Hello everyone, today to talk to you about a series of movies, and this series is likely to be expanded into a larger film universe in the future, that is, J. J. Abrams' Clover series (also translated as Alfalfa Land).
The Clover series has so far produced three films, namely 2008's "Clover Files", 2016's "10 Clover Road" and 2018's "Clover's Paradox", all of which tell independent stories. Today I will explain it to you.
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Filmed as a pseudo-documentary, the film shows us what happened on the night of May 22, 2008, in a handheld camera recovered by the U.S. Department of Defense afterwards.
Since the photographer did not take out what the camera had taken in the past and directly covered the shooting, the picture was occasionally interspersed with some content taken earlier. The reason for this arrangement, on the one hand, adds a sense of scene and credibility to the film, on the other hand, it also explains the relationship between the protagonists and the background setting for us through some past clips, which can be said to be a very flattering shooting method.
The "flashback shots" that are often interspersed in the film
plot
The plot of the film is simple, telling the story of the protagonist Robb who is about to leave the United States for a Japanese company (this company plays an important role in the series, as will be mentioned later), but just happens to encounter a huge monster ("Clover") that is destroying the center of New York City, and the original footage taken to document the party becomes the video material of the attack.
“ARG”
"Clover", which originally meant "Alfalfa Land", is set in a code name randomly chosen by the Ministry of Defense after finding the film, which is actually the name of the show's executive producer, J. Lee. The name of a street in front of J. Abrams' office.
J· In addition to his excellent talent as a director, J. Abrams is also a marketing genius, as early as 2007, before the release of the film, he created a series of social media accounts for the film's protagonists and websites related to companies, using the Internet to make these protagonists "live" in reality, using this "ARG" marketing method to let the audience dig out the clues of the film themselves, creating a world of film and reality mixed (Alternate Reality Game). intrusive virtual reality interactive games), giving the viewer an immersive experience.
The social media of the heroine "Beth"
Tagruato
Taruato is set in the series as a Japanese energy giant who inadvertently unleashes a giant creature from the ocean floor on a rig in the Atlantic Ocean to wreak havoc in New York, but suspiciously, there is no oil under the seabed near that drilling site, as confirmed by many environmental groups.
The taruato company's drilling platform, which was shown in the "News" at the time, capsized
More information can be unearthed from the company's "official website," such as its control of several subsidiaries, including a technology company called Bold Future, which specializes in space technology research and will appear in a later series.
But even stranger is another soft drink company called Slusho," which is the one where the protagonist, Robert Hawkins, is leaving the United States for Japan, and the energy giant's direct control of a completely unsuitable beverage company is itself very confusing.
Robert Hawkins' younger brother wears a "Sloe Show" T-shirt
Then there's something weird about the beverage company, and from some of the clues released by the producers, fans can understand that the company's soft drink brand "Sloe Show" is so popular precisely because they added the hallucinogenic deep-sea substance "Seabed's Nectar" (Seabed's Nectar). Little is known about this substance, except that they come from the deep-sea research of Taruato, the parent company of Sloxa, and some fans believe that this "seabed honey" comes from the eggs of such a huge monster, but this speculation has not been confirmed, and it means that Taruato learned of the existence of this monster very early.
In addition J· J. Abrams also added the soft drink "Sloe Show" to various film and television dramas he produced (some even before the release of The Clover Files).
American Drama "Hero"
Star Trek
This is not to say that all of the above episodes are related to the Clover Files, but simply to illustrate that J. J. Abrams is a man who is very good at marketing, using various means to build his own brand and the world of movies.
The Clover Files ends with a past image of the protagonist, Robert Hawkins, showing a calm sea and a moon falling from the sky looming in the distance. That satellite belongs to another of Taruato's aforementioned subsidiaries, Brave Future, which leads to the next work in the series, 10 Clover Road.
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At first glance, the film seems to have little connection to the previous Clover Files, and J. J. Abrams also called the film a "blood relative" or "spiritual sequel" to The Clover Files, not a sequel in the immediate sense. But the fans are not dead, so a vigorous Internet "witch hunt" is once again launched, trying to find a connection between the two. In J· Fueled by J. Abrams' marketing ploy, attentive fans have found that these two films are not just "blood relatives".
plot
"10 Clover Road" also tells the story of the aftermath of the disaster of several ordinary people, when the Earth seems to be being invaded by an alien civilization, and the heroine Michelle is rescued by Howard Stembler after a car accident, and then taken to an underground shelter by him, and together with Emit, who is already hiding there, he forms a strange three-person group and lives in an underground bunker for a long time.
However, Michelle does not believe that The Earth has been invaded, she believes that these are just lies made up by Howard because she misses her daughter, but when she tries to escape the bunker, she finds that there is really an alien spaceship flying towards her, and an alien creature has descended from it....
Monsters in 10 Clover Road
Alien spaceships
First of all, of course, there is a drink such as "Sloe Show", and the heroine can see the advertisement of this drink when she comes out of the gas station.
The film takes place after The Clover Files, at least after 2016, when Taruato's official website updated their "Best Employee of the Month" page shortly after the film's release, and among the best employees in March 2016 was Howard Stallple.
"Best Employee of the Month"
The page shows howard as a "brave future" technologist who has been there for 7 years. And from the movie, we can know that Howard was once a technician in the US Navy, involved in the satellite project "SeaSat" in the last century to monitor the Soviet Union, and it is likely that he discovered some information through satellites in the process, but the government's suppression forced him to give up his original job to conduct independent investigations, and in 2009, he joined Brave Future. This may explain why he has been suspicious of the government and convinced that the earth will be invaded.
In addition, from the best employee photos, you can see that Howard is wearing a T-shirt printed with "Radioman70", if you follow this clue to dig to find more stories between Howard and his daughter Megan, it is a complete background of this character, but this part has nothing to do with the topic today, it will not be expanded.
Howard Stambler
At the end of the film, Michelle escapes 10 Clover Road and drives to the location of the Human Resistance Army, but the existence of the "Resistance Army" itself shows that the Earth has been basically occupied by alien creatures at that time, so this is not in line with the timeline of the next movie, "Clover's Paradox".
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"Clover Paradox" was released in 2018, and before the release of Taruato's official website, they announced that they had discovered a revolutionary means of energy access, saying that it would completely change the status quo of human dependence on fossil energy, and the entire plan would be coordinated by international organizations, first spending 10 years to build an experimental space station in outer space, which is the background of the plot of "Clover Paradox" in 2028.
The Clover Paradox space station
This is obviously contrary to the timeline of "10 Clover Road", when human beings have been invaded by aliens, where is the time and energy to develop new energy technologies?
In addition, there is a fourth character in "10 Clover Road", that is, the lady who is locked outside the shelter, she is still alive in 2028 when "Clover Paradox" occurred, that is, the female reporter Leslie who appeared in the news interview screen.
Leslie of 10 Clover Road
Leslie of Clover's Paradox
So a reasonable explanation is that the space station for particle experiments in 2028 not only tore apart space-time and opened up the passage to other worlds, but also caused overlap and interaction in several different timelines, bringing different effects to those space-time.
The theory was told through the newsman interviewed scientist Mark Steinbuller, who shared the same surname as Howard Steinbuller, and the two were likely brothers. It is likely that Howard shared his research with Mark while working for Brave Future.
Mark Steinbuller was interviewed
In 10 Clover Road, Emmit once told Michelle that he had seen what had happened before the invasion.
"It looks like a flash in the sky in the distance, very bright but not fireworks, like something you have read in the Bible."
Emmitt and Michelle
This description sounds like the huge light generated by the particle accelerator in Clover's Paradox, and if so, the 2028 experiment affected not only their own space-time, but also the two timelines of 2016 and even longer, 2008.
For the sake of convenience, the following figure is used to describe it
First of all, the space station's particle accelerators activated themselves across another space-time D, which is also the starting point of countless strange events in the space station, including the astronauts who found space D in the space station.
But when they rebooted the accelerator, they returned to space-time C, but it also had an impact on the past time, tearing the space-time A and B that occurred in the previous two movies from the main timeline to form four parallel timelines.
Some theories suggest that space-time A and space-time C in 2008 are in parallel space-time, because the clover files are the same as the monsters that finally appear in Clover's Paradox, so the timeline should also be consistent, but I personally believe that there is a difference between the two.
The Clover Files behemoth
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Judging from the shape of the monster, the "Clover Files" and "Clover's Paradox" can basically be judged as one category, but the former is much smaller, about the size of the Statue of Liberty.
By the end of The Clover's Paradox, its head is already higher than the clouds, and I don't know how high the lowest cloud can be, but at least there are more monsters than before, and with monsters of this size in the world, it is hard to imagine that everyone has the leisure to study what "God particles" are.
The Clover Paradox monster
Some time ago J · J. Abrams mentioned in the interview that the monsters in the "Clover Files" are actually "babies" and were destroyed by the attack of the US military later, so it should not be the same as the "Clover Paradox"; or the same, but only grown up in different time and space?
In any case, the interpretation of the Clover series according to the existing content can only proceed here, but there are still a lot of questions waiting to be explained. Of course, if you have different comments welcome to leave me a message, thanks for reading!
To put it another way, some of the statements will be J · Another J. Abrams film, Overlord, was linked to the Clover series, though this was officially denied. Operation Overlord is indeed a fantasy film from an alternate world, but it has no connection with the Clover series.
Operation Overlord
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