Today we will talk about the movie "Batman: The Long Halloween".
The title is Batman: The Long Halloween (2021).
The animated film "Batman: The Long Halloween" is adapted from Batman's most prestigious comic "The Long Halloween".
The fledgling Batman, the new police chief James Gordon, and the new local inspector Harvey Dent formed a team to hunt down the Romans who brought down the notorious Falcone crime family. At the same time, a holiday killer suddenly appeared on the scene. The holiday killer killed several relatives and subordinates of Romans every holiday, but his identity has never been known. Batman, Gordon, and Harvey have to find out who the holiday killer is.
DC Comics is short for "Detective Comics". There are many detective novels in early comics.
"Long Halloween" is one of the most famous comic stories in the early days of DC. Among the 100 best American comic stories in the history of the foreign media CBR, DC scored 42 seats, of which the top ten won seven seats, and "Long Halloween" (1-3) ranked eighth.
The story in "Long Halloween" is very classic, and readers and viewers can see the changes in the views of Batman, Gordon, Harvey and others on law and justice.
According to reports, Robert Pattinson's new version of the "Batman" movie is also based on the classic comic book "Long Halloween". It can be seen that this story is so charming, and Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy also borrowed from this story in many ways.
In the "Long Halloween" and Nolan version of the movie, the gangsters want to launder money, and the Audio-Technica wants to prevent the gangsters from laundering money; the large amount of cash hidden by the gangsters has been burned; Batman and Gordon carried out disguise to lure the villains to take action; ha The process of turning Wei into a double-faced person remains the same.
The original comics are large, and after being adapted into a movie, a regular movie can’t take a complete story. So "Batman: Long Halloween" is divided into two movies and released.
The first part will be screened on June 22, 2021, and the second part will be screened on July 27, 2021, one month apart. The two movies divided into the upper and lower parts are actually one movie, so I wrote them together here.
The first part received a PG-13 rating from the American Motion Picture Association, and the second part received an R rating for "some violent and bloody pictures".
This also became the fifth Batman R-rated animated film. The first four are "Batman: The Fatal Joke", "Batman: Gotham Under the Gas Lamp", "Batman: The Death of the Family" and "Batman: Dragon Soul".
In the story, Batman has not yet become a man in the dark, he is just a new hero who has just made his debut and devoted himself to combating illegal and criminal activities, and Harvey Dante has not yet become a double-faced man.
Batman, Gordon, and Harvey are still the original Gotham Triangle. Batman is responsible for arresting prisoners, Gordon is responsible for arresting, and Harvey is responsible for prosecuting.
They also believe that through their own efforts, Gotham City can become orderly and the evil in front of them can be wiped out.
In fact, their idealistic approach is just wishful thinking, and procedural justice cannot bring justice to results.
They caught more and more prisoners, and the prison became more and more full. As a result, the city was still chaotic. The real big bosses could dodge legal sanctions openly, and the prisoners were spawned into even more powerful super villains.
The Romans-led criminal group rampaged Gotham and no one could control it. The Audio-Technica wanted to take down the Romans and prove that Gotham could be saved.
The holiday killers who are contrary to the iron triangle idea directly acted and hunted down the relatives of the Romans in various festivals.
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fool’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, National Day, Romans’ Birthday, Labor’s Day, and the second year of Halloween, all of these festivals have been holiday killers Treat it as judgment day.
The holiday killer used serial murders to prove the justice of his results, but ignored the procedural justice.
Gotham also did not change for the better. The gang godfather's growing weakness created a power vacuum, and power did not like a vacuum. The various villains took the opportunity to start troubles, and Gotham became even darker.
Batman needs to find out who the holiday killer is in this context.
The animated film has partially adapted the original comics, and most of the adaptations are for the needs of film audition effects. It also gives the story a trace of detective elements on the basis of discussing procedural justice and justice.
In the comic story, Alberto Falcone is revealed as a holiday killer.
He admitted to his father that his new reputation as a holiday killer made him surpass all previous gangsters. He also told his father that the days of mob control of Gotham are over, and from now on, "freaks" like him will be The man who controls the destiny of the city.
In addition, Gilda Dent claimed that she was “a holiday killer” because she wanted to end Falcone’s control of Gotham City and reduce her husband’s workload so they could have time together.
She very much suspected that Alberto was lying, but said that Harvey started the killing on New Year's Eve, and they ended up working together and sharing secrets together. Of course, she also likes to make Alberto their scapegoat. Gilda also firmly believes that Harvey is not really crazy, but can be cured. She said that she still believes in Harvey.
In the film, Gilda confesses to Batman that she is a holiday killer because she wants to avenge the Romans. Because the Romans destroyed their first marriage with his son Alberto, forced her to have an abortion and ruined her life. She married Harvey because she knew that Harvey could effectively fight the Romans.
In the comics, the Riddler was born from this series of assassinations. After the April Fool's Day assassination, the Riddler was born.
In the comics, the riddler did not die, but survived to become the riddler, and there was a pun on April Fool's Day.
But this possibility is ruled out in the film. Maybe everyone knows the story of "Riddler Get Out of Gotham City".
There are three scratches on the right cheek of the Romans.
This is from "Batman: Year One" (Batman: Year One). In this story, Selena put on Catwoman's clothes for the first time and scratched Falcone's face.
When Alberto Falcone tried to kiss Selena Kyle, Selena said "No, we can't do this..."
Selena said this because she thought she was Falcone's illegitimate daughter, and she went to Italy to investigate the matter after this comic.
In this story, Selena also showed acts of retaliating against Falcone, such as burning his black money and monitoring his conversations.
The first ending film pays tribute to Catwoman’s soundtrack actor Naya Rivera (Naya Rivera), who accidentally drowned in 2020.
This film also became the last film that Naya Rivera participated in.
In the second part of the credits, the Flash and Arrow appeared.
Seeing these two people's mean expressions, you know that there must be nothing good.
On the whole, the adaptation of the animated film was relatively successful this time. The various elements of Batman's early intervention in the Gotham quagmire have been reflected, allowing the audience to understand the mental processes of these main characters.
The practical significance is to let people once again be disappointed with both procedural justice and result justice. The procedural justice will become a legal way for the powerful to get rid of crime, and justice will become an excuse for indiscriminate killing of innocents. In sunny Gotham City, the sun may never rise again.
The fledgling Batman,
Go back to Gotham City.
This is the distribution center for hardcore movie fans, welcome to pay attention to the official account: Miaokan Film and Television
View more about Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One reviews
