Clouds are like the sea, and the original heart is like a sword

Wilfred 2022-04-02 09:01:02

In 2012's "Invincible Destruction King", the arcade feelings led the protagonists Ralph and Vanellope to shuttle through various figurative worlds with flat surfaces but three-dimensional in reality, realizing the humanistic observation of people in the dumb game, which was regarded as a unique animation in the past. Thoughts still linger in my ears today. After a lapse of six years, Disney once again sharpened the iron into a needle. In the sequel, it placed a group of characters in a field connected to the international interconnection WiFi, and used the pure heart of the year to save the "dead martial arts" of the arcade world. Unexpectedly.

The incident started when the gamepad of "Sweet Dash" where Vanellope was located was damaged. Mr. Trevack, the owner of the game hall, decided to permanently close the game in the face of outdated products that were out of stock on the Internet. In general dramas based on realistic themes, this is almost an unresolvable contradiction. However, "Invincible Destruction King 2" was born in the Internet era when the Internet has reached its peak, and Ralph's existence function is no longer limited to acting as a game. A mechanized destroyer, he took the initiative to become the savior to save the characters of "Sweet Dash" including Vanellope. He sat on the ejected data string without hesitation in front of the unknown black hole of the Internet. into a whole new world. In this city of data, almost all the audiences who sit in the movie theater are familiar with various social media, shopping websites, pop-up windows, search engines, etc., which are all materialized as trust buildings, information exchange centers and specific One by one in reality, the human figures correspond to both the form and the function.

This is almost the same as the anthropomorphic setting of the first part of "Invincible Destruction King", but the challenge to imagination is obviously much more difficult. In the first part, what needs to be solved is mainly based on the role and situation. For the specific and full three-dimensional dynamic transformation problem, the environment construction of narrative advancement is relatively traceable. The characters in the second part break into new fields with infinite possibilities from the world they are familiar with. No outsider knows what a busy backstage is hidden behind the pages of the eBay website, let alone simplifying the process of data exchange. , presented as an intuitive animation imagination. The green pop-up boy in "Invincible Destruction King 2" is a representative example of converting these abstract and invisible data into concrete. The advertising board in his hand is the real appearance of similar practitioners in reality. It is also an image reflection of pop-up advertisements on web pages. Such examples abound in the film. The success of the film lies in that, in addition to crossing the barriers of visual imagination, it more directly connects the interaction of the internal world of the network to the real real life scenes of human beings.

This sentence seems like nonsense, but everyone knows that the driving force for the Internet to change the world is not the human-computer interaction itself, but the process of re-interacting and constructing collisions between hundreds of millions of interactive scenarios through the network. In the film, Ralph fought bravely in order to raise the huge amount of money to buy the handle, recorded video of the explosive website in various ways of self-abuse, and posted it to the front desk, in exchange for a large number of likes to earn rewards. The interesting thing is that it is not the actual web developers who drive Ralph to do this, but the "Sister Zan" who dominates this revenue-generating system in a self-contained cyberspace, producing in the arena within the network. The video that comes out relies on the popular logic to attract humans in real scenes. To a certain extent, the psychological process of the real world has been seamlessly transplanted into the online world, and a new soul has been generated in the icy machinery and the cloud-connected space with infinite possibilities.

This is also the basis for "Invincible Destruction King 2" to use its imagination to shape the cloud world, so it is the basis for maintaining an emotional and mental bond with the live audience in the theater. From the root, "Invincible Destruction King 2" still He is an integrated expressor of American-style struggle and reunion values. Ralph has gone through untold hardships, but it is nothing more than hoping to complete the friendship (or love) reunion with Vanellope in the situation of "elimination of the predicament". The handle" is transformed into the spiritual dilemma of "going home". Facing the more exciting and challenging car tours and car friends in the new world, Vanellope gradually left the heart of "Sweet Sprint". Elf's target was misplaced, causing the replication virus to take advantage of the situation, which constituted a major event that almost destroyed the entire network. However, the failure is in sincerity, and the success is also here. The final outcome is also based on this, and all problems are solved.

Fans who have a soft spot for the last movie to the audience may feel a little uncomfortable with "Invincible Destruction King 2", which is separated from the red and white machine scene, but the value orientation and realization path of the two films are very clear. Disney's original expression, especially in the second part, combines almost all the classic signs that Disney has owned or acquired in the past decades through the infinitely diverse scenes of the interconnected space. From "Snow White" to "Frozen", from "Toy Story" to "Tron", almost all the ip (I don't like to use this word) has realized the "revenge" in the meaning of animation genealogy Alliance" array. In this process, the classic image made indiscriminate ridicule of its own characteristics and status in film history, and also took a key step in narrowing the distance between the film and the audience. All the characters in "Invincible Destruction King 2" make the audience feel like their neighbors rather than the people in the picture, which is especially important today when viewers read countless films. From shaping star halo to actively disenchanting, it is easy to advance and retreat. Although it has the meaning of naked display of cultural hegemony, from the perspective of pure appreciation, it is absolutely delightful. No matter how the world changes, guarding and constantly emphasizing the "original intention" may be the core secret to the success of any cultural industry product.

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  • Ronny 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    The Internet is a metaphor for human society from its name to its setting. The second part turns the stage to the Internet space, making it a large-scale human fable, echoing reality everywhere. From light terminals, WiFi boxes to personification of Internet processing programs, it can be regarded as an exposure of information materialism, but under the cover of capitalist ideology, the "digital labor" who builds the entire Internet is beautified as a self-indulgence. This is an unconscious revelation, and it is not easy to criticize it. Because the film later questioned the neutrality of technology through the ridiculous money-raising plot, the bright side only refers to the algorithm, but actually refers to the entire Internet technology. But the Internet is not a real society after all, because the good and evil thoughts of human beings (appearing as the protagonists) will determine the survival of this world - here is the narrative of Taishan's disaster film - that is to say, technical logic cannot overwhelm humanistic logic. In the new era, people no longer need/can help each other, and the preservation of humanistic warmth will be the key. Disney's self-blackening of its own princess is the advanced way of playing Easter eggs, which is incredible.

  • Winfield 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    The Internet is a metaphor for human society from its name to its setting. The second part turns the stage to the Internet space, making it a large-scale human fable, echoing reality everywhere. From light terminals, WiFi boxes to personification of Internet processing programs, it can be regarded as an exposure of information materialism, but under the cover of capitalist ideology, the "digital labor" who builds the entire Internet is beautified as a self-indulgence. This is an unconscious revelation, and it is not easy to criticize it. Because the film later questioned the neutrality of technology through the ridiculous money-raising plot, the bright side only refers to the algorithm, but actually refers to the entire Internet technology. But the Internet is not a real society after all, because the good and evil thoughts of human beings (appearing as the protagonists) will determine the survival of this world - here is the narrative of Taishan's disaster film - that is to say, technical logic cannot overwhelm humanistic logic. In the new era, people no longer need/can help each other, and the preservation of humanistic warmth will be the key. Disney's self-blackening of its own princess is the advanced way of playing Easter eggs, which is incredible.

Ralph Breaks the Internet quotes

  • J.P. Spamley: Wanna get rich playing video games?

  • Grumpy: Cast members only!