Before introducing today’s movie, I would like to ask you a few questions: Have you played games? Have you ever seen NPC change the whole game in the game?
The movie “FREE GUY” that I want to recommend to everyone today is a Hollywood blockbuster with a game background that integrates science fiction, love, and action.
Before entering the Chinese mainland market, “FREE GUY” also achieved good results despite the epidemic situation.
“FREE GUY” has a global box office of 120 million U.S. dollars, an IMDb score of 7.6, and a freshness of Rotten Tomatoes audience of 82% within two weeks.
As the best sci-fi action comedy of the year in 2021, “FREE GUY” became the biggest surprise of the year after its release.
“FREE GUY” harvested rotten tomato popcorn as high as 94%, and CinemaScore A has an amazing reputation.
“Hollywood Reporter” praised “FREE GUY” as “the best game movie so far.”
The audience who had already watched the movie said “”FREE GUY” is refreshing, and the whole theater is bursting with laughter!”
The male protagonist Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is an NPC in the game “Liberty City”.
Here, let me give you a popular science about what NPC (non-player character) is.
NPC is the abbreviation of non-player character. It is a type of character in the game. It means non-player character. It refers to the game character in the game that is not controlled by real players.
This concept originally originated from stand-alone games, and later this concept was gradually applied to other game fields.
Sometimes it is also used as a non-person character, or a non-playable character.
In video games, NPCs are generally controlled by computer artificial intelligence and are characters with their own behavior patterns.
In card or table games, the NPC is controlled by the DM or referee.
Okay, after introducing what an NPC is, let’s watch the plot.
Guy’s character is innocent, kind, and simple.
As a bank teller, he owns a closet with exactly the same blue shirt and leads a static life.
Guy’s life is repeated every day according to established procedures, just like his name.
Guy, in English, Guy means “guy” or “buddy”, which is unremarkable and ordinary.
Until one day I met the heroine Millie (Jodie Comer) who made his heart beat.
He decided to change his life, break this cycle, take the initiative in life, and pursue his love.
In order to meet Millie, Guy kept doing good deeds in Liberty City, and promptly stopped some of the violent behaviors in the game, which made him soar.
But when Millie told him that he was actually a virtual character in a video game, and she was a real player in real life, they could never be together.
Although Guy was hit hard, he did not give up easily and bowed his head to fate.
However, it didn’t take long for the game that the NPC was in to be closed by the developer.
At this time, the heroine Millie decided to help him fight back, and Guy also helped Millie find evidence that the game developer copied Millie’s game.
So two people started an interesting gaming career.
Guy decided to become a hero when he learned that he was an NPC, and rewrote his story to find true love.
In a world without limits, he is determined to save his world in his own way, lest it is too late.
Other NPCs in Liberty City, who lived the same way of life as Guy, were inspired by him to make changes.
This is not only for this game, for Liberty City, but also for their own future and their own lives.
As a result, a “out of control” drama kicked off.
Another highlight in “FREE GUY” is the background music and theme song.
This movie sets “Fantasy” sung by Mariah Carey as the “link” between Guy and the heroine Millie.
The song “Fantasy” was released in 1995 and is a hit worldwide.
It features fast-paced songs based on pop music, contemporary R&B, and Dance-pop, and incorporates a moderate amount of funk, hip-hop and bubblegum pop.
The lyrics of this song describe the story of a woman falling in love with a man, every time she sees him, she starts to fantasize about falling in love with him.
In the movie, the director used this song on Guy, indicating that Guy fell in love with the heroine Millie, and played the role of this song ingeniously.
At the same time, this song is also the alarm clock for Guy to get up every day.
So when the two of them meet, he will tell the hostess that he knows the song and start the next story about the two.
This allows the audience to follow the plot with music and instantly feel the “pink bubbles” around them, which enhances the sense of substitution in the movie.
At the same time, the next plot is also unfolded, and the rhythm of the whole movie is appropriate.
The other song is “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus.
In the movie, the male protagonist Guy sits on a swinging iron ball in order to avoid the “hunting” of two programmers.
At the same time, this background music is combined with Miley’s classic posture of sitting on a swinging iron ball in the MV, and at the same time it adds a comedy color.
One more thing I have to mention is the wonderful fusion in “FREE GUY”: surprise guest appearances, movie eggs, and hidden details.
The movie is so interesting to the soul because it captures the interesting soul.
“FREE GUY” cleverly combines familiar game masterpiece eggs, movie eggs, celebrity guest appearances, and interesting hidden details.
If you have watched the trailer of “FREE GUY”, will you feel a little familiarity? That’s right.
The film has “Ready Player One” + “The Truman Show” + “Groundhog Day” + “Westworld” + “The Thirteenth Floor“, as well as the game “GTA” and other movies and games.
Although it looks like a “hodgepodge”, the combination of various elements is joyous and ingenious, and does not violate the harmony.
I have to say that the role of the male protagonist Guy is simply tailored for Ryan Reynolds.
With a large number of funny lines and exaggerated action elements, he really got half of the genes of “Deadpool” into this movie.
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After watching the movie, many netizens left messages on the Internet to find the stinger in the movie.
So far, netizens have found 30 stinger, so you might as well look for them, maybe there will be more surprises.
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Of course, there are many hidden details appearing in the movie, so you can pay attention to it when watching the movie.
I think the most interesting thing is that on the background menu wall of the coffee shop, the names of the drinks are so simple and rude:
- Coffee
- Coffee with milk
- Coffee without milk (coffee without milk) is not coffee…
- Weak coffee (weak coffee)
- Strong coffee
- Really good coffee
- Really hot coffee (very hot coffee)
- Really dark coffee (very dark coffee)
- Really weak coffee (very weak coffee)
Finally, let’s talk about the core of the movie that I understand.
When Guy suddenly felt that his life was almost perfect (programming) but something seemed to be missing, it was a big event in the evolution of artificial intelligence.
When we feel that we are missing something in our life, it is the moment when we humans are awakened!
So they have the so-called “out of control” behavior to find their own “freedom”.
So there was a process from “Common Guy” to “Free Guy” and then to “Great Guy”.
For AI, this is called evolution, for us, this is called growth.
Although Guy is just a well-written AI, his life experience and awakening process are very similar to our lives.
When watching a movie, you can see a miniature of yourself in real life in the movie.
I don’t know if you have such feelings. Every time, we feel something is missing in our lives. When we feel stagnant and repetitive, this empty feeling will drive people to make changes.
It is this power that drives us to embark on the path of spiritual growth. We feel that life is missing something, such as love, joy and true meaning…
Once we follow this feeling and start to make explorations and changes, the unchanging life becomes the past, and brand-new possibilities will be stimulated one by one.
We try to be another self-the undefined self.
In the film, Guy’s life has gone from the immutable false perfection to the ups and downs, an evolutionary journey of laughter and tears.
In fact, this is not just an awakening story of artificial intelligence, but our own life…
Compared with the previous plots of real people “entering” the game world, “FREE GUY” does the opposite, launching a “counterattack” from the perspective of a normal game NPC.
At the same time, it also brings a unique immersive experience and profound philosophy to the audience in the game world.
This also makes this seemingly entertaining blockbuster a movie worth watching again.
There are many life philosophies in this movie, such as:
- Everyone has spirituality (intelligent program)
- Break through self-restriction (change the shackles of life)
- Used to put down (put down the character)
- Empathy (bringing your own glasses to the opponent during a fight) and many other refraction points.
They are all new inspirations that we have gained through reflection and combined with our own life experiences after watching the movie.
“There is a thousand Hamlet in the hearts of a thousand readers”, and there are a thousand different interpretations of the film in the hearts of a thousand audiences.
Therefore, I sincerely recommend that you take the time to walk into the cinema recently and feel the surprise and inspiration brought to you by “FREE GUY”.
I believe that after you read it, you will definitely have something for yourself.
Therefore, “out of control” is also a kind of “Free”.
What do you think?
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