Chapter Eighty-Nine: Catch them all and sell them to grow

() The opening scene very similar to the first one made the New York Post columnist Johnny Oleszinski raise his eyebrows, in his opinion, James Cameron is a very talented director, the big sales of "Terminator" and the popularity of "Alien 2" can prove that he has a very high attainment in the field of commercial films, and although the sharp editing and tense rhythm in it cannot be called show-off, it is really difficult to make people find fault.

The perfect integration of the whole, details, logic, and rhythm makes many people feel that the truck driver has the possibility of hitting the box office crown and breaking the monopoly of Spielberg and Lucas, even if the last movie "The Abyss" pounced, there are many investors who are willing to believe him once, because of this, before the computer special effects, which they don't understand, broke the news, many people are still quite optimistic about this sequel, even if the sequels of Hollywood movies are basically passing away, but some critics are still looking forward to it, Truckers are able to deliver films that surpass their predecessors.

But the problem is that a few minutes after the opening game, something unexpected happened

What the hell am I copying myself?!!!

In the first fifteen minutes of the opening, Johnny Oleszinski and other film critics were dumbfounded.

From the reappearance of T-across time and space, to the skilled robbery of clothes and firearms, to the hidden assassination of T-1000, and a series of materials such as 'John Connor, male, white, biological mother: Sarah Connor, biological father: unknown, address: 19828 South Almond Road' continue to appear, the film critics, invited guests, and media reporters present are actually confused, because everything in front of them seems to be no different from "The Terminator"!

Although it has been seven years since the first part was released, basically everyone who has come has watched it back.

And it's these pre-arrival homework that makes these guys feel as uncomfortable as eating flies, and they feel like they're not watching a movie sequel, but a remake......

A remake movie that hasn't even changed the outline, the shots are very similar, and the mind seems to be nothing!

"In the first part, Arnold robbed the street gangsters, and in the second part, he upgraded it and robbed the bar?"

"In the first part, Arnold and the gangsters fought hand-to-hand, and in the second part, he upgraded it and used his body to block bullets?"

"In the first part, from the future, Michael, who protects Sarah, deals with the police in order to avoid the police, and in the second part, this new robot from the future directly mimics the police?"

If it were the general public, then they would definitely not be full of questions like the audience.

Isn't Schwarzenegger handsome?

That hard feeling is the romance of men!

Aren't liquid metal robots cool?

The sudden change without any flaws is the highlight of that scene!

But the problem is that the guys who can attend the premiere are all insiders!

Of course they can see the highlights!

But at the same time, the defects are like an old groove, stuck in their throats, so that they don't vomit unpleasantly.

For them, this kind of high degree of overlap in the plot is no longer plagiarism, or if Johnny Olesinski knew about the three major comics of migrant workers eight years later, he would even wonder if the truck driver had picked out the eyes of the ninja world and directly copied the script of his previous work......

What a new movie is this!

This is simply a mess of money!

"Crazy! In a frenzy! ”

"Can such a movie invest 100 million? Isn't it really money laundering? ”

"Haven't you even changed the script? That's disgusting, isn't it? ”

As a film critic who eats with a pen, Johnny has already thought about how he should criticize the film when he returns, even if Carolco Pictures gives him more polishing money, he will not brag all this with a clear conscience.

It's not that he doesn't love money, it's that this thing really can't be blown!

The audience is not blind!

After the film is released, they can naturally see whether the plot of the film has been cloned!

Although plagiarism is not plagiarism, there is no well-known saying in the film industry, but in the academic field, it can be called academic misconduct even if it is 'one draft and multiple submissions'.

"I didn't expect James to do something like this."

"It's really a joke about your career."

"Not only that, but Arnold's hard-earned reputation is going to be ruined, right?"

"And the most unlucky one may be Roland?"

"Home Alone" brought him a good reputation, but as soon as "Terminator 2" came out, it was going to be completely defeated?"

Looking at John Connor, who bent down to trim the locomotive, and then looked up handsomely, shook off his bangs, and didn't pay attention to the meaning of his adoptive mother's words at all, Johnny sighed regretfully.

Even though John Connor on the screen is handsome, which is fundamentally different from Kevin in "Home Alone", the chic action from being cute to being cool is enough to make the little girl who likes him burst out countless pink bubbles, but for a professional like Johnny, this kind of recognizable conversion is not enough to erase the anger caused by plagiarism.

What does the director copy and what does it have to do with the actors?

What copyright is in hand, you can shoot as you want?

Yes, that's right, that's right!

But the public will not think so!

They only knew that they walked into the cinema with anticipation, but they saw the exact same plot as the previous work!

Replay it in a different way?

Do you think you're "Avengers 4"?

Even if "Avengers 4" 'copied' a lot of previous works, there is still a plot of "several big men are extremely vicious, and honest fruit farmers die tragically at home" at the beginning of the film, but what about "Terminator 2"? It's exactly the same!

Can the audience endure this?

Johnny didn't know if the audience could bear it, but he knew he definitely wouldn't.

Moreover, in his opinion, if it is at this pace, the plot after that will be very simple.

John Connor and his mother, Sarah Connor, are hunted down, and then a black sheriff who is related to the Gills appears, and with his interference, the guy who protects the two starts a fierce battle with the Terminator robots......

"I just don't know if Arnold in this part is still the same as before, and it's very funny to shoot......" Johnny no longer expects the plot of the movie to give him a bright feeling, he just hopes that there will be some refreshing entertainment scenes when the plagiarized plot is decreasing, "If even the action is copied from the previous one, and it looks like a hippie with a gun, then this movie is really uninteresting." ”

There are many guys who have the same idea as him, or rather, the vast majority of guys don't even understand how such a similar movie got an investment of 100 million?

If you can get investment by copying your own successful works, then doesn't Spielberg have to make money?

However, just when they were puzzled and wanted to figure out the source committee, a different plot finally appeared.

After successively explaining the three main characters of T-, T-1000, and John Connor, the camera on the screen suddenly flickered, and the signs of the California State Hospital and the detention center for mentally disturbed criminals appeared in front of the public.

In the previous game, Sarah Connor, who was pregnant with John Connor, became a mentally disturbed criminal.

And the transformation from mother to criminal made the public present frown slightly.

What kind of medicine is sold in the trucker's gourd?

The inexplicable setting doesn't match the previous work!

Yes, it doesn't match.

The reason for the discrepancy is that James Cameron does not plagiarize his own work.

Or, the existence that really makes "Terminator 2" shine infinitely in the entire series is not a bullshit T-robot, nor is it the villain of the first liquid metal robot made with computer special effects in film history, let alone the brisk plot and the rush of real guns, but

Family.

If the first "Terminator" is the beginning of the entire series, it is a real sci-fi action movie, and the third part, 2018, and Genesis, which are not under the control of the truck driver, belong to the derivative works that make money later, then the second part is not actually a story about a robot from the future chasing down humans, but under the cloak of science fiction, the typical American family.

The divorce rate among the Americans is very high.

Whether it is data or film and television works, it can be reflected.

Just like in Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby", the heroine Markey's family is actually the epitome of the American family, a mother with several children, living on the relief money issued by Governnt, they dare not collect those windfalls, because they are afraid that they will lose their subsistence allowance if they get rich in a short period of time, and before there is no stable source of life, subsistence is the biggest guarantee, and children who grow up in this environment will naturally have all kinds of problems.

The positive one may be the same as the heroine Markey, trying to climb up.

And the decadent and depraved may eat and wait for death, complaining about the injustice of God.

Of course, "Terminator 2", a movie under the banner of sci-fi action movies, naturally will not discuss life like "Million Dollar Baby", but the core of it is actually very similar......

Sarah Connor, who lost her lover in the first part, is actually the embodiment of those single mothers who live in America.

They may have mental illness, they may be healthy, they may be logically confused, they may be sane and sober, but no matter what state they are, in Cameron's eyes, they will always love their children.

Like Sarah in the movie, who is locked up in a detention center for mentally disturbed criminals, she can hide her true thoughts in order to leave the hospital and protect her son when faced with continuous interrogation and examination by doctors.

And in the first part, John Connor, who only exists in the text, is the epitome of those children who live in single-parent families.

Without the discipline of their biological parents, they are rebellious, they are self-conscious, they have learned some social vices, and there is no psychological pressure on them to steal and steal, because these misdeeds can make their lives better.

When faced with threats, these seemingly evil-doer, but only want to live, are also afraid.

Just as when the T-1000 in the form of a police officer appeared in front of John, John's first reaction was to run away.

What Devil Terminator?

What does it have to do with him?

He's just like those little kids who do bad things and want to run away, and he doesn't want to be caught by the police.

As for the halfway out, troll-with sunglasses on the t-?

Isn't this soldier from the future, who was ordered to protect the mother and son, the hope in the hearts of these children from single-parent families?

They want to have a father, just like those normal families.

They want to have a father who can do anything, just like those happy children.

Even this father is not human.

Even this father has to learn.

…………

After introducing the four protagonists one after another, the camera turns instantly.

The T-1000 chased down John Connor, and the T-fought fight was very happy to see the scene.

And when T- takes John Connor out of the chase and tells the kid the truth of the matter

John Connor, who was rescued by T-, sat on the hood of a car with a slight bow, elbows on his legs, his eyes downward, and his eyelids moving slightly.

"Do you know her?"

"We've been in Nicaragua for a long time."

"For a while, she was like a madman, selling firearms."

"She lived with anyone who could teach her, just to teach me to be a military leader."

"Then she was arrested, and people told me, 'Don't you know that your mother is insane?' ”

"They knocked down everything I had believed in before."

"I hated her for it, but everything she said was true."

"But no one believed it."

"Including me......"

When John Connor recalls his past in a repetitive tone, as a way to fill in the gaps that the film has not yet explained, as well as his unknown childhood, the guys who were still there to diss plagiarism before shut their mouths.

They feel that their faces hurt a lot.

Copy?

What are you copying?

The exact same appearance at the beginning indicates an endless reincarnation!

The T- in the first part, that's really a machine that kills people without blinking.

And the T- in the second part, that's the truck driver's thinking about artificial intelligence.

Now he will indeed only complete the order, after John Connor catharsis, refused him to go to the hospital, save his mother's behavior, but after John Connor discovered his operating mechanism, the devil terminator who obeyed the order, officially embarked on the road of transformation, and at the same time, after discovering that this robot will never stop, will never leave himself, will never hurt himself, will never yell at himself or beat himself drunk, or excuse himself to be too busy to spend time with him, is the only one who is qualified enough for the many father roles he has looked for over the years

This guy who kills people without blinking an eye has become John Connor's best choice in this crazy world.

“wow…… From this point of view, the most profitable thing in the whole movie is Roland......"

"If "Home Alone" has made countless children realize their dreams, let them see the fun and danger of being alone at home, bring cheerful emotions to everyone, and present the harmonious family after the quarrel in front of the public, so as to capture countless fans, then the movie "Terminator 2" can make all children envious......"

"There is no father who can make his children feel perfect."

"There is no father who can meet all the needs of his children unconditionally like T-."

"There is no father who can always be by the side of his children like T-......"

"How many children's wish is to have a father who can shelter themselves from the wind and rain, can grow up with them, and has no bad habits, and can obey their words......"

When Kenneth Turan, the columnist of the Los Angeles Times, could not contain his surprise and watched John Connor on the screen stop his mother from destroying the chip of the T-robot, an indescribable emotion had already taken over him......

Is it Schwarzenegger, the terminator who is learning to be a father, who plays it well?

Is it Linda Hamilton, the guy who has become a mother, who plays it well?

Is James Cameron's movie very powerful, the picture is exciting, and the story is excellent?

It's Roland Allen, it's John Connor in this movie, and it's the 'oil bottle' in the current story.

As a professional film critic, Kenneth naturally understands how correct it is to choose Roland for the movie "Terminator 2", or in other words, Roland's participation in this movie is simply a fairy-like selection...... This is not to say that the whole movie will definitely be a big hit, but the role played by Roland has completely made up for his personal shortcomings, if "Home Alone" made the children in the harmonious family fall in love with this Roland who is about the same age as himself, then "Terminator 2" is to please the children in the single-parent family that "Home Alone" may not be able to woo.

What happened to John Connor on the screen is the plight of the vast majority of children born in single-parent families.

John Connor prevents his mother from destroying T-, more like those children who, after seeing their favorite 'father', are met with fierce opposition from their own mothers, and violently oppose them......

Adults don't understand the world of children, they feel that they can give children everything they want on their own.

As everyone knows, most of the time, children just want to be accompanied and listened.

And now

Roland has already put these children's desires into the show.

"It's worthy of being a child of the Jewish gang, this is a resource that many child stars dream of...... Everyone knows that the bell will decay just by being cute, and only by making children empathize with them will they truly fall in love with you. ”

"Home Alone" makes happy families fall in love with Roland, and "Terminator 2" is harvesting the desire of single-parent families......"

"And once these two groups of people find their own shadows from the characters played by Roland and let them see their own growth, then which guy can shake Roland's status in their hearts?"

"Disney has always wanted to dream, it wants to live around children forever, but what about Roland? He may not be able to harvest waves of children like Disney, but he can definitely surpass Disney and catch all children of the same age. ”

As long as his movies have always revolved around the theme of growing up, what other movie star can overpower him when the current group of children grow up with him? This generation is watching his movies and growing up with him little by little, as long as he doesn't make stupid mistakes, who steps on him in the future, isn't that against this generation? ”

"Roland wants to be the perfect embodiment of his generation, he is trying to create dreams for this group of children, and once his dreams are violated, what will happen to those children who don't think they have anything on weekdays?"

Kenneth......

I didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

Because what is being shown now is terrifying enough.

Sometimes, film selection is really more important than acting, but more often than not, actors don't actually know where their selling points are.

Yes, just as movies have selling points, actors also have selling points, or rather, character design.

What foodies, what teases, what icebergs, what cute, but no one has ever dared to sell growth.

No one dares to use the work to sell growth.

It's not just because growth isn't a human design at all, but because of the process of growth, people don't know how to sell it!

Especially in many cases, it is not easy for an actor to have a scene, and to be like Roland now, trying to use two movies to wipe out a generation is simply a dream.

Regardless of whether it is Lucas, Spielberg, or other masters, no one has ever dared to say that their target fan base is a generation of their own age, but now, Roland is doing all this.

Kenneth didn't know if he would succeed, but he knew that he was the only one who could stop Roland now.

Under the protection of the Jewish Gang, the books related to growth on the market will become his bag.

As long as he plays it well, plus some luck to avoid bad movies, a child with innocence will always be captured by him.

In terms of luck, Kenneth didn't dare to pack the ticket, but he played this aspect well, and he believed that Roland would do better than anyone else.

Because

Roland on the screen began to play with the governor.