Chapter 176: The Dark Knight

In the sound of tight and dense accompaniment,

The bandit who killed his companion came to the bank's underground vault and began to use a machine to drill open the iron door of the vault.

At the same time, the situation that the bandits in the hall had firmly controlled appeared a little variable.

A manager suddenly took a shotgun hidden in the office and blew up the driver with one shot, making the gloomy Joker roll and crawl, hiding behind a cabinet with his companion.

After tricking his companion into popping his head out and letting the bullets in the bank manager's shotgun run out, the gloomy Joker backhanded a shot and knocked him to the ground.

Afterwards, the camera gave this Joker, who seemed a bit different, a close-up.

In the empty lens, there was only a half-body shot of him.

He was wearing a dirty suit, wearing a mask, standing in place, slowly tilting his head to the right.

Ivanka couldn't understand why he did this action.

But she was sure at this time that this person must be Nuo Chen.

Although the body shape and everything changed, this head tilt had too much flavor.

Carrying an inexplicable charm.

It was clearly just a simple tilt of the head, and he was also wearing a mask on his face, let alone expressions, even his eyes couldn't tell whether they were black or blue.

But this person just did this action very comfortably and beautifully.

It reminded her of "My Blueberry Nights," where it was also like this, clearly just holding the microphone and making a phone call at the beginning, but for those dozens of seconds, it was just that people couldn't move their eyes away.

Luo Jie Ebert, who was in another cinema in New York, saw this shot and couldn't help but show a faint smile in his heart.

He was more and more certain that this young man from the East would have unlimited future.

Perhaps, he will become a superstar in the future.

Not the superstars in the 20 million club piled up by box office and hype.

But the real superstars who are recorded in the Hall of Fame and shine in the history of film.

This action reminded him of Marlon Brando wearing a helmet in "The Wild One," also tilting his head like this.

And then?

The movie in 1953, Marlon Brando was also a young man who had just started, and when he did this action, he didn't show his face either.

But everyone knew that this must be the protagonist of the movie.

As for why, no one could really say clearly.

Many movies later paid tribute to that classic scene, but no one could do it like Marlon Brando, without using his face, without using his eyes, not even using his body movements, just tilting his head, and attracting everyone.

Luo Jie Ebert, with his 40 years of professional experience, could only say that this is a gift given to some people by God.

The gift list roughly includes: Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Ingrid Bergman, and modern Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks.

Leonardo DiCaprio is not among them.

Because Luo Jie Ebert felt that he had a few more deliberate attempts to show off his beauty, and lacked a trace of natural temperament flowing from the inside out.

Luo Jie Ebert adjusted his sitting posture to make himself more comfortable.

He had a premonition that today would be a long and good show.

The co-pilot rushed to the door of the underground vault.

Seeing that the vault door had been drilled open, he asked curiously: "What about the person who cut off the alarm?"

The Joker who drilled the door was doing the final opening action, and replied: "Dead. The boss told me that after he finished, kill him."

The co-pilot smiled: "What a coincidence, the boss told me the same thing."

The driller froze for a moment, then understood the other party's meaning, and screamed: "What? No, no..."

With a bang, a gunshot rang out. The body fell to the ground instantly.

The co-pilot rushed into the vault and filled the travel bag with banknotes.

The plot developed to this point, George Mo Lisi even forgot his purpose for coming today,

In just a few minutes of the opening, betrayal and black eating black were staged repeatedly, and the constant reversals added to reversals portrayed the cold-bloodedness of these bandits vividly.

At the same time, it also made people involuntarily produce expectations.

Where is the real Joker who arranged for them to do this?

He is clearly the root cause of these chaotic situations.

The co-pilot carried the travel bag full of banknotes back to the hall.

He already knew at this time that the mastermind behind the scenes was trying to make them kill each other, so he didn't say a word and pointed his gun at the gloomy Joker, "Tell me, did he arrange for you to kill me?"

The gloomy Joker moved his steps little by little, circling around the other party, seemingly adjusting the angle, moving from the outside to the inside, and swapping positions with the co-pilot.

"No, he arranged for me to kill the school bus driver."

"School bus driver? What school bus driver?"

As soon as the words fell, a yellow school bus broke through the outer wall of the bank and hit him under the tire with a bang.

A slightly fat school bus driver jumped off the school bus, looked at the money on the ground and said happily: "So much money. This is a large sum of money."

Then he and the gloomy Joker threw the travel bag full of money onto the school bus together.

The driver then remembered to ask: "What about the others."

In George Mo Lisi's eyes, this man wearing the most terrible Joker mask had always given him a special feeling.

Until this moment, this feeling was finally clarified.

In this tense and exciting plot, all other characters were in a state of tension.

Only this person seemed to be strolling leisurely from beginning to end.

He didn't seem to be robbing a bank, but doing some kind of game.

Just like now, after hearing the school bus driver's words, this person was still looking around, as if he was still looking for something left behind.

His shoulders were shaking, and his head was constantly swinging, just like a patient with ADHD.

In short, he seemed to be no different from the other few Jokers, and he was completely different again,

He was an independent individual, like a swan standing among chickens among these few people.

He didn't answer the driver's words, he just raised his gun casually.

The way he pulled the trigger was as if he was just removing weeds on the side of the road or kicking away a small stone on the side of the road.

"Da da da."

Three gunshots rang out, the school bus driver fell to the ground, and he didn't even look back at the driver again.

He walked over, picked up the last travel bag full of banknotes, and threw it onto the school bus.

Just as he was about to leave, the manager who had been shot and fell to the ground before was not dead, and witnessed this disgusting and cruel scene from beginning to end.

The manager lying on the ground struggled and said: "You think you are very smart, right?"

He, who was about to get on the bus, stopped his movements and looked back.

The manager made a dying gasp and said: "The guy who hired you, he will use, he will use the same method to deal with you."

George Mo Lisi felt inexplicably excited in his heart.

He even had a fantasy that he knew was impossible, that there was another person under this mask, and it was actually a white person playing the Joker, and that Chinese boy was just a cover for Warner.

George Mo Lisi stared at the screen with this complex mentality.

That Joker was still in his loose state, slowly walking towards the manager.

The manager on the ground muttered: "The criminals in this city have always had beliefs. Honor, respect, but look at you, what do you have? What do you believe in?"

The original Heath Ledger's pace here was faster, but Chen Nuo didn't.

The way he walked was very similar to when he walked to wait for the bus in Langfang.

It was the end of a day's work, why be so anxious? This should be a time for enjoyment and comfort.

Reached the most relaxed stage.

Every breath should be pleasant.

The words of the dying man on the ground.

It was like Zhao Liying's nagging beside him on the way home from work.

How could he be disgusted?

This is the seasoning of life. Therefore, he walked more relaxed and slower than Heath Ledger.

During filming, Nolan called these few steps of his hair-raising.

In fact, it was indeed so.

Although she knew it was fake, Ivanka still entered the plot and felt worried for the manager on the ground.

This damn guy is definitely a cold-blooded bastard.

The bandit wearing a Joker mask finally walked to the dying manager, slowly squatted down, took out something like a bomb, and stuffed it into the manager's mouth.

Afterwards, he said: "I believe that what doesn't kill you, will only make you..."

Five minutes after the movie started, Ivanka finally heard his voice.

Who is this?

As one of the few people who had watched "My Blueberry Nights," she found that this person's voice was completely different from Jeremy, the male lead in "My Blueberry Nights."

This person's voice was more rugged and a bit hoarse, sounding not like a person in his 20s at all, just like a middle-aged man in his 30s.

But next, he took off the mask he had been wearing on his face,

His eyes were looking up at this time, seemingly recalling some interesting past events, so that there was a faint nostalgia in his words.

The way he shook his head, just like an office worker who was forced to work overtime, "will make you stranger."

The face under the mask was finally revealed.

At this time, George Mo Lisi heard a woman scream in the cinema hall.

It turned out that under the Joker's mask, there was still a Joker's face.

In fact, this face was not unfamiliar, because it was everywhere on the posters at the door.

Actually, seeing it on the poster is one thing.

When this face appeared on the movie screen in a close-up form, it was another thing.

Ivanka found that this Chen Nuo in the movie had completely changed from the person she knew in "My Blueberry Nights."

If it weren't for the familiarity between the eyebrows, and the bridge of the nose not being so high, and the characteristics of Asians being visible when looking carefully, she would have thought that the actor's name on the poster was referring to another person.

He gained weight, and his forehead was wider.

The two eye circles were like two black whirlpools.

The wide eye bags and the brown crow's feet at the corners of the eyes looked so real.

His face was also bigger, with a lot more fat.

And the red scar at the corner of his mouth.

It was indeed very much like the Joker's mouth, but it was clearly a scar cut by a knife and healed, and she could even see the uneven flesh buds on the scar.

Luo Jie Ebert was shaking his head.

With his experience, he could of course see that these were the masterpieces of makeup artists.

However, he had also just watched "My Blueberry Nights" not long ago.

His mind was still filled with Chen Nuo's thin body and handsome face.

There is no doubt that this boy must have gained weight to play this character.

Even, he must have made some changes to other parts of his face with the makeup artist.

Luo Jie Ebert was old, his eyes were not as sharp as before, and for a while he couldn't tell which parts had been adjusted.

However, he had to say that the result of the adjustment did indeed achieve the purpose they wanted.

This boy in his 20s did indeed turn into a middle-aged freak in his 30s on the screen.

That's right, a freak.

Luo Jie Ebert didn't want to call this Joker who made his debut a monster.

Because Luo Jie Ebert was very clear that this Joker was a person. Not some kind of natural alien.

Because he discovered many things different from previous Joker actors from this Joker.

For example, his pace with a very strong sense of life, and his expressions like ordinary people, but more exaggerated.

He found that the traces of stage play formal interpretation on the Joker played by Chen Nuo had almost faded away completely.

His way of playing the Joker was like performing a realistic police and bandit movie.

Where he was didn't seem to be in the virtual Gotham, but in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Detroit.

There is no doubt that this way of performing is the first time in the entire history of Batman adaptations.

Luo Jie Ebert, as a professional film critic, was extremely excited now.

No.

Not only is this form of interpretation unprecedented, but more importantly, the person who performed it, from head to toe, from inside to outside, his performance is so complete.

With Luo Jie Ebert's sharp eyes, he couldn't find a trace of inconsistency anywhere on this person.

Just at this moment, Luo Jie Ebert's gray pupils suddenly widened.

Because the Joker on the screen finished the lines in a sighing and chanting way.

Immediately after, the corners of his mouth split to both sides, revealing a contemptuous smile.

This smile was fleeting, as short as the final picture that would only appear when a person had the deepest nightmare.

Why short?

Because after this picture, out of a hundred people, ninety-nine would wake up from the dream screaming, and then find themselves sweating profusely.

The remaining one who wouldn't be scared awake, Luo Jie Ebert believed, must be Chen.

Because Luo Jie Ebert dared to bet that no matter how genius an actor is, it is absolutely impossible to perform this smile in real-time on the shooting scene.

Luo Jie Ebert didn't not understand that performance is sometimes immediate, and there are times when inspiration is highlighted.

But Luo Jie Ebert believed that this smile was definitely not in this category.

Because this smile was so precise. There was not a trace of ambiguity brought by casual performance.

Luo Jie Ebert dared to bet that when Chen Nuo showed this smile, the position where the corners of his mouth split would not differ from the effect he wanted by more than a millimeter.

I have to say, Luo Jie Ebert really had a hand.

If he saw the hotel room Chen Nuo stayed in in LA, he should be proud of his sharp eyes.

Chen Nuo spent three full days practicing this smile on the script, and laughed maybe a thousand times.

By the time of the final shooting, he had even formed muscle memory.

George Mo Lisi didn't think as deeply and professionally as Luo Jie Ebert, the top film critic, and even judged the story behind the scenes.

He just simply admitted that this smile was really cool and very real.

He remembered every Joker in history, whether it was a cartoon or a movie. He felt that the Joker played by Jack Nicholson was a bit fake and empty in front of this smile.

Ivanka was not as professional as Luo Jie Ebert, nor did she understand the historical origin of Batman as well as George Mo Lisi.

She was just an ordinary audience, and also a woman, so her angle was somewhat different from the two.

The moment Chen Nuo smiled, Ivanka actually had a racing heartbeat.

That's right, this thing on the screen looked very scary and bad, and it was definitely not a normal person.

However, when he showed a contemptuous and domineering smile, also with a trace of naughtiness, Ivanka felt that this grotesque and terrible character had a strange charm.

The key is, although Ivanka knew that Chen was trying hard to make him ugly.

But his naturally handsome foundation and the existing impression of "My Blueberry Nights" made him still not so annoying.

Ivanka would never admit that her perception was already a fan filter.

She just felt that the New York City in "My Blueberry Nights" had the love she wanted.

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 177 =====