can still be carved into your mind in 20 years?
Sir will talk about this one today.
will not be everyone's alternative answer.
, but it must be the answer of choice for some people.
Kamen Rider Sora I
仮面 ライダークウガ
Something happened suddenly.
At the beginning of the month, the Toei Shinban Group announced the trailer PV of the latest sequel to the "Kamen Rider" series.
no matter how hard you give up.
The story of the first knight in Reiwa- Kamen Rider 01 is about to end . When
accidentally learned the news, Sir's first reaction was not regretful.
Sir thought of him-
Oh no.
is him-
Time dialed back 21 years ago, Oda Kirill, who has not yet grown up a beard, learned that his soy sauce role audition in a special hero work was rejected.
disappointed?
is overjoyed. The
production team directly set him as the protagonist.
Odagiri, who was in the second year of his debut, panicked. After reviewing a few previous titles, he made it clear to producer Koderaki that he was not qualified for this role.
Kouji repeatedly persuaded him, and finally convinced Odagiri on the grounds that he would use a completely different method from the protagonist of the previous game to make an unprecedented hero.
really came true.
He became the first Kamen Rider in the true sense of the Heisei period in Japan. It was broadcast in 2000 and has been on Douban 9.5.
Everyone who has seen "Empty Me" knows it.
is a work that made this Oriental male god popular.
can watch "Empty Me" 20 years later.
Sir is not sure, do you dare to face this "adult work".
01
"Empty Me" creates a different "hero" .
In the afternoon of January 2000, 24-year-old Yusuke Wudai returned from an expedition in Indonesia.
went to find Sakurako Sawado, a friend who is a researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Jonan University, Tokyo.
Two hours ago, a team from the Department of Archaeology of Seongnam University unearthed a relic. Subsequently, the entire archaeological team was attacked by mysterious shadows, and all members were killed. Outside the ruins of
, there are visions of heaven and earth, and terrible weirdos burst out one after another.
The Five Generations who wanted to sneak into the ruins, bumped into the police officer Ichi Kaoru who came on duty. After an explanation, the police officer gave a belt found in the ruins to Wudai and Sakurako for research, and he got up and went to deal with the spider monster that appeared in Nan Nagano.
Unexpectedly, the spider monster hijacked a police officer and killed him directly to the police hall. Under the crisis of
, the five generations of ghosts and gods wore the belt.
is "different" for the first time-
hero debut, so staggering.
He felt severe pain in his body. Under the instinct to survive and the attack of weirdos, the Five Generations began to fight back. With the cooperation of the police, the five generations of
who transformed for the first time finally repelled the eccentric.
The five generations who got the weird power are lost.
But the second crisis is coming soon.
The newly-appearing bat monster started attacking and wounding people everywhere, and a police officer had already entered the enemy camp alone at this time.
Five generations stepped on a motorcycle and went to the Bat Monster’s church to support one.
This time, he wanted a police officer to witness his determination to protect others.
so please watch my transformation!
is as recorded in the stone stele in the ruins, the blazing fire in the church is reflected on the five generations.
When the evil things appear, add the spirit stone of hope to transform the shape of fire to defeat the evil warrior comes.
Its name is Kuuga.
The empty self is essentially Hegel's tragic hero.
When a steadfast "justice" hero, and at the same time acted very "unjust" .
Is he great ? Or is guilty of ?
On the one hand, he is the five generations of Yusuke who has an absolutely correct position-a man who fights to protect his smile.
is optimistic, cheerful, positive and kind. He is a big boy next door who can help and encourage others with enthusiasm.
's iconic action, smiling and raising his right thumb. The action
originated from a five-generation elementary school teacher. The nine-year-old five-generation lost his father. The teacher encouraged him with this gesture.
Wudai Yusuke Do you know what this means?
In ancient Rome (this is) the action given to people who can do everything
you will also become a man suitable for this
always work hard for the smile of others
don’t think this is a piece Is it a very beautiful thing?
This is also the second "different" of "Empty Me":
heroes are not at all chic, a little stupid, a little straight. In other works in this series of
, as long as the knights acquire a new form, they must play a whole episode of cool.
and empty me, most of the time, I was blown up when I transformed.
△ The form of the blue dragon was almost killed; the form of the pegasus almost fell from the building due to unsuitability; the belt of the surprised form was directly cracked by the weird
.
uses ordinaryness to make him extraordinary.
On the other hand, Sora I was still the ancient warrior with blood on his hands and full of violence.
Just like Gurangi and hunting for human beings, the Five Dynasties are also slaughtering Gurangi.
This is the deepest "different" layer of "Empty Me":
is constantly squeezed and squeezed, allowing the audience to reshape the concepts of right and evil, heroes and ants.
02
What the hell am I? The end of the "empty me" is recorded in the inscription
:
"When the sacred fountain dries up, a stern warrior will appear with lightning, and the sun will be buried in darkness."
The influence is to create a setting where the protagonist and the weirdo have the same power.
After five generations angrily killed the porcupine monster, he saw the black empty me in the explosion-above all Gurangi, incurring a dark form of extremely black eyes.
seems to confirm Dr. Tsubaki’s warning. The Five Generations will eventually become an unconscious killing machine.
Is it cool to become a Kamen Rider?
actually fights as empty me, which is both a responsibility and torment for the Five Generations.
This also implies that the protagonist seems to be doomed to Hegel's tragic ending.
heroes are destroyed.
This is the best interpretation of the term "empty me":
transforms (me) into emptiness (empty) , bears everything alone, a lonely and painful soldier. The final battle of
also interprets the meaning of "nothing".
The last Gurangi, the eccentric No. 0 Da Cuba, symbolizes the pure desire for battle, the power to turn everything into nothingness.
△ On the ruins, Da Cuba
, who was waiting for the five generations to come to the challenge, was able to protect the people around him. In the end, the five generations chose to become the existence that caused the ultimate darkness and started a decisive battle with the last Gurangi.
He said goodbye to his family and friends who cared about him on the grounds that he wanted to take an adventure. After
urged, the Five Dynasties and a police officer drove to the final battlefield together, and turned into empty me for the last time.
has exactly the same lines as when he was transformed for the first time, but his emotions are two extremes.
This is a soldier who has matured after going through all kinds of difficulties, and his determination to see death as his home.
So, please watch, my transformation
because of the kindness he believed in in his heart, he did not become a slaughter machine that only knows about fighting, but retains the ultimate red-eyed form of reason.
What Yusuke Wudai holds in his heart is the kindness that appears at the end of each episode, as clear as the blue sky.
I want to blend into the blue sky
On the snow-capped mountains, two different types of "nothing" ushered in the final battle:
The white devil is laughing wildly, and the black hero is crying.
Two extremely dark existences, no extra special effects, only pure melee combat.
finally reached a fateful ending, both fell in the heavy snow. What does
mean?
is too gloomy.
This is a special film for children, it's a fable that asks adults.
We are used to paying attention to the glamorous appearance of heroes, but we often ignore the pain they hide behind their masks.
and the nothingness of this twisted world.
03
Sir now asks you, do you still want to be the hero you dreamed of as a child ? Behind this heavy sense of reality,
is a reflection and reflection on reality.
"Empty Me" appeared, actually intended to encourage the entire Japanese society at that time.
In the early 1990s, Japan's bubble economy burst.
After ten years of recovery, at the turn of the century, the entire Japanese society is still confused.
In 2000, the first batch of "knight chefs" became parents. In addition to being loved by children as always,
also has a good reputation among audiences over 30 years old.
For the entire knight series, "Empty Me" is a collection of many new ideas.
It confirmed the two-episode and one-unit drama structure of "Kamen Rider", removed the showa-period remodeling settings, and even the expectation of the unified knight worldview was realized in the Heisei New Ten years...
be bolder .
will add deeper and more adult-oriented elements to the knight series that is positioned as the "child supply direction", and even deliberately explore the problems in the social environment at that time.
In the 13th and 14th episodes, the No. 23 Gurangi Piranha slaughter fishermen everywhere in Jiangdong District.
During a police search, a young man with a tattoo similar to Gurangi was arrested.
Choye is a very passive person. Waiting for a job all the time at home makes him lose his hope in society and the meaning of his life.
He has a pathological obsession with Gurangi, thinking that the hunting of humans by weirdos is reducing the burden on society.
Diye couldn't realize the value of life. He thought that others could not understand his own heart, so he decided to carry a knife with him.
first is that he aspires to be a person like Gurangi, who has the ability of to determine his life and death, ;
, second is as a means of escape, ends his life at any time .
Faced with the passive and avoiding Choye, the Five Generations persuaded: Mr.
Choye, are you still alive? If
is alive,
should be happy to be alive,
, Doctor Tsubaki who was in charge of the treatment, brought Choye to the morgue and let him see the real death.
Facing the real corpse in front of him, Choye couldn't help retching.
There is no place to put strange reasons and illusions in his head
That is death
Choye Han wakes up and ends the lives of others or his own at will is an unforgivable behavior.
But "Empty Me" does not blindly render the heroic "correct". The final treatment of
left a trace of ambiguity: Dr.
Chung then returned the knife to Choye.
Your own destiny requires you to make your own choices.
This is exactly how "Empty Me" talks to the audience.
From the main line of fighting monsters, we can see some secondary lines from time to time:
teachers who are confused about their careers, students who have no sense of belonging and cannot see their future, and efforts to find a balance between work and family Single mother...
is a contemporary Japanese ukiyoe.
Everyone seems to be stuck in life, but in fact they are lost in their place, worrying and living in the world. It doesn’t matter how many years
spends
because everyone is worried about growing up
your place will not disappear
in that place
to find the self you really like, right?
is not only for the distressed child in front of me, but also for every young man who lives alone and is confused about the future.
"Empty Me" is such a gentle way to encourage every audience who resonates with the work when the new generation comes.
As the producer Seki Koji said, as a series restart, "Empty Me" focuses on a "new" character.
△ The title screen is directly marked: a new hero, a new legend
Since it is a special hero work, the general plot direction is nothing more than a routine that represents the protagonist of justice against the forces of evil, and the routine of defeating the ultimate boss by constantly becoming stronger . The
routine has been used for a long time.
The audience understands better than the director.
But this time, the production team fully embodies the "new" through real details.
They removed the predecessor's knight "remove people" setting and set the background as reality. The source of
's protagonist's strength is the ultra-ancient warrior, so simply design a set of human characters from that period.
△ All opening introductions use this type of symbolic text
engraved on the body of Kora and the monument stone. Since it is a "knight", it should have superb riding skills.
To this end, the production team specially recruited an in-service stunt rider, Takumi Narita, the world's fifth-ranked top athlete at the time, as a holster actor playing a locomotive scene.
This created the title of "Heisei King of Cars", and the locomotive fighting in the fourth episode has become an unsurpassed classic in the history of the whole series.
On the other hand, the production team also worked hard on the villain. The
villain group is an ultra-ancient race named "Gurangi", which takes pleasure in hunting humans. The
production team took Japanese as a benchmark and designed a unique language for the Gurangis to reflect their unique ethnic culture.
△ The Japanese kana syllabary and the Gulangji comparison table
uses the nine-digit "multiplicative cumulative number system" to make the Gulangji even more mysterious. In the
play, Gurangi will play a game called "Kikiru"-hunting a specified number of "Lindo" (humans) in a specified way within a specified time. The setting of
not only cleverly explains the "villain queuing to send the protagonist experience" of the previous work, which is constantly criticized by the audience, but also adds the suspense element of the work. The countless details of
have just formed the sense of reality that belongs to "Empty Me".
This is a work that was destined to be uncopyable from the beginning of the project. The trend that
pioneered towards the core of adults lasted until the seventh part of the Heisei decade.
Now that twenty years have passed, what can you see if you click on the Cavaliers for nearly two years?
actor's handsome face, cool combat special effects and special acting skills that occasionally go out of the circle.
But more, the start is very amazing, and the later plot must "freeze yourself" formulaic development. Does
look good?
is pretty good, but it has changed.
This is also an unavoidable problem when fans of special dramas talk about special works-the series they once loved are becoming more and more "naive".
Sir today brings back the glory of twenty years ago.
is not meant to belittle anyone, nor does it require that every film needs to establish a huge and detailed worldview like "Empty Me". What is worth noting about
is not whether it is naive or not, but whether has the intention of .
down to the actors, up to the crew.
In order to enter the role, only because of the black eye effect after a whole day of fatigue, Odagiri will really stay up all night in advance; because the next scene is about death, he puts himself into a state as if he is really about to die. .
In addition, many scenes of "Empty Me" will be directly marked with the specific location and time (accurate to the minute) through the subtitles.
is one point.
For those works that planted seeds in our childhood.
Do we miss the work itself in ? Or do you miss the original feeling left by the work ?
Regardless of age, everyone will have a corner in their heart.
and "Kamen Rider" photographed the innocence and fantasy that boys kept in that corner, that share of the love for heroes hidden in my heartworship.
Even knowing that it may pay a great price, most boys still choose to wear that belt.
then awkwardly made a set of actions they had repeatedly rehearsed for years.
even when facing the air.
must also use his best to shout:
"Henshin!" (transformed!)
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