Made in Hollywood

How to think and how to do it is basically two different things. In many cases, it is not the head that determines the position of a person, but the position of the buttocks, such as the current Duke.

It is impossible to say that things like movies cannot affect society. Just as movies themselves are deeply affected by the social environment, hot movies will in turn affect society.

At any time, films should not give up the promotion of mainstream values. These values ​​have nothing to do with ideology and have universal value. Films should not become an aspirin that paralyzes the audience’s ignorance of reality, nor should they become the darkness of the audience’s hearts. Formalin kept fresh on the dark side of rotten.

The most fascinating feature of the movie is that she can create a dream world for people, temporarily forget her troubles, and find her own happiness and satisfaction in the illusory world.

Of course, this kind of happiness and satisfaction cannot be like James Holmes.

Just letting movies pay for real social phenomena is too much.

However, the impact of "Dark Knight Rise" in North America is quite obvious. After earning more than 90 million dollars in revenue, it was affected by the shooting incident. There was a sharp decline on Saturday, and the attendance rate of many mainstream theaters was less than percent. Fifty, the box office in a single day exceeded 30%, and the final report received $62.67 million.

Many people have seen the hope of continued suppression, and continue to link "The Dark Knight Rises" with the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza shooting through various channels.

"The reason it is terrifying is that you can feel the tremendous incitement brought by the movie. It evokes everyone's resistance to the existing social rules. The audience often sees that they will start to expect the villain to kill Batman. , Batman became the biggest obstacle to the social revolution. Instead, these villains became heroes for destroying the state apparatus, causing people to follow suit."

This is pretty good. Some remarks are directed at Duke himself.

"Only a crazy director like Duke Rosenberg can create a crazy movie fan like James Holmes in this world!"

Some so-called well-informed people revealed to the media, “Duke Rosenberg also said in private, I don’t know if I blame the murderer or myself...”

The situation has become more and more complicated, and even some ethical organizations have appeared in large numbers in front of the Warner Bros. building since Sunday. Not only did they protest, they also suggested that the federal government force "The Dark Knight Rises" to be downgraded.

It is very difficult for these so-called organizations to really accomplish anything, so that no one can ignore their ability to do damage.

In the face of a lot of pressure, Duke’s partner and producer of "The Dark Knight Rises" Charles Rowan also had to say in an interview, "This movie will be stopped immediately. We are all acceptable. No interest should be discussed now."

Of course, this is just talking. The downgrade of "The Dark Knight Rises", whether it is Duke or Warner Bros., is unacceptable.

And those people are not just about "The Dark Knight Rises." I also need to apologize publicly and reflect on his own film production philosophy.

Some media also focused on the "The Matrix" shooting, thinking that Duke's film caused crimes to be not an exception, and he must deeply reflect.

Since the incident. Except for going to the University of California School of Medicine and issuing a public statement, Duke has been silent. I also hope that this silence will reduce the controversy in "The Dark Knight Rises", but now it seems that some people don't want to let him go easily.

Since silence can't solve the problem, Duke didn't mind making his own voice.

Sunday morning. Duke personally updated his official even sharing.

"In the history of world cinema, this is not the first and will not be the last case in which audiences imitated movie characters to commit crimes. In the face of such a tragedy, any criticism of just one film is unfair and unreasonable. The film The existence of violence in China is understandable, because reality is inherently imperfect."

Just like Duke said, in North American history, there are definitely not a few movie-related tragedies.

He picked up a piece of information collected by Tina Fei, which contained numerous cases.

For example, the famous "Reagan shooting" in 1981.

Back then, John Hinckley, who was obsessed with the actress Judy Foster in "Taxi Driver", in order to win her attention, imitated the behavior of the protagonist Travis in the film and shot US President Ronald Rowe near the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. Nader Reagan was shot in the chest and injured several entourage officials. It was just a so-called fair and just law. Before the banknotes waved by the oil tycoon father of John Hinckley, he determined that John Hinckley was suffering from a serious mental illness and murdered the president Not guilty and sentenced to mandatory treatment.

In fact, the cases caused by movies are not limited to the "Batman" series. Some websites have compiled at least a dozen movie theater incidents, including "The Godfather", "X-Men: Last Stand", etc. These incidents include audience boycotts and occasional conflicts. , Even some events that have nothing to do with the movie itself.

"Color Rattlesnake", released in 1988, tells the story of the Los Angeles police fighting street crime and gangs. On the weekend of the film’s opening, 13 young men belonging to two gangs were arrested. The police believed that these 13 men were gangs. The members fought at the entrance of the theater where "Color Rattlesnake" is about to be screened to prevent the normal screening of the film.

In addition, the famous gang "Guardian Angel" used the slogans ""Color Rattlesnake" to Kill Children" and "Don't Show "Color Rattlesnake" in Los Angeles" during the film's release. The Chicago, New York and Miami police have all at the beginning of the film. It is on alert during the screening.

On Long Island in the 1990s, during the screening of "The Godfather 3", members of the two gangs opened fire directly in the cinema. In this exchange of fire, the gang members were not injured, and the audience sitting nearby suffered. Among them, a 15-year-old boy was killed.

It was also in the 1990s. There were several violent incidents in the theater where "The Block Boys" was released. A 23-year-old man was hit by a bullet and died. A 15-year-old was also assassinated on the weekend of the premiere. , And many others were injured.

Entering the new century, such incidents have become more numerous. When "X-Men: Last Stand" was screened in a cinema in Baltimore in 2005, a two men stood up and took out their guns, asking all the audience to lie on the ground, casually. A death shot was fired, and a hapless 62-year-old man was killed.

When "Rejuvenation" was screened in 2008, a fan kept cheering for the film, which caused the people next to him to be very impatient. After persuading to no avail, the latter decisively escaped from the pistol and shot the former...

In fact, if you go to Google and search, there are endless conflicts caused by movies, and casualties occur from time to time.

Perhaps, watching a movie, which was originally a leisure and entertainment, will one day become an "extreme pastime" that is killed.

Of course, this is just Duke who read the relevant information collected by Tina Fei and made complaints to Scarlett Johansson in private.

But there is a fact that cannot be ignored, and I am afraid that Duke cannot deny that after entering the new century, the deaths and injuries caused by movies are increasing.

Why did the clear distinction between reality and dreams in the past become blurred, and there are even more and more people who are unable to distinguish between dreams and reality? To a certain extent, this has something to do with the new world of meaning created by the Internet.

After the advent of the Internet, the difference between reality and virtuality has become smaller and smaller; and the direction of technological production is to completely eliminate this difference.

In particular, the use of Internet-based publicity and marketing methods for movies pays great attention to interaction and participation, which can significantly increase the participants' sense of substitution, and correspondingly, it will also bring some problems.

"What is a movie? Simply put, it is dreaming."

After reading the information collected by Tina Fei, Duke continued to update his real-time sharing.

"Really as some media said, should the movie pay for this shooting tragedy?"

"Imagine if there is no violent content in the movie, and it is so clean that even the most conservative people can't pick out the question, will the world become better because of this? There will be no more violence? The answer is that everyone will know."

"But in this impossible imagination, what we can be sure of is how false and empty the human spiritual world will become. All artists and audiences will degenerate into demented children, pretending to be in a pure and perfect dream world."

"Film, like other art, is a transformation and reflection of reality. There are indeed many films that exaggerate or promote violence, but at the same time, it is also possible that more films are making the audience more deeply aware of the severity of the violence Be vigilant and reflect on where the violence comes from and where the darkness lies."

"This may not be the best era, but it is obviously not the worst era. What the movie reflects is only the ill and grievous reality. Our society is always flowing with positive and negative energy, an anti-social lunatic, Even if you don’t watch any movies, comics, or novels, play games, or listen to rock music, you can become a thug who kills innocent butchers."

"Of course, we have reasons to ask film directors, producers and film companies to be more cautious and pay more attention to violent scenes, but a large order of tragic tragedies like 12 lives cannot be bought and should not be bought."

"In the real world, we don’t need Batman, Superman, and Joker and Lex Luther. We just need more sobriety, deeper reflection, greater courage, and a more ardent love for the world. Free choice and free will, rather than more filtering, protection, and control, can guide us out of the shadow of the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza shooting and into a brighter world."

"May God and bless them, and may God be with everyone." (To be continued~^~)

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