The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 326 Easter egg of "Suspect Tracking"
The 6-minute trailer of "Suspect Tracker" was actually finalized by Chen Jingxing himself.

It can be said to be quite bold and novel, because there has not been any trailer like this before, and it is very rare in itself for as long as 6 minutes.

What is even more rare is that this version of the trailer is still a short film with continuous and complete plots. The trailer of "Gravity" is also the first part of the movie, but there are still edits, otherwise the trailer may take 10 minutes.

Usually, the trailers of film and television dramas are either edits of journals, which almost explain the main line of the story, or they are random edits without knowing the severity, and the rhythm is well matched with the music, highlighting a lively and intense scene. As for the plot, the audience can't see it of.

The trailer of "Suspect Tracker" is actually the content of a certain episode in the middle and late stages of the TV series. Chen Jingxing took it out and used it directly as a trailer.

From the perspective of background setting, "Suspect Tracker" can even be called a derivative drama of "Source Code", and a parallel world in "Source Code" is selected as the background.

In "Source Code", the male protagonist has gone through more than a dozen replays, except for the last one, each replay is only 8 minutes. After closing the "Source Code" for the last time, the male and female protagonists embraced and kissed each other to open a new world. This Only then did the audience suddenly realize that the "memory" of the source code machine is actually a parallel universe.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, every 8-minute reversion of the source code creates a parallel universe. This is also a detail that many in-depth interpretations of "Source Code" mentioned after the release.

The background of "Suspect Tracker" is set in the parallel universe created by a failed file reading in "Source Code".

One of the male protagonists in "Suspect Tracker", Fang Qi played by Pan Yueming, is a survivor who has personally experienced two bombing attacks on trains and Shanghai.

This prompted him to make up his mind to develop a "machine" capable of predicting KB attacks and crimes, and opened the "Pandora's Box".

The reason why Chen Jingxing set "Suspect Tracker" as the background of "Source Code" is not all to catch the popularity of the movie. The story of "Suspect Tracker" itself involves not weaker science fiction concepts and social issues than "Source Code". ", even worse, even if it doesn't take any heat, this drama will definitely become a drama no less than "Signal".

The linkage with "Source Code" is actually mainly due to the consideration of the story itself.

One of the themes to be expressed in the original "Suspect Tracker" is actually slightly similar to "[-]": monitoring and control.

However, Chen Jingxing's edition naturally shifts the focus from monitoring to a more grand proposition, that is, people's freedom and privacy in the information age.

The original version emphasizes the visible monitoring equipment, on the road and in public places, but in fact, when the society enters the stage of mobile Internet, the Internet’s record of human information is more powerful than the monitoring on the surface, considering the previous life plane The original version of "Suspect Tracker" was launched in 2011. At that time, iPhone 4 had just been launched, and the mobile Internet had just started sailing. It is understandable for the screenwriter to focus on surveillance cameras.

When there is such a magical machine that can obtain permission to use all information for big data analysis to "predict" KB attacks and crimes, the subsequent "pre-crime" intervention can logically lead to the so-called "use of prophets to prevent crime" "philosophical proposition.

When you try to intervene in a crime in the future, does it really only produce good results?Can a person's actions really be predicted by big data?

Furthermore, when such a machine is actually a strong artificial intelligence with self-awareness, and it has obtained the "omniscient" information that is close to that of human society, then it will show "omnipotent" afterwards.

Humans created God with their own hands.

In such a progressive sci-fi story, it is natural to have a villain to enhance the dramatic conflict, otherwise it becomes a sci-fi philosophical story.

Among the villains in the original version is the government, but in Chen Jingxing's version of the story, the official role is able to vaguely realize that the "machine" is a Pandora's box, but in order to be able to stop the KB attack, they have to use the most careful Attitude opened a seam of the magic box, and set a lot of seals, and even had to stand on the opposite side of the protagonists.

Because one of the most important items in the official "seal" of this "Pandora's Box" is that the "machine" can only provide the "relevant list", that is, the list of people related to the KB attack, while the "irrelevant list" of other "ordinary" crimes List" will be deleted directly at zero time.

What the protagonist group wants to do is to intervene and track the "irrelevant list", so the collision between the protagonist group and the official is not a collision between pros and villains, but a drama between positive characters for justice and greater justice conflict.

So where does the real villain come from?

Since the protagonist has created "God" and the official cannot create "devil", then the real "devil" must be created by a truly evil villain.

The KB organization is very suitable for the positioning of this villain, and it must be a KB organization that does not know how to overwhelm the sky.

The sci-fi concept and story of "Suspect Tracker" itself are very compelling, and the villain must of course follow the overall style.

Since we need a KB organization that is not aware of it, the half-covered and mysterious KB organization portrayed in "Source Code" is very appropriate.

Such a KB organization can invent a source code machine and come to other parallel worlds to make troubles, so it is very reasonable to create a "strong artificial intelligence" of the same level as the "machine" designed by the protagonist Fang Qi. The source code machine also appeared in "Person of Interest", of course, at least in the third season or later.

As for why this KB organization does so many things, it is not something that can be explained in the first two seasons. The motivation of this kind of tall and bombing KB organization is not difficult to set up, and it does not even need a logical and specific motivation. Just thinking of a high-level concept that looks like a neuropathy is enough to confess, and it is not enough to be high-level if you are not crazy enough.

And it is not necessary to explain clearly that the story background of "Source Code" has a high value of reuse. Not only is the world view sufficiently malleable, but the key is that it can avoid many sensitive things, and any evil plans and villains can be brainstormed. Deducted to this mysterious organization that is involved in countless parallel worlds.

Now that it is decided to define "Person of Interest" as a spin-off drama under the world view of "Source Code", then this drama will definitely involve the plot part of "Source Code" as the origin of the whole story. After all, "Person of Interest" Fang Qi, the leading actor in the movie, decided to design the "machine" after the train and city bombings.

Therefore, this memory of the leading actor Fang Qi was actually invited to remake the hero and heroine of "Source Code", Hu Ge and Wan Qian.

Through real shooting and post-production special effects, it is possible to re-display the plot of this episode in "Source Code" from another perspective.

This is also an easter egg and surprise that DreamWorks wants to create for the audience.

The outside world does not know the relationship between "Suspect Tracker" and "Source Code", nor does it know that Hu Ge and Wan Qian guest starred in "Suspect Tracker". Fans with a relatively large number of movies can probably guess the background of this show.

And the easter eggs accumulated for a long time were directly detonated by Chen Jingxing through a trailer.

After all, "Suspect Tracker" is not a star drama, even at this time, the grade and production of web dramas have been improved a lot - "Black Mirror" can be said to be the most important contributor to this - the status of web dramas in the hearts of the public is also great. It is much higher than the big online movies, but it is still a lot worse than the star dramas, or the network TV dramas.

Dreamworks' first TV series "Signal" was exclusively broadcast on Mango TV. The promotional strength and coverage of a super-first-line satellite TV are not comparable to that of the Internet platform at this time. It may take at least a year or two. Propaganda ability can surpass the first-line satellite TV.

Fortunately, the brand of Dreamworks made the public's deep-rooted disdain for online dramas not reflected in "Suspect Tracker", but it is difficult to achieve the popularity of star dramas only by relying on the step-by-step promotion of online platforms.

Chen Jingxing naturally wanted to "make trouble". DreamWorks itself is an expert in network marketing, but he has rich experience. After communicating with the publicity department, he decided to release the easter egg surprise that was intended for the audience in advance through the trailer.

Of course, there is also a very practical reason that "Person of Interest" is a bit slow, unlike "Signal" and "Black Mirror", which zoomed in on the first episodes, "Person of Interest" began as a narrative rhythm equivalent to unit dramas to solve crimes.

Even though this "solved case" is a bit special, it was Pan Yueming, the boss of a well-known Internet technology company, who hired Duan Yihong, a veteran criminal policeman who left the police force for some reason, to intervene or prevent "coming crimes."

This idea is innovative, but the stimulation to the audience is not as strong as that of "Black Mirror", nor is it as fashionable as "Signal" involving the high concept of "time and space". The science fiction concept related to time and space is inherently taller.

Moreover, the cases started in "Person of Interest" are not as thrilling and bitter as some of the cases in "Signal".

The energy of this drama is slowly increasing, and the plot can be considered to have truly reached a high-energy state after the "machine" is exposed.

It was not until the end of the first season that the "machine" was not a rigid big data computing computer but an artificial intelligence layer, and then it entered a higher concept, and the whole story began to become a real science fiction.

When the "immoral" "ghost" created by the KB organization appeared on the stage, setting off a man-machine war with the protagonist and even a machine-machine war with the "robot baby", the drama really reached its peak.

Therefore, the entire first season is actually a foreshadowing.

In order to maintain the audience's expectations in a relatively "low-energy" state of the story, it is a good way to release a big easter egg in the first season to create heat and whet the audience's appetite.

And the good effect was somewhat beyond the expectations of Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks.

(End of this chapter)