Chinese Entertainment: Starting from 1996

Chapter 473: The Red Flag Flying (with movie plot)

As a highly anticipated movie, not only the audience is looking forward to it, but people in the industry are also looking forward to "Interstellar".

Especially directors in the industry, as science fiction movies become more and more popular in China, many people are ready to try this genre.

Therefore, there were quite a few directors who came to attend the movie premiere. Many of them came with an attitude of learning. Even Feng Kuzi, who had a conflict with Liu Zhou before, came with the Wang brothers.

Liu Zhou may be the youngest among these people, but his achievements are real. Even if we put aside his halo as the richest man in mainland China, his achievements as a director are enough to make them admire him from the bottom of their hearts.

Ambition does not matter when one is old. People in the circle never make a fuss about Liu Zhou’s age.

As a contracted director of Golden Harvest, Xu Ke is also the director in China who is most obsessed with special effects and the best at using special effects before Liu Zhou. Of course, he would not miss the premiere of "Interstellar".

In his mind, the only person in the entire Chinese film industry who is better than him at special effects is Liu Zhou, so he came here today specifically to learn from him.

However, the movie had been running for nearly an hour and there were not many special effects shots. The only special effects shot that made him feel relatively impressive was the intelligent robot.

Not only can the intelligent machine move freely, it can also change into various shapes. Those who are familiar with special effects will know that this is very difficult to achieve.

Later, as huge waves appeared on the large screen of more than 650 square meters, Xu Ke realized that "Interstellar" was still a blockbuster movie.

Xu Ke looked at this special effects shot very seriously, even a little obsessed with it.

The texture of the film IMAX screen is unmatched by any other screen. The rich colors and graininess can maximize the display of a movie's picture.

In addition, a large amount of 70mm film was used for shooting, so from a visual perspective, it is a perfect 2D movie.

If we exclude the 3D, the visual effects of "Avatar" alone are far from comparable.

Xu Ke admired Liu Zhou even more for this. He thought that the visual effect of the movie would be greatly reduced if he didn't use 3D this time, but now it seems that he was ignorant. The movie effect far exceeded his imagination.

There are many directors who share the same idea as Xu Ke. Liu Zhou is indeed the best director in China at using special effects, and his works are always unexpected.

The movie continues. After Liu Ye and Fan Xiaopang escape danger, they immediately dock with another spaceship waiting outside.

What surprised them was that the team members who had stayed on the spaceship had already turned gray.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

"How long have we been gone?"

"Twenty-three years!"

As they talk, the audience also understands that the time here is different from that on Earth.

Liu Ye and his companions clearly felt that only more than three hours had passed, but twenty-three years had passed on Earth.

It has been 23 years, and things and people have changed. What about my own children?
Liu Ye walked away without saying a word.

Fan Xiaopang looked at the gray-haired team member in front of him and felt distressed, and tears welled up in his eyes. In 23 years, he changed from an adult in his early thirties to an "old man" in his fifties.

"Why don't you continue to sleep?"

“I slept a few times, but I didn’t know when you would come back, but I felt I couldn’t waste time, so I have been studying this black hole since then.

But we can't transmit information back to Earth, we can only receive information."

At this time, the team member's tone was very flat, and there was no joy after reunion in his eyes, no sadness, only numbness, which was heartbreaking to see.

Staying alone in the cabin for twenty-three years is not only a waste of twenty-three years of life, but also twenty-three years of endless loneliness. It is more difficult than Qin Hao being left on Mars. After all, he only stayed on Mars for a few years.

The camera turned and the picture came to Liu Ye, who was sitting quietly at this moment, holding in his hand the videos his children had sent him over the past 23 years.

The past twenty-three years!
Liu Ye took a deep breath and clicked on the video.

He sat motionless in the chair, his mouth slightly open, his eyes full of anxiety and expectation.

The first video was of his son graduating and ranking second in his grade. In the video, he was holding up his transcript and showing it to the camera excitedly.

In the subsequent videos, the son grew up, found a girlfriend, got married, and had a son. He even happily held his son up in front of the camera.

He has become a grandfather, his father-in-law is still alive, and their family has four generations living under one roof.

During this time, the son also talked about his sister's growth, and Liu Ye listened attentively.

Seeing that his son and daughter were both fine and everything was fine at home, Liu Ye couldn't help but smile, but the more he looked down, the more tears flowed.

Liu Ye's body kept shaking and his nose was running. He was laughing and crying at the same time.

In this monologue, Liu Ye contributed his best acting skills. The audience was also somewhat infected by the atmosphere, and some of the emotional ones were even secretly wiping away tears.

For twenty-three years, I watched you but could not grow up with you.

As the video continued to play, the earth's environment became increasingly worse. His grandson died, and his father-in-law also died, and were then buried by his son next to his wife's grave.

My son has become the same person he was when I left him, with an untidy beard and long hair. He looks a little shabby and depressed.

Finally, after watching the video sent by her daughter, Liu Ye burst into tears in front of the monitor, her shoulders twitching violently, and she covered her mouth with her hands.

If the space team member just now made people feel suffocated, then these video clips really touched everyone's tears.

At this time, not only the female audience, but also many male audiences shed tears.

Many of them are parents. If you put yourself in their shoes, you can imagine your own children. After not seeing them for 23 years, their children suddenly become the same age as you.

Twenty-three years passed by in a flash for the child, while only three hours passed for him.

No one knows what it feels like to watch your children grow old.

But judging from the film, the word "desperate" is enough to describe it.

The camera turns to Fan Xiaopang, who takes out a message from her father:

"Once we step into the universe, we have to face various problems. We cannot think about problems with individual thinking."

This is actually a foreshadowing, and the subtext is that we must consider the race and not just care about the individual.

The camera specifically gave a close-up to this sentence, but the audience might still be immersed in the emotions just now and did not think too much about it. Only the directors understood that the sentence that was given a close-up would definitely not be that simple.

As the movie progresses, Liu Ye and Fan Xiaopang have disagreements about the next itinerary.

Three years ago, Fan Xiaopang's lover sent back information showing that he had found a planet with the elements for human survival and reproduction. Although the signal was cut off afterwards, she believed in her lover.

However, Liu Ye felt that Qin Hao had been sending signals from his planet, and as Qin Hao was the greatest astronaut on Earth, he should be trusted.

So Liu Ye wanted to go to Qin Hao's side.

After some debate, Liu Ye finally persuaded Fan Xiaopang, and everyone went to Qin Hao together.

The scene turns back to Earth, where the environment is becoming increasingly harsh and corn can only be burned due to widespread blight.

A raging fire burned in the endless cornfield.

Before the fire was extinguished, a new round of sandstorms followed.

The scene turns again, and inside the base, Fan Xiaopang's father, as the leader of scientific research, calls the male protagonist's adult daughter, played by Liu Yifei.

He had not much time left, and told Liu Yifei the truth before he died. He had already figured out the formula and proved that it was not feasible. He had not told everyone for so many years just to make everyone willing to implement Plan B.

"Your father has no reason and no need to return to Earth, because there is no hope for us!"

Now not only Liu Yifei in the movie couldn't believe it, but the audience was also stunned.

"Fuck, what's going on in Liu Zhou's head?"

"The gravity formula is wrong. This means that even if the protagonist finds a habitable planet, returning to Earth is useless. We can't send a space station into space through a wormhole. Is humanity doomed?"

"Then how can we act? The Earth is no longer habitable, and we can't migrate, so we can only rely on the fertilized eggs on the spacecraft as the source of human fire?"

"The earth can be saved, right? Doesn't the movie start with the protagonist's daughter being old?"

"I wonder how the protagonist will face his children when he returns to Earth. They must think their father has abandoned them."

……

At this time, Liu Ye and others did not know what was happening on Earth. He and Fan Xiaopang and others came to the planet where Qin Hao sent the signal.

As far as the eye can see here, there are glaciers everywhere. Even the clouds in the sky have been frozen and become frozen clouds, appearing in the state of ice crystals.

Not to mention in the movie, even outside the movie, the audience felt a chill when seeing this scene.

Liu Ye and others woke up Qin Hao who was sleeping in the base. As soon as he woke up and saw humans, he hugged Liu Ye and cried bitterly.

After some greetings, Qin Hao also told them about the situation on this planet. The daytime is 67 hours long and it is very cold, and the night is also 67 hours long and it is even colder.

The gravity is 80% of that on Earth, and the ammonia content in the air is too high to breathe, but fortunately there is another layer beneath the ice with oxygen and organic matter, and even life forms.

This good news made Liu Ye and others excited.

And at this moment, the intelligent robot received a message from Earth, which was sent by Liu Yifei.

She felt that as the daughter of a professor, it was impossible for Fan Xiaopang to not know that there was no Plan A but only Plan B, so she asked loudly with tears in her eyes:

"Dad, is this true? Leaving me here to die?"

Fan Xiaopang was stunned and Liu Ye was panicked!
At this time Qin Hao spoke up and told the two that he had known this for a long time and that there had only been plan B from the beginning to the end.

Seeing that Fatty Fan still couldn't believe it, Qin Hao continued:

"Your father also made a great sacrifice. He destroyed his own humanity!"

At this time Liu Ye exploded, and he shouted loudly:

"The ones who really made the great sacrifice were those waiting to die on Earth, because his damned arrogance sentenced them to death."

Qin Hao seemed very calm and even cold-blooded at this time:

“People on Earth have no future. The future is us.”

Liu Ye obviously could not accept this result. He planned to return to Earth to pick up his children after exploring this frozen planet.

However, what he didn't know was that Qin Hao had lied to him. There was no lower level on this planet at all, and it was not suitable for human habitation at all.

Once Liu Ye knew that this planet was not suitable for living, Qin Hao was sure that he would not continue to explore but would return to Earth.

But the spacecraft no longer had enough fuel, and if it returned to Earth, it would not be able to continue with Plan B.

So Qin Hao cut Liu Ye's space suit without hesitation, and Liu Ye was in danger in an instant.

Fortunately, at the critical moment of life and death, it was Fan Xiaopang who saved him.

At this time, the team member who had just grown old was unfortunately killed in the explosion while repairing the intelligent robot, and Qin Hao was also killed in the explosion due to an operational error when forcing the docking with the mother ship.

The scene cuts back to Earth. Because the environment is getting worse, the younger sister wants her brother and his family to leave their hometown and live with her.

But because her brother promised his father to protect the family, he refused to move, which made Liu Yifei so angry that she yelled at her brother:

"Dad has already abandoned us, do you want everyone else to die with you?"

In space, due to lack of fuel, the spaceship driven by Liu Ye could not reach the next planet smoothly. In the end, the spaceship he was operating was sucked into a black hole, and Fan Xiaopang could only embark on the journey alone.

As the spaceship gradually sank into the black hole, Liu Ye and Liu Yifei on Earth burned the cornfield in order to force their brother to move.

Watching her brother rushing towards the fire and trying to put it out without hesitation, Liu Yifei left with her sister-in-law and niece in tears.

On the other side, the spaceship that was sucked into the black hole had disintegrated. Liu Ye didn't know how long he had been falling until he vaguely saw a sphere under his feet.

The essence of a black hole is a square-shaped five-dimensional space.

Liu Ye grabbed the edge and stopped. He found that it was a bookshelf and a timeline. By pushing the timeline, he could move each book.

He looked out through the gap in the bookshelf and found that it was his daughter when she was a child.

At this time, he also contacted the intelligent robot and collected the data needed for the earth, so the equation could be solved.

Then he found himself in a five-dimensional space with his daughter's bedroom as the timeline.

He kept giving hints through the bookshelf, but his young daughter didn't understand what was going on and just looked at the bookshelf curiously.

Only then did Liu Ye realize that he was the ghost his daughter had been talking about when she was a child.

He tried various methods to transmit the information but all failed. Finally, he thought of Morse code and successfully transmitted the information to Liu Yifei through the watch on the bookshelf.

At this time Liu Yifei finally realized that the ghost was her father, and she couldn't help crying with joy, which showed that her father had never given up on them.

With her father's hint, Liu Yifei finally solved the equation, and humanity was saved.

The scene changed, the five-dimensional space disappeared, and due to the distortion of time and space, Liu Ye saw Fan Xiaopang at that time.

At this time, Liu Ye was the future in Fan Xiaopang's eyes.

He was thrown out of the black hole, drifting in space and fell asleep.

When Liu Ye woke up again, he found himself lying in the hospital.

The doctor told him that he was one hundred and twenty-four years old in Earth age.

Then he saw his daughter again. Looking at his daughter who was smiling and crying, Liu Ye said with a smile:

"I am back!"

The camera switches to another planet with a desolate land, but Fat Fan is not wearing an oxygen mask in the camp.

This means that this is a planet habitable for humans, and Fan Xiaopang successfully found it.

The lonely Fan Xiaopang bathed in the light of the new "sun" and walked alone towards the camp he had built.

As the camera zoomed out, a flag was seen among a dozen tents not far away, and the five-star red flag was fluttering in the wind.

(End of this chapter)