It Has Overtake the Task When Marvel Cannot!

This topic sounds a little bluffing, and I need to explain it at the beginning. This is not to say that the quality of "Dawn of Justice" is worth four Marvel movies, but that Marvel used four movies to build the basics of the marvel universe, DC completed it with a movie. 

The director is Zack Schneider, who has previously directed "Watchmen" and "Superman: Man of Steel", and is one of the most important architects of the DC universe. In the future, DC's two most important masterpieces, "Justice League", will also be directed by him. 

Zack Schneider entered the industry as an advertising director and photographer at the beginning. His movies are full of personal setting such as slow motion and dark tones. It is precisely because of these unique aesthetics and insights that his works suffer from extremes. 

Zack Schneider is good at the dark visual style with thick ink and heavy colors. To the manga adaptation, it brings a serious feeling to it. This style has also revived some themes that have been weakened by the public, and it has also given superhero movies a completely different vitality. 
 

In this film, Schneider's action style is further improved. Previously, he preferred slow motion, but in "Man of Steel", in order to show Superman's strong strength and agility, he abandoned the previous Superman movie's display of speed, and made Superman accumulate power, showing the details of leaping into the air. 

In "Dawn of Justice",  fighting scenes have more layers than before. Batman is no longer an ordinary fighter under the guidance of Nolan, but fully demonstrates the Human strength, speed and fighting skills. Finally, in the face of Doomsday, the three giants joined forces, each embodying different fighting styles, this is the most majestic battle scene so far. 

More importantly, he successfully constructed a new universe. 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) started from "Iron Man", the military, Aegis, God's Domain, until "Thor", the world basically took shape, and finally after the foreshadowing of "Captain America", there was an amazing performance in "The Avengers". 

The success of "The Avengers" proves the huge potential of the movie universe. DC, also a veteran comic company, cannot be jealous, but it is limited by the company structure ——DC is not an independent studio, and must follow Warner’s instructions—the previous attempts were relatively conservative and there were some failures, but in the end they successfully launched "Man of Steel",Superman, the soul of the Justice League, successfully appeared in front of the world. 


Looking back backwards, "Man of Steel" is the first work of the DC Cinematic Universe (DCCU), but in fact, When it was released in 2019, Warner hadn't made up its mind whether to really start its own DC movie universe. It wasn't until SDCC in 2014 that Warner publicly announced its future cosmic plans, and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", a movie with such a long name, is the foundation of the universe. 

In addition to the movie itself, "Dawn of Justice" has two tasks, one is to introduce other members of the Justice League-in terms of the title, it is mainly Batman, and the other is to establish a basic worldview - Including hardware setting and tone style. 

The film opens with a flashback, Bruce Wayne Jr. Witnessing the death of his parents, the pristine white pearl necklace left in a dark alley in Gotham. The paragraph shows the heaviness and struggle in Bruce's heart. At the end of the scene, in a well, the bat took him up and flew up. When it fell again, the camera returned to reality. The middle-aged Bruce Wayne got off the helicopter and came to Metropolis, where Superman and General Zod were fighting fiercely in the air. 

This is a battle scene from Man of Steel, re-interpreted from the perspective of Bruce Wayne. He sees his own building collapse, killing Wayne Industries employees, also his "family," and he runs amok through the rubble, trying to save some people, only to find himself powerless in the end. 

This opening establishes the whole theme of the movie, and it also cleverly connects the previous movie. The confrontation between Superman and General Zod was far beyond human imagination, causing huge damage and casualties. Alone, they could have caused a 9/11 disaster, killed their own employees, killed the little girl's mother—all by accident—so he channeled his anger and helplessness into a Determined, he wants to fight against Superman. Superman is not a god. With such a huge power, it is very likely to cause disastrous consequences for human beings. 

The Batman in this one is also the Batman in the DCCU later, played by Ben Affleck. When the casting was announced, there was an uproar, and everyone questioned whether he was capable of playing Batman—especially the Dark Knight created by Nolan and Christian Bale was so popular—but as the stills were released one after another, doubts gradually It calmed down, especially the stills of him wearing bat armor, which made everyone exclaim: there is such a perfect chin. 

This jaw is similar to Batman in the comic "Dark Knight Returns".The author of this comic is Frank Miller. Although it is not the main plot, it almost established the style of Batman comics. At the end of the comics, Batman and Superman face off for the first time ever. 

The Batman in the comics is already in his fifties, but in this film, he is younger, probably in his forties, and he is not mentioned whether he has retired. He has been fighting crime in Gotham City for more than two decades, but he doesn't feel that there is much effect. Every moment, he questions his choices and whether he needs to be a hero. When he's not Batman, he's indulging in alcohol and beautiful women, but that doesn't ease his anxiety one bit. Ben Affleck's Batman is the most gloomy and desperate Batman on the screen, and only one battle after another can ease his self-doubt. 

This time, what he wants to challenge is the most powerful "person", a superman who is even regarded as a god. 
 

Originally, Warner only planned to continue shooting "Man of Steel 2", but later the plan was canceled and changed to "Dawn of Justice", the director once said, "Dawn of Justice" is "Man of Steel 2". 

Superman, his real name is Clark Kent, and the Kryptonian name is Kal-El. Since his birth, he has eradicated violence and maintained peace, fought against Nazis and aliens, and is the embodiment of justice. But if that's all, Superman is nothing but a pure good man-"Superman Returns" made this mistake before, portraying Superman as a perfect idol, but it seems outdated.

"Dawn of Justice" continues the discussion in "Man of Steel", and Superman's inner tear is more obvious. He has been trying to do the right thing, but he has been hesitating what is the right thing-especially considering that he is actually an orphan, an outsider, his hometown has been destroyed - and because of this, Batman believes that Superman will be out of control and become a threat to the world. Superman insists that what Batman did was wrong, but he can't fight Batman in a human way, he can only suppress him with strength-in fact, isn't this exactly Batman's way? In the end, Superman found his bond, and in some way, let Batman and the world know that he is a "human". 

In a way, Batman and Superman are very close. But they already doubted themselves, and naturally they couldn't trust each other. Gradually, they began to oppose each other. 

But unfortunately, this is not the main plot line of the story, but just a branch. 

Hollywood commercial blockbuster management requires a villain. While Batman and Superman can fight each other, neither of them can be a villain,That burden fell on Lex Luthor.

Lex Luthor, played by Curly Eisenberg, is gritty, expressive, Arrogant, genius, many of his characters - such as which in "The Social Network" - have those qualities, so as this time. Luthor is a charismatic villain in the comics who wants to prove that human intelligence can surpass Superman. But this motivation is not well shown in the film. In the speech at the charity dinner, he compared himself to Prometheus, who stole the fire from Zeus-while Zeus's daughter was listening below- This kindling is wisdom, and wisdom should obtain the corresponding power, and power is never pure and innocent, he is not afraid to use others' lives to achieve his own goals, although what the purpose is, the movie is always Did not make it clear. He's like a persistent kid who just wants to kill Superman. 

Luthor's conspiracy is the main line in the first half of the movie. Although the design is tight, it lacks reasonable emotional logic. Because of Luther's provocation, the conflict between Batman and Superman intensified. Batman manifests his anxieties through one nightmare after another—dreams that are prophetic in nature, and it is not yet known why these dreams occur. Superman returns to the origin of his humanity—his father for solace. It's just that the values ​​​​of the three of them did not directly collide. Clark, Bruce, and Lex had many similarities in the depths. The communication between them could have been more exciting. 

Another trio was far more exciting. The Justice League trio -- Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman -- finally meet onscreen for the first time. The emergence of Wonder Woman is mainly to make long-term plans for the series after the movie. She doesn't contribute much to the main plot line, but mainly implies that there is not only one superman in the world. Following her, the movie shows other "superhumans" and shows that in the world we usually know, there are still many unreasonable things. As everyone knows, they silently guard the world, but now, it's time to stand up and protect the world. 

Before "Man of Steel", the world was no different from the usual, but after Superman appeared, other superheroes, and Supervillains appear, and the world will never go back to the way it was before. 

Wonder Woman herself has become the biggest surprise of the movie. Facing Doomsday, Wonder Woman raised her sword and shield and appeared in battle attire for the first time. Previously, most people didn't expect too much from Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, thinking that she was too thin and not sexy, but as she raised her sword and rushed towards Doomsday, all doubts disappeared.She will undoubtedly become one of the most popular heroines. 

The battle is over, but this is only the beginning, only the beginning of the DCCU. 

But the movie is enough to be the basis of the new universe, it successfully created a new world, this world has its own unique style because of Zack Snyder, and is by no means a simple copy of Marvel; at the same time, it portrays many new characters with their own personalities that can support subsequent films. In the "Suicide Squad", we will show this world from another unique perspective-the perspective of criminals-a world that is more gloomy than Marvel's.