Made in Hollywood

Yahoo Entertainment News, Warner Bros. officially announced a few days ago that the final chapter of the Batman trilogy directed by Duke Rosenberg will be released on the first weekend of May next year. The film will be divided into ordinary 2D, 3D and IMAX3D At present, the title of the film has not yet been finalized, and the launch time has not been clarified.

The crew has just been established, and all the preparations are at the initial stage. Charles Rowan and Anna Prinz are temporarily in charge of the specific work, and Duke is still making necessary revisions to the script.

The outline and setting of this script were completed by him ten years ago, and the editorial team of the Duke Studio also completed the writing of the script according to the outline early on. Since the trilogy is in the same line, it basically maintains the original appearance.

But time is changing, the environment is changing, and Duke's vision and aesthetics are also changing.

In his opinion, the script ten years ago could no longer meet the needs of this final chapter.

The Batman trilogy is different from ordinary commercial movies, but it is far from the category of superhero movies. This kind of movie is nothing more than fighting. The problem Duke needs to solve is why he fights.

The way all movies do is to create a contradiction and throw it to the audience, so that the audience can't help but stand on the side of the spear or the shield. They will naturally be led by the nose by the film, and the director is happy to show him anything.

The level of conflict is determined by the level of the film's appeal to the audience.

There are three levels of conflict in the world: the highest level, the contradiction of ideas; the middle level, the contradiction of people; the lowest level, the contradiction of things.

For example, in the first two films, the contradiction between Batman and the Joker, Two-Face, and the Shadow Warrior Alliance is a contradiction of ideas.

And in this completed script, the conflict between Batman and Bane is a human conflict; the conflict between Batman and the nuclear bomb. It is a contradiction of things.

Looking at superhero movies, how to settle the contradictions between the three has exhausted the brains of directors.

The most common mode is that while constantly dealing with the contradictions of things, the contradictions between heroes and villains are gradually escalated and resolved, and finally the theme is sublimated by the contradictions of ideas.

Just do it. Basically a good movie.

In Avatar, it is to prevent the forced demolition first, then kill the colonel, and finally choose to be a Na'vi.

Putting it in Terminator 2, it is to blow up the research center first, then fix the T1000, and finally the T800 sacrifices itself.

The Dark Knight stands out. It is because the whole story breaks the common method of contradictory design, and puts ideological contradictions on all the possible contradictions. The final climax of the two-ship game makes everyone nervous, not because someone is trying to defuse the bomb. It's because at any moment one party is pressing the button.

And there are five camps in this movie, Batman, Harvey Dent, Joker. Gangster, citizen. Every camp has a position, a point of view, and a role to play.

Now there is no faction in this script at all, the gangsters have been wiped out, the citizens are just watching and following, and the police are just displaying the whole process. Halfway through, a U.S. military was playing soy sauce...

Why do no citizens question Bane's rule? In The Avengers, there are people who choose not to kneel in front of Loki. Is Jim Gordon's belief over? Why don't citizens guess who has the nuke button in their hands? How much did Batman's don't kill banner contribute to the ending?

These are all things Duke needs to consider.

Of course, these are all for the fun and thrills of the film, but only to increase the necessary elements in this regard, not the real purpose of the film itself.

Otherwise, The Dark Knight Rises is not a summer commercial film, but a completely niche gangster literary film.

From the beginning, Duke was determined to give The Dark Knight Rises all the necessary thrills and fun that a summer blockbuster should have.

The action scenes are grand, the storyline is full, and the characters are very distinctive. All the elements that make up a wonderful drama are well controlled and indispensable.

In At War, the audience can see the tragedy and pain in the young Bruce Wayne, and the resulting anger, he feels helpless, helpless, he is looking for a way out, he wants to find himself , want to know what kind of person I can become.

And then there's The Dark Knight, where he finds that way out, he becomes confident and mature, he's doing the most meaningful life thing he can imagine, and he's steadfast because of it.

Now, eight years later, the only thing in his life that made him feel meaningful suddenly didn't exist, until he was forced to take on new challenges once again, whether it was Gotham City or another deadly threat to himself.

The person who poses this threat is Bane the Destroyer, who wears a mask all day long and recklessly destroys Gotham City guarded by Batman. The scarecrow defeated by Batman is a lunatic, and the clown is an anarchist.

And Bane is an extreme terrorist no matter from his mind or his behavior,

In the audition room of Warner Studios, the burly Dwayne Johnson took off his mask and said his understanding to Duke, He looks scary on the outside, and he is extremely smart. The enemy with a high IQ is the most dangerous.

When deciding to shape Batman's next old enemy, Duke knew clearly that this character must be completely different from the Joker and must be a strong opponent.

Bruce Wayne's physical features as Batman play a vital role in the story, and in the first two films, no one has ever challenged Batman on this.

This time, Duke really wanted to give Batman an opponent who was evenly matched physically and even possessed an overwhelming advantage, and it was even more difficult to distinguish the winner mentally. With such a combination of posture and momentum, it can make him a more difficult enemy to resist.

When it comes to acting skills, Dwayne Johnson is a scumbag, but Bane wears a mask throughout the film. Even if the actor who plays him is good at acting, there is not much room for display.

In contrast to the shocking appearance, Dwayne Johnson's advantage is very obvious. When he stands in front of Christian Bale, even a fool knows that he is stronger than Batman!

And as a champion player of the professional wrestling league in fake fights, using body movements to sensationalize will not be a problem.

As for the lines and sound, it would be easier to solve. Duke has never been a director who stubbornly sticks to live recording. There are too many post-production technologies that can solve Bane's voice problems, even if it is Dawn Johnson. You can also find someone to do the voiceover.

What Duke needs is a tough destroyer, not a psychopath.

In this film, for the first time, Batman will obviously not be able to gain the upper hand in terms of body and skill. Bruce Wayne has retired for many years and fought in the arena again. First of all, his skills are blunt and his condition is not good.

In addition to being a physically strong opponent, Bane is also cruel and aggressive, as well as ideologically fanatical, making him invincible and has the momentum to sweep thousands of troops.

In this regard, Dwayne Johnson is extremely suitable.

It didn't take long for Duke to cast Dwayne Johnson as Bane the Destroyer.

In addition to Gal Gadot and James Franco who have been confirmed to play Catwoman and John Blake respectively, the main actors are basically complete, except for the role of Miranda Tate.

Likewise, Duke had no interest in having little marketable, well-paid French actresses in arthouse films, and planned to hold a wide-ranging audition for the role.

Originally, Scarlett wanted to make a cameo, but was rejected by Duke. Black Widow appeared in the Batman movie, which was definitely a disaster.

In addition, Duke also talked with Christian Bale several times, paying special attention to his emotional and psychological state.

Before he played Batman, saying that Christian Bale was a second-tier actor was too much praise. The two Batman films brought Bale unprecedented glory, especially after The Dark Knight, he has become a standard first-tier Hollywood superstar.

Like most Hollywood stars, Christian Bale has risen along with his social status and manic temper.

The most widely circulated is the Christian Bale incident.

After the end of The Dark Knight, when filming Terminator 4, the crew's photographer Sean Herbert mistakenly broke into the set props and distracted Christian Bale's attention. Bale immediately went into a rage and used All kinds of swear words attacked Sean Herbert, and the intensity of the words made the people at the scene dumbfounded.

In less than four minutes, Christian Bale blurted out fxxk 37 times. I don't know if that counts as a record.

In the words of people on the set at the time, Sean Herbert was really tenacious to survive such a dense fxxk.

Although this kind of mistake does not happen often on the set, it is inevitable that it will appear during filming. Sean Herbert later solemnly apologized to Christian Bale. If Christian Bale was interrupted by Sean Herbert If it is normal to get angry due to performance status, the subsequent behavior shows the domineering and unreasonable side of Hollywood superstars.

Christian Bale issued an ultimatum to the crew, saying that if he didn't fire Sean Herbert, the cameraman, he would quit. Even the director Joseph McGinty Nicher personally persuaded him to be useless.

In the end, it was Charles Rowan, who also served as the producer of Terminator 4, who rushed to the set to suppress the incident and make Christian Bale change his mind, so that the filming could proceed smoothly.

Things like this are not the first time in Hollywood, and it will definitely not be the last time. Christian Bale is just one of the Hollywood superstars who do this. (to be continued ~^~)

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