Chapter 166: The Best Science Fiction Movie of the Summer
"Yes, yes, this is an illegal building, bulldoze it!" On the big screen, a barren and dirty mud field, I saw a giant bulldozer printed with the MNU logo running directly towards a tin house, and in the loud sound of Kakaka, the tin house was slowly pushed down and flattened.
Not far away, a green adult shrimp insect man jumped around anxiously and painfully, and yelled at Robert Downey Jr., who was wearing the director's uniform, looking very angry. His child stood nearby, holding a tattered rag bear doll in his hand, staring blankly at the fallen tin house.
While everyone from the MMU demolition team and the TV program crew stood aside and talked and laughed, Donnie smiled at the camera with a funny smile on his face, "That guy said this is his home, haha!" He turned to look at the shrimp worm man and yelled loudly: "This is not your home, this planet and this land are not yours!
He waved his fist viciously, and made a gesture of rushing forward to beat the shrimp worm man, and the shrimp worm man over there raised his hands with a sigh, indicating that he had no malicious intent. Donnie laughed happily at the camera again, "See? See? Some of them are just so timid, it's funny! If you hold a rock, they'll pee out." ”
Everyone around laughed happily, except for a few soldiers with disdainful banter on their faces. At this moment, the green shrimp insect man suddenly let out an unbearable scream and pounced on Donnie, who was still twisting his body and saying "urine everywhere", and a "oh" exclamation suddenly sounded in the dim screening room!
With a gunshot sound, the shrimp worm man bent down in pain, and the flesh and blood of the right knee that had been hit were blurred. The bald colonel pointed a pistol at the shrimp man, let out a mocking, bloodthirsty laugh, pulled the trigger one by one, and slammed it into the shrimp man's left knee, hands, stomach, chest, and other parts.
At the sound of Donnie yelling "Hey, you're breaking the law, don't kill him!", he moved his pistol and slammed it through the head of the shrimp man who was lying on the ground twitching. The bald colonel smiled at the tearful alien kid and said, "Little bug, what do you look at? Why? Because you deserve to die." With that, he and a few of his subordinates walked away laughing.
"Don't shoot this!" Donnie looked at the camera with a slightly ugly face, covered it with his hand again, and said, "Don't shoot this, delete this paragraph later." ”
There was silence in the audience, and Evelyn felt her heart beating heavily, as if she were going to push harder every time, and there was a creep that gradually grew up in her body, and the bucket of popcorn was long gone. Left and right, up and down, almost everyone around was like this, the popcorn drink was put aside, and Kelly Doyle frowned tightly and suppressed her voice, "It doesn't seem funny at all." ”
At first, the mood of the crowd was very peaceful, and there was some interest in watching the excitement, they had no sympathy for the aliens to be treated with isolation, exhibitions, and stage plays, they were just a bunch of scum who liked to kill people and set fires, but since entering the ninth district, the audience's mood has become a little conflicted, the MNU and humans have done all the inhumane bad things, and the aliens don't seem to be so bad.
"Adam, let's go. A brown-red girl with long hair pulled her boyfriend who was engrossed next to her, and said in a depressed tone: "I can't stand it anymore, it's too cruel." Adam looked at the big screen without turning his head, completely engrossed, and was pulled by her a few times before responding: "What are you kidding? R-rated is like this, it's very good! Come on Lily, haven't you been waiting for this movie for a long time?"
Lily nodded, and sighed, "But this is the magic of Young's movie......" She looked at the screen Donnie excitedly burned down the aliens' baby breeding house, her eyebrows immediately raised high, and said in disbelief: "Amazing Yang is crazy." She looked at it and was fascinated, and didn't mention the matter of leaving.
The audience in the Shellan Theater, the audience in the critics' seating area was equally silent and engrossed, and Ben Mankiewicz, a columnist for "Film" magazine, touched his chin and pondered while watching, judging from the first 20 minutes alone, this movie is not simple, very unique, and there is no old setting for aliens in it. It's surprising that technologically advanced aliens can also fall into such a ...... And the apartheid Ninth District, ugly humanity, etc., these elements and styles are ambitious, not the kind of commercial entertainment blockbusters in the middle of summer, it is not simple. Maybe it can really be shortlisted for the Oscars? Ben Mankiewicz couldn't help but smile at this thought, if that's all there is now, it's not enough.
"They ...... like this" on the screen, the alien baby breeding tin house is burning with fire, the theater is filled with the eerie sound of crackling, and the laughter of Victrex and others. Jessica's heart seemed to be blocked by something, she held Wang Yang's hand tightly, and was a little speechless: "Oh my God, it's ...... like this"
"Well, he's about to pay the price. Wang Yang smiled calmly, this was just the beginning. Donnie, dressed in a suit, looked at himself on the screen, thought of the series of stories he was about to suffer, and shook his head and laughed, "Poor Viggs." ”
Soon Viggs was searching the house when he was sprayed with 20 years of energy collected by Christopher Fussen, and then after a period of discomfort, he returned to the company at the end of the day's work. He began to show the first signs of deformity, with black nosebleeds, missing nails and loose teeth, and he returned home in fear.
"The Metamorphosis!" A blonde girl in the audience in the auditorium of a San Francisco theater was stunned and stunned, and lost her voice: "The Metamorphosis, Kafka, he ...... Vickers is going to be an alien. Her shout caused the people around her to look at her with some dissatisfaction, and someone next to her felt that she was reasonable, and couldn't help but ask, "What kind of transformation?"
She blinked, and said to herself as if in reply: "District 9 is a prison. This is the story of being abandoned by the whole world and dying of despair after being transformed. ”
Sure enough, when Downey's Victrex was taken to the hospital due to fainting, the doctor cut the gauze on his left hand, only to see that the hand had become the hand of the shrimp man, Wigton panicked and cried out uncontrollably: "Ahhhh
"Oh!" Seeing that Viggs had become an alien, 3,550 theaters and the Sylangor Theater were all enveloped in exclamation, and they didn't know until now because of the good job of secrecy...... Transfiguration!?What's going on?Evelyn shrunk unnaturally, her forehead covered with fine sweat from nervousness, Claire stared and leaned forward, the human turned into a beetle-man?she exclaimed, "Cool!"
"It's like a metamorphosis. "It's great to adopt this idea!" The critics all had a flash of excitement on their faces, and they sat up straight unconsciously, they already smelled the "classic movie"!
Kirk Honeycutt, a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter newspaper, couldn't help but take a deep breath and glance in the direction of the front row, that young man is really incredible! This kind of setting is novel and unique, the turning point of the transformation suddenly makes the story clear, the miserable treatment of the shrimp worm man is indignant, Victrex was originally a persecutor, but now he is going to become a shrimp worm man. The rest of the content is expected to be quite exciting!
"If you want to miss a classic movie?" Natalie stuffed popcorn into her mouth, looked at the brown-red long-haired girl next to her, and said indistinctly, "Well, then you guys, why don't you leave the show early!" Adam and Lily both turned their heads to look at her, and in the dim light they could only see the outline, and they looked back to the big screen without care.
The images shown on the film made more and more people unable to eat popcorn, not only that, but also produced a wave of nausea, and fans of cult movies were addicted. On the screen, Victrex was studied in a secret laboratory at the MNU headquarters, and after a round of experiments to exterminate humanity, he was agreed on an autopsy plan by his father-in-law and other high-level MNU officials.
Vickers then struggled to escape the dissection room by shooting the mnu guards with an alien gun. Then in the scene of the big laboratory, even many fans who are used to watching bloody cult movies feel a little unbearable. Because it is not only visually violent and bloody, but also breathless and gloomy. The stumps on the walls, the stacks of skins on the table, the plates of eyeballs, and the pitiful alien toddler who is godless.
"It's crazy that I didn't get to NC-17. As a veteran cult fan, Andrew couldn't help but shudder, looking at the screen like a jewel in his eyes, and thinking to himself: "Oh my God, the special effects are so cool, the high-cost cult is really cool...... Those corpses and those muscles are so real, if only there were a few more magical youngs in Hollywood......"
But critics didn't just see the corpses of aliens, the MNU logo hung on the walls of the lab, and the Earth image representing all of humanity was next to it. They knew that the reason why this scene was depressing was because of this silent accusation. Perhaps every human being himself more or less agrees that "humans are not good things", dolphins, furs, ...... How many animals have been killed and skinned like shrimp and insect people because of human greed and profit?
But as an ordinary viewer, they don't think about so many things, watch the movie first and watch the story first, and then talk about the rest after watching it. And every screening hall in 3550 theaters is dead silent, only the soundtrack and sound of the movie, not because there is no audience, but everyone is extremely nervous, the realism established by the viral marketing in the propaganda stage, coupled with the perfect and seamless special effects and some techniques of pseudo-documentary, make them unconsciously and strongly substituted, unwilling to miss a shot.
I completely forgot the time, forgot to watch the movie, as if it was the real thing, as if I was Victrex.
"Don't give up on me, baby, don't ......" In the light mournful whispering music, under the night, Donnie sat on the wasteland full of garbage, with tears in his eyes, and said to the phone in a firm and pleading voice: "Trust me, I didn't have with those bed bugs**, I love you, don't give up on me......" His wife sobbed: "Victrex, I want to believe you, but you ...... Let me go. ”
Downey clutched his phone tightly and cried quietly with a desperate look in his eyes. After crying for several seconds, he suddenly roared madly "ah", threw the phone out, shouted and tore off the skin that was about to fall off his body with both hands, and it was a bloody chunk at once, and he immediately screamed in pain "oh" and fell to the ground, crying all over his face with black nasal muzzle and tears.
The audience in the "Jesus ......" screening room seemed to feel the pain, abandoned by everyone, and wanted to become a shrimp man...... Under the big screen, Evelyn wiped away the tears rolling in her eyes, and her heart hurt as if she was being pressed by a boulder; Lily's right hand held her boyfriend Adam's hand hard, and her left hand wiped her own tears; Claire cried "woo", pressed her reddened nose, and scolded softly: "Damn Magic Young, why do you shoot like this......"
The hearts of countless viewers are aching, and the eyes of many girls are uncontrollably welling up with tears, and the stars of "The Hangover" are full of disbelief, which person is the magic Young? Is it this movie that makes people crazy and full of darkness and despair, or is it the humorous, funny and funny young director who plays pranks and kung fu on the set?
"Could I have made a wrong choice?" Charlize Theron, who was wearing a red low-cut evening dress, suddenly had some worries in her heart, can Magic Young's comedy movie really be funny? Although the script and the scenes shot on the set are all laughing to death, but the movie on the big screen in front of me is too scary. She looked at Wang Yang in the lower right seat, and saw him talking to Jessica with an uncomfortable face.
Joshua, who was very far behind in the guest seat, exhaled, and now he understood why Jan wanted to make a comedy, and what he meant by the phrase "I'm going to have a good time"! He had always been a cool man with thick lines, who knew that watching this movie would be so depressing! If he didn't play like crazy, he thought he would suffocate himself.
In Toronto, in the dimly lit screening room, Rachel frowned, her heart hurt because of Viggels, and that guy, he must have been lonely and miserable during his time in prison, right? New York, Natalie was silently nibbling on popcorn, she looked at the audience around her, it seemed that there were tearful sensual girls everywhere, she wiped her tearless eyes, and muttered, "My tear ducts are too underdeveloped." ”
The story continues on the big screen, Viegtrex decided to go to the GNU headquarters with Christopher Foson to retrieve the energy liquid, they gathered several shrimp worm people with high IQ to go together, and killed flesh and blood in the heavily guarded MNU headquarters, and finally only Viggs and Fuson survived, successfully picked up the energy liquid, and dragged back to the ninth district to prepare to return to the big spaceship.
Upon hearing that the energy would be enough to either restart the ship and return to their homeland for Fausson, or enough to heal his transformation, Viegtrex knocked Fausson unconscious and chose the latter. At this time, the MNU also sent a large number of army and air forces to fully drive into the ninth district to conduct a large-scale search. The final stage of the film is coming.
"Hmm. Evelyn hunched her right hand on her forehead, her eyes staring at the screen without blinking, holding back the feeling of nausea. The hand-shaking camera along the way, especially in this large part of the battle, the shaking, explosions, and flesh made her excited and nervous on the one hand, eager to kill all those hateful humans herself, but on the other hand, dizzy and wanting to vomit.
"Three years, I promise you! I'll be back in three years!" In the midst of the rain of bullets, Christopher Fouson solemnly made a promise to Viggs, who was controlling the mecha, and said, "My friend, goodbye!" With that, he got into an armored car that overturned on the ground, the insect-shaped mecha resisted the "ding ding dong" bullet, the mechanical arm turned the armored car right, and Faussen immediately drove towards the small spaceship that fell to the ground.
Donnie in the mech showed a mixed smile, and the mech slowly turned around, and in front of him was a huge army, lying on the ground, hiding next to the tin house, and behind the black smoke of the fallen armored car, constantly shooting bullets at him. The mech slammed into them, raising two mechanical arms to aim at them.
Donnie, whose eyes, forehead, and lips were all deformed, roared, "You people, all deserve to die!" Countless huge bullets squirted out from the mouth of the Gatling cannon-like arm, flying towards their respective targets!
On the screen, Huo Ran appeared in close-ups of soldiers, one, two, three...... Their faces rotated rapidly, either surprised or unresponsive, shaking the highly focused audience dizzy in a matter of seconds, and the scene fixed on the face of a burly soldier lying on the ground, his mouth open with a blank expression, and he spat out: "**. ”
All the bullets hit the target and produced an explosion of energy, and all the soldiers in this area were blown into pulp in an instant! The screen suddenly slowed down again, and for a second of slow-motion time, you could clearly see the blood and flesh scattered in the air, and then it fell to the ground in a hurry, staining the muddy ground, tin houses, armored vehicles, and so on red.
"That's it, kill them all!" 3,550 theaters and the Sylangor Theater, the audience was excited, excited about the tragic death of those scum, and there was a rare murmur in the screening hall tonight: "Kill them all!", "More, more!"
"Vomit, vomit......" Evelyn finally couldn't help it, her excited and disgusting nerves suddenly gave birth to a strong and uncontrollable vomiting sensation, she suddenly leaned forward, and vomited all the ablates such as dinner and popcorn in her stomach, making a big puddle on the ground.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Kelly Doyle, who was sitting on either side of her, and a young man with light brown hair jumped up reflexively, but still splashed a lot, and everyone around them looked at her, and there was a buzzing chatter. The white young man looked shocked and saw the vomit on his shoes, and cried out, "What the hell is this!?"
Evelyn's face turned pale, she leaned back in her chair uncomfortably, and said, "I'm sorry, oh, I'm sorry......" Kelly saw that she looked like she was about to be paralyzed, and hurriedly asked, "Evelyn, are you okay? Oh my God, don't scare me!" Evelyn waved her hand awkwardly, "It's okay, it's okay, it's just dizzy and stuffy in the chest." ”
The surrounding audience was babbling, "She looks so pathetic, like a little mouse." "Don't say it, I want to vomit now...... "I understand her, Miraculous Yang is too bloody this time......" The white young man scratched his head, looked speechless, and sighed: "Beauty, your reaction is too exaggerated!" Kelly rolled her eyes and shrugged, compared to the fact that she was scared and almost died when she watched "Ghost Record", what is vomiting now?
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" Evelyn blushed in embarrassment, damn it, why didn't she hold back, it's so embarrassing! Kelly Doyle, who was standing next to her, supported her waist with one hand and said helplessly: "Evelyn, you shouldn't watch the movie of Magic Young, it's too dangerous for you." So what now!?"
The white young man sat back in his seat with a sigh of relief, ignoring the vomit and the smell, and continued to devote himself to the big screen, the movie was about to come to an end, and he couldn't be disrupted by this terrible thing!
In a fierce battle, the big spaceship was finally activated by Christopher Fussen and his sons, and the whole of Los Angeles was shaken, the glass of high-rise buildings and vehicles was cracked, and the military nervously dispatched a large number of fighters, but the big spacecraft had no intention of fighting and just lifted off. In the ninth district, after Vickers slaughtered a large number of soldiers in a frenzy, the mechs were completely damaged.
"What do you want to do!?" The bald head of the dead man was holding a pistol and jokingly trying to kill Viggs, when suddenly a lot of shrimp and worm people came out of the surrounding tin house, and they pounced on them regardless of the bullets, grabbed the bald colonel and tore them: "Ahhhh
After the big screen goes dark for a second, it is the footage of TV shows, news reports, etc. On the NBC channel, the male host said with a heavy face: "In this operation to arrest Vickers, we have lost many, many excellent people, and countless families have lost their sons, husbands, and fathers, and they are suffering unbearable grief. He paused and said sadly, "Let us mourn for them." ”
Suddenly, there was a video of a bald colonel playing happily on the lawn with his own children, his face full of fatherly love, and his hearty laughter was like that of a big child.
"He was a man, he loved his family very much, and his death was regrettable. A neighborhood's white woman said sadly to the camera, followed by a middle-aged man, "He's the best I've ever known, and he's a good guy even though he has a big temper at times." ”
"Daddy, where is Daddy......" The bald colonel's daughter, a few years old, cried out in a hurry, her immature face full of tears, the colonel's wife holding her daughter's head and crying silently, and the little girl's hand clutched a brand new and clean cloth bear doll toy.
Seeing this scene, a large part of the audience in the thousands of screening halls suddenly felt their hearts tighten, as if they had been hit by something, why is this? Lily said with surprise on her face: "At the beginning, that little alien was also holding that rag bear doll, oh my God......" Adam next to him frowned, a faint feeling flashed, and he wondered: "They are all dead, but their children are so pitiful, who deserves to die?"
In the critics' seating area of the Shellland Theater, the film critics are churning in their hearts, each thinking about the meaning of this set of shots before and after, the bald colonel brutally tortured and killed the green shrimp man, and he was brutally torn apart in the end, the tears of the two children and the toys...... Ben Mankiewicz's breath was a little short, and whenever he saw those classic images, he thought: "There is no absolute good or evil in human nature?
Fantastic Jan's ambitions are a bit too big, but ...... Well done, there are suddenly more things to ponder and reminisce about in this movie. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter couldn't help but admire that after this set of shots, the bald colonel is no longer the single and rigid murderous image he used to be, he has become a living person, a person with a complex human nature.
And what about Vickers? He looked at the big screen, and it was a pseudo-documentary shot, and Vickers's father said with a straight face: "I don't know the truth, I want someone to come and tell me." Vickers's mother's face was full of anger and grief, and her eyes were red, and she said, "He killed a lot of innocent people. From the time he did that shameful thing, I thought he was dead. ”
After some family and friends, Victrex suddenly appeared in the camera, he sat at his desk, holding a wedding photo of his wife's wedding, and smiled happily: "Everyone says that his wife is an angel, but she is the real angel." ”
"I don't believe he would do that kind of thing, he's the kind of best man, and I still miss him every day......" Victrex's wife said with a warm look of reminiscence, her eyes slowly reddened, "I often wonder, why didn't he call me at that time?
Oh! There was an exclamation in the screening room, and the audience looked at each other, and the person who answered Vigers's phone call before was completely MNU simulating voice control? In an instant, many, many girls and some boys felt a hot current surging up, their eyes moistened, and their hearts were uncomfortable, depressed and crazy, and they all had a sense of despair that wanted to smash things, damn the magic of Yang! How could this be?!
Aerial photographs of the slums on the beach on the big screen show some follow-up messages from the story: "After completing the alien relocation reset, District 9 has been demolished. There are currently 3 million aliens isolated in District 10, and the population continues to grow......"
In the midst of the desolate and lonely music, I saw a green shrimp man sitting in a ruined garbage heap, and in the distance was a dilapidated tin house, he was fiddling with a gadget in his hand, and looked in the direction of the camera. He looked at the finished bamboo dragonfly in his hand, and suddenly rubbed his hands, the bamboo dragonfly suddenly flew to the sky, he raised his head and looked, the camera gradually rose, the blue sky was barren, and the shaking bamboo dragonfly flew higher and higher...... "Director: young-www.xstxt.orgccawm, starring: robert-downey-jr......."
The critics were amazed, and the screen with the credits scrolling in front of them seemed to be the same as before. Ben Mankiewicz swallowed, his heart beating fast, and that shot was like releasing the depression and despair of the whole film, making people feel a touch of warmth, but also making people feel a deep coolness, the bamboo dragonfly represents freedom, beauty, hope, it flies into the sky, wants to fly out of the tenth district, which represents isolation, dirtiness, despair...... But can it fly? Victrex stared at the sky alone, was he waiting for Christopher Fowson's sudden return?
Humanity, Racism, Freedom, Good and Evil, Anti-War...... Fantastic Young has a lot of ambitions, but he does it well. Ben Mankiewicz wiped his forehead a little unnaturally, he couldn't believe it was a 22-year-old film, because he had already thought of his one-sentence review for District 9: "It's a great movie, it's ...... One of the best sci-fi movies of the summer. ”
Even one of the best movies of 2002. He shook his head with a sigh, incredible, incredible! Oscar nomination? Absolutely enough, it was overdone.
"Amazing Jan, I hate him......" Lily wiped the tears from her eyes, still staring at the screen tightly, hoping that when the cast was over, there would suddenly be something happy about it. There was still no noise in the crowded screening room, and everyone seemed to be reminiscing, thinking, or waiting for the Easter eggs to appear.
Natalie looked at the big screen expressionlessly, the bucket of popcorn in her arms had long been empty, and she suddenly exhaled a long breath: "**. ”
(To be continued)