Chapter 325 Superhero Movie Project

This year's Olympic Games is scheduled to end on August 12. After experiencing this sports passion that almost ignited half of the world, the turbulent world situation is still gradually moving towards a polar cold situation.

I don’t know whether to say it is a good thing or a bad thing, but it is precisely because of the cold confrontation between the two superpowers that China has gained a breathing space and opportunity for development.

In response to this, Su Yun, who was also struggling to survive in this situation, took this opportunity to find Brooke Shields who came to watch the game with Michael.

"You want me to star in the Batman movie?" Brooke asked back in surprise.

The "Batman" comic is a classic and is extremely popular in the American comic world, but it is also bound to have the inevitable ups and downs of a long masterpiece, so there will always be some countermeasures to save sales.

The rise and fall of every cultural product seems to be inseparable from the turbulent background of the times.

When they are needed, they will be used as a means to instill the information that people want to be given. The most typical example of this is the "Superman" series, which seems to be fashionable and high-end, but in fact it is the same routine as those Chinese anti-Japanese war dramas.

But when the story is well-written, people just want to have fun, and they don’t use their brains to demand a cultural product with “fun” as its main theme. Instead, they are easily inspired and infected, and then they lift it to the altar of cultural symbols.

However, when the war era ended, people became tired of the old days when force was respected, and gradually began to like everything that was the opposite of it.

For example, during wartime, people admired the use of force, and their aesthetics tended toward tall, strong, healthy, and plump; when peacetime came and people were able to eat and wear enough clothes and their cultural heritage began to increase, they inevitably gradually began to pursue a path of liking slimness and grace.

Because this look always implies illness and weakness, and is a manifestation of lack of resistance, it is most liked by the "upper class".

Moreover, after the world has become peaceful and comfortable, I have gradually started to pay attention to things that I had neither the time nor the energy to care about before: the reporting by the Bear parents is not just something unique to certain places, but is something that can be found all over the world.

The American comics industry, which occupies a certain proportion of the cultural and entertainment industry, has fallen from its golden age to the bronze age, but it only requires a generation of bear parents to report and boycott.

Of course, the American comics industry, which was hit hard, would not stop there. On the one hand, it dealt with it with policies and countermeasures, and on the other hand, it was looking for opportunities to find new paths... So, in the 1960s, with the popularization of home appliances, especially televisions, live-action series adapted from comics came into being.

At that time, in order to save the declining sales of "Batman", the TV series of the same name was launched in 1966 - although many people did not have much confidence in it at the time, and even in order to make it more adaptable and acceptable to the audience, it chose the positioning of a comedy that was difficult to go wrong.

As a result, those "children" who have grown up and the new generation of children who are truly ignorant were successfully moved by a simple comic-adapted TV series, which made the hero in the comic jump out of the intersection of black and white and color ink, and gradually come out with sound, light and shadow.

Coincidentally, Su Yun's master Lu Shaolong once made a cameo appearance in the TV version of "Batman" when he was developing in America, which became one of the highlights: Lu Shaolong had just finished filming "The Green Hornet" and for publicity considerations, he asked the two protagonists of "The Green Hornet" to guest-star in the TV version of "Batman" for two episodes.

Later, the performance of "The Green Hornet" was not ideal, and Lui Shao-lung was dissatisfied with the discriminatory attitude of the United States towards the Chinese at that time, so he came up with the idea of ​​returning to Hong Kong for development.

As for what happened afterwards, from the Zhao family to Jiahe and then to the birth of the King of Kung Fu, everyone basically understands it.

"To be precise, it's the Batman movie and the female superhero movie Birds of Prey." Looking at Brooke's puzzled expression, Su Yun emphasized and added.

Since the "Superman" movie achieved good results a few years ago, the news that Warner was interested in filming "Batman" finally reached Su Yun quietly in the middle of this year: after all, she has an unparalleled "inside support" in Bill Finger, one of the original authors of the comics and the father of Batman...

Obviously, even though the father of Batman is still in his prime, with the increasing number of entertainment options, the sales of traditional paper comics have inevitably suffered a certain amount of impact.

Therefore, Warner Bros., which always does things in a haphazard manner, wants to copy the success of the previous "Batman" TV series and invest in a movie-level "Batman", determined to harvest another wave of leeks that have grown up...

It's a nice thought: if it accidentally becomes as successful as the original "Batman" TV series, not only will there be another gold mine of movie IP to be mined, but it will also boost comic sales and related peripheral industries - it's simply a good thing that kills two birds with one stone!

As for the question of whether or not you will lose money?

That's impossible. Batman is a super old gold mine that is always full of new surprises. There will be no problems no matter how much you dig!

And with Christopher Reeve's "Superman" to help, there might be problems: Mary Sue couldn't be recruited to help with post-production, the filming encountered various obstacles, and the casting was a toss-up. However, after its release, "Superman" still won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and the Saturn Award, and the annual box office ranked sixth on the box office list. You can imagine how powerful this national-level comic IP is.

"Batman" is a super IP with the same status as "Superman". If it's well made, it can make money by cooperating with "Superman". If it's not so good, it can copy the guest appearances in previous TV series and ask Superman to help with the collaboration to increase popularity - it's really a good business that will not lose money no matter how you think about it!

At that time, after hearing the information Bill had conveyed, Su Yun had mixed feelings about Warner's short-term and irrelevant approach of only caring about making money in the short term. On the one hand, she was surprised that they only cared about "money", so she should have the opportunity to compete for the film adaptation and shooting rights.

On the other hand, I also feel sorry and angry about Warner's wasteful behavior: among the three big names in the American comics world, Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, Warner took up two in one go, but never knew how to cherish them!

Marvel, the arch-rival of DC under Warner Bros., is also engaged in comics and comic adaptations. Before it made a comeback by launching the movie universe, what had Marvel fallen into?

The only fighting character, Spider-Man, was sold out, and in the end they could only push second-tier heroes like Iron Man to the top, with the decision of either success or death - as a result, they have a far-sighted president who can coordinate and plan the plot of the movie universe, focusing on the script, taking into account both commercialization and popularization, and making enough money from passers-by while making enough popularity.

And the most important point is that when they are developing in a humble way in the early stage, they do not forget to lay the foundation for the strong development in the later stage. While making some money, they also remember to gather and connect for the later stage, so they grit their teeth and shoot some character movies that just break even or lose money, and then wait for the day when they will accumulate a lot and then explode dramatically.

On the contrary, Warner Bros. will just take advantage of the popularity of the most popular movies, and the most important script will take a backseat to making money.

This is not a coordinated plan for long-term development, but an act of sharpening the knife to reap short-term profits. No matter how good the capital is, it will be wasted.

The most terrifying thing is that their internal competition method is that a group of people bring plans to compete for the final chance: it is easy to guess that the person who proposes the plan is either a philanthropist who wants to generate electricity for everyone, or someone who wants to promote his favorite character and actor.

Not only does the internal competition make it look nothing like a big company, but the filming of movies is also irresponsibly outsourced, and they are paralyzed in the same place waiting for the result, yet they want both commercialization and reputation... In the end, they are caught in two traps, with one popular character after another being dragged down and the related films and TV shows being criticized.

Especially the movie "Birds of Prey", which was advertised as a female superhero movie, but ended up casting a bunch of weird and even grotesque actors to support the heroine. When Su Yun watched it, she almost wanted to hit someone.

To say that it is poorly filmed is not extremely bad. Passersby who are not familiar with the inside story can barely enjoy it.

But for those who are familiar with the inside story, it is absolutely not an exaggeration to say that it is "outrageous".

Because the founding member of the "Birds of Prey", a team composed of all female heroes, was originally the second-generation Batgirl Barbara Gordon, who was injured and paralyzed and used the code name "Oracle" to continue to provide intelligence support to the Bat Family and the Justice League. The other two founding members, the second-generation Black Canary and Huntress, are all positive female superheroes.

So, why did this ugly little anti-hero, who used the title of a female superhero and rode on the popularity of an all-female team, erase Barbara, the core founding member of the team, and insist on replacing her with her own?

Because Barbara has always been below Wonder Woman in the popularity statistics of female superheroes and has basically never fallen out of the top few, so this movie that wants to promote the "little ugly girl" will definitely not allow her to appear!

Otherwise, the female artist who relied on the popularity of the ugly girl and led her team to win this resource would be drowned by the anger of comic fans and insiders - although after seeing the finished product that was like "all the stars surrounding the moon", Su Yun was even a little lucky that because of this unexplainable reason, there was no actor who was completely different from the original character and had a poor appearance to ruin this popular character...

In the past, people from all walks of life liked to promote male superhero characters and marginalized female superhero characters; in the future, there are selfish little fighters like this one who took over the role under the banner of equal rights. No wonder there were only a few movies with female superheroes as the protagonists before Su Yun came into this world.

Of course, in addition to replacing the core of the team, the magical adaptation "Birds of Prey" that has received rave reviews from fans also changed Cassandra Cain, the Chinese fighting master with a very likable appearance and personality in the team, the human martial arts ceiling in the entire series, the third-generation Batgirl and Batman's adopted daughter, into a bloated, dull, squinty-eyed Chinese girl thief who is full of stereotypical quirks and has been imprisoned many times for theft - such behavior is absolutely intolerable!

In this world, Su Yun is the inspiration for the Chinese girl fighting master character identified by the original author Bill...

"In Batman, your character 'Barbara Gordon' and I were only supporting roles, but in the follow-up Birds of Prey, you and I are the protagonists." Su Yun explained the relevant information to Brooke bit by bit, "Although the movies that have been shot so far are all male heroes as the protagonists, I always believe that heroes have never been related to gender..."

"It's whether you have a fighting spirit and whether you have the words and deeds that are consistent with being a 'hero'."

These female superheroes who have been marginalized, dimmed, auxiliary, and treated differently deserve the best treatment and compensation when they have the opportunity.