Chapter 531 From Poison to Glory
Looking at the development path of Chinese e-sports, there have been short-term glory and also the loneliness of the cold winter.
The carnival of the minority gradually dimmed under the eyes of all kinds of discrimination, just like the rats in the sewer that climbed up the streets and everyone shouted to beat them.
At one time, he was placed on the pillar of shame and was reviled by thousands of people.
Prejudices and barriers exist from beginning to end.
but……
The flame swaying in the wind has never been extinguished even in the darkest moments.
instead……
Burning stubbornly!
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The title of [China Sports Weekly] is "From Basketball to E-Sports".
The name of the documentary is "From Poison to Glory".
The director’s name is Zhang Sheng!
Damn, narrator, director, writer...
You deserve it all!
When Zheng Huateng first saw the opening of the documentary, he was disgusted...
I don’t know if it’s Zhang Sheng’s voice, or the scenery and picture quality at the beginning of the documentary, or the word “Zhang Sheng”.
At the beginning of the documentary "From Poison to Glory", the pixels were very poor, as if it was a video shot by a mobile phone with hundreds of megapixels...
In the video...
It's an Internet cafe.
Keyboards covered in tar and covered with strange grease, fast food boxes and instant noodle buckets everywhere, and cigarette ashes in the instant noodle buckets...
The lighting in the picture is dark, so dark that it feels like nesting in a small, oppressive, claustrophobic and hopeless garbage dump.
Every computer is on...
The people in the computer had disheveled hair and ragged clothes, as if they had been in the Internet cafe for more than a month and had not changed. However, their bloodshot eyes were full of excitement, and they were excitedly playing a game called "World War II Pioneer". .
The beginning of the documentary "From Poison to Glory" is consistent with the realistic style of documentaries.
It has never beautified the game, nor has it been high-minded, throwing out gorgeous scenes and concepts to directly package dreams. Instead, it has used the most realistic techniques to lower the tone of the entire lens and video to the simplest recognition or things.
[This is a group of young people obsessed with games]
[They carry many words with them, decadent, garbage, painful, hopeless, marginalized in society, lamentable, and a ruined generation]
[We don’t know whether it is appropriate to use sewer rats to describe them, but their attributes are the same as rats...]
[Living in dirty places, spending day after day aimlessly, wandering and confused in the darkness, they are losers no matter what era they are in, and only games can make them feel a little warmth... 】
【……】
[Arong is one of the most insignificant among these young people...]
[This video was shot in 2007. At that time, Ah Rong dropped out of school and stayed in an Internet cafe to play games. When the video was taken, he had been playing for nearly more than a month...]
[A few years later, we asked Ah Rong how he felt at that time. He said that he felt like day after day passed in a daze. When he went out, he didn’t know what to do and he didn’t dare to go home...]
[With no money, he even went to beg on the street. His self-esteem was worthless to him...]
[Some friends who were surfing the Internet at an Internet cafe were even caught for stealing...]
[A few years later, when Ah Rong recalled it, he said seriously that the group of people who were caught were the luckiest. At least, they had their own ID cards...]
[And the other group of people are...]
[A person without identity...]
【……】
Zhang Sheng's voice was disgusting.
But I have to admit that Zhang Sheng's narration voice always carries a sense of sadness that penetrates people's hearts.
In the picture...
There are figures in the detention center with their heads lowered...
There are also dirty and messy Internet cafe chairs, with several young people lying sprawled out like corpses about to rot...
A car also drove by, carrying young people coming out of Internet cafes one after another...
They were called by the agency to "work"...
…
The beginning of the documentary "From Poison to Glory" is too sharp. It is so sharp that it is obviously a documentary produced by Zhang Sheng, but at the beginning, it always depicts the "evil" of the game.
The intermediary's commission, a series of suffocating ID card industry chains, theft, robbery, fraud, illegal work, being exploited, buying ID cards...
In the documentary, all the "evil" was captured so vividly that even Zheng Huateng felt depressed when he saw this scene.
This is the day-to-day life of a group of marginalized people...
They look like mice, no, they are just mice.
but……
If you think about it carefully, you can feel the sad current situation of some people at the bottom of society from the "evil" in the game.
Inevitably, Zheng Huateng fell into deep thought for a short time.
Were they harmed by the game?
The video doesn't give a direct answer.
In other words, a superficial answer was given in a strange way.
In the documentary, various news reports about [boycotting games] constantly appeared in everyone's sight, such as [electronic opium], [mental poisoning], [social addiction], etc., and at the same time, the documentary also showed many [electric therapy places for quitting Internet addiction].
The vigorous actions and waves of rectification seemed to have pressed [games], a flood beast, into a corner and made it tremble.
"I know it's wrong for me to play games. I'm wasting my studies and my youth..."
"But when I play games, I can feel that I'm alive."
"I'm not good at studying and my family is not well off. My teachers and classmates look down on me. I don't have a sense of identity at all..."
"After graduating from vocational high school, I have been working very hard. However, after work, I feel like an insignificant screw. Sometimes I feel like I'm dead..."
"Only in the game can I win once, be respected, and not be laughed at..."
"I play games very well. In the game [World War II Pioneer], I made it into the top 20 in the country. I have many teammates and we have been playing games..."
"We have our own group. In the group, we chat every day about where there are competitions and where there are sponsors for competitions..."
"One day, a teammate told me that there was a [World War II Pioneer] competition in Yangcheng, and the prize money was about 1,000 yuan..."
"I went to participate in this competition with the idea of giving it a try... Later, I think this should be the first game of [World War II Pioneer] held in China..."
"..."
Camera switch.
Switching to many years later, "Arong" is sitting in the office, with a youthful expression on his slightly fat face, and carefully takes out a well-preserved photo from his arms.
The camera gives a close-up of the photo.
In the close-up, it is said to be a competition venue.
But in fact, it is still a dark, dirty world full of young people with "Shamatte" styling.
"Arong" stands in the middle of these young people, excitedly waving the trophy photo of the first Yangcheng Cup of [World War II Pioneer]...
"I won the prize!"
"I got a prize of about 1,000 yuan..."
"I bought a set of clothes and shoes for my parents, and I also bought myself a [Xiao Shentong] (originally similar to Xiaolingtong) mobile phone..."
"..."
After many years...
When "Arong", who is already in his twenties, recalled that day, his face was still full of excitement and pride.
Then, he continued to talk about the next story in front of the camera.
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In the office.
Li Zongyao watched the documentary.
He clearly understood that the core of this documentary was actually a method of first suppressing and then raising emotions.
Opening...
The "game" was pushed to the bottom, as if a judge, standing in the most glamorous place in society, conducted a series of judgments on the ugly side without any hesitation.
From behavior to human nature, from darkness to meanness, those who were pressed deep in the mud were so ugly that they couldn't be uglier.
So, at this time, a light suddenly appeared, and that light became brighter and hotter.
[I bought a set of clothes and shoes for my parents, and I also bought myself a [Xiao Shentong] (originally similar to Xiaolingtong) mobile phone].
It was a very simple sentence...
But under the unique technique and the close-up of the expression of true feelings, even Li Zongyao felt the touch deep in his heart.
He looked at the assistant director position of the documentary, assistant director Li Zhonghe and assistant director Bi Feiyu, who were two outstanding directors of [NC Entertainment] under Zhang Sheng.
Especially Li Zhonghe, Li Zongyao has seen a film of his called "Those Years After Graduation". Li Zongyao remembers that after watching it that day, he could not hide his admiration.
He continued to watch the documentary called "From Poison to Glory".
The documentary is still based on "A Rong" as the perspective, and the whole tone has changed from the suppression stage to the promotion stage.
Since "A Rong" won the first game, he began to participate in various domestic competitions one after another.
With his talent, he won awards again and again!
When the prize money was high, it was 2,000, which was sponsored by a private boss, and when it was low, it was 500...
Later, in one game after another, he also met more friends and more "game sponsors".
When seeing the appearance of those sponsors, Li Zongyao was inexplicably moved.
Those, the sponsors of the game are not rich people, and it is even less likely that they have capital like him.
Sometimes, it is a middle-aged man who has been working for a long time but still cherishes his childhood dream...
Sometimes, it is a few young people who pool their money together, then look for venues and buy equipment to sponsor games...
Sometimes, it is a group of young people...
At the celebration banquet, the sponsors looked young or experienced but dressed in simple clothes...
People can't even laugh at their "cheapness".