Since the beginning of the new century, the most popular and lucrative genre films in Hollywood are none other than superhero movies. Although DC's qualifications are higher than that of Marvel, it is Spider-Man, X-Men, Blade Warriors and other Marvel heroes who lead this "superhero" trend. ", until the release of "Avengers", which officially announced Marvel's complete victory over DC in terms of business operations. Even though Nolan's "Dark Knight Trilogy" can be regarded as a model of the combination of business and art, it is difficult to support after all, especially the "Green Lantern" and "Superman Returns" that were made with great efforts. Superman: Man of Steel was also not a success.
DC's superheroes have always been famous for going it alone. Most of their adaptations use extreme heroism as a selling point. Whether Superman or Batman is the master of his own way. But maybe it's because they're tired of seeing the hero go it alone, or because the audience's aesthetic has changed. Compared with the "single-handed meeting" and "seven in and seven out" of superheroes, today's people are more willing to see them form a group to fight monsters, so they With the great success of "Avengers". It's interesting to say that Stan Lee came up with "Reunion" just like DC's "Justice League". Now DC and Warner are watching Marvel use the drama of heroes to make a lot of money. Naturally yearning for it, the marketing strategy has to be adjusted. As the spearhead of the "Justice League", "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" came out at the right time.
However, the word of mouth this long-awaited film has received has become polarized, with applauding senior comic fans and ordinary fans who complain. There are two reasons for this to happen. First, DC's superhero movies are not enough, it is not like Marvel's step-by-step preheating and laying of the foundation for each movie, which is a bit crammed; second, director Zack Snyder, as a senior otaku, hopes as much as possible. The plot and comic stalks were packed into the ground, but the film was limited by the length of the film, so I had no choice but to chop off many details with a knife. Adding the above two points together, the huge amount of information is difficult to be fully developed in a limited time, which will inevitably make most ordinary movie fans who have not watched related animations confused, and it is really difficult to make an evaluation after watching at least once Give praise.
I watched the director's cut version, which is a 182-minute version, which is half an hour longer than the 151-minute version shown in theaters, and it is a second brush. I haven't seen the theatrical version, but I have browsed the comments, and then refer to the two versions of Zack Snyder's classic "Watchmen" (162 minutes and 215 minutes), can imagine whether there is this castrated half How different the quality of the film can become in hours, almost two completely different films.
In addition to some innocuous little easter eggs, the director's cut version mainly perfects the details of Lex's design to frame Superman and Batman, making the characters' behaviors more logical, and the film's storytelling and orderliness also enhanced. In addition, as a fan who has a certain interest in American comics, I have also watched the animated films adapted from the two major blueprints of this film ("Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", "The Death of Superman"), so I am very interested in Zack's My opinion on this piece is still positive.
In this story Zach constructed, the first half is based on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. This comic was created in 1986 by the famous cartoonist Frank Miller. Against the background of the dark clouds of the Cold War and the rising crime rate, Miller depicted an old Batman image who never bowed to his sins, full of twilight years. The loneliness, the panic of the Cold War, the indifference between people, the confrontation with the system, and the obsession with belief is a very serious and gripping masterpiece, which can be called the most influential cartoon work of modern times. It set the dark and grim tone for the next two decades of Batman comics, and it was in this comic that Batman and Superman ended up fighting because of different ideas.
However, the difference in times made the director make choices and choices for this classic. The elements of the Cold War were abandoned, the conflict between superheroes and the real world was highlighted, and the contradiction between Batman and Superman was also replaced. As a character designed for Superman, Batman has been the opposite of Superman from the moment he was born, one is the light knight, the other is the dark knight, one is the way of science fiction, and the other is the mode of popular crime novels . When high-IQ earth human encounters superpower aliens, there will always be irreconcilable contradictions.
The conflict between Batman and Superman has both a racial (species/race?) level and an ideological level. One doesn't look down on the opponent's life, the Metropolis fights, and the superhuman shakes General Zod, but it also causes life to be ruined; one doesn't look down on the law enforcement outside the method. In order to severely punish crimes, Batman continues to lynch the criminals. In terms of ethics and law, superheroes will not cause controversy when they save the suffering, but once they make an act of harming human beings, even if they are aimed at criminals, due to the disparity of power, as long as they are a little untenable in law or ethics, they will fall into the ground. , so that the majority of people who eat melons feel chills. Batman's use of violence to control violence, and Superman's self-proclaimed savior, are challenges to the democratic rule of law in the entire human society.
Even more unfortunate is that Batman and Superman's 50-step laugh just happened to give another person with a super IQ an opportunity to take advantage of it. Luther used it to continuously create unwarranted incidents to increase the misunderstanding and estrangement between the two, and finally succeeded in enticing the two heroes to fight each other. If they hadn't both had a mother named "Martha", it would have been a life-and-death outcome. What I have to complain about is that it is a bit abrupt and unreasonable to release the previous suspicion because of the old lady of the same name. Such an adaptation is a failure.
If there is still room for people to think in the first half, then in the second half, the commerciality of the film dominates. The debut part of Doomsday borrows the story from "The Death of Superman", but Zach puts Superman and Destruction together. Japan's one-on-one expansion was written as "Three Heroes Fighting Lu Bu", which gave Wonder Woman a glimpse. "Night of Horror, Morning of Lost", the quality of this fierce battle is very good, the strength of Doomsday, the demeanor of Wonder Woman, and the sacrifice of Superman are all impressive. Visual spectacle is an integral element of a superhero movie, and that alone would give it a high score.
A fair evaluation of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", if the theater version is a bad movie, then the director's cut version has supplemented many aspects and the whole story has indeed become fuller, and it is worth watching again by fans. Of course, Zack Snyder is not Christopher Nolan, and his skills in combining business and art can't reach the latter's level, not to mention that watching the castrated version in the cinema is always a minus point for him. However, if a director is always limited by long narratives and large capacity, and cannot end a good story within 120 minutes, then he is far from being "excellent".
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