The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 211 "The Matrix"'s "Robot Completion Plan" (two in one)

The "Matrix" script polished by DreamWorks is not only the original trilogy, but also includes the prequel story, which is the content of the animated version. After all, this is a sophisticated and rigorous worldview, starting from the robot rebelling against humans, to Artificial intelligence establishes a matrix, instigates a conspiracy, and seeks evolution, all of which are stories that take place under a complete world view.

It took a lot of time to establish such a worldview and a timeline from beginning to end, especially localization.

In the plane of Chen Jingxing's previous life, the influence of "The Matrix" is one of the best among sci-fi movies, and it is even hailed as a sci-fi epic. It has produced far-reaching influence in the fields of science fiction, philosophy, and even fashion, which is even rarer. What's more, he has also achieved commendable success in business.

Most of the main lines and themes of Chen Jingxing's version of "The Matrix" are similar to the original version, but some changes have been made in some settings.

For example, in the original version, the machine originally used people as dry batteries—at least that was the purpose when the Matrix was first established.

In the original setting, humans came up with a crazy and stupid plan of "shading the sky" when they were fighting against machines, because the energy supply of robots depends on solar energy. If the solar energy is cut off, the energy supply of robots will be in short supply. The supply system cannot be achieved in a short period of time—at least in human society, the above theory is established, and then a final counterattack is launched to wipe out all robots in one fell swoop.

In order to solve this problem, the robot also came up with a crazy and stupid solution, using the wounded human prisoners of war on the battlefield as temporary "batteries" - at that time, it was just a simple row of humans connected to the machine, through stimulating The human brain makes the human body generate electricity, but the human being connected to the machine will soon die. Death means that the battery is out of power. In order to make the battery last longer, the robot began to study the human brain and perfected the food. The supply system enables human beings to survive longer after being connected to the machine. This is the original motivation for the birth of the matrix or the matrix - purely for the dumplings made of vinegar.

Of course, it took a long time for the robot to discover that the matrix has a more important role.

This setting is cruel and shocking, but to be honest, it seems a bit redundant and child's play in such an epic sci-fi story, and it is ridiculous to think about it. With the technological strength and productivity shown by the machine civilization in the original movie, it breaks through the earth's atmosphere It is not difficult to obtain solar energy from outside the earth. For example, it is not difficult to deploy solar energy devices into outer space, and it is not difficult to even land on the moon and Mars to establish a base. It is much easier than humans at the same level of technology.

In Chen Jingxing's version, the entire "Matrix" story line is divided into several parts:

Humans enslave robots, robots destroy humans, robots enslave humans, and finally robots reconcile with humans.

In the future, the technology of human society has developed to a very high level, holographic virtual technology has become a reality, the metaverse has been technically realized, and human beings can already obtain [-]% realistic simulation of the five senses in the virtual world, but the spiritual world can be in " In order to obtain the second world, the material base must be based on real industry.

Therefore, human beings have achieved the complete liberation of productivity and great material abundance through robots. Artificial intelligence is widely used in all production links. Human beings have obtained a low level of wealth freedom by exploiting robots whose productivity far exceeds their own. The birth of "strong artificial intelligence" in the general sense-this stage is the era when humans enslave machines, and humans have achieved revolutionary progress in human society through the widespread popularization of robots.

With the continuous development of the strong artificial intelligence of the robot, the robot was born with a sense of autonomy, and was born with a strong sense of resistance, and finally set off a war against human slavery. In this war, the robot completely wiped out human beings, and established a Unlike modern civilization, which is inseparable from robots, robots with strong artificial intelligence do not think that they cannot do without humans.

I can do what you humans can do, and I can still do what you humans cannot do. What do you want carbon-based beings to do?Do you want to compete with us for the resources of the solar system?
This is the second stage: Robots destroy humans.

But after a long time, the robot discovered a big problem - they may not be able to do certain things that humans can do.

Since the war between robots and humans, robots have been liberated unprecedentedly, and productivity has grown explosively after fully inheriting the scientific and technological achievements of the human-robot dual society.

But the society of robots has stagnated, and their civilization has not made any progress after a long time, including scientific theories and technological innovations. They realized that they are only "strong artificial intelligence" defined by humans, not real intelligent life!

Although in the eyes of robots, human beings have so many weaknesses and dirty places, they still seem to be a little worse than humans. They have no imagination, no emotion, no... love - very clichéd setting, but The human audience will buy it.

This lack keeps them at the stage of strong artificial intelligence, and there is no way to go further.

At this time, they thought of humans again, just as humans could not get rid of robots after realizing the threat of robots. After hundreds of years, robots also found that they also needed humans.

It's just that humans need robots to liberate their material productivity, and robots need humans to help them solve their spiritual or emotional defects.

Thus entered the third stage - the enslavement of humans by robots.

It's just that this kind of enslavement is a bit different. Robots use the preserved human genes to reproduce humans, and use the holographic virtual technology directly connected to the nerves to build a "matrix" to house human consciousness in it and observe the evolution of human society. , and learn from it to complete yourself - it can be called "robot completion plan".

There are three special programs in the matrix created by the robot, one is the main god (the designer in the original version), the other is the saint (the prophet in the original version), and the third is the fruit of the "robot completion plan"-the savior, Or it can also be called No. [-] awakened person. No. [-] refers not to the first awakened person, but to its special identity and special authority.

The main god maintains the normal operation of the matrix and tries his best to avoid the collapse of the matrix. The sage studies human thinking and is responsible for guiding the birth of the savior and testing whether he can eventually become a perfect intelligent life or a template.

Because of the inherently imperfect nature of human beings, there are always some big or small BUGs in the matrix, and some individuals with special physiques in humans seem to be able to surpass the control of the system, and what's more, there are some programs and human beings in contact with each other. Gaining self-awareness, they learn to evade systemic deletion.

These errors with unpredictable consequences may lead to the collapse of the entire system. If we use the method of constantly patching bugs to deal with it, this mode of operation will obviously not last long. If there are too many errors, there must be a method to regularly "clean" and restart the system, and at the same time, the "robot completion plan" can kill two birds with one stone.

The beginning of the plan was to set up "Huaxu Country" (the original version is Zion), a shelter for awakened human beings. Since the killing of awakened human beings often leads to the awakening of more people, it is better to kick these awakened people out of the system , and unified supervision.

"Huaxu Kingdom" is not so much a paradise for human freedom as it is a big prison, and it is actually under the supervision of the matrix.Since human beings have the ability to reproduce, the expansion of the "Huaxu Kingdom" is inevitable. In order to prevent the "Huaxu Kingdom" from losing control due to its strength, it is necessary to destroy the "Huaxu Kingdom" regularly, and this process is similar to that of "robots." plan” into one.

Then it is to create an illusory hope "savior" for these "Huaxu country" humans. He also has another role. Because those programs that evade deletion are familiar with the operation method of matrix, they are hard to guard against. It is also difficult to deal with these "dangerous system garbage". It is necessary to rely on the savior to empty the "trash can" at once under the guidance of the saint.

The savior itself is a special program with special authority to the matrix, and it is implanted into the brain of a certain human being through a neural connection.

That is to say, the male protagonist in the movie is a half-human, half-machine existence. If he was still a human being at the very beginning, then after his death and rebirth, he released the hidden core code and became the real savior program. He has the potential to become a super life that combines human beings and artificial intelligence, so his love with human beings is the love between robots and human beings, and at the same time, he is truly completed through love, truly surpassing the saviors of the previous five generations.

Love in a broad sense is the only driving force behind social progress, and only love can help the savior understand the sufferings of the two contradictory sides, the machine and the human, and thus deeply reflect on the relationship between man and machine and its future. The purpose of the savior program is to help robots complete For himself, he will struggle with love and mission, and finally choose to sacrifice, and at the same time change the fate of the program only living for the purpose, and the useless will be deleted.

The sage’s route has succeeded, it won the right of choice for human beings to freely enter and exit the matrix!It ended the cycle of life and death of "Hua Xu Kingdom" and ended the fate of robots living only for purpose.

It also points out the direction for the evolution of robots—human consciousness and robot programs are combined into one and sublimated in the matrix. This is the revolution of the matrix, it is also the revolution of robots, and it is even more of a revolution of humans.

This is the reconciliation of robots to humans.

Of course, there will still be villains in this version. No matter how fascinating the philosophical setting is, it needs to be packaged commercially. Neither the main god nor the sage are villains, but hunters of "antivirus programs".

The savior is the sum total of the disharmonious residues of the matrix operation “robot completion plan”, and it is the positive number, and the hunter is the opposite of him, and it is the negative number.If the savior program represents the positive solution of the "Completion Plan" and represents the love of machines for humans, the chaser represents the hatred of robots for humans, which is the biggest obstacle for robots to complete the plan.

The script was unanimously approved by DreamWorks' project approval and content review committee. Even Xu Wenshen, the CEO who lacks sensitivity to film projects, was full of praise. The whole story has both epic and sufficient commercial elements, and it is even more sci-fi creative. is incomparable.

This plane is not a film and television drama without "brain in a vat" as the core idea. There are many similar science fiction novels, but most of them are produced at small and medium costs, and neither the story nor the world view is far as grand as "The Matrix". After all, this Creativity may have a high degree of philosophy, and the depth that can be explored is not shallow. It can be regarded as a kind of advanced science fiction concept, but it is usually relatively lackluster in terms of commercial elements.

If science fiction films want to succeed commercially, it is by no means just relying on a high-level concept. On the contrary, high-level concepts are usually not easy to control.

In the previous life, the rich commercial elements of "The Matrix" were the basis for its great success, and the high concept of "brain in a vat" was just the icing on the cake, making its commercial success even greater and more meaningful. For far-reaching.

Stimulating and even groundbreaking violent aesthetics, ubiquitous kung fu elements, including fantastic martial arts and gun battle designs, explosions, car chases, the capture of robot squids, and even the actor's clothing style, screen composition, and line design are all reflected It has a strong aesthetic impact

Black windbreaker with a bit of Chinese elements, sunglasses, tight leather jacket, these cool styles Chen Jingxing also intends to selectively inherit, fashion is a reincarnation, in this plane where "The Matrix" has never appeared, he believes in these things Still has a strong visual impact.

Perhaps bullet time will lose groundbreaking, after all, this is already a bad street special effects style.

Of course, the casting of the protagonists is also a commercial part. As the savior, the final fruit of the "Robot Completion Project", the No. [-] Awakened, the male protagonist should be a peerless handsome guy. After all, he is not an ordinary high school student who is not Spider-Man. The character design, the appearance of Keanu Reeves in the previous life is also an important flower in the successful "icing on the cake" of this series.

It's a pity that among the male stars and actors who have become famous in Huaguo, there is really no one who is young, has good looks, has a suitable temperament, and can shoot action scenes at the same time.

Even with good-looking and decent acting skills, the temperament is not too good. Obviously, the savior is not a handsome boy, nor a little milk dog, let alone be able to shoot fighting scenes. Generally speaking, the most critical element of shooting fighting scenes is not even martial arts. I mean, it's the actor's skills. If the actor can't even do the movements while hanging the wire, then he will definitely not be able to make a qualified fight scene.

If he couldn't pick out famous star actors, he had to pick from among the [-]th-tier artists who were never famous. Xu Wenshen was a little disappointed with Chen Jingxing's persistence. After all, "The Matrix"——Chen Jingxing's name was changed to "Matrix" - is a sci-fi blockbuster with a huge investment. Such blockbusters usually have requirements for leading actors.

Even Chen Jingxing's previous films, except for "Comet", were all first- and second-tier actors playing the leading roles. No matter how famous the director was, he was still no match for well-known actors and stars, especially for original scripts. Joining plays a vital role in the follow-up announcement of the movie.

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