The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 518 Fully Upgraded "The Wandering Earth"

"grandfather!!"

Zhao Jinmai knelt on the ice and screamed heartbreakingly.

Liu Qi, played by Bai Yu, got into a fight with the captain of the CN171-11 rescue team, and the two fell on the ice. Crying and arguing dimmed the atmosphere of the entire theater.

Guan Hu looked at the picture on the big screen expressionlessly, but nodded secretly in his heart. From the beginning to the present, the emotions of "The Wandering Earth" have always followed the rhythm of ups and downs, which can be said to be relaxed.

The plot was thrilling and exciting one moment, and an important person received a lunch box the next moment. The tragic atmosphere after the tense plot was well rendered.

Guo Fan, a director who is a round younger than himself, has really reached the point where he can lift weights with ease.

Guan Hu has been working on "Apocalypse Eight Hundred" for the past two years. This is also his first time at the helm of an industrial blockbuster of this level, so he knows how difficult it is to make such a commercial blockbuster.

Guan Hu, who was churning with these thoughts in his mind, suddenly opened his eyes wide.

There were also exclamations from around.

When Bai Yu was pressed on the ice by the captain of the rescue team, his hands inadvertently pushed aside the thick white snow through the protective clothing, and a human face appeared and was looking at him!

The sudden horror caught the characters on the screen and the audience off the screen a little unprepared.

After the rescue team cleared the surrounding white snow, accompanied by the music that rose suddenly, a terrifying picture was presented under the camera.

Under the crystal-clear ice surface, a large number of corpses who kept struggling towards the water surface before dying came into view when they were rapidly frozen.

These people in ordinary clothes with different expressions and movements were frozen under the ice, as if they were bugs sealed in amber.

Countless hands struggled to reach up, frozen in the moment of pain, and further down, there were more people indistinctly.

Han Duoduo touched the ice surface in horror, and then tears fell into the helmet, splashing water splashing out.

"Dad, Mom, I'm here...but which one is you..."

The camera gradually sinks into the ice, and the people frozen under the ice seem to come alive, and the time returns to before the earth freezes in an instant, the drowning people try to float up to breathe, the desperate parents lift up their children, and the dying people stop struggling and drift with the tide... …

Immediately, everyone's actions were frozen in the frame, and the water surface returned to the current ice surface again, and the camera quickly moved back to expand the field of vision, making this scene shocking and cruel.

Guan Hu's calm expression was broken at this moment.

That's right, this should be after the earth stopped spinning, a huge tsunami flooded the city, but there were still people who didn't enter the dungeon, or those people who couldn't hold it in the dungeon.

The movie repeatedly mentions the 35 billion sacrificed people who were not qualified to enter the dungeon in the lottery.

This is also the heavy atmosphere created by the movie from the beginning.

And this kind of cruelty and heaviness are vividly displayed in such a shot.

In the few minutes of the plot, first there is the thrill and excitement of "rescue at the last minute", then the tragedy and sacrifice, followed by the thriller and the heaviness and shock after the horror, the audience's emotions are pulled forward by the movie like a roller coaster.

Guan Hu couldn't help admiring in his heart, taking the same director's perspective.

Chen Jingxing, Guo Fan and the main creator of the film were sitting together.

The exclamations in the theater and the ensuing cruel and heavy atmosphere made Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan couldn't help but smile at each other.

The director's pleasure is to savor the audience's reactions when his film is shown, which is a kind of pleasure in manipulating other people's emotions.

Both Guo Fan and Chen Jingxing were deeply involved in the script creation of "The Wandering Earth", and Guo Fan also took the helm of the entire film from preparation to shooting to post-production.

This movie is like Guo Fan's child. Obviously, Guo Fan is very proud of his own child's appearance, and the audience's reaction also gave him a greater sense of satisfaction.

Chen Jingxing's feelings are even more complicated, because their version of "The Wandering Earth" has many changes from the original version in the previous life.

The improvement of special effects is one aspect. After all, it is a production of up to [-] million US dollars. Both the funds and the shooting experience of industrial films are much higher than those in the previous life.

The level of special effects of the original version is indeed a breakthrough in domestic films, but many special effects shots do have a strong sense of CG and animation, especially the light transmission and reflection processing of the helmet, which looks too "clean" and thus a bit fake.

Secondly, there are shortcomings in the plot of the original version. There are many abrupt, loopholes, and far-fetched places in character creation and plot design.

There is also the problem of the acting skills of the actors. Objectively speaking, the performances of most of the actors in the original version are not worthy of the story of the movie itself. Coupled with the abrupt dubbing, from the protagonist to the supporting role, many characters did not reflect the performance that the movie should have. level, and even a strong sense of disobedience.

Of course, this is also related to the large number of deletions made in the original film. The volume that was originally close to two hours and 10 minutes was cut to two hours. There are considerations for streamlining redundant plots, but it is mainly for filming.

This is also a helpless thing. The competition for the Spring Festival is too fierce, and the two-and-a-half-hour movies are too disadvantageous in theater scheduling compared to the less than two-hour movies.

Unless the director or actor has a strong appeal, or the reputation of the movie explodes, the film crew of the previous life, especially Guo Fan, obviously dare not gamble.

And a large number of deletions also made the smoothness of the plot and the arc of the characters a bit fragmented and flat.

However, in this plane, "The Wandering Earth" has made up for some of the insufficient handling of character creation in the plot, and the duration has reached two and a half hours.

Not only the section just now showed numerous drowned and frozen corpses under the ice.

There is also the reason why Han Duoduo, played by Zhao Jinmai in the original version, strongly wants to go to the ground - "I want to see the outside world". A big reason for the little girl who got into trouble.

The thinness of this role has become a childish drag.

And this version of "The Wandering Earth" added Han Duoduo's parents in the "victim" scene--the second of the 35 billion people who did not enter the dungeon.

The reason why Han Duoduo strongly wanted to go to the ground was to find the dead bodies of his parents, instead of playing a childish "look at the outside world".

Then she saw countless struggling corpses under the ice next to the building, but she couldn't tell which one was her parents, which made this character instantly empathetic to the audience.

And Wang Lei, the captain of the rescue team, why did he sacrifice to save Han Duoduo?That's because his daughter is also in Hangzhou Underground City. After his wife and child sacrificed, he gradually regarded Dodo as his own child.

In the original version, when the hero and Dodo went to Jinan, they met Wang Lei's CN171-11 rescue team. The team encountered road problems and damaged their vehicles. According to the "Wandering Earth Law", the brothers and sisters' carrier vehicles were temporarily requisitioned.

In this version, the rebel army is directly introduced.

That is to say, Wang Lei's CN171-11 rescue team encountered rebels on the way, and then exchanged fire with the rebels, which caused the damage to the vehicle.

Therefore, in this version of the three-line narrative, the line of the rescue team has joined the shootout scene with the rebels.

This would also explain why rescue teams are heavily armed.

Otherwise, the living people are all in the dungeon, and if they don't wear protective clothing outside, they are not suitable for living creatures. Who is the armor for?
This can also explain why the protagonist and his party met Li Yiyi, who was an emergency technical observer of the coalition government on the way, and finally came up with the "Ignite Jupiter Project", but Li Yiyi strongly resisted and pointed his gun at them.

Because he thought that the protagonist and the others were also members of the rebel army. This scientific nerd was trying to protect the "flint" used to save the earth in the car, so he did not hesitate to fight to the death.

Why did he think the protagonist and others were rebels?

Because like Wang Lei's CN171-11 rescue team, Li Yiyi's original rescue team also encountered rebel attacks in Manila, and the movie will briefly present Li Yiyi's memories later.

There is also the CN171-11 team. On the way to drag Huoshi to Hangzhou, a member was frozen to death because the power of the protective suit was insufficient. Flint" charges to keep "Flint" running normally.

The team member Zhou Qian wanted to shoot and destroy the Flint, and said, "No more people can die!" She destroyed the Flint because the team leader Wang Lei was determined to go to Hangzhou. Charge it from its own battery.

The reason why the captain Wang Lei is so persistent, even if he drags the "Firestone" to go to Hangzhou on foot, is not only to perform the task, but also because his wife and children are in the Hangzhou underground city.

After the "Firestone" was destroyed, he would be so angry and furious that he would yell at his team members: "My wife and children are all dead for nothing!"

In addition, many other content have been changed.

All of the above, either supplementing the deleted plots of the original movie, or rearranging the plots, all make Dreamworks' "The Wandering Earth" smoother and more reasonable from the character arc to the narrative.

Of course, because of this, the movie has also changed from the original two-line narrative to a three-line narrative.

In space, Wu Jing in Navigator 171 is a line, from the underground to the ground, the hero, sister, and grandfather are one line, and then the CN11-[-] rescue team is a line—to show the role of the rebels.

The three lines are carried out simultaneously, sometimes intersecting, with the father-son relationship between the hero and his father, the family relationship of the heroine looking for the remains of her parents, and the friendship of comrades-in-arms as the main clues, and merge into the same point.

Finally, after the plan of "igniting Jupiter" to help the earth escape Jupiter's gravity and avoid the final disintegration and destruction beyond Roche's limit was proposed, all three lines entered the most intense and exciting climax scene at the same time.

The protagonist and the rescue team are responsible for putting the "Flint" into the reactor ignition switch and re-igniting the engine.Pfft, the flames sprayed to an altitude of [-] kilometers, detonated Jupiter, and the shock wave generated by the explosion returned to the earth along the atmospheric umbilical cord, pushing the earth away!

In space, Wu Jing battled wits and bravery with the host of the space station, trying to suspend the Tinder project and regain control.

Then, in the role of Wu Jing, the artificial intelligence authority of the Navigator space station was lifted, and finally sacrificed himself and the entire space station to relay the planetary engine, igniting Jupiter, reaching the highest point of the entire movie's narrative.

(End of this chapter)