Recently, Netflix's new drama "Squid Game" has caused a boom around the world, not only the amount of playback is huge, the degree of discussion is also very high, and even created a lot of memes (memes, Chinese the corresponding word is the stem).
Many people are not enjoyable enough to watch "Squid Game", this time to introduce you to some additional battle royale works, and then in the writing analysis of the reasons why the battle royale genre works are deeply loved.
First of all, it is clear that the core of the battle royale work is to compete for the final winner through competition or killing, so the types of focus on escape days such as "Escape room" and "Panic Side" are not counted.
Zushiye's work "Battle Royale"
"Battle Royale" Douban score 8.0
"Battle Royale 2: Soul Song" Douban score 5.3
Originally a professional wrestling term for fighting royal, which refers to a match in which multiple wrestlers fight together to be eliminated to the last person, in 1999, Japanese writer Hiroharu Takami wrote a dystopian novel "Battle Royale" Battle royale has since become the English language for battle royale. In 2000, Japanese director Shinji Fukasaku adapted the novel into a movie, and in the same year the novel was also adapted into the manga "Survival Game" (the manga is really yellow storm, more out of line than the movie).
The plot of the movie is actually very simple, the Japanese government randomly draws a class from schools across the country every year, sends it to a desert island, provides weapons and supplies, and lets them slaughter each other, and the last person who survives can leave. The film laid the foundation for many of the battle royale genre' productions, such as random weapons, buddy betrayals, forbidden areas (circle-shrinking mechanics), and so on. In order to prevent spoilers, I will not go into detail about the plot, this movie was also highly discussed on the Internet that year, the deviant setting, mutual betrayal, massacre, naked violent display, the contrast between students and violence, let many people in the name of perversion, but youth and violence are highly correlated, overall is a work worth watching, provided that the tolerance for bloody violent shots is high.
By the way, the sequel to the movie "Battle Royale 2: Town Soul Song" has a mixed reputation, I personally think it is possible to watch, but to reduce expectations, if you watch the first part is not enough fun, you can continue to watch the second part.
Gambling Apocalypse Series
"Gambling Apocalypse" Douban score 7.3
"Gambling Apocalypse 2" Douban score 6.7
"Gambling Apocalypse 3" Douban score 5.5
The Chinese remake of "Animal World" has a Douban score of 7.2
Gambling Apocalypse is an adaptation of a manga serialized by manga artist Nobuyuki Fukumoto in 1996, adapted into the anime Kaiji Adversity in 2007, and adapted into a movie in 2009.
The protagonist Kaiji is played by the male protagonist Fujiwara Ryuya in the movie version of "Battle Royale", plus the night god moon in the live-action version, Fujiwara Ryu is really the best candidate to play the role of neurotic type. By the way, Fujiwara Ryu also acted in a secret room mystery drama "Calculation: Seven Days of Death Game", the staff is very good, gathering everyone's wives Ayase Haruka and Ishihara Rimi, interested can find out.
Film director Tomiya Sato is a well-known Japanese drama director who has directed "Proofreading Girl Etsuko Kono" (a good drama play played by everyone's ex-wife Rimi Ishihara), "Housewife Mita" (the topic of the year), "Memorandum of Tomo on todayko" (starring everyone's ex-wife Yui Niigaki, Nishio Weishin's original novel, super good-looking mystery drama), the mythological drama "my boss my hero" (Nagase Tomoya + Yui Niigaki, the comedy of the elderly underworld to go to high school), "Extreme Yoshishi" (starring Yuki Nakama, The comedy of the underworld going to be a teacher), the Series of "Kaneda Ichi Shonen Incident Book".
The plot of gambling apocalypse is about the protagonist Kaiji, because he became a guarantor to repay a huge amount of usury, and when he could not repay it, he could only board the gambling ship of the Hope and fight hard, and if he lost, he would be a slave to mine and dig coal, and if he won, he would be financially free. It can be clearly seen that there are many settings that are borrowed from the Squid Game, such as participants who owe huge debts, voluntarily board the ship, mysterious organizations hold gambling games, etc., but compared to the games of the Squid Games, the game of gambling apocalypse is relatively much more complex, and the component of fighting wisdom is very heavy.
The Chinese remake of "Animal World" is also very good, in addition to the protagonist hanging clown animation is a bit out of the scene, the film texture, game performance, actor acting skills are good, but also added a mysterious organization and a main line of the protagonist's father, but unfortunately the director Han Yan did not do the right thing, halfway to shoot "Send You a Little Red Flower", resulting in the second part of the delay.
This series of works is recommended for friends who like to fight with wits.
"As the Gods Say" Douban scored 6.6
In fact, this film itself is not suitable for most friends, because the manga is not finished at the time of shooting, so the whole plot is very strange.
The main story of the movie is that Takahata, a high school student who is tired of life, suddenly gets involved in a strange game with his classmates, participates in one game after another, and the person who loses will die, so the students are forced to play games in order to survive.
The movie was also directly borrowed from "Squid Game", the games in the film are all variants of the game of teenagers, such as 123 Wooden Man is the first to appear in "As the Gods Say", and the headshot is moved.
The director is Takashi Miike, the director of "Hot Blood College", and Takashi Miike has focused on comic films in recent years, but most of the finished products are very bad, such as "Jojo's Wonderful Adventure", "Infinite Occupant", "Mars Xenomorph", "Mole Song", "Reverse Referee", and no longer live up to the aura of "Hot Blood College".
Jojo is simply outrageous
Finally, the game part of the movie can be seen, but the main plot is simply a god stick, do not take the brain to investigate deeply when watching, otherwise it will vomit blood, suitable for friends who are interested in the children's game of "Squid Game" can watch it.
"Death Speed" Douban score 7.6
This is my personal selfishness, which can be regarded as a pan-major battle royale work. The main plot is that in 2012, the economic situation in the United States deteriorated, the crime rate soared, private prisons became illegal areas, death car races were held, and the former racing driver male protagonist (Jason Staines) was unjustly imprisoned and forced to participate in the race. The format of the race is a modified car racing, but not only is there a trap on the track, but each car has weapons to kill each other. The whole movie is purely cool, more enjoyable speed and passion, drag racing, modified disfigured chariots, various weapons and traps caused by the strange death, cool flying.
The director is Paul Anderson, the man who made Resident Evil for his wife, so the overall tone you know, brainless violence is right. Guoda Statham's brainless cool film, you can trust.
This film is suitable for friends who are tired of complex human nature, aesthetic fatigue of wisdom fighting, and need to watch some brainless cool films that are not bad.
Deception Game
The first season of Douban scored 8.4
The second season of Douban scored 8.5
The movie version of Douban scored 7.9
The 2007 Japanese drama, which is also my work of wrestling works, is set to not deceive the female college student Nao Kanzaki (Toda Keirika) is involved in a game of "liargame", because of the credulity of others, the heroine was cheated of 100 million yen, and turned to the genius fraudster Akiyama Fukachi (Shota Matsuda), and the two teamed up to participate in the game and find out who was behind the scenes. In terms of human design, it is typical of silly white sweet with high IQ black and deep cruelty, all games are deceiving each other, and the wisdom fight part is very exciting. However, a little bit of routine is that although it is a game of mutual deception, the heroine still implements love and integrity, although there is growth, but to be honest, it is a bit deliberately routine, and the sense of surprise is relatively poor.
At that time, there were many fraudulent genre works in Japan, such as Tomohisa Yamashita's "Fraudster Hunter" and "Marriage Fraudster", etc., but the trend was also so for a while, and the same type of theme was alive later, that is, Nagasawa Masami's "Cheating the World JP" (Sesame sauce yyds).
The TV series has 2 seasons and a movie version and sp, which is highly recommended.
A few more to add
"Killing City" live-action movies are really not OK, it is recommended to watch "Killing City: o" cg movies, as well as animated versions or simply comic originals.
"Belco Experiment" Office Battle Royale, belongs to the general B-grade film, the coolest is to meet the bad taste of everyone fxxk wise boss, the plasma is strong.
"Alice in the Land of the Dead" Last year's topic work, should like the battle royale type of friends have seen, here will not be repeated.
"Campus Battle Royale" is very lackluster, and the only highlight is that it is broadcast live while the campus massacre is carried out, keeping a close eye on current events.