The Runaway Player game world dreams together! Text/Wang Min

The Runaway Player game world dreams together! Text/Wang Min

About author:Wang Min, director of the China Film Critics Society, columnist of film criticism in some newspapers and new media across the country, and reporter of Xiamen Radio and Television Group.

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The recent release of "Out of Control Player" is definitely a popcorn cool film suitable for families of different ages, and young audiences are even more eager to see the male protagonist Ryan Reynolds. The film can be seen as a combination of the film and television work "Ready Player One" + "Truman's World" + "Inception" + "Upload New Life" + "Black Mirror" + "Horror Cruise", but it does not stop there. The film is more inclined to the audience who like to play games, and players who have played open-world games such as GTA (a world-famous game developed by Rockstar Games that features driving, gunfights, fighting and other crimes in cities) will be greatly addicted! When the audience watched the fights, jokes, love, big scenes, etc. in the 3D special effects of imax, it was as if they were immersed in the game world, and like the movie "Ready Player One", they were looking for Easter eggs to make dreams!

Synopsis

Bank clerk Guy (Ryan Reynolds) discovers that he was originally an NPC (short for non-player character) in the game Liberty City, but he is not content with mediocrity and has become a good person in the game who does justice. When he discovers that the developer has stolen the original designer's code and is ready to start "Liberty City 2" and close "Liberty City", the female player Millie (played by Judy Comer) shines and helps him fight back together.

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Ryan Reynolds is loved by fans around the world because he has a household name called Little, which comes from the male protagonist of Deadpool in the anti-hero cinematic universe under the American Marvel Comics. After watching the new film "Runaway Player" starring and supervised by Ryan Reynolds, it can be said that it is refreshing! I still remember in "Deadpool 2", as the male protagonist, he shot a headshot and collapsed his own body, when the scene was extremely hilarious. And in "Out of Control Player", it is even more all-encompassing: fights, jokes, love, big scenes, play terriers, everything, the new paragraph fantasy linkage adds a lot of fun to the movie, and the film is in the forefront of the major professional film websites at home and abroad. This Fox movie produced by Disney is definitely a popcorn cool film worth watching for the vast majority of audiences, bringing vitality and vitality to the film market at the end of the dull summer season.

The film tells the story of an NPC cover in an open-world game, who suddenly has a self-aware artificial intelligence, breaks the routine and wakes up, decides to become a hero and rewrite his fate. In the game world, Gai punishes evil and promotes good, and unites real players in the real world to save the game world of "Liberty City" that is about to close. Eventually, he also got the bridge data and brought to justice the developer villains who stole the original designer's code in reality. Although it is a clichéd story of personal heroism, the logic is clear and the setting is eye-catching.

Needless to say, everything in the film is virtual, but everything is so real, set in an open world similar to GTA, and Guy is just an ordinary NPC working in a bank in this world, who repeats the same life and action every day, but never doubts the authenticity of the world in which he lives. Until one day, Guy meets the heroine player Millie, so "Mars hits the earth", Guy falls in love with Millie, and the meaning of life changes.

"Out of Control Player" can be said to be a bright version of "Black Mirror", but it is more relaxed than the latter narrative tone, Ryan Reynolds's humorous and funny performance, integrated into the heroine player Millie's love drama, gags. However, the torture behind the film is as cold as "Black Mirror" and "Upload New Life", and the villain developer boss Antoine steals the code of the "Keyboard" of the designer of "Liberty City" as the foundation of the new game "Liberty City 2". The two people who wrote the code were Millie and "Keyboard", and Millie lurked in Liberty City looking for clues. The "keyboard" tampers with the program to help punish evil and promote good, revealing endless problems derived from the game's dreams.

The narrative of "Runaway Player" is a standard sci-fi and dystopian template, with one clue to the investigation of the unsolved theft of code, and another clue to show the grotesque and novel landscape of the game world while surrounding and serving it. One is responsible for advancing the storyline, and the other is responsible for presenting the worldview. The arrogant and arrogant personality of the villain boss Antoine is a clever trick to get away with it. He doesn't respect the game, he doesn't respect the players, he doesn't even know what's at stake. In order to block Gai's code exploration of Liberty City, Antoine first restarted the server, forced many players to drop the line, and then forced the player to go offline. In the end, he went crazy and destroyed all the servers with an axe to cover up his plagiarism of the code. Nowadays, everyone lives on social networking platforms in the digital world, and stories that tell artificial intelligence, immersive experiences, and other settings can easily impress audiences. To some extent, the cover in "Out of Control Player" lives on a tangent line with the science fiction world, if you have played online games, the audience should hate the most should be "network connection interruption" 6 words, Antoine has repeatedly used this means to let users drop the line, forced offline, these network sense experience, highlighting the science fiction and dystopian story presentation ability.

In addition to the cleverness of the above narrative techniques, the film also has cool pictures, strong entertainment, and ubiquitous paragraph explosions, which make people laugh. For an American popcorn movie far exceeded expectations, the advantages are mainly concentrated in the following four points:

First, big scenes are everywhere, and the film begins with a cool car chase scene. Passers-by parachuted high and landed in an open-top sports car, the helicopter chased after it, and the police car on the ground roared. Drifting, spinning, big bangs, dazzling, constantly teasing the audience's adrenaline hormones. With the blessing of IMAX's 3D special effects visual spectacle technology, the picture is even more cool, and the whole film maintains this tone and rhythm, making the audience enjoy it like chicken blood.

Second, the sense of entertainment is full of games. In the "Liberty City" game setting, the daily job of NPCs such as Gai is to be robbed, bullied, and abused by players in a regular manner. Therefore, any big scene is not strange for them, in the face of gunfire and bank robbery, Guy can still lie down and talk with the security guards, talk about going to the beach after work to drink beer, this sense of contrast creates a relaxed and humorous comedy atmosphere. The soundtrack of the film is also very funny, the overall light humor, the rhythm is cheerful, bringing a lot of comfort to the movie. "Out of Control Player" is like the classic movie "Ready Player One", the latter is to integrate the real world into the game, the former is to use the game to affect the real world, and the novel setting will present the game landscape with special interest. The male and female protagonists eat bubble gum-flavored ice cream in the game, the male and female protagonists kiss in the game, and the final boss duel: the muscle man and the cover fight each other, like WWE's acting convention.

Third, the brilliance of "Runaway Player" is that the whole movie is very close to the game, and viewers can relive the "Easter eggs" as they watch the movie: the music of the Avengers, the shield of Captain America, the arm of the Hulk, the lightsaber of Star Wars, the male protagonist of "Captain America" Chris Evans, the male protagonist of "Special Forces" Channing Tatum... While reminiscing about the classic movies of the past, it has obtained a high sense of gaming experience and satisfaction, which is the essence of this film and the key to attracting family-friendly audiences of different ages. "Runaway Player" is not a serious science fiction movie, it is similar to the adventure movie "Ready Player One" by Spielberg the Dreamer, and like the classic pixel adventure game "Super Mario", it has become a collective carnival for fans, anime fans and game fans around the world.

Fourth, the framework of the film is like "Ready Player One" + "Truman's World" + "Inception" + "Upload New Life" + "Black Mirror" + "Horror Cruise", the film is not a very sci-fi movie, although most of the scenes are set in the game world, but in essence it is not thinking about the relationship between people and the universe, but still the relationship between people and people. Gai changes reality in reincarnation, constantly explores and grows in a trapped false life, and finally breaks the shackles and wins freedom and dignity for all the NPCs in the game. These settings can give the audience a sense of spiritual release and pleasure. The so-called popcorn movie is to let the audience figure a word "cool", play games without using their brains, relax and dream together!

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