"Animal World" is adapted from "Gambling Apocalypse" , the first part of Nobuyuki Fukumoto 's gambling series , and the following two are respectively "Gambling Breaking Records" and "Gambling Fallen Records".
Before "Animal World", Japan adapted "Gambling Apocalypse" into a movie of the same name in 2007, and launched a sequel 4 years later, but the result was that the filming became worse and worse, until today "Animal World" was released. Only then the haze of the adaptation of this series was swept away.
It is said that director Han Yan personally wrote a 10,000-character long article to explain the adaptation plan to Nobuyuki Fukumoto in order to win the adaptation rights, and the content of the adaptation is also obvious. Compared with the original work and the Japanese version of the film, "Animal World" is more about the expansion of the The character background of the hero Zheng Kaisi.
The original version of Kaisi is just a pure waste material, but in the Han Yan version of the gambling apocalypse, Kaisi is a poor and aspiring young man who makes money by playing clowns in the game city every day to make a living. His father is eight years old. That year, he was arrested and his mother was in a coma and was hospitalized. Only one childhood sweetheart, Liu Qing, was willing to accompany him.
After Xiao Li Jun's deception, his mother was hospitalized for lack of money, and Liu Qing was eager to get married, he boarded a luxury cruise ship and began a journey of fighting for money with his life.
This adaptation has also sublimated Kaisi's original identity as an ordinary waste material, increased the depth of the characters and created a digital connection with the gambling empire, and the story has become more and more confusing...
Anderson and his men
Anderson and his first-hand man Ando can be said to be the highest-level villains currently appearing in "Animal World", one controls the entire cruise ship and the other leads the others, but these two villains with high status are invariably personally with each other. Zheng Kaisi had a dialogue, led him, persuaded him, and went on the cruise ship. Ando could also think that it was assigned by Anderson, but Anderson, the current top commander, came to persuade Kaisi in person, which would be a bit wrong.
Among so many participants, why did Anderson treat Zheng Kaisi in particular?
Combined with the scene in which Anderson came to Kaisi's house to capture his father, the answer is obvious - Anderson had already been eyeing Zheng Kaisi , so he asked his first-hand man to personally induce Kaisi to board the boat and buy cigarettes. When tracking, signing contracts and arresting people, he stayed by Kaisi's side.
From this, it can be speculated that Li Jun's loan is by no means an accidental phenomenon. It is very easy for a gambling empire to manipulate the gambling game to make people lose money. Under the good inducement, turning to Zheng Kaisi to let him owe debts and board the ship is the real purpose .
Zheng Kaisi's father
Regarding the identity of Zheng Kaisi's father, we learned from Li Jun's lines that he is a math teacher, but as a math teacher, it is a bit too much for Anderson to personally lead someone to his house to arrest him, even if he owes If the debt is not repaid, there is no such thing as the boss himself.
A common saying now is that Zheng Kaisi's father once got on a ship. After all, when Anderson hummed the "Rose Life" whistle in the easter egg in the hospital, the first sentence he said to Zheng Kaisi was "Interesting, just like your father." ."
"Just like your father." This sentence is related to the previous Kaisi's strategizing on the boat and turning around against the wind. It can be understood as Anderson's affirmation of the mathematical ability of both father and son.
We can imagine that Zheng Kaisi's father once had nowhere to go, and used his mastery of mathematical logic to turn the entire "animal world" upside down . Judging from his son), this so-called upheaval is likely to allow almost everyone to get off the boat safely, and all the debts of those who boarded the boat are cleared. .
This is also a change made by Director Han Yan for the original work. In the original work, it is expressly stated that a minimum loan of 1 million yen and a maximum of 10 million yen must be borrowed for boarding games. The arrears borrowed before boarding the ship were emptied, but the huge sums borrowed again on the ship had to be recalculated.
Many people owe more money after disembarking than before, thus filling the money loophole for a few people to make money, and then nearly half of the people will become free laborers for almost life, and the organizer will only make no loss at all.
Welfare talk is nothing but sweet talk to deceive the desperate.
"Animal World" sequel
Judging from the end credits, it's clear that Animal World will be filming a sequel next.
And the script of "Animal World" is very restored to the original.
Therefore, referring to the original work, the new gambling game that appeared in the sequel to "Animal World" must be the "Road of the Brave" .
What is the road of the brave?
To put it simply, the road of the brave is to walk a single-plank bridge over the building at a high altitude, and then give you money and let you pay the debt.
So the question is, isn't Kai Si aboard? Why still owe money?
First of all, starting a ship means that all his previous debts are cleared, but it does not include the money borrowed from the ship. As I said above, in the original book, the gambling empire of the ship relies on the usury of forced loans on the ship to make itself. Stay profitable.
Kaisi takes a loan of 500,000 US dollars when half of the game time has passed. According to the interest rate in the original book, after four hours of borrowing, he will pay 40% of the interest. Kaisi borrows money when half of the time has passed, and the final payment is about $600,000.
He first spent 100,000 to buy a stone card, and then spent a lot of money to take away the cards of the teammates of the younger brother Tunbuka. It is less, so I will estimate for the time being that the money to buy the little brother's teammates and the little brother is the same, and they can cancel each other out.
In the end, with a loan of 500,000 US dollars, Kaisi only spent 100,000, plus one star (500,000 US dollars) sold by Xiaopang, Kaisi has a total of 900,000 left, and the 600,000 principal + interest has been repaid. He still has US$300,000, but don’t forget, Kaisi’s house is still there, he must have to spend money to buy it back, but the conversion of US$300,000 into RMB is only about 2 million, and he is still away from redeeming the house. It's still a lot worse, and Kaisi is still facing the problem of his mother and Liu Qing, so gambling again in the sequel can only be said to be inevitable, and there is no turning back.
Updated July 3rd:
According to Weibo netizens, Director Han Yan said in the roadshow that Kaisi's loan on the ship has not been repaid (the interest rate is higher than the original!), and the house has not been redeemed afterwards (it should only be waived for liquidated damages or something) .
However, like the original, Kaisi is getting worse and worse.
middle-aged man in a small dark room
The middle-aged man who was rescued by Zheng Kaisi in the little black house may seem to many people as an essay that highlights Zheng Kaisi's kindness, but in fact, this middle-aged man died after the original ship "Game Night". "The Road of the Brave" occupies an extremely important role.
In the original book, Ito Kaiji owed more debts on the ship because of sympathy. Four months later, he was invited to participate in a brand new gambling. This brand new gambling is the so-called "Road of the Brave", which is the front I said about walking a single-plank bridge at a high altitude. In the original work, the setting of the rich snooping and monitoring to obtain the thrill of "sense of security" was not added until here.
In "The Road of the Brave", the only people Kaisi knows are a middle-aged man who was rescued from a small black house and Sahara who worked in a convenience store. Sahara may be the new character that will appear in the sequel to "Animal World" , and the middle-aged man in the original book is also slightly different from the national version. The national version is crying and complaining about his son in the small dark room.
There are two kinds of people in the world, one kind of person will be timid and unable to move because of fear in the face of a critical moment, and the other kind of person will work hard in that situation, and middle-aged men are obviously the former.
Therefore, in the test of "The Road of the Brave", knowing that he could not reach the end, he voluntarily fell from the building in the second round of the test in order to keep Kaisi from being affected. Before dying, he used the 10 million obtained in the first round The yen bonus exchange coupon was handed over to Kaisi, hoping that Kaisi could exchange the bonus after reaching the finish line, and bring him a wife who has no regrets and debts for half a lifetime to make up for his mistakes.
In the end, Kaisi became the only winner to pass the bridge, but the organizer Tonegawa Yukio (that is, Anderson's original character in the Chinese version) refused to cash the check.
The helpless Kaisi can only continue to gamble through the E card game requested by the other party, and then pay off his loan (in the original book, Kaisi spent three stars in order to save the middle-aged man, and owed it because he could not repay the loan on board. More money, the national version slightly modified the amount of the ending), and secondly, to fulfill the promise to that man.
The so-called E card game is that each side has ten cards, which contain a slave, an emperor and eight citizens.
The size relationship is: slave > emperor > citizen > slave
Everyone takes turns to be a slave and an emperor. When their own side uses citizens to defeat a slave or a slave to defeat the emperor, they will win. Because the victory rate of the slave is only 20%, using the slave card to defeat the opponent's emperor can get 5 times the deposit reward.
Of course, this is only limited to the Kaisi side. After all, Kaisi has nothing and bet on one of his ears, and the other party is only betting on a drop of his money.
As the saying goes, Jiang is still old and hot, Kaisi gave up the steady and steady strategy because of debts and commitments, and gambled a lot. Unfortunately, he fell into the conspiracy of Tonegawa Yukio, and finally lost an ear.
But for Kaisi and the countless desperate people, the gamble of a lifetime is just one of the promotion metrics for people like Tonegawa Yukio, and playing against them is like a fish tumbling in hot water , is always under the control of the person on the edge of the pot, even if you try hard again and again, it will not help.
After all, in the "animal world", the law of life is the so-called law of life.
People like Kaisi yearn for the life of ordinary people, hoping that one day they will be able to pay off their gambling debts and start over from scratch, but they are always in circles in the rich man's turntable. break free.
Most of us have the capital they envy, but we often don’t take it to heart. As time passes and time is wasted, the things we want to do are not completed in the end, but a lot of regrets are left behind.
The author Nobuyuki Fukumoto spent 12 years instructing us with such a story:
"The most precious thing in man is life, and life is only once for man.
Work hard and live every day to the fullest, move forward for your dreams, and keep your feet on the ground. When you look back on the past years later, you will not regret for wasting your time, nor be ashamed for being mediocre.
But thank myself for living such a wonderful life. "
──Quoted and modified from "How Steel is Tempered"
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