2005 's "Doom" (Doom) can be said to be a typical representative of holding a good hand but playing loosely. First of all, " megalith" Johnson , Carl Earl The starring lineup composed of Ben and Pei Chunhua is already luxurious in sci-fi movies; and is catching up with the upsurge of game adaptation movies, "Span6span Tomb Raider" and "Resident Evil" Success has already laid a good audience foundation, but Universal Pictures, which holds the important IP of Strong1strong "Doom" , actually hit the street (with a budget of 60 million U.S. dollars and a global box office of only 56 million), resulting in this series being hidden from the fans. We have never been able to wait for the follow-up of the film.
"Doom" 's failure, the main reason should indeed be attributed to the incompetence of director Andrey Bakouyak, which made a story that seemed good to be plausible and full of loopholes . For example, the inexplicable introduction of "24th pair of chromosomes" lacks a complete explanation; "Monument" Johnson played by Sergeant Mahoning 's violent fluctuations in personality makes people feel inexplicable; there are also movies. Important settings "Ark" ,There is no explanation of its operating principle and origin. These contents are actually explained in the original script, but due to the limited ability of the director, the film is not what it should be.
Andrey Bakouyak made another game-adapted film "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li" after the scourge of "Doom", which also continued the bad film level, and has almost Disappeared.
The original idea of the production company was to make a movie that followed the "Doom" game plot, and moved closer to the game in the setting. After all, this is the safest way to lock in the loyal fans of the game in advance. .
However, this plan was broken by the Columbine High School shooting case of Colorado . In fact, this incident occurred in 1999, but the public prosecutor broke out to the media during the 2004 trial. The suspects are all big fans of the shooting game "Doom" . Fearing that this negative report would trigger a boycott of the film in the United States, Global had to seek a compromise: "Doom" 's famous IP must be kept, but you can try to tell a new story .
So this strange movie with the title "Doom" but with little connection to the game came into being.
In fact, Universal Pictures has their reason to do this. After all, the story of "Doom" is very simple, and it is a protagonist who has no name ( "Doom Guy" ) is holding a gun Keep hunting demons, from the satellites of Mars all the way back to the earth, and then from the earth to hell...
so Universal Pictures wants to manage "Doom" , to make it a series of IP, you need to drastically modify the settings in the game, at least to be more reasonable and popular. So those hell demon can only be abandoned and simply changed to a biochemical tragedy caused by genetic experiments on Mars; the protagonist is no longer an unnamed space marine, but a "RRTS" member, " Death" John Green.
"Ark"
2026 , the first time humans discovered an ancient teleportation device in the 2strong Nevada hinterland _strong "the Ark" (the Ark) , it is considered to be a relic of ancient times, and can only lead to a fixed destination, Mars .
After more than 10 years of research, was born around this device. United Aerospace Corporation (UAC) can already use "Ark" for ultra-long-distance material transfer (including humans), humans on earth Strong1strong Oduwa, an ancient city on Mars opposite "Ark" , established a research center to conduct research on this civilization older than humans.
The reason why "Ark" appeared on earth is not explained in the movie. In the original script, "Ark" is Martian to avoid span. Atmosphere built an escape device, they plan to use it to gradually immigrate all the Martian to the earth.
The 24th pair of chromosomes
The excavation certificate of Oduwa ancient city ruins by human researchers,Both Martian and terrestrial have 23 pairs of chromosomes, and their genetic sequences are exactly the same. In other words, Mars is the true birthplace of humans on Earth. However, further research found that the later Martian possesses 24 pairs of chromosomes , which shows that the Martian humans have modified their people through the gene technology at a certain period, and the extra chromosome can improve the cell's performance. The number of splits and speed make these Martian humans almost possess superhuman abilities.
At the beginning, this genetic engineering showed almost no side effects, but as the environment changes, Mars does not have enough atmosphere to block ionizing radiation from the universe, with these radiations As the intensity increases, the chromosomes of Martian also mutate, and more and more super mutant races (demons) appear. This mutation finally swept the entire planet, and almost all Martians died in this disaster (either became mutants or were killed by them).
Only a small group of lucky people who have not mutated took advantage of the newly built "Ark" to escape to the earth, but the genetic modification of 24 pairs of chromosomes cannot be passed on to future generations. live longer on earth than their descendants (human beings).After this group of Martian humans finally died, the earthlings who returned to 23 pairs of chromosomes proclaimed them as gods and gradually forgot the truth that they once came from Mars.
Human sexual reproduction relies on meiosis to transmit genetic information (egg fertilization), but meiosis needs to copy its own chromosomes in advance (23 pairs increased to 46 pairs), and then divided into four (two rounds of division), Therefore, the number of chromosomes in each parent cell is only half that of the mother cell, that is, 23. In this process, the 24th pair of chromosomes cannot be copied, so naturally it cannot be continued in the parental cells.
mutated object
When humans returned to Mars, they immediately discovered the secret of the 24th pair of chromosomes AC1 12strong. Research on the weaponization of technology. Because these humans have lived on Mars bases for a long time, their chromosomes have undergone slight mutations due to a large amount of ionizing radiation . When they injected genetic material into the subjects, the same situation as the Martians encountered.
This is why most of the humans in the Oduwa Research Center will have different degrees of mutation, and the "RRTS" team from Earth to Mars, only two of the eight people have mutations (" "Goat" and "Sergeant", "Reaper" is voluntarily injected before death).
“goat” ( Goat ) and “sergeant” ( Sarge ) are all victims of being “selected”,During the battle, they were attacked by "demons" . They were injected with genetic material to produce mutations, but the other team members were only killed by surprise attacks, indicating that these "demons" were actually choosing their prey.
The reason why "Reaper" can become a super soldier is only because the chromosomes in his body do not have the basis of mutation (each person has more or less chromosomes. Variation), not as Samantha called "look at the quality of a person’s soul" . It’s a pity that director Andrey gave up such a setting and instead used "good soul or bad" to decide whether to mutate into "demon" 's "fairy tale" setting, abandoning "Doom" The dark core of this game.
After all, if you want to be more true, "goat" is a pious believer, "sergeant" is only strictly obedient to the orders of superiors, they can not be defined as "bad guys."
monster design
The movie presents four different mutant demons to the audience,They are zombie, "Imp" (Imp) , "Hell Knight" , and "Pinky" (Pinky) , which correspond to the most common monster types in the game. . Among them, zombie belongs to humans with a low degree of chromosome variation, while "little devil" and "hell knight" are both people with a high degree of chromosome variation.
"Little Devil" and "Hell Knight"
"Pingji" is an exception among them, which should belong to the director's tribute to the game. Max "Pinky" Pinchinowski is the person in charge of UAC stationed at the Oduwa Research Center ; but in the original version of the game, "pinki" generally refers to A kind of blushing demon, nicknamed "Pinky" by players.
In "Doom3" , "little pink" is reclassified as a hybrid monster with upper body demon and lower body machinery (also known as "mechanical helldog" ).
So if you are a "Doom" old player, you usually smile when you see the "Pingji" whose lower body is replaced by a wheelchair in the movie, knowing that this guy will probably have nothing next Good result.
BFG
strong1 strong Big Fucking Gun) , in the film is harmonized as "Bio Force Gun" (Bio Force Gun) .
It is rumored that "Big Rock" Johnson When the script was first received, the crew invited him to play the male number one, which is the role of "Reaper" John Green . However, in order to be able to fire a shot with "BFG" , "Boulder" rejected the role of "Reaper" and chose "sergeant" .Although this may be a rumor, after the filming of the film, "Big Rock" Johnson did bring the BFG prop gun back to his home, and everybody would show off that he had the largest "gun" in the world .
first-person shot
The entire "Doom" movie is the closest place to the game after the 2 " awakens" genetic material at the end. In that scene, it is said that Universal Pictures insisted that director Andre shoot a first-view shot lasting five minutes. The reason is that a film adapted from a shooting game must have a first-view shot and not shoot. The movie was ruined.
Although the movie was ruined in the end, it must be said that this first-perspective scene was really well shot. It is said that it took three months to plan and 14 days to prepare for the 5-minute continuous filming. Lens.
This shot later inspired many other films, such as "Span6span Brave Action" , "End of Alert" and "Hardcore Henry" are more or less applied This shooting technique was adopted.
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