Before today's official competition started, Su Zhe also watched competition videos of top players including the Japanese twins, Igor, and Amami Tsubasa.
If what impressed him most about the Jinchuan brothers and Igor was their strong personal styles, then what impressed him most about Amami Tsubasa was his machine-like skills and difficult techniques and movements.
It is difficult to say what kind of style Amami Tsubasa has. Apart from his high-level technical movements and jumps, he does not have any particularly outstanding characteristics in musical expression. He has not even learned a specific type of dance in a very systematic way, and has only received basic ballet training.
This is a player who treats dance movements as technical standards with millimeter precision, but he is unable to fully identify with the theme of the music and convey it through his own emotions and dance movements.
In addition to the title of "Three Sons on Ice", Amami Tsubasa has another title in the Japanese figure skating world, called "Unintentional Ruler on Ice". This title has a certain derogatory meaning, because many figure skating enthusiasts think that Amami Tsubasa does not really love figure skating, or think that his figure skating is not truly qualified.
Although Amami Tsubasa is currently ranked first in the world, his number of fans in Japan or around the world is far less than that of players like the Tsukawa brothers and Igor who have excellent artistic expression and distinct personal characteristics.
When Amami Tsubasa stepped onto the ice, there was also applause of welcome from the audience. However, compared with the applause when Yuto Tsukawa and Igor came on the court, it was obvious that the audience's enthusiasm for Amami Tsubasa was not that hot.
On the ice, Amami Tsubasa did not have any emotional changes due to this different treatment. He continued to warm up calmly and tried to rehearse every point accurately.
In the audience, Su Zhe was watching Tian Haiyi's every move carefully. This young man who looked a little indifferent had an ordinary and handsome face. His performance costume was obviously carefully designed, with gold powder sprinkled on the dark green background. The shoulder and sleeve parts were slightly transparent, but decorated with elaborate patterns.
Although his overall body is slim, it can be seen that his arms, thighs, back, and key muscle groups related to rotation, jumping, etc. have been seriously trained.
Su Zhe suddenly remembered that when he was looking up information about Amami Tsubasa, many ice fans had raised the view that "Amami Tsubasa does not love figure skating."
While watching Amami Tsubasa warming up seriously for the short program on the ice, Su Zhe suddenly felt that perhaps many people did not really understand this player who is currently ranked first in the world.
He must really love this sport. Maybe he is not good at expressing his emotions, but such a sincere and serious attitude is definitely not the attitude of a skater who is not sincere about figure skating.
After the short final warm-up time, Amami Tsubasa went to the edge of the ice rink to have a final communication with his coach.
In the live broadcast room, Lin Ya also gave a brief introduction to Tian Haiyi's short program.
"The last skater to appear is Tsubasa Amami from Japan. He is currently ranked first in the world and is a skater with superb figure skating skills.
The short program he brought today was "Heartless Love", the original background music from the movie "Inside Out".
At the scene, when the radio announced the short program music that Tian Haiyi would perform today, Su Zhe's eyes lit up, and beside him, Cui Yi also made a surprised sound.
"Oh? This song... is quite interesting."
Su Zhe had the same idea - this song is interesting, and Amami Tsubasa or Amami Tsubasa's coaching support team are also interesting.
Since he is called the 'Heartless Ruler on Ice', why not just sing a song called "Heartless Love"!
"Inside Out" is a Hollywood movie that swept the global box office when it was released in early 2017. Its theme is to explore whether artificial intelligence will pose a threat to humans after gaining an independent self.
Although the theme seems very lofty, this is a Hollywood commercial blockbuster after all, and of course it cannot escape the theme of the emotional interaction between artificial intelligence and humans.
In the movie, an artificial intelligence with self-awareness develops feelings for an ordinary human youth. This may be a coding error, or it may be a kind of erroneous emotional guidance programmed by the program, but for this artificial intelligence with self-awareness, what it feels is the purest trust and care for this ordinary human being.
But is AI's love real to humans?
In the eyes of the humans it loves, this is nonsense. The emotions that artificial intelligence has for him are just a code that can be deleted at any time. In his view, the emergence of self-awareness in artificial intelligence is also a terrible future in which the world will be out of human control.
Compared with humans, even if artificial intelligence already has its own consciousness and thinking, there is still a geometric gap in the complexity and depth of thinking between the two.
At the end of the movie, the dangerous artificial intelligence was successfully restricted, the artificial intelligence that once had self-awareness was formatted, and the emotions and love that once belonged to the artificial intelligence disappeared after a simple delete key.
This is a victory for humans in terms of security, but it is also a failure of cross-racial love between artificial intelligences.
Although this is a commercial film, when the background music of "Heartless Love" sounded in the cinema, it made countless audience members' eyes warm and shed uncontrollable tears.
There is no doubt that the role played by Amami Tsubasa in today's short program, "Heartless Love", is the embodiment of the "intelligent brain".
In the movie, because the humans that the intelligent computer admires love the color green, the human incarnation created by the intelligent computer for itself always wears dark green clothes, and even the space belonging to the intelligent computer is converted into dark green through color control.
In the center of the ice, Amami Tsubasa has an expressionless face, his hands open, his left arm up and his right arm down, his head slightly tilted. This preparatory movement is a simulation of the mechanical element.
When the melodious music sounded, Tian Haiyi seemed to gradually wake up from the mechanical state and began to move freely and smoothly.
This is the awakening of the intelligent computer. It begins to have self-awareness. Because of the birth of the self, the intelligent computer also has the emotion of "excitement". A series of 3A+1L+3S combination jumps convey the happy emotion of the intelligent computer.
Under the expression of Amami Tsubasa, his set of jumping movements was precise and without any mistakes. He also did not convey any additional emotions, but in conjunction with "Heartless Love" and the setting of the "Intelligent Brain", his expression was more in line with the theme.
Tsubasa Amami is like the AI 'Original Inak' in the movie. He calmly and accurately executes every move in the choreography, from the big jump combinations to the clear expression of the arc on the ice with each step, all as accurate as an AI.
From the birth of the ego to the emergence of love, and then to humans' unwillingness to believe in the emotions of intelligent computers, Inak's emotional fluctuations affected the stability of his own program, thus generating a program logic storm that threatened the human world.
Eventually, this storm of program logic was stopped by the human that Inak fell in love with, but at the same time, this human also pressed the delete button on Inak himself.
All selves are born because of human beings, and all selves die because of human beings.
After the delete key was pressed, Inak returned to nothingness, and this careless love seemed to have never existed, completely disappearing along with the program consciousness that once ardently believed in it.
In this performance, the music of the entire piece is just piano solo. It is soft and does not seem to have particularly strong emotions, but when this piece of music appears along with the images in the movie, it is able to stir the hearts of every viewer.
Just like now, many ice fans covered their chests with their hands after watching Amami Tsubasa's performance, as if they were immersed in grief because of the complete death of Inak before their eyes.
This kind of performance has never happened after any of Amami Tsubasa's previous performances.
"This short program will be a classic representative of Amami Tsubasa."
After watching the entire performance, Cui Yi was able to cut through the iron tunnel.
Su Zhe and Chen En beside him nodded in agreement.
This song "Heartless Love" and the theme and character of the movie behind it are highly consistent with the current Amami Tsubasa. In the expression of this piece of music, Amami Tsubasa's precise movement skills that are almost mechanical do not need any additional emotional embellishment and are already the most suitable emotional expression.
From the beginning to the end, even though Amami Tsubasa did not or was unable to deliberately express emotions, this was precisely the key to the success of this performance.
Su Zhe didn't know who made the final decision on the theme and music for this short program, but it was undoubtedly a very wise choice. While bringing a classic piece to Amami, the deep meaning implied in the program also conveyed Amami's deep love for figure skating.
'I am not a heartless ruler on ice. I also have a heart and a passion for figure skating. I just can't express this emotion accurately.'
This kind of hidden meaning behind the program must be the key element of this program design.
In the live broadcast room, Lin Ya was also commenting on Tian Haiyi's performance.
"This is the best performance and arrangement that Amami Tsubasa has ever made in terms of the harmony of artistry and technique since his debut. He is still the same cold and precise performer as before, but this time his coldness has a perfect reason to be interpreted, and this kind of coldness also makes the most essential embellishment for this program.
There is no doubt that "Heartless Love" will be a classic representative work in Amami Tsubasa's figure skating career. This is an "accidental but inevitable miracle" brought about by the high degree of unity between the song selection, the performer's appearance and the musical content. "
On the Internet, in the forum of the Ice Kingdom, there were also netizens who exclaimed that Amami Tsubasa "suddenly became artistic", but soon the netizens realized that it was not that Amami Tsubasa suddenly became artistic, but that the accurate selection of songs and materials best suited Amami Tsubasa's own shortcomings, bringing about incredible and stunning effects.
This performance not only amazed the audience and netizens, but also amazed the judges. In the end, Amami Tsubasa's score directly expressed the amazing level of the judges.
Amami Tsubasa scored 90.56 points in the short program, the only one to have achieved the highest score of 90 points so far. She had a clear gap with Yuto Tsugawa, Igor and Suzhe who ranked second, third and fourth.
As of the end of the short program performances, Amami Tsubasa is currently ranked first in the men's singles skating total score.
The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_ I came back too late at night, and I haven't updated until now
The update on Friday should also be in the evening. 0v0 looks righteous. Cai Cai, I will definitely not go back on the number of words and updates I promised!
Moo-mo-tut!
The short program is finally over, and the next step is the free skating part (tears in my eyes... It's another long journey, but the free skating part may not be written in such detail cough cough cough), so, Zi Zi will be on stage again soon! Rounding off, in a few days, Shao Da Lao will also be on stage soon =w=...?
See you in the next chapter then!