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Chapter 158 Cyber ​​Honey Trap

What was initially thought to be a romantic encounter between young lovers turned out to be just a delaying tactic by Lucy taking David to see Mewtwo.

During this time, she had already notified people to come and arrest David.

It turns out that the original buyer of the S'Ainwistan on David was Mann, the gang leader whom Lucy joined!
Zhou Liming was amused by the "cyber honey trap" rhetoric used by the college students around him, but he couldn't help but admire the ingenuity of the script.

But when David joins Mann's team, and the story begins to reveal the personality traits of Mann, Dorio, Rebecca, and others,
Zhou Liming recalled the cyber honey trap scene from before and realized that this plot was not simple.

Lucy isn't a bad woman. If her goal was the S.A.S.S. inside David, why did she send him to the ambulance after he fainted, and why did she use all the stolen chips to replace David's immunosuppressants at the prosthetic clinic?

She is actually very kind at heart.

Based on their conversation in the apartment, David inadvertently revealed his character flaws: he was overly considerate of others, lacked his own dreams and goals, and lived by taking other people's dreams as his own.

It's obvious that Lucy's past is much more complicated than David's. She was clearly attracted to this simple, innocent boy, which is why she chose to open up to David and experience the moon together in Mewtwo.

She knew Mann's character, so she only wanted David to hand over Swansea or pay compensation. When Mann threatened to kill David, Lucy clearly objected.

In this storyline, not only does David develop feelings for Lucy, but Lucy also becomes interested in David.

These are all details. Just because Fan Binbin and Chen Yuan are a loving couple in the real world doesn't mean we can simply bring that relationship into their movie characters!

Zhou Liming rubbed his slightly sore eyes and continued watching the movie. By now, the movie was almost halfway through, so it seemed to be a film with romance as the main theme and adventure as a secondary element.

David joined Mann's team, becoming a cyberpunk and embarking on a cyberpunk career of training, taking on missions, making money, and upgrading his cybernetic body.

But Lucy doesn't seem to want David to become a cyberpunk.

Later in the story, Zhou Liming learns about Lucy's past: she was trained by Arasaka from a young age to be a hacker who undertakes extremely dangerous missions.

After escaping from the Arasaka Company, he has always feared and hated the Arasaka Group and has always lacked a sense of security.

Because Lucy has feelings for David, she doesn't want him to go down the dangerous, precarious path of cyberpunk.

Lucy never told David directly because she wanted to appear aloof.
As a fugitive who escaped from Arasaka after living in Night City for many years, she is all alone and must pretend to be aloof in order to hide her unease and survive in this cold city.

On the surface, she appears to be a cold and eccentric cybernetic woman, but in reality, she is a vulnerable woman who lacks security and wants someone to share her burdens and provide her with protection. This contrasting persona is something Chen Yuan has figured out.

Zhou Liming was deeply moved, saying that Chen Yuan's portrayal of Lucy for Fan Binbin was so detailed that it was impossible not to like or fall in love with her.
Although the plot is mainly about romance, the action scenes are absolutely thrilling and explosive!

The car chase scene after the car theft, which escalates into a gang retaliation, is clean and efficient. Lucy and David's teamwork, from initial awkwardness to later perfect understanding, is very smooth and seamless.

I heard that the martial arts choreography for "The Edge Walker" wasn't done by a Hong Kong team, but entirely by veterans who trained under Chen Yuan on the "Seven Swords Legend" project.

It has to be said that this group of people really learned the essence of Hong Kong films. Zhou Liming even discovered that he saw the shadow of Chen Long's unique action scenes in some of the most dynamic fight scenes.

The most talked-about scene in the trailer, a car speeding through the streets with a giant safe towing it, did not disappoint.

Mann's team, each member assigned to a specific role, carried out a major mission to steal confidential documents from a drug lord's vault at the NCPD. Lucy and Rebecca infiltrated the police archives to learn about the vault's advanced electronic locks and security measures.
Pila and Falco blow up the police station's toilets, causing chaos, and then, posing as maintenance workers, break into the station and steal police cars.

Qiwei used her superb hacking skills to infiltrate the police station's internal network and take control of its internal communications.

Mann and David, driving a high-powered modified car, speed through Night City with the team's perfect coordination, pulling out a safe!
With Mann's seasoned and decisive skills, and David's ability to significantly enhance his reaction speed using Sianwistan, the two truly treated the safe like a flail.

The police cars that tried to stop them from escaping were all smashed to pieces by the safes and had their roofs sheared off by steel cables.

Even a bustling commercial street was completely destroyed!
Night City draws inspiration from many international metropolises such as New York, Chicago, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

After the trailer was released, it was recognized that the location was based on the most bustling area of ​​Shibuya in Tokyo.

Places that are usually ravaged and destroyed by monsters and natural disasters can now be seen directly in Chen Yuan's movies, which is really exciting!

Even Zhou Liming, who was tired of watching Hollywood blockbusters, felt his heart racing, while the young people next to him kept exclaiming "Holy crap, holy crap!"

Ultimately, it seems that Mann and David had to abandon the safe they had worked so hard to obtain in order to escape, which was quite regrettable.

But when the NCPD opened the safe, they found it empty.

In fact, the team had already switched the safe with the real item long before!
The mission was successfully completed, and all team members were safe and sound.

Zhou Liming took a deep breath. This action scene was too mature and complete; it was not something that a young director like Chen Yuan could produce.

Although, on the surface, an advertising director named Zack Snyder is the official director of "The Edge Walker,"

But in previous interviews, everyone knew that the real core of the "Edge Walker" project was Chen Yuan, and everyone else was his helper, a tool to help him complete this grand project.

Therefore, Chen Yuan's name is listed alongside Zack Snyder's as a director.

Zhou Liming is well aware that China has no shortage of good directors, but it lacks good commercial film directors. The difficulty of making commercial films is much, much more complex than that of art films.

The core objectives of art films are completely different from those of commercial films.

Art films emphasize personal expression and aesthetic exploration, while the core of commercial films is to satisfy the entertainment needs of the masses and achieve box office returns.

Satisfying a minority is on a completely different level than satisfying the majority.

The difficulty of this climax scene lies in the creative concept, teamwork, resource allocation, and the director's precise control over the audience's emotions.

It's not the thrill of actors performing high-difficulty wire stunts in the bamboo forest in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," nor the shock of using an army as extras to simulate a barrage of arrows in "Hero."

Instead, it's a modern action film that transcends nationality, ethnicity, and religion, attracting the widest global audience and sending their adrenaline soaring! It features a mix of car chases, gunfights, and other elements, all presented in a well-organized and engaging way!
Such thrilling scenes were once only possible in Hollywood, and they still are, but now a Chinese team led by Chen Yuan has joined the project.

If "Legend of Seven Swords" allowed Chen Yuan to learn the essence of Hong Kong film action choreography, how much can he learn from this high-profile Sino-US co-production?
Chinese films are going to become more interesting in the future!

(End of this chapter)