Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 510 414. This is the power of technology!

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October 1998.

It has been almost 4 months since "My Robot Girlfriend" was launched in June.

The total box office result was only 1.4 billion yen.

Moon River Company's investment in this movie was only 1 billion yen. After the box office share, it still lost some money, but it was not a huge loss.

Mainly because Yuehe is not only the producer but also the distributor, so it has a slight advantage in terms of fund sharing.

This situation was basically expected by Qing Zhiyuan.

Neon's live-action movies are just not as popular as animated movies. If you think about it, Robot Girlfriend has such good special effects and a box office of 1.4 billion, which is actually a very good result among live-action movies.

But Ghibli's "Princess Mononoke" earned more than 20 billion yen at the box office, a difference of more than 15 times.

This is the gap!

However, the production of the "Robot Girlfriend" movie is not just as simple as making money for Yuehe, it is also equivalent to the company's technological accumulation.

Applying pokeni's 3D rendering technology to live-action movies, Robot Girlfriend is a very fresh and bold attempt.

At least I have accumulated valuable experience and technology for future film production.

Qing Zhiyuan is already satisfied with the box office result of 1.4 billion yen.

Although "My Robot Girlfriend" lost money at the box office, it still has DVDs and videotapes, but offline income is a long-term process that takes time to slowly ferment.

According to statistical calculations by relevant departments, if Yuehe's "My Robot Girlfriend" has an online box office of 1.4 billion yen, it may earn more than 1 billion yen in the next two years through offline products, such as video tapes, DVDs and peripheral products. yuan of income.

If this is the case, from a long-term perspective in the future, not only will there be no loss, but there will also be a certain amount of profit.

Counting this way, Yue He's first blockbuster in Neon also made a profit, but it was not a huge profit.

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But in fact, for Qing Zhiyuan, the symbolic meaning of this movie far outweighs the actual benefits.

As a live-action movie, Neon's ability to earn 1.4 billion yen at the box office is a good result in itself, and during this film's release, Neon's audiences also realized that Moon River has great potential in film special effects. Ability.

At the same time, it also made the producer Fumi Hitotsubashi famous, as well as the director and a group of actors.

Masato Sakai, a young man, contributed very natural and excellent acting skills in the film. He performed a series of changes from a shy and introverted nerd to a robot girl, which was quite wonderful.

The innocence of his character and his persistence in love have not changed at all, and the good nature in his heart has been maintained by Sakai Masato until the end.

Even when they saw him losing control and running away because his sincerity failed to get a response from the robot girl, the audience burst into tears while laughing, but they could actually empathize and understand Masato Sakai's mood.

So after this movie experience, Masato Sakai has made a good start. From an unknown little transparent, he suddenly entered the audience's field of vision.

Many movie and TV drama producers saw Sakai Masato's superb acting skills, so after taking over the filming of "My Robot Girlfriend", Sakai Masato also received different film contracts one after another, and finally got rid of the plight of being hungry and cold. Then pick dandelions on the roadside to supplement vitamins.

In "My Robot Girlfriend", the most outstanding one is naturally Yukie Nakama who plays the heroine robot girl.

She plays two roles in the film, playing the role of a dull and ignorant robot who only cares for its master, and a real human girl who has the memory of a robot, and she plays it very well.

Even in the changes in micro-expressions, you can still feel the subtle differences between the two characters.

At the same time, the robot girl she played not only has a sweet smile but also has a cold side, which is very popular with the audience.

The robot girl is regarded as the ideal girlfriend by countless viewers, and Yukie Nakama also became famous instantly and became the most popular young actress at the moment.

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Moon River adds a small new ending to the movie.

In the game work, in the future, the girl inherits the memory of the robot and returns to the era of the male protagonist. The first encounter begins here and it is actually over. It echoes the beginning and the end.

But it will leave some regrets for the players.

However, in the movie, the human girl went on a second time journey. This time she went directly back to the time when the robot girl was destroyed in order to save Jiro and was held in the arms of the hero and cried bitterly.

This scene made the audience in the cinema cry, but everyone was pleasantly surprised when the human girl appeared.

At the end of the movie, the human girl returned to the past, possessed the memory of the robot, and lived happily with Jiro until the end of his life.

It can be regarded as fulfilling the dream of countless players.

So the movie's rating is quite high.

At the same time, Moon River Company contributed super special effects experience to this movie.

The appearance and abilities of the robot girl, as well as the shocking scene of the earthquake at the end, suddenly raised the image of a [cheap] science fiction movie by several levels and turned it into a veritable science fiction movie.

Although it is based on the theme of love, "My Robot Girlfriend" solidly allows players to experience what it is like to make a big movie in the last 20 minutes.

The catastrophic effect of the earth shattering, coupled with the realistic robot special effects of the heroine, and the metallic features crawling on the ground after being torn apart...

All these gave the audience a feast for their eyes, shouting that for the price of an ordinary movie ticket, they saw a very amazing science fiction blockbuster.

And in their view, although the main live-action market and special effects films are basically provided by the United States, such as Titanic level, Moon River Company's science fiction romance movies have shown extraordinary special effects capabilities. Countless Neon people feel that this company may have different potential.

"Wow, the special effects in "My Robot Girl" are great, right? The subsequent earthquake performance is like watching a blockbuster movie.

And it’s also a world-class disaster movie.

Although you can obviously tell that it is a computer-generated effect, it is still super shocking. "

"Yes, I saw it too. I originally watched the live-action movie because of the game, because the robot girl in the game is so awesome, she looks exactly like my ideal girlfriend.

After seeing Yukie Nakama starring, it quite met my expectations.

Unexpectedly, not only was I attracted by the successful live-action movie, but I also witnessed an amazing special effects movie. "

“Seriously, it’s a pity that Yuehe Company’s powerful technology is used to shoot love movies.

If this was a disaster movie, the box office would probably be ten times higher than it is now! "

"What do these people know? The investment in disaster movies will be ten times higher than it is now. The Titanic movie cost 200 million US dollars. Where did Moon River Company get so much money?

If it really wanted to make a disaster movie of that level, I'm afraid it would have lost all its money long ago. "

"That's right, disaster movies of that level usually have to be sold in North America, otherwise the cost really won't be recovered.

In my opinion, what Moon River Company did is actually quite clever. It made a low-cost romance science fiction movie that can also show off its skills. It not only satisfies the audience who have needs for special effects and likes science fiction, but also provides easy entertainment. Let more audiences of different levels enter the theater to watch movies.

It truly achieves the appreciation of both refined and popular tastes, and the film is perfect both in terms of production and actors' performance, truly contributing to a great high-quality soft science fiction love movie.

I love so much. "

"Yuehe Company's special effects should be considered top-notch, right? The earthquake scene really scared me in the theater."

It may not be clear to other countries, but for Neon people, earthquakes are almost a lifelong experience, so they can empathize more with the disasters caused by earthquakes. As long as they are filmed, they can immediately resonate with the audience.

It can also completely release the fear engraved in the DNA.

This is similar to the fear that Cthulhu brings to the Omi people, because many Westerners have faith, and Cthulhu focuses on the collapse of faith and insanity, so it will make Westerners' fear deeper into their bones.

The same is true for Cthulhu. Players in the East do not have such a strong sense of fear and involvement, which is also related to faith.

For a country that is born in an earthquake zone and suffers from frequent earthquakes, earthquakes are similar to Cthulhu and are the innate fear of Neon people.

So there are many myths and legends about earthquakes in Neon.

The special effects science fiction blockbuster filmed by Yue He shows a real and scary side, which also shows that Yue He's technology is quite good.

Otherwise, it would not be able to arouse such a strong resonance from the audience.

However, Qing Zhiyuan said that this is where it goes, and "Robot Girlfriend" is just an appetizer.

It’s impossible to compare Neon’s moviegoer numbers, box office, etc. with those in North America.

When "The Matrix" is released, you will be able to appreciate what a true science fiction blockbuster is and what Moon River's true strength is!

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On October 9, 1998, The Matrix was officially released.

Because Yuehe Company has done a very good job in publicity before, and the pictures are really shocking and gimmicky, so it attracts a lot of people.

However, in terms of influence, The Matrix is ​​not well-known from the production company to the production team to the cast. Naturally, there is not much influence, so the number of people sitting down is not as high as Qing Zhiyuan imagined. many.

At least judging from the performance on the first day, it is definitely not as good as expected. It is not as good as the original company Warner Bros., let alone Titanic, which was released at the end of last year.

In the eyes of many people, this movie is nothing more than a commercial film that invested a lot of money and was led by neon people who are stupid and have a lot of money.

Even whether they have enough ability to tell science fiction commercial films well is still a question.

Most people enter the cinema with the mentality of giving it a try, or because the special effects in the trailer look pretty good.

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Chris Evans is one of them.

Chris, who is only 17 years old now, is still a student at the drama school. He is fair and clean, and has a unique contagiousness when he smiles.

Whenever he smiles, that sunshine-like warmth and joy seems to be transmitted to everyone, allowing friends to feel the kindness and sincerity in his heart.

His smile seems to be a healing force that can dispel the haze in people's hearts and bring endless happiness and hope.

A typical sunny boy with handsome appearance, Chris has never been short of girlfriends.

He has loved acting and the film and television industry since he was a child. He came to New York alone before graduating from high school, hoping to find a dream of his own.

Therefore, he is very sensitive to the movies on the market. Chris Evans noticed this science fiction movie before "The Matrix" was released.

If you put aside the names of the production team and production company, just looking at the trailer clips, you will think that this is definitely an amazing science fiction blockbuster.

However, after talking to others, my friends don’t have high expectations for it.

After the movie was released, Chris Evans took his new girlfriend into the cinema to see if the movie was the flashy bad movie everyone expected.

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Not long after we sat down, the movie started.

The big screen suddenly went black, and a little boy and a little girl appeared sitting on a wooden pile looking up at the sky.

The picture rises into the sky, showing a big moon.

In the distance is a wide river flowing.

After the picture is zoomed out, the entire moon and river freeze into a 2D shape. After simplification, a unique but heart-warming LOGO with a touch of fairy tale interest is formed:

MOON \u0026 RIVER

Moon River International Group.

Also known as MNR company by many people.

In addition to Yuehe Group, the names of many sponsors and partners also appeared one after another.

This process lasted about a minute, and the video officially started.

The screen suddenly went black, with some green symbols dancing on it.

It looks like a mysterious computer symbol, forming a huge stream of digital information, but no one knows what it all means.

As the suspenseful and tense music played, the symbols in the picture gradually disappeared and gathered together, becoming:

【The Matrix】

In English it should mean matrix, but in Chinese and neon Chinese characters it is written [The Matrix]

That's the name of the movie.

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Didi, didi, didi...

There is still a large black screen in the screen. The upper left corner is the computer input interface, with the first line of square characters and input symbols.

At the same time, the phone rang.

After the connection was connected, a woman's voice came out:

"Is everything ready?"

The boy on the line asked confusedly, "Why are you taking over today?"

"I know, but I just want to take it."

"You like him, don't you? You like looking at him."

"Stop talking nonsense." The girl said.

"He's going to die. You know that, right?"

"Morpheus thinks he is the savior."

"What about you? Do you think so too?"

"It doesn't matter what I think."

"You don't think so, do you?"

"Did you hear that?" At this moment, the girl's voice became obviously nervous, as if something strange had happened, so she interrupted the topic.

"What did you hear?"

"Are you sure this route is safe?"

"Of course."

"I have to go."

As the call between the two ended, the row of green numbers on the screen kept beating, and finally turned into a big 0.

Then this 0 is like a door to a different world, constantly unfolding.

When the camera passes through it, the interior of 0 is gradually revealed, looking like Doraemon's time machine, except that the patterns on both sides become data streams in countless computers...

The 0 lens turned into a big light spot.

The camera advances again to form the front shape of a flashlight.

A policeman held a pistol and a flashlight in his hand, crossed on his chest and on full alert, ready to shoot at any moment.

A group of people broke into the building and found a woman wearing a black leather jacket inside.

Angelina's graceful figure and outfit made many men in the theater salivate.

"Hands up. Put them behind your head."

The woman in black turned around and started a struggle.

Her whole body rose into the air, like a strong and fierce eagle, with her hands spread out on both sides and her knees raised at the same time.

The whole scene froze for two seconds and started spinning.

It's as if time has been frozen.

The woman in black kicked out violently, and the policeman in front of her immediately flew backwards.

At the same time, she lifted the chair next to her, made a circle in the air, and quickly threw it towards the other policeman at the door.

boom!

The pistol was knocked to the ground, and then the woman in black stepped forward and kicked him to the wall.

At the same time, another policeman saw this and quickly opened fire.

But the woman in black stepped on the wall of the room like a monster, walked along the wall, and perfectly avoided all the bullets fired at her.

Wow, this action scene is so cool.

Chris thought.

And this woman in black is so cool!

Angelina Jolie's smooth movements, coupled with her pair of swinging, particularly eye-catching headlights, are simply breathtaking.

Several agents wearing sunglasses and suits also rushed over. They all had the same goal, to capture the woman named [Trinity] wearing a black leather coat.

After a thrilling chase and difficult action scene, Angelina Jolie jumped high into the sky, crossing a tall building with a distance of almost 10 meters, and then jumped into the window of another building.

At the same time, the phone in the public phone booth downstairs rang.

Angelina Jolie acted cool and cool, and ran down the road to the phone booth without saying a word.

But at this moment, when she answered the phone, a large truck crashed straight into the phone booth.

Wow…

A crisp sound.

Everyone in the cinema had their hearts in their throats.

Chris is no exception, with his big eyes fixed on the big screen.

The car lights were dazzling, and three men in suits and sunglasses got off the car. But what was puzzling was that these guys looked exactly the same, like triplets.

They looked at each other, and one of them, expressionless, murmured, "It's a shame she got away."

When the camera turned, there was no one in the phone booth except for the hanging telephone receiver that had been deformed by the impact of the truck.

"It doesn't matter. Our informants are quite reliable. This time we already know their next target."

"Neo." The one in the middle said the name Neo.

Seeing this, Chris's mind was in a mess.

There was a heavy sense of suspense in my heart, but I still couldn't figure out what it was for a while.

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The screen switched again and turned into a computer screen.

And a line of characters is being entered on the computer:

"Neo, wake up."

The young man crawling in front of the computer desk has long eyelashes, a long face, a light-colored beard, and clean cheeks.

A pair of eyes opened, [Neo] sat up from the chair.

Keanu Reeves' neat short hair, coupled with his charming eyes, smooth face and three-dimensional facial features, really surprised everyone.

Many spectators at the scene were already shouting:

"Wow, so handsome."

"Isn't this guy so good-looking?"

"Perhaps Yuehe Company is not a powerful company, but I have to say that they are quite good at casting actors."

So far, an Angelina Jolie and a Keanu Reeves have completely impressed the audience's aesthetics, making their hearts beat with excitement.

Nolan's camerawork is also very beautiful, and the series of smooth fighting scenes in the front are very enjoyable.

The fight is tense and exciting, and the final phone booth scene directly heightens the sense of suspense. The transition is also very beautiful. From the name Neo to Neo's computer screen, there is no sense of delay or dissonance at all.

You can't even feel the passage of time.

In fact, 10 minutes have passed since the whole film got here.

But it always feels like 10 seconds have passed.

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Neo is a programmer in a software company. He lives a nine-to-five life every day and is an ordinary employee.

However, he also has another identity, that of being a hacker.

He often uses his hacking skills to help customers obtain some less formal electronic products and sell them to different people.

Neo himself was a little shocked when he saw the strange text that appeared on the computer.

Could it be that it was hacked by other hackers?

That night, Neo went to a bar with a group of gangsters who came here to buy [goods], where he met Trinity, who told him that there must be a question in his mind now:

What is a matrix.

And I also had similar strange hallucinations where I didn’t know whether I was asleep and dreaming or if I was really awake.

And a man named Morpheus will tell you all this in the future.

At this point in the movie, the sense of suspense has been heightened again, and Chris' brain is really in a mess.

When Neo went to work at the company the next day, he received a mysterious phone call. Just as Trinity said, the man on the other end of the phone called himself Morpheus, and he had been looking for Neo for a long time.

Now the agent is on the road and needs to follow Morpheus's instructions to escape.

Neo stood up and took a look, almost peeing with fright. Sure enough, several agents wearing sunglasses and suits appeared at the elevator entrance.

Once he was exposed as a hacker, he would risk going to jail, so he followed Morpheus's instructions and began to escape.

But when he finally wanted to climb over the window and go up to the rooftop through the construction basket outside, Neo gave up because of his fear of heights.

Finally he was captured by agents.

The agents interrogate Neo and tell him that he must cooperate with them in capturing the terrorist named Morpheus.

To this end, they pressed Neo on the table. One of the agents held a detector with a signal light in his hand and shook it gently. The thing that looked like a diode immediately deformed. It became a metal bug and started to squirm.

It has long tentacles, and its jointed limbs are slender and sharp, and it looks particularly terrifying.

Then it went in along Neo's belly button.

Chris couldn't help but cover his mouth.

This creepy feeling made him almost ejaculate.

But I have to say that the special effects in Moon River are really awesome.

This metal bug is so awesome, it looks like a real thing that exists in the world.

When he came to his senses, Neo was so frightened that he sat up from the bed.

It turns out that the terrible things that happened before were just his dreams.

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But all the changes that happened next greatly exceeded the audience's expectations.

The electronic bug just now was so fantastic that no one could believe it was real, but Trinity found Neo and took the bug out of his body.

Neo was surprised to find that the bugs implanted at that time were actually real.

Later, in order to further dispel Neo's suspicion, Trinity took him to a secret building.

Inside the building, Neo met the legendary character [Morpheus] on the other end of the phone.

Morpheus told him that you are just like Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You don't know whether you are dreaming or waking up.

But he has a solution.

Morpheus handed him two pills, one of which was red. "After you take it, you will wake up."

One is blue, "Eat the blue, and you can continue to wander through Wonderland. I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Under Morpheus's control, Neo's body was connected to some electronic components.

My own image in the mirror also began to shake, as if a magical change had occurred.

When Neo touched the mirror with his fingers, ripples appeared on the mirror, like the surface of a lake.

Immediately afterwards, metal began to spread from the mirror onto Neo's body.

The signal is connected...

Neo yelled and sat up the moment his whole body turned to metal.

only--

He sat up from an oval water tank filled with red culture fluid.

The camera zoomed up, and the metal mountains were densely covered with [water tanks] or dormant chambers like Neo's.

Neo's body was covered with various metal pipes, and his hair was shaved. It looked like he had nothing on his body, just soaked in it.

At the same time, a flying machine slowly flew in front of Neo.

With a crackling sound of electricity, a channel suddenly opened under Neo's quilt, and his whole body was flushed down the pipe like poop in a toilet...

After sliding along a series of pipes, Neo fell into the pool below.

Immediately afterwards, a mechanical arm appeared from above and lifted Neo out of the water.

A piece of white light appeared at the top of the lens, like a door to a new world, and Neo was slowly sent into the door.

When he woke up again, he had put on clean clothes.

And a broad human face appeared in front of him. This was Morpheus.

"Welcome to the real world." Morpheus said to him.

Although Chris felt that something was not right at first, when he saw this, his whole body was shocked to the point of numbness.

"What does it mean?!"

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