The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 459 Is it true or false?
"Does the final ending of "Matrix II" indicate that the so-called reality is also part of the matrix or virtual world?"

Chen Jingxing looked at the reporter who asked the question, as well as other journalists and movie fans who were eager for knowledge and spread their hands, with an expression that you couldn't help it.

Amid the knowing laughter from the crowd, he gently shook his head: "Wow! The Hollywood reporters are the most sympathetic reporters I've ever seen. I answered them all in Shanghai and at the premiere in Los Angeles. Are you going to pretend now that you are the Amish who refuse to use modern technology and not have access to the Internet?"

The reporter who asked the question saw that Chen Jingxing was not upset, so he jokingly persuaded him, "Director Chen, even if we don't ask questions, the reporters from Fleet Street will ask questions when you come to London tomorrow, as well as movie fans from all over the world. They won't let you go, and the British counterparts may install bugs in the hotel where you stay, Chen guides you to read the news, they did it."

Chen Jingxing laughed: "I will not accept intimidation, I know what you think, you want me to be mentally depressed due to the jet lag, and then leak something during your indiscriminate bombing or surprise attack, I am really tired , but I will not let you succeed."

Amidst the laughter of reporters and movie fans, Chen Jingxing continued: "Whether the Huaxu Kingdom is real or not, I will not give you the answer to this question, because there is also "Matrix III". The trilogy and the trilogy together constitute a complete story. I want to give my audience and fans a better viewing experience.

And I believe that the audience can find their own answers after watching "Matrix III". "

"So when will "Matrix III" be released?"

""Matrix III" has not been filmed yet, but it will start soon, and I will definitely meet you next year."

"Is "Matrix III" the end? Is there no follow-up plan? An epoch-making sci-fi work like "Matrix" has a great influence on many movie fans, especially among the Z-generation group. Everyone hopes to see it. More stories."

""Matrix" is not a series. I think the most responsible way to the fans is to let him end when it should end. This is the first time for me to shoot a series of movies, but I don't want him to end unfinished."

Chen Jingxing coped with the reporters' questions with ease. In fact, these questions had appeared in the previous premieres. He really didn't understand why the media had to ask the same questions over and over again.

At this time, a somewhat excited young man wearing glasses squeezed in from outside the encirclement, his tone was a little excited: "Hello, I am your loyal fan, I have liked your works since "Comet", I I want to ask a question, of course, if you think it involves spoiler information about "Matrix III", that's okay, just pretend I didn't ask."

"sure."

"In "Matrix II", I noticed that the program that seems to be the architect of the matrix, the Lord God and the Saint, seems to have different arrangements for the savior of this cycle, especially in combination with the easter eggs of the first part of "Matrix".

Can I think that the reason why the male protagonist Jian Bo made a different choice from the previous five generations of saviors is due to the influence of the saint?So what exactly does the saint want?Is the collapse of the matrix what she wants? "

Chen Jingxing glanced at the excited fan with some surprise. It seems that with the passage of time, fans and audiences have begun to interpret this movie more deeply.

"You got it right."

Seeing Chen Jingxing's appreciative expression, the other reporters and movie fans became excited. It seemed that this person had a good idea. Maybe Chen Jingxing would reveal some useful information.

"The first two parts of "Matrix" are actually a game between the architect and the sage in essence, or it can be seen as a line dispute. As the architect of the matrix, the Lord God is a conservative and he does not want to take risks. , so he still tends to maintain the normal update of the matrix every cycle, or the patched upgrade.

But saints are radicals. Whether it is giving humans the right to choose, or updating and patching the matrix system every once in a while, it can only delay the collapse of the matrix, but it cannot reverse the heaviest ending.

What the saint wants is not an update or an upgrade of the Matrix..."

It's revolution.

The matrix revolution. "

After Chen Jingxing finished dealing with the questions from the reporters and fans, he came to the backstage, took a cup of coffee from the staff, and gloated a little at the trio of protagonists who were still surrounded by the media and fans on the red carpet.

Although Chen Jingxing is considered a star director, he is not a real star after all. Lu Hongzhe, Yan Xiaoyue and Bao Shengming are the real and most eye-catching protagonists, and many media are surrounding them.

After the world premiere of "Matrix II" in Shanghai, Chen Jingxing also took the crew and the main creators to Tokyo, Singapore, Los Angeles and New York almost non-stop.

It is a tradition for domestic films to have roadshows in major cities. There is no way or time for "Matrix II" to run roadshows in major cities in China, but the roadshow has not been cancelled. It has just been changed to a marathon premiere in major international cities. Ceremony, fan meeting, media meeting.

Because there are not many people in the protagonist group, and Lu Hongzhe and Yan Xiaoyue are not easy to separate the "golden boy and jade girl" in the film, which is not good for publicity. Trapeze, from the Eastern Hemisphere Roadshow to the Western Hemisphere.

Under the arrangement of Universal Pictures, tomorrow they will cross the ocean again to conduct road shows in London, Paris and other cities.

Jet lag plus long hours of posing for the media to take pictures, and answering questions from fans and reporters round after round, is really physical work. Chen Jingxing has been able to persist until now purely by relying on chocolate and cups of espresso. .

"Good job!"

John Lindy, chairman of the producers' syndicate at Universal Pictures, walked up to him and gave him a thumbs up.

Chen Jingxing shrugged: "If I don't leave something for them, they won't let me go. Just treat it as a warm-up for the third movie."

"You're always so good at whetting people's appetites, Chen."

"I am over-flattered."

"Seriously, is Huaxu Kingdom really part of the matrix? Reality is also virtual?"

"..."

"Well, aren't you afraid that fans and reporters will get out of actors' mouths?"

"They don't know either, the matrix is ​​not written, only action and plot."

In fact, Chen Jingxing's own setting for "Matrix" is very clear. Of course, the Huaxu Kingdom is real, it is reality, and only the matrix is ​​virtual.

It's not that the Zion setting of the original "Matrix" in the previous life plane is a reality, he must respect the original setting and the like.

Of course, Chen Jingxing also believes that Zion in the original version exists in reality, not a matrix, nor a virtual world like Russian dolls.

It's just that Chen Jingxing thinks that this layer-by-layer virtual setting may be good in terms of fun, but he actually dispelled the core value of the movie to a certain extent.

If reality is also reversed into a virtual world, or becomes part of the matrix, then the audience will wonder whether everything in the whole story is virtual and false.

Is there any real?Or just a Russian nesting doll?
Once this kind of logic is produced, the final effect is the same as the final discovery that all the stories are dreams of the protagonist.

It is easy to become the nihilism of the movie, directly deconstructing the thickness and meaning of the movie.

Since people are fake, things are fake, and everything is fake, and the whole movie is a matrix within a matrix, wouldn't it be Tu Yile in the end?
However, Chen Jingxing will not directly give an affirmative answer. He believes that after "Matrix III" is released and the trilogy is fully presented in front of the audience, most of the audience will naturally have their own judgment.

If he directly draws a conclusion on this thing, he will fall into the lower class.

And a great movie is to allow audiences and fans to continuously interpret, discuss, expand and diverge, and even create secondary creations.

He doesn't want fans to directly bring up the director's statement when discussing a certain topic related to the movie, so that the discussion and interpretation will come to an abrupt end.

"Anyway, according to the current word-of-mouth and box office trends, there is no problem with the box office of "Matrix II" surpassing that of "Gravity."

John Lindy also held a cup of coffee and made a gesture of clinking glasses with Chen Jingxing: "Congratulations, you have made an incredible movie."

"Matrix II" has the first film as a foreshadowing. In fact, as long as the story does not collapse, even if the quality is mediocre, there is no problem in box office surpassing the first film.

However, the box office trend and critics' evaluation of "Matrix II" still exceeded the expectations of Universal Pictures.

"Matrix" is a sci-fi masterpiece, let alone a sequel, it is not easy to keep up.

And "Matrix II" did it.

The action scenes and special effects scenes that fill the entire movie are far superior to the first one in terms of quality and quantity, making people breathless, and the action scenes are imaginative.

Even if the connotation and world view of "Matrix II" are removed, this is definitely a rare special effects action blockbuster, and even audiences who have never watched "Matrix I" will find it enjoyable.

Not to mention the extension of the world view in "Matrix II" is also surprising. Although it is not as shocking as the first film, it can be regarded as digging down a layer of this amazing sci-fi concept. Turning the sci-fi concept of the matrix into an epic is completely beyond the stereotyped description of the relationship between man and machine confrontation and oppression in previous sci-fi novels.

Moreover, more in-depth and serious propositions such as choosing to shape the meaning of existence and human purpose are also discussed, which made the most literary and demanding film critics full of praise.

It can be said that this is a sci-fi blockbuster for both refined and popular tastes.

"2.5 million, this movie may reach the level of 2.5 million, or even higher!"

John Lindy looked at Chen Jingxing's slightly surprised expression, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that it's not a movie made in the United States, otherwise the box office may double."

In the era when the North American box office champion has exceeded [-] million US dollars, there are still some movies with a local box office of [-] to [-] million yuan every year, which is not uncommon. Of course, most of them are comic blockbusters.

In his opinion, if "Matrix II" is replaced by American actors, or at least with Western faces, the North American box office of [-] to [-] million is not expected, and [-] to [-] million is still sure.

For John Lindy's palpable regret, Chen Jingxing could only laugh and said nothing. Universal Pictures poked him from top to bottom to come to Hollywood to film a movie and never gave up. But it's a pity, at least in the foreseeable few years, he There is no such plan.

(End of this chapter)