Well Star Wars was exciting, but there’s no escaping the
fact that the biggest event to some out of Comic Con so far has to be the
Batman V Superman Trailer. The first one suffered by being leaked the same week
as the second Force Awakens trailer and that really overshadowed it and made it
looks as if there wasn’t a lot to talk about. This one however promises a lot
more to look at and a much better platform of analysis.
First of all, though I had my fair share of complaints
against ‘Man of Steel’, the destruction of Metropolis was not one of them, because
I suspected that this carnage may be used against Superman is subsequent
sequels, and now it has (take that internet). Clearly both the government and
the public, though grateful to Superman for saving them want to know if he can
promise a safer structure and an allegiance to humanity. It’s probably this
widespread and creeping fear the Lex Luther (Jesse Eisenberg) uses as leverage
to gain government support to carry out… whatever he wants to.
Actually, thinking about it, the trailer did a good job of
not giving away too much plot, in fact I don’t think it really gave away
anything we didn’t already know. We discover that Bruce Wayne was at the battle
of Metropolis and witnessed the destruction first-hand, Luther is influencing
various government official and mostly just brooding, with hints at some deeper
scheme. Clark Kent is rebuffed by his editor for writing articles that criticise
the Batman and Bruce Wayne is receiving threats of a menacing nature (as if
there are threats of a nice nature), possibly from the Joker, okay scratch
that, certainly from the Joker.
There’s a definite sense of a differing opinion between the
two heroes. Batman seems suspicious of this strange entity that appears from
the sky and wreaks destruction upon earth (as you probably would) and is our
admiration the only thing that stops him destroying us while Superman seems to
take a view that if Batman is a force for good, why does he work in the shadows,
and should such responsibility be dealt with by a human?
There’s also a good balance between both of them, earlier
worries centered around who would be the focus of this film and by skipping a
batman solo movie first, would he be the more prominent figure in the story.
But based on this it appears that they both have an equal amount to say and do.
Of course, there’s also the fact that we see them fighting, which is exciting.
There are only a few snapshots but I could guess that they’re staying true to
the comics in the sense that Batman is on the back-foot, immediately having to
use all of his tactical and technological tricks to try and topple the scales
against Superman’s obvious physical advantage.
There’s a slightly odd bit of dialogue at the end as Luther
says playfully ‘the red capes are coming’. This seems a bit out of place at
this point in the trailer but maybe they also want to emphasise the charisma of
Luther here, remember this guy is also a skilled politician as well as a
criminal mastermind, though the two are often the same thing (am I right, yeah,
fight the system etcetera, etcetera). Charisma would be a wonderful inclusion
as most of the DC character shots just have the expression of Alex DeLarge from
the start of ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
There was a lot of pressure from DC to get this right, and
they did. The trailer delivered in a lot of great ways that is full of great
shots, good action set pieces, keeping a sense of ambiguity and from what I’ve
seen the characterisations are excellently done. There are also dozens of
easter eggs such as Kryptonite, a Robin suit, Zod’s corpse and so much more. Change
the status of this film from ‘mildly curious’ to ‘actually quite excited’.
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