Chapter 55 Future Dream Studio
Is this the Lost Ocean where the legendary blue fairy lives?
"Turn around, Jo," said little Mary.
This time, it was Qiao who was unwilling to give up: "We can't give up now."
"Turn around, I mean the whole plane turns back." Little Mary added that she was misunderstood.
Qiao twisted the control stick awkwardly, and the entire aircraft once again passed through the intersection of sea breeze and building shadows and climbed upwards.
Due to the impact of the flood, the once huge fountain lion sculpture has developed many small cracks, and the two water curtains flowing from the lion's eyes on both sides are like silent tears.
For some reason, some of the audience felt the urge to cry and had to rub their eyes quickly to avoid being rude and embarrassed.
Zhuang Long, who was also sitting on a high place, took everything in, but he understood in his heart: when filming was first done, it was as noisy and awkward as playing house. But when Su Yun showed them the finished sample clips, and saw the lost city in the ocean and the place where the lion was crying, he suddenly felt a sense of sadness for the vastness of the universe and the immensity of all living things.
It is a kind of respect and regret for nature.
Being touched by overly realistic images will inevitably generate a sour and sad feeling in your heart.
In the movie, following the faint blue light, Joe landed the aircraft into a building with a damaged roof.
Looking at the words carved on the wall, little Mary opened the door with surprise. Joe, who felt that his mission of repaying her was accomplished, stood at the door with his teddy bear, waiting for her wish to come true with a gentle look in his eyes.
But what surprised all the audience was that when the tall office chair was turned around, the person sitting on it was not an adult who looked like a professor.
It is a "child" who is exactly the same as little Mary except for her clothes.
Little Mary, who always thought she was unique, could no longer stand the sight of this "Mary" who looked exactly like her: "You can't have her..."
"She's mine, and I'm the only one!"
In an instant, negative emotions such as jealousy and anger, which should not be possessed by robots, broke out. Little Mary picked up the lamp on the table and smashed this robot that looked exactly like her.
The broken head of the machine slid out of the door. Qiao looked at the head at his feet, feeling strange and frightened, and quickly stepped back with the teddy bear in his hand.
"Okay, stop doing that." A middle-aged man came out from the back and grabbed the lamp that little Mary was swinging, and persuaded her to stop. "Yes, you are 'Mary'."
"Professor Hobby?" This person is the scientist who claimed in the opening scene that he wanted to make a companion robot that looks like a child. It was he who brought little Mary to her adoptive father Henry when the robot was produced. So little Mary, who still retained her past memories, subconsciously called out his name.
"What do you want to do with the Blue Fairy?" Professor Hobby asked softly.
"She can make me into a real child," little Mary answered hastily.
"But you are a real child..." Professor Hobby touched Little Mary's face with satisfaction, "At least, the most real one I have ever created."
"Logically, I am your blue fairy."
"You're not. Dr. Know-It-All told me that the Blue Fairy is at the Lion's Tears Place at the End of the World." Little Mary wanted to deny the news.
"That's what we asked Dr. Know-All to tell you - so that you can find your way home." Professor Hobby satisfactorily picked up the masterpiece that he thought was the most successful experiment and put it on the chair. "This is the help we gave you."
"Because before you, no robot could dream, and no robot knew how to pursue dreams... and you made all of this come true." Professor Hobby left little Mary, whose brain could no longer digest the huge amount of information, on the chair, and stood up to call for help. "Our entire team is eager to see you. I hope you can wait here. I'll go and gather them..."
Seeing Professor Hobby leaving the room excitedly, Joe frowned: Sure enough, the hidden information they thought was really a "honeypot" set up by humans for robots.
Seeing Joe disappear into the shadows with the teddy bear, little Mary, with a look of innocence and shock on her face, slowly stood up and walked along the light and sound of the row of high-tech electronic instruments on the stage.
The audience began to feel an ominous premonition.
Sure enough, not long after walking, little Mary saw rows of "herself" in various states, from scattered to complete, from just skin to a main frame with a full skeleton...
Until the end, I saw a long row of translucent boxes marked "MARY", and inside each box was a figure exactly like her.
Next to it is a long row of "DAVID" robots of the same model but in different models.
When Joe drove the flying vehicle back to the French window here and planned to take little Mary away, he saw that little Mary, who was completely exhausted, was sitting on the edge of the base of the Cybertronics statue outside the French window.
A very faint "Mommy" seemed to be heard in the wind, which sounded more like a sigh than a call.
Here, Su Yun uses a technique of transparent fusion of virtuality and reality.
The close-up of a face that occupies the entire screen, half of which is Joe's normal face, while the other face hidden in the dark has become a translucent reflection like when the lights are turned on at night.
The small figure fell silently and merged with half of the face in the dark, just like a tear flowing from the corner of the eye across the cheek.
Because robots cannot shed tears, the reflection of little Mary jumping into the water in despair became the tears sliding down Joe's eyes.
In the dark blue water, the small figure seemed to have seen something, and with a pilgrim look on his face, he was about to reach out and continue forward.
A steel claw caught little Mary's self-destructive action and activated the aircraft in underwater mode. Two consecutive searchlights lit up the dark blue darkness and carried the two of them up to the shore of the ruins.
"I saw her under the water. She was waiting for me. We have to go!" Little Mary said happily as Joe wiped the water droplets off her face.
Unfortunately, before he could finish his words, Joe's necklace flew up - it was his former identity certificate.
The large aircraft that was chasing them roared and landed above the two of them. The magnetic recovery device, which had a strong attraction to steel, ran at full power, and Joe immediately flew up uncontrollably along with the necklace.
Knowing that he could not escape the fate of being captured and destroyed, he hurriedly grabbed the edge of the aircraft and quickly pressed the diving mode button: "When you become a real child, you must mention me to the ladies..."
"Goodbye, Joe." Little Mary's eyes revealed sadness as she was confused about the future but knew that she would lose the people around her again.
"Goodbye, Mary." Finally, Joe still maintained the most popular smile during business hours.
As his entire body floated upwards and floated in the air, he shouted out the last words of his life as a robot.
"I am, I was (I exist, I existed)!"
Words that could no longer be heard were scattered in the wind and water. The aircraft took Little Mary and Teddy Bear underwater. A beam of white light from the searchlight cut through the deep and shallow blue of the seabed and also illuminated the passing fish.
"Pinocchio is in the belly of a whale..." Audiences who had read the story of Pinocchio murmured as they looked at the shadow of the flying vehicle that looked like a big fish.
Unfortunately, reality is not as beautiful as the fairy tale, and Little Marie did not end up becoming a real child like Pinocchio. Seeing the plaque of the amusement park and the porcelain statue of the Blue Fairy sunk to the bottom of the sea, the audience seemed to be mentally prepared for the tragedy.
As little Mary's calls to the Blue Fairy to turn her into a real child become softer and softer, the picture gradually drifts away.
There is no sunlight at the bottom of the sea, so perhaps this call will stop when they have exhausted the solar energy that sustains them.
The audience thought the story had ended here and were feeling mixed emotions, but suddenly the screen went dark and the narrator whispered: This call day after day has disappeared in time.
And in this era, the anemones died, the oceans froze, and the earth was frozen - two thousand years passed.
and?!
The audience, who were about to get up, quickly sat down again, their hearts filled with anticipation and excitement for the upcoming turn of events.
Especially when we see some alien life forms coming from under the ice and snow and digging out the frozen little Mary and the teddy bear.
The vast expanse of ice and snow is certainly breathtaking, but the tension of the plot is even greater, so the audience has no time to be distracted to admire the beautiful special effects.
Because little Mary is a precious historical research resource, the suspected alien life form rebuilt an empty "home" for her based on little Mary's memory.
Everything was exactly the same as the home in her memory, except for the person she wanted to see.
When the blue fairy she had been searching for all her life was projected before her eyes by a life form that looked like an alien, little Mary once again wished for her mother to come back.
The Blue Fairy shook her head helplessly, indicating that they had no samples that supported resurrection.
At this time, the teddy bear who was very good at sewing by himself came over and took out a bunch of Monica's hair that had fallen on the ground from his furry body.
"Bring her back." Little Mary handed over the hair.
The Blue Fairy waved her magic wand, and the virtual scene of the whole house was refreshed. A tall and thin figure came to Little Mary.
"Humans have thousands of explanations for the meaning of life, but what they call 'soul' and 'memory' are the meaning of their existence." The alien-like lifeform explained to her gently, "For this reason, we started a project - can we retrieve the traces of memory and soul by resonating with the reshaped body?"
"Through this project, we discovered that the fabric of space-time itself seems to store information about everything that has ever happened in the past."
"But the experiment failed - because those who were resurrected by reshaping their bodies through traces of time and space could only live for one day."
"They will fall back into eternal sleep on the first night of their new life."
"Mary, you are the eternal memory of mankind, but you have too little happiness - so we hope you can spend this day happily."
In the beginning, children were created for mothers; now, mothers are created for children.
An ironic yet heartwarming ending.
Watching the day when little Mary finally laughed heartily as Monica embraced and cared for her wholeheartedly, the stories and people she drew with her childish brushstrokes... Although everyone in the picture was smiling, most of the audience outside the screen were wiping away tears.
Until the very end, in the dim light, I watched my foster mother Monica close her eyes and fall asleep, and little Mary and the teddy bear lying on the bed also closed their eyes——
Robots don't sleep, they just keep their eyes open and pretend to sleep to please humans.
But a robot that is shut down and put into hibernation may fall into an eternal dream just like humans.
Warm applause accompanied by sobs. Unlike the moved expressions of the audience, the reporters hiding in the darkness in the corner calmly picked up their thoughts that were carried away by the plot and began to pay attention to the end subtitles.
When I saw "Future Dream Studio" in the column of visual special effects design, I finally looked away with satisfaction: Although I still don't know the true situation of this studio, but in the 1970s when many movies were still in black and white, this studio was able to create full-color and realistic post-production special effects. This studio must be the new darling of the era!
Because it has opened up a whole new path for commercial blockbusters!
Laymen watch the excitement, while experts watch the details. Not only are journalists who have seen the movie looking for the truth about the studio, but even many moviegoers who got tickets from various channels and watched the preview are asking around...
But there is no news at all.
Looking at the news of the interview in the newspaper, Su Yun smiled with a concealed look: Actually, although the studio was named at the end of the film, she is the only employee and boss at present, and there is no address - she has asked someone to submit a registration application for a small company in Hong Kong, so she plans to officially establish her "future dream studio" when she returns to Hong Kong.
She doesn't plan to take any business until the studio is ready - now she is busy paying attention to the feedback from preview screenings and helping to prepare for the release, so how can she be busy!
In a few days, it will be the scheduled release date of November 27th.
Although we don’t have much idea about holiday schedules now, most movies still like to be released around holidays. However, this date is not too early or too late, in addition to the birthday of Master Lu Shaolong, but also to avoid the 1973 North American box office champion "The Exorcist" which will be released next month.
However, man proposes, God disposes; and if you speak of Cao Cao, he will appear.
She was able to get around the temple, but everyone else was harassed. Finally, Kubrick, who was extremely annoyed, had to rely on their teacher-student relationship to come over and ask for someone else: "A friend wants you to help with some post-production work that others can't do. The workload is not large, and the reward is quite generous."
"Tell me what it is first." Since it was a "guest appearance" and it was entrusted to Kubrick, Su Yun wanted to give him some face.
So Kubrick briefly told Su Yun that in the heavily-invested horror film "The Exorcist" to be released next month, director William Friedkin felt that the "spider-walking" camera technology was immature - because after post-production, you could still see the wire that suspended the soft-sex actor while he was walking down the stairs in a backwards bending posture.
"He said he was planning to cut this scene out and re-release it in a new version when computer graphics technology became more advanced... until he saw Artificial Intelligence," Kubrick explained, and then he remembered how Su Yun had scared him in the same way, so he couldn't help but ask, "How did you come up with this idea when we first met?"
Of course it’s copied from the classic shot in “The Exorcist”!
So, with the idea that everything in the world is round, Su Yun joined the post-production of an R-rated horror movie as a child laborer under the age of 10.