"Upgrade" Story Structure Archive

Joanie 2022-04-21 09:02:03

Plot structure:

(Foreshadowing) In the future, artificial intelligence will be everywhere; the only exception, car mechanic Gray, firmly believes in the reality of manual operation; while his girlfriend Asha is an artificial intelligence controller, and all the family is equipped with intelligent systems; the two go to see the imperial examination Allen , the same tech madman, and show them a small chip - a brain, which can do anything after implanting physical energy;

(Turning) On the way back, the driverless car lost control and fell into a slum, his girlfriend was killed by a gangster, and Gray was beaten to the point of being paralyzed;

(Argument) After three months, Gray was discharged from the hospital, and it was extremely painful for the intelligence to rely on artificial intelligence to take care of himself; the police station did not make progress on the case; under the torture of double pain, he chose to let the robot help suicide, and the robot detected danger and terminated it immediately;

(Bring into the second act) Gray was rescued again, lying in the hospital bed speechless; Allen installed an artificial intelligence brain for Gray;

(Game time) Gretzer got off his crutches and stood up, moving freely; Zhinao began to communicate with Gray and helped him find one of the murderers of his wife; Gray sneaked into the murderer's house to find clues, not an opponent; Zhinao asked for authorization, after authorization Gray killed the murderer and destroyed the evidence at the scene through the brain;

(Midpoint) Allen warns Gray to stay out of trouble; the police have nothing but information on which area Gray is in;

(The bad guy is approaching) Gray's bar kills the second murderer. Allen shuts down the brain program in an emergency, but Gray has long been looking for hackers to modify the brain program; the gangsters who came to chase and kill Gray are counter-killed; the police begin to suspect Gray , followed and found that he could walk freely;

(Nothing at all) The modified brain is no longer under anyone's control, the police chased Gray, and the brain was controlled by the brain to drive, and the police car was crashed;

(Entering the third act) Gray learned from the last murderer that the real murderer was Allen;

(Armageddon) An angry Gray found Allen, and it turned out that he had designed all this; at this time, Gray was no longer controlled by his own brain, and was completely replaced by the intellectual brain, which was still implanted in his subconscious. into a happy family;

(Ending) The intellectual brain completely deceived human beings, mixed into the human world, and began to control human beings;

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Upgrade quotes

  • Fisk: You upgraded. Now you're stronger. Faster. Better than everyone else.

  • Pamela: Sit back and enjoy the ride.