My friend, the branch of the watchmen study - the blue study, understand?
When I was translating the first "Memo: Rorschach" on the special website of "Watchmen", "Pete Encyclopedia", there was a paragraph that was difficult to understand. The original text and translation are excerpted as follows:
It's been two decades since the Presley debacle, but the public has a way of remembering when someone who is supposed to be dead suddenly wanders into a nightclub in Hanoi on VVN Night and performs every one of his songs with “Blue” in the title ( there are fifteen). It has been 20 years since Elvis passed away, but the public has its own way of remembering: a man who should have passed away suddenly walked into a nightclub in Hanoi and sang "melancholy" in the title of each of his songs on VVN night. Word Songs (15 in total).
First of all, the timing of this text appears a little abrupt, and in terms of the style of writing in the "FBI Internal Memorandum", it seems to be too detached and almost nonsensical. However, the context of this paragraph is all about the possibility of the return of the missing "Pharaoh" Werther, and it is not wrong to use Elvis' "Resurrection Terrier" as a metaphor. Like most celebrities who created pop culture trends and died young, both Elvis Presley and Bruce Lee had a folklore of "feigning death and burying your name somewhere". Moreover, this "memo" is part of the Overwatch universe, and whether the original author of the comic, Alan Moore, or the main creator of the show, has expressed his love for Elvis more than once in his work (or in the appendix tidbits). compliments and love. Therefore, as soon as this "memo" came out, someone pointed out: Maybe Elvis is still alive in the Watchmen universe! When translating "Luo Xia Ji", I also had the same idea. This passage is just "playing a stalk of Elvis' resurrection". Until I watched S01E08 "A God Walks into Abar". Really he meows a good piece of gray snake grass, Fuyan Qianli! First of all, the starting time of S01E08 is the night of VVN (Vietnam Victory Day) in 2009. At this time, it has been more than 20 years (about 24 years to be precise) from the "disappearance" of Manhattan and the previous "20 years of missing Elvis". coincide. "Nightclub/Club" is different from "Bar", but the entertainment is similar in nature, and it is sufficient as an implied correspondence. Moreover, the bar where S01E08's Manhattan meets Abar is actually a tribute to the original. This bar is called "Eddie's", and the setting of the bar is also similar to the bar where Eddie Black ("The Comedian") shoots his Vietnamese mistress on VVN night in Chapter 2 of the comic (bamboo or wood decoration on the bar and part of the walls) ). It is also worth noting that this small bar in Saigon in the original work actually calls itself a "Club" (see the picture below).
On the other hand, Eddie's shooting of his mistress happened 38 years before the start of E08 (1971). VVN has a special meaning for Manhattan, because the shooting incident happened in front of Manhattan, and the victim was a pregnant woman. The comedian blames Manhattan for his ability to stop him but chooses to sit on the sidelines, believing that he is beginning to lose his humanity. Manhattan was speechless and lost in thought... The reason why I wrote the above is to explain that Manhattan walked into Eddie's bar in E08, which seemed a bit abrupt or unresponsive, but it was actually "previously" foreshadowing and premeditated of. This kind of foreshadowing is based on the "fateful logic" of Necha in Manhattan - he has lost his sense of direction to the arrow of time, and the causal interaction has become a certain form of fate; it is also continuously strengthened by external settings and plots - constantly Repeated VVN tragedies, Manhattan's entry into the war makes America win and spawns VVN, comedian shoots his mistress on VVN night, Abar's parents were killed by the Vietnam Liberation Front in VVN years ago, VVN night is full of Blue's Manhattan symbols (makeup games, Masks, puppets, graffiti), and even Abar's name itself (Abar--> A bar --> Eddie's bar) is also a foreshadowing... Of course, the most direct and subtle "foreshadowing" is the one quoted at the beginning of this article In the Pitt Encyclopedia, this "foreshadowing" is actually a hint and response, "one fish and three eats": with the suspected resurrection of Elvis Presley 20 years later as the text, Yu Weite is still alive and may return at any time. The implication of the text is to lay out the creator's "make a big deal" intention -- at least a "make a big deal" relay station or brainstorming pile of drafts -- to delineate the time and outline of Manhattan's return to Earth. .
All the officials, is the writing already a bit like the index school and the textual research school in the "red school" haha... If you want to add a "fat review" to this text - no, it's a "green review" - If so, it should be "big joint big article, hidden in Manhattan's return", right?
The above is just the tip of the ice water as the branch of "Watchmen" - "Blue Science". So, what is blue school? ——" The Miracle of Thermodynamics " I think this is not only the famous lines of Manhattan and the famous lines of the watchmen, but also the academic gist of Blue Learning and the charm of "in a nutshell". Or you can understand the famous saying in "The Bell of Doomsday" in reverse: Anything involving Manhattan is not accidental. Or, to further extend, listen to the roar of Dr. Tistino in "The Dream of Guns"——
I hate the world, I hate the second law of thermodynamics. This is just a small introduction, and I do not intend or need to develop a serious and lively, eloquent and popular science here, if it is about to die, if there is no beginning and end of the "blue study". But here's the thing to say first:
1. "Blue Study" is not the same as "Manhattan Study". Just as "red study" does not equal "Cao Xueqin study". 2. Sometimes - it should be said that most of the time - Lan Xue will not directly express the so-called "miracle" prompts, but let readers and audiences inside and outside the text, the background of the frame, the corners of the appendix of the tidbits , immerse yourself in and experience the "system heat" that the creators strive to focus on. 3. Piecing together, exploring, indexing, excavating the full picture of heat, and finally trying to become a self-contained body, and then enlightenment, is the task and academic pursuit of "Blue Learning"... ;)
Now, let's put on a Rhapsody in Blue, look back at the first piece of Pitt's Encyclopedia, which went live before the Watchmen TV series, and reread the following words: It's been 20 years...a man who should have died Suddenly walked into a nightclub in Hanoi and sang every one of his songs with the word "Blue" in the title on VVN night... Have you started walking into Blue of "Blue School"...
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