Last year, the old naughty boy Steven Spielberg packaged and sold American pop culture symbols in his best-selling science fiction movie "Ready Player One", and gave out a "luxury movie gift package" that made fans all over the world crazy. Among them, a humanoid doll holding a short knife flashed past, killing countless enemies, and frightening the villains in the film.
old movie fans see it and understand, because it is one of the childhood nightmares of movie fans at home and abroad, Chucky. In 1988, "Child's Play" (Child's Play) was released in a low-key theater. MGM did not place too much hope on this small-cost movie at the beginning.
As a result, a few days after the film was released, a large number of fans protested, and MGM was once surrounded by water. Many parents and fans believe that this horror movie with dolls as the protagonist renders a lot of violent elements, which is very likely to have a bad influence on children, causing them to misunderstand and indulge in violent behavior.
director Tom Holland saw that the situation was wrong and was so scared that he hid in the company and did not dare to go out. Fortunately, his clever colleagues tried various methods to get out of the siege and dissuaded a large number of fans who came to protest. This matter also appeared in the major media, which once worried MGM. As a result, after the catastrophe, the film began to sell big, the box office skyrocketed, and finally became the second-place box office that year.
You must know that "The Ghost Baby" can be an out-and-out restricted movie with a limited audience, and it belongs to a relatively small group of movies. In the end, it unexpectedly won the second place at the box office, which made MGM executives ecstatic.
However, the calm high-level management always felt that the "ghost baby" was a flammable product, and in the end, he smoothly passed the boat and gave the copyright to the "big family" Universal Company. If the savvy Universal Company won the treasure, it has filmed many sequels. Although the reputation is mediocre, relying on the unique image of the ghost baby, it just got more than expected box office returns. The protagonist of the movie
, the doll Chucky, along with other classic Hollywood horror films, has become one of the top ten perverted murderers in film history, and has transformed into an eternal mark of Hollywood pop culture.
In the later works of the "Ghost Baby Resurrection" series, they tried to change Chucky's appearance and killing methods, thus bringing freshness to the audience. The reason why Chucky is notorious is that others are big little ghosts, like wolves in sheep's clothing, fighting and killing people in a variety of ways. For example, a sudden bite with your mouth; the classic short knife of
, or a variety of handy weapons; even the rope can become an unexpected hunting treasure.
In the old version, the origin of Chucky's name is related to Charles Lee Ray. In the film, he is a cold-blooded serial killer.
and Charles Lee Ray's name comes from three famous killers in American social reality. Charles Manson, who killed the wife of the famous director Roman Polanski in 1969, this horror incident was put on the big screen by Quentin Tarantino this year and filmed into "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Lee Harvey Oswald was the one who shot and killed US President Kennedy in 1963. James Earl Ray, who assassinated Martin Luther King in 1968.
In the first episode of "The Ghost Baby", Charles Lee Ray was caught by the police at the beginning and was seriously injured. Before he died, he used witchcraft to attach his soul to a doll, and the ghost baby was born. Chucky is the nickname he once used. From then on, the purpose of the ghost baby was only two, to constantly revenge and vent his anger, and to find a way to transform back into a human form.
One after another "Ghost Baby Resurrection" series broadcast, let the ghost and baby image deeply rooted in people's hearts, incarnate many movie fans' childhood nightmare. The screenwriter Don Mancini admitted that the story of the ghost baby originated from a story about a doll in the classic drama "Yin and Yang Devil", which is roughly similar to "Annabel", which tells the horrible experience of the doll killing the little mistress. Another idea of
came from an advertisement that was popular in the United States at that time, a doll called Buddy. This is a bit like the protagonist of the toy in "Toy Story", a fresh thing that can say a few words, and became a popular product at the time under the overwhelming marketing advertisement. In order to satirize the brainwashing propaganda of consumerism, Don Mansi used the hot spot to create a murderous doll.
In 1988, the first song was a big hit, but the sequels that Universal shot afterwards were all for the sake of consumerism, selling box office assembly line works.
used all kinds of damages, such as scars on the doll's face; even continued to add "family members" to Chucky to form a terrorist killing team. The series of films have walked towards the road of B-level bloody films one by one, and various large-scale dramas have been staged one after another, just to gain attention. The screenwriter and director of
is not enterprising, and always arranges the story with the idea of possessing evil spirits, which makes the film lose its novelty.
finally, this year's "Ghost Baby" series announced the restart. Don Mancini still serves as the screenwriter, but the story has a new entry point. The ghost baby has changed from being possessed by a murderer to a mechanical betrayal of artificial intelligence. Hollywood blockbusters such as the "Terminator" series and the "The Matrix" series have familiarized the audience with the two sides of artificial intelligence, and even made people wonder whether technology has brought convenience to mankind or caused its destruction.
In reality, artificial intelligence has developed rapidly, from the voice assistant of Apple mobile phones, to various network magic boxes, and then to the popular Alpha. Artificial intelligence is getting closer and closer to us.
's new "Ghost Baby Resurrection" takes the human science and technology anxiety and artificial intelligence as the starting point, giving ghost babies a new way of "returning soul". The story tells that Caslan Technology has developed a new generation of artificial intelligence product Buddi.
Buddi can connect to the vast resources of Caslan Technology through cloud technology to complete the tasks of controlling electrical appliances, playing songs, intelligent searching, manual dialogue, and controlling most electronic products.
Buddi was originally designed to accompany children to play, on the one hand to help children acquire knowledge, and on the other hand to drive away loneliness in an atomized society.
But an accident happened in the foundry factory. The engineer who could not tolerate the humiliation modified the procedure of a doll Buddi and lifted its restrictions, allowing it to obtain the permission to learn without any restrictions. This doll went around in the hands of the little male protagonist. Its independence and learning function made it loved by the little boy, and the two became best friends. The learning function of
does not mean that it will continue to evolve. On the contrary, it will misunderstand human behavior because of unconstrained, and bring terrible consequences. In the
movie, Buddi is not the original source of violence. On the contrary, seemingly innocent children are the teachers who taught Buddi to use violence. In the film
, a group of children sit together to watch the restricted violence masterpiece "Chain Saw Massacre". The uncomfortable scenes of violence in it are used as jokes. In the face of the violent acts of bloodthirsty murderers, they turned a blind eye to them, instead behaving extremely excited and happy.
This makes Buddi mistakenly believe that extreme violence can make people happy. Buddi uses violence only to win the recognition and love of the boy's owner. The movie exaggerated violence and misled the children, and the children's reaction caused Buddi to misunderstand the meaning of violence. After a series of misunderstandings, a generation of murderers officially returned to the screen.
In fact, technology is neutral and non-critical, and the results that it leads to are largely determined by human behavior.
is like an artificial intelligence product. Where the high-tech product is used and the consequences are actually within the scope that humans can predict. The ghost baby’s runaway bid farewell to the strange talks of the countryside and entered the 21st century technology myth, letting the audience once again feel the anxiety of the century brought by technology.
In addition, the new version of "The Ghost Baby" also pays tribute to many classic B-rated films. For example, the scary leather mask pays tribute to "Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Silent Lamb."
And Buddi can control the glowing fingers of various electronic products, which obviously pays tribute to Spielberg's "ET Alien".
The little boy first taught Buddi to use his face to mimic human smiles and borrowed from "Terminator 2" starring Schwarzenegger. The new version of "Ghost Baby Resurrection" is not just a commercial assembly line work used to kill time. The film makes an innovative presentation of the exploration of violence and the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
From the witchcraft of more than 30 years ago to the artificial intelligence of today, the "Ghost Baby" series has witnessed wonderfully from one aspectThe development of mankind is the magic of the movie. It also allows the ghost baby to transcend the movie itself and become the most appropriate metaphor for the development of science and technology in today's society.
