the green cells that his father had injected into his body. Whenever he felt angry, these cells were triggered, turning him into a massive Hulk, which the military saw as a military weapon and sent troops to hunt him down for a sample of his blood. ”
"Banner is a bit of an offbeat, he's a tragic superhero. ”
Mark said: " Bruce is similar, he witnessed his parents being killed by gangsters, which is the reason why he put on a batsuit and went to crime, which is usually the same in the traditional hero film model: a harmonious and beautiful society is threatened by evil, and those secular government law enforcement agencies are powerless to do anything about this threat, at this time, a selfless superhero gives up his comfortable life to stand up against evil, and finally wins a decisive victory, the social order is restored, and the heroes retire after a tragic fight, incognito, comic versionThe Dark Knight It is to subvert this traditional routine, at the end of the film, Batman handed over the captured Joker to the police for trial, and the prosecutor who was responsible for multiple murders died in the struggle, in order not to let the laws of Gotham City be destroyed by the prosecutor who went astray, Batman finally resolutely took on many crimes that did not belong to him, and in the righteousness of maintaining his legal status, he became a wanted criminal on the run, since the twenties and thirties of the last century, Hollywood has continued to create heroic myths on the screen, if the western films of the past are simply promoting individual heroism and the American spirit of expanding the territory, then today's superhero movies are more inclined to reflect on their own survival status. With the progress of human civilization and the continuous improvement of the legal system, the superhero mask is gradually losing its supreme law enforcement power, and when the day comes when crime is completely eradicated in the world, the hero mask will be permanently sealed. ”
Because it was a light talk and the atmosphere was relaxed, Mark spoke up and talked a lot, and Alan applauded and laughed: "Who would dare to say that Mark doesn't understand superheroes." ”
Mark said: "Superheroes are also human beings, and only by keeping this in mind can we make a good superhero movie." ”