Superhero can refer to genre and typical in comic culture. In a typical example, in addition to the well-known, righteous and righteous positive heroes, there are also antiheroes (Antihero).
Anti-heroes do not necessarily have a set of concepts of good and evil that conform to social norms. They can sometimes kill people, they can know the law to break the law, they can have their own likes and dislikes, and they can act controversially under the concept of justice.
In the 1940s and 1980s, members of the Superman Batman Justice League and others were undoubtedly true heroes; under the unified camp of the publishing house, they fought Japanese ghosts, fought the Korean War, and even fought with Ali, responding to current events in a large number. Behave in line with American values (like Loki). However, after entering the 1980s, these practices have been challenged. Many people want these typical characters who are too divine and inhuman to have a new look. The tradition of multi-person editing of American comics allows creators to transform characters and make changes as much as possible under the official system.
So, Frank Miller (Frank Miller) came out. This versatile artist, who can paint and edit, has reshaped superheroes one after another and turned them into anti-heroes.
In Marvel Press, he reshaped the King Steel Wolf, making this popular second-line mutant the endorsement of the anti-war trend, and turned into the leader of the cyclops who disdain for the mutants’ united front. It was the United States who hated the Vietnam War at that time. Microphone.
More famous, is his Batman reboot at DC Press. Batman, the signature hero who started as a detective, has accumulated over the past four decades and has become a blue-clad entertainer dressed in tech outfits and playing around with a man, a woman and a dog. He is typically lifeless, and his popularity is also on the verge of death. The point of retreat. Frank drew a series: "Batman: The Black Knight Reappears". The book's Batman was unprecedented and caused a sensation, and Batman re-appeared as the leading role of DC Press, and is popular in both sales and popularity.
In the book "Batman: The Black Knight Reappearance", the Justice League has been disintegrated for many years. Bruce Wayne, who has known the fate of not wearing the Bat armor for many years, has become a paranoid, muttering to himself, distrusting the rule of law, and only superstitious of the past. The evil old man of glory and judgment. After the meeting of fate, he came out again. What he faced was no longer the offense of the criminals, but the criticism of the masked heroes by the media. It was the political environment of the Nexen administration against the Cold War, and it was also the difficulty that his physical strength was no longer rigid and ideological. He no longer rejects torturing and killing others, and he is a terrible elder who speaks badly.
This image extends all the way to the movie circle, which is Nolan's restart of the "Batman" trilogy. I don’t want to spend too much time talking about how the Nolan brothers transferred more than one volume of Frank’s original comics. For his own use, I just want to say that Nolan won the world box office championship and also gained the best commercial reputation so far. The series of superheroes is a symbol that anti-hero superheroes have gradually been accepted by the public.
Looking back on the typical development of anti-heroes to "Birdman" for comparison, you will find that this movie is not the epitome of this historical development?
Kego Keaton, the birdman, the director used this casting to directly replace the role setting he should explain in the film, allowing the audience to directly substitute the image of the 1989 Batman movie, completing the so-called lapse of the story without any effort. Actors ups and downs recorded. Michael Keaton frequently sees the hallucinations of the birdman, and the birdman wants him to go back to act in movies and regain his throne. He didn't want it, and then he shot himself and committed suicide on the stage. Fortunately, he only broke his nose.
The most obtrusive thing about "Birdman" is here.
Isn't it ridiculous? Think about it carefully, why did Michael shoot himself? A man who suddenly figured out that he wanted to be popular, but felt that he could take the road of Broadway, why did he commit suicide openly? There is no way to explain this action in the whole film. The director's desire to control the film is so strong that he uses a long lens. He also derailed at that moment and was unable to round the meter-high action. So the long shot was broken, and there was the only jump in the whole film, and a funny stage show: Spider-Man and Iron Man went on stage together, shuttled between the drummers.
From this scene, the movie "Birdman" has no humanity at all. The last scene on the next stage is just a conceptual interpretation. Some film reviews call it a dream, some call it an illusion, and some call it an open interpretation...I don't care because they are behind the same thing. What is this thing? I think this is the rise of anti-heroes.
In the final scene. When Michael Keaton woke up, he was still alive, but his face changed. He walked into the toilet, took a look in the mirror, and found that the new artificial nose was strong, just like a bird. He became a birdman. Then he turned his head, and the birdman who had been hallucinating was sitting on the toilet, silent, and had been looking at his eagle eye, but at this time there was no more righteous.
At this time, in the toilet, there are two birdmen: a birdman living in illusion, living in the past, and now living on the toilet speechless; a birdman living in reality, living in the present, and now about to enjoy success and fame.
Isn't it true? When Michael Keaton left behind the mythical hero that everyone had wanted to see, and started to be a failed husband, failed actor, failed filmmaker, and failed citizen, the fans outside the theater, that is, us, began to fall in love. His performance.
I believe everyone has noticed that there is a play in "Birdman", which is a stage play of Raymond Carver (Raymond Carver) rehearsed by several of their actors. In the play, each of the actors said their true feelings, but those feelings are things that we, who should be peeking into the private parts of these actors in front of the camera, cannot see. What we see outside the play is actually another inside play, another play that the director wants us to see, that is, the heroic story of the rise of frustrated actors.
The previous birdman was frustrated, and the ending was so windy and smooth and confused. The daughter surrendered automatically, the wife let it go, and the audience chanted it automatically. Hulk, who was originally tit-for-tat, suddenly disappeared after one-third of the film. The New York Times critics once vowed to kill him, and now they have written praises praising him...I
don’t think this is so optimistic, just Like the happy endings that Hollywood classic movies often have? Isn't this a common ending to superhero stories?
Why does the director think this birdman is worthy of supporting it with such an ending? I would say, because the director also took this film as a superhero movie to make. The hero’s weapon is not a bat (birdman) dart, but an ashtray box; the hero’s skill is not Tibetan ninjutsu, but correspondence yoga; the hero’s character is not four-pointed four-pointed, but personal and rebellious, just want to do Lu Snake, who has done good things for himself, has repeatedly failed. But this Lu She won! His paranoia has been modeled!
Remember how critics criticized Birdman? She said that the birdman represents the vulgarity of Hollywood, which makes her unbearable, so even if she does not watch the show, she will kill Michael Keaton. However, she finally praised Youjia's drama, which is the realistic tension of Migao's self-harm. Excluding whether this is in line with reality, I think this is exactly the pun that the show most agrees to see that the director plays with the audience. What are the reasons why critics hate the superhero Birdman? It is bloodthirsty. What is the reason why the critics fell in love with the stage play Birdman again? Also bloodthirsty!
This is exactly the psychology of the audience over the years. There are too many superheroes filmed, and fans are scorned and ridiculed. This is basically an invasion of commercial films and a testament to the poor film culture. However, when some directors quoted a slightly different superhero and used anti-hero typicals, shooting Batman and Birdman, they were immediately applauded. The former won the 2009 World Box Office Championship and the latter won the Oscar-nominated tickets.
Dare to ask, what's the difference between using CG post-production blood to flatter the public and using self-inflicted blood to flatter in-depth movie fans? no. Dare to ask, what is the difference between using a superhero’s positive hero to flatter the audience twenty years ago and using a superhero’s anti-hero to flatter the current audience? no.
Everything is just the difference between kitsch and Meiya.
In my opinion, this is exactly the interpretation of "Birdman" when placed in the superhero wave.
Is this film an anti-superhero or a super anti-hero? Compared with the text of Raymond Carver's play code around the play, this context should be more and more like the meaning and deconstruction that the film should have.
Or, in fact, not many people care, this film must use superheroes as the background painstakingly? Do you think it doesn't matter what themes are as long as you set off the background of the famous actors?
It's good to dare, instead of looking for Michael Keaton next time, let Mel Gibson be the protagonist instead. We can watch a play, watch Mel wake up from a hangover in the trash early in the morning and find a king in plain clothes standing in front of him, wow, it is Hamlet, or the old rough version of Hamlet interpreted by Mel in the 90s! Seeing Lapa Mel and Hammet talking to themselves on the streets of Broadway, how meaningful and symbolic they seem, I can imagine any literary youth who would write this scene as a contemporary degenerate image of Shakespeare’s play. Analyze the text. Maybe, this literary youth barely understands a little bit. He will take "Thor" as an example to illustrate the changes of this superhero influenced by Shakespeare's drama. After the explanation, add a sentence: "Yes, you can still watch it." La, but I feel that superhero movies are not serious enough to be elegant."
I bother.
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