Hollywood Drawing

When Charlize Theron returned to the manor, more than an hour had passed. She walked to the bedroom balcony with a gloomy look on her face.

"While queuing up to check out, there was an old man with a child in front of him who bought a box of bullets. The child took advantage of his father to check out and curiously swallowed one!"

South African Diamond looked unhappy. "The most bullshit thing is that the father of that child didn't rush to the hospital, but started arguing with the salesperson over the compensation issue, damn it!"

"Okay, there's nothing strange about this." Wayne poured her a cup of black tea. "You didn't run outside of Beverly, did you?"

Having been here for more than 20 years, he has heard a lot about such weird things. Although guns are not rampant in California, bullets are sold on the counters of convenience stores.

Excessive pursuit of freedom comes at a price. Most people’s reason is that bad guys have guns, so they must ensure that good people have guns too. Hence the phrase ‘Happy America, gunfights every day’. ’

Charlize Theron winked at him and said mysteriously: "Of course, the convenience store here doesn't have what I want."

Then he took one of Wayne's arms, pulled him up, mysteriously picked up his handbag, and pulled him toward the bathroom.

"I'm going to buy some good lubrication stuff. Let's go to the bathroom and I've prepared some new games for you."

Wayne slowly smiled. He liked the surprises the girl gave him. Every time they opened his eyes unexpectedly.

Early the next morning, while the girl was still sleeping, he got in the car and went to the post-production studio under the sunshine of Los Angeles. The production of "The Return of the Clown" is basically nearing completion, and he will start adding the soundtrack as soon as it is finalized.

After chatting with Zack Snyder and the editor about his requirements, he got in the car and hurried to Warner Bros. Studio after noon.

There was no one in the studio yet, so Wayne and Nina returned to their office to take a short break. He opened the file box and took out the prepared manuscript. These were the main tasks today. The production of each prop and item had to be explained clearly to the people from Industrial Light and Magic.

"Boss, are these Batman's equipment?" This was not the first time Nina saw him playing with these things, and she couldn't help but pick up a drawing out of curiosity.

Wayne nodded and asked casually: "Yes, as an audience, would you expect to see "Batman" in the cinema?"

The assistant girl thought for a moment before speaking: "If it was your previous film, I wouldn't like it very much. Those dark stories at the core are very unfriendly to women. But if it's "Batman", I should be looking forward to it." Bar."

Bruce Wayne's name is too big, especially in North America. Regardless of whether you are a boy or a girl, who has not read these comics when they were young? Superman and Wonder Woman, these three heroes have accompanied many people in their childhood, adolescence and youth.

Wayne nodded, watching the Batmobile slowly fall into thought.

In his memory, Warner Bros. used to rely on its most famous heroes to achieve high box office in almost every movie. However, it has gradually fallen into a vicious circle. Whenever a movie is released, it will be a big hit at the box office in the first weekend, and then the next time it will be a hit. Zhou began to dive off a cliff.

This is a typical result of the collapse of audience reputation. There are many reasons for this situation, and Wayne can only try to avoid some that he analyzed himself.

Thinking back to director Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman," the film had a strong appeal brought by Batman and Superman. It got off to a very good start almost as soon as it entered the theater market.

Then the next week inevitably started to take a big dive. He couldn't remember the specific box office figures. It seemed that he had collected 200 million in two weeks. However, the box office in the second week was not even half of the first week. It was a typical high start and low start.

At that time, many people discussed on the Internet that this super masterpiece obviously lacked stamina, which even ordinary netizens could analyze. But compared to the precipitous drop in the box office, what is even more tragic is that the film's reputation has collapsed along the way.

It stands to reason that as Warner Bros.'s top work of the year and the most anticipated super blockbuster by movie fans, it can be said to be the top of Hollywood in terms of the cast and the configuration of various behind-the-scenes personnel. Even if the film wasn't about these two heroes, it wouldn't be that bad, but it did make the Internet scolded.

This was definitely a harsh lesson learned, one that Wayne had to work hard to analyze and avoid.

Did Director Zha do something wrong? It wasn't really possible given the circumstances at the time. He was just an avid DC Comics fan. However, the mistakes made in the film are definitely worthy of Wayne's constant vigilance.

This time, he will slowly try to adapt the "Batman", using methods such as hints of Easter eggs, and film it step by step. However, the most important thing is to adapt the story, and it must not completely follow the development of the comics.

Director Zha has proven that if you shoot a movie that completely follows the comics, there will only be one situation. The movie will become a carnival for DC fans, and the passerby will be ignored or even scorned.

"Batman v Superman" is simply the representative of this aspect, leaving most passers-by viewers unable to get to that point in some places.

If you want to understand "Batman v Superman", you must first watch "The Death of Superman", "Kingdom Come", "Injustice", "Superman - Red Son", "Justice League - Origins", " The Dark Knight Returns" Wait, wait, DC Comics!

This is almost like a joke. This kind of super blockbuster with an investment of 250 million US dollars will definitely be screened on a large scale in mainstream theaters, but the potential audience for the movie screening is actually those die-hard DC fans!

The result is that these fans are collectively happy, but they have lost the largest number of passerby viewers, because they are simply unable to accept the film.

Of course, this is inseparable from the mysterious operation of Warner Brothers. They are always impatient and make mistakes. As long as they are stimulated by the movies of their old rivals, they want to catch up with the opponent's progress through a movie.

Starting from "Iron Man", Marvel began to lay out one movie after another. The first few movies were almost carefully testing the market, and slowly connected all the characters through Easter eggs and so on.

Eighty-nine years later, after more than a dozen movies were filmed, the general trend of Marvel was formed, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was built in two major stages.

Warner Bros. executives did not look at each other's preliminary work, but only saw the brilliance created by the other side. If they were afraid of having a "Batman v Superman" in their heads, they wanted to catch up with their progress and push directly into the Civil War universe.

The content of this "Batman v Superman" movie almost compresses the plots of five DC comics, and all kinds of huge foreshadowing scenes are simply used in the movie.

Zack Snyder is not a director who is good at narrative. The final result is that a small number of DC fans reveled in the film because they can fully understand the director's setting, but in the eyes of passers-by, it is like a piece of loose sand.

This is simply falling behind step by step, completely giving up its own advantages, and losing the traditional skills of copying homework.

Warner Bros.’s decision-making is so confusing. Even many popular movie fans know Zack Snyder. What this director is good at is never narrative storytelling, but rich and saturated color images like oil paintings, and long stretches of slow-motion lyricism. , narrative montage, comic-style storyboard composition, and most importantly, the aesthetics of violence.

In a director's film, the visual aspect is always higher than the narrative, just like a long music video. This alternative style, which is rare in Hollywood, has made him highly praised and controversial.

If this style does not restrict him, there will be masterpieces like "300". R-rated movies can at least bring out all the characteristics of director Zack.

Think about what he did in "Batman v Superman". As soon as he reached a scene that required lyricism, Zack Snyder immediately entered the state, using all kinds of slow motion, close-ups and time and space transitions.

But without these things, even the most basic narrative dialogues would be awkward to shoot. He would use too many stream-of-consciousness things such as dreams to foreshadow, and various time and space transitions would destroy the flow of the plot, which would inevitably lead to an imbalance in the narrative rhythm. , the plot is like a mess.

Even Zack Snyder himself said in an interview that he shot this movie from the perspective of a DC Comics fan.

The most embarrassing thing is probably the plot where Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent turn enemies into friends, which definitely shocked audiences around the world.

But a movie like "Batman v Superman" is like pouring a bunch of necessary ingredients into a pot and frying them all in one pot. It must also maintain the color, flavor and flavor. Basically, Warner Bros. Wrong way.

We hired a director whose film narrative was weak and played with formalism. Forget it, we also put shackles on him, restricting the film level to PG13, and not allowing him to choose a script that suits him. In the end, this happened A typical Zack Snyder movie.

Universal has done this before. They wanted to create a monster universe earlier than anyone else, but they stumbled one after another and almost lost their pants. Think about "Van Helsing".

These are the problems that Wayne will encounter in a few years. His choice is very simple. Buy a stake in Warner Bros. to gain the right to speak. Then don't be eager for quick success. No one is competing with him now. As long as he keeps filming one film after another, Slowly introducing the characters one by one is the safest way.

Thinking of this, Wayne laughed. It all happened in time. "Batman Begins" is the best entry point. With the environment he is in now, no one can force himself not to shoot R-rated movies, because Your own videos can earn high profits, this is the reality.