"As long as the machine is armored to fight the monsters!"
Yes,
But it also depends on what kind of mech it is.
Although it is always said, "It is enough to watch mechas fighting monsters", but the mechas of "Pacific Rim 2" are really inflammable.
Without the unique sense of dullness and strength of the giant machine, compared to the "Ring 1" five years ago, it is like a group of sparkling and colorful large figures, coming from the transformers next door after get off work.
Mecha, why this fantasy of 40 years ago can still make people's blood, forming a kind of culture that will last for decades, and even feed back to reality, from live-action movies to companies that manufacture giant robots.
What exactly do people expect from giant robots? Where is its ignition point?
Size, defense, combat effectiveness... Let us examine the situation in the world of "giant robots" from several aspects.
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Randian 1: Big, big enough to be frenzied
The first is the size. The so-called "huge robot" must first be huge and big enough.
The huge size and the huge mass are the basic guarantee for the unparalleled sense of existence of the huge robot.
The famous red has a height of 16 meters, and the angle is less than 20 meters. In the world of huge robots, it is only an entry level:
The 100-meter God of War King Kong is only of medium build:
The 1200-meter Macross:
The 3000-meter fierce man:
None of the above is too dazzling. The Universe, who debuted in the "Transformers Movie" in 1986, can already devour the planet:
Not to mention that Tianyuan has broken through this kind of neurotic size calculated in light years...
Of course, these are all big stars in the distant future, fighting on a cosmic scale; let us look at the more down-to-earth, grassroots Internet celebrities fighting in the near future city——
In 1988, the mobile police Ingram, the design standard is urban policing as the main function, the full height is 8 meters; the great Optimus Prime, 9 meters, the real humanoid combat armor in the famous SRPG game "Frontline Mission" is 7 meters to It ranges from 10 meters.
If you look at reality, the KURATAS robot manufactured by Suidobashi Heavy Industries is 3.8 meters high, weighs 5 tons, and can be driven by a single person.
The American megabot eagle prime robot is larger, with a total height of 5 meters and a total weight of 12 tons. It can be driven by two persons.
To be honest, they are more than a star and a half smaller than the mechas above. The Hummer H2 off-road vehicle is 5 meters in length, and the domestic 99a main battle tank is 13 meters in length. These two combat robots can't even squeeze into the circle of the main battle tank, they can only mix with private cars...
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Randian 2: Brutal and endurance
Of course, not as long as it is big enough to be a qualified giant robot, it must also have a strong enough defense.
The Ingram and KURATAS mentioned above are assembled with only 20 mm thick ordinary steel plates, which are not very reliable. They will shake when hitting a gasoline can, and they will shake when hit by a baseball bullet fired by an air cannon, and even when they are moving normally. To tremble, it is really useless, completely contrary to the strong defense power expected by the people...
"Robot jox" in 1990 is the earliest mecha film that many audiences have contact with. The music and editing are remarkable.
The most worth mentioning is the use of model scene filming. The 1:100 robot model was made with acrylic. Through special effects and lens application, the power of the two war machines was magnified to quite impressive.
From today's point of view, the mechanical design of this 90s film is very primitive and primitive, and there are many unreasonable points (such as the cockpit is exposed in a vulnerable position).
But this kind of primitive and crudeness just makes people intuitively believe that this machine has defensive performance that matches its size.
First of all, in terms of appearance, although the robot is huge, the structure is clear at a glance: the torso, limbs, armor, joints and limited external weapons, each part is very clear, and the shape also highlights the "sturdy and durable" characteristics.
For example, the most fragile joint part uses the simplest bearing structure (at least it looks like that) and is very thick. From the limited life experience of ordinary viewers, the simplest structure is also the most durable.
Secondly, there was no scene of broken armor parts flying around in the fight. If two robots want to defeat each other, they need to attack the same part many times to cause damage to the part-this detail makes the audience strong to the two robots. The cognition has been raised to the level of rationality.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the battlefield was chosen to be in the vast Gobi Desert. The harsh natural environment also quietly hinted at their excellent quality and performance-off-road vehicle advertisements will always show shots of wading through mountains and rivers, and spotless off-road vehicles can be called. Buggy?
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Randian 3: Indispensable "battle damage"
The walking machine All Terrain (known as AT-AT) that appeared in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, its strong defensive power made the Revolutionary Army helpless for a while, and conventional means could not compete with it.
However, the most praiseworthy thing about AT-AT is the texture of the appearance—abandoning all flashy colors, rough colors, peeling paint, bare metal, and even rusty, forcibly stuffing the four words into the audience’s dilated pupils:
man of Steel.
This is the beauty after the baptism of war.
Animation works cannot achieve the visual effects of movies due to the limitation of production cost and craftsmanship, but they follow similar principles in the basic means of expressing huge robots.
Zeon’s most famous Zaku has a solid and unpretentious appearance, and his painting is just plain forgiving, but the details are meticulous. The single-shield deck on the left shoulder, the sturdy lower limbs, and the classic monocular design show the most intuitive understanding of humanoid combat armor in the 1980s.
After that, almost all of Zeon’s mobile suits can see the shadow of Zaku 2, except for Capini—Nagano pursues another aesthetic of giant robots, creating the world of Five Star Stories.
His phantom series is famous for its slender and elegant aristocratic temperament, but it still makes people feel the indestructibility of only giant robots at a glance. Of course, this is another story.
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Randian 4: Pure power without comment
The greatest significance of huge robots is naturally huge destructive power, which is a natural extension of the artillery doctrine of the great ship.
Being able to drive a huge body means huge power, huge power plus huge mass means huge destructive power, this is the purest power without any comment.
Because of its huge mass, the robot's actions are always a little slow, and the actions are not as coordinated as humans. After all, robots do not have skeletal muscles, and the principle of action of robots is completely different from that of humans.
The technical factors involved in making robots perform human actions are too complicated, especially for huge robots that are completely unnecessary .
These war machines want to obtain huge kinetic energy, they can take far more methods than humans, and their energy conversion efficiency is far more than that of humans-robots want to punch a punch and only need a set of telescopic robotic arms, not like humans. Twist the waist, bend the elbow, send the shoulder, and bear the risk of wrist contusion and phalanx fracture.
Using the simplest mechanical principle, you can intuitively feel the process of the robot overcoming its own mass and transforming its powerful power into terrorist potential energy.
In the 1980 French animation "The King and the Bird", the huge robot that only rotates the upper limbs and torso, and walks right and left, used this unreasonable pure power to seriously destroy the Charles with one punch and one kick. kingdom.
It symbolizes the violence that is sufficient to determine the fate of the country. The reason for choosing the image of a giant robot is enough to explain what this existence means in the mind of director Paul Gurimo.
For Invincible, any modification is superfluous. It stands there and everyone will recognize him as invincible. You don't need to spend precious film length telling the audience how invincible, how invincible and why it is invincible. Doing that is a waste of everyone's time. .
Randian 5: Function decides everything
The essence of the machine is functionality, and the design of a huge robot must conform to the functional positioning of its work. The shape of the robot for underwater operations is definitely different from the shape of the robot for space warfare.
Adaptation to common sense of reality is also an affirmation of audience perception.
Since its birth, it has naturally been subordinate to the huge robot culture of science fiction, and without exception, it should follow the basic principles of science fiction creation.
Melee robots undoubtedly need a larger size and thicker armor, while mid-range and long-range robots will be more dexterous and agile, just like a standard dungeon team, with T, milk and output, clear division of labor and happy cooperation.
If you violate common sense, deny the audience’s cognition, and forcefully explain a setting that is unreasonable in the eyes of ordinary people, you will feel a great sense of disobedience, and fundamentally deny this setting. This is Gaofan since ancient times. The reason for splitting into the real and super departments and despising each other since. By the way, the author is a real department.
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Humanoid: Ran Dian or stupid?
The giant mechas of "Pacific Rim" are tasked with fighting countless powerful monsters.
I have to say that the monster design of "Pacific Rim 1" is too brilliant (who made the director Gilmour Del Toro!) It is said that a total of 41 monsters were designed, each with strict biological design, and finally Nine appeared in the movie.
Here comes the problem. Since every monster strictly abides by biological physiology, it can be traced in the real nature. Except for its huge size, its physical ability is no different from that of earth creatures. It's not as good as this and it's quite puzzling), then will they have "natural enemies"?
Even if they don’t, make some predators at the apex of the food chain, robotic beasts, robotic raptors, robotic spiders, mantis, piranhas, etc. If you take the monsters, even if you don’t get immediate results, it’s better than the humanoid robots that are fancy hanging. ?
Think about it, is it really necessary for a human figure?
The human physiological structure is really not suitable for fighting. Walking upright on both feet leads to various weaknesses in the whole body-narrow vision, full exposure of the head and torso, and musculoskeletal weakness.
Robots designed and manufactured based on human beings first face the problem of walking before solving the power and durability:
Human legs are notoriously impractical when placed on the entire earth's biological world. They cannot run fast or jump high, and their knee joints are so complicated that they are the most easily damaged body parts for middle-aged and elderly friends.
So from a practical point of view, a huge robot, no matter what its purpose, should abandon the human form and adopt a multi-legged walking design with wheels, axles, crawlers, and at the worst.
A large number of engineering robots appeared in "Mobile Police Patlabor". In "Ghost in the Shell", the multi-legged thinking chariot Tachikema equipped with the Nine Division of Public Security is a representative of practicality. In theory, these "non-human" machines are the most economical.
However, in countless movies and animations, most of them are humanoid robots. Huge robot = humanoid huge machine is simply common sense, a basic principle, and a core idea. To explain such an anti-scientific phenomenon, the only answer is probably feelings.
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In fact, humans’ understanding of giant robots is much more primitive than we imagined. This is an expectation that we can perceive that existence in the most intuitive way.
It is the manifestation of mankind's infinite trust and worship of industrial power, and the vision of mankind for the future created by himself.
The existence of mecha does not conform to the law of scientific development, because from the practical point of view, the "human form" is not necessary, and the cost of "huge" is far higher than the actual value, but all its details absolutely follow science-at least It is in line with the imaginary science we have piled up with common sense.
It is such a contradiction, just like human beings. It has everything that humans desire to have: reason, power, conquering nature, and most importantly, being completely dictated by humans.
This is the big robot we want to see!
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?| Editor in charge | Su Xiaoqi
?|Author| Tin Bing
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