Chapter 793 Joker
Last year, Chen Hao used two songs to make the world remember him, and used several performances to conquer many audiences.
This year, everyone expected him to have a better performance. In the first half of the year, he did not do anything. In the second half of the year, he participated in a superhero movie and only played a supporting role, which disappointed many people who followed him.
"Batman: The Dark Knight" put a perfect end to Chen Hao's international strategy this year. With one role, he fulfilled the expectations of all fans and audiences for him throughout the year. This is because this role is too classic. Once the film was released, it had a huge impact in the world film and television industry.
There are superhero movies every year. Marvel and DC each have different movies produced every year. In the most commercial way, they stimulate the audience's audio-visual experience, making commercial blockbusters a complete system that everyone can foresee. There is no need to expect what the plot is. We are here to see superheroes, various fantastic special effects, and heroes saving the earth.
Popcorn movies.
Everyone is used to it, and the expectation value is always constant at a level. Those who don’t like it will not even watch it. Those who go to the cinema to watch movies may not all like it. They just want to give themselves a break, watch a movie, and watch a movie with a stronger audio-visual experience. The content is not important, as long as it is enjoyable.
Those who watch "Batman: The Dark Knight" are either this kind of audience, or they come in because of Chen Hao's fame and are his fans.
In China, it was a not-so-good schedule, not even a weekend, and the attendance rate of the first show was not high. Fortunately, in the afternoon, the shows that continued until more than 8 o'clock in the evening were all full.
In the North American market, the big-budget superhero movie was released on screens with more than 10,000 screens, and the premiere was also lively. More than 90% of people treated this movie with the attitude of treating similar movies every year. As a result, the movie gave everyone a surprise at the beginning.
At the beginning, the Joker's personal charm has not yet emerged, but everyone is very surprised by the structure of the film. The supporting characters are no longer idiots, and the crimes are not ordinary killings. What is exciting is not the design of a perfect robbery plan, but the execution after the plan is completed. Killings one after another, clean and neat, without any extra nonsense, until the Joker showed his face and scared everyone, and they could not recognize that it was Chen Hao at all. The school bus backed out of the bank and joined the team. This plot is a bit far-fetched, but it is not about in-depth investigation, but the picture of the car backing out and merging into the school bus group.
Brutal and cruel perfect crime, all the executors died, only one planner was the last executor, and left with the money. He only needs to ensure that he is not tracked, and everything is a dead end.
Such an opening makes the audience interested, which is quite interesting. It has more expectations than previous genre movies. This time the screenwriter and director are quite thoughtful. Such an opening and such a way of crime are really unexpected by the audience. It is played beautifully.
The following pictures still have the characteristics of superheroes. Batman is still so magical despite the controversy. He went directly to Hong Kong to catch the criminals and interacted with the planes. It was very creative and exciting to watch. As a Chinese actor, Chen Hao had a plot in Hong Kong, which the audience felt was reasonable. This was another point to stimulate consumption for Chinese audiences. Did you see that Hollywood superhero movies also have to take the Chinese market into consideration? We are now a world-class super consumer country in all aspects. The box office is just a small part of it.
The Joker really began to dominate the film when he appeared at the gang gathering. Facing a group of masters who dominated the underground forces of Gotham City, he talked freely and arrogantly, making people think he was a psychopath. Chen Hao did not show his face, but this performance was praised again and again. He was able to dominate the picture by talking and relying on the unpleasant status of a role, making everyone focus on him.
The lining of the clothes is full of grenades. There is not much surprise here. It is normal for a villain in a movie to behave like this. No audience guessed it. This part is a core attitude issue - we want to kill Batman. It is also the prelude to the next scene. The Joker kills a boss and is transported in as a corpse. He holds a small knife and puts it in the boss's mouth. He talks about the origin of the scar on his face. You think it is true. Later, you see another confession of the Joker at the banquet and you know that what he said is all nonsense.
That small broken knife is not a lethal weapon in a normal superhero movie. It is too childish.
But at this moment, in the hands of the Joker, every audience member felt that their breathing and heart stopped at this moment. No wonder the film is more strictly graded than before. You will be infected by the Joker played by Chen Hao, and then feel that the knife is very scary. Just thinking about it makes me shudder. If I cut my mouth open...
Thinking of this, every audience member will have goose bumps and shudder subconsciously. From this moment on, the Joker's brilliance in the film completely overshadows Batman and the city's justice messenger, the very brave future chief detective of the police force.
He is a villain, but you think he is the protagonist of the film. The justice messenger has become a BIAO saint, Batman has become a firefighter, and the brave detective has become a hindsight. All of them have been fooled by the Joker.
After the film was finished, Nolan had to give the Joker an instant ending at the end. He was hung upside down in the air and was caught directly. There was no more footage. Then there was a duel between Batman and the blackened Justice Messenger. In the end, Batman took on everything. In front of the brave detective and the new director, he retained the image of the Justice Messenger, rode a bike, carried everything and left.
Is there nothing about the Joker in the ending?
Some viewers think it is too sloppy. How come there is nothing about the Joker?
Soon most viewers understood that this was a last resort for the correctness of certain tendencies, but as a director, the value of the Joker was not erased. He was caught, but there was a blackened Justice Messenger. Even if the Justice Messenger died, his image had to be maintained. From this point of view, did the Joker lose? It's just that in everyone's subconscious cognition, justice must defeat evil, so there will be such an ending, so there will be a very abrupt behavior of the leader of the prisoners on the ship taking the remote control and throwing it into the sea, which is illogical.
The film ended, Batman disappeared into the darkness, and continued to guard the city. When the subtitles came out and the lights in the theater came on, there was no applause, but it was not that everyone was shocked into silence, but everyone heard the breathing from the surroundings.
I let out a long breath, it was finally over. I kept holding my breath while watching this movie. Some people shook their heads and smiled bitterly. If you have a heart problem, you really can't watch this movie.
I finally recovered my normal breathing. This movie put too much pressure on people. I don't need to tell you to discuss life and ultimate human nature. As long as you watch it, you will think about the three multiple-choice questions asked by the Joker. No, all his behaviors are multiple-choice questions, which allow you to make choices for substitution. If you face similar things, how do you choose?
At the beginning, it was a relatively logical and simple choice? On one side is your so-called justice and loyalty, and on the other side is your family and life. With these, the Joker did a lot of things, killing the judge and the director. He used this simplest multiple-choice question method to make each person become his person and help him do these seemingly impossible things.
In the end, you can't help but follow the director's setting and the clown's logic to make a choice. You face life and human nature. What you can do in the end has nothing to do with right or wrong. No matter which side you choose, you have a reason to tell yourself that you made the right choice. No matter which side you choose, someone will tell you that you made the wrong choice.
A few minutes later, no audience left. When the first audience "woke up" from the thinking brought by the film, they stood up and started to applaud, which led all the audience in the entire screening room to start applauding crazily.
This is really a movie that makes you not want to stand up when the lights in the screening room are on. There are too many things in the movie that force you to sit there and savor it. In China, almost all screening rooms in all cities have the cleaning staff come in after the movie ends. Today, they stood at the entrance and looked at the audience sitting in the venue. They were also confused.
"Isn't the movie over? Why are you still sitting there? The subtitles have already come out. Do you know there are Easter eggs, so you stay? No, there were movies with Easter eggs at the end before, and the audience still left when they should. What happened today?"
Once the applause started, it was like a storm. Every audience member felt that no matter how hard they tried, it was not excessive.
At the premiere, in the large screening room where the main creative team was, the applause lasted for five or six minutes, with cheers and whistles coming one after another, and the sound of shouting "joker! joker!" became a rhythm on the scene.
During the filming of the film, the main creative staff actually knew that the role of the Joker would be lifted up after the film was released. Although Christian Bale felt a little uncomfortable, as a superhero actor, the glorious image in each movie is a fixed value. If there is really a role that surpasses Batman in a certain movie, it is at least within the acceptable range.