Squid Games is so hot.
Not only their own fire, but also to achieve "traffic fission", crazy "with goods".
I believe that the poisonous rice also often brushes the single inventory of similar films in the major media.
Sir felt that the pure film list was not exciting enough.
So, he chased after the same genre and jumped repeatedly in a card table and a secret room.
On a research question:
In the end, why do these "battle royale" /"infinite stream" works make us so on top?
After Sir's research, it was found.
It's all routines.
But the most exciting thing is that the routines and routines compete with each other, imitate, and upgrade and iterate.
(The film list is at the end of the article, and the poisonous rice that does not want to be spoiled can be collected first)
01
space
The so-called "battle royale", the first focus - from where to escape?
The design of the game location is very exquisite.
Basically, I tend to pick an unfamiliar environment to start playing.
First, it is a relatively rare environment in daily life.
Like forests and desert islands.
The Japanese film "Battle Royale", adapted from the novel of the same name, can be said to be the originator of this type of film.
In the future world of the Great Depression, unemployment is extremely high and juvenile delinquency rates are soaring.
In order to dispel the anger of citizens who have been squeezing juvenile delinquency for a long time, the government introduced the New Century Education Reform Law:
Students from secondary school classes who are selected each year will be thrown to desert islands for a three-day survival challenge (cannibalism).
There is only one winner.
But there are countless faces of death:
Some fight alone, some turn against each other, and some have not reacted, becoming unlucky eggs under the arrows;
Some, self-consciously "hunters", soon begin to hunt down classmates who are defenseless against them.
Also, not wanting to violate their conscience, they both jump off cliffs to end their lives...
Compared to desert islands with less shelter and relying on force to fight.
A forest with towering trees as a shield and hidden killing machines is the only choice for the arena.
The main battlefield of the first part of The Hunger Games is the forest.
In the dense forest, the heroine fled to the border line in order to avoid being chased by other players, and the flames came to her face;
Unexpected killing hives fall, and a few bites can kill people;
Poisonous berries appear when people are most thirsty, so that the experienced finals "tribute" is also on the road;
Dangerous beasts of prey are raiding in the dark night, and what is more fatal is that the game personnel can still "increase the amount without increasing the price" at any time, and the corners of their mouths still have a satisfied smile...
Another example is the sandy beach.
Unlike forests and desert islands, which are ready for war as soon as they start.
Sunshine, waves, volleyball, champagne... Everything nice and comfortable like a seaside getaway.
Wake up.
Last second, it was a holiday scene.
The next second, it's the quicksand trap.
△ "Escape room 2"
Last second, it was a swimsuit girl.
The next second, become a pregnant woman waiting to give birth.
△ "Growing Old"
The magic of time allows you to experience the real life like a year.
The view is so wide that there is no obstruction.
Of course, it is also suitable for playing large competition games, after all, the first round has to eliminate the most people.
△ "Squid Game"
Instead of returning to a mysterious place endowed by primitive nature, another spatial design leads to the door of the future.
maze.
For the design of the maze, the organizers also put a lot of thought into it.
There is a transverse structure:
In order not to be reduced to experimental objects, the protagonist group conducts parkour in the unpredictable maze to fight against the big spider monster.
△ "Moving Maze"
Structure with depth:
"Hunger Platform" relies on the vertical movement of the platform, a metaphor for social class.
In this small human prison, everyone is a rice bucket.
After all, this 333-story (hinting hell), 600-person building, the floors change every month, randomly assigned.
The further down you eat, the more the scraps are cold, and after more than 100 layers, the killing to survive occurs every moment.
More complicated is the nested Rubik's Cube space.
The trilogy of "Panic Party" ("Alien Dimension Killing Array") can be described as a classic forever.
Are you the master of the organs that have successfully escaped seven times?
Useless, 17,000 rooms, there are heavenly organs everywhere.
One second it was a bombastic jailbreak expert, and the next second was a large-scale pretend failure scene.
Of course.
The use of unfamiliar scenes has also been upgraded.
"Defamiliarization" of commonplace scenes.
Suspension bridges are quite common in cities that cross rivers and rivers.
What if this is a "glass boardwalk" with ordinary glass and tempered glass?
What if it is in the case of heavy rain, high winds, and high voltage electricity connected below?
△ Gambling Apocalypse
Subway, social and livestock transportation must take the means of travel.
Give you a subway "derailment", the current is chaotic, what will you do?
Tunnels, overhead or underfoot from time to time there will be a bar.
According to the rules, "to arrive at the end point safely within two hours is customs clearance."
When you abandon your friend who has injured his leg and run wild in the tunnel, arriving at the finish line 20 minutes in advance, what awaits you is:
△ "Alice in the Land of the Dead"
Also, three tunnels, play a team battle "bomb reset hot run game".
The protagonist group of three and the other team play a reverse running game, as long as one of the team first reach the other team's starting point, the game is considered a victory.
But the game ran three rounds, and everyone exploded three times, but the opponent's shadow was not seen.
Why！？
△ "Telencephalon"
If this "strange" space is said to be a gimmick that the battle royale is about to come.
So next, it's time to get to the point.
02
Game
Next, let's see how to escape.
The escape path is generally composed of a series of game levels.
Here, Sir summarizes them into four types of games: cards, reasoning, hunting, and looping.
These elements will coincide, but they will all be focused.
The first, the card class.
It is mainly based on table games such as poker, mahjong, roulette, and minority duels.
The secret of this kind of game is to find the "must win method".
Brain-burning tablets say that they are, and the brain watts are completely finished.
Looking at the film, often the rules and gameplay are half-understood, but the protagonist Niu ×.
unbelief?
Let's take two steps.
Minority Decision:
There are a total of 22 players on the scene, and each round of randomly selected players asks questions, and all of them can only answer "yes" or "no".
Each round has 6 hours to think and 6 hours to vote.
At that time, the party with fewer people will stay, and the party with more people will be eliminated.
When the game is tied, the round is voided and the round is restarted.
The game ends when there are only one or two people left. (The two cannot make a minority decision)
After the winner withdraws from the game, he or she will need to return half of the principal.
△ "Deception Game"
Unlike the majority decision, where the minority obeys the majority, the charm of the minority decision is that everyone must hold the group, but how to hold it and who to hold the group requires a great amount of thinking.
Just like the "chain of suspicion" setting in Liu Cixin's "Three-Body" world view: two individuals will suspect each other before communicating.
△ Originated from Baidu Encyclopedia
Don't understand the rules?
It doesn't matter, our protagonist already knows the winning formula of this game: team up.
Behind the formation of the team, it must be the taking sides.
Also, exclude dissidents.
The second is the reasoning class.
The secret of this type of game is to find the "murderer" and hide yourself through various information in the field.
In the "Telencephalon" series, "Agatha's Dinner" can be regarded as the highlight of the national drama reasoning game.
12 players play as people of different identities, one of whom is a virtual person, and any one player can initiate a vote before the meal every night, and the majority of the number of people votes through, and the person who is voted out, whether they are virtual or not, will be kicked out of the game.
You think it's just werewolves to kill?
no,no, no
This is the man's advanced challenge, and he needs to help the virtual man win.
How did the male protagonist win in the end?
Stop, Sir no spoilers.
The third, the hunting class.
Compared with the first two kinds of wisdom fighting, the hunting class pays more attention to the blood plasma burst of martial arts.
How the protagonist escapes in the space surrounded by killing machines, and even finds an opportunity to kill the hunter.
The "Chainsaw Horror" series is definitely a collection of mechanical devices, psychological games, and reversals against the sky.
Take a look at the unique items of each device: the jaw splitter, the face-cutting knife chair, the death mask, the chain saw, the gillnet maze...
The props that are comparable to the ten major tortures are all scales that can be released by Sir coding.
△ Put a not-so-scary sample
The game is also a top thrill.
Self-harm weighing.
In two cages were two loan sharks who had to cut a part of their bodies with knives and put the cut flesh on a scale.
After 60 seconds, the less weighted one will be shot through the head by an electric drill.
Cut the belly pendulum.
The murderer who was released early was kidnapped by the disciples. He was locked on his back on the stage, and directly above his body was a huge pendulum that slowly descended.
The blade at the bottom of the pendulum is sharp and cuts iron like mud.
The way to get rid of it is to stop the pendulum by pressing your hands into the mechanisms on either side within 60 seconds.
This reminds Sir of Poe's novel The Pit and the Pendulum:
What freaked me out the most was that I was clearly aware of the pendulum falling. I see now—and it is self-evident how terrified I am—that the lower end of the pendulum is a crescent-shaped steel knife, which sparkles... As the huge pendulum swings from side to side, a hissing sound is made in the air.
The player repeatedly tried to put his hand into the mechanism, and then retracted out of fear, and finally he gritted his teeth to trigger the mechanism, the bones of his hands were shattered, and in the scream of the earthquake, the pendulum temporarily stopped falling, but began to accelerate again:
The fourth, which Sir considers to be the most difficult, is the loop class.
Horror Cruises, Edge of Tomorrow, Source Code...
The creepiest thing about this kind of game is two things:
The first step is to discover the loop.
In the Rubik's Cube Chamber, under the reasoning of the grumpy former police commander and the clever mathematician, the crowd discovered the law of breaking the game, and all the way through the gates, avoiding countless death chambers
Only to find themselves back in the original room.
The jailbreak expert who started the game was lying in the room.
△ "Panic Party 1"
Again.
There is not only a visual "loop", but also a "loop" of sound.
This conversation
Why is it exactly the same as the last time I met the wanton
Did I say I went
Of course, the end of the heart like ashes may also be the starting point of life to death.
So there is a second step, breaking the cycle.
In this kind of game, the way to break the loop is to find the key time node.
Escaping from the loop is not simple, except for the essential endurance and observation.
Even to be fierce:
Beat yourself, kill yourself, dispose of your own corpses...
This kind of boldness is not something that ordinary players will have.
After all, not all players are "number one players" with the aura of the protagonist.
03
gamer
As a humane field, the diversity of players is an important indicator of maintaining the balance of the game.
They come from all walks of life and, because of their professional status, have feuds with gamers or organizers.
But these five categories sir wants to talk about are definitely indispensable roles in every battle royale.
The first category, open and hang the protagonist.
In general, our protagonists (at least in the first season or first installment) are participating in the game for the first time.
This facilitates the substitution of a general audience perspective to understand the rules of the game.
There are also many kinds of protagonists:
Ignorant type, mediocre conditions, but with luck (protagonist aura) to the end, witness the truth.
For example, the male protagonist of "Squid Game" is Cheng Qixun.
Outside the game, he is an outlaw gambler, but in the game he is a kind + lucky fool white sweet.
Finally, with the highly intelligent egoist Cao Shangyou martial battle, Cao in the pool of blood was impressed by the male protagonist's initiative to give up.
His active suicide allowed the male protagonist to brave the end of the world and successfully win the championship.
There is also a big smart protagonist, who goes forward to save his lover and find out the truth.
Commonly known as open hanging.
They tend to be intelligent, have a low force value, and can also be supplemented with IQ.
Or have a girlfriend/ambiguous object with a high force value.
Can observe, understand human nature, the best is to turn the tables against the wind, let the betrayer snap in the face.
△ "Animal World"
The second category, the last champion.
For reasons such as fame and fortune, revenge, and the search for the truth, the champion who escaped from the magic cave once again stepped into the testing ground.
"The Hunger Games 2" is a championship opening team game.
The opening and the kiss show of the partner male protagonist, the performance in the chariot in a luxurious suit, all reveal that the upcoming fierce fight is also a large-scale performance.
Of course, there are also those who are forced to participate.
On the derailed subway, several people looked at each other in confusion.
Unexpectedly, this group of ordinary-looking people turned out to be champions who escaped death.
The third category, veteran players.
Not a champion, but forced into the game or in the game environment for a long time, forming different gangs and forces.
These players enter the game earlier than the protagonist and are well versed in the unspoken rules of the game.
Either the protagonist foils, or team up with the protagonist, or are equal opponents.
Or, it is the protagonist who tries to see the "key" of the world structure.
In "Alice in the Land of the Dead", the ideal hatter and the martial arts school of the Su Kingdom are openly incompatible.
In fact, secretly, he is a friend of a utopia that maintains balance and builds a seashore.
The fourth category, game developers.
As the ruler of the game, the brain has that big disease.
Be sure to jump in and experience the charm of the game for yourself.
Wen Ziren's high concept comes from this:
Two people woke up in a bathroom with a corpse in the center of the room
They don't remember how they got in
And finally the body stood up
It turned out that he had brought the two men here
This "corpse" collapsed on the ground became the biggest reversal of Chainsaw 1.
This vertical demon king also burned into the hearts of the audience through this way of "resurrection from the dead".
The old man numbered 001 in "Squid Game" suffers from a brain tumor and runs out of oil.
Similar routines, similar flips
He's the game designer, the big boss behind the scenes.
He didn't even watch up close like the Great Demon King, but had to go down and test each game himself.
There are countless small details in the play that hint at the excitement of the old man: the familiarity with the old game, the corner of the mouth that rises all the time...
Of course, not every game designer is so perverted.
The man in "Panic Party 1" who looks weak and silent all the way.
In fact, for money, the local designer of the game who designed the rubik's cube shell was put in because of the "accident".
Of course, he also became a key figure in interrupting his teammates' incompetent rage and driving the game forward.
The fifth category, cannon fodder.
What makes the protagonist single-mindedly move forward, in addition to the inner desire, is the cruel punishment after failure.
Death is the end of the protagonist group and the starting point of the cannon fodder.
Because, they are often responsible for testing the rules of the game and the bottom line of fault tolerance.
But how to die out of the new, dead out of the tricks, is the organizer's ingenuity is unique.
If there is a rationality of the questioning rule, the second is sent to the head.
△ "Battle Royale"
In the course of the game, if you violate the rules of the game and do not listen to advice, you will die "reasonably" in the game.
Having said that he could only take one tube of antidote, he was greedy to take the second:
△ "Chainsaw Horror 2"
Some have formed a deep friendship with the protagonist and become a cardiotonic agent that pushes the protagonist to the end.
△ The Hunger Games 1
To be honest, if you are on Sir, if you are not in the protagonist group, I am afraid it will be difficult to live more than 10 minutes.
Battle royale, in addition to the visual excitement brought about by the battle of wits and courage and dangerous killing.
No matter what kind of person the players are, the reasons for participating in the game are closely related to the real dilemma.
bigger.
Class, oppression, refugees, violence...
small.
Family conflicts, gambler psychology, original family problems, midlife crisis...
So, back to the question at the beginning of the article.
Why do we go head-to-head for someone else's "battle royale"?
Look at two key words:
escape.
Escape to the end, and even forget whether you want to escape the game or escape from reality.
kill.
The reality that cannot be escaped ultimately nourishes the unimaginable courage of us in reality.
ps: The above involves the degree of bloodiness & brain-burning of film and television dramas as follows, which only represent personal views and are for reference:
1997 "Panic Party" series: 5 stars for bloodiness; 4 stars for brainburn.
2000 Battle Royale: 4 stars for bloodiness, 2 stars for brain-burning.
2004 Chainsaw Horror series: 6 stars for bloodiness; 4 stars for brainburn.
2007 Deception Game Series: 1 star for Bloodiness, 5 stars for Brain Burn.
2009 "Horror Cruise": 5 stars for gore; 6 stars for brainburn.
2009 Gambling Apocalypse Series: 3 stars for Bloodiness; 5 stars for BrainBurn.
2011 "Source Code": 3 stars for bloodiness; 4 stars for brainburn.
2012 The Hunger Games: 3 stars for gore; 3 stars for brainburn.
2013 "Man Wolf Game" series: 4 stars for bloodiness; 3 stars for brainburn.
2013 "Snow Country Train": Bloody 3 stars; Brain Burning 3 stars.
2014 "Edge of Tomorrow": Bloody 3 stars; Brain Burning Degree 4 stars.
2014 "Moving Labyrinth": Bloodiness 3 stars; Brain Burning Degree 2 stars.
2017 "Telencephalon": Bloodiness 2 stars; Brain Burning Degree 5 stars.
2017 "Friends Game" series: 2 stars for gore; 4 stars for brainburn.
2018 "Wild Gambling Abyss" series: Bloody 3 stars; Brain Burning Degree 5 stars.
2018 "Animal World": 3 stars for bloodiness; 4 stars for brainburn.
2019 "Escape from the Chamber" series: Bloodiness 4 stars; Brain Burning Degree 4 stars.
2019 Hunger Station: 4 stars for bloodiness; 4 stars for brainburn.
2020 "Alice in the Land of the Dead": Bloody 4 stars; Brain Burning 5 stars.
2021 Squid Game: 3 stars for gore; 3 stars for brainburn.
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