Lance was still unable to catch up on his sleep in the end, and while taking a shower, Chaos had a flash of inspiration, and Lance remembered the movie "A Clockwork Orange", which gave him some inspiration, so he then flipped through the original "Sin City" comics, and had a vague idea of the core of the script in his mind.

As one of the most important violent classics in film history, "A Clockwork Orange" can almost be said to be the bible of countless independent filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino. This work transcends moral reflection and shows the cruel status quo of society in a bloody light.

The story of "A Clockwork Orange" itself is not complicated, it tells the story of Alex, a teenager who does all kinds of evil, and after being imprisoned, in order to regain his freedom early, he voluntarily became a test subject of "aversion therapy", under which Alex became a person who could not fight back and scolded and was released from prison. But after being released from prison, Alex was oppressed, violent, and even imprisoned by the so-called "justice", becoming a tool for the realization of so-called justice.

The whole film is a long film full of violence, revealing the hypocrisy and moral annihilation of society, and people's attitudes towards violence and norms of behavior are a paradoxical synthesis, opposing violence on the one hand but countering violence with violence on the other. In the face of the so-called "justice", human nature no longer exists, every act has become the carrier of justice, morality, law, violence, and government have become the tools of hypocrites to justify themselves, and even the so-called "freedom" has been vigorously attacked, full of profound ridicule of social politics.

This core idea is not consistent with the Sin City trilogy constructed by Lance, in fact, Lance does not explore the problem so deeply, and Lance's artistic cultivation has not yet reached such a height. However, Stanley Kubrick's use of "violence" to rebuke "violence" and "justice" to mock "justice" gave Lance inspiration.

in the "City of God". All people are righteous - at least not evil, because in this world, children can't find an exit, social indifference and isolation make them lose the ability to judge right and wrong, they can only blindly use their own knowledge to explore the world, the so-called violence is just a basic means of survival for them, so in the story, no one feels that this is evil, but takes it for granted, this kind of life, worldview, and values that regard evil as justice. It is precisely the most thought-provoking idea in the movie.

In "killing people with a knife", justice and evil correspond, but the evil side represented by professional killers is the common idea of society - insensitivity, interest first, selfishness, as long as it is for their own interests, unscrupulous means are forgivable, this is a dark world built by "Rashomon". In the end, evil consumes justice, leaving only a glimmer of broken hope.

In Lance's conception, the hope of the "City of God" is positive, and Cannon leaves the City of God. became a photographer; The hope of "killing with a knife" is slim, and prosecutor Anne escapes, but her five tainted witnesses have all been killed, and she can trip Felix as planned. Already an unknown.

What about the extension to "Sin City"?

Lance can be like "A Clockwork Orange", fighting justice with justice; Or, like "Rashomon", mocking darkness with darkness. In the "City of Sin", then it is to fight evil with evil.

All righteous characters can be eliminated from the story. Each character has both black and white sides, they are all evil, and there is no difference between the police/detective and the thug. Law and sin help each other, and good and evil are mixed together. Therefore, the characters who appear in the story are very interesting, the police/inspector who represents the righteous side are dirty, the parliamentarians are greedy, while the hooligans who represent the evil side are sincere, the prostitutes/women are brave, and the so-called villains are the ones who represent the righteous side, they bravely stand up against the violence of the state machine, but they are not simple positive characters themselves, and the methods they use are also bloody and brutal.

Fighting evil against evil, this is not to make the world a better place, because they worship violence, ignore the law, and are lawless. But at least it's not too dirty, disgusting, and completely dehumanizing.

In other words, the hope of the "Sin City" is dark, no longer bright golden sunshine, no longer a bright future after the sun rises, even if evil triumphs over evil, but the world is still evil, dark, and terrifying. The only difference is whether the world is dominated by bad guys or even more evil bad guys, and even if order is re-established, it's iron-blooded, chaotic, cold, cruel order.

This is the most ironic thing - this society is already so bad and hopeless, the so-called justice can no longer protect society, and it can only rely on evil to achieve this goal, which is the saddest thing. Just like those who are cold and detached, the only way to protect themselves is to learn to refuse to care, learn to refuse sympathy, learn to refuse to give, and only by being cold-blooded and ruthless can they survive.

How ridiculous and sad this is a fact, and what is the root of this qiē? It is precisely indifference and detachment, precisely selfishness, precisely insensitivity. It's like a Möbius loop, where humans are constantly repeating their mistakes, and things never end in a loop, and there is no way out of it.

If such a deep and complex connotation can be expressed, then not only "Sin City" will become a classic, but the sin trilogy constructed by Lance will also earn its own place. But the problem is that it's not an easy thing to do -- to be more precise, it's an incomparably difficult, incomparably difficult, incomparably complex undertaking.

The "Sin City" of the previous life can glimpse some connotations, such as countering violence with violence and black with black, but the visual impact and violence of the movie are too shocking, and the noise attracts all attention, and Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and Frank Miller have not been able to dig further into the core of the theme - this is true for their version of "Sin City", because according to their ideas, "Sin City" has been made into a carnival visual feast, The charm of the movie is brought to the extreme.

But, Lance doesn't plan to do that.

If Lance wants to make "Sin City" the end of his trilogy, the first thing he must do is to reshape the character, more precisely, to inject soul into the character, and then rely on the character to complete the construction of Sin City, and further promote the criticism and reflection of society.

The script of Sin City in the previous life was composed of three separate stories, and in order to create that kind of strong violence, the film deliberately cut off the timeline of the characters, and put each character into the story independently, so that they became part of the story, rather than exploring the past, present and future of the characters.

This is the right thing to do, because too much character introduction can weaken the integrity of the story and the rhythm of the narrative; But Lance believes that this represents that the characters should be completely separated, on the contrary, the characters should be injected with a more complete soul outside the script, so that the characters come alive and echo the story. It's like what Lance did in "Borrowing a Knife to Kill".

There is almost no explanation of Vincent's ins and outs in the story of "Murder by a Knife", but in the confrontation between Vincent and Max, Vincent's past becomes his conceptual makeup, and collides with Max, thus completing the construction of the complex story.

For example, in the story of "Sin City", Bruce Willis plays the policeman/Chahadigan, why does he look at the eleven-year-old girl Nancy, and why does he go out of his way to save Nancy, is it because of any pain in his past; What happened to Muffle, played by Mickey-Rourke, why did he become so ugly, and why did he spend all day in a bar; What did Jessica Alba's Nancy face after being kidnapped, and how did she end up in a bar and become a dancer/girl......

None of this is directly featured in the film, but the backstories of these characters are the fabric of Sin City, and they not only build the background of the story, but even the whole world. Just like the "City of God", the protagonist of the movie is the entire slum, but the personalities, lives, and images of those characters are born out of this land, and their every move gives life to the entire City of God.

However, this is a huge undertaking.

It took Paul Rins ten years to write the original novel, while it took Lance nearly three years to adapt the screenplay. Now, Lance needs to build the entire structure of Sin City, and the project is unimaginably large; However, Lance did not feel a headache, on the contrary, he also felt joy, because he finally found a starting point, he finally had a further idea of "Sin City", and he finally had a complete idea of the Sin Trilogy.

Therefore, Lance did not catch up on sleep, after the bath, he began to enter the state of thinking, and when Percy's call came, he only had time to refine a basic idea, and did not have time to start thinking about the specific details, and then he had to go to the crew to start today's shooting.

After the exhaustion reached the extreme, Lance was energetic, but his brain was running at high speed all night, which made Lance feel a little groggy in his head, and then he needed to re-enter the filming of "Killing with a Knife", so Lance needed to be sober and sober.

Arriving at the filming location, Lance first drank an espresso and then a black coffee at a coffee house in a nearby neighborhood before walking to the filming location.

From afar, Tom Cruise greeted him, his expression was a little solemn, although the corners of his mouth were smiling, he couldn't erase them, and the worry between his eyebrows seemed to ask: Are you okay? (To be continued.) )

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