The word "house" is one of the most powerful. "Zhai" was originally synonymous with acg lovers. Now all people who "stay at home" shamelessly call themselves "Zhai", whether they are studying "Ghost in the Shell Arise" or "Little Daddy" at home. . .
"Geek" is also such a word, with the fiery tbbt, "geek" spread quickly without knowing why, and merged with nerd. When asked what a geek is, people will say innocently: Isn't it sheldon! Yes, where are they going to see geeks, they are going to see sheldon!
I don't want to delve into the variation of words, I'm not qualified, I have to ask linguistics students to write my master's thesis. What I'm talking about is a very common phenomenon, which I sum up as: fascination with subcultures. This kind of imagination exists among some very special young people-they sort out the chronology of every race in Middle-earth, study the curvature pusher of the "Enterprise", and discuss whether the huge humanoid mecha has actual combat value- Of course when they step into society there are some radical changes and I don't know what that means for the future of our world.
Let me summarize three characteristics.
First, the objects of infatuation are so-called "subcultures." Scientists can work 18 hours in a lab without any problem. Children who play dota for 18 hours in Internet cafes will be regarded as "weird behavior", which is also infatuation, but the object of infatuation is different. Being infatuated with mainstream culture is "useful", it helps you survive in this society, scientists rely on research to eat, and even being infatuated with painting and calligraphy can at least become the talk of the dinner party, as for "subculture", not all leaders and customers are Happy to discuss "Gundam" with you.
(Rock music may have undergone an evolution from subculture to mainstream culture, even in China, being obsessed with rock doesn't seem to be a very weird thing; at the same time, collecting a few thousand yuan a figure is considered incredible , because there is no difference between five yuan and one on the street.
Second, this "subculture" will form a self-consistent world. This is different from "collecting women's stockings", which is also not "mainstream culture". Why anime, movies, games are important, because these works always make up a world with complete rules, history and spirit that you can spend your life in.
Again, this infatuation is serious. You don't hear things like "it's just a fiction, why take it seriously" because any infatuation is serious and any world should be taken seriously. To give the simplest example, in an episode of tbbt, sheldon and the others found a prop of the "Supreme Lord of the Rings" that was used in the movie. The inside of the Lord of the Rings is engraved. One person said, look, this is a wizard language, one said, no, this is Modo written in Elvish! They really think that there is this language, there is this ring, the history and the story of the connotation are also real, not made up by an old man named Tolkien.
Because of these three characteristics, people in mainstream society hate the above-mentioned people, thinking that they live in another world and cannot extricate themselves. There is a group of people in the world who live so different from you and yet dare to live so confidently that they feel strange and helpless.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention one last trait: the things they're obsessed with are cool.
There is a misunderstanding here. They are not living in a world that is completely different from the mainstream world. They are living in an endless world at the same time. They live in the "Interstellar Federation" hundreds of years later, and they live in a world where the whole people will seize A world of sprites and sprite races for all the fun of life.
After interviewing the believers who were brainwashed by Aum Shinrikyo, Haruki Murakami discovered a secret: these people are so similar to him, the reason why their minds are so fragile and easily controlled is because they don't like it Read novels.
Murakami's explanation is that every novel is a self-consistent world with its rules and truths. People who read a lot of novels, who have seen different rules and principles, are not easy to fall into a single world and can't get out; people who don't read novels, after despairing of the world they live in, are easy to fall into. In a world even so full of holes, it is impossible to extricate oneself.
The "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy describes three "subculture" worlds that are seriously obsessed with "the world of zombies, the world of gangster movies and the world of science fiction, represented by red, blue, and green cuteness (a bit like Google Android...), obviously not a big meal, but enough for a cold drink dedicated to the house, dedicated to geeks.
"Zombie Shaun" tells how a dead house is scrambling to save himself after falling into a "Resident Evil" world The story of relatives and friends, the whole script is watertight. "If there is a gun on the wall of the first scene, then someone behind must shoot the gun", this principle is not only carefully followed countless times in the film, but also embodied Yes. In fact, the central scene of the film is a bar called "Winchester", and the rifles hanging on the wall of the bar are really used.
"Hot Blood Detective" is a bit of a satire on the routine of police and gangster films, all police and gangster films There are almost all commonly used bridges, such as the disgusting stalk of "Resurrection of the Dead" (the most typical die hard first, the only stain of a perfect movie). Just like the world where an ordinary town suddenly turns into a zombie, in the In this film, a lot of hidden murderers suddenly appeared in an ordinary town, in supermarkets, squares and other places, and they started a fierce gun battle with npc-level characters such as hotel owners and salesmen.
"The End of the World" still continues this theme, The protagonists returned to their hometowns in order to fulfill their desire to drink 12 bars in their youth, but found that the villagers were suddenly replaced by a group of "robots" (can't be called robots, because this is a Czech word, which means slaves of machines, and they not slaves...)
The interesting thing here is that in reality, the mainstream culture is constantly bullying the subculture, so in the movie, the subculture keeps invading the mainstream culture, and the ordinary town turns into a zombie concentration camp overnight, a gunfight scene and a robot utopia, you find Your nerd friend turns out to be right all along. Sounds a bit like yy, but it's not right. Here, the nerds aren't the instant heros of the bad guys, taking on the responsibility of saving the world, they're still frustrated and screwed up a lot of the time. It seems that the director has no ambition to be proud of them, he just wants those worlds to come and "be yourself" after that.
The opening of "The End of the World" is actually a mixture of the first two openings. The constantly jumping and decreasing opening narrative is the opening of "Blood Detective", and the horizontal pseudo-long shot is the opening of "Zombie Shaun" in different scenes. The biggest difference after many similarities is that the protagonist is no longer obsessed with subcultures. Shaun of Zombie is a dead man who wants to play games with his best friend even if he turns into a zombie and hangs in the backyard, and the fat man of "Blood Detective" collects DVDs as crazy as Quentin Tarantino, but The protagonist of "World Shot", he seems to just want to drink.
However, he still faces the dilemma that the nerds have, such as seeing the growth of his peers out of tune with his own, the failure to integrate into the society and nostalgia. In fact, the main reason why the protagonist has to repeat his long-cherished wish to drink all 12 bars is because that night long ago was the best night of his life, that night he felt that he could change the world, and since then, his world has gradually changed. destroyed.
The stalk of alien life transforming human beings is not such a great proposition as "dystopia", but only the fear of "being assimilated into gentle and boring robots by society". When the protagonists just returned to the town, the fat man said, the town is still the same, but we have changed; when the secret of the robot was discovered, the protagonist said, we are still us, but the town has changed. The changing town is eager to devour the protagonists, just as the mainstream society is eager to devour the nerds.
People in the mainstream society sneered, just as the advanced civilization in the galaxy sneered at the savage and ignorant earthlings. But maybe they all know. How do you know what it's like to be drunk if you're not sober? Maybe they are not just hiding in an artificially cast wonderland, but can travel through countless worlds, so as to realize the coldness of everything, and finally reach this end of the world. Maybe they just want to drink all 12 bars, maybe they want freedom, they want a cool, great time, and although the protagonist of this movie isn't a nerd, that's what the nerd wants, isn't it? ?
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