An ordinary female student in my junior year, on an ordinary afternoon, took an ordinary bus to the bookstore.
On the way, she fell asleep against the car window, dazed when she opened her eyes
"Boom!"
The bus crashed into the tanker truck, and before she could scream, her eyes were blackened by flames.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself fine and the bus was moving as usual.
"Am I dreaming?"
Before she could think about it, she was horrified to find that the tanker truck was in front of her... The explosion, once again staged.
The girl keeps getting back in the car, constantly experiencing explosions, and is trapped in this horrible cycle.
After slowly gaining experience, she tried to lose her temper with the driver, knock on the window with a life hammer, and pretend to have a heart attack, but she was unable to escape the car
It wasn't until she slandered the boy sitting next to her as a sex wolf and wanted to drag him to the public security bureau that she finally managed to get out of the car.
The loop is over?
No, that's just the beginning of the whole story. The boy who was pulled out of the car also followed the girl into the time loop.
The above brain-burning plot comes from the suspense drama "Beginning" produced by the noonday sun and starring Bai Jingting and Zhao Jinmai.
This web drama labeled "unlimited streaming" has dominated the hot search in the first week of broadcasting.
Douban 160,000 people scored a high score of 8.2, praising this as the first national drama dark horse at the beginning of the year. But it also caused controversy about plagiarism of the source code.
What is unlimited streaming? Is this drama good? More importantly
#优质国产剧 or shameless plagiarism? #
Uncle Meat brushed 8 episodes overnight, which is to give everyone an understanding.
Then, as mentioned above, Xiao Heyun (Bai Jingting), who is engaged in game development, also accidentally entered the loop after being pulled out of the car by the junior girl Li Shiqing (Zhao Jinmai).
At first he didn't want to believe it either, but after several pointless struggles, he finally gave up.
Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing racked their brains and finally managed to get off the bus to avoid trouble, but they felt deeply guilty when they saw the bus crash into the tanker truck in the distance and turn into a firework.
To this end, they decided to return to the cycle and work together to prevent this disaster.
However, at this time, they have been targeted by the police, and they have not yet found a way to return to the cycle, because they "cleverly dodged the explosion" and were arrested as suspects...
I won't spoil it later, so I'll leave it to you to see for yourself.
So did this "Beginning" copy the "Source Code"?
Let's look at the core points of the plagiarism controversy first:
The plot framework of both is the same, both are constantly going through a cycle in a vehicle, and the protagonist CP tries to find the bombs and prisoners hidden inside.
However, it is a bit biased to judge plagiarism based on the similarity of the location and theme settings.
For example, the framework is "the protagonist who experienced the trough of life and sought death, was rescued by a high person to obtain special skills, and from then on to the peak of life", think of hundreds of works, right?
It can only be said that this has become a kind of creative category, and it has collided.
And the explosion site has chosen the means of transport, which can not blame the author, can only blame the terrorists... Anyone who has seen the news knows.
If you really want to copy, you have to look at more specific settings, key nodes of the plot and the way of promotion, as well as core expression.
Let's look at the settings first:
In "Source Code", the protagonist is seriously injured during the mission, and only part of his brain survives, so he is "wasted" to dig up clues from the memories of the victims.
His circular approach is to project brain consciousness into simulated scenarios.
For him, everything is fake.
No matter how cyclical, the explosion has already occurred and is irreversible.
But in the loop in "Beginnings", both protagonists believe that they are still in real life, and it is possible to prevent the explosion in a certain cycle.
This essential difference has led to a completely different way of doing things between the two.
In "Source Code", the male protagonist made it clear at the beginning that his task was to run to the bomb. He kept recalling the details of the explosion, ignoring everyone's feelings in order to solve the case, and it would not affect reality anyway.
Therefore, when investigating the suspect, he did not have to abide by any rules of the real world at all, and directly used the most violent fist, and the strange eyes of the crowd had no effect on him.
And "Beginning" from the beginning, the two protagonists are as confused as we are.
I don't know what happened, I don't know what to do, what the direction of the event is.
I can only re-explore little by little, and every action is full of hesitation, afraid of affecting the future of myself and others.
Li Shiqing's earliest recognition of the explosion was that he witnessed the bus crash into a tanker truck. But when they stopped the crash in a cycle, the bus still exploded, and they realized that there was a bomb on the car.
The way bombs are disposed of is also very different.
The protagonist of "Source Code" will find the real culprit, but the find of the bomber in "The Beginning" is not over, and it is necessary to prevent it from detonating the bomb, do a new round of confrontation, and lead to a more complex kernel direction.
In terms of plot advancement, it has been seen that "Beginning" and "Source Code" are very different, and then talk about the core of expression, which is even more different.
Source Code discusses free will.
The male protagonist is a soldier who died heroically, but the US military still wants to use his remaining body to turn his brain into a crime-solving machine. In order to resist, he prefers to cut off the system that maintains his "life".
"The Beginning" explores people's trust and prejudice.
How did Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun, the strangers they met on the bus, gradually build trust under the crisis? How did they resolve their prejudices against other people on the bus when they were investigating targets?
At this point, the conclusion is already clear.
Unless there is more solid evidence, it is arbitrary to say that "The Beginning" copied the source code.
The controversy was solved, and Uncle Meat wanted to talk to everyone about the things I was more interested in
"The Beginning", is it an infinite stream?
Let's start with what is infinite streaming.
The original novel of "The Beginning" carries this label, and the drama party has done science popularization early for this purpose, quoting the definition of "infinite flow" by Shao Yanjun, a scholar at Peking University:
Infinite flow in the narrow sense is "infinity", everything is infinite.
For example, the protagonist may be shouting "It's you Pikachu" in the Pokémon world one moment, and the next moment he may be in the world of giants, witnessing relatives and friends being bitten in two.
Time kept looping, and elements kept mixing and matching until a certain goal was achieved.
This type of classic works include "Infinite Horror", "Thriller Paradise", "Starting from the Bird", interested fat friends can go to see.
And "The Beginning" is only a cycle in a single world, which does not fully meet the definition of "infinite flow", and can only be regarded as a touch.
If you really want to compare it to "Beginning", it should be those works that play the time loop.
Just like the "Want to See You" that detonated the whole network the year before, Uncle Meat will not say more, say something fresh.
First of all, "Edge of Tomorrow" starring Atang Ge.
The background of the story is the battle between humans and aliens. Humanity is gradually defeated, and at this time, Brother Atang, who should have been killed in battle, unexpectedly gained the ability to cycle time.
In order to defeat the aliens, Brother Tang died again and again, and cycled again and again, and after a full fifty thousand tragic deaths, Brother Tang realized that this was an impossible task...
Then come a Japanese drama, the classic "Gate of the Stone of Destiny" that has deceived countless people into tears.
The male protagonist of the second disease hides in his kennel all day long and invents, and unexpectedly creates a time machine, which is enough to influence the direction of the world.
I thought I could become the male protagonist of the savior, but I never expected that this time machine would plunge myself into a cycle of doom and gloom, witnessing again and again that my beloved person was injured...
Good wine is not greedy.
Finally, even if you look at it and draw pictures, you will be able to produce a fine ancestral work "Former Destination".
This movie tells the story of an agent "I", in order to stop himself, recruited and trained himself, then underwent gender reassignment surgery, and fell in love with his still female self, and finally gave birth to himself, in order to allow this cycle to continue, choosing to abandon himself who was still in his infancy...
Don't understand? That's right, the film just wants to make the audience's CPU smoke.
It is rumored that Robert Heinline, author of the original novel "You Souls of the Former Destination", wrote this story specifically to satirize the time that traveled through the novel boom at that time.
He is a staunch believer in the "grandmother paradox", believing that time travels through the absurd.
So, what is the "grandmother paradox"?
In layman's terms, it is assumed that a crosser goes back in time and accidentally killed his grandmother because of his actions, and the problem arises:
When the grandmother dies, the crosser cannot be born, so how did he cross back to kill the grandmother?
The problem is an insoluble endless loop, and thus a paradox.
As for how the science fiction community later introduced the concept of parallel universes to break the grandmother paradox, Uncle Meat will not continue to expand, otherwise this article will also flow indefinitely
After a lot of talking, let's go back to "The Beginning", is this drama good or not?
In terms of the theme of time loop, "Beginning" is really not the beginning, but a latecomer.
Latecomers will inevitably be compared with their predecessors, and it is easy to fall into the question of plagiarism. This has been discussed before, so I will not repeat it.
I want to talk about the latecomers to "The Beginning", where they are clever
The story does not stick to the suspense and decryption of individual heroism, but moves from the Benguet school to the social faction, from personal shaping to group portrait portrayal.
The passers-by on the bus who seem to be running dragon suits are all designed with a full and detailed background.
This practice makes the suspenseful case-solving story of the two protagonists and a car of NPCs become the human nature of each ordinary person in the face of death.
At the same time, it also pointed out the topic: people-to-people prejudice.
Let's talk about the investigation process, how did Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun check for suspicious objects?
Look at everyone like a thief.
First of all, a young man wrapped tightly in the back of his body, clutching the backpack in front of his heart, looked very suspicious, right?
After Li Xiao and the two of them turned him out of the car, they simply controlled him with brute force and pulled open his backpack.
It wasn't a bomb, it was a fragile stray cat.
It turned out that Lu Di, a middle school teenager who called himself the "Apostle of Cats", was a very loving person who had suffered from asthma but had been rescuing stray cats.
Lu Di was ruled out, and the next object, a bald-headed master carrying a sack, looked like a thief.
Li Xiao felt that the sack was a bomb, and deliberately stepped on it, resulting in the juice splashing around - it was actually a watermelon.
Uncle Da was anxious and violently pushed Xiao Heyun down, but because the others said "no fighting", he reflexively squatted down and raised his hand, and generally said in a report: Xiao Heyun stepped on his melon first.
This is a former criminal who has just been released from prison because of a hit-and-run. This crouch raised his hand, and immediately let the role stand.
Finding the wrong uncle, Li Shiqing talked with the uncle, and only then did he understand that the uncle's son had severed relations with him, but he was always worried that his son loved to eat the melon he planted, so he brought melons thousands of miles away, and he couldn't care about the possibility of eating closed-door soup.
I'm not selling this melon
I carried it on my back
Ran so far
It was for my son
In order to comfort the uncle, Li Shiqing claimed to be a colleague of his son and began to falsely preach the holy will, saying how much his son missed him.
When the uncle heard it, the music was broken, and he immediately broke the melon in the bag into small pieces and gave it to the people on the car to eat one by one. The crowd praised "melon sweetness".
This is not either, but what about the uncle who drags the suitcase and has a bitter vendetta? His eyes lit up fiercely, and he looked at it with a tendency to take revenge on society!
Li Xiao and the two felt that the box could not be checked, and simply looked for an opportunity to throw the suitcase out of the car.
Unexpectedly, the uncle took the initiative to untie the box because he heard Li Shiqing say that he had come to the aunt, took out a bag of sanitary napkins wrapped in layers of plastic bags, handed it to Li Shiqing with both hands, saw that Li Shiqing did not pick up, thought she was embarrassed, and hurriedly handed it to Xiao Heyun.
The camera turns around, only to learn that this uncle is a down-and-out worker who usually lives in a garage. However, because of the fire inspection, the landlord could not let him stay, so he could only drive him away, and gave him a suitcase before leaving, asking him to pack up.
A rough old man, the first to put into the box, are some women's products.
He can't be a pervert, can he?
In fact, he was thinking of his daughter who was far away in his hometown, because his family was not well off, and he always shouted that he would drop out of school to work with him to pay off his debts, and promised to buy her sanitary napkins and facial cleanser, so that he could regard these as treasures.
You tell Daddy
What a sanitary napkin
Or facial cleanser
We can afford it
Rao was so, when Li Shiqing needed it, he still took it out first without saying a word.
People who look suspicious are actually full of love;
People who look bitter and vengeful, their hearts are soft like a sanitary napkin;
People who have committed crimes can also grow the sweetest melon and share it with strangers.
Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun, who began with prejudice, realized their narrowness after getting to know these strangers.
The audience in front of the screen, why not?
This is where "Beginning" is clever, through the creation of flesh and blood group portraits, the suspense that may be thin and only eye-catching has become a social mirror.
When sentient beings look inside, they can see the complex appearance of human nature.
"The Beginning" is certainly flawed.
The delay in the middle section and the moisture mixed with several interrogations affect the rhythm of the series.
More critically, now that the plot is halfway through, the identity of the bomber has been called out, and the only remaining problem is "how to save the whole car".
Just such a problem, to shoot a full 8 episodes, it is difficult not to worry about "how to make this up, it will not be randomly watered".
But this concern aside, "Beginning" is undoubtedly a small door slit for the domestic drama trapped in the secret room.
Don't need to be so delicate and elegant, don't need to be shocking special effects.
As long as you tell a good story and create a flesh-and-blood character, you can make a good work.
In a word – respect for the screenwriter.
In the official poster of "The Beginning", the original author and screenwriter are rarely placed at the forefront.
In the personal experience of the original author "Prayer Jun", he also said that the noonday sun respects the screenwriter very much, and more importantly, he never defaults on the remuneration.
Just giving the screenwriters the remuneration they deserve is a "benchmark" in the industry, and it is conceivable that domestic screenwriters live a humble life.
Domestic dramas are so bad, you can imagine...
To put it bluntly, the rot of domestic dramas is the retribution of the capital side for mean writers. It's just that this retribution finally hit the heads of our audience, and those investors are standing one project after another, and there is nothing wrong.
No wonder in the "Annual Comedy Competition", the six beast teachers who won the "Screenwriter of the Year" by relying on their amazing output will sigh so excitedly in the first program:
I didn't expect that "The Annual Comedy Contest" would allow us, the screenwriters, to sit and watch it.
This kind of respect for screenwriters is too little, too little in the domestic film and television circle.
Only when creators are valued, the film and television industry will have a qualitative leap and can provide first-class "spiritual food" for the audience.
When will the inner entertainment understand this truth?
Hopefully, "The Beginning" will be the beginning.
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