Chapter 122 The labyrinth that moves forever
"The Maze Runner" is a dystopian science fiction suspense movie.
Utopia is a beautiful place in fantasy, so dystopia is naturally a bad place, an unpopular and frightening fantasy society or group, which is the opposite of ideal.
There were three "Maze Runner" movies. The first one was great, but it was a dud. Then the two sequels were worse than the last. The third one was already a bad movie, but it still earned more than 300 million US dollars that year.
box office.
This is a teen movie. The plot is not complicated. The male protagonist wakes up in a conveyor similar to an elevator and finds that he has lost his memory and cannot remember anything except his name.
This is of course strange. Accidental amnesia is first of all a problem with one's self-awareness. If one suffers from amnesia, just retaining a name is a very clever method, but why?
When the teleporter opens, the male protagonist comes to a strange place, which can be called a "forest glade".
This open space is large, surrounded by a tall, surreal stone maze. There are dozens of people living in the maze, all boys in their teens and twenties. Outside the maze, there is a group of huge monsters watching eagerly.
Some of them have been trapped in the endless maze forest for several years, and they can't remember who they are or how they were sent to this maze.
In short, a group of people with amnesia can introduce each other's names when they meet, and then they are collectively confused, which leaves the plot very suspenseful.
The door of the maze will be opened every morning and closed at night. If you try to leave the glade, you must find a way to pass through the maze during the day. Otherwise, the door will be closed at night, monsters will be rampant, and people will die in the maze.
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The shape of the maze will change randomly after nightfall, so the success of the previous day's exploration is lost, and no one has successfully left the maze for several years.
It is unknown whether anyone succeeded. There may be monsters waiting outside the maze. Anyway, no one can come back alive the next day.
A random supply and a new maze player will arrive every month, and all of this is obviously manipulated.
One day, the teleporter brought a heroine to the glade. She was the first girl in the maze.
She brings not only chaos, but also a surprising message: only the male protagonist can lead everyone out of the maze, and the prerequisite is that the male protagonist must first unlock the dark secrets buried deep in his own memory.
In other words, this maze is related to the male protagonist, and he knows how to get out.
Since then, the people in the maze have undergone tremendous changes, and everything has fallen into turmoil. Since they can no longer survive, the male protagonist and the female protagonist decide to lead everyone on the road to cracking the maze and find out the chilling secret behind it.
The first hour of the film was always exciting, but then it started to fall apart, and the plot fell into a cliché that was hard to justify.
As the fragments deep in the male protagonist's memory were gradually sorted out, it was discovered that he had participated in the design of this weird maze and the murderous monster, and was later thrown in because he betrayed his accomplices.
His accomplice is also stupid and insists on throwing him in to cause trouble. It seems that the screenwriter believes that good and evil will be rewarded in the reincarnation of karma.
It doesn't matter if the memory is restored. It turns out that the earth has been destroyed by the sun's flames. The land is thousands of miles away and the people are in dire straits.
So an evil scientific research institution decided to use artificial viruses to control the population. Unfortunately, the virus got out of control, and more and more uncontrollable patients gradually went crazy and out of control due to the influence of the virus, turning into crazy walking zombies.
In this way, the maze is actually a paradise.
In order to make up for this mistake, the agency began to capture experimental subjects from some immune populations, place them in the maze, and use them to find vaccines or treatments for the virus.
A good sci-fi suspense suddenly turned into "Resident Evil", the sense of mystery created in the early stage was gone, and the reason was difficult to convince everyone, and it started to unfinished from then on.
Just do the experiment well, why make a moving maze?
It is almost impossible for humans to create such a huge maze project. What power and devices are used to maintain its operation and drive?
A company can actually do whatever it wants. What can't it do if it has this ability in the apocalypse?
Forget about making a maze, you can also breed monsters to kill experimental subjects. If you want to stimulate them and observe their reactions in crises, there are many ways to do it, so why make it so complicated?
These unexplained incidents were not explained even after filming the trilogy. In short, amid the constant conflicts, the male protagonist finally solved the puzzle of the maze with his companions and left this place of death.
However, the real environment they faced was like the end of the world. The labyrinth connected the laboratory, and another sniper attack greeted them.
This ending is also an insult to the IQ. If everything is an experiment and everyone's behavior is closely observed, how can these guys be allowed to break through the maze they have designed so hard and reach the laboratory lair, even if they have blueprints?
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From the life-and-death situation in the early stage to the killing spree in the later stage, the plot turns so funny.
Although the ending was disappointing, the novel narrative structure still made the movie a hit, and two sequels were made in succession.
In the first sequel, after a group of people escaped from the maze, they were captured by laboratory security guards and taken to a mysterious shelter where they continued to undergo a series of tests.
In other words, they tried their best to escape the maze, but they were still caught and continued to experiment.
Since experiments can be done anywhere, I don’t know why the labyrinth like the ninth wonder of the world was built in the first place.
The male protagonist once again led his partners to escape from the control of the laboratory, but what awaited them was a desert and scorched earth that was more dangerous than the maze.
The group of people fled without hesitation into the hottest scorched earth burned by solar flares, and fought against evil companies and zombies along the way.
This should be a replica of the third part of "Resident Evil".
In short, after two weeks of melee, the male protagonist finally arrived at the refuge in the north.
The third part mainly tells the story of the male protagonist rescuing his companions who are still controlled by the evil company. The main creative staff said that the maze is in the heart and can be moved wherever it goes. As a result, the reputation has dropped, but it can still rely on the halo of the first part to gain the last wave of fans.
Su Changqing decided to start shooting this movie without making any changes in the early stage, but he changed the routine of the umbrella company's experiments later, otherwise it would be better to make "Resident Evil".
"Resident Evil", like "Charlie's Angels", is a women's movie. Women wearing sexy shorts kill everyone to save the world. It must be very embarrassing for Asians to film this subject.
Su Changqing decided to maintain the suspense of the film and further make it more sci-fi. The male protagonist and the others do not have special backgrounds, nor are they the maze designers who brought it upon themselves.
When they try their best to escape from the maze, they will face an unimaginable world, and finally find that they can never escape from a bigger maze.
This point should be learned from the Southern School Third Uncle. The bronze door should never be opened easily. No one knows what is behind the door.
Good suspense requires the ability to keep it hanging.
The performance of "Peace" in its second week in North America exceeded that of its first week, with a total box office of 22 million, and it will continue to be screened for one more week.
Chapter completed!