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Chapter 122 Magical Modification of "Source Code" (Part 2)

In the original movie, the military, or the military-backed Source Code Project, was the second-largest villain after the Unabomber.

In the plot near the end, there is even a faint hint that the doctor who designed the source code may be the biggest boss. He even hopes that more terrorist attacks will occur, so that the source code project can have greater room for development.

In the opinion of the person in charge of the source code project, the male protagonist is purely a tool. After completing the task of tracking the bomber, he also wants to delete the male protagonist's memory so that he can continue to shine in subsequent tasks.

In the end, it was the male protagonist who convinced the female officer to risk going to military court and disobey her superiors' orders, causing the male protagonist's remaining body in the real world to fall into a death sleep. As a result, the male protagonist's consciousness could be in the parallel world created by the source code.

Be free in the world.

Obviously, setting the military, or at least a source code project closely related to the military, as the villain will never work in the Chinese version.

Therefore, the last scene in which the female officer did not hesitate to disobey orders and gave the male protagonist physical death had to be deleted.

In fact, Chen Jingxing thought from the bottom of his heart that it would be better to delete it. A female officer who had never met him would go to a military court and disobey orders for the sake of the male protagonist. The motive was too far-fetched. When you launched war against other countries, you didn’t see the Virgin Mary.

Come and disobey me, this setting is too inconsistent.

It's not that you can't be kind, but the original film's foreshadowing is obviously insufficient.

In this version shot by Chen Jingxing, the Republic's military and the male protagonist are on the same side from beginning to end.

At the beginning, the reason why the female officer was vague to the male protagonist, avoided questions, and was unwilling to reveal the truth was because she was afraid that after the male protagonist realized that he was dead, it would affect his brain function and cause problems in the operation of the source code.

And all three of them were on this train, waiting for their final death to come.

For example, why are members of terrorist organizations willing to die peacefully on a train?

When the male protagonist thought he had caught the real culprit who planted the bomb on the train, the real culprit revealed that he was just a member of a terrorist organization. He was only responsible for placing bombs, but he did not know how to stop the countdown of the bomb on the train, and

There were other members on the train who had different divisions of labor, but they had never seen each other.

It turns out that I am the real murderer!

The dramatic conflict caused by this reversal is enough to fill the conflict plot between the protagonist and the military in the original version, and it is more than enough.

This turned the whole incident into a complete deadlock, and the military fell into despair. The male protagonist asked the military to give him another chance.

But the consciousness of this body is dead, and all that remains is the physical body of the male protagonist who came to the source code world. At the same time, he does not know the password of this body's mobile phone, and cannot find any clues in the mobile phone, even if he gets out of the car to look for it.

Cracking the password in a repair shop is not something that can be done in eight minutes.

As the male protagonist became emotionally unstable and gradually got closer to the truth in the source code world, the female officer still revealed all the truth to the male protagonist after consulting her superiors.

And the military has no idea of ​​erasing the memory of the male protagonist and letting him continue to be a tool. After all, the male protagonist is an air force pilot who died in a training crash and has been posthumously awarded as a martyr. If it were not for the fact that he was desperate and related to the lives of millions of people,

For security reasons, the military is actually unwilling to activate the source code so that the martyrs will not rest in peace.

There is no doubt that this change will make the movie less conflicting in the later stages.

And this is also the last change in the relationship between the male protagonist and the female protagonist set by Chen Jingxing.

The audience will suddenly realize at this time that the original source code is another parallel world, not just a so-called memory rollback.

What is the name of this terrorist organization? Where is it? Leave everything blank.

It is only assumed that there are three members of the organization who will ultimately carry out this serial terrorist attack.

After using the password to open the phone, I finally found clues to the radioactive bomb in the city.

This news shocked the male protagonist and the military behind him. With the cooperation of the military, the male protagonist found a second member of the terrorist organization on the train. Under questioning, this person told him how to stop the countdown to the train bomb.

Password, but he is only responsible for setting the countdown timer for the train bomb. He did not place the radioactive explosive devices in the city. Only the third person on the train within the organization knows the details of the bomb.

In other words, the so-called "real world" where terrorist attacks occur is itself a parallel world created by terrorist organizations using source code.

In another 8 minutes, the male protagonist was no longer eager to deal with the terrorist suspects, but fell into a warm and pleasant conversation with the female protagonist.

The rest is almost the same as the original version. The male protagonist informs the military of clues, and the military finds explosive devices in real-world cities and eliminates the threat.

Then the male protagonist suddenly discovered the truth by chance. It turned out that the history teacher possessed by his consciousness was the biggest boss, and he himself was the third person of the terrorist organization on this train!

In this way, there will be twists and turns, and there will be a bright future.

The female protagonist and the history teacher possessed by the male protagonist are colleagues. During the conversation with the girl, the male protagonist found clues to the mobile phone password specially set by the real murderer.

Moreover, this third person was his superior and the person in charge of planning the entire terrorist incident.

Then the scene continued after the male protagonist and the female protagonist paused for a kiss.

After the male protagonist repeatedly entered the source code many times, he also realized that the source code did not seem to be as simple as the 8-minute rollback described by the military, so he asked the military to let him enter the source code world for the last time, and after 8 minutes

Stop the life support of his broken body in the real world and let him die.

If you are not even afraid of death, why would you reveal the information you know after being caught and subdued by the protagonist?

Why does the history teacher possessed by the protagonist, who is also the leader of the terrorist attack, record the installation location of the radioactive bomb on his mobile phone, so that after the protagonist breaks the mobile phone password, he can easily prevent his subsequent terrorist attack plan in the city

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In this way, the male protagonist's pursuit of the real murderer in the source code world will be divided into three scenes, and the conflict will be three times that of the original version.

Naturally, the military readily agreed.

This is the final twist in the plot.

After discussing with the screenwriting team, Chen Jingxing decided to make up for the conflicts from the terrorist organization.

Terrorist organizations use source codes to enter parallel worlds to create terrorist activities. This can explain why their members can die peacefully, because they, like the protagonist, have their consciousness descended into the parallel world.

Of course, in this Chinese version of the source code, Chen Jingxing still left a few deductions.

Then the conflict will have to be made up elsewhere.

Why does the military seem to know nothing about the source code and only thinks it is an 8-minute rollback?

In fact, in the magical setting, the source code itself is a machine that creates a parallel world, and this machine was invented by a terrorist organization that planned bombings, and the machine in the hands of the military was seized from this terrorist organization.

, but the military was misled by it, thinking that it was just an 8-minute recovery and could only be used to solve crimes.

Terrorist organizations use the source code consciousness to descend and create terrorist activities, while the military in parallel worlds use the source code to create other parallel worlds to obtain clues to prevent terrorist activities.

A bit like the Wallfacer and Wallbreaker in Three-Body Problem.

Chen Jingxing will leave enough hints about this setting in the movie. Audiences and movie fans who read the film a lot will definitely discover these details and hints, make various interpretations, and come up with all kinds of shocking truths.

At the same time, this also leaves an interface for possible sequels. Although the original version of "Source Code" does not have a sequel, it may not be impossible in this dimension. There will always be a time when the sci-fi blockbusters in Chen Jingxing's mind will be used up, and DreamWorks must also have the ability to make its own blood.

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