text|Linghu Boguang
Deng Ziqi's new album "Revelation" officially ended on September 23. If this album is viewed from the performance of the song, because the battle line is too long, the spread of the song will not be effective. It is particularly obvious, probably because it was very popular when the album was just released, and the heat effect is worse as it goes on.
As for whether the 14 songs of this album are good or not, we will not analyze them here.
invested 25 million in the promotion of this album, a total of 14 songs, each song has a plot MV. I think the most interesting thing about this album is that it was originally a sci-fi story. Although the plot and various aspects are relatively old-fashioned, in the field of "hard sci-fi", it actually surpassed the "War of Tomorrow" by Gu Tianle and .
And starting from the current Hong Kong movies, Deng Ziqi's "Apocalypse", in terms of subject matter, story, and content, actually broke through the confinement of current Hong Kong movies. This breakthrough is even further than Gu Tianle's "Tomorrow's War", which is dressed in a sci-fi version and turns out to be a police and bandit movie.
Maybe some people don't believe it? Some people say what kind of war is this? Then let's watch it!
Deng Ziqi 's new album is officially over? This hard sci-fi story is actually stronger than "Tomorrow's War"
"Apocalypse" and the story The plot is not complicated, and it is quite a routine. The entire MV story is divided into two chapters, but from the perspective of the worldview structure, there are about three different worldviews.
The first is the wasteland world, the first song "Gloria" is in this style, Deng Ziqi is wearing black in a barren world, and it is basically a barren world after the paradise world has been abandoned. Seek redemption. The first song ends with a door in heaven, and the light behind the door is salvation. There are several songs after
that Gloria has been searching for spiritual redemption in the wasteland world because of something.
The second one is the real world. The second song "HELL" opened. This world should be set in the near future. Why does this story happen?
The reason is that the heroine and her boyfriend caused a relationship crisis for some unknown reason. The two made a lot of noise in the car, and then crashed into a car accident. As a result, her boyfriend died on the spot, and the heroine lost a leg and was disabled. Both physically and mentally suffered a major blow.
The third is the Paradise World, the third song "Where Only Me and You" begins, this is a world similar to the Western Eden . The heroine can choose a variety of virtual boys in the paradise world. Although her spirit has fallen into the virtual world, the more she falls, the happier she is, because she met another good boy, Evan.
The stories of the next three worlds will be told in turn. After the story is fully explained, the whole story will be told later.
explained the story of the accident:
The reason for their car accident was only explained in the sixth song "Passion Song", probably because of their boyfriend's star status. After they were photographed, they suffered serious online violence. This incident occurred in a car accident after a car quarrel, and then the heroine suffered a major blow. The
heroine was hit not only by the trauma to her own body from the car accident itself, but also by the death of her beloved boyfriend. She indirectly caused her inner torture to her boyfriend's death. These caused the heroine's relationship to become an unsightly memory and a strong traumatic stress response.
As a result, the heroine usually sits in a wheelchair and abandons herself, and her spirit begins to indulge in the VR paradise. The fourth song before
"You are not the first person to leave", the fifth song "Don't want to go home" is very obvious. Although the heroine is addicted to the paradise world, and has a good impression of another boy Evan, but Because the real thing is quite tangled and painful anyway.
The seventh song "Ice Age" and the eighth song "Youth and the Sea" explain how she entered the paradise world. In reality, the heroine has a very good friend Ouyang Nana, and she suffers so much that she even has her best friend Lulu All turned away. A good girlfriend put a box at the door and opened it to find an AR glasses. The heroine
put it on and entered a virtual world, which is the paradise world.
The heroine created a new character Gloria. She doesn't have to face reality in the virtual world. She is addicted to this world and uses the virtual world to escape the pain of reality. Good girlfriends also appear in this virtual world in another way to accompany her.
The heroine is happy in the virtual world until she meets another hero, Evan. Evan likes the heroine very much, they talk about everything in the virtual world, until Evan proposes to meet offline or something, when he wants to kiss Gloria, the heroine takes off the VR glasses and deletes Gloria .
narrates the story that happened after the accident:
's ninth song "The Old Man and the Sea", the heroine and the boy's relationship increased, but Gloria was deleted because the heroine was unwilling to face the reality, Gloria was also exiled to the wasteland world, and also have their own consciousness. The boy Evan fell in love with the heroine and often went online to find Gloria, who disappeared on the edge of the land. As a result, there is a border between the two places. Gloria and the boy Evan face each other but are blocked and cannot be together.
The boy Evan made a robot in the real world, constantly tracking Gloria's data and trying to regenerate Gloria, the heroine also went to the offline bar that also has a paradise and handed a letter, asking the bar to help hand it over to the first point The man with the silver swirl. The heroine of
is not sure whether the first person to point the silver swirl will be Evan, so she wrote "If God lets you see" on the envelope, and gave all fate to God to arrange. The heroine did not dare to face Evan directly because she had experienced too much pain and closed herself, so she asked the bar to deliver the letter.
Then the boy Evan made the robot successfully, and the tracking data also succeeded. That's why in the first song Gloria finally saw the light that appeared on the door, and then Gloria and the data successfully combined and came to the real world.
's tenth song "FIND YOU" is about Gloria who came to the real world and the male protagonist to play everywhere. Gloria is very curious about the real world. One teaches and one learns. Anyway, they are a very happy couple.
The eleventh song "Centrifugal Force" The two went to the bar, because the silver vortex and some details Gloria found out that she was created or abandoned by the heroine, she went to the door to face the heroine face to face (a door separated), Thanks to her for creating herself, and knowing how uncomfortable it is to be abandoned, she hopes that the heroine will not abandon herself again. The heroine of
burst into tears when she heard Gloria's words.
The twelfth song "Pause the World for a Minute" Gloria probably knew that the male protagonist actually loves the female protagonist. But came out the door and saw that Gloria left him a note that you love the imperfect heroine.
's last two songs, "The End of the Night" and "The Sky Has No Limits", are Evan deleting his character and letting him go to the wasteland to accompany Gloria. Evan sends green plants to Qiu every day to make the heroine feel the beauty of life.
The heroine gradually accepts herself and the love of Evan and Gloria for her. She put the VR glasses in the box, no longer indulging in the autumn of the virtual world, and no longer giving up on herself. And Evan also went to the wasteland world, and the two smiled alike in the world.
In reality, the heroine stood up again with her mechanical legs.Train, run, and finally become normal.
Gloria is resurrected in the heroine's heart, or rather the two become one. She was no longer the broken girl, and finally opened the door to accept Evan. The two came to the rooftop to watch the night view of the city, and finally embraced and kissed, and started a happy and beautiful life together.
tell the truth! Deng Ziqi's new song "Apocalypse" MV, more hard sci-fi than "Tomorrow's War"
To be honest, after watching the whole MV, the song will not be discussed, this story is actually quite hard sci-fi, although it is only a near-future sci-fi Romance, but really hardcore in every way.
First, the sci-fi background and world view are very complete, and the logical details are also in place. In this background world view, as mentioned above, the three worlds are interlinked.
The real world in the near future, then the virtual world of paradise after wearing VR glasses, and then the wasteland world caused by the pain of the heroine, like a world where programs are banished.
The second is the landing of the special effect level. What supports the sci-fi setting is the special effect, the art and the costume transformation, etc. The MV special effects of , the setting of the costume transformation and the background are very grounded, and the matching degree is also very high.
In the real world, because the setting is in the near future, everything around us is still familiar to us, except for the work performed by the hero and heroine, and the hospital scene that appears. The key is that, like the special effects of Gloria's resurrection with a robot, and the special effects of starting the heroine's car accident, the art, costumes, and special effects are passable.
This paradise world and wasteland world only have the display of art, and there are not many scenes displayed. But the style is distinct, and the sci-fi setting is implemented in the details of the picture.
is finally the plot of the story, the core of character creation and expression, is actually a bit old-fashioned in terms of character creation, plot and expression, the heroine is sad because of the accident, escapes into the virtual world, meets another male protagonist, the female protagonist is unwilling Accept the escape, the male protagonist resurrects the virtual data, and both parties influence the female protagonist. Finally, all three parties accept the story of the awakening of reality.
However, its overall can be regarded as twists and turns. The characters that appear have grown and transformed. At the same time, there are accusations of Internet violence in expression, the degeneration of being addicted to the virtual world, and the painful transformation of the wasteland world. also has The male protagonist uses the robot to find data to revive the love of the virtual human, etc.——
Although this story is really a classic movie, but if it is really made into a sci-fi feature film, it will probably be a sci-fi romance like " Space Traveler " , but this is a near-future VR virtual romance sci-fi film.
Deng Ziqi is still a Hong Kong musician in name, and now the Hong Kong movie shoots everything with an air of rivers and lakes, just like the "Founding of the Army" filmed before, which did not have the magnificent feeling of the war movie. In recent years, Hong Kong's local movies have been over and over again about the three kings of thieves, the four detectives, lame , and the subject of police and gangster fights. If
didn't have these well-known directors and actors, it is estimated that Hong Kong people would not know what films to make in the past two years.
Gu Tianle's "Tomorrow's War" is indeed a breakthrough in terms of theme and special effects, but it is limited to breakthroughs in theme and special effects. The story, narrative and expression are still the same as those of Hong Kong police and bandits. Even the use of subject matter and mecha special effects is actually a Hong Kong police and bandit movie in sci-fi skin.
Of course, for an MV with an investment of 25 million, the special effects and the degree of completion are definitely not comparable to feature films.
But if you look at the subject matter, story and content expression of current Hong Kong movies, Deng Ziqi's "Revelation" has broken through the confinement of current Hong Kong movies, and is really more "hard sci-fi" than "Tomorrow's War".some.
is also very funny. Finally, I hope that China in the future can make a love sci-fi movie!
