Chapter 42 Midnight Horror

"Can I touch her?" On the way back to the cabin, Vivian and her fellow patient, the little girl, looked at the oriental doll in Zhuang Long's arms with starry eyes.

After seeing Zhuang Long nod, the two of them immediately stretched out their hands happily, one pinching her hands and the other pulling her hair, with satisfied looks on their faces.

Su Yun, disguised as a doll, remained calm: Fortunately, these two are not the kind of naughty kids with strong destructive desires, but good girls who are obedient and know how to cherish their toys.

If it were those naughty kids who couldn't feel comfortable unless their toys were disassembled into parts, then even with the help of the system, she would not endure such suffering in this world.

Originally, Zhuang Long and Lin Jingying were planning to make a box overnight, and then put some plastic fake flowers in it to help Su Yun pretend to be a doll to cover it up. As a result, Su Yun waved her hand and said: The box is too fake and it is not convenient to operate after entering the house. It’s okay, I can handle it!

In the original version of "Artificial Intelligence", the young actor Haley who played the protagonist, the robot boy, had the talent of not blinking for a long time, so he suggested to the director Spielberg at the time that "robots don't blink" to express the difference between humans and robots in the movie.

Spielberg took his advice and made it a requirement for actors who played robots, requiring other actors who played robots not to blink when they were filmed.

In fact, having witnessed the era when AlphaGo defeated the human Go champion, Su Yun felt that the fact that robots cannot blink was no longer a technical problem: by making a simulated eyelid and then inputting a timed activity data program or setting a random activity value range within a certain period of time, it would be possible to produce the perfect effect of a real person blinking.

But it was still the 1970s and people had no accurate concept of what robots could be. If they were made too real and perfect, they would seem fake to the audience.

It would be better to make these simulated robots look very much like real humans, but give them an unavoidable fatal "BUG", thereby greatly reducing the difficulty for the audience to distinguish between robots and humans.

When Su Yun was working on "The Perfect Match", she used typical commercial film thinking: for the benefit of children and a considerable number of viewers with a slightly lower level of knowledge, the plot of the movie was simple, old-fashioned and melodramatic, and the characters in the movie were not special either, with the good guys and the bad guys strictly separated. After the movie, all you had to do was laugh and have some popcorn in your hands.

After all, the biggest reason most people go to the cinema is to relax during their rare break.

Another important point is that commercial films that are too brain-burning are not conducive to box office revenue - after all, there are always more ordinary people than smart people in this world. Art films that do not pursue box office but only artistic effects will be popular no matter how obscure they are; but if the plot of commercial films aimed at the general public is a little difficult to understand, they may lose some viewers with poor reading ability.

For the sake of box office, it is difficult for commercial films to talk about art and content.

Similarly, as a commercial filmmaker, there is no need to pursue awards or box office. As long as the story is told in a way that most audiences can understand, it is already a qualified good story and a qualified "good" movie.

If you add some sentimental or funny plot highlights to the film, then you have basically created a commercial film that will not lose money.

Su Yun took this into consideration, so when she decided to make "Artificial Intelligence" her second film, she started to take time out to practice the art of staring.

Her hasty practice was definitely not as good as the original young actor's natural talent, but she had a system while the other actor had talent, and she made up for the gap with the system's auxiliary functions and her own efforts.

As mentioned before, when Su Yun used the system black room, his eyes were slightly lowered as if he was in deep thought. Moreover, the system black room can be adjusted to a maximum of eight times fast forward, and conversely, it can also be slowed down.

With the help of the system, the rise and fall of her chest during breathing was slowed down to the slowest and weakest, and her heartbeat was suppressed to the lowest frequency that would not affect her life. Combined with the wide floral dress, it was difficult to conceal her condition, unless one got close to her chest and listened to her heart sounds and felt her breathing for a while. Otherwise, it would be difficult to tell that she was still a living person - with these two things combined, her body temperature naturally dropped to a somewhat cool level.

I had to keep my eyes open without blinking just now and afterwards, and I'll have to use eye drops for a few nights to maintain them.

Su Yun thought about this in her heart and blinked secretly under Zhuang Long's cover, which made her feel relieved.

In front of us is the small wooden house where Kuburick temporarily lives.

"Dad, look what I brought back!" After the car drove to an open space and stopped, Vivian, who wanted to tell her family the good news that she had won the prize, pushed open the car door and jumped up and down to cheer.

The little girl, a fellow patient, followed Zhuang Long out of the car reluctantly, but her eyes were still fixed on Su Yun, the "Oriental Doll".

Her father exchanged a few pleasantries with Kubrick, then came back and coaxed the little girl, a fellow patient who was reluctant to part with her Oriental doll, into the car: "Be good, tomorrow Daddy will take you to buy a doll. I'll buy you your favorite, your favorite...Rubby doll?"

"It's a Barbie doll!" The little girl, a fellow patient, took one last look at Su Yun, and then hurriedly corrected her father's mistake, "Not only do I want a Barbie, I also want to buy her two matching dresses!"

"Okay, okay, I'll do whatever you say." It was a rare occasion that his daughter was discharged from the hospital after recovering from her illness, so as a silly father, he naturally agreed to everything. "Daddy doesn't know how to choose that dress, so let's go buy it together with your sister..."

After Vivian waved goodbye to her fellow patient, the little girl, with a smile on her face, she turned her expectant gaze to Zhuang Long who was holding Su Yun.

"Give it to me, I'll help Vivian put this big doll in the room." The nanny said as she reached out.

Zhuang Long shook his head and smiled softly: "This doll has many parts. People who are not familiar with its structure may easily scatter it. Is there a chair in here? I will help you put her on the chair and arrange her properly."

"Yes! My room is in the attic!" Vivian pointed to the attic of the cabin excitedly, "I'll take you there!"

"Wait!" Although this young man didn't look like a bad guy, bad guys wouldn't write that on their faces. Kubrick was a little worried when a young and strong man suddenly came into his house. "Let me check this baby."

"Okay, please feel free." Zhuang Long changed his hands and turned the front of the "doll" in his arms towards Kubrick.

Thick makeup, extremely beautiful blue-purple eyes, and a warmth that doesn't resemble that of a living person at all...

After watching it for several minutes, this oriental doll didn't even blink. It is indeed a beautiful doll.

After he had relaxed his doubts, Kubrick waved his hand generously: "Here."

After entering the wooden house and walking up the stairs to the door of the attic room, Zhuang Long looked around as if he was looking for a place, and then put Su Yun on a chair at the door of the room.

This attic room is not very big, and it is estimated that the original owner used it for the children at home, so the door faces the stairs for adults to check the situation when passing by. There is also a row of small bookshelves and two chairs on the sidewalk. After opening the window during the day, it is a good place to read books.

"Why not put the doll in the room?" Vivian asked curiously.

"We Chinese have some legends that dolls that look too much like humans cannot be placed in a child's room." Zhuang Long looked at her with a smile, "Because if you put it in a child's room, the doll will come alive and play with you."

"Now that you mention it, this doll does look a bit..." the nanny said, but she stopped talking because she couldn't find the right adjective.

If you say this doll is scary, she is so beautiful and stunning that even a girl of her age would like her; but if you say this doll is cute, she looks too much like a real child, which makes people feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

It may seem okay during the day, but putting such a big doll in the room at night when you are half asleep and half awake might be really scary.

So the nanny turned to coax Vivian: "Anyway, the doll is on the hallway at the door of your room. If you want to play with it, just come out of the room. No one can take your doll away..."

"Okay..." After persuading for a while, Vivian finally agreed with a pouted mouth.

In this room, Zhuang Long came up to Kubrick who was in deep thought with a flattering smile: "Hello, Mr. Kubrick, I am a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts..."

"I don't have any roles for you these days." As one of the most legendary directors of critically and commercially successful films, Kubrick is used to the occasional self-recommendation.

No wonder he's been stuck here for so long.

Maybe Vivian's winning was also a trick he played behind the scenes. Legend has it that Oriental people always have all kinds of unexpected and strange operations...

However, this young Chinese man does have a good image, which may be useful in the future.

So, Kubrick finally gave in and said, "Do you have a business card? Leave me your contact information. Maybe I'll contact you in the future if I have the chance."

Zhuang Long immediately wrote down a phone number with a look of surprise, and left the cabin with an extremely happy smile on his face.

Looking up at the oriental doll on the chair, which he didn't know whether it was a prize or a gift, Kubrick stroked his beard and walked towards the dining area in the wooden house.

After eating and drinking, it was another night of thinking at the desk.

Computer animation technology is not feasible, and using real people wearing model masks is too fake. Moreover, based on the current vision of the future world structure, the production funds required are also extremely high...

Before he knew it, it was late at night. Kubrick was about to make a cup of coffee and continue working, but for some reason he glanced at the Oriental doll above him.

Vivian and the nanny had already gone to bed. The faint blue moonlight shone through the gaps in the window curtains onto the doll, and the little figure seemed to have an inexplicably lonely and pitiful look.

With similar body shapes, human “dolls” can be cared for by nannies and sleep on soft beds; while human dolls can only lean on a chair alone...

This is the unbridgeable difference in treatment between humans and robots.

At this moment, Kubrick seemed to feel that he had captured something that could be written into the plot: no matter how fondly they appear, the cognition of robots and humans is ultimately different.

When robots pour all their love on humans, how should humans respond?

They have only one owner, but the owner is not unique to them.

Can robots harbor resentment?

While thinking this, Kubrick looked up inadvertently - where did the doll on the chair go? !

With eyes wide open, he shifted his gaze to the side in disbelief, and immediately saw a figure in a skirt, with its small limbs bent backwards, crawling down the stairs in an extremely weird spider-like manner...

The coffee spilled all over the floor, and Kubrick stumbled and collapsed to the ground.

But even though he was so frightened that his hands and feet were shaking, he was unwilling to make a sound, nor was he willing to get up and run away. His terrified eyes were still fixed on the strange figure.

It perfectly illustrates what a genius director should have: no matter how scared or uncomfortable one feels, one cannot miss this rare experience.

In other words, he is both green and playful.

As the strange doll came closer, his eyes grew bigger.

Another body quickly climbed up and bent back, the small head with long hair sank into the wide neckline of the skirt, and then emerged from the other end of the "skirt"...

In the darkness, I couldn't see anything clearly, except for the baby's clear and mysterious voice, which echoed in front of me.

"Do You Want to Build an Iron Man?"