Today is Valentine's Day, just today in Beijing time, director Matt Reeves coincidentally released the first styling test video of the new Batman single-man film directed by him.
In this video, the new Batman, played by Robert Pattinson, appears in a mecha bat suit under a heavy red-and-black light.
The styling video was shot by Batman cinematographer Greg Fraiser, and the soundtrack was also created by the film's official soundtrack, Mike Giazzi, which can be said to be quite formal.
Looking at Robert Pattinson's tender jaw, I can't help but think of his and ex-girlfriend Christine Stewart's once stormy past.
Regarding Pattinson, many people still have the impression of him staying in the "Twilight" series ten years ago and Cedric Diggory, who played soy sauce in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" earlier.
In 2008's Twilight, Robert Pattinson played Edward the Vampire, and Bella was played by Christine Stewart, who was only 18 years old at the time.
As a result, Pattinson and Stewart faked the real thing, and the drama was out of love. When "Twilight 3: New Moon" was filmed, they officially announced their relationship. Pattinson was 24 and Stewart was 20.
At the time, Wick Godfrey, the producer of the "Twilight" series, also told reporters that he hoped the two would always be better.
Pattinson and Stewart became lovers at the height of Twilight's popularity, which caused a stir among fans around the world. Needless to say, the details of the two people's lives may become headlines at any time. What Stewart said to Pattinson, Pattinson's reaction, what dinner the two had, everything was the focus of entertainment journalists and fans' chase.
Even Stewart's dark circles are interpreted as whether they quarreled with Pattinson and the two were going to break up. Later, Pattinson and Stewart could not even appear in public together, because it was possible to attract too many fans and cause local security problems.
However, negative news soon followed.
First, the media broke the news that Pattinson cheated on Lilton Meister, who played Blair in "Gossip Girl", and a friend of Meister said that Pattinson had to send messages to Meister every day to "communicate". Witnesses also said they saw Pattinson in the middle of the night at Mester's apartment in Los Angeles. Pattinson then spoke through an intermediary that he and Mester did not know each other at all.
Lyton Mestre
Then a gossip magazine revealed that Stewart was in cahoots with Nikki Reid, who also played Rosalie in the "Twilight" crew. The reason is that Nikki Reid is Pattinson's predecessor, which makes Stewart quite upset.
The two also attacked each other when they quarreled, with Stewart saying that Pattinson never brushed his teeth and Pattinson saying that Stewart hardly washed his hair.
But the most bloody thing was that Stewart split his leg when filming Snow White and the Huntsman, the then 41-year-old married director Rupert Sanders. As soon as the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar. Stewart also suffered an unprecedented public relations crisis, and almost everyone sided with Pattinson.
Stewart and Rupert Sanders
It is also because of this split that Pattinson and Stewart's relationship, which has reached the level of marriage and marriage, has completely collapsed.
It happened in 2012. The "Twilight" series is finally coming to an end. The two, who have new goals for their acting careers, are preparing to go in new directions. Robert Pattinson starred in the heterochromatic film Metropolis by the famous Canadian director David Cronenberg and "Pretty Friend", based on Maupassant's novel.
Metropolis
In addition to "Twilight" and the scandalous commercial film Snow White and the Hunter, Christine Stewart also starred in the film of the same name based on Kerouac's "On the Road".
In a word, throwing off the baggage of "Twilight", the artistic atmosphere on the two of them was revealed, and the time came to show their fists.
On the way
But no one expected that at this moment, the two would break up. The emotional breakdown was a huge shock to Both Pattinson and Stewart. In 2012, there were three other works, and throughout 2013, no works came out. The career that was originally in the ascendancy period was momentarily fragmented.
In 2013, it was silent for Pattinson, who almost disappeared from the public, while Stewart was in 2013 full of gossip, lawsuits, new girlfriends and so on.
From the career alone, until 2014, this pair of fateful Mandarin ducks has eased up.
Let's start with Robert Pattinson. Beginning in 2014, Pattinson began a clear transition to art cinema. For Pattinson, the starting point of art films can be traced back to starring in Cronenberg's "Metropolis", and he himself said that there were several scenes in "Metropolis" that were the most satisfying in his acting career.
In 2014, Pattinson starred again in Cronenberg's "Star Map", which was shortlisted for the main competition unit in Cannes and won the Best Actress Award.
In 2015, he starred in Brady Corbett's Childhood Before the War, which eventually won the Venice Film Festival Best Debut Award and the Horizon Division Best Director Award. That same year, Pattinson also starred in German director Werner Herzog's Berlin Golden Bear-nominated "Queen of the Desert."
Childhood before the war
In 2016, Pattinson starred in James Gray's masterpiece Lost City of Z, and his bearded look is almost unrecognizable. In 2017, he starred in the crime film Good Times, which was again shortlisted for the main competition section at Cannes.
In 2018, Pattinson starred in French female director Claire Denis' sci-fi film Life in Space. In 2019, he starred in the black-and-white horror film "Lighthouse", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
lighthouse
Looking at Pattinson's post-Twilight works, although he was not nominated for any acting awards, he had a unique vision, and almost every film he starred in was shortlisted for the most important film festival competition units in the world, from the three major european film festivals to the Oscars.
These films are diverse in genre, and Pattinson himself is like a chameleon, format characters, format modeling, completely invisible to the characters, has made the audience unable to see the cream of the "Twilight" series of that year.
Looking at Christine Stewart, in fact, her post-Twilight path is almost the same as Pattinson's. The two invariably avoided mainstream commercial production, opting for "small" films that were more expressive.
In 2014, Stewart starred in "Camp X-ray", which featured the story of a female soldier serving in Guantanamo Prison, "Sils Maria", which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and "Still Alice", which finally won Julian Moore the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Sils Maria
In 2016, Stewart starred in Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle", starred in Woody Allen's "Coffee Commune", and after "Sils Maria", he once again played the lead role in french director Olivier Assayas's work "Private Buyer", which eventually won the Cannes Best Director Award.
In 2019, Stewart starred in a new version of "Thunderbolt Baby" and also starred in the ill-fated new wave goddess Jane Sispo's biopic "Sissy Bao".
Sissy
Compared to Pattinson's rigor of 1 or 2 works per year, Stewart seems to have a more arbitrary attitude.
She has both the award-winning "Sils Maria" and the unreliable "Agent of Waste Wood" and "Thunderbolt Baby". It is possible to produce 4 or 5 films a year (2015 and 2016) or not to have any feature films in a year (only one short film directed by himself was made in 2017). As she herself said, when she doesn't want to make a movie, don't shoot it, recharge herself, and do something else she wants to do.
From this point of view, Robert Pattinson and Christine Stewart are really quite similar, this image, not all the same, but the attraction of complementing each other. The love at that time was really an unforgettable love.
So much so that later Pattinson had a new girlfriend, FKA twigs, which the American media ridiculed as following Stewart's shadow, although cruel and not unreasonable.
In particular, these two people in their respective film careers, like an ice (Pattinson) and a fire (Stewart), with their respective talents, can so completely get rid of the shackles of the hugely successful "Twilight" and become themselves. Not to mention that they were only in their early twenties at the time, even a lot of successful veteran actors have a hard time doing this. It is no wonder that the "Twilight" producers can't help but sigh when they see them.
Now that Pattinson is back in Hollywood, how much of an intersection he and Stewart will have now or in the future, we let others fornicate. As old fans, when I see them, I will only occasionally think of a biology class more than ten years ago, when the two observed onion epidermal cells together.
Good times, good times, don't care about the tense.