Five Hundred and Thirty - the Clown Appears
"Hey, man, lend me your little golden man for fun someday."
As the guests came to the platform, they entered the theater one after another. Before the red carpet ceremony was about to end, Will Smith finally arrived. After getting rid of the entanglement of media reporters, he greeted Wayne who was standing at the door of the theater to greet him. A hug.
"Ha, Will, I thought you couldn't make it."
Wayne patted the other person's back hard, let him go, shrugged, curled his lips, and said unceremoniously: "Believe me, that thing is definitely not as exquisite as the gold chain around your neck. , Besides, you will also have a little golden man in the future, maybe it’s not worth one.”
"Come on."
The two walked towards the theater together, Will Smith waved his hand unceremoniously, with disgust in his tone. "If the academy is willing to give me a Best Actor statuette, I will definitely be moved to tears, but we all know that this is obviously impossible."
"That's impossible to say..."
Wayne smiled mysteriously, raised his wrist and glanced at the time. He did not lead Will Smith and his wife to the lounge on the second floor, but went directly to the screening room. The movie screening was about to start, and the people who were supposed to come were also All are here, and what’s left is today’s topic, watching movies.
He didn't know whether he was moved to tears or not, but he knew that this guy's movements of hitting people in the mouth were very manly and neat. In that kind of social background, Rowling was expelled from one of HP's largest fan sites because of some remarks. I don't know how this slap will play out in the end.
That is to say, he has this skin color. If he were a white man and gave the bad-mouthed talk show star a mouthful, or in a public place like the Oscars, he would definitely be criticized by everyone, and even jailed. disaster.
What is ironic is that the Academy, or the Oscar organizing committee, only condemned Will Smith afterwards, using the words "violence will not be tolerated." This incident was also defined as a violent incident, and what followed was There are still a lot of variables in the matter, just like many political activists in the industry are clamoring to take back his actor statuette!
In fact, what is even more ironic is that the ratings of the Oscars have been decreasing year by year because of their increasingly conservative nature. At that time, the ratings of this Oscars soared by ten times just because of Will Smith’s big mouth. several times...
Along the way, Wayne secretly glanced several times at Jada Smith who was following them. No one expected that this woman would end up bald.
"Wow, not only was the venue full, I saw there were thousands of fans outside, waiting because they couldn't see the premiere."
After entering the screening room, Will Smith opened his hands in an exaggerated manner, looked at the already full movie theater, and joked: "You swear, these must be real movie fans, and there is absolutely no one invited by Warner Brothers, right?"
"Shit."
Wayne raised his arm, bumped his stomach with his elbow, and cursed with a smile. "Don't forget, Will, Batman has always been the top three most popular hero in the world. No one can deny this. Batman will never lack fans and paying fans, even Tim Burton Batman 2, which had a bad reputation at the time, was actually not a failure at the box office."
Will Smith spread his hands. "Hey, bro, don't be so serious. Jada and I will go over first. We'll talk after it's over. Go and do your work, my great director."
"Wait a minute, Will."
Stopping Mr. and Mrs. Smith who were walking towards the guest area, Wayne thought for a moment and said quickly: "After the premiere, I will immediately start a film promotion tour. This process is expected to last about a month. The film promotion period is over, you bring your family to the manor as guests, and I'm going to have a big party."
"No problem, I like partying, you know, I love partying." Will Smith waved his hand and agreed.
With Nina and Naomi Watts, Wayne sat in the middle of the first row where the crew was. Listening to the various discussions coming from behind him, he slowly let out a big breath. Can this film be done? To achieve the desired effect, everything depends on the market response after tonight's premiere and the first weekend.
Just like what he said to Will Smith, superheroes such as Batman and Superman have never lacked loyal fans. No matter how bad the filming is and the reputation is so bad that it can't continue to collapse, as long as you observe You will find that the film’s box office performance will not be too low in the market.
Those movie fans would rather go into the cinema and buy tickets to watch the movie while cursing, and then go home and make crazy comments online, rather than give up on the movie directly.
The premise is that there must never be a movie like "Batman Forever" or "Batman and Robin" that continuously treats the audience as fools. That is no longer a matter of reputation collapse, but a matter of directly killing Batman.
At 7:30 in the evening, the lights in the screening room began to gradually go out. The sounds of chatting, eating, drinking, etc. also gradually became dispensable as the lights went out. Everyone knew that the movie It's about to start.
Although there is an obvious time difference between the east and west of North America, Warner Bros. still arranged the 3,300 advance screenings that opened simultaneously with the premiere to start at the same time according to Los Angeles time. Therefore, for those movie fans who grabbed the early screening tickets For me, it is an extremely happy thing.
Compared with the 3,700 theaters that will open after the movie is officially released tomorrow, the number of advance screenings tonight is too small, but this still cannot stop the enthusiasm of movie fans across North America who want to try it in advance.
In an Imperial Cinema chain theater in the Upper East Side of New York, the famous "New Yorker" columnist film critic David Denbigh was fully prepared to watch the movie. Although he had already seen the movie once, for him, it was so... It's an impressive film. Watching it just once is not enough to understand all the director's ideas. He holds a sharpened pencil in his hand and a hard-leather notebook on his leg so that he can write down his feelings about watching the movie at any time. Everything he records when he goes back will become the material for the film review in the newspaper the next day. .
On the big screen in the theater, the opening animations of Warner Bros. and DC animation had ended. After a line of letters about the works of director Wayne Greenberg, the screen suddenly went black, and then a picture of a bank building in New York appeared.
As background music played, a gangster with a clown mask on his face shattered the glass of the building with a crossbow, and the rope was shot out from the building with the crossbow. The scene turned, and a gangster carrying a backpack and a clown mask was standing on the streets of Gotham City.
Five gangsters wearing clown masks appeared on the big screen one after another. Their purpose was quite obvious, which was to rob the bank.
The story of the movie officially begins. The gangsters robbed a large amount of money while talking about the mastermind behind the scenes, the clown. In fact, long before the robbery started, the clown had secretly told everyone to find a way to kill a companion, so that the remaining people would be able to share more money.
The scene of the robbery in the bank building was orderly, but full of chaos. Each gangster shot and killed his companion when he succeeded. In the end, only one robber was left.
"You are only temporarily safe, the clown will eventually kill you."
When he heard the bank staff endure the pain and say these words, the last remaining robber slowly turned around with his gun in hand, and happily took off the mask on his face, revealing A funny, ridiculous face, yes, he is the real clown.
"Oh my God, how did Arthur become like this?!"
"Jesus, clown."
When the robbery on the big screen ended and the clown got on the yellow school bus and drove away, there was a low exclamation in the theater. Apparently the fans did not expect that one of their most anticipated characters would end up like this. A way to appear.
David Denbigh frowned. This character is so charming and provocative. It is so brilliant. Now this beginning is just a trivial crime.
He has been famous as a film critic for many years, but even though he has watched countless classic films and classic crime movies, he also felt a tremor after watching the test screening of "The Dark Knight".
After being a film critic for so many years, he has never seen a movie like this. The entire movie seems to be to set off the existence of this character. The clown lives alone, but has countless followers. He does things regardless of the consequences, but he has his own set of perfect criminal concepts. This character is so charming. To a certain extent, the reason why Batman exists is to set off the greatness of the Joker.
"It's not that Batman's no-kill philosophy won, it's that the Joker doesn't want to play anymore!"
The pencil slid rapidly, David Denby quickly wrote down some of his feelings, then concentrated all his attention, his eyes fixed on the ongoing plot.
"Batman!"
"Batman is out."
Amidst the cheers of some child movie fans, Batman appeared on the big screen. He received a notice from Chief Gordon and came to the bank that was robbed at night. According to Commissioner Gordon's account, the Joker has planned many robberies, but the money taken away this time has been specially marked by Batman and can be traced.
If you want to close the net and arrest the Joker, you need a search warrant, and if you want to get a search warrant, you must get the approval of Gotham City's new prosecutor Harvey.
The scene turned and prosecutor Harvey appeared on the big screen. Charlie Sheen's performance was outstanding. Harvey on the screen was resolute, quick-thinking, and often provoked criminals head-on. He was what people called the Bright Knight.
A scene of Harvey's trial clearly explains the relationship between the characters. Harvey is Rachel's current boyfriend, and Rachel's ex-boyfriend is Batman Bruce Wayne.
Since returning to this metropolis, he has embarked on a journey to end evil with violence. When everyone thought that the city was hopeless, the sudden appearance of Batman completely changed everything. All the criminals spoke of him with fear on their faces.
Dressed in black, Batman wandered over Gotham, using violence and not killing to bring light to the entire city. Finally, a year later, this hard-won light was broken by one man again, and once again brought light to the city. , the one who brought endless darkness was the clown who taught him how to laugh during his childhood!