Chinese Entertainment: Starting from 1996

Chapter 472 Premiere (with movie plot)

The film IMAX screen in the National Science and Technology Museum is 29.5 meters high and covers an area of ​​more than square meters. It is a true big screen.

As the best IMAX film screen in Asia slowly lit up, the China Film Corporation logo flashed quickly, and then the four sounds of "ding, ding, ding, ding" were heard, and the classic Golden Harvest logo appeared.

Now it seems that Golden Harvest's opening logo is a bit outdated. Now many film companies' opening logos are made more ornately.

But for most people, no matter how gorgeous and beautiful the opening credits produced by other companies are, they are not as classic as the four "ding" tones of Golden Harvest.

After several years of hard work and the solid foundation laid before, now when the news comes out, the first reaction of most audiences is that this movie should not be bad.

In just thirty seconds, this large theater with a capacity of 732 seats suddenly became quiet, and everyone stared at the huge screen.

The movie is 155 minutes long, and every second is extremely precious and should not be wasted.

At this time, there were also viewers who saw such a large screen for the first time and sighed inwardly. Compared with this, those ten-meter-high screens were not worth mentioning at all.

What comes into view at the beginning is a wooden bookshelf covered with dust, and dust keeps falling from above.

There are two different types of airplane models on the bookshelf, and the title of the movie Interstellar appears in large letters in the center of the screen.

The camera then zooms out to the side until it falls into darkness.

The darkness lasted for two seconds, and suddenly a sentence came out from the matching top-level speakers, reaching the ears of all the audience.

“My father is a farmer!”

The darkness gradually disappeared, and the first person to appear was an old man with white hair and wrinkles on his face, recalling the past.

"At that time, most people were farmers, but my father was not one at first."

Some veteran movie fans quickly recognized that the old lady with older makeup was Teacher Lv Zhong. Combining this with some information obtained before and after, everyone quickly realized that the role played by Teacher Lv Zhong was the protagonist's daughter in her old age.

Combined with what Mr. Lv Zhong said, we understand that the protagonist should be a farmer, but he was not before. Then thinking about the shot of the airplane model on the bookshelf at the beginning of the movie and the genre of this movie, the protagonist should be a pilot or an astronaut.

“Not at first!”

Teacher Lu Zhong repeated this sentence twice with a nostalgic look on his face.

Then the scene changed, and a large cornfield appeared on the big screen, with green corn swaying in the wind.

Suddenly, a spaceship appeared in the sky, but within two seconds it crashed into the cornfield. Just when everyone thought the movie was about to enter its first climax, the scene changed again.

Liu Ye woke up from his sleep.

The scene just now was him dreaming.

As the camera turned, the daughter played by Zhang Zifeng was standing quietly at the door looking at her father. It was obvious that Liu Ye had had this nightmare more than once or twice.

The beginning gives the audience a huge suspense: why does the male protagonist often dream of plane crashes?

Although it is different from the grand scenes and exciting beginning expected by some viewers, it does not quite live up to the title of a science fiction blockbuster.

However, due to their trust in Liu Zhou and being attracted by the suspense, everyone did not feel impatient, but kept staring at the big screen intently.

After waking up, Liu Ye looked out the window, and the camera followed his line of sight and moved outside. At this time, the voice-over of Teacher Lv Zhong sounded again, describing the current situation of the earth.

Wheat and rice have disappeared, and the only crop that can be grown is corn.

The earth's environment has deteriorated, with sandstorms occurring most of the time. The only corn plant has to silently endure the erosion of the wind and sand every day, struggling to survive.

You can only wear a mask outdoors, as there is dust everywhere that can never be swept away.

The bowls and plates in the kitchen are all placed in the cabinet, the chopsticks are not placed in the chopstick cage, and the pot must be placed upside down.

The following eight minutes or so tell the daily life of the protagonist Liu Ye, his two children, and his father-in-law's family of four.

The daughter believes that there are ghosts in the world, and she thinks her father often has nightmares because of ghosts.

Then the father Liu Ye told his daughter that ghosts were unscientific, but his daughter was very smart and she felt that science was about determining unknown things.

Liu Ye leaned over and explained patiently:
"Science requires self-recording, evidence, and argumentation."

The daughter took note of her father's words and she still remembered them many years later.

Afterwards, Liu Ye went to attend a parent-teacher meeting for her two children. When she came back, the three of them played and joked in the old Chevrolet pickup truck and returned home happily.

At this moment, a drone suddenly flew overhead. After Liu Ye let the two of them sit firmly, he stepped on the accelerator and rushed into the cornfield in the Chevrolet. The old Chevrolet roughly pressed a path through the cornfield.

The huge screen is over 600 square meters, and the perception of any shot is much more shocking than that of an ordinary screen.

The car rushed out of the cornfield and stopped suddenly at the edge of the lake.

The opening is more than eight minutes long, and there are basically no science fiction elements.

However, the audience did not feel impatient at all, because these eight-minute-long daily scenes were also filmed very warmly.

A kind grandfather will also care about his son-in-law's lifelong affairs.

An excellent father who loves his children.

A son who unconditionally trusts his father and a lively and lovely daughter both listen carefully to their father's education.

Except for the absence of the mother, it was a happy family.

Emotion is the most attractive thing in any movie.

Looking at any classic movie in global film history, this aspect is indispensable.

So the audience, as always, stared at the big screen carefully, not wanting to miss any scene.

However, the professionals and film critics at the scene had a different feeling when they saw this opening.

This is very different from Liu Zhou's previous films, especially science fiction films.

In "Source Code", the protagonist dies within a few minutes, creating a tense atmosphere from the very beginning.

"Edge of Tomorrow" throws a civilian soldier from the Pentagon into a military camp, and it's also full of suspense at the beginning.

Then in the previous movie, "The Martian", the scene opens with a storm on Mars, leaving the protagonist alone there.

Looking at Liu Zhou’s first three films, they all grabbed the audience’s attention with suspense, atmosphere or grand scenes from the beginning, but "Interstellar" has made a big change.

Regardless of the industry or the person, change means risk.

At this time, these professionals and film critics also want to see whether Liu Zhou can make good use of this foreshadowing and whether he can coordinate the large-scale special effects scenes and emotional scenes.

After all, "Interstellar" is a science fiction special effects blockbuster, and people are more interested in watching the special effects pictures.

So everyone is looking forward to this movie, and they are all staring at the big screen no matter what they are thinking.

As the movie continues, Liu Ye finds the teacher, who hopes his child can learn more knowledge and no longer be a farmer. But the teacher's next words also let everyone more intuitively understand the current situation facing the movie world.

“Now we don’t need engineers, we don’t need televisions, airplanes, or even any technology that has nothing to do with farming.

The world needs good farmers like you. This is the responsibility of our generation!"

The current situation is undoubtedly very cruel. At this moment, human beings are still struggling for survival.

As the two talked, the teacher believed that Yang Liwei had never been to space, humans had never left the earth, and there was no record of it in the textbooks.

Even the United States' Apollo program to land humans on the moon was fabricated, and was only intended to induce other countries to compete with the United States in order to drag down the national strength of other countries.

This simple conversation conveys a sad atmosphere. Human beings have given up too many things in order to survive.

However, a question also emerged in the hearts of the audience who saw this scene: Is the human moon landing a scam?

If not, why has no one landed on the moon in the past 40 years despite the advancement of technology?

No one had time to think about this question. A sandstorm appeared on the screen, with flying sand covering the sky. It was particularly shocking on the huge screen of more than 600 square meters.

Although it was not 3D, everyone still felt as if the sandstorm was approaching, and some people couldn't help but close their eyes.

Liu Ye and his companions returned home. They went to the second floor and saw that the sand fell in a regular pattern and finally formed a specific arrangement.

After research, several people found that this was a coordinate, and then the four of them rushed to the destination. There was a house in front of them. When Liu Ye was about to push open the iron door, he was suddenly electrocuted.

Following the daughter's scream, the scene returned to darkness.

When the screen came back on, a rusty sign appeared before everyone's eyes:

China…Air…Department!

With the emergence of intelligent robots, everyone can finally see something different.

As the movie goes on, the audience also understands the role and purpose of this base.

The environment on Earth will become increasingly harsh, and even corn will not be able to grow. If we cannot find another habitable planet in space, humans will become extinct.

Many years ago, the base sent twelve astronauts through a space wormhole to search for a habitable planet.

At that time, they had two plans. Plan A was for large-scale human immigration. The entire space base itself was an ultra-large centrifuge. The professor was already studying the equation to overcome gravity and send the entire building into space to turn it into a space station.

Plan B is to take away 5000 fertilized eggs. There are equipment on the spacecraft, and when we arrive at a suitable planet, surrogacy can be used to reproduce the population again.

Now there has been no news from the space team that was previously sent out to search for habitable planets, and they are preparing to send another space team to search for habitable planets.

Liu Ye was an outstanding astronaut before, so he was chosen to lead the team.

Liu Ye thought of his two children and father-in-law. If they couldn't find a habitable planet, they would not be able to survive.

So even for the sake of his family, Liu Ye had to go, not to mention that this was not only about saving his own children, but also about saving all of humanity.

After returning home, Liu Ye told his family about the incident, asked his son to protect the home, and left.

The angry daughter didn't run out crying until Liu Ye drove away.

A family of three stood together, looking at the car going away.

In fact, what they didn’t know was that Liu Ye, who was in the car, also covered his face with his hands and shed tears of reluctance, because this mission was life-threatening and he didn’t know whether he could come back alive.

Then the scene gradually changed, and a huge rocket ignited and took off, and the spacecraft gradually moved away from the earth and flew into the universe.

On the huge IMAX screen, the vast universe appears so magnificent.

Only now have many viewers realized that this is a science fiction blockbuster and the big scenes have only appeared for the first time.

Soon after, the spacecraft entered the space wormhole and moved forward at a rapid speed. The entire space wormhole distorted time and space.

After passing through the wormhole, you come to a completely new galaxy, which also has a luminous body similar to the sun.

Their first destination was right next to a black hole. In the darkness of space, the gorgeous and extremely realistic black hole on the big screen deeply attracted the audience's attention.

Liu Ye and other members of the space team in the spacecraft were also attracted by this magnificent scene, but Liu Ye reacted quickly, woke up the others to control the spacecraft, and successfully landed at the destination.

But the planet they landed on is close to a black hole, a celestial body with huge suction force, so the tides acting on this planet are much stronger.

Huge waves thousands of meters high appeared on the one-meter-high water surface.

This is also the most shocking scene in the whole movie. The huge waves swept in and filled the entire screen.

At this time, other sounds finally appeared in the hall, and the audience's exclamations came one after another.

"I go!"

"grass!"

"Great pen!"

"This is too real, it can't be a real shot!"

"Are you crazy? This is real footage, it must be a special effect!"

"I don't quite understand how a one-meter-deep water can form a thousand-meter-high wave."

After being amazed, many viewers were talking in low voices because the scene was really too shocking.

Although it is not 3D, it was shot with 70mm film and a 650-square-meter IMAX film screen. The effect is extremely shocking and cannot be achieved by any 2D movie.

In fact, not only the audience, but also the filmmakers, film critics and even actors such as Liu Ye, Fan Xiaopang, etc. did not expect that the final scene on the big screen would be so shocking.

Because the screen is large enough, even the audience sitting in the last row feels that the movie is right in front of them, and the visual impact is no less.

Moreover, the effect brought by the IMAX film screen is beyond words. The effect of ordinary screens is not even a little bit worse, and it is not comparable to computer screens and ordinary cinemas.

At this moment, the spaceship was like a small boat in the huge waves, being tossed around by the waves and even rolling in them.

Finally, after a lot of hardships and the sacrifice of a team member, relying on Liu Ye's rich experience, the spaceship finally managed to escape the impact of the huge waves and get out of danger.

After this thrilling scene, everyone in the audience couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The audience was also very excited at this time. It was indeed a blockbuster movie and the visual effects were amazing.

Liu Zhou did not disappoint us. Just this one shot made the trip worthwhile.

In addition to the audience, industry insiders had different thoughts when seeing this scene.

(End of this chapter)