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Roderick Yuen Wins Young Post's Brain Game

1/1/2022

6 Comments

 
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At 10 years old, Roderick Yuen is the youngest winner in recent Brain Game history. Photo: SCMP
[1 Jan] ​Roderick Yuen from 5A has been a part of the Brain Game writing competition on Young Post since September 2021. “Brain Game” is a Battle Royale style writing competition that starts with 10 contestants, who are eliminated one-by-one based on the readers’ voting. Gripping the reader’s attention, Roderick made his way through all ten rounds of writing and claimed the championship title in Nov 2021! Let us now glance through all ten writing titles that Roderick triumphed consecutively in:

  1. Round 1: Which celebrity would you choose to be your teacher?
  2. Round 2: What would you do if you could travel to the future?
  3. Round 3: If you could create a new Asian superhero movie, what power would your hero have?
  4. Round 4: If you could be anyone, anything, or even an animal in your afterlife, what do you want to be and why?
  5. Round 5: If the world were to end in 24 hours, how would you spend your day?
  6. Round 6: If your teacher became your student for a day, what would you do?
  7. Round 7: If you could have an extra hour of free time every day, how would you use it?
  8. Round 8: If you could create the perfect haunted house for an amusement park, what would it be?
  9. Round 9: What do you think teens’ lives might be like 100 years from now?
  10. Round 10: If you could produce any movie, what would it be about, and who would be the actors?

This is Roderick's Round 10 article:

My idea would be a sci-fi movie called Key to the New Dimensions, set in three universes in parallel dimensions connected by a wormhole with a specific time of entrance.

In the film, the antagonist, Dr Jacob Reeves, is trying to converge the three parallel dimensions with a super energy converter, the Dimension Door. He wants to release the dark energy between the parallel universes. The key to the Dimension Door is in the DNA of a person called Jonathan Silver and his identical counterparts in the other two parallel dimensions. Professor Robinson, the inventor of the Dimension Door, had implanted the key in Silver.

Twisted Powers, the gatekeeper of the dimensions, knows the secret and tries to stop Dr Reeves. When Silver is kidnapped by Dr Reeves, Twisted Powers saves him and reveals the secret. The two try to warn Silver’s counterparts of the approaching disaster.

Meanwhile, Dr Reeves travels back in time to force Professor Robinson to give him the key but fails. He captures a toddler Silver and an elderly Silver in the other parallel universes. After taking their DNA, Dr Reeves launches an attack on Twisted Powers, targeting the remaining Silver. In the final part of the movie, Dr Reeves takes Silver in the Dimension Door, and activates the self-explosion.

But Professor Robinson had made the programme to permanently trap Dr Reeves inside the wormhole, and Jonathan sacrifices his life in the explosion. The film ends with Twisted Powers at Silver’s funeral, while the other Silvers are safe in their own universes.

I would cast Timothee Chalamet as Jonathan Silver. The male lead in the sci-fi film Dune, Chalamet has recently skyrocketed in popularity. His style of acting is more emotional and sensitive, which is what I want my audience to see in Jonathan Silver. Time magazine has even listed the actor as a “next generation leader”.
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For Dr Reeves, I would cast Joaquin Phoenix. I believe that the best actor of the 2020 Academy Awards can become immersed in his role as my film’s antagonist and unleash the character’s dark power.
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I hope this film will be engraved in the minds of all sci-fi fans!

 
As the Brain Game winner, he received a Nintendo Switch, a Kindle and a Muji voucher as his prizes. Congratulations, Roderick!

Ms Peggy Yau
6 Comments
Dr H C Lee
1/1/2022 05:11:53 pm

Congratulations Roderick. Thank you for introducing to us this interesting competition and the way you won the votes round after round with your superb writings was just unbelievable! Surely you have set a great example to all of your peers in terms of writing skills, creativity and the heart to compete. By reading your final piece, I can see that you are a very mature writer. You organized your thoughts really well and you are extraordinarily knowledgeable. This piece alone explains why you are the champion. Well done!

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Mr Lee
1/1/2022 07:15:00 pm

Superbly done, Roderick, and a massive congratulations! Having read through some of the entries both you and the other contestants have submitted, I must say that I am thoroughly impressed with all your abilities to organize and express your brilliant ideas in written form - and in such a fiercely competitive setting, too! I hope that this triumph is merely a sign of great things to come, and that your peers will be inspired to try their hand at future writing competitions, or simply do a bit more creative writing on their own :)

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Roderick Yuen 5A
1/2/2022 04:47:19 pm

Thanks Ms Yau for publishing my article. Thanks Dr Lee and Mr Lee for your encouragement.

The Brain Game questions were all intriguing and flipped my brain upside down. There were little restrictions on our responses, allowing creative ideas to bloom. My writing skills could be improved in each round. Reading the entries of other contestants widened my point of view and inspired my imagination. I learnt that teens like out-of-the-box ideas more. Another lesson in my journey was that procrastination is the bane of good writing and thorough preparation is essential. If you have a perspective budding in your mind, do not hesitate to pick up your pen! Even if you feel the plot is not particularly grand at the start, you can still develop it into a story of your own style through delicate pruning. Seeing your story being born from a few neuron reactions in your mind is a spectacularly exciting experience. Why not start your creative writing journey now?

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Jovan
1/6/2022 09:37:29 am

Wow!Good!Add oil!

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5E 21 Ethan Ngai
1/6/2022 02:12:37 pm

Congratulations Roderick for winning the “Brain Game”. Your writing skills are brilliant and you are excellent at organising your thoughts in your Round 10 writing. Keep it up !

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Desmond Au
1/6/2022 03:43:43 pm

Keep it up! You did a great job.

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