Chapter 415: Edge of Tomorrow 1
"Edge of Tomorrow" was scheduled to be released simultaneously in many places during Valentine's Day in 1987. Of course, the three most important places were undoubtedly China, Hong Kong, the United States and Japan, and in terms of publicity, the United States and Japan were particularly important.
After all, Hong Kong suffers from being too small, and its box office revenue is always far behind other places. It is only because of its regional advantages and the bonus of being Su Yun's hometown that it has a certain amount of publicity resources.
America has always been fond of science fiction themes, and there was also the scandal between Su Yun and Tom as a prelude. This movie, which was produced and scheduled for release in a rush, was more or less riding on the afterglow of the scandal and people's expectations for Su Yun to return to science fiction films.
As for the box office revenue in Japan, it has always been something that should not be underestimated. In addition, the gaming industry in Japan has always been flourishing and has great potential. This time-travel and reincarnation theme, which has a very gaming "flavor" in the plot, coupled with the recently popular mecha elements, has made the Japanese people respond to it with an indescribable enthusiasm, right?
At dawn, after dressing up, Akina Nakamori took Amami Yuki, who was known as her "junior sister", to watch the premiere of Su Yun's new movie.
Amami Yuki is a talent that Su Yun has been eyeing for a long time, and she has been working very hard in recent years, with excellent grades in the music school. She will be ready to join the opera troupe after graduating this year.
Su Yun has been busy flying around in recent years, and she only checks on company affairs when she has time, let alone guiding new employees step by step like she used to. So, Akina Nakamori consciously took over her position as the leader, and while she was busy with her own career, she would also try her best to take time to take care of her junior.
Compared to her not-so-troublesome family members, Amami Yuki is just a well-behaved and obedient junior, except that she is so tall and handsome that the paparazzi mistaken her for her new boyfriend - of course, she quickly came out to clarify the "scandal", directly confirming the identities of the two sisters to the public, and quickly suppressing the small chaos caused by the scandal.
Because of this clarification, the two of them interacted more than before: before, they were afraid that paparazzi would harass Yuki Amami, so they tried to keep a low profile when they interacted with each other. Now that their relationship has been exposed, and Seiko Matsuda is busy with her marriage and work at the moment, the two are relatively free, so naturally they interact more.
Compared to the miserable and sad image of Akina Nakamori singing "Shipwreck" that most people in China have, in the eyes of people of this era, she tends to be more lively, cheerful and has personality, even a little chatterbox, with a typical girlish appearance and sister voice. After having more freedom, she will change the song selection according to her own preferences and challenge more styles. She is on a completely different path from Seiko Matsuda, who has been following the perfect idol route.
In addition, she intends to repeat the path of Su Yun's guide back then, and bring out a girl with dreams to experience the state of mind that Su Yun felt when she was with her. Therefore, she is sometimes strict with her junior sister Amami Yuki, which makes the usually cheerful Amami Yuki feel a bit of love and fear towards her.
This is probably the unique suppression of talents by "sisters" over the younger generation, right?
Tian Hai Youxi held the popcorn in her hand and thought in confusion: It just so happens that the movie we watch tonight also belongs to another "sister". In her memory, Su Yun is a little more gentle...
Although Su Yun’s character in the poster is wearing a mecha and is called “Angel of Verdun”, she looks more like a heroic Valkyrie - but it doesn’t matter, most of Su Yun’s roles are beautiful and charming beauties. Occasionally changing her style doesn’t mean she is a Valkyrie.
With such a beautiful thought in mind, Amami Yuki put the popcorn and drinks on the side of her senior sister, and then focused on watching the screen where the movie was about to start.
The movie opens with Tom in a high-ranking major’s uniform, and his appearance is quite similar to the hit movie “The Last Jedi”…
But it is limited to appearance.
This time, Tom's character, Major William Cage, is a civilian official doing propaganda work. When he heard the general's plan to let him land on the beach with the first wave of soldiers tomorrow, he immediately refused bluntly and stated shamelessly that he is a professional propaganda man, unlike you professional combatants.
Seeing such a cowardly face, the general, who was already in a complicated mood due to the losses in the battle, frowned.
William still couldn't see the situation clearly at this time, and he said recklessly that he had already encouraged millions of people to join the army. If he publicized that the general forced a clerk like him to go to the front, it would not be difficult for him to convince people to blame the general...
Seeing the expressionless face of the general, William thought his threat was successful. He turned around and walked out of the door. He had only taken a few steps when the angry general called for his men to catch him on the spot, knock him unconscious, and then sent directly to the front line.
Moreover, the general not only demoted William, but also wrote a letter to the corresponding receiving unit, saying that he was a cowardly deserter, which made Sergeant Farrell, who came to receive William, very rude to him.
William, who had just woken up from a coma, looked at the handcuffs in his hands and the bustling base in disbelief. Before he had time to think, he was kicked in the back: "Stand up, rubbish!"
On such a front-line battlefield, those who are greedy for life, afraid of death and have the nature of deserters are simply at the bottom of the food chain.
Ignoring William's desperate explanation, Sergeant Farrell sent William to the barracks dormitory and then assigned him to a small team, where he began training directly in mecha. According to the brief introduction in the previous plot, this kind of mecha can transform new recruits with no combat experience into extremely powerful war weapons in a short period of time. The heroine Rita, a special forces female warrior played by Su Yun, was wearing this kind of mecha, which enabled her to win a beautiful victory in the Verdun battlefield against aliens a few days ago.
Compared to many science fiction blockbusters that also tell the story of the war between aliens and humans, this "Edge of Tomorrow" is very neat and omits many preludes of the alien invasion, and the war is already in progress from the beginning.
As soon as the plot begins, there is already a sense of tension with conflicting focuses, which makes the audience involuntarily feel like the male protagonist William, who is pushed into a world that seems to be somewhat understood but seems to have countless problems without any warning.
William's experience lived up to the audience's "expectations". Not long after training, he was forced to join the team in the second battle against aliens on the second day.
This was much worse than the previous situation when he said he didn't want to be the first wave to land on the beach battlefield with the photography team - this time, he was going directly to the battlefield as the lowest-ranking private, which was essentially cannon fodder.
The landing location this time was a beach, and most of the people on the plane were recruits. They were attacked before they even started landing. When a group of soldiers made an emergency landing, some of them who were not very good at operating mechas were killed... This chaotic start, in which they lost some lives before even entering the battlefield, made the audience angry and amused.
As a newbie among newbies, William landed face first. Seeing that handsome face sinking directly into the muddy water without reservation, even fans who loved Tom's handsome appearance couldn't help laughing out loud.
However, bad things always happen one after another. When William finally stood up, he saw with his own eyes that the fat teammate who slept in the same dormitory with him yesterday was submerged by the wreckage of the crashed plane before he could even finish his cheers of "We landed successfully".
William finally realized that he was in a life-and-death battlefield, and he could no longer hold back and fiddled with the mecha's operating interface, hoping to open the mecha's built-in tutorial...
After a while, he successfully opened the Japanese version of the novice tutorial.
Hearing the Japanese prompts of the mecha system and the instant switching of the Japanese interface, William in the play was dumbfounded, but the audience outside the play was already laughing: especially since this is Japan, there is no need for subtitles to explain, and all the audience can understand and understand the voice prompts and Japanese interface.
The only unfortunate thing is the male protagonist, who is like a poor guy who skipped all the tutorials, switched to the wrong system prompt language and didn't know how to change it back. He is wearing an infinitely cumbersome mecha and performing a completely incompatible and confused movement in the chaotic battlefield...
In complete contrast to William's style of appearing to be a comedic character, the heroine Rita, played by Su Yun, appears on the screen in a mecha and kills everyone.
William fell to the ground, looking at the flying yellow sand and mud. The figure known as the "Angel of Verdun" was killing people on the battlefield wearing a mecha exoskeleton that looked more difficult to control than his own.
When the fast-moving, multi-legged, octopus-like alien came nearby, the Valkyrie holding a long sword made William, who was unable to crawl on the ground, look like a scoundrel among scoundrels.
Just as the audience was looking forward to the first meeting between the hero and heroine, the next second, Rita, who looked like a Valkyrie, was suddenly knocked down by a sneak attack from behind. She fell on the spot in the sand pit next to William, with her eyes closed and she died.
"What happened?!" The heroine died horribly not long after the opening of the play, which made all the audience outside the play look confused and surprised.
William was so frightened by the slaughterhouse-like scene that he struggled to get up and walked back, but was grabbed by Sergeant Farrell, who had previously shown disgust at his "deserter" attribute, and was pushed back forcefully.
"This is impossible. We are launching a raid today. Why do they seem to have known that we are going to launch a raid at this time today..." A wounded soldier on the roadside muttered to himself as William was forcibly pushed back to the battlefield.
Unfortunately, the urgency of the war did not allow William to think too much. His teammates and superiors in the bunker were all fighting. Under the heavy pressure, he could only shout and wave his mecha arm that could not attack: "My insurance! How do I open my insurance?!"
Perhaps the protagonist always has a bit of luck, because by accident, William actually managed to disable the safety device of his weapon under the "cover" of his teammates and superiors.
At this time, his teammates and superiors had already been defeated in the battle with the aliens, and his sudden fierce attack actually successfully cleared out all the enemies in the sand pit.
Before William could feel proud for even two seconds, a blue-skinned alien suddenly crawled out from nowhere among a group of gray-skinned aliens with octopus-like skins that could be seen everywhere on the battlefield.
The blue-skinned alien noticed the situation, and its pupils, which were blue to the point of being almost black, immediately turned around and stared at him.
Seeing the blue-skinned aliens and the gray-skinned aliens rushing towards the sand pit, William subconsciously pointed the weapon he had reloaded at the bombs placed nearby...
The blood of the blue-skinned aliens that were killed in the explosion covered everything in front of him. In this overwhelming blue-black color, he, like these enemies, was about to face the end of his life.
The next moment, William, with a terrified face, suddenly woke up with a scream.
William looked at the handcuffs in his hands and the noisy base around him in disbelief. Before he had time to think, he was kicked in the back: "Stand up, rubbish!"
Looking up, he saw the officer he had seen die on the battlefield, and Sergeant Farrell who had died before him.