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Chinese name: Edge of Crisis
English name: Fringe
Drama Type: Drama/Suspense/Sci-Fi/Thriller
Premiere Date: August 26, 2008
Premiere Channel: FOX TV
Broadcasting region: United States
Drama language: English
One sentence introduction: A pair of strange doctors, father and son and royal sister joined forces to search the X-Files of the new century.
A plane suddenly encountered a storm, and a man began to twitch nervously, and then his face was covered in blood. Finally, all the passengers and crew on the plane were infected by it, unrecognizable and dripping with blood... What does this make you think?
"Lost"! ? That's right! The producer of this drama "Fringe" is JJ Abrams, the famous producer who once created the popular American drama "Lost". No wonder he gave me this set again! Not only that, the play also invited Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci (representative works "Transformers", "Double Spy", "Star Trek", "Spy: Impossible 3"), a pair of Hollywood golden partners to participate in the screenwriting, who have won Emmy Award-winning gold producer Alex Graves (representative work "Time Traveler", "The White House") served as producer and director. According to the introduction of the famous American drama community "Tianya Xiaozhu", the first episode of the drama is 90 minutes long and the investment is as high as 10 million US dollars. The subsequent episodes may cost 2 million US dollars per episode. It is a key drama that FOX TV network has invested in this year. It is also the most invested 2008-2009 season new drama so far.
All of this is not to mention, the show also lists a long list of obscure terms that make people feel confused and ecstatic: "Science, deformation, telekinesis, artificial intelligence, telepathy, God", and also mentioned in the film "mind control, teleportation, soul projection, invisibility, genetic mutation, rebirth, self-reproduction" and other fringe science (Fringe Science), and the title of the play "Fringe" is named by Here comes.
In addition, the gripping soundtrack and innovative and experimental editing techniques all add to the drama. For example, it was originally just a description of the location of the story that often appeared in film and television works, such as "Boston Logan International Airport", which should have appeared at the bottom of the screen. The regular words were turned into billboards and still floated in the air!? Under the refraction of the light, you can clearly see the shadow projected on the ground, making it look like the real thing, and you will continue to see similar techniques repeated after that. Another example is the scene depicting the dream, which is extremely realistic: abandoned garbage trucks, kayaks floating in mid-air, scaled childhood home furnishings, and evolved into a cemetery with a marble floor in the center, creating a school of Eerie psychedelic dreams.
In addition to the beginning, there will be a lot of sensory stimulation shots in the film, including exaggerated rooftop chases like "The Matrix", and thrilling car chase shots, all of which are quite a lot.
But take off these gorgeous sci-fi coats, in fact, this drama is the most KUSO and the most uncompromising comedy in history.
Let's go back to the play, a plane accident happened, and three agents were ordered to investigate, our heroine Olivia Dunham (played by Anna Torv), and the hero John Scott (Mark Valley) and Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo). After the investigation failed, the hero and heroine received an order from their superiors again to go to a mysterious warehouse for further investigation. As a result, when chasing the suspect, our brave Scott was blown to pieces by the other party's superpower. In fact, the other party just pressed the phone a few times. That's it, does this paragraph remind you of "Superheroes" again? . In order to save Scott and investigate the truth behind the scenes, it is necessary to invite Dr. Walter Bishop (played by John Noble), who has been imprisoned in a mental hospital for many years, to come out again, but to see Dr. Bishop, he must be accompanied by his immediate family. Exactly like a typical RPG game mode: to save A, you have to ask expert B to come out of the mountain, but to see B, you have to find C first, and to convince C you have to…
So the beloved Dunkam flew to Baghdad, Iraq, and found Peter Bishop (played by Joshua Jackson), the strange doctor's son who was trying to persuade two oil tycoons. Later, we learned that if there is a father, there must be a son. Defrauding money to repay the loan, this is very Zhou Xingchi. Dunkam was moved by love and reason, and finally he did not forget to play a little trick and finally forced his son to agree to accompany him to see the doctor. After that, the story developed much smoother. As long as people could be saved, all the requests from Dr. Strange could be met, and the laboratory was closed? It doesn't matter, open again! The best microscopes are always made in Germany, right? That's right, I caught this quill. No calf as experimental material? Pull over! By the way, remember to ask for a 380-pound 2-year-old purebred domestic calf with an average fat percentage of 2.37, not crossbred! Also, it's so hard to do experiments, people are so thirsty and want to drink ginger ale~ Allah, Allah, I've got them all for you.
In this way, after satisfying a series of normal and abnormal requirements of Dr. Strange, the story finally reached the climax. It was Dr. Strange's unique invention - the "neural cross-connection system", which was grandly debuted. The thing also has a pretty name: "Sharing Dreams". So Doctor Strange reported a list of names of narcotic drugs, and his son finally couldn't help but complain again: "Is this LSD you said last? Another name... LSD?!" But it was directly ignored by Doctor Doctor... In fact, This so-called "shared dream" is explained according to the original words of the doctor's son: this strange man who has just been released from the psychiatric hospital will give the heroine a lot of psychedelic drugs, and then in a very high state, he will be naked. , inserted all kinds of strange metal pieces and wires on his head, and finally was thrown into a rusted iron jar, and he had a good relationship with his boyfriend in a dream. Does this remind you of a similar movie "The Cell" again?
Has the "dream-sharing" experiment been a success? In the end, the boyfriend Dunkam tried to save is actually... I won't spoil the details here. It is worth noting that this work inherits the rigorous and meticulous screenwriting style of "Lost", and sometimes a background line that is not very noticeable in the film is It will become a key clue in the play, so everyone should keep their eyes open when watching, and don't miss a line.
Like the other two popular American dramas "Lost" and "Superheroes" with similar themes, the biggest hidden boss of this drama also comes from a mysterious big company "Global Dynamics", and there is such an embarrassing company name, but The company's exterior design is very avant-garde. The company's slogan is "What do we do? What don't we do". According to the translation of the YTET subtitle group, it is "what can we do, what we can't do", which is worth pondering. language, isn't it?
There are still many tidbits and bugs in the show: Lance Reddick, a black actor who once played the priest in "Lost", has improved a lot in this new play: "Broyles", the special agent commander in charge of investigating the accident. The rusty iron jar the heroine was in was made by Dell. The TV on which the Doctor watched SpongeBob SquarePants was made by Panasonic. Global Dynamics' exhaust pipes are made by San Exhaust? There is a close-up of a bumblebee in the abandoned garbage truck pile in the dream, is it Alex in KUSO's own "Transformers"? From the beginning of the heroine's dream to the end, the Doctor's sandwich has not been eaten. It is always only a corner missing. It seems that after taking a bite, it is never bitten again. Oops.
The latest American drama called "Fringe", which will premiere on FOX on August 26 this year, mainly tells the story of how a pair of Doctor Strange father and son and the royal sister jumped and searched the X-Files of the new century. Although you can find many film and television works and American dramas with similar themes in this play, there is no doubt about JJ's personal charm, so let's look forward to it in the end.
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