The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 539 Thoughts on Infinite Flow

"Then you go ahead, I'm hanging up."

After Zheng Wei washed up, he lay on the bed and chatted with his girlfriend. After chatting for half an hour, he hung up and got up and sat down at the computer desk.

Couples in love can't wait to be together all the time, but his girlfriend's company has a Spring Festival holiday in advance, so he went back to his hometown. Zheng Wei, who still sticks to his job, can only chat with his girlfriend remotely through WeChat video.

Usually Zheng Wei, who used to feel a little empty and lonely, would play games to pass the time, but today he has other pastimes.

"The Beginning" starring his favorite actor, Zhao Jinmai, was launched today. As one of his sister's many male fans, he naturally wouldn't miss it.

Moreover, the complete works will be released all at once, and tomorrow is Saturday, because the Spring Festival is approaching and the company needs to go to work on Sunday, this Saturday the company is also happy to have a holiday.

This means that he can watch the drama without any worries, if the drama is good and suits his appetite.

But it seems that there is no need to worry too much. Although his Helios Animation and DreamWorks are competitors, of course, the competition is mainly in animation, but he still has to admit that DreamWorks has never made a bad drama before.

Especially the sci-fi dramas it is good at.

"Damn! Is this a time loop?"

At the beginning, it starts directly with a scene of cars passing by in an ordinary city, without any sci-fi feel at all, which is completely different from DreamWorks' previous sci-fi dramas.

The sound of the radio in the car, the sound of the car horn, the sound of the phone, and the sound of the conversation form the background sound of the picture.

Crowded and busy intersections, vehicles and pedestrians in front of traffic lights form a daily picture, and the camera is so steady and simple that it looks like a documentary.

Until there was an explosion, the flames soared into the sky, and the flames engulfed a bus, surrounding vehicles and people.

When Zhao Jinmai woke up panting in the bus, Zheng Wei quickly let out an exclamation, and immediately became excited.

As an audience who has basically watched all the sci-fi film and television dramas produced by DreamWorks, he didn't need much foreshadowing, and he immediately realized that this was a sci-fi concept he was familiar with.

time loop.

As a sci-fi professional, DreamWorks has used many novel sci-fi concepts more than once, such as signal stories about cross-time and space connections and butterfly effects, movies, TV dramas and even animations have turned a lot of tricks.

Another example is Omnic Crisis, from "Suspect Tracker" to "Matrix", and then to "Black Mirror", many classic works have also been produced in different ways.

And there is another sci-fi concept that is also very exciting, and that is the time loop category.

Zheng Wei likes this kind of works very much, but from Chen Jingxing's "Source Code" to Guo Fan's "Edge of Tomorrow", only two films have been released, which makes him a little regretful.

Loops are often bound to reasoning and decryption types. This kind of brain-burning elements and the process of changing the plot through information differences are the most attractive things to Zheng Wei, and of course there is a stronger sense of substitution.

It seems that DreamWorks has made another time loop drama.

The compact and delicate plot quickly made Zheng Wei ecstatically invested in it.

He also gradually realized the unique charm of this drama from it, and the extremely strong sense of reality and substitution made him unable to stop.

This is the biggest difference between "The Beginning" and "Source Code" and "Edge of Tomorrow".

The plot structure of the time loop in those two films is naturally very subtle, but in fact they both have a strong surreal background.

Needless to say, "Edge of Tomorrow" fights against aliens, "Source Code" takes place on the high-speed rail, which has a strong sense of reality. Of course, the source code plan informed by the military still makes the movie feel more surreal, and the sense of game is stronger. , This is also the success of "Source Code".

Even if "Signal" with a realistic theme is a major case when it comes up, "Suspect Tracker" even introduced the mysterious rich man played by Pan Yueming at the beginning, coupled with the setting of "predicting crimes in advance" that quickly made the audience realize. Certainly, the surreal feeling is also very strong.

Although "The Beginning" also has a strong sense of game, its sense of reality far exceeds that of DreamWorks' previous film and television dramas.

Although it is a suspense film, it does not have any dark filters, and it does not use a full range of cool tones. It is completely different from previous works such as "Signal" produced by DreamWorks.

The whole play is almost presented in the simple shooting technique of documentary form.

Both the filter and the picture are similar to TV news.

Except for the inexplicable loop, everything is real and couldn't be more real.

This creates a stronger sense of substitution.

In addition, another highlight is the interaction between the male and female protagonists and the police. In most film and television dramas, the protagonists are lonely heroes.

Including Source Code and Edge of Tomorrow.

Of course, these two movies are in line with the logic of the story. "Source Code" can be regarded as a memory file. Can be a lone hero.

"Edge of Tomorrow" is already fighting against alien monsters, let alone cooperating with the police.

When Zheng Wei saw the ending and came back to his senses, the sky outside was already slightly bright.

"Too enjoyable!"

It seems to be back to the time when I was watching "The Walking Dead II" in the dormitory last year, but luckier than that time is that I don't have to go to work today, and last year when he and his classmates brushed "The Walking Dead II" in one go, there were only two days left before submitting the graduation thesis Yes, that is pain and happiness.

However, after the most drowsy time, he lay on the bed and didn't feel sleepy for a while, so he took out his mobile phone again and prepared to watch the discussion of "The Beginning" on the Internet.

"DreamWorks has another drama! How good is "The Beginning"? Stay up all night and watch the entire episode!"

"Unlimited streaming TV dramas are coming, and "The Beginning" has a hot online broadcast"

""The Beginning": The bus version of "Source Code", take you to find the real culprit behind the scenes!"

"After the high-speed rail, it's the bus's turn again, and DreamWorks has launched a time-loop sci-fi movie again!"

"Zhao Jinmai and Bai Jingting starred in suspense dramas, staged 'Love on the Suspension Bridge', nine years apart, full of cp feeling"

""The Beginning" had over 2 million views on the three networks on the first day of its launch! DreamWorks created a blockbuster drama at the beginning of the year, and the core is to empathize with the audience!"

At the same time, Chen Jingxing was also checking the feedback on the Internet after the launch of "The Beginning", because he couldn't spare time to contribute to the launch of "The Beginning" because of the filming of "[-]", but it did not affect his attention to this film. performance of the play.

Judging from the feedback from netizens and the media, he is generally satisfied, but he still has some criticisms.

That is, the video platform inexplicably moved closer to "infinite streaming" in the marketing process, which made him a little speechless.

It is a bit similar to the plane of the previous life.

After the copyright of "The Beginning" was sold to the video platform, the marketing was also mainly in charge of the video platform. The marketing staff of Penguin Video really knew some fashionable words and went up. Isn't the time loop enough?
According to the more mainstream view, "infinite flow" usually means that the protagonist enters the mysterious "reincarnation space" and goes to dungeon worlds such as movies, games, animations and novels to complete tasks, thereby gaining extraordinary power, but has to never stop in a different world Land adventure and reincarnation.

In short, "infinite flow" is the process of allowing the protagonist to enter another world and complete different tasks.

"The Beginning" has nothing to do with "Infinite Flow" anyway, and it is a bit far-fetched to regard each time loop as a dungeon world. In "Source Code", it is called memory rollback, which is actually a parallel world setting. Get involved.

Speaking of "Infinite Flow", it's not that Chen Jingxing didn't think about it. He had actually thought about it before.

Generally speaking, the biggest obstacle to "unlimited streaming" film and television dramas is copyright, but after years of hard work, DreamWorks has actually accumulated a lot of copyright.

Especially the zombie world and doomsday world that often appear in "Infinite Stream" novels, DreamWorks really has no shortage.

Isn't "The Walking Dead" the hottest zombie-themed IP in the world right now?
"Matrix" is actually good, and it's not just the feature film, it also shows the story background equivalent to the prequel through three animated short films.

"Skyhawk Warrior" and "The Wandering Earth" are actually very suitable for the "infinite flow" world background, including "Suspect Tracker" and "Signal" are actually fine.

Really want to shoot, DreamWorks' existing IP copyright is not unable to support such a work.

But the difficulty is not limited to copyright. The cool point of "Infinite Stream" is that the audience or readers follow the protagonist into the familiar world, deal with familiar characters with poor information, and even change the direction of the plot.

This means that even though DreamWorks owns the copyrights of these copy worlds, they still need familiar characters to play them.

This is quite unrealistic.

The difficulty is too high, the cost is too high, and it is not cost-effective.

If it is a self-made copy of the story and background, it is not impossible, but then there is no need to shoot "unlimited stream" works. In the final analysis, filming film and television dramas is for the number of broadcasts and for the box office.

If it is not for the purpose of attracting traffic with the "copy" IP familiar to the audience, then it would not be cost-effective to shoot "unlimited streaming" works, and the results may not be comparable to other sci-fi film and television dramas after hard work.

Chen Jingxing thought over and over again and put the idea of ​​"unlimited streaming" film and television dramas behind him.

(End of this chapter)