Chapter 422: Distortion Crisis

Chapter 422: Distortion Crisis

Chapter 422: Distortion Crisis

Compared with the two films "Personal Tailor" and "Police Stories 2013", "Distortion Crisis" does not seem to be very competitive on the surface.

The director of this film is Guo Fan, a new director under the Galaxy Group, and this is his first film work.

As for the actors, the heroine of "Distortion Crisis" is Masami Nagasawa, who had had close exchanges with Wang Hao in Japan before and is also extremely popular, while the hero is the Chinese actor Wang Kai.

Although the former is quite famous in Japan, in China only some people who follow the Japanese entertainment industry know about him. Like Wang Kai, he has no box office appeal.

That is to say, in terms of supporting roles, there is Wang Zhiwen, who left a deep impression in "Transcendence", and Shi Qiang's female student Qin Yanni, played by Shu Chang, who can still hold the scene.

In addition, the biggest attraction of "Distortion" is that it belongs to the series of films in the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe".

Over the years, the science fiction movie universe has accumulated a considerable number of fans. With previous works such as "Wushuang", "Source Code", "Wolf Warrior", "Inception", "Gravity" and "Transcendence" as a foundation, the quality of "Distortion" is guaranteed in everyone's minds.

At least in terms of special effects, the Starlight Fantasy Special Effects Company of the Galaxy Group is currently the only well-known special effects company in China with its own intellectual property rights and technical patents. It has undertaken special effects work for many well-known domestic and foreign film and television projects.

As for the movie story, as a science fiction thriller with monsters as its core selling point, "The Distortion Crisis" is actually similar to many of its predecessors in story structure and rhythm.

Films like "In the Heart of the Sea", "Deep Cold", "Godzilla", "The Meg", "King Kong", "Jaws", and "Jurassic Park" are all leaders in this genre.

The selling point of this type of movie is the monsters, as well as the thrilling horror scenes. The same is true for "The Distortion Crisis", which did not make any major breakthroughs in the overall narrative.

The story of "Distortion" is not complicated. The origin of the story involves the Brilliant Group, which plays a large role in the movie universe.

This giant enterprise, headquartered in Japan, has business operations all over the world. Its main business is biomedicine. In addition, it also has many other businesses such as deep-sea fishing, animal husbandry, and beauty and health care. It is one of the top international conglomerates.

Of course, these are just the group’s obvious industries.

Behind the scenes, the company was secretly involved in various illegal genetic modifications, human experiments, drug production, and colluded with some underground forces.

In this regard, relevant organizations of the United Nations and relevant departments of major countries are naturally always keeping an eye on it.

This time, a Level I biological escape accident occurred in a marine biological laboratory under the Brilliant Group in Makurazaki City, Japan. Not only did it cause great damage, but due to the popularity of mobile phones and mobile Internet, the accident was posted on the Internet, causing quite a stir.

How could the relevant United Nations organizations miss such a good opportunity? They specially arranged an accident investigation team to investigate the relevant situation.

The investigation team is led by the famous biologist and sociologist Pan Han (Liu Xiaofeng). In addition, the team also includes special operative Qin Yanni (Shu Chang) from China, zoologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) from the United States, and local female reporter Duo Jing Liangzi (Nagasawa Masami) from Dongying.

Originally, Wang Hao assigned the role of Nagasawa Masami to be a female biologist who had a change of heart within the Brilliant Group. However, after sorting out the plot of the film, the screenwriter department felt that there was already a female scientist role like Zhao Hailun in the entire science fiction film universe.

In order to avoid duplication of role functions, Masami Nagasawa's role was changed to a reporter, so that she can appear more easily and reasonably in other works of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" in the future.

Faced with the investigation team sent by the United Nations, the Brilliant Group naturally attached great importance to it and arranged for the company's top management to come out to greet them and provide explanations.

In their words, this was just a minor accident, the Brilliant Group had resolved the problem, and made timely compensation for the damage and consequences caused by the accident.

Faced with the answer from the Brilliant Group, the investigation team would naturally not accept it in its entirety. The relevant United Nations organizations had finally caught the mistakes of the Brilliant Group. They came here with a mission, so how could they end the investigation so easily?

After that, members of the investigation team from relevant UN organizations began to collect information about the Brilliant Group and its marine biological laboratories from all aspects, trying to find evidence of illegal activities by the company or the laboratory.

In this process, the most classic scene of monster thrillers naturally appeared. That is, when one or two members of the protagonist group were investigating in a remote and secluded place that was enough to make people feel creepy, strange shadows would flash past them, but the protagonists would not find anything.

At least when female reporter Ryoko Tai (Masami Nagasawa) and Davis (Dwayne Johnson) went down to the sea to investigate, in the quiet sea, the two of them floated up and down, and the dark shadows around them flashed quickly, which really made the audience watching the movie on the spot hold their breath.

And when the female reporter Ryoko Tani, played by Masami Nagasawa, came out of the sea, took off her thick diving suit, and appeared on the big screen wearing only a bikini swimsuit, her pair of long, white legs made many male audiences who were holding their breath swallow subconsciously.

There are beauties, thrillers, and monsters, plus the blessing of the science fiction movie universe, how could such a movie lose money?
It was naturally impossible for the investigation team to find any problems in their initial operation. They only discovered some seemingly insignificant anomalies through visits and investigations from some peripheral employees of the laboratory and some residents in the surrounding area.

For example, fishermen around the laboratory have found it difficult to catch fish in the sea area in the past six months. Another example is that some peripheral employees said that they could hear strange noises coming from inside the laboratory at night.

Of course, these certainly cannot be used as evidence to determine that the Brilliant Group and the Marine Biological Laboratory have violated the law, and the development of the plot seems to have reached a deadlock at this moment.

Then a turning point occurred. A person who had a change of heart and turned to the good appeared at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Shan Hongzhi (played by Wang Kai), the experimental assistant who was assigned to accompany them, was ultimately unable to resist the temptation under Nagasawa Masami's beauty trap.

Of course, according to him, he still had a conscience and turned to the light. Anyway, when the young man was alone with Ryoko Tani one night, he told the female reporter played by Masami Nagasawa all the information he knew.

Most of the audience also expressed their understanding of this turn of events. After all, who can resist Masami Nagasawa, who is now in her prime?
As for the information that Shan Hongzhi knew, it turned out that the marine biology laboratory of the Brilliant Group had been secretly conducting genetic mutation experiments on marine organisms and had created many strange test subjects.

As for why the Brilliant Group cultivated these special test subjects, Shan Hongzhi, the assistant, didn't know. He had never even seen the test subjects, and most of what he knew was inferred based on the information he had access to. However, he was also at the scene of the previous accident. Although the person in charge of the laboratory repeatedly covered up the matter, he also knew that the accident was most likely caused by the genetic mutation of the laboratory's mutated organisms too quickly, beyond the expectations of the experimenters, so that the monsters broke through the restrictions of the relevant security measures and escaped from the laboratory.

Ryoko Tani was naturally overjoyed to receive such important news.

However, witnesses alone were not enough, so she decided to strike while the iron was hot and asked her assistant Shan Hongzhi to help her obtain some information from inside the laboratory, preferably photos of the biological subjects and body tissue samples.

Shan Hongzhi had already revealed all the information and betrayed the Brilliant Group, so he had no choice but to follow this path to the end, so he agreed to Nagasawa Masami's request.

Afterwards, the investigation team came to the laboratory again. During the investigation, they completed the liaison task with Shan Hongzhi and sneaked into the secret room of the laboratory, where they found special biological experimental subjects.

Those were some disgusting monsters with different characteristics of marine life, kept in water tanks made of bulletproof glass. Just looking at them made people's scalp tingle.

However, their behavior was naturally discovered by the laboratory manager. In order to solve the problem, the manager blocked the secret base under the laboratory and prepared to capture the members of the investigation team first.

However, at this moment, an accident occurred and a larger monster launched an attack on the marine life base from the sea.

This monster has a crab-like shell, thick limbs and a fish tail. It is huge, as tall as four or five stories high. It can move quickly in the water and walk and run on land at the same time.

Under the monster's attack, the entire biological laboratory was reduced to ruins. Facing the weapon attacks from the laboratory security personnel, the monster relied on its hard shell and was not afraid at all.

And the key point is that after breaking into the marine biological laboratory, it also rescued those imprisoned biological experimental subjects. So many little monsters ran out. If they were allowed to escape into the sea like this and grow mature in the future, not only Japan, but also other coastal countries in the surrounding waters would face a disaster.

So at the critical moment, the investigation team came out and found information about these monsters in the marine biology laboratory of the Brilliant Group. They extracted useful information from it and found ways to restrain them.

They use special pheromones to lure these monsters so that they don't escape into the water, and then they work together to kill the giant monster called the "Devil Witch." The movie ends here.

It can be said that after watching the movie, "Distortion Crisis" is still remarkable.

Although Guo Fan is a new director, his first film did not have any mistakes. He implemented the film industrialization system standards of Galaxy Group very well and completed this science fiction monster thriller. Most of the audiences also said that they enjoyed it very much.

In addition, this "Distortion Crisis" also has two easter eggs.

The first post-credits easter egg is that after the incident, the leader of the investigation team, Pan Han, took the relevant information he had collected and accused the Brilliant Group at the conference of the relevant United Nations organization. He solemnly declared the great harm of genetically mutated organisms, and called on countries around the world and relevant organizations to impose sanctions on the Brilliant Group. At the same time, he arrested the company's main technical director, Dr. Chen.

However, after the conference ended, Pan Han got into the car when he left the venue, shook hands with Evans, played by Christian Bale, in the car, and called the other party "commander-in-chief", which is really terrifying when you think about it carefully.

As for the second post-credits Easter egg, it was that the US government imposed sanctions on the Brilliant Group.

Of course, it is called sanctions, but in fact, a US biopharmaceutical consortium is taking the opportunity to tear a piece of meat from the Brilliant Group.

They forcibly took over a test site of the Brilliant Group in the United States. This site mainly uses rockets to launch special drugs into low-Earth orbit, using high-energy particle rays and extreme environments in space to induce mutations in the biological factors in the drugs.

Because of the U.S. government's raid, the head of the biological laboratory refused to cooperate and pressed the controller in advance, releasing the medicine cans on the space satellite, allowing them to fall into the atmosphere.

As for the impact of the biochemical tank falling to the earth, we will have to wait until the subsequent works of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" are released to find out.

Anyway, there are monsters, beauties, horror elements, and tense action scenes. Coupled with the blessing of the movie universe and the post-credits easter eggs, the box office of "Distortion Crisis" on the first day was not low, and successfully exceeded 100 million Chinese yuan.

And because it was released a few days in advance, "Distortion Crisis" also benefited from the box office.

Three days after its release, on December 2013, 12, Feng Xiaogang's "Private Tailor" was released. Based on the 19% screening rate on the first day, the attendance rate on the day of release was as high as 44.16%, and the single-day box office reached more than 33 million.

Although the box office on the first day did not exceed 100 million yuan, it is enough to show that Feng Xiaogang still has some box office appeal in the New Year's Day period and comedy films.

The only problem is that although the box office of "Distortion Crisis" on the day of its premiere was not as good as "Personal Tailor", it was still more than 6 million, which greatly diluted the box office potential of "Personal Tailor".

Sure enough, after that, the box office of "Personal Tailor" dropped a lot on the second day, falling to the same level as "Distortion Crisis".

The two films thus started the first battle in this year's Spring Festival period. Although they had some impact on each other's box office, they also promoted the popularity of the period and created momentum for the New Year's Day period.

After "Personal Customization" was released for a week, it grossed more than 5 million yuan at the box office. After "Distortion Crisis" successfully broke the 2013 million yuan mark in total box office, Jackie Chan's "Police Story " was released shortly afterwards.

Three blockbuster movies gathered on the eve of the 2014 Spring Festival and launched a fierce battle.

(End of this chapter)