In recent years, adding retro elements to films has gradually become a trend in Hollywood movies, and when such retro elements representing the past are combined with video games representing the new era, it is almost an absolute "wealth code". The most typical representative of this is "Ready Player One". Therefore, when the trailer for "Out of Control" was released, I was looking forward to seeing a " simplified version of "Ready Player One" . I didn't think about it until after the movie was over.
This movie is actually a " video game version of "Parents Love" "
01. Outsiders watch the fun
From the very beginning of the trailer for this film, we've seen the overwhelming amount of gameplay elements that excited me, a video game lover. However, after I really saw the movie, I found out that this movie just borrowed the skin of a video game, and it was essentially a love movie.
It can be seen that although this movie used a lot of game elements and buried a lot of stalks, but from the story of the whole movie, the director and screenwriter do not seem to know much about video games, and there are obvious hardships in many places. Injury, purely for the dramatic conflict. The most representative scene is that there are 100 ways to stop a game. The worst way is to pull the switch of the whole company. However, in the film, it is the boss of the company who does it by himself, carrying a fire axe and hacking servers one by one.
It's really " rapper knows martial arts, the server can't stop it " ah.
Moreover, from my personal experience and observation of other audiences in the theater, although there are a lot of video game memes in this movie, it is not at all comparable to the comics given by Disney after this movie was adopted to Disney. The effect of the two IPs of Wei and Star Wars.
It can be said that basically all video game memes and easter eggs have just become the background boards of this movie.
02. Inexplicable love
So, aside from all the visual elements, what is the story behind the film?
I think a movie by Akira Kurosawa, a Japanese film master, can be summed up precisely, that is "Ran" .
At the beginning of the film, it was a "Groundhog Day"-style time loop mode. As it was told, the story began to move towards the style of "Truman's World", and then it became chaotic. Because this movie not only takes care of the love story of "Lid and Molotov cocktail girl" in the game, but also the love story of "Keyboard and Millie" outside the game. So Gai this "trueman", after realizing that he is a "fakeman", did not resist his fate and seek his own materialization, but wholeheartedly fulfilled his role as a tool person to help Keyboard and Millie achieve their goals.
However, because the film puts too much pen and ink in the game, the love entanglement between the keyboard and Millie in the world outside the game is not so profound and complete, and the two can collide with a scene of love sparks. Almost nothing, more like a real good partner. Until the end of the film, the scene of " suddenly looking back, but the man was in the dim light " came out in a mechanical serenity, which was very abrupt.
That's why I say this movie is the video game version of Parental Love . Guy, as well as other NPCs, were created by the keyboard and Millie, and the movie took nearly two hours of work, and the ultimate goal was to tell Millie that the keyboard loves you, deeply loves you, and these words are in the end. From their "child" - Gai's mouth, it seems that Gai is an out-of-control NPC throughout the movie, but in the end he is still not out of control, faithfully fulfilling his role as a tool man, letting his "daddy" and "" Mom" came together.
Although the whole story makes people want to complain too much, there is also a good point, that is, after the self-consciousness of this AI awakened, it did not think about resisting or enslaving human beings, but after completing the love assistance between parents , chose to stay in the server comfortably, such a harmless awakening AI character almost does not exist in the world movie family, and it can be regarded as another style of "adult fairy tale".
03. An old ferry ticket
Although the storyline of this movie is a bit confusing, some specific bridges still use those bridges in traditional American movies, such as falling in love at first sight, heroes saving beauty, etc. The most typical example is the seaside in the film. Duan Lecture, you can find the same shadow in countless American blockbusters in the past with the same scenes and lines, which is really tiring.
After watching this movie, the first thing that popped into my mind was a song that I always listened to when I was a child, Mao Ning's "The Sound of the Wave is Still", there is a line in the song, " How do you and I repeat yesterday's story? Can I board your passenger ship with an old ticket? "
The movie "Out of Control" looks a lot of new elements, but everything is just another repetition of past Hollywood stylized movies. I see a lot of people recommending this movie and saying that in today's deserted movie market, "Out of Control Player" is already a relatively good work. But it's really not an excellent movie. If it weren't for catching up with the current special period, "Out of Control Player" is likely to be the same as "Pixel Wars" back then, but "Out of Control Player" has a good life and caught up with now. At the time of writing this article, the box office has exceeded 100 million. For many people, what can they watch if they don’t watch it?
Anyway, it's just a picture.
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