Dick looked up and watched the scene with a smile.
The little red-haired girl in the picture was frightened by the sudden flight, but then she was surprised. The lights were on in the rainy city of Gotham, and the light penetrated the rain curtain. Irene hugged the neck of the gargoyle and looked down, as if she saw her rising in the light in the gray swamp - this reminded Dick of the day when he became Robin. He was the first Robin of Batman, and he was also the first to wear the Robin uniform, swinging from one high-rise building to another in Gotham with bare thighs. Even though many things happened later, Dick was sure that he never regretted becoming Robin.
… It was the best day of his life.
He was holding a Coke, and sitting next to him was Barbara. As the former Batgirl, if Barbara had not been approached by the Chou, she would have been able to defeat her opponent with her swift skills. But now her movements were restricted, and she had changed from Batgirl to Oracle, and could only serve as a logistical support staff.
This made Dick feel complicated.
It was not because their companions suffered irreversible injuries, but even with such injuries, the city of Gotan had not improved at that time. They were like pulling a sinking ship, barely keeping it afloat, but unable to find land to dock.
On the screen, the little girl Irene grabbed the bed sheet and hugged the gargoyle's neck tightly. The camera zoomed out to overlook the entire city. In the lights that were clearly going out, something was flying towards them bathed in light. It would be better to say that the gargoyle under Irene entered the other formations like a bird returning to its nest.
It was a group of gargoyles that appeared from all directions of the city. As the camera rotated, the viewer was able to see angles that "Eileen" could not see. The gargoyles circled and flew to the observation deck of the Wayne Tower in the dark.
Everyone present who knew where that place was was stunned.
The Wayn Tower is a landmark building in Gotham. It was built by Bruce's great-grandfather and has stood there since the beginning of Gotham. The viewing platform is a huge platform open to everyone free of charge. Everyone who has visited Gotham will check in at the Wayn Tower.
Several generations of the Wayne family were responsible for maintaining this place. Dick had naturally been here. He had eaten a sandwich on the top floor wearing Robin's uniform, and he had also been to the top floor as Wayne's adopted son, overlooking the city in the rain.
The city of Gotham shaped them.
It was a wonderful feeling to see familiar buildings in a movie. You could stare at every frame of the movie and maybe even find your own home. Dick smiled and said to Barbara, "I think this is a city promotional film for Gotham, Babs."
"Of course," Barbara glanced at him, pushed up her glasses, and smiled easily, "Why do you think Bruce would invest in this? This is not a business that will lose money."
This is the "business" that makes this city better. The city you live in is where the plot of the animated film takes place. Even your school and your family's store will appear on the screen. The citizens of Gotam will develop a sense of cohesion and recognition of the city of Gotam. clouds, but it is also a great city.
Dick shrugged, and glanced away inconspicuously, with a slightly strange expression on his face.
They sat in the second row. The third row was Damian and his six companions, but Dick noticed that the person sitting on the far right of the third row was probably his little brother Tim. The fourth row was the Avengers superheroes, and the person he was paying attention to, Red Hood, sat in the fifth row.
Dick and Barbara didn't come to the movie just to rest. Dick didn't tell Tim, but he told Barbara that he was a little concerned about "Red Hood". As a result, Barbara directly sent a message to Vivi, asking if Red Hood might come to watch the movie at 2 am, so they decided to "meet by chance".
Unfortunately, they didn't realize that the Red Hood movie tickets were given by Dylan, the manager at Felix Media - it didn't make sense at all - and Vivi bought her own tickets so that the group could sit together, so Dick and the other two were not in a good position to meet by chance.
And this occasion was not appropriate, Dick thought. He had not expected so many "acquaintances" to come.
On the screen, Irene wrapped herself in a bed sheet, pretending to be a large caterpillar pendant on the gargoyles. More and more gargoyles appeared around them. On the circular viewing platform, they formed a circle with three layers inside and three layers outside, like a silent army, which was creepy.
But if you zoom in, you can see——
Some of the gargoyles had underwear and rags hanging on their wings, obviously having been used as clothes drying racks before; others were painted red and black, with two footprints on their heads. Statues always receive such treatment; and this was not the most outrageous thing. A robins had built a nest in the open mouth of one of the gargoyles, and several hungry birds were chirping. Irene noticed with her sharp eyes that the other gargoyles were standing, but that one was half squatting. This posture made the bird's nest in its mouth flat and stable, and it was not even wet by the rain.
Dick: “…” I always feel that the appearance of those robins is meant to carry some ulterior motive.
Then, the movie screen tells the audience through the performance of BGM——
The big boss who summoned the gargoyles to Wayne Tower is about to appear. Who is this guy hiding in the dark side of Gotham City, waiting for an opportunity to make a move?
Coincidentally, everyone watching the movie this early morning...hadn't read the spoilers.
Dick didn't want to see spoilers and he just ignored the push. Barbara didn't show it whether she had seen the movie or not. Vivi certainly didn't know anything about it. perfunctory job. In the end, none of them came to see the movie openly, so it would be bad if they encountered fans taking pictures.
The little girl Irene on the screen didn't dare to make a sound, only a pair of lively eyes appeared from under the bed sheet. Her heart was pounding. Darkness fell, and a huge shadow shrouded the screen.
——Dick's expression suddenly became a little strange.
Then, the camera suddenly zoomed in on the face of a new character that appeared in the circle of gargoyles, or to be more precise, the lower half of the face.
The "Batman" who appeared on the screen said in Batman's iconic low and hoarse voice: "Kids, the lurking is over-"
"It's time to counterattack Kotan and make this place our kingdom!"
Irene on the screen widened her eyes in surprise, and the audience outside the screen burst into laughter for the first time.
The first person to laugh out loud was Stark, who was enjoying the excitement. The relationship between Iron Man and Batman could only be described as ordinary, but being both superheroes did not prevent him from laughing at each other. However, thinking that this was a public place, he quickly stopped laughing, and then muffled laughter came from all over the theater.
Damian in front of them had a puzzled look on his face, and the boy seemed a little angry. As a child trained by the Assassin's League, Damian always believed that Batman was a warrior because of his mother's education. If he was not truly determined and brave, how could he become the provider of half of his genes? But after his mother entrusted him to Batman, Damian chose not to contact his father for the time being, but to observe the situation first.
Then he saw Bruce Wayne who abandoned his city (went to Washington), Batman who turned into a Batman emoticon on the Internet (said to be filmed in real life), Batman who stood silly on the back of a gargoyle in the promotional video (...), and now, Batman who has become the villain who is destined to be defeated in the animated movie.
Everyone else was laughing, only Damian was unhappy.
Batman's preferred heir now, Robin, is a guy who is better at company management and information search than fighting. Damian didn't regard him as a competitor for the heir from the beginning. The eldest brother of the family left Gotan early and now sits in the front row and grins foolishly. As for the other dead man... He knows Todd. Of course he knows that assassins don't fight unprepared battles, especially since Todd has been trained in the Assassin's League. In the words of his mother Talia, although the man is strong, he is too easily affected by emotions. He believes that he can defeat him.
But the ambitious little bird came to this city, originally wanting to become an eagle soaring over the city, but he found that not only did his father make fun of himself in the movie he invested in, but the vigilantes were even about to lose their jobs.
...After I solve the parchment problem, I'll return to the Assassin's League.
The 12-year-old heir of the Assassin's League thought with a sad heart.
While he was daydreaming, Batman on the screen had finished his lines as the villain, and beside him, Professor Daisy, who had shrunk after eating a cookie, seemed to understand and was concentrating on the movie.
However, she is always a step behind others——
Weiwei: “Ohhhh!”
Daisy: “…Oh.”
It's just a little bit slower.
Weiwei: "Batman just wants to save his brother."
Bella: "But the method he used was wrong. You can't use criminal methods to stop criminals from committing crimes."
Anna: “The way to defeat the old rules is to build better and more reasonable new rules on top of the old rules, and naturally eliminate the old rules.”
Daisy: "...Oh...but he chose another path."
Damian on the far right glanced down at Professor Daisy's black hair and silently chose to keep his mouth shut.
Batman in the movie does choose another path. He decides to use gargoyles to take over the city and then turn everyone into puppets to fundamentally stop the conflict.
——Of course the real Batman would not do this.
——But the real Batman doesn't have the ability to turn his body into shadow.
The Batman in the movie is of course a modified Batman. It is impossible to restore Batman's personality and way of doing things in this movie, as he will be caught by the villains for analysis. There are always people who want to know the identity behind the bat. In the movie, Batman is modified to be a superpower who can blend into the shadow (superpower bat?), who can control gargoyles. His dream is that there will be no more disputes in Gotham City and it will become a city with simple folk customs, but he used the wrong method... Batman heard that a special person came to Gotham City with a magic weapon that can fulfill wishes, so he asked all the gargoyles to find this magic weapon. As long as they find it, his goal will be achieved.
Irene, who was eavesdropping, was too scared to speak out, and she was almost discovered by Batman several times. However, the girl was smart and brave, and when Batman approached, she imitated the calls of a bird nearby and fooled him. After Batman left, the gargoyles flew out of the observation deck one after another.
The night wind and rain blew on her face. Irene immediately realized that she was the only one who knew the secret. She should think of a way to stop it and prevent Batman from changing the city.
This is a city promotional film for all ages. Dick leaned over and said to Barbara, "Even though we know the ending will be a happy one, the movie itself is so expressive that we can't help but be affected by the plot..." They could all see that Batman was adapted in this way to hide his true identity. If you believe that the real Batman is a strong white man in armor, then "ruling Gotham" is naturally nonsense. If you believe the Batman in the movie, then Bruce's true identity can be concealed.
"Of course, but there's no way a movie like this could come out of Bludhaven," Barbara said.
"Because Bludhaven doesn't have a generous investor--" Dick muttered.
"No," Barbara smiled narrowly, "because then the movie wouldn't be for all ages. Do you think a movie rated 21 would be a good promotion?"
Dick: "..." He heard that Barbara was teasing Jim and Juan.
…Jim and Juan were the names the girls gave to Nightwing's hips.
Come to think of it, Bludhaven even printed the phrase "We have the sexiest superhero in America" on the city's slogan, and it seems that they don't mind letting Nightwing, that is, Dick himself, show off his sex appeal.
He kept silent and continued watching the movie.
In the movie, little girl Irene is like a brave bullfighter, trying to use a bed sheet to wrap around something that can be fixed so that she can get off the back of the gargoyle - from the previous plot, it can be seen that this is a very smart child.
However, this kind of behavior is very dangerous without professional training. Nightwing could see that the artist referred to Robin, the vigilante in Gotham, when painting. The close-ups of the child even paid tribute to the iconic movements of several generations of Robin. This made him feel a little complicated. After a while, he smiled and began to watch the movie attentively.
After a series of dangerous moves, Irene's foot slipped, and with the sound of the bed sheet being torn, she was hanging in the air, swaying. She tried to grab the street lamp or the platform nearby but failed several times, and then -
"Sizzle"
The scene slows down and Irene falls from mid-air.
The girl's pupils were filled with panic and disbelief, but at the critical moment, the camera turned to the gargoyle and gave a close-up of the silent stone sculpture.
The gargoyle spread its wings, swooped down, and caught Irene steadily.
The wind passed by the girl's ears. She lay on the gargoyle's back, rising and falling with the monster as if she was in the deep sea. Irene was not as nervous as before. Instead, she spread her arms and looked at the night view of Gotham.
I don't know when the rain stopped.
The stars are hanging in the clean night sky. This scene of twinkling stars is probably a beautiful night view that the girl will never forget in her life.
Tim was sitting in the corner. He didn't buy a Coke or popcorn. He rested his chin on his hand and looked at the huge movie screen in front of him. He was suddenly stunned when he saw this scene.
...Why did he become Robin?
When Irene was his age, he was already chasing after Batman and Robin. In addition to his desire to punish evil and promote good, perhaps there was a moment when he also wanted to see such a scene.
Leaving aside those big principles, what attracted him was of course the ability to fly in the night sky of Gotham. If it weren't for the death of the second generation Robin, Batman's actions became increasingly difficult to control, and Tim would not have become Robin by coincidence, but he thought... he might debut on his own, with a code name like "Drake" or something like that.
——If you have been chasing after heroes since you were young, how could you not dream of becoming a hero?
In the picture, Irene starts to pull the gargoyle, trying to lure the dumb stone sculpture to her own camp. This is a girl who can talk to statues and dolls. It is difficult to completely separate cleverness and innocence in her. She is at an age that allows her to be innocent, so she is also the protagonist in a fairy tale. After some tense, exciting and fun action scenes, perhaps because she was entangled to no end, the gargoyle flew lower and lower, to the point where Irene could jump to the ground with just a light jump.
However, now it was the little girl who was pestering the gargoyle. In the process, the girl was discovered by passers-by, and the gargoyle broke its wings while hiding, and it could no longer fly.
The city of Gotam in the movie also entered a "martial law period".
The plot takes a sharp turn for the worse. Batman seems to be sure that as long as he gets the props, he can completely transform Gotham City, so he wantsonly lets all the gargoyles go out to find special wishing props. People are frightened by the scene of the gargoyles covering the sky and the earth, and the police begin to organize other people to capture and destroy the gargoyles.
The scene turns to Irene. The girl is squatting at the entrance of the alley. A big guy is squatting behind her, wrapped in a bed sheet. The big and small guys are watching the situation outside furtively. Then, the girl crawls inside the bed sheet and sits astride the neck of the gargoyle. They pass through the cordon safely. This part is funny, but also... tearful.
In order to protect the gargoyle that saved her life, Irene clearly saw her father walking against the flow of people, holding a missing person notice with her photo on it, shouting "Irene", but she was unable to meet her father.
They passed each other.
Going around the human wall and climbing through the window, Irene and the gargoyle finally reached their destination. Irene knew there was a place where no one was and they could hide and she could also contact her father. That was her mother's home.
After her parents divorced, her father took her away from their old home, but she still remembers the way clearly.
The house was covered with a layer of dust. The background music slowed down at this moment. The girl's eyes swept through every corner of the room. Every time she saw a corner, she thought of the shadows of the past. The picture was dyed with warm yellow light, and the pictures of the past emerged. However, there were no people from the past here now.
Mom is not here.
The movie flashes back at this point, telling the audience that Irene's mother had already left with her suitcase on the day of her divorce.
Irene has always been smart. Her initial idea, the idea of her parents being together, was just empty talk, but she stubbornly believed in this impossible thing, as if she could wait for her mother to come back in this way.
The camera scanned everything in the room, including photos of a family of three and more photos of relatives and friends. Irene in the photos had a bright smile, but Irene in the camera looked extremely lost, like a lonely puppy.
With her is a larger dog, a gargoyle with broken wings.
In the movie, the gargoyles do not have the ability to repair their bodies like in reality, probably to balance the combat power of both sides. Moreover, in this universe with superheroes, aliens, and magicians, if the party with superpowers is portrayed as too powerful and unable to win, this part may become a tool for media criticism.
The media will misinterpret this as the movie promoting the idea that "humanity needs superheroes" and "humanity can only rely on superheroes." Although this is often the reality, it is precisely because of the existence of superheroes that they cannot allow superheroes to be promoted in this way.
It doesn’t matter, Chaoying doesn’t care.
The wet little man and the wet gargoyle in the movie sat side by side on the edge of the bed. The phone couldn't be reached, and the girl knew that her voice alone was meaningless and the police would not believe her - she had tried, and she would become a target if she brought the gargoyle with her.
She was devastated.
It was too much to ask an eight-year-old to save the city. She began to miss her warm home. Her father would definitely believe her. She wanted to go back to her father.
Irene jumped off the bed, found her little red umbrella in the corner of the room, and opened it——
The gargoyle came over, squatted down, and in the dry room, tucked a small corner of its head under the umbrella.
Irene: “…”
Erin: “No, you can’t.”
That's cheating!
It was like, like she was abandoning some big dog.
Finally, the door of the room opened, and a burly man wearing a windbreaker, a cape, and holding a large black umbrella walked out. His body was almost twice as wide as the other man, and he looked like a dangerous man.
The road was even more dangerous than before, so they had to try their best to walk on the small path. Irene rescued a trapped cat, propped up a small tree broken by wind and rain, and carried a bird that had fallen from its nest back to the nest. Then she was stunned for a moment and recognized it: "-This is the bird from before."
At the observation deck they encountered a gargoyle, which allowed birds to nest in its open mouth.
The rain was drizzling, but Irene felt even more depressed.
Outside the screen, Jason clasped his hands around his chest and looked up at the screen, his mind still replaying the previous scene. Several frames flashed across the screen: more photos of Erin's family and friends, the scene of Erin's mother leaving with a suitcase, the sudden breakup of Erin's parents...
The photo shows that Irene's mother has twin sisters.
The scattered newspapers on the ground reported several things in words that Irene couldn't understand yet. These scenes only flashed by, but Jason could see that this movie paid special attention to details and Easter eggs.
...He was a little unhappy.
It's clearly a holiday movie with a happy ending, so why do they have to bury this kind of foreshadowing? This is really annoying for the audience who can easily immerse themselves in the movie and can see the details in the first viewing.
At this moment, Jason didn't realize that he originally just wanted to laugh at his old friend's jokes.
Weiwei took a sip of Coke and rested her head on Sheila's shoulder. On the screen, Batman appeared for the second time.
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