China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 231 The World in Five Minutes

At the premiere ceremony, Zhou Xingchi, Li Mu and Liu Yifei only briefly greeted the audience, and then returned to their seats, and then Li Mu and Zhou Xingchi chatted quietly , Andy Lau, Fan Wei and other actors stayed on stage to continue interacting with the audience.

offstage.

Li Mu asked Zhou Xingchi: "In the future, you really don't plan to play the leading role in person?"

Zhou Xingchi said: "Probably not."

Li Mu thought that there would be a reason for not acting later, so he waited for a while, and waited for Zhou Xingchi to continue to talk, but there was no result, there was only one result, and there was no reason.

Li Mudao: "That's really a pity. In the future, the audience will not be able to see the purest nonsensical comedy."

Zhou Xingchi said: "Stopping acting is not retirement. Filming will continue. As long as the audience likes it and can make money, the film will continue to be made, but it will not be made as an actor."

Li Mu said with a smile: "In this way, our Huashang has made a lot of money? The last time Master Xing appeared on the scene was in our "Source Code". Wow, it is very commemorative."

Zhou Xingchi: "I like the scene near the end of the movie very much. The picture freezes, the machine pulls away, everyone is laughing, everything is so beautiful as far as the eye can see, and it really suits my heart to end with that scene."

On the stage.

Andy Lau said to the audience: "I just heard someone say that the investment in "Source Code" is only 3000 million U.S. dollars. It will definitely not look good. Huashang's sci-fi film does not have an investment of 1 million U.S. dollars. Are you embarrassed to say hello to people? What I want to say Yes, that idea is wrong."

"I've been making movies for decades. In my company, I really don't have the ability to invest more than 3000 million yuan in movies. I'm talking about Hong Kong dollars. The investment in "Source Code" is 3000 million U.S. dollars! Why do people think the investment is small? What? It’s an investment of 2 million yuan! I really didn’t know that it would cost so much money to make a movie. The investment in “Source Code” is really quite a lot. A film with this amount of investment is the most famous movie in the country. There are not many in total, so please have confidence in "Source Code", this is a very exciting science fiction movie!"

offstage.

Li Mu continued to chat with Zhou Xingchi until the premiere went to the video playback.

The main creators of the film returned to their seats one after another, the lights in the playback hall dimmed, and Li Mu also turned his attention to the big screen in front of him.

The movie has officially started.

After participating in the logo of investment companies such as Longbiao and Huashang Media, the bustling street scene in Shanghai came into view. Helicopter aerial photography was used here, and many Hollywood blockbusters will use this opening method. Subtly, many viewers saw this At the beginning of the class, the subconscious will make people instinctively feel that they are watching a blockbuster movie.

Co-producer, director producer, producer, chief planner, co-producer, co-producer, lead actor—one title and one name appeared on the big screen, but obviously no one would pay attention to these behind-the-scenes staff. At this moment, the audience's attention The force has been all focused on the beginning of the film.

Until the words "Special Performance" appeared on the screen.

Special performance:

Zhou Xingchi, Li Mu, Liu Yifei.

"Special performance Zhou Xingchi - Zhou Xingchi???"

The audience's attention is indeed not on these subtitles, but if they suddenly see a very familiar name, and a name that is completely unexpected to the audience, the audience's attention will be pulled back instantly.

"What's the situation? Special performance Zhou Xingchi?"

"Have you heard it before?"

"Is there something wrong with the crew? Zhou Xingchi participated in such a big event and didn't promote it vigorously?"

"I'm stupid, I remembered it. It seems that someone broke the news on the Internet before, and I took it as a joke at the time."

"There are Li Mu and Liu Yifei in this film? I'm so stupid! Awesome!"

"Andy Lau, Fan Wei, Yang Ziqiong, Zhou Xingchi, Li Mu, Liu Yifei—what the hell kind of combination is this!"

"I've never seen a crew like this. After all the movies are released, they still hide the biggest selling point of the movie. Is this a grudge against the box office?"

Li Mu and Liu Yifei did appear in the movie, and it was a reshoot after the two returned to China. In fact, there were very, very few scenes, so I didn't promote it to me.

This is the version shot by Li Mu.

For those two shots, you made a big deal of publicity in advance, and the audience came here with great interest. As a result, there were too few scenes, and it was inevitable that they would be disappointed. On the contrary, if you didn’t publicize it and waited for the audience to discover it, it would turn into a pleasant surprise.

Li Mu's role in the scene is actually very simple. The male protagonist looks through the car window and finds that it is not his own face. He rushes to the toilet and finally confirms that his face has changed into a completely unfamiliar one.

Li Mu is the owner of that completely unfamiliar face.

In a sense, Li Mu's appearance is the real appearance of the protagonist of the story, and the protagonist everyone on the train sees is actually Li Mu's face.

The role of Liu Yifei is even simpler. At the end of the film, the hero and heroine meet a passer-by girl on the road. The girl is also called Liu Yifei, but in the movie she is just a very ordinary salesperson.

"Source Code" creates real parallel worlds, so why is it that Liu Yifei in the parallel world is just an ordinary salesperson?
The movie officially begins. The leading actor, Shi Wenzhou, wakes up from a train. He doesn't know why he is here. In his memory, he should be involved in peacekeeping in Africa.

In front of him was a young woman who looked familiar to him, but he didn't know her at all. The woman called him Xiao Wen, but he didn't even know who this Xiao Wen was.

As Li Mu said to Zhou Xingchi earlier, this time Huashang Media made a lot of money.

At the very beginning of the film, the attentive audience found Zhou Xingchi's figure in the flashing shots, which was a complete surprise for the audience.

Immediately afterwards, the hero found that he was not himself in the mirror, and he became a stranger, but this stranger was not unfamiliar to everyone.

Li Mu!

For viewers:

"I'm stupid, there are a lot of big names!"

"Suddenly feel that it is worth the fare, right?"

"I guess the character of Master Xing will definitely not survive 10 minutes. It must be the same as the boss of the crocodile gang played by Feng Xiaogang in "Kung Fu". He comes out early and gets his box lunch early!"

"It's up to you to say? For sure! You can see that the crew didn't promote Master Xing. It must be because there are very few scenes. He must either die or get out of the car to complete the filming. I also guess that the possibility of dying directly is higher."

As a result, after the heroine played by Song Jia said the phrase "everything will be fine", the whole train suddenly exploded!

The people on the two trains all went off the assembly line directly!

Many viewers were stunned by this scene.

The good news is that everyone guessed it right, Master Xing went offline to receive the boxed lunch in 10 minutes; the bad news is that it seems that even the hero and heroine also went offline to receive the boxed lunch together.

"Captain Shi Wenzhou, have you received it?"

"You are in the siege of the fort, everything is normal?"

After receiving simple training, the actor played by Andy Lau was asked to find the murderer who detonated the bomb, so he returned to that train for the second time.

Conversations with the heroine, spilled coffee, ticket inspection, and Star Master who is online again.

This time the actor's first suspicion was Master Xing, because he kept asking why the train was late, and he looked very anxious.

The male protagonist snatched the newspaper from Zhou Xingchi's hand.

"what are you worried about?"

"what?"

"You seem to be constantly worrying about time, what are you going to miss?"

"I'm about to miss your front page celebration."

Andy Lau: "It's really interesting, who are you? A comedian?"

Song Jia finally discovered Zhou Xingchi's identity: "Yes, he is a comedian."

The character played by Zhou Xingchi thought he had met a crazy fan, but the female lead played by Song Jia seemed very excited. When the male lead sat back beside her, she hurriedly said:
"It's him, Zhou Xingchi, a comedian who has won the national box office champion many times. We talked about his movies before, you forgot."

The actor's face was a bit dazed, and the heroine asked again: "You don't really remember anything, do you? Tell me the name of an actor or director you know!"

The hero asked: "Li Mu?"

The heroine: "Fortunately, it seems that there is no amnesia, don't move, you look a lot like Li Mu."

The heroine asked the hero to turn to the glass of the train, and the face reflected on the glass was Li Mu!
This plot incorporates some original plots. For example, the stand-up actor in the original version has become a comedy movie actor Zhou Xingchi. For example, when the actor in the movie looks in the mirror, he sees Li Mu’s face, and then the heroine says The male protagonist looks like the great director Li Mu, which kind of echoes Li Mu's face in front of him.

Entering the world of source code for the second time, the hero finds the bomb, but there is too little time for him to do anything.

Then, an explosion.

The protagonist returns to the cabin.

"Who is in charge of this mock test? Where is my unit?"

The female officer played by Yang Ziqiong said to him: "Captain, this is not a mock test, life is at stake."

The protagonist wants to know the truth, but Yang Ziqiong is only focused on asking about the bomb. The male protagonist has a tough attitude, and Yang Ziqiong asks the superior played by Fan Wei to tell the protagonist part of the truth.

"At 7:48 this morning, an explosion occurred on the Beijing-Magazine High-speed Railway. All passengers were killed. You were on that train."

"There was a man named Xiao Wen on the train. In every way, he is you now."

"The train explosion is just the first wave of attacks, and there will be more to follow."

Then the protagonist returns to the train again, this time he takes the heroine off the train, and then falls off the rails in a scuffle with a suspicious man.

Back to the cabin again, but this time the cabin was cut off, and the hero took a lot of effort to repair the cabin.

Repeated repetitions and repeated deaths made the hero Shi Wenzhou's spirit on the verge of collapse, and he needed to know more information.

This time he saw a weird old man with a cane, and the weird lame old man was directing the female soldier played by Yang Ziqiong. The hero was keenly aware that this person was the boss here. If the female passenger got off the bus, he might be able to save more people.

The old man played by Fan Wei finally began to reveal the secrets about the "source code" to the protagonist.

"There will be an afterglow after the light bulb is extinguished, and the same is true for the brain. Even after death, the brain wave energy will remain briefly, and the brain circuits will still be open. Another feature of the brain is that it can maintain a short-term memory track of about 8 minutes... …remaining brain circuits after death and memories going back 8 minutes – the world of source code allows us to use both at the same time...”

The actor asked: "What will happen after those 8 minutes?"

Fan Committee: "After that? Nothing! In the world of source code, you can only exist in those 8 minutes. Source code is not time travel, in fact, source code is just time and space reappearance."

It is not uncommon to repeat a certain period of time in movies. For example, in the movie "Groundhog Day" released in 1993, the protagonist in it is to repeat the day of Groundhog Day. The protagonist of the film started by using this This kind of time and space that repeats itself for his own benefit, casually appropriates the money in the armored van for himself, or uses this characteristic to pursue women.

Until the repeated repetitions made the hero's spirit collapse, and then there were various suicide attempts, but in the end the hero woke up and began to live every day positively and optimistically.

Helping small town residents fix their cars, rescuing a boy who fell from a tree, rescuing an old man with a steak stuck in his throat, and learning to play the piano, the hero finally got rid of the repeated Groundhog Day and gained a lot of money for it love.

Unlike "Groundhog Day" which repeats without any reason, "Source Code" gives a seemingly more scientific explanation:

The human brain will maintain a short-term memory of about 8 minutes after death, and the so-called source code uses this feature of the human brain to build an 8-minute mirror world.

The source code world and the main world are independent and do not interfere with each other, but the information obtained from the source code world is still valid in the main world.

The setting looks similar to the continuous cycle of "Groundhog Day", but after careful consideration, there seems to be a very big difference between the two.

And what this difference reflects is innovation. Compared with the one-day cycle of "Groundhog Day", the 8-minute cycle of "Source Code" is obviously more urgent.

And compared with "Groundhog Day", the truth of the world of "Source Code" is undoubtedly more worrying.

Viewers watching "Groundhog Day" will feel that it seems good to be trapped in the loop forever, because in the looping world, the protagonist is God.

The world of "Source Code" is undoubtedly much more desolate.

For the viewers who only watched half of the movie, all the people on the train are actually dead. These people who are communicating and interacting with the protagonist are actually just the remains of the person named Xiao Wen after his death. of the image.

The heroine played by Song Jia has a good impression of the protagonist, and every audience can see this. The heroine is very gentle and kind. When someone spills coffee on her shoe, she just laughs it off.

However, from the perspective of the movie setting, this nice, gentle woman who obviously likes the protagonist is actually a dead person.

In the continuous cycle, the male protagonist also has a good impression of the woman, but this good feeling is destined to have no results.

What was the result with a woman who was already dead?
It can be said that from the moment when the chief played by Fan Wei revealed the truth of the source code world to the protagonist, the hearts of the audience have been tugged.

At the same time, I also have a strong curiosity about the later development of the plot.

(End of this chapter)