The fate of the villain

Marshall 2022-03-19 09:01:02

Don’t say that children love to play games. Many adults who are already parents continue their addiction to games from their school days to family life. If not, it will lead to the misfortune of marriage that we often talk about. Behind the game is a destined program, but when we eagerly want to get to the next level, we pretend that we don’t know this fact, and always suppress our inner joy, as if the game promises us that it will give us in the last level. Ultimate happiness. However, even if there is a naked 3D beauty in the end, we will inevitably fall into a kind of huge nothingness. This is the end? "Invincible Destruction King" gives souls to the game characters rooted in our childhood memories, just to soothe the sense of emptiness that we experience back then and even now. Yes, they have souls.
"Invincible Destruction King" is inspired by "Toy Story", it has the same multiple spaces as the latter (real space, at this time toys are only toys; imaginary space, at this time toys have emotion and wisdom), Like the latter, I also discussed the fate of being eliminated, which is difficult to escape whether it is a toy or a game. But it goes further than the latter in both aspects.
"Invincible Destruction King" has a much more complicated space setting than "Toy Story". When the game hall is working normally, the game characters take their place and perform their duties. This is the first space of the movie. After the game hall is closed, the game characters begin their private lives, and at this time they can enter the background of the game to change the program of the game, which is the second dimension. Because the game console screen is a kind of image medium like a movie screen, there is a relationship between watching and being watched between the child playing the game and the game character (imagine you see the movie protagonist watching a movie in another movie). This is The third space. In addition, the characters in low-precision two-dimensional games and the characters in high-precision three-dimensional games also have a contrast and conversion relationship. If we complained that it was not new at the beginning of the movie, then as we see these four worlds displayed in front of us so convincingly, we can't help but admire that it is much smarter than "Toy Story". The creators use their visual imagination and superb technology to make the game characters shuttle freely in the four worlds, and the storyline gradually unfolds with the presentation of the space. They not only created the earth, but also created gravity, inertia, and all the things that make us believe that the earth is the earth. In this regard, form is content, and creativity does not reflect whether the original concept of the film is inspired by other works, but is reflected in its execution. Like Disney's first animated film "Pinocchio", we can still see Disney's pursuit of film freedom.
The children will eventually grow up, or they are born to love the new and dislike the old. It seems that the villain Turbine’s conspiracy is causing the survival crisis of the game characters. In fact, the children are the chief culprits of all distress, helplessness and panic. Turbo bears the infamy, but he is the biggest tragic character in the whole movie. For game characters, the children who play games and the boss of the game hall are the gods who are incomprehensible but decide everything. Turbo is the first game character who wants to challenge his fate. The movie presents Turbo's first "doing evil" as a flashback, conveying us a tragic epic meaning. Later, he was shown in the image of the emperor, which more directly showed that cartoons have always had a deep relationship with myths and fables that carry profound meanings. Being old and not dying is a thief. What makes "Invincible Destruction King" more cruel than reality is that even if the game console is unplugged due to obsolescence, the game characters can still survive (unless they are killed in other games), and Need to bear the same obscurity as the dead. Turbine does not accept this fate. He is like an emperor in the true history of fear of death, clinging to the power grabbed from Yunni's hand, maintaining a feudal empire with sins and lies, creating his dream of subverting the world. Until all this was broken by the King of Destruction.
The film ended with the elimination of the turbo. Ralph was recognized by the "Quick Hand Ash" community who had prejudiced his villain's career before. Yunni liberated the subjects of the "Sweet Sprint", and Ash melted the cold captain's feelings. Xin, got married smoothly with him, all the outdated game characters have found a career in the new game, and the children suddenly have a high interest in the old characters appearing in the new game, as if the children’s interest depends on their interest. It depends on the existence of the turbo. In order to meet our needs, the movie jumped out of the logical framework and entered the wave of emotions. Like all cartoons, it faked a happy ending for us. As God’s children, it may be difficult for them to realize that they were fully engaged when they were playing games when they were adults. Their emotional vacancies need to be filled by false impressions.

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Wreck-It Ralph quotes

  • King Candy: [puts on glasses] You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?

    [Ralph smacks the King with the glasses]

    King Candy: You hit a guy, with glasses. That's... that's... well-played.

  • [from trailer]

    Vanellope von Schweetz: I bet you really gotta watch where you step in a game called "Hero's Doodie"!

    [breaks into laughter]