Chapter 79: Dreams as a Bridge
Chapter 79: Dreams as a Bridge
In the dark auditorium, as well as in front of the televisions in thousands of households, all the audiences who were watching "The Shallows" were extremely shocked and puzzled at this moment.
In their limited careers, I have never seen the protagonist die shortly after the beginning of the show.
That's right, when the shark opened its bloody mouth from under the sea and rushed towards Han Duoduo to bite her, our heroine did not activate her protagonist halo. Like her best friend, she was dragged into the water almost without any resistance.
The next second, the already very dark sea surface became even darker under the stain of blood. Eventually, the darkness spread to the entire sea surface and covered the entire screen.
"What's going on here?"
The audience was filled with doubts: Did the heroine die? Was the movie over?
How much time has passed? Maybe twenty minutes. Could the director have made a mistake?
Not only the audience, but even the leaders and teachers in the front row of the auditorium were a little agitated.
They previously thought that Wang Hao was following the same tactic as in "Jaws," scaring the audience by creating an atmosphere, thereby delaying the length of the movie and reducing the consumption of special effects.
As a result, the director now actually kills the heroine directly, which really saves time and money.
But before they could turn around and ask Wang Hao, a long gasp suddenly came from the speakers in the dark auditorium.
The next second, the screen suddenly lit up, and a figure suddenly sat up from the snow-white bed. Judging from his appearance, it was Han Duoduo who had just been surfing at the beach and was bitten to death.
This is?
The audience in the auditorium looked confused and had no idea what was going on.
How come the heroine was bitten to death on the beach one second ago and appeared on the bed the next second?
Is that just her memory?
Or maybe the heroine didn't die after falling into the sea and was rescued by someone, and then she would go seek revenge on the shark.
Most of the audience were confused.
However, there were also a small number of viewers who had watched Wang Hao's previous film "The Heart Labyrinth - Buried Alive". When they saw the futuristic equipment next to Han Duoduo's bed and the sci-fi helmet on Han Duoduo's head, they immediately came to their senses.
This is the same routine as the previous movie!
Sure enough, this part of the audience guessed correctly.
When Han Duoduo woke up, the alarm in the room sounded, and several doctors and nurses hurried in, carefully checking Han Duoduo's condition.
Through the subsequent exchanges and communication between the doctor and Han Duoduo, the audience finally understood what was going on.
It turned out that Han Duoduo, a young surfer, unfortunately encountered a shark while surfing on a wild beach with her best friend.
Not only was her best friend bitten to death by a shark, she herself was also seriously injured by the shark's bite, and even one of her arms had to be amputated.
Here the movie also gave a close-up of Han Duoduo, and the audience discovered that only a short section of Han Duoduo's arm was left lying on the hospital bed.
This broken arm is naturally a computer special effect, but Zhang Yang and his team's technology is so perfect that it is impossible to tell at all.
The audience felt relieved after understanding the general situation.
At least the heroine is okay.
Then they all understood what had just happened. It turned out that the amputation of the arm was only part of the many injuries Han Duoduo suffered after experiencing the shark attack.
Because of this incident, Han Duoduo, a surfer, suffered from the so-called "hydrophobia".
This is a psychological disorder that usually occurs in certain people who have experienced drowning and are near death.
The manifestation is the inability to get close to water, whether it is a river, lake, stream, or even a pool or well.
As for swimming in the water, it will cause difficulty breathing, twitching hands and feet, and even taking a bath will cause this reaction.
Such a strange disease occurred in Han Duoduo, a surfer. Even if she could install prosthetic limbs and participate in the Paralympics, her sports career would be completely over.
Han Duoduo was naturally very unwilling to accept this. The death of her best friend dealt her a great blow, and she had also promised her best friend that she would step onto the world stage and then be interviewed by her best friend.
Just when Han Duoduo was heartbroken, a high-tech medical company called "Fantasy Technology" came to her after learning about her news.
It turns out that after more than ten years of research, the founder of this company, Dr. Ma Zhao, finally developed a high-tech device called "Subconscious Therapy Device".
This device can bridge the gap between human brain waves through radio waves, thereby guiding the subconscious of a sleeping person into a specific dream, completing psychological treatment, and even awakening a vegetative person.
Now they are recruiting test subjects for the clinical use of the "subconscious therapeutic device". Han Duoduo's "hydrophobia" perfectly meets their requirements and is also within the treatment range of the "subconscious therapeutic device".
Through dream regression, she returns to the day when she first experienced the shark and completes the fight with the shark. As long as she can defeat the shark in the dream and kill the inner demon, she can successfully cure her "hydrophobia".
Seeing this, many viewers suddenly realized, and were also shocked by Wang Hao’s creative ideas and the plot of "The Shallows".
This time they really felt admiration for Wang Hao, who could come up with such a sci-fi setting.
Subconscious therapy, dream regression...
This is something that many Hollywood science fiction movies have never touched upon, and it does have some of the meaning of the "Nan Ke Dream" in Chinese legend.
What Wang Hao said about the path of science fiction films is not just empty talk, he is really working hard for it.
Science fiction writers Liu Cixin and Fang Baiyu, who were sitting in the front row, were extremely excited.
The former is currently conceiving a science fiction novel, some of the content of which is somewhat similar to the settings shown in Wang Hao's film.
So when he saw Wang Hao's "Subconscious Therapy Device" appear on the big screen, countless inspirations also emerged in his mind.
As for the latter, he was even more excited.
Because compared to Liu Cixin, the virtual reality game in his novel "The Game Age" is similar to the "subconscious therapy device" in Wang Hao's movie.
In addition, the other party invited him to watch the movie and also purchased the film and television adaptation rights of his novel. This all means that the other party will bring his novel to the big screen and he also has the ability to bring it to the big screen.
You know, this is what many novelists dream of.
(End of this chapter)