Chapter 607: Preliminary Preparations
"Christopher Nolan is once again bringing a great superhero movie that gives Batman a deeper darkness than ever before." - "Variety"
"While the superheroes of surprise are enjoyable, the superheroes of DC are clearly more profound." - Chicago Tribune
"Shaun Tang and Heath Ledger present the best superhero movie of the year, and it is also the best showdown between Batman and the Joker, which is unforgettable." -- The Washington Post
There was no surprise that after the movie was released, there was a lot of applause, and both critics and fans were crazy about "The Dark Knight", the first week 1. The box office of 500 million is the best proof of this.
Even the most demanding people have to admit that Christopher Nolan's Batman is deeper and darker, and more fascinating, especially at the end, Batman's self-sacrifice into the darkness has made countless "old fans" cry.
"I apologize to Director Nolan, and while I still don't think anyone can really make Batman, he at least proves that there are people who can move towards that. I also want to apologize to Sean for being the one who is best portrayed as Bruce Wayne with a heavy responsibility, at least in the current Batman movies, not a drama on stage. A comic book fundamentalist fan wrote in his tweet.
"This is the most exciting Batman and Joker showdown, Heath Ledger's Joker is really exciting, that crazy flavor is more impressive than Jack Nicholson, and it also makes Sean Tang's Batman more tragic." Here's another comic fan's blog post.
Of course, there is no shortage of complaints, but most of them feel that the clown is too powerful.
"I don't know how he found out where the gang was meeting, I don't know how he bribed the police, and I don't know how he installed explosives, especially high explosives, on two heavily guarded boats, the clown is like a god in the movie, and he can do whatever he wants." Some people ridicule it like that.
Despite this, it still can't stop enthusiastic fans from entering the cinema, and the box office is naturally rising, which makes Warner really raise his eyebrows.
Only Sean knows that DC is just dying, although the box office of "The Incredible Hulk" released in the first half of the year is very bad, but the amazing superhero cinematic universe series has officially begun, and the Batman prequel series is too realistic, even if DC wants to copy the way of surprise, it can't be launched immediately.
Of course, he won't talk much on this issue, no matter what, until the release of the third part, he will still be the face of Batman, even if his own production company is working with Marvel.
Besides, he still has a lot to do, as long as "The Dark Knight" starring him is an unprecedented success and has won a lot of praise - because Heath Ledger did not die of drug abuse, there is no one-sided praise for the Joker he played, Sean's Batman is not marginalized, and the final narration earns him a lot of points.
If nothing else, after the third part is released, no matter how bad it is, it can be compared with Michael Keaton's original Batman.
Well, the premiere is just one of the things he's going to be busy with during this time, and the next thing is Liana's wedding.
Her date with Davis went smoothly, unbelievably smooth, and according to Sean's inquiry, she and he started dating after they met, and basically nothing happened, Davis went to the tree to pick something for her and fell off, or jumped into the sea to save her, and then almost broke his leg because the water was too shallow - all of this happened to the man she dated.
If he hadn't seen Liana and Davis laughing intimately, Sean would never have believed that the female devil would adopt her heart to be a little woman, and even so, he had always suspected that she was using Davis to divert attention, or that they had some ulterior bargain in private.
So, when their wedding actually came, Sean was stunned and had some mixed feelings.
"You're so pretty, you're a real lady from now on, aren't you?" On the wedding day, before it started, Sean teased his sister when he came to see his sister with a dead face.
Then, he fully proved that if you don't die, you won't die, even in a wedding dress, Liana still in front of her many best friends, put her arms around Sean's neck, twisted him to the ground, and didn't let go until he begged for mercy loudly, and then asked in a relaxed tone: "By the way, did you just say something?" ”
"I didn't say anything." After Shaun got up in embarrassment amid laughter, he raised his hands and replied loudly, "If you hear anything, believe me, it must be an illusion!" ”
Well, he's now starting to completely suspect that her marriage to Davis was a hoax, and it's a pity that mom doesn't think so.
"It's the happiest day of your sister's life, isn't it?" When the wedding began, when Liana was taken by her father and appeared in front of the guests, her mother sighed and said to Sean.
Sean could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, at this time, his mother said this in front of him, it was impossible to think about it with his knees, but unfortunately it was impossible, didn't he bring anyone to the wedding?
Naomi and Katie don't talk about it, if you want to bring them, do you want the two little ones to bring them? No, let's not talk about whether Naomi and Katie will agree, and will their parents agree? And there are more than 100 guests who came to the wedding today, basically all of them are prominent figures in San Francisco, which is tantamount to claiming that they are dating them, and they are likely to have already started talking about marriage.
But if you bring it, it will be tantamount to making your illegitimate child public, not to mention anything else, the father will definitely be angry enough, although Sean is very willing to see this kind of scene, but he has to take into account the feelings of his mother and sister, right?
As for Zoe, let's not talk about the same public relationship, you must know that Liana is also a lawn wedding, no matter the grade or scale, it is far more than Sean and Zoe's almost child's love wedding ceremony, if Zoe is unwilling and wants to re-hold the wedding, then what will he do?
So, in the end, it was just him alone, or he came back alone to attend his sister's wedding, anyway...... They've all been brought back, so they shouldn't care about this little problem, right?
Well, this matter has been revealed, although the wedding is large, and the people who participate in it have status and status, Liana is not a well-known person, and it is impossible to have too much media attention. As for the guests in this room, although they are all big names in San Francisco, they don't have much direct help to Sean's career, and there is no need to go into details, but Galen, Saunders and Neil were asked by their respective parents when they would have a regular girlfriend.
Among the three of them, only Galen has brought his girlfriend home, but now they have broken up, and the other two, probably influenced by Sean, are also mostly playing.
Usually, it may be nothing, but at this time, watching other people's children get married and start a family, it is inevitable that they will also pay attention to this aspect of things, don't think that American parents don't care.
So, it's so funny to see them being asked, but it's not so interesting to see the same thing fall on themselves, their parents know each other, and they often go to their house to play when they are young, so at this time, they have to ask a few words casually or deliberately, Sean can only be stumbling, and at this time it is Galen's turn to snicker next to them.
After all, his private life was much more chaotic than theirs, and he couldn't tell his parents, but I already had several women, and even two or six children—except for Naomi, Katie, and Kate, and Nicole told him two weeks ago that she was pregnant.
It's no wonder that when he came back this time, his father's face was not better than before, and his sister got married, and the guests would ask him how to do it, after all, he was so successful and famous on the surface. But the father, like him, could not answer the subject, even though he had all the children, and the eldest was three years old.
So...... Overall, he was still very happy, as long as he didn't get off the line, Sean was very happy to see his father deflated.
Not to mention this, after Liana's wedding, Sean, who returned to Los Angeles, immediately began to prepare for "The Artist".
I have to say that these screenwriters are slow to respond to originality, but they are rich in associations in adaptation and expansion, which is probably the consistent problem of Hollywood screenwriters.
In the current script, the male protagonist is still a superstar in the silent film era, which has not changed; Then when the sound film came, he didn't want to change it, thinking that it wasn't art, which was a reference to Chaplin; So he spent a lot of money to make a sophisticated silent movie, although it was very exciting, but it was still abandoned in the era of sound, so he began to decline, not only fell to the point of relying on pawns to survive, but also wanted to commit suicide with a gun several times, this is to cater to the taste of the film school, the more miserable the protagonist, the better.
Of course, the actor must also have shining points, such as when he was down, his old housekeeper never gave up and served him all the time, so he finally drove him away and handed him his only car to compensate for the half year he owed; In addition, when the actor finally couldn't stand it anymore and went crazy and set fire to the previous film film, he immediately came to his senses again, snatched his last work out of the fire, and died in his arms and refused to let go.
Then, the male protagonist who escaped death finally saw it, and with the persuasion of the heroine, he started his first sound movie, a song and dance film. This is another nostalgic attraction, because whether it is "Don Juan" with a vitamin-style record accompaniment system, or "The Jazz Singer" with the first addition of dialogue, it is the style of a musical and dance film.
Of course, not exactly, in fact, the film style that is now defined at that time was not fully formed, and the real all-dialogue movie was "New York Lights", which was produced a year after "The Jazz Singer", which was a gangster movie.
But this did lead to the rise of song and dance films, and the thirties and forties of the last century became the golden age of Hollywood song and dance films, and if this element is added, it will definitely make the film school like it, but the male and female protagonists have to work harder.