New Age Artists

Chapter 553 Giant Boomerang!
It’s not accurate to say it’s “Inception”, this name is used by Shen Santong.

Nolan's "Inception" (English name) was translated into "The Inception Dream" in mainland China.

"Inception" will first premiere in London, England on July 7, then in Paris, and will premiere in Hollywood, California on July 8.

Controversy arose at the beginning of the premiere.

However, "Dream of the Redux" is Warner's most important film this year besides "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1", and it is also Warner's main hit of the summer season.

Warner naturally does a lot of public relations.

The film has received numerous positive reviews. In the annual film selection, 273 critics put "Dream Creation" on the list, and 55 critics directly put it first.

Novelist Stephen King ranked "The Dreamers" third among the top ten films of the year.

As the movie box office continues to rise, the controversy is growing.

"Time" put Shen Santong on the list, and then "de-duplicated" him, exposing him to the whole world.

It indirectly spread a wave of fame in the "civilized world".

Because he is a director, many Europeans and Americans are curious and want to watch his movies.

Comedy has a generation gap.

I don’t really understand the historical blockbuster, I just know it seems very impressive.

"Inception" is a film that can be understood by foreign audiences. It adopts traditional narrative and four-act structure, which is very easy to understand.

Foreign netizens also like free resources. The reason they watch pirated content is not because they don’t want to, but because the social structure of the West is fixed.

Domestic capital has the means to put those who spread pirated works into jail. Shen Santong's movies were far away at Dongda University, and they couldn't control the piracy. The spread of pirated works further expanded his fame.

Even "Inception" gave rise to conspiracy theories.

The reason why "Time" shamelessly ate back its own credibility was because Shen Santong's film touched upon the pain of the Freemasons, and Soros and a bunch of vampires were making efforts.

Otherwise, why, despite being far ahead in the votes, Shen San Tong still cannot make it into the “Top 100”? Why not introduce Shen San Tong’s movies?

The subject matter really adds a lot of points, and "Inception" benefits from the subject matter.

Shen Santong's "Inception" was filmed by a Dongda University student, and the main reason was also because he was a Dongda University student, but he was truly criticizing the plundering of financial capital.

At this moment, class transcends the narrative of race and country, just as Xiao Mi, a white person, voted for Michelle's husband and believed in the slogan "We can change."

As a result, nothing changed.

In addition, voices calling for punishing Wall Street have emerged within Xiaomi.

The financial crisis hit the middle class like Ou Meng and Xiaomi hard. This group of people are not the ones who are suffering the most, but they have the loudest voices.

As a result, Shen Santong's "Inception" attracted a huge audience in the Western world.

After all, Shen Santong really dared to take pictures.

Dongda University stage, come if you have the courage.

In the land of Todai, even the officials can do evil with impunity.

Soros and his gang of foreigners are plundering capital, which is even worse.

The most popular version of Shen Santong's "Inception" in Europe and the United States is the Siamese version, which includes Muay Thai fighting scenes.

The controversy is growing and showing signs of spreading to Wall Street.

There are fierce internal conflicts within Xiaomi, and protest movements are happening one after another.

In other words, there is no Xiaomi Embassy, ​​otherwise it would be a big deal.

Faced with growing controversy, Nolan and his team had to respond.

Nolan's "The Idol" has major flaws, not just in the plot, but also in the fact that he really plagiarized!
Even without Shen Santong, I would have copied it in my previous life.

"Dream Creation" not only plagiarized the original animation "Paprika", it also copied a lot of elements from the surrealist masterpiece "Last Year in Marienbad" by the British New Wave film master Alain Resnais.

However, Nolan came out and said that he had only recently watched "Last Year in Marienbad" for the first time, and when he was surprised to find that it had so many similarities with his own films, he did some self-analysis.

"I may have borrowed from some movies that borrowed from Last Year in Marienbad. Both movies are about the connection between dreams and memories, and the environment in which the characters are in plays a crucial role. The biggest difference between the two movies is that we have more explosions."

Not a response to Inception and Paprika.

"Inception" is a movie produced by the University of Tokyo, and "Paprika" is an animation based on a book. Nolan's team doesn't care at all and mainly responds to the master of Chinese film.

Nolan's team insisted: "The script is original and did not refer to any other script. After all, the script has been in shape since 2002."

Nolan was speechless.

He did plagiarize, but he only plagiarized "Last Year in Marienbad" and "Paprika", he really didn't plagiarize "Inception".

How did this crappy "Inception" get copied together with him?
Audiences have been comparing "Inception" with "Dream Creation".

"Inception" caused the biggest plagiarism controversy because it is the most popular.

"Last Year at Marienbad" was a movie made fifty years ago, and mainstream audiences don't even watch it. "Inception" is a purely commercial film and has a large audience.

Many critics said that his film was not grand enough and glorified the rich.

This has never happened before. Nolan may not care about the script and Tokyo University's work, but he has to care about the opinions of Western audiences.

Nolan found "Inception" and watched it, trying to find its flaws and diss it back.

When Warner learned of his idea, he was almost scared to death. This was suicide.

Remind Nolan that Inception bought the adaptation rights for Paprika, it’s best not to respond.

No matter how you look at it, "Inception" is just a movie from the East, and its audience is only relatively large compared to the audience of old new wave films and book animations, but the number of audiences is far less than that of Nolan's "Inception".

If Nolan comes out to target "The Creator", it will only lead more audiences to watch "Inception".

Just looking at the movies, some scenes in "Dream Creation" are similar to "Inception". "Paprika" is an animation, and "Inception" is a movie. It looks more intuitive, and the audience can easily find that Nolan plagiarized.

Even if it wasn't a copy of "Inception", it was a copy of "Paprika".

Secondly, Xiao Mi and the entire Western world do not like financial capital and are calling for its suppression.

It’s best not to spread a drama like “Inception”.

Other major Hollywood companies will not lag behind and will cooperate with each other because they are all in the same group.

Cold treatment is best.

Nolan is a man who listens to advice. Directors outside the civilized world are nothing, and paying attention to them is a reward.

Only the Warner Bros. film department spoke out again, confirming what Nolan's team said: "In 02, Director Nolan handed over an -page script to Warner. The script is very creative, but it has not been completed yet."

"It still takes time to polish it, and director Nolan feels that the script is still immature. Besides, he has no experience in making large-scale movies. So the filming was delayed a few years later."

What this means is that the film project was launched very early, and the accusation of plagiarism is pure nonsense.

Once Warner makes a move, even Chinese directors will be marginalized.

The media and public opinion machine is in Xiao Mi's hands.

Who knew that when Spanish was the official language of the Western world, English was just the sound of barbarians?

It was only after 91 that English became the dominant language in the world and has penetrated the entire world without distinction; before that there was also Russian.

Once Xiao Mi's propaganda machine started, even the Western countries were considered inferior, not to mention the University of Tokyo.

But arrogance still irritated Shen Santong.

So he directly sued Warner for plagiarism, and even wanted to drag Paprika director Satoshi Kon into it.

However, Kon Satoshi was not doing well in July and passed away in August. He was the only one who filed the lawsuit.

win?
Shen Santong never thought he could win, as it is very difficult to prove plagiarism.

The main exports have been turned into domestic sales, letting everyone know that overseas directors also plagiarize, it is not just Chen Sicheng who plagiarizes, but Nolan is standing on the shoulders of public opinion hegemony.

There have been several rounds of competition overseas regarding "Dream Creation", but it has just begun in China.

Some domestic media reported that "Dream Creation" was a plagiarism, but it was limited to controversy and the intensity was not significant.

However, some foreigners said in the online community that "Dream Creation" plagiarized "Inception" and that Nolan also plagiarized the anime and Chinese movies, and carried over overseas controversies.

Some people also discovered that Shen Santong has many fans overseas.

As soon as voices praising Shen Santong appeared, there were public intellectuals who sang a different tune and made up stories to hedge their opinions.

Some media outlets used a big move to cover up a small move and started arguing about deletions.

As "Dream Creation" was submitted for review, various rumors continued to circulate online. There were reports that the review staff of the Radio, Film and Television Bureau failed to understand the film and could not give a reason for not rejecting it.

Some people also said that the version of "Dream Creation" that passed the review in mainland China was a 130-minute "abridged version", while others said that the 148-minute full version of "Dream Creation" passed the review.

The result was that the 148-minute version of "Dream Creation" was approved. How should I put it? Hype cutting has become a common practice in many movies, especially imported films.

Auditing is even more of a scapegoat. If things don’t go well, blame the auditing department.

Shanghai.

Six pm.

After get off work, Dong Rui and his friends went straight to the cinema. They had been looking forward to "Dream Creation" for a long time.

They have a circle, a special group on Douban, that only watches Hollywood movies and American TV series, and they don’t watch domestic movies and TV series at all.

Nolan's "Batman" is the father of DC, and "Dream of the Red Devils" has a high score of 9.6 on IMDB. Leonardo has received very high support for the Oscar for Best Actor.

This kind of movie must be seen as soon as possible.

If the review is not so ridiculous with domestic films, and there is a domestic film protection month, "Dream Creation" will be released simultaneously, which will definitely make "Lost in Thailand" by the extremely angry Shen Santong unable to hold up its head.

A friend was chatting while waiting for tickets: "Foreigners are saying that "Dream Creation" plagiarized "Inception", and there are other plagiarism voices."

Dong Rui said disdainfully: "Shen Santong is an extremely angry young man, a piece of shit. It's just that the alarm clock audience is not good enough to fall for his tricks."

As a very sober person, Dong Rui looked down on Shen Santong.

A liar, cheating a bunch of fools.

Another friend said: "I have heard about the controversy over the plagiarism of "Dream Creation". In fact, Director Nolan did not avoid it."

"Last Year in Marienbad was a film from the 1960s. The French New Wave is the origin of art films, and it can even be said to be one of the origins of film. It is normal for them to be similar."

"On the contrary, Director Nolan is like this. He has achieved great success and still dares to respond to controversy. This is magnanimous."

“Can our directors do this?”

“This is where their advancement lies!”

Dong Rui nodded repeatedly after listening to this: "Domestic films should focus on improving the quality of filming, rather than randomly riding on the popularity of international directors."

"Plagiarism? We are thousands of years behind, how could anyone be interested in us?"

Film screenings.

Dong Rui was fascinated by what he saw.

The great director Nolan actually constructed six or even seven layers of the world in the film!

If we take the real world planned by the group in the film as a reference, then the order of dreaming is: real world, first layer of dreams, second layer of dreams, third layer of dreams, fourth layer of dreams, limbo.

Normal people live in the real world and are in the first level of dreams when they dream.

If you want to enter the second level of dream, that is, dream within a dream, you must take general medicine.

When taking general medication, there are two ways to wake up from a dream, whether it is the first level or the second level.

The first is the so-called 'kick', which is the shock of falling due to gravity.

The second is to be killed.

Of course, waiting for the drug to expire is not a solution.

If you want to enter the third level of dreams, which is a dream within a dream, general medicines will be ineffective and enhanced medicines must be used.

However, the side effect of the enhanced drug is that if you are killed in a dream, you cannot wake up, but will enter Limbo (Lost Domain).

So the only way to wake up is to use Kick.

The so-called Synchronize a kick means that all layers must be stimulated simultaneously to wake up the dreamer.

For example, for a person who is active in the fourth level of dreams, he needs to be kicked (stimulated) at the same time in the first to fourth levels in order to wake him up in the first level.

If Kicked only on the third and fourth floors, it will awaken on the third floor.

However, if there is a layer in the middle that is not kicked (stimulated) at the same time, for example, only the first, second and fourth layers are kicked (stimulated), or only the first and second layers are kicked (stimulated), then the dreamer active in the fourth layer will not wake up.

This is what is called Miss a kick.

Therefore, when invading the deep dream state, someone must be left awake at each level to be responsible for the Kick (stimulation).

And use the ending of the music to coordinate the kick moment.

The time between layers is slowed by about twenty times.

The approximate numbers given in the lines are that a ten-hour flight in the real world is about a week in the first level of dreams, about six months in the second level of dreams, and about ten years in the third level of dreams.

Proper nouns made Dong Rui even more fascinated.

What a complete and rigorous world system this is!

Inception, the origin of the film title "Inception", literally means opening and creation.

In the movie, it is a dream stealing term. It does not mean stealing information in a dream, but it means implanting a certain idea into the target person so that he feels that the idea is his own.

Inception must be completed at least on the third layer.

The first layer of the dream is very shallow, with a lot of consciousness, and it is the entire city. The second layer is a hotel, and the third layer is just a fortress in the white snow. The less consciousness there is in the dream, the stronger the implantation effect.

Dreamer, dream master.

Every dream has a dreamer who shares his or her dreams with others.

The scenes in dreams can be designed by a special designer and then told to the dreamer, so the designer is not necessarily the dreamer.

Theoretically, everyone who enters this dream will bring some projection of their own consciousness.

But except for the target person, everyone else knows that they are dreaming so their will will not be confused.

The dreams designed by the designer cannot be too outrageous or contain unrealistic scenes, otherwise the target person will realize that he is dreaming, and his projection will attack others who invade his dream.

If the projection of the target person has undergone special anti-dream theft training, the intruder will be besieged by the projection even if the dream scene is very real.

Limbo, the lost domain.

It is not a dream, nor does it vary from person to person.

It can only be entered when taking enhanced drugs and dying in a dream.

If you die in the Lost Zone, you will return to reality, but the problem is that in the Lost Zone, your memory will be lost and you will not be able to remember this method.

So entering the Lost Zone is a last resort.

Time is endless in Limbo, and this world contains only fragments of scenes left by people who have been here before.

Dong Rui found that all the designs were closely linked and logically rigorous.

Before Benzi's character went there, only Leo and his wife had been to the Lost Zone, which matches the beginning. The house in Benzi's character's Lost Zone is the same as the one Leo built for him when he was stealing his dreams.

Dreams can also be grafted.

A and B enter the first level of C’s dream, and the dreamer of this level is C.

Afterwards, B can bring A into B’s second level of dreams, in which B is the dream master.

As Dong Rui watched, his eyes became moist.

So complex and so beautiful!
The movie screening ends.

Dong Rui stood up and applauded. The lights turned on, illuminating his tearful face, which had a fanatical beauty.

A discordant voice sounded behind me: "This is too much plagiarism, are foreign directors so shameless?"

The people in the middle were amazed: "The most exciting elevator fight, the snowy mountains, and the deep layers are not exactly the same, but you can't tell the difference."

The person on the far left said, "I heard someone say online that this director copied others' work without buying the copyright. When Inception was released, Director Shen said that some scenes were inspired by the animated series Paprika."

The first person to speak said, "Director Shen mentioned the idea of ​​dreams in Happy Birthday 2, so maybe we have the same idea."

The person in the middle said: "This Director Xiaoying is a bit shameless. He plagiarized and then said he didn't plagiarize."

"You're the one who copied!"

Dong Rui was furious, and turned around and yelled, "Everyone knows that Shen Santong's debut film was a copy of a Korean movie. You are a bunch of angry young people! Brainless!"

Dong Rui’s outburst left the audience looking at each other in bewilderment.

The friends who came with him watched the fun.

The guy on the far right in the back row suddenly got angry and was about to start a fight on the spot.

The friend in the middle quickly pulled him back: "No, no, this is just an idiot, why are you competing with him?"

(End of this chapter)