mtl008 Chapter 2507: Battle for the Cloak (63)
Chapter 2507: Battle for the Cloak (63)
Chapter 2507: Battle for the Cloak (Sixty-three)
Bruce's smile gradually faded, and the expression on his face became unpredictable, but soon, Schiller shattered any objections that might be raised by his previous evaluation with one sentence.
"It was through this utterly boring play that I recognized you, because only you could write such rubbish."
Bruce narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Schiller without blinking. Schiller shook his head slightly and said, "The worst thing about this play is that you want to show off yourself all the time."
Schiller raised his eyes to look at Bruce, and at that moment, Bruce felt that the skin he was wearing was completely torn off. The gaze revealed by those gray eyes had a strong penetrating feeling, and he even felt that he could read his brain waves out of thin air.
"I made a disguise." Schiller suddenly began to narrate in the first person. "I wanted to pretend to be someone who I thought was far inferior to me. In order to belittle him, I had to write an extremely childish and clumsy script that seemed to be something he would write."
"Because he is not as good as me, his abilities are within my range, so I can effortlessly imitate his abilities to the fullest, so that I can perfectly disguise myself as him, and contribute these clumsiness and childishness to the world, so that everyone can discover his true face."
"But it's not possible." Schiller's tone suddenly revealed a trace of distress. He said, "It's not enough to just let everyone know that he can't do it. I also have to let everyone know that there are people who are better than him. I have to let others know how powerful and wise I am."
"But if I want to show my strength and wisdom, how can I highlight his clumsiness and immaturity? He has to be weak and I have to be strong. I have to show both his weakness and my strength."
"This script is the product of the tug of war between these two ideas." Schiller looked at Bruce and said, "You have to show the naivety of a certain idea to show how naive Bruce is, and you have to find a way to come up with an idea that is more sophisticated than this naive idea to show how sophisticated you are."
"And this naive idea, reflected in the play, is that there should be responsible superheroes in this world who should strive for justice beyond their own abilities."
"You have to show the naivety of this kind of thinking and point out the loopholes in it, which is that superheroes do not care about the feelings of ordinary people for the sake of justice. They rush forward recklessly, only sacrificing the safety of some people in exchange for the safety of others."
"To do this, you arranged a conflict between Jason and Thompson, had them both suddenly appear together, and happened to break the teddy bear during the conflict."
"Then there's the plot where Spider-Man is chasing the Claw Killer, but it causes a traffic jam and an overturned truck crushes your important gift, thus changing your fate."
"These two plots show that you want to write a story about a young hero who begins to reflect and eventually awakens after discovering that he has hurt ordinary people."
"As you said, this story is indeed a bit clumsy and childish, and lacks depth. Looking at these two stories, Thompson and you just played a stereotyped tool man, without your own character arc, just to pave the way for the hero's growth."
"The design of these two plots is that you want to show the true level of Bruce. You think he can write a story of this level, which is like him."
"But soon, the desire to demonstrate your own wisdom took over again. When it came to discussing ideologies, you felt that you could come up with a more reasonable idea to convince everyone. When it came to plotting, you also felt that you could write a better and more in-depth plot to show that you were more than one level higher than Bruce."
"So there is this Gordon line, which is completely a stage set by your narcissistic psychology for yourself. It is something you write when you want to show that your psychology prevails."
“So, in this line you start to explore the issue of ability and responsibility. You are just an ordinary person without ability, so you naturally don’t have that much responsibility.”
"On the other hand, when Superman lost his powers, he didn't take on much responsibility. In the end, he saved the world only because he had restored his powerful powers."
"You acknowledge that ability and responsibility are linked, and use these two lines to reflect your point of view, but your point is not that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, but that if you don't have ability, you are not responsible, or even you shouldn't be responsible or even think about being responsible."
"It's like you left Gordon paralyzed in bed. He no longer has any ability to uphold justice, but he always wants to take on responsibilities that he can't afford, so he's in so much pain."
"You interpret this as the source of his pain. The purpose is to warn the audience, look, this is the end of a person who has no ability but wants to take responsibility. In essence, it is saying that being a hero will only make you suffer. It is better to face reality and give up as soon as possible."
"You think this is much more profound than 'with great power comes great responsibility'. This is not childish. This is what adults should uphold."
"Then you feel that you must show that you are better than Bruce in terms of the eye-catching plot, so you use old cases, Bourne, physical pain, mental torture, shooting, investigation, reversal..."
"You stuffed all of this into the Gordon storyline. Your parents were intertwined with Gordon's shooting case. Gordon's one-sided contact with the female police officer due to suspicion, his physical pain of being paralyzed in bed and unable to take care of himself, his mental torture of being unable to do anything when he saw the murderer committing crimes, the shooting many years ago, the investigation many years later, and the nephew who was thought to be a positive character, but ended up being the mastermind behind all the tragedies."
"You think this is a non-childish plot, with violence, blood, conflict, and twists. It's much better than the growth story of a young hero."
"Back to the Superman line, the first half is still the point you made when Bruce's psychological level prevailed. What should break the inner demons of young superheroes is the spirit of perseverance and never giving up, and the quality of following one's own compassion and sense of justice until the clouds clear and the moon appears."
"You feel that this spirit is childish and can't possibly exist in reality, so you have to shoot it this way to show how superficial Bruce's understanding of the world is."
"But soon, the desire to reflect your own wisdom took over. Humans are greedy for enjoyment. Everyone likes a peaceful life. Superheroes are also human. How could they not give up? Why wouldn't they give up?"
"So you skipped time, deleted Jason and Peter's memories, and built a false happy living environment for them to show that the young hero who was full of vigor and vitality back then also wanted to indulge in the peace and happiness of ordinary people, right?"
"After the disaster, didn't they also retreat in cowardice, put themselves first, and put their families first instead of saving the world?"
"In terms of plot, you think that stories about school life and Christmas are the kind of stories that only children would like to watch. On the contrary, terrorist attacks, the end of the world, greed and chaos are the things that adults should watch."
"So you have this terrorist attack later in the storyline - of course, it wasn't originally caused by Jack, but I think you said, of course there would be a catastrophe."
"When completing this play, these two mentalities were constantly pulling back and forth. You have to have both, to show how naive the Bruce you play is, and to show how wise you are as Bruce."
"So you created a play like this, with inconsistent logic, unclear plot, changing scenes, jumping back and forth in time and space, foreshadowing, and extremely awkward twists."
Schiller sneered and said, "But if this is just a bad movie, it would be fine. What's even more tragic is that this bad movie was directed by me, not you."
Bruce finally stood up. He glanced out the door, stared at Schiller and said, "That's what I wanted to ask you. What did you do?"
"Is there a possibility?" Schiller also stood up. The two looked at each other across the desk. Schiller looked into Bruce's eyes and said, "Without me, you can't even direct this crappy movie. Do you know how much effort I put in to make this show complete? Do you know how much effort they put in?"
Schiller turned to look at the villains standing in the room. They all looked at Bruce's face, and then sighed in unison.
"What's going on?" Bruce just wanted an answer.
Schiller also sighed softly, walked out from behind his desk and said: "Most people do have lucid dreams. One day they suddenly realize that they are dreaming, and then they can become the master of the dream and control everything in the dream."
"But do you think you are the master of the dream kingdom? Do you really think you can be like the dream god, even bring souls from reality here, and fabricate dreams completely regardless of logic?"
Bruce frowned slowly.
Constantine suddenly appeared in the room. He brushed off the dust on his body with his fingers and said, "Of course you can't. Even if you have the ability to create a dream bubble, it will operate according to the logic of the dream kingdom, not your logic."
Schiller walked up to Bruce, looked up at him and said, "You think you have perfectly fabricated this dream world. It was me and this group of criminals who replaced the characters in the dream world. We worked non-stop and conscientiously to patch it up for you behind the scenes."
"And me." Constantine crossed his arms and said, "I used the only permission in the dream world and worked frantically for several days and nights to keep this world with broken logic from collapsing."
"So why are you doing this?" Bruce asked, "Since I fabricated the dream and the world's plan didn't work from the beginning, why not just let it go?"
"Of course, because if you can't complete this play, if you don't show your schizophrenic self-twisting in front of everyone, how will people know that you are crazy?"
"And..." Schiller turned around, smiled at Bruce and said, "How can I know how you can be so crazy and mediocre, so boring, and so stupid that you can have so much fun?"
He laughed, and all the crazy people in the room laughed. The Joker laughed so hard that he was out of breath, Harley Quinn laughed so hard that she pounded the wall, and even the usually serious Scarecrow and Mr. Freeze couldn't help but hold their mouths tightly with their hands, the corners of their mouths were harder to hold down than a gun.
With a bang, the door was pushed open, and the Penguin, still wearing sunglasses and a mob leader's costume, walked in cursing.
"Damn it, you guys ran away right after finishing the filming, leaving me there. I was almost beaten to death by those little bastards! You..."
When the Penguin looked up, he saw a bloody mouth full of fangs.
I didn't laugh. I couldn't laugh.
Sorry for the late update, but I laugh like Nuwa mending the sky, I have to be cool and logical
Editorial Department, do you have any idea?
(End of this chapter)