Made in Hollywood

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

It is impossible to say that movies cannot affect society. Just like movies themselves are deeply affected by social and environmental conditions, popular movies will also affect society in turn.

At any time, movies should not give up the promotion of mainstream values. These values ​​have nothing to do with ideology and have universal value. Movies should not become aspirin that paralyzes the audience and ignore reality, nor should it become a dark place for the audience. The dark side of rot is preserved formalin.

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

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

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

However, the impact of "The Dark Knight Rises" in North America is quite obvious. After raking in more than 90 million US dollars in revenue, affected by the shooting incident, there was a sharp decline on Saturday, and the attendance rate of many mainstream theaters was less than 100%. Fifty, the single-day box office exceeded 30%, and finally closed at 62.67 million US dollars.

Many people see the hope of continuing to suppress, and continue to link "The Dark Knight Rises" with the Santa Monica Plaza shooting through various channels.

"The reason why it is scary is that you can feel the great provocativeness brought by the movie. It evokes everyone's sense of rebellion against the existing social rules. The audience often starts to expect the villain to kill Batman at the end. , Batman has become the biggest obstacle to the social revolution, and these villains have become heroes who smashed the state machine, causing people to follow suit."

That's pretty good. Some remarks were directed at Duke himself.

"In this world, only a lunatic director like Duke Rosenberg can create a lunatic fan like James Holmes!"

Some so-called well-informed sources revealed to the media, "Duke Rosenberg is also saying in private, I don't know whether to blame the murderer or myself..."

The situation has become more and more complicated, and even some ethical groups have appeared in large numbers in front of the Warner Bros. building since Sunday. Not only protested, but also suggested that the federal government force "The Dark Knight Rises" down.

It is very difficult for these so-called organizations to actually accomplish anything, so that no one can ignore their ability to wreak havoc.

Faced with a lot of pressure, Charles Rowan, Duke's partner and producer of "The Dark Knight Rises", had to say in an interview, "Even if the movie is stopped immediately. We can all accept it, It's time not to talk about any interests."

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

And those people aren't just targeting The Dark Knight Rises. Duke also needs to apologize publicly and reflect on his filmmaking philosophy.

Some media also focused on the "Matrix" shooting, thinking that Duke's film leading to crime is not an exception, and he must deeply reflect.

since the incident. Apart from going to UC Medical School and making public statements, Duke has been silent. I also hope that this silence will reduce the controversy of "The Dark Knight Rises", but now it seems that some people don't want to let him go easily.

Since silence doesn't solve the problem, Duke doesn't mind making his voice heard.

Sunday morning. Duke personally updated his official instant sharing.

"In the history of world film, this is not the first case where audiences imitate movie characters to commit crimes, and it will not be the last. In the face of such a tragedy, any criticism of only one movie is unfair and unreasonable. Movie There is nothing wrong with the existence of violence in the world, because reality is not perfect."

Just like what Duke said, there are definitely not a few tragedies related to movies in North American history.

He picked up a document collected by Tina Fey, and there were many cases in it.

Such as the famous "Reagan shooting" in 1981.

Back then, John Hinckley, who was obsessed with the actress Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver", imitated the behavior of Travis, the protagonist in the film, and shot the President of the United States near the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC in order to win her attention. Nader Reagan, caused Reagan to be shot in the chest and injured several entourage officials, just the so-called fair and just law, in front of the banknotes waved by John Hinckley's oil tycoon father, John Hinckley was found to be seriously mentally ill and murdered the president Not guilty, only sentenced to compulsory treatment.

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

Released in 1988, "Rattlesnake" tells the story of the Los Angeles police's fight against street crime and gangs. On the opening weekend of the film, 13 young men belonging to two gangs were arrested. The police believed that these 13 men were gangs. Members fought at the entrance of the theater where "The Colored Rattlesnake" was about to be released, in order to prevent the normal screening of the film.

In addition, the famous gangster group "Guardian Angels" once put up the slogans ""Rattlesnake" kills children" and "Don't show "Rattlesnake" in Los Angeles" during the film's release. On guard during the screening.

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

Also in the 1990s, there were several violent incidents in theaters where "Boys From the Block" was released, with a 23-year-old man shot and killed by a bullet and a 15-year-old boy stabbed to death during its opening weekend , and many people were injured.

In the new century, this kind of incident has become more and more. When "X-Men: The Last Stand" was shown in a movie theater in Baltimore in 2005, two men stood up and took out their guns, asking all the audience to lie on the ground and casually A death shot was fired, killing a hapless sixty-two-year-old man.

When "Rejuvenation" was shown in 2008, a fan kept cheering for the film, which aroused the impatience of the people next to him. When the persuasion failed, the latter decisively escaped with a pistol and shot at the former...

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

Perhaps, watching movies, which was originally a leisure entertainment, will one day really become an "extreme pastime" that has killed people.

Of course, this is just Duke's complaints about Scarlett Johansson in private after reading the relevant information collected by Tina Fey.

But there is a fact that cannot be ignored, and even Duke cannot deny it. After entering the new century, the death and injury caused by movies are intensifying.

Why is the distinction between reality and dreams that was clear in the past, but now it has 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 meaning world created by the Internet.

After the emergence 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 promotion and marketing of movies with the help of the Internet pays great attention to interaction and participation, which can obviously increase the sense of substitution of the participants, and correspondingly, it will also bring some problems.

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

After reading the information collected by Tina Fey, Duke continued to update his instant sharing.

"Is it really like what some media said, should the movie pay for this shooting tragedy?"

"Imagine, if there is no violence in the film, so clean that even the most conservative people can't pick a problem, will the world be a better place? No more violence? Everyone will know the answer without saying it."

"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."

"Movies, like other arts, are distortions and reflections of reality. It is true that many movies exaggerate or advocate violence, but at the same time, there may be more movies that let the audience have a deeper understanding of the seriousness of the problem of violence and let people To 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 just the reality of chronic diseases. 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, don’t play games, or listen to rock music, you can still turn into a butcher thug who kills innocent people indiscriminately.”

"Of course we have reasons to ask film directors, producers and film companies to be more cautious and pay more attention when dealing with violent scenes, but such a tragic and tragic order of 12 lives is something that movies cannot and should not buy."

"In the real world, we don't need Batman, we don't need Superman, we don't need Joker and Lex Luthor, we just need more sobriety, deeper reflection, greater courage and more passionate love for the world .Free choice and free will, not more filtering, protection, control, will lead us out of the shadow of the Santa Monica Plaza shooting and into a brighter world."

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

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