Before this year, there was "Number One Player" and "Invincible Destruction King 2" later. It is really a year of excitement for the generation that has grown up in the 80s and 90s and has begun to "middle age". Everyone frantically looking for stalks in "Top Player" seems to be yesterday, but don’t forget, this star gathering is like a childhood two-dimensional character Spring Festival Gala setting, but in the first "Invincible Destruction King" six years ago That's it. From Pac-Man to Sonic the Hedgehog to Street Fighter, coupled with the revelry-like Disney character gala, audiences almost never watch the plot and are busy counting faces with relish.
From the plot point of view, although the two works use simple words to summarize that they are both "saving arcade games", Ralph rescued "Quick Hand Ash" after saving "Sweet Sprint" this time, but they are similar. In contrast, the first "Invincible Destruction King" is more like letting the audience participate in a game in person. Breaking through levels, solving puzzles, confronting the boss, saving the princess, etc. are like all kinds of encounters in the process of clearance; the sequel is The focus of the scene is no longer in the dazzling game world, but the emotional relationship between the characters is returned. This relationship includes the feelings between friends that children will see, and adult audiences. Breaking through the old mode of life and yearning for freedom and the unknown world, the film does not stay at the level of "counting the stars", and even more so that people of every age can have their own perceptions.
In the last episode, Ralph and Yunnilope not only worked together to defeat the big villain Candy King, repaired the "Sweet Dash" and saved the precarious "Quick Hand Ash", and became best friends. The relationship also comes from a series of montages at the beginning of the sequel. Obviously the two of them have been inseparable in the past few years. They were invincible in their games during the day, and at night they went hand in hand through the terminal board "Central Station" to shuttle through the arcade world to adventure. It’s so nice to wait for the first ray of sunlight to enter the store every day. But Yunnilop is so familiar with racing games that he can win with his eyes closed, so Ralph occasionally ran into the track to create a rollover accident for her not only to keep her from getting angry, but also to let her experience the unknown and the excitement. All of these foreshadowing of happiness are to explain: Yunnilop is a girl who likes to take risks, and the unchanging life will not keep her after all.
Finally one day, the Internet was connected to the arcade game hall, and it was also the beginning of all changes. Yunnilop and Ralph went too far in the game, causing the player to accidentally break the steering wheel. This type of machine that has long been discontinued can only find the same parts from the only seller on eBay. The price is of course the game. The boss can't and don't want to take it. Very simply and rudely, he unplugged the "Sweet Sprint" game console. If the steering wheel is not repaired before Friday, the game will completely withdraw from the stage of history.
So naturally, Ralph and Yunnilop came to a new world through the network cable. The goal is simple: buy the steering wheel, repair the game console, and return everything to its original state. The two people who have no idea about money accidentally found a way to get rich online on eBay accidentally. This encounter is both trendy and ironic. After all, how many people want to take shortcuts and rely on a single network cable to make money. Now. They first came to a place similar to the game scalper website by accident. They can do tasks in the game and find props to sell money. Cheap tasks can’t be done because of the tight time. A high-priced car in a racing game is naturally attracted. Their attention, the result of a fierce drag racing, Yunnilop, who came home after the car battle, was unwilling, but was deeply attracted by the exciting open-world racing game, because the characters there are cool and the track changes. It's multi-faceted, it can be said that every game is completely different. Sister Shan, voiced by Gal Gadot, is a combination of beauty, wisdom, independence and strength, making Yunnilop seem to see a new goal in life. Coincidentally, she also came out of the "Fast and Furious" series and became well-known to the audience. This time playing a female racer again is like a "return to the industry".
In the movie, of course, the time of two people wandering around the Internet is used to boldly visualize this digital world composed of 0 and 1. Many places make people smile, such as the images of various Internet companies and their content. It's closely related. Twitter is a woods with a lot of chirping birds. The Amazon building looks like their carton box, and the industry giant Google is the image of a skyscraper like the Empire State Building; the automatic association function of the search engine is sometimes very inviting. What annoying, a lot of irrelevant things pop up after typing two words and even make you forget what you want to search for? This association function has also been concretized, and it has become a long-winded doctor. If you find the results, you will be put into the car and sent to where you want to go. It can be said that without a single line, people find many surprises for themselves in every picture. Disney has never let us down.
Unlike Yunnilop, who has no soul but only racing games and the cool flash sister in his mind, Ralph only wants to make money quickly and leave this fancy place to return to the original simple and peaceful life. After the car-capture battle failed, the two came to a funny video website (similar to Douyin?) according to the instructions, and wanted to raise enough money before the payment deadline by becoming an internet celebrity, the fastest way to get money. Fortunately, as a familiar face of the game hall in the 1980s, Ralph attracted the attention of many viewers as soon as he appeared in funny videos. The number of "likes" rose swiftly, and the money came really fast. Of course, the competition in the Internet celebrity class can be described as "tragic". A person was still a big celebrity 15 seconds ago, and no one knew you after 15 seconds. In order to maintain the heat, Ralph and Yunnilop were also forced to learn. Many "fainting tricks", such as rushing to other websites to do spam placement ads, using rude means to interrupt other people's live broadcasts, etc., to use anthropomorphic and figurative unpleasantness that we encounter on the Internet every day The form was revealed, and the matter of "becoming an internet celebrity making money" was mildly mocked.
After stumbling, Ralph, who had finally collected enough money, took a picture of the steering wheel, and Yunnilop was nowhere to be seen. It turned out that she went to see Sister Shan, but she who really likes the new racing game can hardly tell Ralph, fearing that her departure would hurt his heart. And just as she expected, Ralph, who accidentally heard the conversation, got angry and found a hacker virus in an attempt to invade the game to restore his friendship with Yunnilop. This virus is also very interesting. There are some psychological displays. It scans people’s “insecurities” to amplify and replicate to achieve the purpose of destruction. It expresses the very abstract and indescribable things of people’s “heart demon” very concretely. The psychological pain is not only dangerous, but also dangerous. Huge, can not only destroy a person, but even the entire Internet-breaks the Internet!
At this point in the story, the theme is already very obvious. When we were young, we cherished the friendship with our best buddies. We hope that the two of us will stay together for a lifetime. We have planned everything we can do together: go to school together, eat together, watch animation together, play games together, and work together in the future. Traveling together, or even getting married, must be arranged on the same day. But how did we know at that time that many people can only walk with you for a short period of time? When a friend chooses another path, we feel betrayed, helpless and even angry. The fact that the movie uses a computer virus to destroy the Internet world directly shows that "unlimited possession is not true friendship." “It’s normal for a friend and you to have different dreams.” The film said the most important thing in the mouth of Sister Shan. She not only told Yunnilop and Ralph, but also the children in front of the screen. That said. At the end of the movie, a little boy in the front row cried so sad that his mother took him out before he could finish watching. It seemed that the similar experience made him feel the same.
If “friendship between children” is an element for small audiences to understand, then the part for adults to see is another important setting in the series-the characters in arcade games are just like ordinary office workers. They work at sunrise and sunset, and do their own part of the work in a fixed workplace every day. The life is stable and satisfying. They don’t want any mistakes and they can’t imagine any mistakes. Breaking into other people's work places will risk the entire game being scrapped, causing the characters to follow the steps even if the mechanical life is boring no matter how boring. This idea of "I feel bored, but who wants to give up a stable life" can be said to be the biggest pain in the hearts of those born in the 80s and 90s who have just experienced the midlife crisis. In fact, we are not old at all, and many people are not married yet. , But after working for many years, I have adapted to a certain rhythm of life, unwilling to change, and even more afraid of change. Of course, occasionally there will be some yearning for the unknown world in my heart. I imagine that if I change jobs or even completely engage in another industry, will my life be completely different, but for most people, the price of change is not as simple as playing in another game. We can only live mechanically every day while dreaming. Yunnilop is very brave and at the same time she is more fortunate because she is unrestrained and can follow her own choices. Ralph is more like a conservative worker by comparison. He actually knows in his heart that the industry he is in is already going downhill. It is an indisputable fact that arcade shops are disappearing. The advent of the Internet has accelerated this process. Perhaps If the animation has the next episode, they will completely withdraw from the stage of history. But Ralph refused to accept, and every time he stepped forward to help the game store owner keep the game console, he can be said to be a loyal employee; Internet access is like a small country that was originally closed suddenly facing the challenge of the global market economy. Ralph, like many conservative small businesses, refuses to change, but he knows the unstoppable change in his heart-this painful acceptance process, the film shows through the "friendship between people", it can be said to be very smart and just right. .
Before the film was released, the 14 princess gala, which was highly anticipated by everyone, is definitely the most exciting Disney self-tackling in the whole film, so there is no exaggeration at all. No, people don’t always say, "Hehe! Disney! The father took the initiative and began to pity himself at the pool! At this time the princess began to sing even when the light was hit! She sang as she sang! The flowers, birds, insects and fish next to her. Let’s dance together! In the end, it’s always a handsome guy who rescues the princess!” (Nintendo: Who called me?) Disney has mastered everyone’s complaints about their same routine for decades, cleverly borrowing from the princesses themselves. I said all these complaints, not to mention that everyone worked together—not spoiler—of course it saved the world! Just go and see.
PS Stan Lee, who has just passed away, also had a surprise cameo on the scene, and his nose became sore when he saw him.
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