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Chapter 539 Thoughts on Infinite Flow

"Then you get busy first, I'm hanging up."

After Zheng Wei washed up, he lay on the bed and chatted on the phone with his girlfriend. After chatting for half an hour, he hung up and got up and sat at the computer desk.

Couples in love want to be together all the time, but his girlfriend's company has put off the Spring Festival holiday early, so he returned to his hometown. Zheng Wei, who still sticks to his job, can only chat with his girlfriend remotely through WeChat video.

Usually Zheng Wei, who used to feel a little empty, lonely and cold, would play games to pass the time, but today he had other pastimes.

"The Beginning" starring his favorite actor Zhao Jinmai is released today. As one of his sister's many male fans, he will naturally not miss it.

Moreover, all the episodes are released at once, and tomorrow is Saturday. Since the Spring Festival is approaching and I have to work on Sunday, the company also has a happy holiday this Saturday.

This means that he can binge-watch dramas without any worries, if the drama is good and to his liking.

But there seems to be no need to worry too much. Although his company, Sun God Animation, and DreamWorks are competitors, of course, mainly in animation, he still has to admit that DreamWorks has never made a bad drama before.

Especially the science fiction dramas that he is good at.

"Zhao Jinmai and Bai Jingting starred in the suspense drama "Love on the Suspension Bridge". They are nine years apart and have a full CP feel."

Needless to say, "Edge of Tomorrow" fights aliens, and "Source Code" takes place on a high-speed train, which has a strong sense of reality. Of course, the Source Code project informed by the military later gave the movie a more surreal feel and a stronger game feel.

, this is also the success of "Source Code".

Another example is Omnic Crisis. From "Person of Interest" to "The Matrix" to "Black Mirror", many classic works have also been produced in different ways.

Generally speaking, the biggest obstacle to "unlimited streaming" of film and television dramas is copyright, but after these years of hard work, DreamWorks has actually accumulated a lot of copyright.

Even though the reality-themed "Signal" starts off as a major case, "Pursuit" introduces the mysterious rich man played by Pan Yueming from the very beginning, coupled with the setting of "predicting the crime in advance" that the audience quickly became aware of.

It’s very stable and has a strong sense of surreality.

However, after surviving the drowsiest period, he didn't feel sleepy for a while while lying on the bed, so he took out his phone again and prepared to read the discussion about "The Beginning" on the Internet.

The compact and delicate plot quickly made Zheng Wei immersed in it.

When it comes to "infinite flow", Chen Jingxing actually has had some thoughts. He had actually had related thoughts before.

By the time Zheng Wei saw the ending and came to his senses, it was already getting slightly brighter outside.

It seemed like he was back to the time when he was watching "The Walking Dead II" in the dormitory last year, but luckily, he didn't have to go to work today. Last year, when he and his classmates watched "The Walking Dead II" in one go, there were only two days left before submitting the graduation thesis.

, that is called pain and happiness.

After the broadcasting rights of "The Beginning" were sold to the video platform, the marketing was mainly responsible for the video platform. Penguin Video's marketers really knew some trendy words and just started talking about it. Isn't the time loop enough?

According to the more mainstream view, "infinite flow" usually means that the protagonist enters the mysterious "reincarnation space" and goes to dungeon worlds such as movies, games, animations and novels to complete tasks, thereby gaining extraordinary power, but has to never stop in another world.

Adventure and reincarnation.

Although "The Beginning" also has a strong sense of gaming, its sense of reality far exceeds DreamWorks' previous film and television dramas.

In short, "infinite flow" is the process of letting the protagonist enter another world and complete different tasks.

But the difficulty lies not only in copyright, but also in the joy of "infinite streaming" when the audience or readers follow the protagonist into a familiar world, interact with familiar characters despite having little information, and even change the direction of the plot.

"Unlimited streaming TV series are coming, and "The Beginning" has a huge online playback volume"

The sounds of radios, car horns, phone calls, and conversations in the car form the background sound of the picture.

Until there was an explosion, flames shot into the sky, and the flames engulfed a bus and the surrounding vehicles and people.

“It’s so enjoyable!”

At the same time, Chen Jingxing was also browsing the Internet for feedback after the release of "The Beginning". Because of the filming of "1951", he could not find time to contribute to the release of "The Beginning", but this did not affect his attention to the film.

The performance of the play.

""The Beginning": the bus version of "Source Code" will take you to find the real murderer behind the scenes!"

It opens directly with a scene of cars passing by in an ordinary city. It has no sense of science fiction at all and is completely different from DreamWorks' previous science fiction dramas.

Loop genres are often tied to reasoning and decryption genres. This brain-burning element coupled with the process of changing the plot through information differences is what attracts Zheng Wei the most, and of course there is a stronger sense of substitution.

"Aquila Warrior" and "The Wandering Earth" are actually very suitable for the "infinite flow" world background, including "Suspect Tracking" and "Signal" are actually also suitable.

Isn’t “The Walking Dead” the most popular zombie-themed IP in the world right now?

"The Matrix" is actually pretty good, and not only is it a feature film, it also shows the story background equivalent to a prequel through three animated short films.

He also gradually realized the unique charm of this drama, and the strong sense of reality and immersion made him unable to stop.

""The Beginning" received over 200 million views on the three networks on its first day of release! DreamWorks creates a hit drama to start the year, and the core is to empathize with the audience!"

The whole drama is almost presented using a simple documentary-style shooting technique.

“After the high-speed rail, it’s the turn of the bus, and DreamWorks Explosion Mania once again launches a time loop science fiction film!”

No matter the filter, the picture is similar to that of TV news.

This is quite unrealistic.

"The Beginning" has little to do with "Infinite Flow" anyway, and treating each time loop as a replica world is a bit far-fetched. "Source Code" is called a memory rollback, but it is actually a parallel world setting.

Make some connections.

If it really wants to be filmed, DreamWorks' existing IP copyrights are not unable to support such a work.

It is somewhat similar to the previous life plane.

This creates a stronger sense of immersion.

Judging from the feedback from netizens and the media, he is generally very satisfied, but still has some criticisms.

"Edge of Tomorrow" is already about fighting alien monsters, let alone cooperation with the police.

This means that even if DreamWorks owns the copyright to these replica worlds, they still need familiar characters to star in them.

Of course, both of these films are in line with the logic of the story. "Source Code" can be regarded as a memory flashback. The essence is that the military allows the protagonist to take risks in constant memory flashbacks in order to find out the real culprit of the KB attack. The special setting allows the male protagonist to only

Can be a lone hero.

Those two movies are naturally very sophisticated in their time loop plot structures, but in fact they both have a strong surreal background.

When Zhao Jinmai gasped and woke up in the bus, Zheng Wei quickly exclaimed and became excited.

Time loop.

Includes Source Code and Edge of Tomorrow.

This is the biggest difference between "The Beginning" and "Source Code" and "Edge of Tomorrow".

Zheng Wei likes this type of work very much, but he still feels a little regretful that only two movies have been produced, from "Source Code" by Chen Jingxing to "Edge of Tomorrow" directed by Guo Fan.

Except for the inexplicable loop, everything is real and could not be more real.

Especially the zombie world and doomsday world that often appear in "infinite flow" novels, DreamWorks really has no shortage of them.

The crowded and busy intersection, the vehicles and pedestrians in front of the traffic lights, form an everyday picture, and the footage is so steady and simple that it looks like a documentary.

In addition, another highlight is the interaction between the male and female protagonists and the police. In most film and television dramas, the protagonists are lone heroes.

"Fuck! Is this a time loop?"

There is another science fiction concept that is also very exciting, and that is the time loop genre.

As a viewer who has basically watched all the science fiction movies and TV series produced by DreamWorks, he immediately realized that this was a science fiction concept that he was familiar with without much preparation.

As a science fiction professional, many novel science fiction concepts have been used more than once by DreamWorks, such as signal stories about cross-time and space connections and the butterfly effect, which have been used in many movies, TV series and even animations.

That is because the video platform inexplicably moved closer to "unlimited streaming" in the marketing process, which left him speechless.

Although it is a suspense film, it does not have any dark filters and does not use cold tones, which is completely different from previous works such as "The Signal" produced by DreamWorks.

It seems that DreamWorks has made another time loop drama.

"DreamWorks has another great drama! How good is "The Beginning"? Stay up late and watch the entire episode in one go!"

The difficulty is too high, the cost is too high, and it is not cost-effective.

It's not impossible if the story and background are homemade copies, but then there is no need to make "unlimited streaming" works. In the final analysis, making movies and TV series is for the number of views and box office.

If it is not for the purpose of attracting traffic with a "copy" IP that is familiar to the audience, then it is not cost-effective to produce "unlimited streaming" works. It is a lot of hard work and the results may not be as good as other science fiction films and TV series.

Chen Jingxing thought about it again and again and threw the idea of ​​"unlimited streaming" of film and television dramas out of his mind.

(End of chapter)