Richard Kelly himself said that he conceived the script when he just graduated from the film department of the University of Southern California. For the next year and a half, I kept bumping into walls, either because the script did not pass, or no one believed a college student who had never made a film. Until one day the script fell into the hands of Drew Ballymore. At the film screening of "Girls in the Thunderbolt", Kelly asked Ballymore if he would like to play a role. Ballymore said, okay, as long as you let me be the producer. So, in the summer of 2000, the film was shot. With a budget of 4.5 million, it premiered at the 2001 Christmas Film Festival.
The Chinese translation of "Death Illusion" is easy to misunderstand, as if everything can be dangling away with the last "sudden enlightenment", Buddha said, everything is vain. But what impresses me the most about this movie is its poetry. "Poetic" means that it is very lyrical, which is a bit of light on the basis of tragedy. A high school student, pure and kind, has nothing to do with the world, but is involved in another world, like "Alice in Wonderland", experiencing the meaning and meaning of existence in a heartbreaking "Mad World" The warmth of love. In the end, everything went back to the past, as if nothing happened and the world was as usual.
The protagonists in "Phantom World" are all weird and have no friends. They are "problematic teenagers" in the eyes of parents and teachers, but suddenly a person appears and starts a love; in "American Beauty", a middle class In the small town, boys always keep silent, take DV filming to take pictures, and use binoculars to peep at night. One day he said to the girl: "Let you see the most beautiful thing I have ever photographed", and then what appeared on the screen was a plastic bag floating in the wind; in "Death Illusion", Gretchen asked Donnie: "Why are you always weird?" Donnie said, "Oh, I'm sorry." Gretchen said, "This is a compliment to you." So the two of them got together.
This is a destined encounter. Jiang Binliu in "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" said that they must meet. If they can't meet in Kunming, they will meet in Shanghai. They can't meet in Shanghai, and they will meet overseas. It would be incredible if they couldn't meet. It seemed that the world was prepared for their encounter.
However, Gretchen died in that doomed world, and in order to keep her alive in another world full of possibilities, Donnie had to die too.
"Time is not passing, the circle is not round", no one knows at which second the world went wrong, but in the second second, a girl still remembers the occurrence of a love in a trance, this is enough.
There is an old man in "Phantom World" who sits in the same chair on the street every day, from morning to night, day after day. One day the girl said to him, "What are you waiting for?" The old man said, "I'm waiting for the bus." The girl said, "Don't wait, the bus has been changed." At the end of the story, there was actually one. The shuttle bus showed up and stopped beside the old man. The old man got into the car in silence and left the town. There is an old lady in "Death Illusion". People say that she is 101 years old. She was a nun and later abandoned God and wrote a "Time Travel Upanishad". The old lady walked across the road every day and opened the iron box of the mailbox to check the letter. But the iron box is always empty. Until one day, Donnie wrote a letter to her, saying: "I hope that when the end of the world comes, I can breathe out, because there are so many things unfolding in front of me."
Time is not important, wait. Is important. Just believe, a miracle will happen. It seems that only the elderly understand this truth.
The literature teacher played by Drew Barrymore in "Death Illusion" teaches students a novel "The Destructors" by Graham Greene in class, about a group of mischievous children destroying an old man’s house story. The teacher asked Donnie what does this story mean? Donnie said: "Maybe they wanted to see what happend if they tear the world apart, to make things change." This is simply the real tragic secret of human struggle with "existence": the world shouldn't be like this. I want to destroy everything and change the world.
"Death Illusion" also has a respectful "spiritual priest" Jim, who is like Tom Cruise in "Magnolia", constantly jumping on the TV and on the podium, for his whole set of eloquent Value system sermons, a large number of followers regard him as the spiritual leader who purifies the soul. These believers are like the old mothers who fell in love with TV in "Requiem of Dreams". They are irresistible, have no support, are absolutely pious, and believe in religious madness, until a child pornography factory is burned out. As Yang Dechang said, in this era, no one knows what he wants, you have to tell him what he wants. In the 1980s, the United States revisited the so-called "family value" because of the collapse of faith. In fact, it is the same everywhere today.
Besides, why is the story of the movie in the 80s? Richard Kelly said that one is because he was just adolescent (13 years old in 1988), and the other is that there are too few nostalgic works about the 80s. After the information explosion in the 1990s, mankind believed that the world was fake at the beginning of the 21st century and waited for Neo to destroy the computer empire. Only Spielberg, Zammicis and James Cameron had the most influence on him. So I chose a lot of songs from the 80s, such as Tears for Fears, and they were all very cheap.
In addition to music, there are quotes about movies. We have all seen the American blockbusters of the 1980s. The first is Zammicis’s "Back to the Future 2", which borrows a little bit of the concept of "parallel universe"; the second is Spielberg’s "Aliens", the part of the bike under the moon; the third is James. Cameron's "Abyss" borrowed a little bit of "water snake" special effects modeling. The most classic is: Donnie and Gretchen go to the night movie, Sam Remy's "People Play Ghosts". There were only two of them in the movie theater of the University of London, and Gretchen fell asleep on the back of his chair. Dawn fell on the screen and the sun rose. A sad aria sounded, the sun turned into a clock, the picture was distorted, and the light was so bright that it opened a door to time and space. This scene is simply stunned, and I only feel that what I see before my eyes is a Greek tragedy performed for the universe. . Next, Donnie walked out of the movie theater, and the neon sign at the entrance was actually "The Last Temptation of Christ". In "Christ", when Jesus was nailed to the cross by the Romans, he had hallucinations and was saved in the hallucinations. , Get married and have children, until we are old. When he was about to die, Judas came and accused him of betrayal. At this time, he repented and found himself still on the cross. It can be seen that the two pieces are not only similar in structure, but Donnie is simply the reborn Jesus in the 1980s. In addition, Frank, this "imaginary friend" was obviously inspired by "The Shining". As for why Frank was designed as a "bunnyman" character, many people said it was a tribute to "Harvey". But Richard Kelly’s own reasons were: he knew that Frank was going to be dressed up at the Halloween carnival at last, and that the bunny was gentle and kind by nature, but it showed a wickedness when he set it on people, which was ironic.
Finally, briefly talk about the plot of the movie story:
We live in a crisis-ridden primordial universe. Due to some unknowable reasons, the original universe will occasionally deviate from the normal time orbit and head towards the off-line universe, which is doomed to destruction. The first signal that appeared in the offline universe was the arrival of the "sacred object". In order to avoid the destruction of the entire world, a certain "living recipient" selected by the "Hand of God" must send the "sacred object" back to the universe before the end of the offline universe arrives. The "accused" around him will do everything in their power to induce him to complete this day's mission-"sacred mediation." After that, the offline universe will close on time, and the original universe will return to the starting point of the "forked road" and continue to move in the original direction. And all "accused subjects" including "living recipients" will no longer be remembered. Only a few fragments were left in my heart, as if I had just felt a big dream.
The story of the film (except the last paragraph) takes place in the offline universe, and all events follow the fateful trajectory to the only ending: Donnie sacrifices herself to save the original universe. The "sacred object" is a jet engine, the "living recipient" is the protagonist Donnie Darko, and the "contained body" is all the other characters. (A resident of the town of Middlesex where the real-time vortex is generated. Among them, Frank and the heroine Gretchen are both "dead controllers", but only Frank uses a different-dimensional channel to communicate with Donnie; their only role in the offline world is to set the "guidance" "Trap" to ensure that Donnie reaches the end of his fate within an acceptable psychological range)
The maximum limit of the offline universe is: 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. When that moment comes, it is the end of the world when the black hole swallows everything.
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"Time Travel Upanishads" "THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME TRAVEL"
Preface
Layman's Guide for the day when the book impermanence; I I hope it is purely fictitious; otherwise I have to pray for you; if the things predicted in the book happen in my lifetime, please Wanwu find me before it is too late.
October 1944 Roberta Ann Sparrow
first chapter off the universe (Tangent Universe)
The Primary Universe is full of crises. Wars, plagues, famines, natural disasters. Everyone can't escape death.
The fourth dimension of time is relatively stable, but not impenetrable. Accidents that cause the texture to collapse rarely occur.
Once the offline universe appears, it will be extremely unstable and can only last for a few weeks.
If the offline universe collapses, its remains in the original universe-the black hole will destroy all existence.
Chapter 2 Artifact and Living
When the offline universe appears, people near the space-time vortex will be at the epicenter of this dangerous new world.
The first sign of the offline universe is the appearance of the "sacred object".
When the "sacred object" appears, the "living body" will take it back out of curiosity. "Holy objects" are usually iron tools, such as arrowheads from ancient Maya civilization, or iron swords from medieval Europe.
The "sacred objects" sent back to the original universe are often regarded as religious totems because their appearance on the earth completely violates the logic of cause and effect.
Chapter 3 Water and Iron
Water and iron are the key elements of time travel.
In the offline universe, water is the barrier element used to construct the gate of time and space.
Iron is the transmission element that constructs the relic container.
Chapter 4 Dream (Dream)
When the "manipulated" (Manipulated) wakes up from the offline universe, they will still be entangled by nightmares.
But most of them will not remember previous experiences.
Those who retain a little memory will do it for them I deeply regret the bad behavior in the dream; the
"sacred object" itself is the only physical evidence of its existence, and everything else has been wiped out in the offline universe.
According to ancient mythology, a Mayan warrior was shot by an arrowhead and fell off a cliff. But there is no army nearby, no enemies;
a medieval knight is mysteriously pierced by an unforged sword;
The Lord said that everything has a reason.
Chapter 5 Living Receiver (Living Receiver) The
living receiver is the selected guide who is responsible for placing the holy objects in the position of returning to the original universe.
No one knows how or why he was selected.
He will be given the power of the fourth dimension. Powerful power, mind movement, mind control, summoning the magic of water and fire.
He will be entangled by nightmares, visions, and auditory hallucinations.
Those around him, called the "accused", will fear him and try to destroy him.
Chapter 6 Manipulated Dead The Manipulated Dead
is more powerful than the living receiver. If a person dies in the offline universe, he will contact the living recipient through the Fourth Dimensional Construct.
The fourth-dimensional channel is composed of water.
The death controller controls the living recipient accordingly.
He will set up an "Ensurance Trap" to ensure that the living recipient can safely send the holy objects back to the universe.
If the trap operates successfully, the living recipient will have no choice but to use his four-dimensional divine power to send the holy artifacts back to the universe in time before the black hole collapses.
Chapter 7: Manipulated Living: Manipulated Living
is usually friends/neighbors around the recipient of the living body.
Unfortunately, due to the task of returning holy relics, they will often show irrational violent tendencies.
Under this condition, they will spare no effort to avoid their annihilation in the offline universe.
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