mtl008 Chapter 2513: Battle for the Cloak (69)
Chapter 2513: Battle for the Cloak (69)
Chapter 2513: Battle for the Cloak (Sixty-nine)
Everything changed one night.
The Laughing Bat's expression gradually turned ugly.
It was approaching Christmas, and Jason's illness was basically healed. Spider-Man was making the final arrangements for the Christmas tree, but after hanging up all the decorations, he found that the Christmas tree was not bright enough. Some lights were missing, so it looked a little dim and the effect was not good.
But the next day is Christmas Eve, and most stores will be closed, so it will be too late to buy at that time.
So Jason and Spider-Man decided to go out tonight and buy some more colorful lights to make the Christmas tree brighter.
While walking on the road, they had another debate between superheroes and ordinary people. They were probably still saying that the peaceful time now was rare and that they should really cherish their dreams of being a hero and it wouldn't be too late to talk about it after Christmas.
Everyone could clearly hear that at this time the two young heroes' thoughts had begun to tend to pursue an ordinary and happy life, so in fact the design of the Laughing Bat had already been achieved.
But another problem arises. If this is the case, there is no need for The Laughing Bat to skip those 20 years, because the script is correct if the story continues in this way.
The young hero gave up his heroic dream because he indulged in pleasure, and he repented only when he encountered a disaster in middle age. The first half went smoothly, but it would have been fine if it had continued like this. Why adjust the time?
Everyone knows that this kind of screen going black after 20 years is considered a relatively low-level processing technique and is rarely used in TV dramas.
Even if it is to be used, it must be under logical circumstances. For example, the hero and heroine break up and spend 10 years apart. These 10 years are not the main focus of the plot. The audience does not want to see how the two of them live when they are apart, but rather want to see how they reconcile after they meet again.
Therefore, this part of the plot can only be skipped, otherwise the plot will be too watery and have no focus, which will also lead to a drop in ratings. In this case, skipping the time when the screen flashes is a better choice.
But if the director himself wants to show the reunion, and the audience also wants to see it, after the hero and heroine are separated and heartbroken, they each describe how sad they are in the rest of their lives, and then the screen flashes, 10 years have passed, and the two get married, and the reunion process is skipped, and it all depends on whether the director gets beaten or not.
The design of "The Laughing Bat" itself is about the transformation of the heroes' mental journey from youth to middle age. Although the sudden repentance in middle age is important, you can't not show us the change of concepts in youth. What is this movie about?
Jason had been ill before and his mind was not clear. It is normal for people to desire a peaceful life when they are weak. This special thought under special circumstances is not universal.
Peter had been bullied before and was living in an abnormal state. It was normal for some of his ideas to be distorted at this time, which was not convincing enough.
Moreover, both of them are relatively introverted people. There is no normal social environment around them. The choices they made were the only choices they could make at that time. There were no other options for them to choose, so the state they presented could only be like that.
The transformation in this situation is not called self-cognition, but being pushed by society and fate.
But now, both of them have escaped from their previous environment. One can temporarily put aside his traumatic past, and the other finally has the powerful strength he has always dreamed of. They also accompany each other, establish a new network of relationships, and finally have a normal life.
Then, they finally began to have the energy to think about their future path and to stand at a crossroads and make choices like most ordinary people.
They are also discussing this matter, and their views are not completely unified. They are still entangled, hesitant and confused.
Then, click, this process is skipped, they have chosen, and the road they chose is the one that the theme of the movie wants to highlight. Isn't this a joke? Why did they choose this way? On what basis did they choose this way?
You, the director, worked so hard to design a series of plot conflicts, placing the two of them in an ordinary person's environment and making them more like ordinary people. Isn't it just to make them more resonant with ordinary people when discussing their choices?
Does it make ordinary audiences feel that "I think he is right, because I thought so at the time" or "I think he is wrong, because I thought so at the time"?
Only by allowing the audience to find resonance in them and apply it to themselves can they trigger their thinking. Even if the decision they ultimately make is different from that of the audience, at least they show the audience a new possibility.
As a result, the thinking part was skipped directly, and both of them made a certain choice, which makes people feel that this is not the character's choice, nor the audience's choice, but the director's choice.
The director used a loud speaker to play the message in a loop: "This path is the right one! This path is the best one! No matter how much you discuss or think, you will definitely take this path!"
Audiences hate being represented.
And this is also different from the original intention of the show. The purpose of The Bat Who Laughs bringing in the real Jason is to prove that young heroes will also be corrupted by a stable and happy life, and eventually give up their ideals and dreams.
If you skip the part about why he gave up and directly control him to lose his memory and make this choice, then why not just create a plot character that is completely under your control?
Everyone present always felt that the Laughing Bat was stupid, but he couldn't be this stupid. Couldn't he see such obvious inconsistencies?
Obviously, there is something else going on.
Just as Jason and Spider-Man went out to buy a lamp, they heard a cry for help. It was a little girl's scream coming from the alley next door.
From the way they turned around and ran, it could be seen that they were acting completely on instinct. They rushed over the moment they heard the scream, and then they saw the terrifying figure of the Claw Killer standing in front of the little girl.
Jason, who had just recovered from a serious illness and had not yet fully recovered his strength, instinctively rushed forward and hugged the little girl, while Peter, who had great strength, knocked the murderer to the ground.
The murderer soon disappeared, and the two men comforted the little girl, whose cries echoed in the alley.
The two of them had a sleepless night.
The next morning, they went out early without even having time to hang up the lights they bought last night. They bought a lot of newspapers about the Claw Killer and collected all the recent news reports about him, as if they were trying to find out where this hateful criminal was.
Wait, why is there something wrong with this plot?
Oh, everyone suddenly understood, it turned out that it wasn't that the Laughing Bat wanted to skip these 20 years, but that he had to skip.
Because if he doesn't jump again, this will become a superhero movie with a young hero fighting crime.
Before, she was sick, bullied, and broke her teddy bear. All these preparations were useless. As soon as the little girl started crying, the two of them wanted to eat the damn criminal alive.
"Human beings are emotional creatures," Schiller said. "They only start to philosophize when they are not in an emergency, when they are not excited, when they are not in a crisis of survival, when they are not forced by the environment, and more precisely, when they are full and have nothing to do."
"And they must have the right time, right place, and right people. There must not be any accidents or misfortunes. Only then will they be able to smoothly follow the path they have thought of."
"If there are any accidents, this is completely impossible." Schiller shook his head, put down his pen and said, "If everyone can plan a path for themselves at the age of 20 and successfully walk on this path to the end, human society will not be what it is now."
"The reason for all these accidents is nothing more than being overly enthusiastic, lacking rationality, slow thinking, poor logic, or knowing whether it is right or wrong, but not having the self-control to make the right choice."
"It's the same for young heroes. Even if they know rationally what's good for them, they can't control themselves."
"Maybe the night before he was still thinking about the harm his actions might cause to others, and he made a clear analysis and decided to repent and change his ways, but the next day when he saw a robbery, he rushed up and beat up the criminal without caring about anything."
"Even the most brilliant psychologists in the world can't explain the reason. All we can say is that you should stop asking about human affairs."
Everyone also realized that the Claw Killer controlled by Schiller was actually just a cover. This was a typical hat trick.
The Claw Killer did not commit crimes to disrupt the situation in the city or destroy the background of the story so that it could not go on. The real killer move was actually the little girl played by the puppeteer.
This is a very simple logical trap: a horrific murderer who is receiving widespread attention and coverage, or a group of innocent children who are just poor victims? Who looks more like the troublemaker?
Because the Laughing Bat is just such a murderer who has been doing things to destroy the background story of a certain universe, he naturally puts himself in other people's shoes and thinks that the person who interferes with him must also want to do the same.
And in the end, this murderer must want to confuse right and wrong and whitewash himself as a righteous person. He wants to remind the young heroes who are the protagonists of his story to wake up so that they can rise up in resistance and prevent the show from going on, because that's what the Laughing Bat did before.
He told all the Robins and Batmans who were corrupted by him that their universe was going to be destroyed, and that someone else was going to destroy it, and that he was here to help them, so this group of people would listen to his instructions.
But Schiller didn't. The Claw Killer played a villain from beginning to end, and even the real killing girl was not there to wake the heroes up, but to make them get too excited and completely disregard their previous thinking and discussion, acting purely on emotion.
The essence of superheroes is impulsiveness.
They would never choose this path because of gains and losses, but because they can't bear to see others suffer and the law is unable to punish certain super criminals, so they choose to be a superhero on the edge of social order.
If they really considered the gains and losses of order, they should choose to go to police academy to become police officers, study law to become lawyers, or go to medical school to save lives. It is because they cannot think so much and rely purely on their passion that they will be superheroes, not police officers, lawyers, and doctors.
Therefore, the best way to make the Batman Who Laughs pull out a huge mess in this play is not to reason with Jason and Spider-Man, but to stimulate their blood.
As expected, it was discovered that the two young heroes had forgotten all previous discussions in just one night and were about to rush up to fight the super criminals. The Laughing Bat, who was broken into defense, defecated greatly on the spot.
He ignored all the previous rules, ignored the theme of the play, and even gave up on his spiritual tug-of-war with the real Bruce, choosing to go directly to the trance.
This was exactly what Schiller was aiming for.
Because it forced the Laughing Bat to reveal his true nature - he only had ability, but no talent.
I know you are going to be killed by the previous part, and the author is going to be schizophrenic... hurry up and dig up the stories of the minor characters... no, he is Kuang Aotian... perfect the background... no, Kuang Xiao doesn't care... write about the psychological game... no, Kuang Xiao can't... I quit, I want to write it myself... no, Kuang Xiao is ooc...
(End of this chapter)