Text | Sheng Haoyang
For DC Fraternity fans, the past three years have not been the most difficult times. The scolded Zach Schneider and Kevin Tsujihara left one after another, "Wonder Woman" sold well, "Thunder Shazam" played super high, "Joker" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival, "Aquaman" even became the highest-grossing film in DC, and only the DCEU, which had made countless people have high hopes, became a water-soaked joke.
Joker
In terms of return on investment, "Justice League" is the second worst fiasco in DC film history after "Batman and Robin", and the cost of $300 million has exacerbated the radiation of the disaster.
But in the new version of the Batman movie has been set to robert Pattinson starring, about to start filming at the moment, looking back at the past six years of chaotic shooting storms and high-level changes, the loss of "Justice League" can only be regarded as worse, "Batman v Superman" The poor reputation is the fatal blow to Warner's ambition to build a DCEU.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
In February 2017, a month before the release of Batman v Superman, Matt Reeves was chosen as the director of the new Batman film, and at that time, there was no news of a change of actors. In July of the same year, the Hollywood Reporter dug into the scoop, saying the new movie might not have anything to do with Ben Affleck.
This rumor, which has left all Batman fans uneasy day and night, was delayed until January this year. In an interview with MTV a few days ago, veteran cinematographer Robert Richardson said that before Big Ben quit the crew, he had already written his own Batman script, based on the story of Arkham Madhouse, which will explore more of batman's dark side.
The dust has finally settled on the film team, and Batman, who has the largest psychological gap, can feel a little comfort. Last year's co-production of "Batman ninja" proved that the status and influence of "DC Brother" remained unchanged, and the DC Animated Movie Universe (DCAMU) continued to advance, steadily launching two or three animated comic films every year.
Batman ninja
This year's Batman: Silence is based on the 2002 comic of the same name, and most of the batman series's positive and negative characters have appeared in a marquee, almost becoming an all-star exhibition game.
Batman: Silence
If the sale of highly popular characters, relying on a number of second-line heroes salted fish to turn over Marvel is more like an inspirational story, the mocked DC does have the "loser" to eat the old bottom, 2013's "Justice League: Lightning Paradox" is basically faithful to DC's famous event "Flashpoint", from the ending to open DCAMU, is currently one of the highest rated DC animation movies, the continuation of "Justice League: War" has little change to the comic, and the entertainment easily hangs the movie version of "Justice League".
DCAMU is by no means a masterpiece, the N52 universe and the P52 universe in the completely different routes of the story is installed together, forced to connect the timeline, unified into an animation, will lead to the N52 universe ming and Wonder Woman is the official superman, in the similar plot of DCAMU, and Louise Lane back to a pair of strange development.
Some changes due to timeline misalignment may be harmless. The animated version of Batman: Silence designed a father-son dialogue that would not have appeared in the comics, because Damian Wayne was a character who only officially appeared in the comics in 2006, and replaced the entire role of Robin Tim Drake in three generations with Nightwing.
Some changes affect the core plot, the second generation robin Jason Todd in another DC animation "Batman: Red Shadow Trail" has long been resurrected as "Red Hood", does not belong to the category of DCAMU, "Silence" animation has to delete his related scenes, can not explain The reason why Batman witnessed the killing of childhood friends, beat the Joker with his bare hands, and almost violated the "do not kill" principle.
However, compared with the failed attempt of the DCEU, DCAMU can get more recognition from fans, in fact, it is very simple, Batman or the Bat family must be the only center of the DC Universe, and the DCEU chose the most difficult superman to shape.
Batman: Silence fails to restore the gorgeous style of Korean-American artist Jim Lee, simplifying the side scenes involving other villains.
Childhood memories with the doctor are omitted, and the killer crocodile who always has no chance to appear this time becomes a movie version of bane, and when the boss finally reveals his true identity, it will surprise all fans of the original, and it is clear that the animation screenwriter is only enthusiastic when the original Batman and Catwoman live together.
Although the couple is destined to break up for crappy reasons at the end, the emotional line between Batman and Catwoman is also much better than the love scene where Superman is controlled by Kryptonian lipstick and Catwoman pushes Louise off a tall building.
As Batman said, Superman is a good guy at heart, he is not, whether it is DCAMO animation or future DC single-player movies, stories that are not "good guys" are always more interesting.