This celebrity is overly enthusiastic!

Chapter 271 David Martinez
Due to previous promotions, "The Edge Walker," as Chen Yuan's last starring film, already had a high level of popularity.

When it was released, it became a heavy emotional bomb, causing the tear ducts of a large number of viewers to malfunction. The surging public opinion was like the uncontrollable tears of the audience, pouring out freely on the Internet.

In particular, Weibo, the public opinion platform that Chen Yuan himself runs, was completely flooded with news related to "The Edge Walker".

#The Death of David#
#Rebecca's Death#
#Lucy on the Moon#
#Adam's Hammer, I fuck your ass#
The hashtag was pushed to the top of the trending search list in less than half a day.

[I regret it, I regret it! I should have only watched the first part of "The Edge Walker". I couldn't stand Mann's death in the second part, and in the third part, that bastard Chen Yuan killed off almost the entire main group!]

[The aftereffects of this movie are truly terrifying. The theme song sung by the princess, which was originally very sweet and romantic, now makes one unable to hold back tears when listening to it again.]

[The film's Night City may not depict living legends, but Chen Yuan himself is an absolute, living legend in real life. Thank you, Director Chen, for spending four years creating such a complete and moving story!]

Stop blaming Chen Yuan. David and Adam couldn't even withstand a single blow from his heavy hammer before collapsing and getting brutally beaten. This isn't his fault; it's entirely the fault of those damn Columbia Pictures!

David's life, and Chen Yuan's life as an actor, were both frozen at the end of this story. The movie is cruel, and so is reality.

In the movie, David dies with a smile, and in real life, Chen Yuan also faces his pain with a smile.

I think it's precisely the overlap between David's and Chen Yuan's characters that allows us to project our real-life relationship with Fan Binbin into the story, imagining their eternal separation, which makes the emotional impact so powerful.

The film's tragic ending and the fates Chen Yuan arranged for the characters have been met with considerable skepticism.

A great many people cannot accept such a tragic ending.

Some people lashed out at the ending to vent their anger, but many more offered explanations for the film from various angles, hoping to prevent casual viewers from being influenced by these irrational comments.

What's the most ruthless part of this movie? Chen Yuan designed an ending that leaves you with lingering emotional pain, abruptly ending after Lucy's solitary journey to the moon.
Even without the forced, illogical ending where the male and female protagonists both go to the moon, he could have designed a more dramatic ending where both die, or a gentler ending where Lucy and Rebecca go to the moon together.

Chen Yuan, however, insisted on amplifying the loneliness within the cyber world.

Because death is not the most terrifying thing in this world. The intense loneliness of someone like Lucy, who has severe childhood trauma, is cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and is separated from her beloved is far more terrifying.

The ending is like Chen Yuan tearing a hole in your chest and then just leaving it there, letting the bleeding and pain erode your entire body.

In other words, it allows negative emotions to constantly overwhelm your mental world. Chen Yuan is indeed skillful and ruthless; he has a firm grasp on the audience's psychology!

Some say that the tragedy stemmed from Lucy's various acts of concealment.

Because Lucy was evasive and refused to explain to David, a series of tragedies ensued.

I believe that communication problems are just the surface issue; the deeper reason lies in the characters' personalities.

Lucy is a person who craves love. After falling in love with David, she longs to show him her vulnerability and craves his love even more.

She had long since shed her initial pretense and transformed into the image of a pampered wife.

As David matured rapidly, she lost confidence in her own attractiveness, which is why Rebecca kept asking David out. Because subconsciously, they both realized this problem.
So, would Lucy do, or dare to do, anything that would ultimately lead to losing David, the man who is as important to her as a dream?
We all know how deep David's feelings are for Mann and Dorio. Having lost his mother, David can be said to regard them as family.

The risk of rashly revealing that the Mann couple died because of her was something Lucy couldn't accept from the beginning, especially given her personality flaws and gradual loss of self-confidence.

The more hackers Lucy killed, the more tormented she felt inside.
Therefore, this is a dead end. If we re-examine their behavior from God's perspective, we can see that everyone has indeed made a lot of mistakes. It seems that as long as these mistakes are corrected, their fate will change.

But if you calm down and think about it carefully, the phrase "marginalized traveler" actually says it all.

We are not the main characters; they are all pitiful people on the margins of society, whose personalities and perspectives are defined by this damned cyberpunk world.

An ending where David removes his prosthetic body and lives on the moon with Lucy is something that can never happen in Night City.

Everyone was enthusiastically discussing the plot, finding so many reasonable reasons and realistic emotional journeys of the characters that Lucy and David seemed like real people living in reality.

The characters in "The Edge Walker" are so realistic, and this realism is actually the main reason why the story had such a powerful impact after the ending.

It's as if you can truly feel what Lucy felt when she went up to the moon alone and faced the sun.

From a scriptwriting perspective alone, "The Edge Walker" is undoubtedly an exceptionally good romance film.

I would call *The Edge Walker* the *Titanic* of the 21st century!

Everyone says that watching only the first part of "The Edge Walker" is enough, as the latter two parts are too heartbreaking.

However, the first part of this story gave me a sense of powerlessness and despair, like a heavy stone pressing on my chest, making it hard to breathe, and this feeling persisted throughout the entire story.

David has been targeted by the company ever since he installed S.A.R. Stein. Lucy was originally the company's hacker property, and the others were all engaged in dangerous gang activities.
Frequently putting themselves in danger, they are the outskirts of Night City, destined only for destruction.

Rather than saying that when I actually saw the characters leave, I felt sadness, but more than that, I felt a sense of relief, like the boots that had been hanging in the air had finally landed, since they had already begun to fall.

So when exactly did David begin his fall? Was it after he donned the prosthetic body and attacked Arasaka Tower to save Lucy?

No.

Did it begin with David's installation of a prosthetic body, which led him into a vicious cycle in order to inherit Mann's wish to protect the team?

No.

So, does the story begin after David's mother's death, when he puts on military-grade S.A.W.S. armor to survive and is then targeted by the company?

No.

It fell much earlier, much earlier, much earlier still, long before David installed pirated learning software, long before this story even happened.

Even before he was born! From the moment he was born in Night City, in this cyberpunk 2077 world, he was already falling.

It wasn't just him; everyone born in this era was falling, and the abyss was engulfing everyone.

Therefore, life and death are unpredictable. Some people realize they are falling, so they desperately try to climb up, hoping to cling to the company and slow their fall.

Many more people are numbing themselves, closing their eyes, and letting themselves fall.

David, with his self-destructive tendencies, chose to accelerate. While everyone else feared madness, he embraced it. Was he not afraid? He was, but to support his companions, he accelerated relentlessly, transforming into a shooting star that grew ever brighter, releasing unprecedented light and heat that crashed into the bottom of the abyss!
His most dazzling moment was the instant before he was shattered to pieces, and then he became a legend of Night City.

And then... nothing more.

David's already fought his way up to the top of Arasaka Tower, and these two loyal bastards of the company are already thinking, 'What if we alert the higher-ups?'

Despair, utter despair; helplessness, utter helplessness.

David is just an ordinary person who is slightly special, while Adam Hammer, who is truly special, works as a dog for the company.

David's most advanced prosthetic body, S.A.W.S., is a product from many generations ago;

David's rebellion was an experiment orchestrated by the company;
The powerful weapon of resistance, the cybernetic body, was a gift from the company.
David resisted, and as a result, the company collected his data like it was a monkey show!
Holy crap!
What a shitty world! No matter what David does, the company will never lose money!

In the end, nothing changed in Night City except for one more widow whose grief was beyond measure and whose heart had given up.

Even the seemingly invincible Adam's Hammer is unable to control his own destiny.

Small corporate dogs will be eaten by big corporate dogs, and big dogs will be eaten by even bigger dogs. Even those at the top of the company cannot defy the ultimate advancement of technology.

Everyone is falling; that's cyberpunk.

Indeed, as some have said, *The Edge Walker* is a hopeless world.

But on this stage of despair, Chen Yuan presented us with an incredibly romantic story.

Yes, romance, a word that is neither cool nor cyberpunk.

In such a disgusting era, in such an ugly, cannibalistic society, in a rotten, nauseating world where friends betray each other, siblings kill each other, lives are sold, dignity is trampled on at will, and everything has a price tag.
In such a rotten world, such a rotten society, and such a rotten environment, there is still the purest friendship and love!
There are still people risking their lives to protect others, there are still people talking about their dreams, and there are still people gazing at the stars, wanting to set foot on the moon!
Even when capitalism is at its end, there is still hopeful heroism, people still talk about love, dreams, and protection, and people still sing elegiac songs of humanity. Isn't that romantic?

This is so romantic!
That's why I like David; I see the brightest aspects of humanity in him!

I really like the story of The Edge Walker, especially the ending.

In my opinion, what touches me most about it is its realism.

The cyberpunk world reflects the absurdity and despair of modern society. Class stratification is rigid, people have no money and can only huddle in rented rooms. Basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter and transportation are a problem, and even life-saving medical care cannot be guaranteed.

David's mother understood this, which is why she tried every means to earn some shady money to send David to a higher education institution.

This way, he at least has the opportunity to escape his social class, and we can look forward to the day when he can stand at the top of Arasaka Tower.

But school is just as cruel as society, and in the end, David's mother also met a tragic end.

Those who want to break free from the existing rigid social classes need to bear many prosthetic bodies that damage their bodies and minds.

Confused, David decides to sacrifice his soul and life in exchange for a chance to defy fate.

Along the way, he met Mann, Rebecca, and other companions, as well as Lucy.

In the end, David died from Adam's hammer attack. I believe many viewers, like me, hoped that he could have a miraculous comeback like the protagonists in traditional Hollywood blockbusters or Japanese anime.

But things didn't go as we hoped, because that's reality.
Man cannot ultimately conquer nature; David died.

He failed to fulfill his mother's expectations and become the one who remained at the top of the Arasaka Tower, though he did stand there briefly.

He couldn't take over Mann's mission and lead the team further and longer, but he still wrote a legend.

He couldn't even fulfill Lucy's simplest wish: to put down her prosthetic body and live on.

Wearing a prosthetic body, he was unable to hug Lucy.

But without his prosthetic body, he couldn't protect Lucy.

This is reality; it can't be perfect, and it always carries a sense of melancholy and incompleteness.

Films of different genres, such as dramas and comedies, often have strong regional characteristics, making it difficult for them to expand their influence beyond their local area.

However, romantic comedies and science fiction films, which do not rely on specific cultural backgrounds, directly address the basic needs of humanity and the challenges faced by civilization, and therefore can be understood and recognized by audiences from different countries and speaking different languages.

The romance film "The Edge Walker," disguised as a cyberpunk sci-fi movie, has also stirred up a strong emotional storm after its release overseas.

In the United States, there is a bar called "Afterlife" in New York City, whose interior design is inspired by the cyberpunk style of the movie "The Edgewalker".
Indeed, after the movie's release, a cocktail called 'David Martinez' was introduced, made with vodka and cola, and it became a hit with movie fans, with long lines forming outside bars.

Other bars followed suit and launched their own 'David Martinez' cocktails.

The prop used in the movie was a blue can of cola, and blue cola does actually exist in real life.

One of them is Pepsi Blue, a berry-flavored cola launched by Pepsi in 2002; the other is blueberry-flavored cola launched by Coca-Cola in 01.

However, both of these colas have gradually withdrawn from the market due to factors such as taste, and only a small amount is still available.

The huge success of "The Edge Walker 3" led to a frenzy of buying up these two blue Coca-Colas from moviegoers and bars!

In a short period of time, the blue Coke, which had previously attracted little attention in North America, was completely sold out! This trend is also spreading to other regions.

Many bars have had to substitute other blue sodas, but this makes them several times more expensive than bars that can offer real blue Coke.

Both Pepsi and Coca-Cola advertised in the movie, but they never expected that a movie Easter egg would turn the blue Coke, whose sales had been stagnant for a long time, into a blockbuster!

Both of these major companies contacted Columbia Pictures and Chen Yuan, wanting to acquire the rights to Coca-Cola in the film.

And this is only a small part of the impact caused by the release of "The Edge Walker".

(End of this chapter)