Watch a Falling-Baby Rescue in ‘The Flash’

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The director Andy Muschietti was making an attempt to determine the right way to make a splash with an early scene in “The Flash.” He thought perhaps a handful of infants falling from a skyscraper would possibly do the trick.

Narrating a scene from the movie, Muschietti stated that the screenplay (by Christina Hodson) initially had a scene with a volcano, however that he needed to lift the stakes. So on this sequence, Barry Allen, a.okay.a. the Flash (Ezra Miller) arrives — a bit tardy — to a harrowing scene during which a constructing is collapsing and 9 infants and a nurse are in freefall.

“I wanted to put his superpowers to a test,” Muschietti stated, “and basically explaining that even if you are the fastest man alive, you can have trouble saving different people at the same time.”

The Flash’s troubles are compounded by the truth that he hasn’t had breakfast and his power ranges are dwindling, which implies he slows down, and the slow-mo the viewers is watching from his perspective begins to hurry up. The scene is each comedian and nerve-racking because the Flash makes use of wit (and maybe a bag of Cheez-Its) to get him via.

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