This day is the birthday of the little bitch .
She woke up with a hangover, put on her pants, walked out of the dormitory, saw the fountain, heard the car whistle, and witnessed a boy fainted, squatted with his sister, and then killed .
This day is the birthday of the little bitch.
After she was killed, she woke up, put on her pants, walked out of the dormitory, saw the fountain, heard the car whistle, and witnessed a boy fainted and squatted with his sister before being killed.
Forget it this day, I won't make up the word count.
[Happy Death Day] is about a little bitch who was killed on his birthday and resurrected on his birthday .
A total of 16 cycles.
This theme appeared relatively late in the history of movies, but it is very common, such as [Groundhog Day], [Lola Run], and [Source Code] all belong to this category.
Some people say this is "time repetition".
It's not that I said you, really, it's okay to read the official account, this kind of wrong vocabulary is learned from the official account .
In fact, this phenomenon is called " Time Loop ", which originated from ancient Egypt .
An idea that assumes that the universe will continue and will circulate in exactly the same form. The number of such cycles is incomprehensible and unpredictable.
resurrection
In the belief system of ancient Egypt, there is a very important element, the " tree of life ".
This element often appears in their religious books and tomb murals .
Legend has it that long ago, there was a resurrected god named Osiris .
He inherited his father's throne, rescued people from the lives of food and clothing, and taught them to fear gods and know vegetables and fruits.
He also has a younger brother who is mean and jealous.
One day, the younger brother made a particularly beautiful box according to the length of Osiris's body , carried it into the banquet, and said:
Give the box to whoever is most suitable to lie in.
The guests lay down one by one, but none of them were suitable. Then Osiris lay in and found it was right.
At this time, the guests rushed over, fastened the box, nailed it, sealed the mouth with melted lead, and threw it into the sea without mercy .
The box drifted and drifted, and later, it went ashore and a big tree grew.
This tree has a large tree crown with whirling leaves and " is a visible symbol of Osiris's immortal life ."
It provided Osiris with food, water and protection, resurrected it, and eventually became the lord of Egypt's underworld.
"The Pyramid Inscription" records:
Your fig tree is your food, and your food is your fig tree!
Sleeping under the tree is equivalent to returning to the mother's womb, and this womb is gestating the next resurrection.
This is the Egyptian concept of "cycle of time" —resurrection from the dead .
In the eternal cycle of time, the Egyptians kept repeating the life on this land .
plot
In August 1881, Nietzsche was walking in the forest.
He admitted that he was affected by the time cycle of ancient Egypt , and he looked at the trees and fruits around him , and said sincerely:
Everything will come and everything will go, always turning the wheel of existence. Everything is born, everything is dead, and the time of existence runs forever.
In this way, the "time cycle" was further developed and reflected, which inspired a large number of science fiction literature .
In 1941, writer Malcolm Jameson wrote a short story called "Doubled and Redoubled" , which became the originator of the mountain.
In the story, the male protagonist has been repeating the " perfect day ".
He first won the bet, was promoted by the boss, and then successfully robbed the bank, and finally proposed to the person he liked.
So and so, the cycle goes back and forth .
After the advent of the novel, "Time Cycle" has become a plot device in literature.
In this installation, the characters will experience a certain period of time in a cycle, and at the same time, they have the hope that they can break this cycle .
The general routine is that the character finds a way to acquire certain knowledge, uses the memory that has been retained in the previous cycles to make progress, and finally exits the cycle .
In this way, the time loop becomes a problem-solving process.
And [Happy Death Day] is the same truth.
The hostess repeatedly experienced the events of her birthday and was repeatedly killed. The only thing that can break this cycle is to find her own murderer .
The same is also [suddenly seven days] .
The hostess had an accident on February 12, and after that, she kept returning to this day.
She gradually understood that she actually shouldered a certain mission, and only by completing this mission can she escape the cycle of time .
I don’t know if it was influenced by science fiction in the 1940s. In 1972, the world’s first video game was born : "Atari Pong" .
This game is very rudimentary, not only cannot record scores, but also has no concept of clearance .
But at that time, players did not have these needs.
They took two things like handles and moved the table tennis rackets on the screen up and down to play ping-pong.
It won’t last long, and the loop will continue to repeat .
In 1983, Nintendo of Japan borrowed from the experience of "Atari Pong" and began to sell red and white phones .
Still no battery, still unable to record progress.
In Mario Bros. , the plumber Mario made his debut for the first time. He wiped out the tortoise and ate the gold coins. After failure, he could only start again .
In this way, the time loop becomes the plot device in the game.
cycle
In 1984, Rumiko Takahashi's comic "Fuck Boy" launched a second theater version, titled [Fu Star Boy 2: Beautiful Dreamers] .
The director is Oshii Mamoru who later filmed [Ghost in the Shell].
That was the second year that the red and white machines were released. "Mario Bros." became popular all over the world. Players everywhere were all night to earn high scores .
Once interrupted, you must start over again next time.
Therefore, in [Fu Star Boy 2: Beautiful Dreamers] , Oshii Mamoru deviated from the original work , turning a considerable part of the length into an endless looping story:
Time will always stop on the day before the opening of the school festival .
Everyone is busy with this, day after day, waking up is still the same day. Until the tired teacher felt strange.
This change caused Oshii Mamoru and Takahashi Rumiko to completely fall out . In a rage, Oshii Mamoru left the creation team of the "Fortune Boy" series .
But for this reason, [Fu Xing Boy 2: Beautiful Dreamer] is the first time-loop theme film in the history of filming.
From the tree of life in ancient Egypt, to science fiction, to video games.
After thousands of years, the concept of "time loop" has finally become a branch of science fiction film and television .
And this [Urusei Yatsura 2] , than the so-called originator eyes of the world [Groundhog day] , early nearly a decade.
In 1993, a weather forecaster went to a border town to report on Groundhog Day.
There was a blizzard suddenly.
When he woke up, the forecaster found that time had never stopped on Groundhog Day. Everything of yesterday was staged again.
No one except him was aware of this.
On this day, he can do bad things and do good things. The next day was an old day , repeated dates, scenery and life.
In 1995, Supreme treasure fell in love with Bai Jingjing at first sight.
Seeing Bai Jingjing committing suicide in despair, Supreme Treasure opened the Moonlight Treasure Box to turn back time and stop it .
However, due to the wrong time card, he went back and forth many times, all ended in failure .
In 1998, the German girl Laura kept running.
She keeps dying and repeating , running faster and faster every time, just to give her boyfriend life-saving money.
Fortunately, the ending came to a happy ending.
The time loop continues to evolve in the history of film.
In the 21st century, this kind of plot is more and more like a video game .
Players must reach the end within the time limit before they can pass the level. Once the time runs out, the characters and levels will go back to the initial state and start again .
In the 2009 [Terror Cruise Ship] , the men and women on the entire cruise ship were trapped in an unstoppable cycle.
In the [source code] in 2011, the male protagonist fell into a time cycle of " resurrection-save people-be blown up-resurrect-save people-be blown up ".
In 2014's [Edge of Tomorrow] , the male protagonist was forced to save the world, constantly dying, restarting time , and cyclically landing the battle.
The whole movie is a game, he has many lives, and finally cleared the level when he was the last one to die, saving the world and reviving everyone.
In summary, the typical characteristics of time loop movies are: levels, tasks, and time constraints.
When a certain condition is not met, the cycle will start again, and the memory of the previous cycle will be retained .
The directors make full use of the concept of time, so that many clocks and watches that are metaphors of "time pressing" can be seen everywhere in the film. Only in this way can it be more challenging.
For example, [Lola run fast] ——
Another example is [Happy Death Day] ——
The little bitch finally determined who the murderer was. Before restarting the next day, she was fully armed and resolved the murderer with a few bullets.
Life finally returned to normal.
The above is the history of the development of the concept of "time loop" . But in fact, no one has the ability to make time loop, making people repeat themselves.
But even so, tomorrow is an old day .
I still have to squeeze the subway and I will still be late. Still careless, no one to handle, still have to write a public account.
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Author/six aunts
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Pocier"
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