Dagu: I've Become Light Again!

For example, in the original Spider-Man movie, Peter gained some fame with Spider-Man's abilities, but what followed was the death of his Uncle Ben, which he least wanted to see.

This is the "Darkest Hour".

In Super Eight, Ultraman Mebius defeated Pandon, bringing hope and light to the world.

Before he could even celebrate his victory, he was ambushed by the Hippolito Alien and turned into a bronze statue, which was also his "Darkest Hour".

For ordinary people in the Super Eight Super Eight world, the defeat of an Ultra Warrior is already considered the "Darkest Hour".

But for the protagonist Daigo, this was far from enough; his situation had not yet reached its lowest point, and could not yet be called the "Darkest Hour."

Shinji then arranged for Daigo to visit Aunt Akiko in the hospital.

Li Ri'ang finally witnessed the fate of Sakata Akiko, whom he had longed for—severely injured and unconscious.

He's dead, but not completely dead.

This Schrödinger-like state made Li Ri'ang even more annoyed with the certain slacking-off Director.

"It would be fine if you just wrote it outright, but what's with this half-hearted approach? Are you just going to leave it hanging like this?"

Li Ri'ang was biting his nails, his entire being in a state of extreme agitation.

However, Shinji doesn't seem to be in a hurry to advance the plot, but instead begins to let the protagonist's emotions settle down.

When Daigo went to visit Sakata Akiko, he walked through the crowded hospital corridors.

The monster's sudden attack during the day resulted in countless injuries and critical illnesses. Faced with so many injured people, the hospital could only try its best to treat them.

Even so, many injured people still cannot receive effective treatment and can only wail in the corridors.

This hellish scene deeply wounded Daigo's heart, leaving him feeling lost and helpless.

To alleviate the patients' suffering, Daigo often stopped to help them, assisting nurses in pushing medicine deeper into the crowd, carrying the injured to beds under the doctor's guidance, and giving his own suit jacket to a little girl who kept crying.

Despite Daigo's best efforts to help people, the expressions of fear, despair, and pain on their faces did not improve with Daigo help; in fact, the despair he conveyed only worsened the situation.

"What should I do...?"

Daigo struggled through the corridor and looked back at the still-crying crowd, feeling a deep sense of unease.

But that's not all. Daigo had only sensed the pain of a stranger. When he arrived at Sakata Akiko's bedside, he saw a heartbroken Megumi (Akiko and Hideki Go's daughter) and an incredibly remorseful Hideki Go.

Shinji didn't give any lines in this scene; he only let the audience feel the changes in Daigo's emotions through the constantly changing expressions on Daigo face.

"This part of the plot is a bit drawn out; it didn't need to be this complicated."

Sitting in his chair, Sakamoto shook his head and commented, "It's just a waste of time. I know the Director wanted to portray the 'Darkest Hour,' but he overdid it with sentimentality."

"Why drag it out for so long when all we need to do is get Daigo to cry a couple of times at Akiko's bedside?"

Sakamoto Koichi tilted his head, deep in thought; he couldn't understand the Director's ideas at all.

Fortunately, Sakamoto was sitting quite far from Shinji, otherwise Second Master might have thrown his shoe at Sakamoto's head without any regard for his image.

Because Shinji filmed this scene specifically for Sakamoto to see.

The Second Master time-traveled during the serialization of Ultraman.

This work, which was touted as a new generation of Tiga, was immediately bombarded with criticism from all sides after its premiere.

Not to mention masterpieces like Tiga, it's far inferior to even its predecessor, Ultraman Zeta.

Although the quality improved somewhat after the series was halfway through, it could only be considered a return to normal standards compared to those excellent Ultraman works.

If it weren't for the flamboyant appearance of the political commissar and the heartbreakingly intense battle intensity of Kengo, the rating of <Triga> probably wouldn't have rebounded so quickly.

However, no amount of later attempts to salvage the situation could undo the appalling performance of <Triga> at the start of the game.

Shinji didn't think too much about the hospital scene when he filmed it; he just planned to follow the original storyline.

But the more they filmed this scene, the image of Second Master awkwardly crying in a crowd while holding Kengo in the first episode of Triga kept popping into Ruluyah's mind.

From the perspective of the story's plot, the protagonist in the "Darkest Hour" needs to question himself. Only by awakening himself can the protagonist shine brightly in the next scene when he rallies.

The problem is that Sakamoto handled this part too carelessly; it was just going through the motions for the sake of going through the motions.

Despite the pain on the faces of the injured around him, Kengo simply stood by and watched, neither going forward to assist the doctor nor conveying his positive energy to the desperate people.

From beginning to end, this guy just stood on the sidelines, jumping up and down anxiously, and with his line "I just want everyone to smile," it had a rather ironic feel to it—like he was enjoying the show and "I'm giving everyone a laugh."

Both scenes take place in a hospital after a disaster, and the main characters are the human forms of Tiga and New Generation Tiga. While these two scenes can't be called Tsuburaya Productions' tributes, they are at least identical.

Therefore, the Shinji arranged the shoot for this scene, the more he thought of the content in <Triga>, and the angrier he became.

In the end, a frustrated Shinji simply rewrote the script for this scene, just to prove a point and show Sakamoto how to film the dramatic scenes in Ultraman.

Watching someone recite lines from the sidelines is just pointless whining. Only when the human form personally participates in the rescue and treatment of the wounded will the audience feel that his inner monologues are genuine and not just a display of illness.

Although Shinji himself believes that his acting skills in dramatic scenes are still relatively immature and cannot be compared with those film masters, he can still easily defeat Sakamoto, especially Sakamoto in the early stages of <Triumph>.

Unfortunately, Shinji's good intentions did not make Sakamoto feel ashamed. On the contrary, he felt that Shinji's scenes of building up emotions were unnecessary and pointless.

Why do I feel so unwilling to accept this?

Sitting in his seat, Shinji, unaware that Sakamoto was making fun of him, scratched his hair in a strange manner.

"It's like I failed to show off, so frustrating!"

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Chapter 241 Daigo: I've become light again!

Daigo walked out of the ward with a Daigo expression, Hayata, Dan, and Hokuto, who had been waiting outside, immediately surrounded him.

"How's it going?"

Hayata asked anxiously.

Daigo slowly shook his head. "I don't know. But I want to help her."

These words seemed somewhat abrupt, but Hayata and the other two clearly sensed Daigo's sense of powerlessness, because they shared the same feeling.

"... yes."

Tuan crossed his arms and let out a long sigh.

Hokuto pursed her lips and encouraged everyone, "It's okay, Akiko is very strong, she won't die."

Seeing the three elders' worried faces, Daigo wanted to say something, "We..."

"Um?"

The three of them turned to look at Daigo at the same time, and the serious look in his eyes made Daigo swallow back the words he had prepared.

What can we do?

Lena, who had been observing her boyfriend the whole time, shifted her gaze slightly. She felt that Daigo definitely didn't mean to say that.

Hayata, who was most familiar with Daigo among the three elders, also noticed that something was wrong with Daigo.

"There may be nothing we can do," Hayata said to Daigo, "But once we give up, it's truly over."

Hayata realized that Daigo had his own ideas, but chose to remain silent due to some concerns.

Hayata didn't know what a clueless kid could do in this situation.

Hayata only knew that as the other person's elder, he had to offer support at such a crucial time.

"Hayata..."

Daigo still wore that hesitant expression, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

"What to do now is a question only you can answer."

Hayata's words solidified Daigo's resolve. He nodded vigorously to the three elders and clenched his fists.

"... Excuse me."

After saying Daigo left in a hurry.

"Daigo..."

As Lena 'Daigo departing figure, her voice gradually overlapped with the sound of thunder and rain.

"Now, Daigo should have a choice, right?"

Listening to the melancholic background music, Li Ri'ang clearly understood what was going on.

Daigo made a decision to take Ultraman Mebius and awaken the 7 Heroes of this world.

According to the normal logic of movies, this should be the moment when the main characters assemble and make final preparations before fighting the monster.

However, Shinji, as the Director, did not make Daigo's transformation so direct, nor did he have the Seven Warrior immediately assemble.

In fact, in the original movie "Super Eight", the dialogue between Daigo and the three elders was cut due to filming reasons, and only appeared as a single shot at the end of the movie.

The content of the dialogue was included in the script outline that was later released.

After reading the script, Shinji felt that this was a crucial turning point in Daigo's mindset, so he added this dialogue back into the film.

Therefore, Shinji modified the scene that originally followed, where Daigo asked the Ultraman Mebius statue a question, and planned to move this scene before his transformation.

Shinji also revised the dialogue of several characters, changing the person who comforted Daigo from Dan to Hayata.

This isn't just to give the original Brother Man a Daigo here, it always reminds Shinji of the classic Ultraman three questions—

What's with that expression?

What's with your tears?

Can your tears save the world?

Cough cough.

To be fair, with just a few minor changes to the dialogue, these classic Ultraman questions can be released without feeling out of place.

However, these three questions have already been addressed in the Ultraman Mebius TV series, so it would be redundant to pay homage to them here.

On the other hand, considering that the Ultraman Three Questions will definitely be used as a meme and spread by fans in the future.

In order to prevent later viewers from laughing out loud at this sad scene, Second Master reluctantly abandoned the plan.

Although he couldn't fulfill his desire to cause trouble, Second Master was still very serious about making movies.

To avoid repetition in the plot and maintain continuity in the audience's emotions, Shinji made many adjustments to the second act of the film.

First, Shinji compressed what should have taken two days into one night.

From a purely logical standpoint, the original two-day period is actually more reasonable.

After all, so much has happened during this period, and the characters need time to process the constantly evolving events.

However, from a cinematic perspective, this buffer seems too slow, giving the impression that the Hippolito Alien deliberately gave Daigo a day to gather reinforcements, so that their plan to invade Earth would be "minorly" hindered by Ultraman.

This conflict between logic and cinematic language is something that exists in many films, from the story outline to the final cut.

For example, in the movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," after Harry went shopping in Diagon Alley on his birthday, he immediately went to King's Cross Station to take the train to school.

In the original novel, Harry waited in the Muggle world for a whole month.

This is the change that had to be made for the film adaptation; the one-month wait can further heighten the reader's anticipation for the novel.

But moviegoers don't have that kind of patience. They'll just say, "I've already taken my pants off, and you're going to make me put them back on after just one scene?!"

Of course, this creates a problem in the design.

Harry's birthday is at the end of July, and school starts in September.

What's going on? To please the Savior, Hogwarts started a month early this year?

Old Dumbledore, your shady dealings are confirmed!

Fortunately, there is no official original novel for "Super Eight"; even if there were, it would have been published under Shinji's supervision.

Anyway, at Tsuburaya Productions now, Shinji is the boss; he can do whatever he wants.

Therefore, in order to enhance the tension of the story, the Second Master not only compressed the story of "Super Eight" into one day, but also moved the first conversation between the Little Girl in Red Shoes and Daigo to before he went to the hospital.

With Hayata's encouragement, it became perfectly logical for Daigo to go directly to Asuka and Gamu.

"Mr. Matou is truly a remarkable Director."

Azu was unaware that Shinji had revised the script, but she still expressed her Shinji.

As a viewer, she felt comfortable watching "Super Eight," experiencing tension when it was appropriate and emotional moments when they were meant to be.