Made in Hollywood

In the Chicago Classic Theater, the screening of "Batman: Hour of War" is coming to an end. Faced with his own principles and Henry Ducard who wants to destroy Gotham City, Bruce Wayne chooses not to kill or save. Let the leader of the Kagemusha League fall along with the railcar.

The ultimate villain of this film is Batman’s teacher Henry Ducard, who taught Batman’s fighting skills, but Henry Ducard did not know how firm belief and unshakable conscience Bruce Wayne had. , This can be learned from Wayne's firm refusal to behead the farmer.

Defeating Henry Ducard and protecting Gotham City, Bruce Wayne finally found the meaning of his existence, no longer just to avenge his parents, but to become the guardian of the city.

At the end of the film, Batman talks with Sheriff Gordon on the rooftop. People have regained hope. Gotham City is showing signs of recovery, but crime has not been eradicated, and justice and evil will continue to fight.

A playing card instantly ignited Norman Shearer and Brad Miller's eager anticipation for the next episode-who is the Joker? Why should he pretend to be a clown? What did he do? How will the duel between him and Batman be?

As Batman unfolded his cloak and flew in the night sky of Gotham City, ∵, there was deafening applause in the theater. It is not difficult to tell the difference between the brothers and sisters of David Ellison and Megan Ellison. As the opening chapter of the new trilogy, Moment was obviously recognized by the general audience present.

If you want to defeat the enemy, you must first understand the enemy. David Ellison has done enough work with Duke and Batman before, and he himself has studied at the University of Southern California Film School. It is not difficult to draw a conclusion at this time. ——Compared with the previous four Batman, Duke Rosenberg's "Batman: Hour of War" has a unique style. And it's exciting enough!

Even if he is now hostile to that director, he will not deny it.

This is also good, only by defeating a strong enough opponent can you prove your ability.

Like Duke, people like David Ellison have never been afraid of competition and challenge.

He is sitting here. Through the relevant knowledge learned at the Film Academy of Southern California, I recalled the whole film and analyzed the pros and cons in order to summarize some experiences that can benefit him.

As the first part of Duke Rosenberg’s Batman trilogy series, "The Beginning of War" appropriately shows the relationship and characteristics of the main characters, and should also lay the groundwork for the future fate of each character. The most prominent feature is that, compared to its four "predecessors", Batman under the Duke tube walked down from the altar. Become a flesh and blood person.

Megan Ellison next to him, his eyes flashed with thoughts, she was completely absent from her previous arrogant and domineering appearance, a woman who was able to make her head in the complicated Hollywood, even with the help of the Ellison family, herself The ability will not be too bad.

She is also a student of the USC Film School, and she likes the style of the film to be more literary and artistic, so she looks at it differently from David Ellison.

Although there have been some conflicts with Duke and Scarlett Johansson before. But in the heart, Megan Ellison thinks this is a film that completely surpasses the previous four Batman films.

Director Duke Rosenberg has continued to succeed in Hollywood. It is definitely not a fluke. He added his personal opinions and understanding to the work "The Hour of War", making these trilogy full of philosophy and profound social significance.

Even, she unknowingly, like finishing the homework assigned by her instructor, split the important plot of the whole film into several fragments for analysis.

The first fragment. A large number of bats were flying all over the screen, and the image of a big bat appeared faintly.

Megan Ellison thinks this is a symbol of Batman. Most viewers like her were obviously surprised when they saw this scene without prompting. This is what the movie wants to express. "fear". And the reason for the formation of a big bat image. It is to express a kind of "available fear", which actually laid the groundwork for the explanation after the film.

In the second clip, Bruce and Rachel are hide-and-seek. Bruce fell into the well with a spear. A swarm of bats attacked in the well. Bruce woke up. This was his first contact with bats. From this moment on, bats started. Become his inner fear.

In the third segment, Bruce is confined for fighting, Henry Ducard appears and talks with him.

It was the first confrontation between the pros and cons. Henry Ducard said that the Kagemusha League is to fight crime. Bruce pointed out that they are lynchers. The ninja master explained that only those who lose in the fight are lynchors. They are often imprisoned. Only by surpassing their limits and investing in their ideals can they Become a legend.

In the fourth segment, Henry Ducard’s series of training on Bruce is exactly what he taught Bruce how to accept the reality of anger, and pointed out and contributed to Bruce Wayne becoming the two most important reasons for Batman-becoming Fear itself and becoming an invisible fear.

In the fifth segment, Bruce passed the training, but because he had a disagreement with the Kagemusha League on the issue of killing farmers, and learned that they were going to destroy Gotham City's plan, he destroyed the Kagemusha League and rescued Henry Ducard. .

Here, killing the peasant became the fuse that led to the outbreak of the conflict between Bruce and the Shadow Warriors Alliance. The Shadow Warriors killed the peasants and destroyed Gotham City to eliminate crime and rebuild justice. Bruce believed that Gotham City was still saved and could not be destroyed. This also directly led to the future conflict between Batman and the Shadow Warrior Alliance-the principle of the former is not to kill, but to hand the criminals to the law; the latter believes that all crimes should be destroyed...

In the sixth segment, the final battle is approaching. Before Bruce's house is burned, Henry Ducard and Bruce's dialogue.

This is the foreplay of the climax part of the film, and Megan Ellison believes that the main contradiction is concentrated here.

The Shadow Warriors League has been playing the role of destruction and reconstruction for hundreds of years. Henry Ducard said that they had tried to destroy Gotham City before, but they were prevented by Bruce’s father and other kind people, and the laboring people they helped killed in turn. The people who helped them died.

This time the Kagemusha League once again returned to destroy Gotham City.

From this point, it can be seen that the Shadow Warrior Alliance does not regard whether a city has reached a point where it is hopeless, but based on their own standards.

In other words, the Kagemusha Alliance considers itself to be a god, and has the highest power to decide the life and death of a city, and the standards of the ruling are all set by them! Here, it can be seen that Bruce's rescue of Gotham City through Batman is actually the greatest excavation of social value. The League of Shadow Warriors ignores the objective existence of society for its own existence, and Batman in turn is its biggest defender.

For the entire "Batman: Hour of War", because of Duke Rosenberg's consistent production style, Megan Ellison can easily see that the commercial nature of the film is far greater than the content and ideological nature.

However, the large amount of dialogue in the film has actually laid the groundwork for the subsequent two parts. In general, this is a story about how Batman was born.

"The birth of Batman is greater than the discussion of the entire urban society."

Megan Ellison simply analyzed the film and couldn't help but whispered, "This is actually a story of a person who overcomes and becomes fear and uses it to fight crime."

Turning his gaze slightly, David Ellison glanced at his sister, then stood up quietly amidst enthusiastic applause, "Let's go, there is no need to stay here anymore."

"Yeah." Megan Ellison nodded slightly and followed him to the outside of the theater.

Both of them are actually very clear. Compared to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "Batman: Hour of War" is indeed weaker and less entertaining, but the film is sufficiently exciting, even if they are for Duke Rosen People with preconceptions in Berg can also faintly feel that the market response of this film will not be bad.

"how do you feel?"

In the theater, Scarlett Johansson stood up with the others, slapped her palms vigorously, and at the same time leaned to Irene Lauder's ears, and asked, "Is it exciting?"

"Very good." Irene Lauder also applauded, "It's just a bit too realistic."

"I think this style is very good. I've seen enough of the omnipotent superhero for a long time." Scarlett Johansson said curiously, "I didn't expect that one who is good at making unrealistic films A well-known director who makes a realistic style film will look so good."

In Scarlett Johansson’s impression, Duke’s most brilliant and successful films are all unrealistic science fiction and magical films.

"My dear," Irene Lauder reminded, "Have you forgotten "Saving Private Ryan"?"

"Oh, yes!" Scarlett nodded and said of course, "Those who always criticize Duke should take a good look. The realistic films he made are just as wonderful!"

"He has always been the best."

Irene Lauder said this last sentence. She has known Duke for ten years. The opponent can only be described as inconceivable, and she has always maintained enough forward momentum to make those who chase behind inevitably come into being. A sense of powerlessness.

The applause continued. Duke and Charles Rowan had assembled the crew members and stepped onto the small stage curtain call. After two consecutive curtain calls, the applause finally subsided and the audience began to withdraw.

After all, this is just the beginning of the entire series, it is impossible to cause a sensational impact from the beginning, it is simply unrealistic.

The film screening ended, and Duke took the main members of the crew into the temporary news room on the other side. (To be continued...)