After the great success of "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe" by Sony Animation in 2018, its bold and innovative 2D and 3D splicing style was fully affirmed by the market, and it naturally continued to the later "Intelligent Counterattack". The pyrotechnic cool brushstrokes exploded on the screen, mutated, changed, and the amount of information was huge, providing plenty of space for the creators to hide. When I watched the movie myself, in addition to being blinded, flashed to my waist, and frowned, I felt that things were not simple.
As a stalk lover, I refer to the discussions of netizens and check again and again by myself in the past few days. Here I summarize the interesting spoofs and easter eggs hidden in the details of the movie. The comment area was added vigorously.
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1. Prop stalk
1.1 Furby
The prop that impressed me the most in the film was the funny and terrifying Furby! Shake, humans!
Furby is the first-generation electronic toy familiar to American children and big friends. Although the fluffy and chubby Furby looks like a well-known domestic logo, it was designed and produced by American game manufacturer Tiger Electronic in 1998. When Furby is bought, it will make a squeaky voice to interact with the children, that is, in the movie, we hear Furby yelling at the protagonist’s family. This language is called Furbish by the designer. It is said that the more Furby interacts with children, the closer its Furbish will be to the language spoken by the children.
Netizens in the comment area added that Furby was introduced into China at the end of 2012 and was called Phoebe Wizard.
1.2 Pal's book
The villain of the movie is the AI assistant Pal, whose name seems to be modeled after the smart computer Hal9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey", but the audience feels a strong sense of Siri. This may be the worst time Apple has been hacked in ten years. At the first appearance after Pal's blackening, we found Pal standing on three classic collections, which seemed to reflect Pal's blackening road.
These three books are the classic introductory book of artificial intelligence "The Master Algorithm" (The Master Algorithm).
From the East, the operational research philosophy "Sun Tzu's Art of War".
And the best-selling book "The Singularity is Near" (The Singularity is Near) of artificial intelligence futurology.
1.3 Movie posters
The protagonist of the film Katie is an unreasonable fanatical movie fan. The old movie posters posted in her room reflect her seniority, and the overall view is biased towards non-mainstream thriller science fiction films. When Katie introduced herself, the first thing she saw on the wall was the poster of the 1971 Mexican horror film "Snake People" (Snake People). The film is not in harmony with the world, only 800 people have seen it on IMDB, and these 800 people gave it a comprehensive rating of 3.3/10. . .
Then the camera turned to the other wall of the room, and we saw more popular movie posters. Among them is the 1955 "Creature with the atom brain" (not even a Chinese translation, literally translated as an atomic brain creature), which talks about evil Nazi scientists using radio to control zombies with nuclear energy in the brain to help the Italian-American gang return to power. The story of revenge at the pinnacle. As for the type of the movie, er, let's guess based on the story description above. . .
The lower right corner of the wall is not the poster of "Return to the Clown", but the same 1955 but slightly famous "It came from beneath the sea", a giant octopus monster film with nuclear mutation.
The third poster in the upper right corner of the wall "Roboslayer 4" (translation: Robot Killer 4), I did not find the corresponding movie, but this virtual movie was mentioned when Katie was chatting with her classmates while blowing water, and the DVD was returned. Close-up of cover. The mainstream view on the Internet is that this movie mirrors the setting against robots in the film. What’s interesting is that the subtitle of Roboslayer 4 is Rise of the brain exploders (translation: Rise of the brain exploders), which seems to mirror the pugs of the Kaite family. , Mapping it short-circuited countless robot brains.
When Katie was chatting with her college buddies, we could see the classic poster of Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" on the wall behind the buddies. It seems that at least Katie's classmates will also like mainstream movies.
1.4 Wearing Katie
Katie's movie enthusiast design is not only reflected in the poster, but also in the careful thought of wearing it. First of all, there are some brooches on Katie's hoodie. In addition to the film school, Pagoda and LGBTQ rainbows that Katie enrolled in, there is also a nuclear bomb-shaped brooch with the word Hi there on it. It comes from Kubrick's "Odd Love The text on the nuclear warhead in the Doctor.
After Katie put on the backpack, we saw the words Lawn wranglers written on the card that was taken from the team name of the criminal gang in Wes Anderson's debut novel "Bottle Rocket".
In addition, Katie’s hexagonal sock pattern is thought to be the same as the shadowy corridor carpet in Kubrick’s "The Shining." In fact, the color scheme of emmm is somewhat different, and this is a classic style of socks, and even the Colombian goddess of the title has zigzag shirts.
Regarding the hand-painted goddess title, by the way, the food that falls on the goddess’ torch is derived from another Sony Animation movie series, "Heaven’s Delicacy".
2. Katie's original video series
Katie's original video is a big hole, and the movie stalks and references in it are extremely dense. When watching the movie, the feeling is that the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the boat has passed the ten thousand mountains. Let's go to the roller coaster to experience it again, please fasten your seat belts, sit firmly, and set off!
2.1 Katie's Director Mount Rushmore
First of all, we saw a picture called Mount Rushmore of director heroes (translation: the statue of the director heroes) in the video of the Katie Film Academy application, imitating the presidential statue of Mount Rushmore in the United States, engraved with Four directors Katie admired.
The four directors, from left to right, "Miss Bird" and the new version of "Little Women," the American director Greta · Gewei Ge (Greta Gerwig), "Portrait of a burning woman," the French director Catherine · Xian Ma (Céline Sciamma), "Kevin how the" British director Lynne Ramsay (Lynne Ramsay), and has won the Oscar in the country but relatively unpopular American director Hal E Shenbei (Hal Ashby) His masterpiece is "Wealth is Coming" in 1979. Later we will see that the works of these directors are also incorporated into his original movies by Katie. On the far right of Statue Hill, there are Katie's self-painted graffiti and his surname Mitchell with question marks, expressing his dream of chasing idols.
2.2 Katie's disc K series
When Katie was sitting in front of the computer making the video, we saw more and more Katie completed discs stacked on the table. We took a screenshot of this moment, and found that the discs were all labeled as K series (K collection), taken from Katie's initials. Digging deeper, the movie stalk in the title is even more uncontrollable.
First of all, the top disc is also Katie’s latest work "Y tu papá también" (translation: your father is the same), from the erotic film "Y tu mamá también" by Oscar director Alfonso Cuarón (your mother is the same ).
Then there is the original crime movie "Crowbar Jones" in the popular Netflix animated series "We Bare Bears", with Grizzly the grizzly bear as the protagonist Crowbar Jones.
"Zombie Party" is derived from the classic video game of the same name.
"Raptor High" (translation: Raptor High School, probably derived from the interest of his younger brother Aaron) may have many sources, because there are many movies and TV works with similar names, such as the 1989 B-level film "Monster High" (Monster High).
"Fists of Furry" (translation: 毛毛毛毛小拳拳) old-fashioned, you will see Bruce Lee's classic Kung Fu film "Fist of fury" (Fist of fury).
Then there are Katie's proud work, two "good cop, dog cop". The subtitle of the above part is SVU, that is, special victims unit (translation: special victims), which is derived from the derivative series "Special Victims" of the longevity drama "Law and Order".
The subtitle of another "good cop, dog cop" is Requiem for a milk bone (translation: milk bone requiem, milk-bone is a well-known dog food brand), derived from Darren Aronofsky's masterpiece " "Requiem for a dream" (Requiem for a dream).
"Fear and Loathing in Central Michigan" (translation: Fear of Central Michigan) is derived from the film "Fear of Las Vegas" directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp. Central Michigan is the location of the Katie family in the film.
The title of "Spacebutts: Origins" may come from the 1987 science fiction comedy film "Spaceballs".
Finally, "Dial'B' for'Burger'" (translation: hamburger, press B), which was shown to the whole class by Katie, spoofed the well-known thriller "Telephone Murder" by director Hitchcock. 'M' for'Murder').
After flipping through Katie's disc all the way, we took a breath. Then please pick up your magnifying glass, because below we are going to enter the more stalked Katie original movie poster.
2.3 Katie's original movie poster
When Katie applied to film academy, she showed her proud work collection to audience friends in the form of a 5-by-5 poster tile. These posters spoofed many classic movies and joined Katie's family without any PS traces. The most photographed Shi Pug, Mochi, his younger brother Aaron, and Katie himself. So let's not talk too much nonsense, let's find the source of these posters one by one.
Row 1, column 1:
"Barfy the Puppet" (translation: vomiting puppet), once appeared in Katie's disc, the puppet image is borrowed from Disney's classic children's drama "The muppet show" (The muppet show). The role of the puppet appears frequently in Katie's movies, including the farewell video that he later showed his father. According to the logo in the lower left corner of the poster, the film won the 2019 Fundance Festival Grand Prix, spoofing the Sundance Festival (Sundance Film Festival).
Row 1, column 2:
"Katie & Aaron", the poster completely copied Ridley Scott's classic road movie "Thelma & Louise" (Thelma & Louise).
Row 1, column 3:
"They Lived in the Jurassic Period" (translation: They live in the Jurassic Period), the poster comes from John Carpenter's 1988 sci-fi movie "They live", telling the story of aliens infiltrating the earth .
Row 1, column 4:
Our old friend "Good Cop, Dog Cop", in the poster, Mochi turned his back to the explosion scene, imitating the poster of the British action comedy "Hot Fuzz" (Hot Fuzz).
Row 1, column 5:
"Cat with a Human Face" is not a spoof classic movie, but from Valkyrie, an Instagram celebrity cat that became popular in 2019, a bitter melon with an expression like a meow with a human face.
Row 2, column 1:
"Good Cop, Dog Cop: SVU", appeared in Katie's discs, and the poster design borrowed from the rock youth movie "Almost Famous".
Row 2, column 2:
"Mochi: Fear Eats the Soul" (translation: Mochi: Fear Eats the Soul), the poster is exactly the same as the 1974 German film "Fear Eats the Soul".
Row 2, column 3:
"Fear and Loathing in Central MI" (translation: Fear of Central Michigan), also appeared in Katie's disc, the poster is a puppet version of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
Row 2, column 4:
"Portrait of an Idiot on Fire" (translation: a portrait of a burning idiot), except that it is Katie who burns herself, is not different from "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).
Row 3, column 1:
"Raging Rick" (Translation: Angry Father Rick), a black and white photo frame poster, from "Raging Bull" (Raging Bull) directed by Martin Scorsese in 1980 and starring Robert De Niro.
Row 3, column 2:
"Oops! A Wizard Transformed Us into Chickens" (translation: yo a wizard turned us into fried chicken), presumably from the 1989 science fiction comedy "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), I personally have reservations.
Row 3, column 3:
"Dog Cop 4: Requiem for a Milk Bone" has not only been seen on Katie's discs, Katie has also shown the audience to enjoy the clips. The subtitle is derived from "Requiem for a Dream" (Requiem for a Dream).
Row 3, column 4:
"Dogtown", although there are several movies with Dogtown in the name, Katie's Dogtown poster comes from Polanski's classic detective suspense film "Chinatown" (Chinatown).
Row 3, column 5:
"Au Hasard Burger Puppet" (occasionally a burger puppet), the poster and title are from the 1966 minimalist film "Au hasard Balthazar" (Au hasard Balthazar).
Row 4, columns 1, 2, and 3:
"Dial'B' for'Burger'" (press B for hamburger) trilogy. The first is mentioned in the Katie disc, which tells the story of Mr. Hamburg being attacked by Mochi. The second "Diagnosis", based on the poster, is speculated to be the story of Mr. Hamburg being diagnosed in the hospital after being attacked; the third "Forgiveness", also based on the poster, is speculated to be the story of Mr. Hamburg forgiving Mochi who came to see him in the hospital bed.
Row 4, column 4:
"Going There" (translation: to go there), the poster and title are from the political satirical comedy "Being There" by Katie's favorite director Har Ashbe. The poster guessed that Katie came to the university with luggage.
Row 4, column 5:
"The Perks of Having Only One Friend" (translation: the benefit of having only one friend) is from "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" which the poster likes very much. Hahaha. About the friendship between Katie and Aaron sister and brother.
Row 5, column 1:
In "Director on Director Q&A" (Translation: Director Dialogue Director: Questions and Answers), the Ms. Fuji hairstyle played by Aaron in the poster is not German Chancellor Merkel, but the French New Wave director Agnès Varda who left us in 2019.
Other individual posters did not find an obvious source, so I tried my best (to cover the liver). . .
2.4 Katie's farewell video
Before Katie went to college, she made a happy farewell video for her father to watch. Although the computer broke before watching the video, we have already seen Katie's heart (stalk) with the opening paragraph.
The video features Katie's queen actor, Muppet Jun, who plays Katie herself. Katie in the video excitedly jumped on the dog bus turned into by the pug dog Mochi and set off for the university campus. The form of the dog bus is modeled on the cat bus that always looks excited in "My Neighbor Totoro".
The soundtrack and drawing style of the video are brainwashed by Nyan Cat, a major producer of ghost and animal materials on the Internet. The original youtube video has so far received nearly 190 million horror views. The following is the most authoritative website video of Nyan Cat. It is not very magical. I have watched it more than a dozen times.
Nyan Cat!
3. Soundtrack terrier
A good soundtrack sublimates the expressiveness and appeal of a movie. The wonderful soundtrack of "Intelligent Counterattack" is matched with the visual effects of the screen. It not only serves the mood of the movie, but also expands the space for stalking. In addition to the aforementioned Nyan Cat, we occasionally hear the familiarity of classic film and television soundtracks. The easiest to recognize of this type of soundtrack are the two passages used in Quentin Darentino's "Kill Bill".
One is "Ironside", the theme soundtrack of the old detective drama "Invincible Iron Detective", which was launched in 1967. At the beginning, there was a sharp alarm sound, accompanied by a stained red picture. The moment when the heroine of "Bill" meets the enemy, and the moment in the film when mother Linda watched her son Aaron get caught and turned into a berserker.
The second is the famous Slay Divine Comedy "Battle without Horror or Humanity", which first appeared in the 2000 version of the Japanese movie "New Innocent War", and was later selected by Quentin as the gangster played by Liu Yuling in "Kill Bill" The BGM in which the guy played with his little brothers became a famous scene in movie history.
In this film, this BGM is used in the posing video of Katie's family leaving the fire mall, to force it to be full.
In addition, do you remember the song that Katie and Dad twisted from childhood to adult? No one can beat the father and daughter under this BGM.
Ant teeth black~ ♪ (┘￣︶￣)┘
Ant teeth red ~ └(￣︶￣└) ♪
Ant's teeth~ ♪ (┘￣︶￣)┘
Ant teeth haha~└(￣︶￣└) ♪
That's right, this is the prelude to Guo Meimei's "Not Fear or Fear".
Friends who have exposed their age may recall the pomp of the song "Not Fear Not Fear" that reverberated through the streets and alleys, what kind of beauty salons, promotions, and mobile DVDs. . . I never thought I was brainwashed to the capitalist America. In fact, the cover of "Don't be afraid or afraid" is from the European boy group O-Zone's "Dragostea din tei" released in 2003, and it became popular to the United States and it was re-created by the emoji blogger Gary Brolsma. Its self-healing performance on youtube There are nearly 50 million hits (the performance video is Numanuma, pictured above).
Interested friends can archeologically download the original version:
4. Bridge Terrier
4.1 Robot Doomsday Opening
"Smart Counterattack" did not start in the sequence of story development. The beginning is the robot doomsday and car chasing action scene. This arrangement of the bridge may be in line with the opening scene of "Terminator 2", the first shot of both is the robot Jio, stepping on the skull ("Terminator") or a mobile phone ("Smart Counterattack" ).
4.2 Fire Demon Chariot
In the story of Katie's shopping mall, all the electrical appliances with Pal chips smashed into action. This setting imitates the bridge section of the movie "Chariot of Fire" directed by the only horror master Stephen King. In "Chariot of Fire", all kinds of electrical appliances and car lawn mowers are all set to kill mankind. The most obvious tribute in this film is that the vending machine treats soda as a cannonball.
4.3 kill code and mad max style
When Katie explained the combat strategy to everyone, she used two familiar slogans many times. The first is Kill code, from the "The Matrix" series. It originally refers to a program designed to terminate and delete its own weaknesses. In this film, the robot's self-destructing program is terminated.
In addition, every time Katie describes a battle plan, she always forcibly joins Mad max style, which is the yellow sand of George Miller's "Mad Max", the roar of the engine, the nails and leather boots, and the metal rock Live. Katie's self-proclaimed Road Warriors is the subtitle of "Mad Max 2".
4.4 Batman transition animation
After the Katie family planned to invade Pal headquarters, with Katie's Mitchell Engage, they switched to the transition animation. As Rick's dad's expression zoomed in, there were countless Rick's dad's expressions spinning in the background in a psychedelic manner.
This transition is a transition animation from the Batman series that started airing in 1966. The original animation is a rotating Batman logo, and even the soundtrack is exactly the same.
5. Line stalk
5.1 "Avengers: endgame"
Before Katie's family sneaked into Pal headquarters, the dramatist Katie made her dad read a line she wrote (The endgame has begun.), although it was not a complete copy of Fulian's lines, but there are quite a few trailers for the Fulian. It's inside.
In addition, netizens in the comment area reminded that the dinner after Dad plans to save the world is similar to the first "Avengers" ending egg, and the heroes eat fast food together.
5.2 "Dawn of the Dead" (Dawn of the Dead)
When the Katie family was looking for the kill code, Katie was surprised when she saw the run-down mall. This is like "This is like Dawn of the Dead". "Dawn of the Living Dead" tells the story of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse living in an abandoned mall.
5.3 "They Live"
In Katie's Dog Cop series of movie clips, Dog Cop played by Mochi made his debut for the first time, spoofing the famous lines in Carpenter's "Extreme Space" (I'm here to bust criminals and lick my own butt... And I'm all out of criminals. Translation: I'm here to fight crime and lick my ass... Besides, I'm short of crime.)
The original line in "Extreme Space" is I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... And I'm all out of bubblegum. (Translation: I'm here to chew bubble gum and beat people to show off... Besides, I don't have bubble gum anymore.) As a famous line, there are many memes that quote this sentence.
5.4 Journey
After the Katie family sneaked into the headquarters dressed as robots, Dad Rick saw the futuristic headquarters and blurted out Oh my gosh. It's like Journey album cover (translation: Old Swan, like a Journey album cover). Journey Band is a well-known rock band active in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. Its album cover design and color scheme are indeed equally avant-garde.
In other words, the design of the robot headquarters is inspired by the movie "Electronic World Contest" (also transcreation series).
Digging into the details of "Smart Counterattack", the hidden stalks and easter eggs are digging more and more. LZ Non-Easter Egg Excavator Big V has limited vision and energy, and only selected places with more certainty and provenance for everyone. However, the eyes of the masses are discerning, and you are welcome to continue to discuss and supplement in the comment area.
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