Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

After hearing from the little girl Athena that the uncle who came in was her grandfather, Su Yun put down her guard and lowered her head to scan the ground with her eyes.

All the bears caught by her eyes trembled, and the pain that Su Yun pulled out with the mop seemed to be covered up by the chill from the bottom of his heart.

Who would have thought that the little poor in the movie is actually a super scary kung fu master?Sure enough, all Chinese people are so secretive?

After finally hearing Su Yun tell them to get out, these brats quickly supported each other and rushed out of the toilet in shock.

Especially the three boys, who rushed faster than anyone else—after all, this is the women's toilet, and the reason for showing off their power before was to let the girls in the small team drag them out and take them to the corner before doing anything. Instead, Su Yun pulled all the rice into it with a mop.

Knowing that such clique-forming brats would not let it go and would only hold grudges even more, Su Yun, who felt that she could not save her life for a while, made a suggestion after she and Athena walked to the agreed corner: " If possible, it’s better to change her school.”

Bill sighed: "I'm already working hard to make money. The main reason is that we don't trust schools that are far away. If it's close... there are some reasons at home, and it's also not very convenient."

It's not easy to talk deeply, so Bill didn't tell the reason why Athena was bullied in the first place: Athena's father and his son Fred were actually gay.

In fact, Fred didn't understand his true orientation at first, so he gave birth to Athena with his girlfriend when he was young.After breaking up, he gradually discovered his true orientation.

But his son has the same introverted personality as him. Even if he knew it, he didn't dare to pursue true love anymore, but tried to do some chores at home to help support the family. People's ideas are not so open these days, and Fred's homosexual identity makes nearby The residents are more or less weirdly resistant to him, so they can only do some manual work from the outside with difficulty.

Athena was also abused and bullied by the bear children in the school because of her father Fred.

As a father, Fred also wanted to support his thin body to seek justice for his daughter, but he was insulted more violently by the other parent, calling him disgusting, dirty, crazy...

There were even those parents who hated this way jointly signed a letter, asking the school to disqualify Athena from studying.

Although the school did not agree, Athena's life in the school was even more difficult.

Moreover, Fred was also implicated so much that he lost the scattered work that he could barely support himself. In the end, he had to carry his luggage and bid farewell to his family, and went to live in a foreign place where no one knew him, in order to let his father It's easier to live with my daughter in my hometown.

Su Yun, who didn't know the truth, could only comfort Athena with the thought that every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and then opened her backpack, preparing to use a powder box to touch up her makeup.

Seeing a flash of silver in the backpack, Bill's eyes widened: "This is?!"

"Oh, this is a reward from a good friend of mine who lives in New Jersey for helping an uncle who had a sudden illness. But my friend thinks that I paid for the medical expenses, so I just put this thing away. Give it to me." Su Yun took out the bat pendant that she untied and put in her backpack because she wanted to perform, "Look, it's in the shape of Batman, it's very cute."

"It turned out that you and your friends saved me!" Bill suddenly became excited: the small apartment in Manhattan where he lived was west of New Jersey, and he passed out in a small town in New Jersey that day in order to catch up on the manuscript and go outside to collect news.

"Is this bat pendant originally yours?" Su Yun was also very surprised.

"Yes—let me introduce myself formally. My name is Bill, Bill Finger, and this is my little granddaughter Athena." Unexpectedly, he ran into a savior in the comic exhibition, and Bill immediately said a few words to Athena. There is a lot of gratitude in every small gaze.

"You are Bill Finger?!" Su Yun was even more surprised.

As A Zhai who has a certain amount of experience in American comics, it is natural that he is not ignorant of the grievances between Bill Finger and Bob Kane.

"Batman", one of the most popular works in DC comics, was created by the cooperation of Bill Finger and Bob Kane.

Moreover, because Bill is mainly writing the script, and Bob is responsible for drawing the story into comics; it can be said that Bill is the main contributor to the popular character of Batman. The most classic image, life experience, and character of Batman And the tone of the story is basically [-]% from his creation.

In addition to Batman, Robin, the first generation of Green Lantern, Joker, Catwoman, Riddler, Double-faced man and other decent and villain characters also have his participation.

It's a pity that such a genius with a great imagination is actually a poor person with a very weak personality.

After getting acquainted with Bob, who is known as the "Father of Batman", referring to the popular character Superman at that time, Bill made his original draft "Batman in red and gold color" that almost copied the appearance of Superman for Bob. Changed the shape and settings, and this has become the "dark color Batman" seen by later generations.

Then Bob took the manuscript of the new Batman that was not designed by him except the name that was designed by him, and took it to sign a publishing contract with the editor.

Then, in the name of "cooperation", Bob asked Bill to continue writing Batman stories for him, but never mentioned the signing of Bill - to put it bluntly, he made Bill one of his ghostwriters.

This kind of ghostwriting arrangement was quite a common image at the time, so Bill, who was struggling and easy-going, didn't care about it carefully, so he was deceived into being a secret collaborator with no reputation.

As "Batman" became more and more popular, the flexible-minded Bob started a studio, which further intensified the behavior of hiring ghostwriters, and began to directly invite a team of painters to change Bill's story into comics for him— —And these painters were also asked to work anonymously.

During their working contact with Bill, those anonymous painters also gradually realized Bob's bad behavior of taking away all the titles of Batman.

After stabbing to the editor's side together, Bill was able to leave Bob's studio and work directly for DC.

But "Batman" still doesn't have his name.

Having been writing for 25 years, this one is recognized by colleagues as the most outstanding comic screenwriter of their generation, but he has never been able to reveal his identity to fans who love this comic.

With the encouragement and help of his friends, the editor began to publicize Bill's creative achievements, and Bill also mustered up the courage to declare to the world that he is the co-creator of Batman... Unfortunately, things backfired, and he asked DC for the exclusive Batman copyright early on, which resulted in fame and fortune. Bob, who became a millionaire twice, unceremoniously publicly accused Bill of exaggerating the facts, not only angrily denounced him as a liar, but also plausibly said: "I am the only creator of "Batman"! Not only that, I drew the entire golden age of Batman!"

As the only Batman creator officially recognized by DC at the time, Bob's words were so unreasonable and strong.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the serialization of Batman comics in the golden age cannot all be written by him—even if the ghostwriter hired by Bob to paint ghost paintings does not have the right to sign, but the difference in comic style is still considerable. obvious.

Therefore, this chilling speech not only caused an uproar, but also attracted criticism from other contemporary authors, and even the main co-painter Jerry Robinson broke with Bob after hearing it.

But even though many fans who have been popularized by science expressed their trust and support for Bill in private, Bill, who was disheartened by Bob's public blow, retreated into his snail shell again, not daring to fight for himself.

So he continued to immerse himself in his work until the famous "comic harmful theory" anti-comic wave swept the comic industry in the 50s.

After the comic industry was hit hard, Bob lived on Batman's compensation, while Bill was still working for DC, earning a meager salary to support his family.

The house leak happened to be raining all night. After Bill and several other comic book authors applied for medical insurance from the company under the influence of the wave of medical insurance demands, they were not only rejected but also mercilessly fired.

Bill, who survived the unemployment period with difficulty, reinjected new vitality into the comics industry. When DC tried to reshape the image of superheroes, but found that no one could do better than Bill, he was shamelessly rehired and continued. write script.

As for the salary, anyway, Bill is so cowardly and dare not resist, and he is burdened by his granddaughter, so it is fine as usual, and there is no need to buy medical insurance.

The existence of capitalists, who are vampires no matter what era they are in, relies on the fact that these middle-aged and elderly people have family scruples and it is difficult to escape, so they can unscrupulously eat the flesh and blood of the bottom-level workers.

The more Su Yun thought about it, the more sad she became: Once upon a time, when she was a newcomer in the workplace, she also encountered those "smart people in the workplace" and vampire bosses who used and suppressed her.

Fortunately, she is not a soft-boiled character like Bill. After learning things and earning qualifications, she directly jumps to another job and then starts her own studio. Then she drinks coffee and laughs at those companies that engage in workplace PUA and make themselves to death.

After reminiscing, Su Yun rummaged through her memory, combined with the news that Bill passed away unexpectedly in her old age when she was impoverished and unable to rectify her name, she roughly analyzed that it was Tom's temporary help at the beginning that caused the death that should have happened at the beginning of the year. Bill, who left, survived the unexpected plot.

Thinking of this, Su Yun looked at Bill again: "I remember, my friend said - if you can successfully get back what belongs to you, then I can take this bat and go to you Want a reward?"

Bill's expression froze, and then he looked miserable again: "I have experienced that accident, and I do have the idea of ​​fighting again..."

"However, even if I went around the comic exhibition to find support from fans, it didn't help much." Bill sighed deeply, "Besides, after so many years, the fans who believed in me back then basically couldn't be contacted... ..."

If it follows the original world line, 15 years after Bill's death, I don't know whether it is because a dead person can no longer win credit, or because the old Bob justified his name in his autobiography in order to reduce his guilt. Co-creator of Batman.

But how did Bob write it -- if I could go back 15 years, before Bill died, I would say, I'm going to put your name on it now, you deserve it.

This kind of seemingly conscientious discovery is actually speechless. Not only Su Yun, who is a bystander reader, has a black question mark in his heart when he sees it. From the very beginning, Bill’s contribution far exceeded yours, but you not only enslaved him to create, but also deliberately squeezed out his contribution, and finally caused Bill to die in obscurity. In this matter, I will never forgive you, a mouthful Little liar!

But no matter how much this leads to heated discussions, it has nothing to do with Bill, a poor genius.

"I believe in you!" Su Yun stood up with a serious expression, "I am also a fan of "Batman". Here, please let me express my deepest gratitude to you—thank you for creating Batman."

When Bill saw this, he was so startled that he didn't know what to do, and he also stood up. His lips moved, but he was too nervous to say a word.

That's what he is -- can write great fight scenes, but never seems to be able to fight for himself.

Even if they are old enough to be Su Yun's uncles or even grandparents, they are far inferior to Su Yun, a "child" in terms of human sophistication and self-expression.

"Maybe the fans back then can no longer help you, but my current fans—maybe it's not just me, we will all help you again!"

"As long as you dare to fight for yourself."

Seeing this scene, Athena, who probably knew something, took the hand of Bill who was stunned.

Su Yun couldn't help but glanced at her: In the future, it was Athena, the granddaughter, who, with the encouragement and help of fans from later generations, negotiated with DC, and finally succeeded in getting Bill's status officially recognized by DC officials legally. Bill's name would be tied with Bob as a result of "Father of Batman".

At the same time, the signature of this dispute for many years will also be changed from "Batman was created by Bob Kane" to "Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger".

"If you continue to be depressed like this, won't you have to wait for ten years or decades, after you pass away, to let your descendants rectify your name?"

"Are you willing to let Athena continue to suffer bullying, or spend her whole life fighting for her cowardly grandfather?"

"Grandpa, don't be afraid. When I grow up, I will definitely help you get back what you deserve!" Hearing this, Athena, who knew her grandfather had been bullied for many years, quickly took Rabiel's hand again, and A determined little look.

However, it was this appearance that prompted an old man to muster up his courage again to fight for himself and future generations.

"Excuse me... what should I do?" He looked at Su Yun with piercing eyes, gritted his teeth and took the first step in defending his rights after many years.