Abstract: "Batman v Superman" has a very deep portrayal of the hearts of the two protagonists. The extreme Bruce Wayne is not really Batman, and the confused Clark Kent is almost no longer Superman. The conflict between the two is caused by deep inner beliefs. Batman and Superman save each other. Some comments on aesthetics, business, and Luther, Wonder Woman.
Key words: superhero comics, aesthetics, literature, psychological description, DC
It has been half a year since the release of "Batman v Superman: Justice League" (hereinafter referred to as BVS). Now that I look back, how do you evaluate this film?
A failed commercial film, a touching artistic film.
Art films, or literary films, some explore philosophy, which can be profound; some praise faith, which can be poetic; and some analyze psychology, which are often touching. For example, in the novel "Crime and Punishment", Dostoevsky made a detailed description of Raskolnikov's (the protagonist)'s psychology after the murder, showing the various contradictions in his soul. Lu Xun called him "the great interrogator of the human soul". Another example is the TV series "Breaking Bad". In order to leave enough wealth for his family before his death, Walter White entered the drug industry from a kind and conservative chemistry teacher, and finally became a big poisoner step by step. Jesse Pinkman was an ordinary young man in society, but he was forced to make various decisions that exceeded his moral bottom line along the way. The screenwriters arranged to interrogate the characters and show their changes. This drama has been ranked first on the IMDb list for a long time ("A Song of Ice and Fire" ranked second), because of the profound presentation of the characters' inner changes, this soap opera has risen to the artistic level.
BVS, is such a kind of art film.
At first, after watching the theatrical version, in addition to being a DC fan for many years and being excited by the restoration of various pictures, I, like most audiences, complained about the various unreasonableness of the plot and the tediousness of the story. But when you replay the BVS "Director's Cut" a few times (the version released in theaters cuts a total of more than 20 minutes of clips from the original version, some of which are even key plots. The "Director's Cut" released in Blu-ray form is original), the resentment dissipated. However, "to say that the plot is unreasonable is because I can't understand it", such a radical defense of the Tao is still biased. It should be said that if you are too entangled in the loopholes in the plot, it is better to grasp the main line of thought that the author wants to express.
So BVS, what is the main line the author wants to show?
It is the spiritual growth of Superman and Batman. Everyone pays attention to the war, but forgets the other half of the movie's name - Dawn of Justice. The protagonists in this movie are not the real Batman and Superman that we are familiar with. But in the conflict, Bruce Wayne finally became Batman, and Clark Kent finally guarded Superman. That's why, coming out of the movie theater with a superhero-seeking mentality, the audience complains that this Batman is so capricious and this Superman is so lost.
Batman and Superman are two super IPs, probably all the boys who grew up in Western culture don't know them (I can't guarantee that girls read comics). They are the core characters of the Justice League heroes under the DC company, one of the two giants in the American comics industry. One is the dark knight and the other is the incarnation of light. A wise and close to a demon, a powerful and close to God. Together, they are the world's finest:
In BVS, however, everything goes back to where it was before. 1. The story of
Batman's main line is that Bruce Wayne goes from violent to rational.
The movie begins with two classic stories: Crime Alley (the scene of Bruce Wayne's tragic death of his parents that completely changed him and destined him to become Batman) is a classic story that makes him such a comic book fan. "idiom") and little Bruce falls into the bat cave. But why? Isn't Batman's childhood story well known? Especially after the Nolan version of the Batman trilogy.
The reason to start again from the origin is to tell the audience that the Batman setting in this movie is completely independent from other comics and movie worlds, and it is a Bruce that is different from the past. This Bruce, he was restless, he was anxious. When he met Superman, he worried about the fate of mankind, he was angry, he was afraid. And Bruce's psychology shown in the whole film originated from this criminal alley.
Embarrassingly, the early death of parents seems to have become the standard configuration of superheroes, and it has become a convenient means for the author to show the extraordinary encounters and tough hearts of the heroes - what can affect a person's heart more than the departure of a loved one? But Batman's story is still unique. It goes without saying that childhood experiences left a lifelong imprint on his heart. Even Nolan's version of the trilogy is very clear - crime alleys and bat caves make him hate evil, make him always watch out for people's hearts, force him to fall into fear, and finally overcome his fear. In other comics, this standard configuration is just an obstacle to overcome in the rise of the hero, just a piece of inner turmoil in a plot of euphoria. And the story of Batman can never get rid of the pearls scattered by Martha Wayne in the alley, and the eyes of Thomas Wayne and En's falling to the ground.
Here's a quote from "The Dark Knight Returns" (published in 1986. This book is recognized as a classic of modern comics and one of the most influential comic stories):
Butler Fu recalled: Master Bruce was only nine years old at that time. He couldn't sleep at night, but he still sat politely on the bed and listened to Ah Fu's story. The Stolen Letter, yes, that is the story. He listened to the whole story in silence, and then he said firmly (his terrifying solemnity, his dark eyes twinkling)...Master Bruce asked...no, he demanded..."The killer was finally caught and got deserved punishment." Ah Fu assured him that the wicked were finally punished by justice. Bruce just fell asleep, as a child should be.
Due to commercial reasons, Meiman often changes screenwriters and painters, which also makes the comic stories continue to restart and become independent before and after. The authors call it parallel worlds—similar characters, similar stories, but different. This also makes Batman born in 1939, under the pen of new authors, still often unable to get rid of the psychological shadow left by the criminal alley.
He's dark, he's cold, he's withdrawn, he's unscrupulous. In the BVS movie, he's not the finished Batman.
So you can read it. At the beginning of the BVS movie, Bruce promises to rescue the little girl's mother, only to find that the building is completely destroyed. He could only take her into his arms, staring angrily at Superman in the distance. Anxiety, worry, anger, all overflowing from his eyes.
In the next shot, a wide-angle shot from above, Bruce is holding the little girl, gradually getting smaller in the frame.
Compared with the superman in the distance, human beings are so insignificant and weak. This realization must have been mixed in Bruce's complicated first impression of Superman.
Bruce is just a mortal. Various heroes in the Justice League have become superhuman and close to God, and people call them Gods Among Us, the gods among men. Superman's bench press training uses the weight of an earth, the Artifact Woman is Zeus' daughter, Green Lantern can visualize anything imaginable by relying on the lamp ring, Flash is fast enough to travel through time and space, and Aquaman rules the entire Atlanta. Ties, Cyborg has all kinds of high-tech hanging. And Batman is mortal, not even the serum enhancement of Captain America next door. With his extraordinary mind and strategy alone, he was at the core of the alliance, but he never forgot his insignificance as an ordinary human being, and even carefully guarded against his comrades. In his computer, there was a set of plans for subduing the heroes of the alliance. This plan was stolen by the villains, and it really almost turned the whole alliance over.
This is more Western. Lord Acton said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. People, especially America's founding fathers and system architects, are constantly wary of power. They declared that they wanted to lock power in the cage of the system, and designed an exquisite system of separation of powers to check and balance the powers, and never allow one pole to dominate. Because, "a government strong enough to give you everything is also strong enough to take everything from you". "'Power can be innocent' is the biggest lie circulating in the United States (although many Americans online complain that they have never heard this sentence)", which is what the neurotic Luthor in BVS said. In DC's comics, big government has become a superpower, which contains this legal and political metaphor.
So, aside from Darkness and Shadows, another point to understand the Batman line in this movie is Bruce's concern as a normal person about the potential threat of psychic beings.
Along the main line of Batman, the next story after the origin is introduced, which is Gotham City and Batman from the perspective of two little policemen (this is a reproduction of a classic fragment in the comics, so the fans collectively climax, And audiences who haven't read the comics have a black question mark on their faces. But it's not important, no knowledge of the original book does not affect the appreciation of the film's theme).
Gotham kicked off a brawl in the Mets vs Gotham football game. A Ye Zhiqiu is the epitome of the violent winds of Gotham City. The city is drenched in darkness, with endless rains and endless crimes to clean up.
It is not difficult for us to guess, from the little Bruce in the previous paragraph, to the horror incarnation Batman encountered by the two policemen, what happened in the middle of many years. This is the dark night that Bruce walked all the way with the psychological shadow of his childhood and his belief in fighting criminals. This paragraph is left blank, reminiscent of "Historical Records: Xiang Yu's Chronicle". From "his father Xiang Liang, the father of Liang, Xiang Yan, the general of Chu, who was killed by the general Wang Jian of Qin", the country was destroyed and the family fell to "the beginning of the year, twenty-four years", there are no historical pens in the middle, but In front of people's eyes appeared the child holding his uncle's hand and walking down a long dark path. It's just a proper detail, but the taste behind it makes people shudder.
In fact (in terms of comics), it does. Bruce wouldn't allow the Crime Alley tragedy to be repeated in any form. But at the beginning, when he saw injustice, he shot, but he was frustrated. He pondered, finding his way. Just then, a bat broke through the window:
I have seen it. It was my long-term dream. Yes, I'm going to be a bat. I overcome my fear, but more than that, I will ride it. I will be a nightmare for all criminals!
In the comics, Bruce has since become a superhero with no weaknesses. But that's none of our business - Bruce in the movie isn't like that. This Bruce is even more violent, the criminal branded as a bat is equivalent to a death sentence, but he doesn't seem to have mercy; what's more, this Bruce actually kills! You know, Batman's first iron law is not to use guns, not to kill people. In other words, the entire Batman kills enough The Joker to laugh to death more than ten times. Although it can be explained as a visual effect of the movie, and there is no scene where Batman kills directly, but Bruce's radicalism in this movie is evident. He's not the level-headed, righteous and unselfish Batman we think of him. He was even more emotional, and was pushed to the extreme by Luthor.
But once the line of violence is touched or even crossed—killing—where is the line between vigilantes and vicious criminals? Both are themselves outside the law - criminals disregard the law for personal gain, while Batman fights crime outside the law. One uses violence for personal gain, and the other uses violence to suppress violence, but under the spirit of the rule of law, both are violent.
Bruce himself knew, "We are criminals". But he had good reason to believe that he could maintain a just and clear head. In the main world of comics, he does have the capital of self-confidence and the qualifications to question other heroes, but Superman doesn't believe it. From the reader's point of view, we naturally fully believe that heroes can always defend justice. But under real circumstances, can we allow anyone to do whatever they want outside the law? Superman thinks, can't.
2. The main line of Superman
This story is about Clark Kent's stubborn and difficult insistence on being a good person.
As an ordinary person, Da Chao, whose name is Clark Kent, is a simple country boy who grew up in a small rural town until he graduated from high school. A continuation of the 2013 Superman: Man of Steel movie. As an obedient young man, after understanding his own alien life, he was forced to show up to fight another gang of aliens. This war left a pile of ruins for the Metropolis, which is also described in the beginning of BVS. Throwing aside Superman to show up in the desert to save his girlfriend, the first act of the ordinary Clark's appearance introduces us to his setting, even if you haven't seen Man of Steel or Superman comics: different from the classic impression - a With a sunny face, high-spiritedness, a three-good student, and an activist temperament - this Clark, under the frame, is a little lost and a little melancholy (probably the setting of the comic Earth One). And, this confusion is amplified in BVS.
Superman just ran to save his girlfriend, but unexpectedly fell into the circle that Luthor set up to frame him, and got into trouble - it was thought that Superman killed the villagers. Clark said he didn't care. But does he really care? Louise knew him best, and she sighed wistfully, "I don't know if it's possible to be yourself while loving me."
This sentence hits the psychological contradiction in the line of Superman. Love Louis, of course, refers to Da Chao's private side, Clark Kent's side. Be yourself, what do you mean? Later, Superman made it clear, "I've always lived by my father's mind, feeling that I'm here to do good."
He just wanted to be a good person.
Although superhuman, he is just a simple peasant at heart. Coming to the city after the Metropolitan War, into the social world, he wanted to "correct his father's mistakes". The adoptive father once persuaded Clark not to reveal his superpowers because it would make humans feel uneasy and terrified (in BVS, it turned out to be the case). Clark eventually decided that this was wrong and that he should use his superpowers to do good. So, as Superman's biological father, Joel, said, "He will become their (human) god".
The Met erected a giant statue of him, crowds outside the fire scrambled to kneel and touch him, and refugees in the flood painted a giant Superman logo on the roof. Naturally, there will be concerns, writers worry that he has no moral ties, parliamentarians worry that he ignores international law. And Batman, who has fought against various perverted criminals (represented by the Joker and Two-faced Man) for decades, deeply realizes that as long as Superman wants to cross the line, no one can stop him (in fact, in "The Joker" In the "Injustice" series, Superman did establish a centralized government, which is the part of Batman's desert dream in BVS). That would be a threat to all of humanity. And there is no way that Batman would allow such a threat to exist, he would have to act.
Luthor went the most. He designed to make the world mistakenly believe that Superman killed the villagers, and he used Wallace to set off a public crusade against Superman.
Confused and lost, Superman called his adoptive mother late at night and asked him why he had never left Kansas in his life. The mother explained that it was just that she had no interest in traveling. He responds gloomily, I just wish it was more simple, wishing things were simpler than they seem. But to a budding rural boy, how complicated the bustling world is. Amid the skepticism from the whole society, Superman also doubted himself.
Then, Luthor hides a bomb under Wallace's wheelchair (in the original version it was clear that Wallace didn't know about it, but the episode was cut), stirring up public opinion by sacrificing everyone present. Everyone questioned, including Superman himself, who blamed himself. Why didn't Superman see the hidden bomb? (This is because the box is plated with lead, and Superman's see-through ability cannot penetrate lead. This episode was also cut)
He just wanted to be a good person, but the world has placed the expectations of God on him, can he satisfy it? With great power comes great responsibility. The lying female witness said on TV provocatively: "I want to look him (Superman) in the eyes and ask him, how to determine which lives are valuable and which are not?" This is exactly what Louise was worried about. "Is it possible, while loving me, yourself?". Superman failed to do things well again and again, and he was deeply remorseful and even desperate. He then said, "Superman doesn't exist, it's just a Kansas farmer's dream."
He just wants to be a good person, but it is difficult to settle down in a sinister world. He couldn't keep himself.
So he had to start "wandering". Hollywood directors seem to especially like to let the lost protagonist go around the snowy mountains and do meditation. So this Superman did not go to his base Solitude Fortress (solitude fortress), but turned into a donkey and climbed the snowy mountain. He "sees" his adoptive father. Father told a story: He had been busy protecting the farm all night, but unexpectedly led the flood to the neighbor's house. This is also trying to do one thing, but bringing bad results to others. The father got rid of the nightmare of self-blame because of love. The family relationship here is inexplicable, and it can even be said to be a failure to analyze the main line of the whole film. But at least we can understand that Superman relaxes his mood by walking and traveling, and through his own heart, he continues to strengthen his belief in being a good person.
But I prefer to understand it this way: Clark's complete redemption is his own redemption after he saves Batman.
3. Batman and Superman: Two lines are intertwined
. Superman insists on kindness in the light, while Batman defends justice in the dark. Batman sees Superman as a hidden danger, and Superman sees Batman as a trouble.
Clark came to Gotham City in search of a female witness who had perjured and framed Superman, but found darkness shrouded in the city. He learned step by step the vigilant's extravagant behavior, and the police were even helping him. His first solution was not to use superhuman strength, but to use his identity as a reporter to expose and criticize it. That's because Clark is a nice and well-behaved guy after all. However, Perry, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, disagreed, calling Clark a Smallville town bastard and asking Clark to seriously report the game. Smallville is the name of the village where Clark lives, a pun here, and it means that Clark is too old-fashioned as a reporter to follow social hot spots. Perry said that the American consciousness (political and legal aspects) is dead, the social hotspot is the football game and so on, who cares about Clark Kent calling Batman? Although a little far-fetched here, there is also a certain degree of criticism, which reminds people of Bourdieu and Neil Postman. When editors designate articles, Clark says, they're deciding what's more important. The media has a strong public discourse power, but their goal is not the benign development of society, but their own profit. People watch the news the media gives, and the media gives it what it thinks people want to see. Society rolls to the point of entertainment to death, reluctant to give up day and night. Of course, the Superman story criticizes the media, which is off-topic and not expanded. In short, the editor-in-chief did not let Clark report the matter, and this blocked Clark's solution to Batman, leaving only the possibility of a conflict between Superman and Batman.
There's another person to further the conflict: the Metropolitan Library's nonprofit campaign, which specifies that Clark is invited to report. And this event is organized by Luthor, he also invited another person - Bruce Wayne.
Before attending the meeting, there was another psychological description of Bruce: he stared at the bat suit with anger, indifference, sadness, or both?
But it can be seen that he is recalling a lot of past events. The easter egg in the next scene introduces:
He looked at a suit that said "Hahaha, Batman, you're a joke". Anyone who has heard Joker a little will know that this is probably the Joker's insult to Batman. This is the suit of the second Robin (Batman's assistant, adopted son) Jason. In the comics, the Joker beats Jason and locks him in a house with a time bomb. He was tortured by the craziest clowns, smashed to bones with a crowbar, bruised all over, and finally blown up alive. Batman followed but witnessed the moment of the explosion, only to recover Jason's body from the rubble.
Batman kept Jason's uniform in the Batcave and long blamed himself for the incident. This is a heartbroken and angry old father. But it doesn't matter if you don't know the story of the comics, because the next show of Bruce taking a gloomy bath, pulling the cover of the sports car, plus the heavy BGM, can still make people feel his grief and anger, and his determination to "reappear". The deep meaning behind the details of opening the cover of the sports car is that the dark symbol of Batman has occupied too much of Bruce, and his Bruce identity as a rich and ordinary person is about to be abandoned. That is to say, anger and violence have occupied his heart for many years, and the gentle side has been squeezed to the depths.
Then they meet. Clark Kent meets Bruce Wayne! The two began to quarrel, and in fact, they had a profound discussion. Clark questioned that Gotham's civil liberties had been trampled on, and Batman made good people live in fear. He criticized Batman for thinking he was above the law. Bruce fired back, and the Metropolis reporter said it was hypocritical for others to trample the law - because their worship of Superman bordered on religion. And Superman wants to do anything that transcends the law, and no one can stop him.
The contradiction between the two was further intensified when one blocked his way, one was designed to meet, and one conceptual conflict. Batman chased the car with heavy fire, and finally ignited the first contradiction. With one block and one tear, Superman solved the Batmobile, but he still warned Batman in a measured way not to continue to be a vigilante. At this time, Batman's heart may not be able to leave an inch of fear, and there is only anger in his body. "Tell me. Do you bleed?" He asked angrily and in a low voice. Tell me, do you bleed too? Superman doesn't bleed. But Batman savagely answered himself, you will! Why? Because this is Batman's yet another direct glimpse of Superman's abilities. It reminded him again that Superman is no less of a threat than any nuclear weapon, and that a thinking man has more destabilizing factors than a nuclear bomb. Do you also bleed? you will not. He is from aliens, he is not a human being, he will never understand human beings and think what human beings think. Then it cannot be believed that he will definitely accept the bondage of human beings. He can't be trusted, after all, he doesn't bleed. Therefore, he must be removed, and he must bleed.
Although it seems that the subsequent battle was designed and arranged by Luthor, in fact, from the perspective of the difference in concept between the two and the radicalness of Batman, there must be a battle. According to Marx, it should be noted that internal and therefore not external causes become the determining factor.
Luthor pushed again. He forged various red letters on Wallace's checks to provoke Bruce: "Open your eyes!" "I'm your ghost!" "Never stop fighting!" "I won't let you go!" But Bruce had never seen that. Logically, the company should have submitted it to him. Apparently, it was Lothor who was behind the scenes and didn't let him see it until this moment. Then there was a congressional explosion, when Bruce opened the last newspaper and it said "You let your family die", you killed your family. Make it recall the title, friend Jack died because of the Superman battle. With no more room to endure, Bruce was completely furious, grabbed kryptonite, and prepared for a decisive battle.
Everything is as Afu said:
A mixture of frenzy, anger, and a sense of powerlessness burns, turning an otherwise slightly radical Batman into a brutal one. Not murderous, but he must get rid of Superman.
But he is fighting for his unshakable belief. Even if he knew that fighting Superman with his own mortal body was tantamount to suicide. So this decision is also full of tragic. In front of his parents' tomb, Bruce told Alfred that he was bigger now than when his father died, that is, he would not hesitate to die. He said that a superman of steel is not brave, but a mortal human being can be brave. Perhaps it was the only meaningful thing he could do, he thought. Fighting criminals for 20 years is nothing compared to that, because it is about the safety of all mankind.
This is my legacy, just treat it as the legacy I leave to the world. They recalled the rise and fall of the Wayne family, because they both knew that, if nothing else - Alfred said, looking at Bruce's receding back - the Wayne family was gone. The wind is shaky and the water is cold, and once the strong man goes, he will never return! We knew before the movie that no one dies, but in this moment, we truly believe that Batman is determined to kill Superman at all costs. This deep variation and contradictory conflict all complement the heavy picture and pathetic music. What a touching art this is! The contradiction between two reasonable but unreasonable is a tragedy that touches people's hearts - from the perspective of both parties, they can see their own moving, both sides have their own beliefs and their own reasons. Two good people, but inevitably there will be a battle.
Then Batman turns on the heroic bat light. Then Luthor sent Superman. Superman was just forced to meet Batman, he didn't mean to fight, he was a good guy. Batman is also a good guy, must get rid of this threat. It's different from the old-fashioned "listen to my explanation!" and the other party just doesn't listen. Batman has to race against the clock - is there really not much fear in fighting God of War with a mortal body? Superman is also angered by Batman's various organs, and the war is about to break out.
Then comes the climax of the whole film.
As Batman raised his spear for the final stab, Superman called out Martha's name. The coincidence that happened 80 years ago - the mothers of two comic characters who will be famous all over the world, were given the same name by the two authors - finally brought up by the director today. It's the only word that makes Batman stop when every second counts. At this moment the whole world fell into silence:
The mother has the same name, spare your life. Simple as that? Absolutely not.
Those brief seconds of silence seemed like a lifetime in the battle. Bruce heard Martha, what did he see?
He saw his dead mother. Undoubtedly, I think of my loving mother before I was eight years old, and I think of the criminal alley. He must have seen the pearls scattered all over the floor, the look in his mother's eyes after she fell to the ground. This is the most vulnerable place in his heart. For forty years, he has fought criminals and will not allow any repetition of the crime alley. He conquered fear, mastered fear, and stayed in the dark, trying to escape the shadow of the alley. However, at this moment, he returned to the alley again.
He saw Bruce, who was often restless at the age of eight. He looked around in horror. That Bruce, crying helplessly at his parents' graves. That Bruce, watching his parents get killed, stayed up all night. That Bruce, fell into a deep well, surrounded by terrifying bats, with nowhere to run. At that moment, Bruce returned to his 8-year-old self.
He asked hysterically "Why did you say that name! Why did you say that name!".
He saw another self. The man under the spear turned out to be Martha's son. He will kill this Martha's son because he suspects he doesn't understand humans and is a threat to humans. But at this moment, he actually read his adoptive mother's name at the last moment. Only then did Batman know that he was also an ordinary person. He had an alien body but grew up on Earth. He is also an ordinary person who pursues the light and insists on being kind. It turns out that our mothers have the same name, it turns out that we have the same humanity.
And now, are you going to kill this son who is also Martha? Do not. The spear and spear will kill a kind and human Clark Kent, and will also bury the kind Bruce Wayne in his heart.
The doubts about him at the beginning, the unease and anger toward him were all relieved at this time.
He shouted and dropped the spear far away. He also threw away his doubts about Superman, his hatred, his fanaticism, his anger, his unease caused by his doubts. He regained his sanity.
In this way, the Dark Knight is redeemed.
As one tweet put it, the boy got it:
Nephew: "Superman saved Batman." Me: "Of course, when Superman beat Doom, he saved the world." Nephew: "No, yes He made Batman good again."
At this moment, the real Batman is done.
Superman finally saves a man who was furiously walking towards killing, bringing it back from the precipice. He is finally convinced that his existence is meaningful and that he can make people do good. He also accomplished self-redemption.
At this moment, the real Superman also returned.
Re-believe in the good-natured Superman and in Batman's promise to rescue Martha. Throwing aside the hated Batman, told Martha that he was a friend of her son.
At this moment, the strongest partner in the world has also completed.
This is the dawn of justice.
Fourth, some other
aesthetics
can not help but want to say a few words about aesthetics. Aesthetic value is different from practical value. For example, when a poet sees a willow and recites "The spring breeze in February is like scissors", a carpenter considers how much the wood is worth. The two are clearly separate and distinct. However, our readers and audiences often look at aesthetic works with practical value, which leads to misunderstanding. For example, some people consider the dream of Red Mansions with the scale of practical value, and they will say that Lin Daiyu is not as cute as Xue Baochai. Truth, goodness and beauty do not go together in aesthetics. Real is not necessarily beautiful, fake is not necessarily ugly. For example, Peking Opera "Two or three steps, thousands of mountains and rivers, five or six people, thousands of troops and horses", the freehand brushwork of landscape painting, etc. Therefore, when we appreciate art, the most important thing is to appreciate its spirit. What is the purpose of art? In my opinion, it is to promote vitality and praise vitality. As Romain Rolland said, "Where death is, there is no art". This theme is manifested, one of which is to show the rich inner heart of the characters.
Did BVS do it? It appears to be done. Therefore, if we want to appreciate what the author of the film wants to show, we should focus on the inner feelings of the protagonist to appreciate it. However, drama is different from highly abstract poetry after all, and commercial films are not ordinary dramas, and the aesthetics of the main line cannot be an excuse for some small loopholes in the plot. It's just that the audience can tolerate that the plot arranged by the director and screenwriter will inevitably have loopholes in front of millions of audiences, but the producer still cannot shirk its responsibility lightly.
The failure of the commercial
film is probably because too many easter eggs are stuffed, making the main line not obvious enough. To make matters worse, they cut out some of the original plot.
Now comic book fans are sweating for DC - there is a direct reason, the failure of the Green Lantern movie in 2011 caused Warners to postpone the entire Justice League movie plan, and Green Lantern directly pushed it to 2020. The DC movies are now starting to catch up, so they're a little impatient, stuffing an otherwise good movie very full. The easter egg actually squeezed out the main plot. It is very exciting for the fans, but not very friendly to the wider audience.
Comics are not exclusive to children, and comics can also be very profound. For example, DC's "Watchmen" won the Hugo Award. Back then they were not just pictures, but "graphic novels". DC should also stick to a basic line from Nolan to Zach, that is, the movies they make are not the same type of "superhero movies" that fully compete with Marvel, but a unique "comic movie". I really hope DC can overcome the anxiety and make good movies honestly. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't see the next movie again.
Luthor
people say that Marvel looks at superheroes and DC looks at supervillains. It's not that DC superheroes aren't good-looking, but DC's villains are just amazing. Recently, there are clowns, two-faced people, Harley Quinn, Luthor and so on. "Suicide Squad", which failed to be released in the mainland, is a story with a villain as the protagonist. These villains really have personalities, and the company even creates comics with them as the protagonists.
The Luthor in this movie is very different from the traditional character in the comics. Luthor in the comics is bald, taciturn, and full of domineering. And the Jesse Eisenberg version of Luthor in the movie became very talkative and a little crazy. It feels as if it's a clown imitating Heath Ledger. But if you appreciate it seriously, you will know the difference. Heath Ledger's Joker is almost insane because he advocates criminal art and hopes to challenge the system without bottom line. And Jesse Eisenberg's Luthor, is to highlight and magnify Luthor's arrogance, probably hoping to show a self-righteous genius image, so he went crazy.
As mentioned above, Luthor and Batman have the same starting point. They both believe that Superman is a great threat to mankind and are wary of totalitarianism. Luthor's father was born in East Germany, and he grew up eating spoiled biscuits. But every other Saturday, he had to go to a parade, waving flowers at the tyrant. So Luthor was wary of Superman, to the point of abhorrence, because he wouldn't allow the day to come again when his offspring waved daisies under the reviewing stand.
However, the two parted ways in practice. Luthor's starting point is reasonable, but he is willing to sacrifice a lot to discredit Superman. The logic here is not clear. Did what he worried about happen, or did he create what he worried about? Maybe Zha Dao didn't like this villain very much, and in the end he didn't arrange his logic to be as brilliant as the clown in TDK.
wonder woman
When news broke that Gal Gadot would be cast as Wonder Woman, doubts arose. Although she has a good performance in "Fast and Furious", her flat figure is quite different from the traditional Wonder Woman image. But when it came out, the skeptical cartoon crowd instantly became kneeling fans. Gal Gadot really showed the graceful and brave Princess Diana incisively and vividly in every minute.
Especially during the battle, after she fell to the ground, she shook her hair and smiled evilly:
As the daughter of Zeus, Wonder Woman from the fighting nation Amazon is very belligerent, so she is rather happy when she encounters a strong enemy. This little detail is wonderful.
Yo! There are two times, let's see if the old lady won't let you die!
It looks like the next Wonder Woman standalone movie will be a hit.
BGM and picture quality
ignore the chaotic plot, and the appreciation of entertainment lies in BGM and pictures. These two points are very good as a commercial film, and the BGM is just right every time, fanning the flames. For example, the background music Is She With You when Wonder Woman Battle Armor appeared, coupled with the stunning appearance, the whole movie theater was set on fire. And the picture of this film is also very good, all kinds of fights are full of sensuality, and the clips of Batman Speed are also very exciting. Because the director Zack Snyder used to learn oil painting, the film pictures he produced are very beautiful.
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The Justice League Seven have been with me through many happy times, and they have given me strength when I, this insignificant little guy, was in the dark and fearful. Therefore, I wrote this article to share my interpretation of this film with you. If you like it, welcome to share it with more friends.
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