Invincible Destruction King 2 poster
Reference News Network reported on November 30 that 2012's "Invincible Destruction King" was led by arcade feelings to lead the protagonist Ralph and Vanellope through various surface flat, but also three-dimensional figurative worlds, to achieve the humanity of the characters in The Mune game, which was a unique animation thinking that was a different way at that time, and now it is still lingering in the ears.
After six years, Disney once again sharpened the iron into a needle, and placed the character in the virtual network world connected by the wifi router in the sequel "Invincible Destruction King 2: The Internet", and used a piece of pure heart to save the arcade industry that was about to "pass away".
Pop-up ads also have real looks
The incident began with a damaged machine handle in Vanellope's game Sweet Rush. Because the manufacturer of this game console has long been closed, and the controller is only sold on the Internet, mr. Triwack, the owner of the game hall, is disgusted that the selling price is too high, and decides to shut down the game permanently. In a play based on a generally realistic theme, this is almost an insoluble contradiction, and "Invincible Destruction King 2" was born in the internet era when the interconnection reached its peak, Ralph is no longer limited to acting as a mechanized saboteur in the game, he actively becomes the savior who saves the role of the players of "Sweet Rush", including Vanellope. In order to buy the "orphan" controller and repair the game console, he did not hesitate to sit on the data string that was ejected (the transmission of data in the movie is referred to as a high-speed traffic catapult process - this online note) in front of the unknown black hole of the Internet, and entered a new world.
Immediately after, the data city presented to the audience is so familiar to us, Twitter, Weibo, Facebook, Youtu, Tmall, Yibei, Google... All kinds of social media, shopping websites, pop-up windows, search engines, etc., are all materialized into trusts (referring to companies that have formed a monopoly situation in the market - this network note) buildings, information exchange centers and specific human forms that correspond to both image and function in reality.
This is almost the same as the anthropomorphic setting of the first part of "Invincible Destruction King", but the challenge to imagination is obviously much more difficult, and the main thing that needs to be solved in the first part is how to transform the two-dimensional red and white machine image into a three-dimensional and plump three-dimensional dynamic. The construction of the environment in which the narrative of the first film advances is relatively traceable. But the characters in Invincible Destruction King 2 are driven from a familiar world into new territories full of infinite possibilities. So no layman can know what kind of busy backstage is hidden behind the pages of the Ebe website — let alone simplifying the process of data exchange into intuitive animation imagination.
Anthropomorphic presentation of pop-up ads
The green pop-up brother in Invincible Destruction King 2 is a representative example of converting these abstract and invisible data into concrete. The image of him holding the advertising board in his hand is the true appearance of similar practitioners in real life, and it is also the image reflection of the pop-up advertisement on the web page. Examples of this abound in the film. The success of the film lies in helping the audience to cross the barriers of visual imagination and more directly transform the interaction of the world inside the network into a real scene of real human life.
Cold machines produce rich emotions
There is a saying that the driving force for completing the function of the Internet to change the world is not human-computer interaction itself, but the process of re-interacting and colliding with a new scene through the network. In the film, in order to raise a huge amount of money to buy the controller, Ralph bravely went to the battle, recording videos of the pop website in various masochistic ways, posting them to the front desk, in exchange for massive likes to earn compensation. Interestingly, it is not the actual web developers who drive Ralph to do this, but the "Zanjie" who dominates this revenue-generating system in cyberspace.
Visualized presentation of hardware and software operations and feedback
The logical algorithm of Ralph's "internet celebrity" video generated by the network is based on the preferences of real viewers in reality as the basis for calculating data. To some extent, the psychological processes of the real world are seamlessly transplanted into the online world, creating new souls in the cold machines and the cyberspace with infinite possibilities.
This is also the basis for "Invincible Destruction King 2" to use its imagination to shape the cloud world while maintaining an emotional and mental bond with the audience in the theater. Fundamentally, Invincible Destruction King 2 is still a collective expression of American values of struggle and reunion. Ralph has gone through all kinds of hardships, nothing more than hoping to complete a friendship reunion with Vanellope in the context of "difficulty elimination". However, the story of Ralph Vanellope's two best friends did not end there. The ultimate dilemma of the film is transformed from a material "buy handle" to a spiritual "homecoming" dilemma - in the face of the more exciting and challenging car game "Wild Drag Racing" and the appearance of the car friend "Flash Sister" in the new virtual world, Vanellope gradually left the idea of leaving the traditional game world "Sweet Sprint".
Her misalignment with Ralph's goals led to a replicant virus that specializes in capturing vulnerabilities in network systems, creating a major event that nearly collapsed the entire network. Just as the "Flash Sister" in the film said, "There is no law that the best friend must have the same dream", if Ralph's obsession with sincere friendship is the attack weapon of the virus, then Ralph's reflection on sincere friendship is the "panacea" to relieve the virus crisis. In the end, the ending of the film is also based on "sincerity", which solves all problems.
Disney IP poured out
Audiences who have a special love for the last movie may be slightly uncomfortable with "Invincible Destruction King 2" that is out of the red and white machine scene, but the value orientation and realization path of the two "Invincible Destruction King" are very clear about Disney's creative intentions.
Disney 14 Princesses and Vanellope selfies
The Disney IP that almost poured out of the nest
Especially in the second part, through the infinite diversity of scenes in the interconnected space, almost all of Disney's own or harvested classic signature characters in the past few decades are combined. From "Snow White" to "Frozen", from "Toy Story" to "Genesis", the Disney IP that is almost poured out has realized the "Avengers" camp in the sense of Disney animation genealogy. In this process, the classic image makes indiscriminate ridicule of its own characteristics and the status of film history, and also takes a key step in the film to narrow the distance with the audience.
All the characters in "Invincible Destruction King 2" make the audience feel that they are intimate characters rather than rigid animation characters, which is especially important in today's theatrical movies. "Invincible Destruction King 2" from shaping the star aura to active disenchantment, between the in and out of the easy, although Disney has the meaning of naked cultural hegemony, but from the perspective of pure appreciation, it is absolutely acceptable. No matter how the world changes, guarding and constantly emphasizing the "original intention" may be the core secret of the success of today's cultural industrial products. (Text/Lonely Island Lord)