Mrbeast的野獸遊戲真人秀節目展示了一個單獨的錢不能購買真正有趣的電視

在最後幾分鐘，杰弗裡·蘭德爾·艾倫（Jeffrey Randall Allen） - 在超大型遊戲節目中以831的身份聞名，即使是真正聞名

YouTuber MrBeast’s reality competition Beast Games, which concluded Thursday with a record US$10-million prize, was a demonstration of how money alone can’t buy truly entertaining television.

YouTuber Mrbeast的現實比賽野獸遊戲（Beast Games）週四以創紀錄的1000萬美元的獎金結束，展示了一個單獨的錢不能購買真正有趣的電視。

In its final minutes, Jeffrey Randall Allen – better known, if really known at all, as Player 831 in the super-sized game show that started with 1,000 contestants – picked the right briefcase out of 10 on the first try to take all that money home to wherever he lives. (Who knows!)

在最後幾分鐘，杰弗裡·蘭德爾·艾倫（Jeffrey Randall Allen） - 在超大型遊戲節目中以1,000名參賽者的身份眾所周知，即使是真正聞名的是831歲的玩家- 在第一個嘗試拿走了所有這些錢的比賽中，拿出了10個合適的公文包他住在哪裡的家。 （誰知道！）

Ten episodes of recycled games of skill and random games of chance had all led up to this: a very expensive and extremely short round of Deal or No Deal.

十集的可回收遊戲和隨機的機會遊戲都導致了這一點：非常昂貴且極其短的交易或沒有交易。

The US$10-million prize given out by MrBeast and his producers at Amazon MGM Studios – an amount that doubled in the finale in one of many mind-numbing moments that hinged on a slow-motion coin flip – is going to a good cause at least. Allen’s son has a rare disease called creatine transporter deficiency; he’s pledged to help fund research into treatments and possible cures.

Mrbeast及其製片人在亞馬遜米高梅工作室（Amazon Mgm Studios）頒發的1000萬美元獎金- 這一數額在大結局中翻了一番，這是一個令人麻木的時刻之一，這是一個慢動作的硬幣翻轉- 將是一個很好的理由至少。艾倫（Allen）的兒子患有一種罕見的疾病，稱為肌酸轉運蛋白缺乏症。他承諾幫助資助研究治療和可能的治療方法。

But the lead-up to Allen’s lucky guess was an only intermittently involving ride because the team behind it didn’t show viewers enough on screen to make them care about the human motivations and circumstances of, roughly, 998 of the other contestants.

但是，艾倫（Allen）幸運的猜測的領導是唯一間歇性地涉及騎行，因為它背後的團隊並沒有在屏幕上向觀眾展示足夠的觀眾，以使他們關心其他參賽者的人類動機和環境。

Indeed, in its focus on numbers over names, and a ghastly production design that spoke to our fascist-adjacent times, Beast Games was perhaps the most anti-human reality competition of all time.

的確，野獸遊戲的重點是關於名稱的數字，以及與法西斯仇恨時代交談的可怕生產設計，也許是有史以來最反人類的現實競賽。

The aptly nicknamed host MrBeast, a 26-year-old social-media star whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, tried to convince viewers otherwise in the final episode.

恰當地暱稱的主持人Mrbeast是一位26歲的社交媒體明星，他的名字是吉米·唐納森（Jimmy Donaldson），他試圖在最後一集中說服觀眾。

“Over one year ago, Beast Games was created with a purpose,” he said in one of his typically detached voice-overs. “In its pure form, its existence is a sandbox of the 1,000 different stories of the 1,000 different players.”

“一年前，野獸遊戲是有目的的，”他在一個通常獨立的配音中說道。 “以其純粹的形式，其存在是1,000個不同玩家的1,000個不同故事的沙盒。”

This was belied by the fact that only two of six finalists in the last episode had anything in the way of backstory communicated to viewers.

這一事實掩蓋了這一事實，即上一集中六個決賽中只有兩名在與觀眾傳達的背景故事方面有任何東西。

Only Allen and runner-up Twana Barnett, a wrestler who had experienced homelessness as a youth, got the honour of being interesting; the edit was, indeed, tipping the show’s hand all along.

只有艾倫（Allen）和亞軍塔娜·巴內特（Twana Barnett）是一名年輕時無家可歸的摔跤手，才榮幸地變得有趣。的確，編輯一直在傾斜表演的手。

Survivor, one of the first and still the best of the reality TV competition, gets much more drama out of the diminishing returns of its US$1-million prize each season because the show is mainly, as its still avid host Jeff Probst puts it, a “social experiment.”

倖存者是真人秀電視比賽中的第一個也是最好的節目之一，每個賽季都從100萬美元的獎金回報中獲得了更多的戲劇性，因為該節目主要是，因為它仍然是狂熱的主持人Jeff Pribst所說的那樣，一個“社會實驗”。

Beast Games, on the other hand, was too much about the limited imagination of a social experimenter.

另一方面，野獸遊戲對社交實驗者的想像力有限。

MrBeast, whose account has the most followers of any on YouTube, first went viral with a video he posted about eight years ago in which he counted to 100,000. He apparently learned from that that his young, mostly male, viewers are much more interested in big numbers than anything as complex as human relationships.

Mrbeast的帳戶在YouTube上擁有最多的追隨者，他首先以他在八年前發布的視頻播放了一張視頻，他的數量達到了100,000。他顯然從他的年輕人（大多數是男性）中學到的觀眾對大數量的興趣比像人際關係一樣複雜的事物更感興趣。

Beast Games, almost embarrassingly influenced by Netflix’s Squid Game with its masked crew members in hoodies, had a thousand contestants to start.

野獸遊戲幾乎受到Netflix的魷魚游戲的尷尬影響，其蒙面的船員在連帽衫中有一千名參賽者。

In order to get that many humans on screen, the opening episode took place on a set that had the aesthetic of a temporary detention centre like the ones past and present American President Donald Trump is fond of setting up for migrants.

為了使許多人在屏幕上，開幕劇集是在一個臨時拘留中心的審美上進行的，例如過去和現在的美國總統唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）喜歡為移民建立。

Contestants lined up in rows on tall pillars – and when they were eliminated from competition, they fell through a trapdoor in what was, literally, gallows humour.

參賽者在高大的柱子上排成一排 - 當他們被淘汰時，他們在絞刑架上陷入了陷阱。

Like America’s head of the new Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk, MrBeast seems to get a kick out of capriciously cutting people out of the picture.

就像美國新的政府效率部門負責人埃隆·馬斯克（Elon Musk）一樣，Mrbeast似乎也從自發地削減了人們的局面。

A barely disguised fantasy representation of mass executions extended to episodes that took place in a walled city MrBeast built in Toronto on the grounds of the former Downsview airport that is hard to describe without using the words internment camp.

幾乎沒有偽裝的幻想代表大規模處決的代表擴展到在多倫多圍牆的Mrbeast上發生的情節，這是在以前的唐斯景機場的地面上建造的，而沒有使用涉及涉及單詞的文字。

Having not met many human-numbers lodging there in any detail, the mass eliminations of the first episodes led to images less familiar from reality TV than from the aftermaths of natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

沒有遇到許多詳細地居住在那裡的人類數量，對第一集的彌撒消除導致了真人秀電視的圖像比自然災害或恐怖襲擊的後果不太熟悉。

Nameless people crying and screaming, mainly about their kids; survivors crying out thanks to God and Jesus.

無名的人哭泣和尖叫，主要是關於孩子的；倖存者感謝上帝和耶穌。

As an experiment in mass psychology, Beast Games did have moments when this cruel choreography was engrossing.

作為大規模心理學的實驗，野獸遊戲確實有這種殘酷的編舞令人著迷的時刻。

An episode in which hundreds of contestants were split into four groups and then had to elect leaders who would have to resist an offer of US$1-million in order for them all to stay in the game was genuinely inventive and riveting.

一集，數百名參賽者被分為四組，然後不得不選舉他們必須抵制100萬美元的提議，以使他們所有人都留在比賽中是真正的創造力和吸引人的。

But the form of the competition kept changing. There were games of skill, strength, social manipulation, the occasional round of trivia, and one full episode that was a mini-season of Survivor – with the island itself being the prize. (An American won a bit of Panama; hurray.)

但是競爭的形式不斷變化。有技巧，力量，社會操縱，偶爾的瑣事的遊戲，還有一個完整的情節，這是倖存者的迷你季節 - 島上本身就是獎項。 （一個美國人贏得了巴拿馬贏得了一些；歡呼。）

Will Beast

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