Chapter 326 Easter Eggs in "Suspect Tracking"

The 6-minute trailer of "Person of Interest" was actually decided by Chen Jingxing himself.

It can be said to be quite bold and novel, because there has never been any trailer like this before, and it is very rare to be as long as 6 minutes.

What's even rarer is that this trailer is a short film with a continuous and complete plot. The trailer for "Gravity" is also the very beginning of the movie, but there are still edits, otherwise the trailer would probably last ten minutes.

Usually the trailers of film and television dramas are either streamlined editing, which almost explains the main line of the story, or they are randomly edited without realizing it, matching the rhythm with the music to highlight the excitement and intensity. As for the plot, the audience cannot see it.

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The trailer of "Person of Interest" is actually the content of a certain episode in the middle and later stages of the TV series. Chen Jingxing took it out and directly used it as a trailer.

Judging from the background setting, "Person of Interest" can even be called a derivative drama of "Source Code", choosing a parallel world in "Source Code" as the background.

In "Source Code", the male protagonist went through more than a dozen rewinds, and each rewind was only eight minutes except for the last one. After closing the "Source Code" for the last time, the male and female protagonists embraced and kissed each other, and then a new world unfolded. This

Only then did the audience suddenly realize that the "memory" returned by the source code machine was actually a parallel universe.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, every rewind of Source Code and every eight minutes creates a parallel universe. This is also a detail that has been mentioned by many in-depth film reviews after the release of "Source Code".

The background of "Person of Interest" is set in a parallel universe created by a failed file loading in "Source Code".

One of the male protagonists in "Person of Interest", Fang Qi, played by Pan Yueming, is a survivor who has experienced two bombings on the train and in the city.

Therefore, this memory of the male protagonist Fang Qi was remade by inviting the male and female protagonists of "Source Code", Hu Ge and Wan Qian.

Since the protagonist created a "god" and the official could not create a "devil", the real "devil" must be created by a truly evil villain.

Since we need a KB organization that is unknown and powerful, the half-covered and mysterious KB organization created in "Source Code" is very suitable.

At the end of the first season, it was revealed that the "machine" is not a rigid big data computing computer but an artificial intelligence, and then it entered a higher concept, and the whole story began to become truly science fiction.

The energy of this drama gradually increased, and when the "machine" was exposed, the plot truly reached a high-energy state.

This is also an easter egg and surprise that DreamWorks wants to create for the audience.

There was a government villain among the villains in the original version, but in Chen Jingxing's version of the story, the official character was vaguely aware that the "machine" was a Pandora's box, but in order to stop the KB attack, he had to use the most careful methods.

Attitude opened a crack in the magic box and set many seals, and even had to stand on the opposite side of the protagonists.

So where will the real villain come from?

The Easter eggs that had been accumulated for a long time were directly detonated by Chen Jingxing through a trailer.

And there is no need to explain it clearly. The story background of "Source Code" has a high reuse value. Not only is the world view sufficiently malleable, but the key is that it can also avoid many sensitive things, and all evil plans and villains can be covered.

Pin it on this mysterious organization that is causing trouble across countless parallel worlds.

What the protagonist group wants to do is to intervene and track the "irrelevant list". Therefore, the collision between the protagonist group and the official is not a collision between the good and the villain, but a drama between the positive characters for justice and greater justice.

conflict.

The science fiction concept and story of "Person of Interest" itself are very high-end, and the villains must also follow the overall style.

Because one of the most important official "seals" on this "Pandora's Box" is that the "machine" can only provide a "relevant list", that is, a list of people related to the KB attack, while other "ordinary" criminal incidents are "irrelevant."

"List" will be deleted directly at zero time.

Moreover, the cases at the beginning of "Person of Interest" are not as thrilling and painful as some of the cases in "The Signal".

Of course, there is also a very practical reason that "Person of Interest" is a bit slow to pick up. Unlike "The Signal" and "Black Mirror" which zoomed in on the first episode, "Person of Interest" started with a narrative rhythm equivalent to that of a unit drama about solving crimes.

Chen Jingxing naturally wanted to "make trouble". DreamWorks itself is a master of online marketing and has rich experience. After communicating with the publicity department, he decided to release the Easter egg surprise that was originally intended for the audience through the trailer in advance.

This prompted him to make up his mind to develop a "machine" that could predict KB attacks and crimes, opening "Pandora's Box".

But Chen Jingxing's edition naturally wants to move the subject away from surveillance and into a more ambitious proposition, which is people's freedom and privacy in the information age.

As for why this KB organization does so many things, it is not something that can be explained in the first two seasons. The motivations for such a tall and impressive KB organization to do things are not difficult to set, and it does not even require a specific motivation with strict logic.

Just thinking of a lofty and lofty idea that seems crazy is enough to explain it. If it is not crazy enough, it will not be lofty enough.

This idea is innovative, but its stimulation to the audience is not as "intense" as "Black Mirror", and it is not as fashionable as "The Signal" with its high-concept "time and space". Science fiction concepts related to time and space are inherently more sophisticated.

Furthermore, when such a machine is actually a strong artificial intelligence with self-awareness, and it has obtained "omniscience" of information that is close to that of human society, then it will then show "omnipotence".

Even though this "solved case" is a bit special, Pan Yueming, the boss of a well-known network technology company, hired Duan Yihong, a veteran detective who left the police force for some reason, to intervene or prevent "the crime that is about to happen."

Through real shooting and post-production special effects, this rewind plot in "Source Code" can be re-presented from another perspective.

When you try to intervene in a future crime, will it really only produce good results? Can a person's actions really be predicted through big data?

Since it has been decided to define "Person of Interest" as a spin-off drama under the world view of "Source Code", then this drama will definitely involve the plot part of "Source Code" as the origin of the entire story. After all, "Person of Interest"

The male protagonist Fang Qi decided to design the "machine" only after the train and city explosions.

The KB organization is very suitable for the position of this villain, and it must be a KB organization that is unknown and powerful.

Humanity created God with his own hands.

DreamWorks' first TV series "The Signal" was broadcast exclusively on Mango TV. The promotion intensity and coverage of a super first-line satellite TV are not comparable to that of online platforms at this time. It may take at least one or two years before the online platforms have enough influence on TV series.

Only the publicity ability can surpass that of first-line satellite TV.

The reason why Chen Jingxing set "Person of Interest" as the background of "Source Code" is not entirely to increase the popularity of the movie. The story of "Person of Interest" itself involves science fiction concepts and even social issues that are no weaker than those of "Source Code"

", even more than that. Even if it doesn't gain any popularity, this drama will definitely become a drama no less than "The Signal".

One of the main themes expressed in the original "Person of Interest" is actually slightly similar to "1984": surveillance and control.

Fortunately, DreamWorks' brand has made the public's deep-rooted disdain for online dramas not reflected in "Person of Interest," but it is difficult to achieve the popularity of a star drama just by relying on step-by-step promotion on online platforms.

When there is such a magical machine that can obtain permission to use all information for big data analysis to "predict" KB attacks and crimes, the subsequent "pre-crime" intervention can logically lead to the so-called "preventing crime using prophets"

” philosophical proposition.

Such a KB organization can invent a source code machine and come to other parallel worlds to cause trouble, so it is very reasonable to create a "strong artificial intelligence" with the same level as the "machine" designed by the protagonist Fang Qi. Chen Jingxing even plans to let

The Source Code Machine also appears in "Person of Interest", which is of course at least the third season or later.

The outside world does not know the relationship between "Person of Interest" and "Source Code", nor does it know that Hu Ge and Wan Qian guest-starred in "Person of Interest". If they knew that the male and female protagonists of "Source Code" guest-starred in "Person of Interest", many readers would

Most movie fans who have watched a lot of movies will be able to guess the background of this drama.

The linkage with "Source Code" is actually mainly due to the consideration of the story itself.

The original version emphasized visible surveillance equipment on the road and in public places, but in fact when society enters the mobile Internet stage, the Internet's record of human information is more powerful than apparent surveillance. Considering the past life plane

The original version of "Person of Interest" was launched in 2011, when the iPhone 4 had just been launched and the mobile Internet had just taken off, so it was understandable that the screenwriter would focus on surveillance probes.

In such a progressive science fiction story, it is natural to have a villain to enhance the dramatic conflict, otherwise it will become a science fiction philosophy story.

After all, "Person of Interest" is not a star-studded drama. Even at this time, the quality and production of online dramas have improved a lot - for which "Black Mirror" can be said to have contributed most - the status of online dramas in the minds of the public has also been improved.

It's much better than major online movies, but it's still far behind star dramas, or online TV dramas.

When the "amoral" "ghosts" created by the KB organization appear and start a human-machine war with the protagonist and even a machine-machine war with the "robot baby", the drama truly reaches its peak.

Therefore, the entire first season is actually a foreshadowing.

In order to maintain the audience's expectations when the story is relatively "low-energy", it is a good way to first release a big easter egg from the first season to create excitement and whet the audience's appetite.

And the effect was somewhat beyond Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks' expectations.
Chapter completed!