Christopher Nolan didn't stay in his office, so Lin Mingyang and Ex pounced when they went. Something happened to the crew, and Nolan was on his way back at this time.

Nolan's assistant invited the two into Nolan's office, Ex sat on the sofa, crossed Erlang's legs, and held the coffee brought by the other party, looking leisurely, while Lin Mingyang had a strong interest in the several clown masks placed on Nolan's desk, he picked them up one by one and looked at them carefully, and even put them on his face, and turned his head suddenly, startling Ex who was drinking coffee.

Just when Lin Mingyang was complacent about creating this unexpected effect for himself, Leng Bufu suddenly heard another voice behind him, and the other party said, "Perfect!" The exclamation startled him as well.

Ax finally balanced his mind, and he looked in the direction where the voice came from, and it was none other than Christopher Nolan who was standing in the office door and making that exclamation. He stood up with a smile and introduced Lin Mingyang, who had a puzzled expression, "This is Mr. Christopher Nolan, I think you will definitely have a lot of common topics today." ”

Lin Mingyang was about to take off the mask on his face and greet Nolan, but the other party hurriedly waved his hand at him: "Mr. Felix, if you like this mask, you can wear it on your face... I know Mr. Felix, you've played decent roles before, and you've probably read the script, so I wonder what you think of the role of the Joker? ”

"The pinnacle of evil, that's the most important thing that attracted me to the role of the Joker... Evil is not a means in his eyes, but an end. This purpose is so pure, not for money, not for sex, not for anything else, that creating evil and doing evil is the only pursuit in itself. The Joker's evil is such pure evil, if nothing else, that he just wants to create a 'higher taste of evil' for the city. In the hands of the Joker, evil is a work of art from beginning to end, and he wields evil like a painter paints and a musician composes music. No matter what the circumstances, he maintains a sense of arrogance and self-satisfaction as an evil demon, which is actually the dignity of an artist! ”

Lin Mingyang smiled at Nolan with a mask, the evil arc of the corner of his mouth and the exaggerated clown mask complemented each other, and an extremely evil aura naturally gushed out. This made Nolan's heart ecstatic, and it could be seen that Lin Mingyang had completely integrated with the role of the clown, both in terms of understanding and performance, and this feeling of freedom and freedom was the character temperament that Nolan dreamed of.

In the script, Batman must use morality to restrain his extreme justice at any time, because he knows that his morality is the only safety bolt to restrain the power in his hands, and once he crosses it, he is likely to become no different from the Joker, or even more dangerous. Unlike Batman, who is in a moral dilemma, he can unleash the ultimate evil in his hands unscrupulously, and I am fascinated by the character's crazy temperament, which probably has a lot to do with my own dislike of being constrained by my surname! ”

Nolan nodded, Lin Mingyang's understanding of the role of the clown was beyond his imagination. Now Nolan no longer has any doubts about Lin Mingyang playing the role of a clown, and his conversation with Lin Mingyang naturally turns into a discussion of the plot.

"I think the confrontation between good and evil is always unequal, and in the last episode of The Dark Knight, the inequality I mentioned at that time was that the wicked have no relatives and no cause, and the so-called righteous people have a lot of relatives and friends to be afraid of. While conceiving this episode, I disproved my own assertions. In fact, as long as the power of the righteous is strong enough, this inequality is not a problem at all. Unfettered extreme justice is not only not the happiness of superheroes, but their original sin. And the inequality caused by the original sin of superheroes is precisely because of the great power itself, which is the most essential inequality. ”

"Even more tragic than this layer of original sin is that the legal surname of the superhero's existence is itself given by the supervillain. When evil is not so powerful, justice under the guarantee of the law can suppress this evil. Therefore, the premise of the existence of extreme justice is that there must be an extreme evil that cannot be countered under the force of law. ”

From Nolan's words, Lin Mingyang finally figured out the profound meaning of this film not being named directly after Batman, but using the title "The Dark Knight". The righteous who punish the evil within the framework of the law are regarded as heroes, and the righteous who have the power above the law but restrain themselves with morality can only be knights. Batman is not destined to be a hero of the light world, only when the darkness comes, he can appear, carefully and restrainedly sweep away the darkness, and helplessly become a knight who lives on the darkness.

"In the script, the Joker says to Batman, 'You've made me,' and sadly it's the opposite. In fact, it is the existence of the Joker that perfects the existence of Batman. Because the evil of the peak can exist alone from the justice of the peak, and the justice of the peak is inseparable from the evil of the peak. Justice never gives evil a reason to exist, but the existence of evil fulfills justice. So this sentence should be said by Batman to the Joker. Nolan shrugged helplessly at the end.

"Perhaps, that's what our president, Mr. Bush, wants to say to Laden!" Lin Mingyang told an ironic joke, and Nolan nodded at him with a wry smile. From their respective eyebrows, both of them coincidentally saw each other's worries about the current political situation in the United States.

-- Most of the Hollywood media's attention to the follow-up candidates for the "Joker" in "The Dark Knight" is still due to the follow-up impact of the "Heath Ledger Accidental Death" incident. Although Heath Ledger's unexpected death has cast a shadow over this role, the charm of this role is still amazing, Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award winner Robin Williams, Paul Betany, who successfully promoted to the first-line lineup of Hollywood commercial films with "The Da Vinci Code", and Adrian Brody, a young Oscar star with super acting skills, have all expressed a strong interest in playing the "Joker", but director Christopher Nolan is silent about the role candidates, which makes the media feel strange, The producers soon announced the filming date.

The crew did not make a special announcement, but the producer announced the final list of actors before the official start of filming in order to facilitate publicity. As one of the big dishes in the Hollywood comic book adaptation feast, the cast of the "Dark Knight" series is undoubtedly a combination of stars and big names. It can be seen from the list alone that "The Dark Knight" still maintains the purpose of the old acting school of the previous work, led by tough guys and beautiful women, but as the most brilliant villain in the film and the villain "Joker" that fans pay the most attention to, behind the role is not the actor's name, but a mysterious question mark.

The explanation given by the producer is that the character of the Joker in this film is a "mysterious" actor who everyone absolutely unexpected, and as for who he really is, the answer will only be revealed after the release of the film.

This suspense can be said to have whetted people's appetites, and Hollywood paparazzi even issued a "wanted warrant" for the actor with a reward of $500,000, and all they wanted was an answer.

It's a pity that the crew's confidentiality measures are in place this time, and the paparazzi reporters tried their best to shoot a side face with a mask. But such a picture that is not clear still caused heated discussions among the media and fans.

As a party to the incident, Lin Mingyang, who has been staying in the crew, does not know that his "identity" has been passed out more than ten versions, and at this moment he is sitting intently in the conference room, watching Christopher Nolan demonstrate the first scene of the film on the prompt board, the whole process of the clown leading his subordinates to rob the bank.

Christopher Nolan uses Arabic numerals 1 to 6 to represent the six robbers who participated in the bank robbery: "[1] is Felix, [2] and [3] are skilled technicians, [2] can disarm the siren on the roof, [3] can open the bank's vault, and the rest are a bunch of outlaws." ”

If someone who didn't know the situation suddenly broke into the conference room, he would probably really think that a robbery was being planned here, and the director Christopher Nolan's "professionalism" was staggering, and he had carefully considered the whole process. If a real-life robber imitates this trick, he might be able to succeed.

Christopher Nolan tapped the cue board twice with the wooden stick in his hand: "The first step of the robbery, [2] and [3] enter the roof of the bank, [3] kill [2] after [2] has solved the alarm, so that he can get a bigger share of the robbery." ”

After disabling the alarm, [3] entered the bank vault to unlock it, and [1] hijacked the bank head-on with [4] and [5], during which [5] was killed by the bank's staff resisting, [4] was responsible for supervising [3]'s work, killing [3] and delivering the money to [1] after opening the vault door. [6] drove the school bus into the wall, and killed [4], and after he loaded all the money into the bus, [1] killed him again, and finally drove the school bus away. ”

Christopher Nolan said that although he was a little "winding", he marked each step with a red arrow on the cue board and crossed the head of the dead robber, and after he demonstrated it like this, several of the main actors in the conference room basically figured out the steps of this bank robbery scene.

Even Lin Mingyang had to admit that Christopher Nolan really put a lot of effort into the filming concept. In the whole plot, the clown only used 5 men, 2 cars and the necessary armament to successfully rob the bank, all he did was to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger, borrow chickens to lay eggs, and finally kill them all and clean up the mess.

In such a high-IQ crime movie, only [2] and [3] of the Joker's men are technical elites who can fly, remove sirens and pick locks, while the rest of them can only pull the trigger and not even count bullets. But I believe that after watching this play, I will not think that the clown's robbery methods are untechnical. In this robbery, the Joker gathered all the power at his disposal, used people reasonably, and took advantage of the robbers' greed for each other, and finally made them kill each other, and he sat alone to reap the benefits.

And this is just the beginning of the Joker "game", Batman, Captain Gordon and the new Attorney General Harvey Dent plan to cut the gang to the roots, and Harvey can become a public hero. At the same time, Bruce found that Rachel was dating Dent, and because the criminals were prosecuted one by one under Dent's strong sense of justice, coupled with the expectation of Rachel's change of heart, Batman came up with the idea of "retiring". At this time, the gang boss held a meeting to discuss how to deal with Batman, Gordon and Dante, and Liu, a Chinese-American gang bank owner, told the gang boss that he had moved the money from the gang to Hong Kong before Dante's plan to seize the black money was executed. The sudden appearance of the Joker shows that Gordon and Dent were both dug up because of Batman's appearance, and offered to hire him to kill Batman with half of the black money, but the gang refused.

When filming this play, the whole set really felt like a negotiation. The Joker and the underworld leader sit opposite each other, and the atmosphere is tense and eerie. The clown knew very well that before the negotiations, there were only two ways for the underworld family's money to be laundered: to launder money in American banks, or to hand it over to Liu to launder money overseas.

The Joker knows that he can't stand up to the political axe on his own, so he begins to aggressively woo the Sopranos, but the Joker lets out a crazy and confident laugh that people define as perverted, not only because he has explosives, but also because he has a good interest in convincing the other party to hire him.

Different from the previous action scene, Lin Mingyang mainly interprets the role of the clown through crazy laughter and weird confidence in this performance. Because he wears a mask, this is when the expression of the eyes becomes especially important.

After Lin Mingyang won the Oscar, he has never encountered such a challenging role performance. In the previous films, his performance rarely encountered NG's situation, but this time, Christopher Nolan reshot 6 times for one shot.

In fact, Lin Mingyang has done a good job several times, at least in the eyes of others, it is already very exciting, but Christopher Nolan is still not satisfied, and people who don't know it will probably make people think that Nolan is specifically going to "rectify" Lin Mingyang, otherwise he won't do it again and again.

The strange thing is that Lin Mingyang did not get angry because of this, on the contrary, his performance became more and more "exciting" every time. A fastidious director will always make the actors complain a lot during the filming, but afterwards the actors will often appreciate such a director, because it is his demanding requirements that hone the actors' own acting skills. Many big-name movie stars will have varying degrees of regression in their acting skills after becoming famous, an important reason is that they are burdened by their "big names", and many directors who work with them are hindered by their reputation and lower their performance requirements.

This phenomenon is particularly obvious in the matching mode of "first-class movie star + second-rate director" of Hollywood commercial blockbusters, even if it is an Oscar winner, it is difficult to escape this strange circle. Conflicts between actors and directors also happen from time to time, thinking that Lin Mingyang was also one of the "outstanding representatives", of course, he did not suffer less, but he held his tail and kept a low profile for a long time with a bad reputation of "difficult to cooperate".

Under Christopher Nolan's "strict supervision", Lin Mingyang's acting skills have indeed improved a lot, but what interests him more is that this commercial masterpiece with a budget of 150 million In addition to the regular filming part, director Christopher Nolan also boldly integrated IMAX's shooting techniques.

Like James Cameron, Christopher Nolan is also an avid IMAX director who had the idea of making an IMAX movie before he became famous. It's a pity that he doesn't have the same generous funds as James Cameron, so his dream is also partially realized in "The Dark Knight". There are 4 main action scenes and some static dramatic moments in this film, which uses IMAX shooting technology, but also greatly improves the visual level of the film.

The scene in the film where the clown and the gang leader negotiate was shot on IMAX film, so Christopher Nolan is almost demanding on the actors' performances.

On the use of IMAX shooting technology, Lin Mingyang and Christopher Nolan once again found a common topic, and both of them revealed their recognition and expectations for this technology.

"It is said that the film that Mr. Cameron is currently working on is shot using 3D+IMAX technology, and I don't know what kind of effect that film will bring after it is released... If it is a big success, it may be able to bring about a revolution in the entire film and television shooting technology! ”

James Cameron has been working on that film in secret for more than three years, and it could be even longer if you count the conception and preparation. I have to say that Cameron is indeed a calm director, and the media didn't notice it in the slightest when he made such a big move in private. It was only recently that this huge ongoing project was discovered by journalists. Despite the media's best efforts, there is still very little information about Cameron's new film. The only thing Cameron revealed in an interview was that the filming of this film will adopt a new shooting method. Although he didn't say it directly, the media still boldly predicted that this kind of technical technique is likely to be IMAX shooting technology.

In the conversation, Christopher Nolan's envy for James Cameron was overflowing, and he also saw the bright prospects of IMAX, but still underestimated Cameron's ambition and the final influence of that film. With the memories of the past, Lin Mingyang clearly knows that Cameron used that film to achieve a perfect self-transcendence, and ten years later, he is still the well-deserved king of the world!

Once upon a time, Lin Mingyang also dreamed that he could make such a movie that would make the whole world crazy, and once ambition falls into the soil suitable for growth, then it can no longer be stopped from growing!

(To be continued)