Chapter 2502: The Battle for the Cape (Part 69)

All the turning points happened on a night.

The face of the Batman Who Laughs also gradually became ugly.

It was close to Christmas at that time. Jason's illness was basically cured, and Spider-Man was doing the final Christmas tree decoration. But after hanging all the decorations, he found that the Christmas tree was not bright enough, lacking some lights, looking a bit dim, and the effect was not good.

But the next day was Christmas Eve, and most shops would be closed. It would definitely be too late to buy them then.

So Jason and Spider-Man decided to go out tonight to buy more colored lights to make the Christmas tree brighter.

Walking on the road, they had another debate between superheroes and ordinary people, probably still saying that the quiet time now is rare, and they should really cherish the hero dream, and it's not too late to wait until after Christmas.

Everyone could clearly hear that the thinking of the two young heroes had begun to lean towards pursuing a peaceful life, so in fact, the design of the Batman Who Laughs had already been achieved.

But another problem appeared. If this is the case, the Batman Who Laughs doesn't need to skip those 20 years, because if it continues like this, the script is also right.

Young heroes abandon their hero dreams because they indulge in enjoyment, and wake up only when they encounter disasters in middle age. This first half went very smoothly, but it's fine to keep going like this. Why skip time?

Everyone knows that this kind of screen blacking out for 20 years is a relatively low-level processing method, and it is not often used in TV series.

Even if it is to be used, it must be in a logical situation, such as the male and female protagonists breaking up and spending 10 years apart. These 10 years are not the meat of the play. What the audience wants to see is not how they lived when they were separated, but more want to see the reunion after they meet again.

So this plot can only be skipped, otherwise it will lead to the plot being too watery and not focused, and it will also lead to a decline in ratings. Then a screen flash skipping time is a better choice.

But if the director himself wants to show the reunion, and the audience also wants to see the reunion, after the male and female protagonists break up and are heartbroken, describe how sad they are in their later lives, the screen shakes, 10 years pass, and the two get married. The process of reunion is skipped. You just look at whether this director is beaten or not.

The Batman Who Laughs designed the transition of the heroes' inner journey from youth to middle age. Although the awakening in middle age is important, you can't not let us see the change in concepts during youth. What is this movie filming?

Jason has been sick, his head is not clear, and it is normal to yearn for a peaceful life when people are weak. This kind of special idea under special circumstances does not have universality.

Before, Peter was also being bullied, and he was also in an abnormal state of life. It is normal for his certain concepts to be distorted at this time, and it does not have enough persuasiveness.

And they themselves are relatively lonely people, and there is no normal social environment around them. The choices they made were choices they could only make at that time, and there were no other options for them to choose, so the state they presented could only be like that.

The transition in this situation is not called self-cognition, but being pushed by society and fate.

But now it's good. Both of them have gotten rid of the previous environment. One can temporarily not consider the traumatic past, and one finally has the powerful power he dreamed of. The two are still accompanied by each other, established a new relationship network, and finally have the life of ordinary people.

And because of this, they finally began to have the energy to think about the future road, like most ordinary people standing at an intersection to make a choice.

They are also discussing this matter, and their views are not completely unified, and they are still entangled, hesitant, and confused.

Then click, this process is skipped, and both of them have made a choice. The choice is the road that the main theme of the movie wants to highlight. Is this not playing? Why did they choose this? Why should they choose this?

You director painstakingly designed a series of plot conflicts, letting them both be in the environment of ordinary people, becoming more like an ordinary person, isn't it just to make them more resonant with ordinary people when discussing choices?

Is it to let the audience as ordinary people have a feeling of "I think he is right, because I thought so at that time", "I think he is wrong, because I thought so at that time"?

Only by letting the audience find resonance in them and pushing it to themselves can it trigger the audience's thinking. Even if the decision they finally made is different from the audience, at least it shows a new possibility to the audience.

As a result, this thinking was skipped directly. Both of them made a choice. This will make people feel that this is not the character's choice, nor the audience's choice, but the director's choice.

It is the director taking a loudspeaker and playing in a loop: "This road is right! This road is good! No matter how you discuss or think, you will definitely walk on such a road!"

The audience hates being represented.

And this is also different from the original intention of the play. The Batman Who Laughs brought Jason, a real person, in just to prove that young heroes will also be corrupted by a stable and happy life, and finally give up their ideals and dreams.

If you skip the process of why he gave up directly, and directly control him to lose his memory and make this choice, then why not directly fabricate a plot character who is completely under your control?

Everyone in the room always feels that the Batman Who Laughs is stupid, but he may not be stupid to this point, right? Such obvious contradictions, don't he see them?

Obviously, there is still something in it.

Just when Jason and Spider-Man went out to buy lights, they heard a cry for help. It was a little girl's scream coming from the alley next door.

From the running movements of the two, it can be seen that they were completely out of instinct. They rushed over the moment they heard the scream, and then saw the terrifying figure of the Talon killer standing in front of the little girl.

Jason, who had just recovered from a serious illness and whose physical strength had not fully recovered, also rushed up by instinct and hugged the little girl, while Peter, who had powerful power, threw the killer down.

The killer soon disappeared. The two comforted the little girl, and the little girl's crying echoed in the alley.

The two didn't sleep all night.

The next morning, they didn't even have time to hang the lights they bought last night and went out early, bought a lot of newspapers where the Talon killer appeared, and collected all the news reporting him recently, seemingly intending to find out where this hateful criminal was.

Wait, why is this plot a bit wrong?

Oh, everyone suddenly understood. It turned out that it wasn't that the Batman Who Laughs wanted to skip these 20 years, but that he had to skip.

Because if he doesn't skip, this will become a superhero movie of young heroes fighting crime again.

Before, it was illness, bullying, and breaking the teddy bear. A series of foreshadowing was useless. The little girl cried, and the two wanted to swallow the damn criminal alive again.

"Humans are emotional creatures." Shiler said: "Only in non-emergency, without hot-headedness, without survival crisis, and without environmental pressure, to be precise, they have to be full and supported, they will start to conduct philosophical thinking."

"And there must be the right time, the right place, and the right people. There can be no accidents, no misfortunes, and they can extremely smoothly walk on the road of the results they thought out."

"But if there are any accidents, this can't be done at all." Shiler shook his head, put down the pen, and said: "If everyone can plan a road for themselves at the age of 20 and can successfully walk on this road and walk to the end, human society will not be what it is now."

"The reason is that those accidents are all attributed to temporary hot-headedness, lack of reason, slow thinking, unclear logic, or knowing what is right and wrong, but just not having the self-control to let themselves make the right choice."

"For young heroes, it is the same. Even if they rationally know what is good for them, they can't control themselves."

"Maybe the night before, they were still thinking about what harm their behavior might cause to others, analyzing it clearly, deciding to wake up and change their ways, but the next day, seeing a robbery, they still rushed up regardless and beat the criminal up."

"The reason is that even the most brilliant psychologist in the world can't explain it clearly. It can only be said that you ask less about human affairs."

Everyone understood. The Talon killer manipulated by Shiler is actually just a cover. This is a typical hat trick.

The Talon killer committing crimes is not to mess up the situation in the city and destroy the background of the story so that it can't be performed. The real killer move is actually the little girl played by the puppeteer.

This is a very simple logic trap. A terrifying killer who is reported and concerned about everywhere, and a group of innocent children who are just poor victims, who looks more like the troublemaker?

Because the Batman Who Laughs is such a killer, he has been destroying the background story of a certain universe, so he naturally infers others from himself, feeling that the person who interferes with him must also want to do this.

And in the end, this killer must want to reverse black and white and wash himself into a righteous person, and go to remind the protagonist of the story, that group of young heroes, to let them wake up, so that they can rise up and resist, so that this play can't be performed, because the Batman Who Laughs did this before.

He told all the Robins and Batmen he polluted that your universe is going to be destroyed, someone else is destroying the universe, and I am here to help you, so this group of people will listen to his instructions.

But Shiler didn't. The Talon killer played a villain from beginning to end, and even if it was the killer move little girl, it was not to let the heroes wake up, but precisely to let them get hot-headed, completely ignoring the thinking and discussion they had before, purely relying on emotions and acting on impulse.

The essence of superheroes is acting on impulse.

They have never walked on this road because of interests and gains, but because they can't see others suffering, can't see the law having no way to punish certain super criminals, so they will choose to be a superhero wandering on the edge of social order.

If they had really considered any order gains and losses, they should have chosen to take the police academy to be a policeman, study law to be a lawyer, and take medical school to save people. It is because they can't think of so much, purely relying on a cavity of hot blood, that they will be superheroes, not policemen, lawyers, and doctors.

So the best way to let the Batman Who Laughs pull a huge pile in this play is not to reason with Jason and Spider-Man, but to stimulate them to get hot-headed.

Sure enough, finding that the two young heroes threw all the previous discussions behind them in just one night, and intended to rush up to fight the super criminals again, the broken Batman Who Laughs pulled a big one on the spot.

Ignoring the previous rules, ignoring the main theme of the play, and even giving up his spiritual tug-of-war with the real Bruce to distinguish between high and low, he chose to descend directly.

This is exactly Shiler's purpose.

Because forcing the Batman Who Laughs to reveal his true essence—he only has ability, but no talent.