Chapter 53 Shocking the Audience

In the dimly lit cinema, two figures, one large and one small, slowly squeezed to the middle of the last row.

"Hey, this is it." After seeing the seat number clearly, Zhuang Long turned around and greeted the two people who stood up in a low voice.

Upon hearing this, Su Yun and Lin Jingying quickly followed Zhuang Long's instructions and sat in the corresponding seats.

Because Su Yun had to have a panoramic view of the whole event, Lin Jingying, whose English was not very good and who urgently needed translation, could only sit next to his senior brother Zhuang Long. So the arrangement was that Su Yun, Zhuang Long and Lin Jingying sat in a horizontal row.

Although the movie "AI Artificial Intelligence" is titled as Kubrick's new play and a lot of news has emerged before, due to the plot and the leading actors, many people who don't know the inside story are still taking a wait-and-see attitude towards it.

It is true that the internal preview shocked the people at Warner, and the premiere also shocked the crowds that came to see the film, but what really affected the box office was the word of mouth of the audience after watching the film.

Su Yun and Kubrick specifically selected a cinema near a university for the preview. In addition to the fact that there were many students who supported Jane Fonda, the speed at which people of this age accept new things and the speed at which they spread the news to the outside world were also very important factors.

Today is the first day of the preview. Even though a lot of free tickets were given out, the cinema was still sparsely populated, and the attendance rate is estimated to be less than 60%.

Su Yun glanced at the several empty seats in a row on her left, and felt a little uncomfortable.

When you create something, you always want people to pay attention to it and like it.

Forget it, this is the treatment given to newcomers.

They can ignore it now, but after some time, when this movie uses the black technology that almost hits the dimensionality reduction to blast everyone's cognition, then it will be their unattainable moment to grab tickets...

Su Yun comforted herself for a while, and then turned her attention to the rows of seats in front.

Seeing several young girls sitting in the front row with popcorn and soda in their hands, chatting and laughing, Su Yun, who had always been treated as a child by those around her, could not help but secretly envy their blooming age.

It will take a few more years for me to get rid of the shackles of this loli appearance. At the very least, I have to grow up to look like a young girl, so that I can have the confidence to give advice to beautiful people!

Like the girls in front of me chatting about French beauties and American handsome men, others would smile knowingly at their teenage dreams; if she said a guy was handsome or a girl was beautiful, others would just sigh that she knew how to appreciate beauty at such a young age...

"Hush, the movie has started, stop talking!" As the laughter of the girls in front gradually faded away, the full name of the movie slowly appeared on the screen: Artificial Intelligence.

The two words were mixed together, and the redundant letters disappeared. At this moment, "AI", the abbreviation that will change people's lives and cognition in the future, officially entered the eyes of the public.

"Artificial...intelligence? AI?" After seeing the title, many viewers began to wonder: Didn't the previous promotion say that this was an anti-war romance movie?

How did you come up with such a weird name?

Not only the ordinary audience members who were misled by the media information, but also the reporters who got tickets through various channels are now a little confused.

But the movie cannot be paused like a videotape to give them time to think.

Before these people could finish their muttering and confusion, the darkness receded and a flood emerged.

Listening to the narration saying how the greenhouse effect, melting glaciers, caused the sea level to rise, and then coastal cities everywhere were flooded, the audience became more and more confused.

However, the narration is getting more and more outrageous: Because of the shortage of resources caused by climate change, countries have begun to implement a strategy of strictly controlling pregnancy and childbirth. Therefore, robots, which have no hunger and no longer consume energy once they are manufactured, have become an important link in the social structure and economic chain...

Then the scene changed, and a middle-aged man who looked like a scientist was calmly explaining the superiority of creating robots in front of a group of people.

As everyone was becoming more and more confused, the scientist suddenly took out a long needle and mercilessly pierced the back of the hand of a young girl sitting next to him.

The girl's frightened shouts seemed to have frightened the audience as well. Even Su Yun, who was sitting in the last row, could vaguely hear a few exclamations starting with the letter F or S amid the chaotic noises.

The scientist squatted down, stared at the girl and asked her how she felt.

Seeing that the girl's response was just a puzzled look on her face, the scientist continued to explain helplessly: "Even if there is a pain memory response, their cognition is not up to the requirements... This is the problem."

While the scientist was introducing that their Cybertronics company had created the most advanced robots to serve humanity, he casually gestured to the girl to open her mouth.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the scientist simply pressed the girl's upper jaw, and the face of this young and beautiful girl split apart, revealing the actual mechanical structure inside.

The impact of this scene was so great that Su Yun didn't even need to prick up her ears to hear the constant "OMG" and "WTF" coming from the crowd...

What followed was a scientist announcing that he wanted to create a robot child who would always love his parents, never get sick, never change, and understand "love", to satisfy all families who did not have children but longed for a birth license.

"This is a brand new market." Compared to the recently popular lover-type robots, scientists are confident that the companion-type robots they have constructed will become the new darling of the market.

"If a robot can truly love a person, then what kind of responsibility should that person have towards the robot?" someone wondered.

“Did God create Adam because he loved him?” Faced with this moral question, the scientist asked calmly.

Seeing this, some audiences who are familiar with Kubrick's film style will begin to feel that flavor: Kubrick's previous work, A Clockwork Orange, is the most popular among young people of this generation, so there are many fans of the film.

Compared to the previous work, which forcibly twisted the lively and juicy "orange" (unrestrained humans) into the core of "clockwork" (morally bound machines), this time, is Kubrick trying to explore the theme of robots in reverse?

But Kubrick is obviously not an old bastard who is so easy to see through. The seemingly gentle but cruel discussion at the meeting disappears, and the couple, Monica played by Jane Fonda and Henry played by Hoffman, drive a peculiar but cool car on the road.

After getting off the train, the couple visited their son who was frozen in the freezer due to illness. The wife Monica insisted on reading stories to the unconscious son Martin, and the husband Henry felt sorry for his wife's depression. Combined with the previous memories, many viewers have already guessed the direction of the plot development.

This time they guessed right. In order to heal his wife Monica's psychology, her husband Henry brought back a trial model that has not yet been put on the market from Cyber ​​Electronics, where he works - a robot little girl named Mary, who is positioned as a companion robot.

Although the scene where Henry opened the door with the "child" and hugged Monica and told her not to kill him was very funny, the little robot girl looked up obediently, and her pretty, cute, lively and moving beauty immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Even though her face has a distinct oriental flavor, everyone's aesthetic taste for beauty is actually the same.

After a quarrel between the couple over whether to keep the little robot girl, they decided to keep this overly real "child" for the time being.

As they continued to interact with each other, the audience began to feel that this "child" was abnormal and weird.

The robot, which had not yet officially activated its emotional mode and imprinted its love, could only stupidly follow Monica's movements. Because of her silent walking, not only Monica but also many spectators were startled by the sudden appearance of the little robot.

Monica was frightened several times and had to lock the little robot in the closet, but not long after, she went over and let the little robot out, and explained to her that this was a game called "hide and seek"...

As they got to know each other better, she got used to the child's weirdness. Watching the little robot closing its eyes and pretending to sleep just to satisfy her desire to read a bedtime story, Monica's mind flashed with memories of her frozen son.

So, she finally opened the instruction manual left by her husband to officially activate the emotional mode and imprint love on the robot.

I thought this little robot was real and intelligent enough, but I didn't expect that after activating the emotional mode, the brilliance that emerged from its purple eyes was even brighter than the starry night.

"What are these words for, Mommy?" When she shouted this, not only Monica had tears in her eyes.

Some of the audience members who were more rational and had different ideas took a look at those emotional audience members who were moved to tears, and they had worries in their hearts that were different from this touching feeling: the little robot had shown its ability to learn before, and now after being officially activated, it has learned to "question", so the tragedy may begin at this moment.

Just like there were wise Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

As expected, the activated little robot didn't stay doted on by its foster mother Monica for long before good news came from the hospital, and the couple's real biological son Martin officially made his debut.

"This is Martin, my son," Monica introduced.

The image of the little robot that passed by had an indifferent and calm face, but everyone seemed to see the sadness in its purple eyes.

"Why say 'my son' instead of 'your brother'? Doesn't this mean you don't treat Mary as your own child?" The girls in the front row became a little annoyed.

"Hey, didn't the two people in front make it clear when they were joking? They really just treat Mary as a toy!" The boy in the front row replied casually.

With the appearance of Martin, the guiding teddy bear "Teddy" that Su Yun had spent a lot of effort to make was finally taken out by Monica and given to the two children to play with.

"He used to be a super toy, but now he's old and stupid." Children's words are always innocent but cruel. "I think now you are the new super toy."

Martin's overt and covert show of affection, as if there was a new member in the family, and his evil intention of instigating the robot little girl to break things, aroused a round of curses from the audience.

Seeing the poor teddy bear being torn into pieces by the naughty kid and having to sew his own clothes with needle and thread, the audience members cried out in pain.

Realizing that the little robot wanted to please its foster mother, Martin, feeling confident, once again tricked the little robot into cutting Monica's hair, saying that as long as she could do it, he would speak nicely to Monica and make her "love" her too.

While the audience was shouting "no" in their hearts, the little robot still foolishly went to the couple's bed in the middle of the night with a pair of scissors in hand.

After scaring them, the strand of hair that was cut with great difficulty fell silently in front of the teddy bear whose hair had not been sewn up yet.

People always sympathize with the weak, especially when Martin sleeps in the small bed and the little robot girl sits in the corner of the wall and looks at Monica enviously reading the bedtime story of Pinocchio to Martin. This scene caused a stir: "Why not let Mary sleep in the bed too! The bed is big enough! She is your child too!"

But no matter how angry the audience was, it was of no avail. As a group of children were watching and pulling at each other, Mary's self-preservation instinct kicked in. She pulled Martin to protect herself, but they both accidentally fell into the swimming pool, and the situation took a turn for the worse.

Considering that the robot might harm humans, the couple decided to send it back to Cybertronics for recycling... and destruction.

After tricking the little robot holding a teddy bear out by saying she was taking her to the suburbs to play, Monica couldn't bear it and stopped the car halfway and took the little robot girl into the woods.

After this plot was released, the audience who had seen the ridiculous news "Jane Fonda Abandons Adopted Daughter" finally understood the direction of the next plot.

The little robot girl apologized and begged Monica not to abandon her in a crying voice, but Monica knew that the little robot would be destroyed if it was sent back to the original factory, so she had to harden her heart and hold back her tears.

"Mommy, if Pinocchio becomes a real child, if I become like Martin, a real child... can I go home?"

"The story isn't real, and neither are you!"

"I'm sorry I'm not real, if you agree I'll become real for you..."

"Let go!" After pushing the little robot down, Monica said with tears in her eyes, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about this world..."

"Don't get caught by humans. Only robots are safe. Stay with your own kind!"

Finally, leaving behind a stack of bills and a few instructions, Monica resolutely got in the car and left the forest.

In the reflection of the car window, the small figure that could not be caught up gradually merged into the empty darkness.

Inexplicably, before the black curtain disappeared, a deep, magnetic voice whispered something like a love word, and with such force that the voice was heard before the person arrived, it began to change the direction of this plot.

The soft light like the reflection of a candle spread out, and a beautiful face that combined the beauty of the East and the West was filled with an indescribable charm between the eyebrows and the corners of the eyes, which made people want to follow and sink into the world of red dust at first sight.

I could vaguely hear a girl in the front row gasp: "Who is he?!"

"She's a new actor, right? Oh, she looks a bit like the French actor Alain Delon that you like. No wonder..."

"A little bit, but Alan is handsome and free-spirited, while he is handsome and restrained!"

These girls were not the only ones discussing this.

The appearance of two beauties who can break racial boundaries is enough to cause a frenzy among beauty lovers, not to mention that the plot of the movie is becoming more and more attractive...

Looking down at the shocking scene, Su Yun glanced at the handsome robot dancer on the screen who looked almost like a real person, and couldn't help but take another look at the actor next to him -

My friend, no matter how satisfied or happy you are with the audience's reaction, you have to know your limits!

Why did he, with such a noble temperament from the East, learn to smile like an American man with wisdom teeth showing?