Chapter 625 The Dark Knight
In the IMAX theater in Chicago, James Cameron crossed his chest with one hand and raised his chin with the other, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind instantly.
Duke Rosenberg, like him, is a typical commercial director. The difference is that the other is a very prolific commercial director.
The movie The Dark Knight is also full of commercial elements in the eyes of James Cameron. He has seen all Duke movies and can tell that this movie, like The Matrix, combines business and speculation. almost perfectly combined.
Even if he doesn't pay much attention, he can still see the thinking brought by the film, such as the simplest proposition - justice and evil.
Even when evil has reached its peak, there is still a legal system and the moral force of society that naturally restrain and counteract it.
But justice is not.
Justice is consistent with the law. In many cases, the law has no natural motive to restrict behaviors that take justice as the starting point. It is precisely because justice has demands that are consistent with law and morality that it confuses people's judgments more than evil. The cloak, law and morality are far less vigilant to it than they are in the face of evil, so when the person who holds the ultimate justice loses self-discipline, the destructive power it produces may be more terrible than the ultimate evil.
As a super Spider-Man fan, and the director who wanted to direct Spider-Man at one point, Cameron naturally associated these with superheroes.
This represents a situation for superheroes, who hold great power in their hands to exert the ultimate justice, but whether or not this power is abused is only constrained by the superhero's own moral power.
In a perfect society under the rule of law, almost all potential destructive forces are constrained, balanced, and offset by the law, so the superhero born to maintain social justice has become the most vulnerable link in this system, because apart from himself outside. Nothing else can restrain him.
Pulling back his thoughts, Cameron refocused on the movie.
Batman won the personal battle with the Joker, but lost the battle of Gotham's soul. The consequences of Harvey Dent's fall were serious. In order to save everything, Batman did not hesitate to kill Harvey Dent. 's guilt. Become the object of being spurned and become the real dark knight.
The righteous Batman finally became a prisoner who escaped with guilt, but the two-faced man who lost his nature was mourned as a hero, and even the evil clown ended up triumphant.
Never before has a superhero movie ended so darkly.
Watching Batman limping away, Kyle has a heartache, superheroes are really not a job for humans!
The Joker's ultimate evil can be unscrupulous, but Batman has to use morality to restrain his ultimate justice. Because he knows that his morality is the only safety bolt that restrains his own strength. Once he crosses it, he will probably become no different from the clown, or even more dangerous.
Batman can become anyone for Gotham. He did exactly that.
After watching the movie for so many years, plus I am a super fan of Batman, seeing the back of Batman away, I recall the plot I just watched. There are many things that make Kyle feel different.
The Joker says to Batman, You make me whole.
In Kyle's view. Sadly, the opposite is true, and it should be the Joker's existence that completes Batman's existence.
Because the peak of evil can exist independently of the peak of justice, and the peak of justice is inseparable from the peak of evil, and justice has never given evil a reason to exist. But the existence of evil has fulfilled justice.
This is actually what Batman said to the Joker.
An idea suddenly popped out of Kyle's mind. Maybe this is what Bush wanted to say to bin Laden?
The righteous who punish evil within the legal framework are regarded as heroes, while the righteous who have the power above the law but restrain themselves with morality can only be knights.
There was a voice talking to himself, Batman is destined not to be a hero in a bright world, only when darkness comes, can he appear, prudently and restraintly sweep away the darkness, and helplessly become a hero who lives by the darkness. Born knight.
Kyle nodded and said, Unconstrained ultimate justice is not only the happiness of superheroes, but their original sin.
This Dark Knight brings people such deep thinking! He couldn't help feeling emotional.
The film has come to the end, and Kenneth Turan has been separated from the plot and is more thinking from his own perspective.
Although there were all kinds of publicity and hype in the media before, but after watching The Dark Knight, he really regretted the early death of Heath Ledger. The other party really played the role of the Joker absolutely.
Compared with Heath Ledger's clown, Jack Nicholson's version is the circus clown, not to say that Heath Ledger's acting skills must surpass Jack Nicholson, but Duke Rosenberg Grid's clown has much more to play with than that one.
In Christian legend, Satan the Devil wins the world by capturing human souls, and the Joker uses the same logic, he has no interest in money, he once burned mountains of money, saying This city deserves a tasteful man. criminals. He also said to Batman, You should know, I'm not interested in money, I'm not that kind of person, don't lower me to that kind of person.
The Joker is interested in imposing his logic on the world around him.
A great director sets a brilliant role, and this role sets off the director's work even more!
After saying this in his heart, Kenneth Turan stood up and applauded the film like everyone around him. This wonderful film definitely deserves his applause.
In the IMAX theater in Chicago, although a small number of audience members left the stage early, it did not prevent the subtitles from ending, and the applause sounded like thunder, but unlike Duke's past films, the audience's faces were less excited and more excited. Tired and feeling.
It's a superhero movie that's not a superhero movie, but it's by no means a popcorn movie!
Most of the audience who watched The Dark Knight had this idea.
Seemingly exhausted by the heavy theme of the film, the applause faded away before long, and countless people walked to the front row to congratulate Duke and the crew.
Duke, the effect of IMAX is amazing.
The person standing opposite is James Cameron, who seems to be still recalling the IMAX footage of The Dark Knight. The visual impact it brought completely exceeded my expectations.
Duke shook his hand and suggested, You might consider using this technique in Avatar.
I have this kind of thinking. James? Cameron has obviously had a decision.
James Cameron had just left, and a tall girl walked over. She took the initiative to extend her hand, Congratulations, Duke, although the film is not my type, it is really shocking.
Thank you. Duke shook Taylor Swift's hand lightly.
The film screening ended here. After a brief curtain call, Duke led the entire crew into the press conference, where a large number of reporters were already waiting.
The question-and-answer session just started, and the reporter's question was directed at Duke.
The New York Times reporter was the first to ask, Director Rosenberg, what prompted you to create Batman so 'humanly'?
As we all know, in DC's comics, Superman is an idealized representative, possessing all the virtues of human beings; while Batman is much more humanized, without so many noble sentiments, virtues and idealized shackles, he is also a Good and evil people.
Duke thought for a moment, then added, He's very human when he does things, and sometimes a little political, which is why I like Batman more than Superman. Where Batman appears, there is no good or evil. , There is no right and wrong, no black and white. I want to consider some issues through such a situation - that is, in reality, no one can override the law, not even the 'Vigilantes'.
As the leading actor of the film, Christian Bale is also the focus of the interview.
A reporter from The Washington Post asked, Mr. Bell, as an actor, do you really think you can find anything in the gorgeous special effects and deafening explosions? And twice in a row?
Bell didn't seem to hear the hidden provocation, but said, The main reason is that I like the experience of working with Duke, and Duke fully understands that special effects and explosions alone cannot make a movie. Exactly. In other words, this is still based on the story, and then there are many spectacular episodes in the whole process. Can you understand what I mean? Even if all the conditions I mentioned above are met, can it be made into a movie? The key is the director.
What makes you so confident?
Earlier reporters hit a soft nail at Duke, and their target shifted to Christian Bale. Will there really be a third Batman movie?
Hour of War was the beginning, we created it together, and while the outcome wasn't in my hands, I was involved in the process. When I started to understand the story being told in The Dark Knight, I especially wanted Batman At least it could end in a trilogy.
Having said that, Christian Bale looked at Duke, The question now is, if there is a third episode, will Duke Rosenberg be the director? Because for me, I have no idea. Way to imagine what a Batman movie would be like without Duke!
The premiere of The Dark Knight is over. Although it has aroused a strong response from the premiere audience, whether it can really succeed depends on whether the market will accept it. (To be continued ^)
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