Throughout the development of Huaxia E-sports, there has been a short period of glory, but also ushered in the loneliness of the cold winter.

A touch of niche carnival, in the eyes of all kinds of discrimination, gradually dimmed, like the rat in the sewer that climbed the street, everyone shouted and beaten.

At one time, he was also set on the pillar of shame and was reviled by thousands of people.

Prejudices and barriers have always existed.

But......

The flame that flickered in the wind was never extinguished, even in the bleakest moments.

Instead......

Stubbornly burning!

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The title of "Huaxia Sports Weekly" is "From Basketball to E-Sports".

The name of the documentary is "From Poison to Glory".

The director's name is Zhang Sheng!

Damn, narrator, director, copywriter......

You've got it all!

When Zheng Huateng saw the opening of the documentary for the first time, he was disgusted......

I don't know if it's Zhang Sheng's voice, or the scenery and picture quality at the beginning of the documentary, or the word "Zhang Sheng".

At the beginning of the documentary "From Poison to Glory", the pixels were very poor, as if it were a video shot by a mobile phone with hundreds of thousands of pixels......

In the video......

It's an internet café.

The keyboard covered in tar and covered in a strange layer of grease, the fast-food boxes and instant noodle buckets that can be seen everywhere, and the soot in the instant noodle buckets......

The lighting of the picture is dark, as dark as a nest in a small, oppressive, claustrophobic and desperate garbage heap.

Computers are on......

The people on the computer, with unkempt hair and ragged clothes, seemed to have been soaked in an Internet café for more than a month without changing their clothes, but their bloodshot eyes were full of excitement, and they were excitedly playing a game called "World War II Vanguard".

The beginning of the documentary "From Poison to Glory" is the consistent realistic style of documentaries.

It has never beautified the game, nor has it ever been high, throwing gorgeous scenes and concepts, directly packaging dreams, but instead, using the most realistic methods, the tone of the entire shot and video has been sunk to the most simple recognition or thing.

[This is a group of young people who are obsessed with games]

[They carry a lot of words on them, decadent, garbage, miserable, hopeless, marginalized, embarrassing, ruined generation]

[We don't know if it's appropriate to use sewer rats to describe them, but their attributes are the same as rats......]

[Living in a dirty place, spending day after day aimlessly, wandering and confused in the dark, no matter what era they are, they are all losers, and only the game makes them feel a little warm......]

【……】

[Ah Rong is one of the most insignificant people among these young people......]

[This video was filmed in 2007, when Ah Rong dropped out of school and played games in an Internet café, and when he made the video, he had been playing for nearly a month......]

[A few years later, we asked Ah Rong how he felt at that time, and he said that he was in a daze, and he only felt that day after day, when he went out, he didn't know what to do, and he didn't dare to go home......]

[He has no money, and even goes to beg on the street, his self-esteem is worthless to him......]

[There are even friends who are also surfing the Internet in Internet cafes and have been caught stealing......]

[A few years later, when Ah Rong recalled, he said very seriously that the gang of people who were arrested were the luckiest, at least, they had their own ID cards......]

[And the other group of people is ......]

[People without status......]

【……】

Zhang Sheng's voice was disgusting.

But I have to admit that Zhang Sheng's narration voice always carries that sense of sadness that penetrates people's hearts.

......

There are figures in the detention center with their heads down......

There are also dirty and messy Internet café chairs, where several young people lie on their backs, like corpses about to decompose......

There was also a car driving by, carrying young people who came out of the Internet café......

They were called by the agency to "work......

……

The beginning of the documentary "From Poison to Glory" is too sharp, so sharp that it is obviously a documentary produced by Zhang Sheng, but at the beginning, it has always depicted the "evil" of the game.

The commission of intermediaries, a series of dark and suffocating ID card industry chains, theft, robbery, fraud, illegal work, exploitation, buying ID cards......

In the documentary, all the "evil" is filmed vividly, and even when Zheng Huateng saw this scene, he felt a sense of depression.

It's a group of marginal people living day by day......

They're like rats, no, they're rats.

But......

Thinking about it carefully, but from the "evil" of the game, you can feel the sad status quo of some people at the bottom of society.

Inevitably, Zheng Huateng briefly fell into deep thought.

Are they harmed by the game?

The video doesn't give a direct answer.

In other words, in a strange way, a superficial answer is given.

All kinds of news reports of "boycotting the game" are constantly appearing in everyone's sight in the documentary, such as "electronic opium", "mental poison", "social addiction" and other series of remarks, and at the same time, there are also many [electrotherapy places for quitting Internet addiction] in documentaries.

The vigorous action, wave after wave of rectification, seemed to press the flood beast of [game] into the corner, trembling.

"I know I'm not playing the right game, ruining my studies and my youth......"

"However, when I play the game, I can feel that I am alive."

"I didn't study well, my family background was not good, my teachers and classmates looked down on me, and I didn't have a sense of identity......"

"After graduating from vocational high school, I have been working very hard, but after I go to work, I feel like an insignificant screw, and I sometimes feel like I am dead......

"Only in the game can I win once, I can be respected, and I will not be ridiculed......"

"I played the game very well, in the game [World War II Vanguard], I hit the top 20 in the country, I have a lot of teammates, we have been playing the game......"

"We have our own group, in the group, every day we talk about where there are competitions, where there are sponsors of competitions......"

"One day, one of my teammates told me that in Yangcheng, there was a [World War II Vanguard] competition, and the prize money was about 1,000 yuan......

"I went to this contest with the idea of giving it a try...... Thinking about it later, I think this should be the first game that [World War II Vanguard] has held in China......"

“……”

Camera cuts.

Switching to many years later, "Ah Rong" sat in the office, with a green expression on his slightly chubby face, and carefully took out a well-preserved photo from his arms.

The camera gives a close-up of the photo.

In the close-up, it is said to be the venue for the competition.

But in reality, it's still a dark, dirty, and full of "kill Matt" young people in the world.

"Ah Rong" stood in the center of these young people, excitedly waving the trophy photo of the first Yangcheng Cup of [World War II Pioneers]......

"I've won the award!"

"I got a bonus of about 1,000 yuan......"

"I bought a set of clothes and shoes for my parents, and I also bought myself a [Xiaoshentong] (the original world is similar to PHS) mobile phone......"

“……”

After many years......

"Ah Rong", who is already in his twenties, still has excitement and pride on his face when he recalls that day.

Then, he continued to be in front of the camera and talked about the rest of the story.

………………………………

in the office.

Li Zongyao watched the documentary.

He clearly understands that the core of this documentary is actually an emotional technique that first suppresses and then raises.

Titles......

Pressed the "game" to a low point, as if he was a judge, standing in the most glamorous place of society, and not shying away from a series of trials in the face of ugliness.

From behavior to humanity, from darkness to despicability, those who are crushed in the depths of the mud are so ugly that they can't be uglier anymore.

So, at this time, suddenly a light appeared, and that light appeared brighter and hotter.

[I bought a set of clothes and shoes for my parents, and I also bought myself a [Xiaoshentong] (the original world was similar to PHS) mobile phone].

In a nutshell......

But in the unique technique and the expression of true feelings, even if it is Li Zongyao, he feels a deep sense of touch in his heart.

He looked at the assistant director position of the documentary, assistant director Li Zhonghe, and assistant director Bi Feiyu, who were the two directors of Zhang Sheng's [NC Entertainment].

Especially Li Zhonghe, Li Zongyao has seen his film called "Those Years of Graduation", Li Zongyao remembers that after reading it that day, he couldn't hide his appreciation.

He continued to watch the documentary, titled From Poison to Glory.

The documentary is still from the perspective of "Ah Rong", and the whole tone has gone from the suppression stage to the yang stage.

Since winning his first race, "Ah Rong" has been competing in a variety of domestic competitions.

With his talent, he won awards again and again!

When the prize money is large, there is 2000, which is sponsored by the private boss, and when it is small, it is 500......

Later, in a competition, I also met more friends and met more "competition sponsors".

When he saw the appearance of those sponsors, Li Zongyao was somehow inexplicably moved.

Those, the sponsor of the competition is not a rich man, let alone a capital like him.

Sometimes, it is a middle-aged person who has been working for a long time but has always cherished his childhood dreams......

Sometimes, it's a few young people who pool money together, and then look for venues everywhere, buy equipment, and sponsor games......

Sometimes, it's a group of young people......

……

At the celebration banquet, the sponsors were immature or vicissitudes of life, but they were dressed in plain clothes......

makes people laugh at their "cheapness".

(End of chapter)