Since 2009, the voice of the first year of China's hard science fiction movies has been frequently heard. Ten years later, China’s science fiction movies are still blank. Finally, "Wandering Earth" has arrived.
The expansion of the sun is about to engulf the earth. In order to survive, human beings have built a huge planetary engine all over the world to push the whole earth away from the existing orbit and go to the depths of the universe to find new homes... "Wandering Earth" is happening. An escape under the doomsday disaster is also a self-rescue from the perspective of the universe. The sun is shining, but the earth is extremely cold; Jupiter is close at hand, and the danger is approaching in seconds.
If Da Liu’s works are all spread out, it’s not hard to find that they are all grand ideas. Putting the ultimate choice of people facing survival and emotion on the scale of the universe, and finally praising the dedication and sacrifice of humanity. The narration of this ideology can be emphasized, and when it is transformed into an image, it will reveal its biggest flaw - the weakness of the story.
Therefore, the difficulty in adapting the film of "Wandering Earth" is how to put a high conceptual shell into a figurative story, and also preserve the universal values of the universal world in the original book, and break the conventional science fiction movie may encounter Cultural barriers and bottlenecks.
In the shaping of emotions, from "family" to "home country" to "homeland", "Wandering Earth" retains the "wandering" in the original book to "go home" and opens up a Chinese-style family relationship. And rooted in the feelings of the Chinese people's homeland, so more is awe and moved. Respect the sun, fear the earth, and fear human civilization. The emotional expression of loving the land and loving the earth is moving.
Among the "Wandering Earth", those who impress countless people must be the soft emotions of human beings. The beginning of the story is cruel – the global population has died in half, leaving only 3.5 billion, and by now, living has become the only hope for mankind. In the face of global disasters, the desire to survive is above all else, but the realm of "Wandering Earth" is far from the same.
In the face of disasters, the protagonist who represents brave humanity does not give up hope, even at the expense of the hope of that ambition. On the one hand, the scientific calculation success rate is zero percent of “igniting Jupiter”, and on the other hand, it is a “fire” plan that protects the whole human gene and the earth's seeds by 100%. Therefore, the possibility of zero percent is ultimately true. It is zero percent, but humanity has thrown away the self-sacrificing home. My spirit finally makes this zero a miracle. Because "there is a place where people have civilization." Under the predicaments and hardships of mankind and the earth, the nuances of this earth's wandering are the quietness under the urgency, and the human nature itself.
Heaven and earth are black and yellow, the universe is flooded, when society, human relations, and emotions are wiped and destroyed by this invisible wandering, "Human destiny" is completely violated by a group of rescue teams repairing planetary engines on the earth and on the space station. The father who is responsible for the rule risk is maintained. Hope to be in parallel with despair, resentment and deep love for reconciliation. The engine sprayed a blue and white glare plasma beam, which is the most touching dialogue between father and son for more than a decade. It is also a kind of pride and romance for human beings to abandon life and death. In front of the big me, even if I am as small as a star, I am still dazzling enough.
After that, it was a reversal of international rescue. From the individual to the rescue team, from the organization to the country, when everyone in each country begins to lay down me and go into the action of saving the earth, mankind is saved. "The Wandering Earth", its ending is transcendence. The feelings fall on the nationalism to give way to internationalism, the vision is placed in the self-rescue of all mankind, and all expressions are presented between the great love of mankind.
Compared with the Americans who have the same monotonous Americans to save the world, "Wandering Earth" has not used this kind of sucking powder routine to please the audience. On the contrary, in the whole film laying, the story core has spared no effort to emphasize the whole humanity before the disaster. Ignore the unity of ethnic differences and abandon national differences. It gives way to the inclusiveness of internationalism and the collective consciousness of human beings as a community of destiny, telling a story of a hard shell and a soft inner heart.
It may be a crazy idea to fight against the cosmos of the universe. "Hope is the gold and gems of this era." When the small human beings and the vastness of the universe go to game, we have no way but to retreat. But hope, not to make the ship flee.
Under the high concept of cosmology, "Wandering Earth" stripped out the original atmosphere of compassion and repression, the reconstruction of the relationship between father and son, the conclusion of individual and collective, the connection between hometown and distant feelings, all embodied in this disaster of destruction. Among them. It is a re-maintaining of the hero's return to the family and the salvation of the future.
The weight of the word "return" has long been ingrained in the perception of every oriental. It is not only a cultural consciousness, but also a cultural identity. Whether it is sailing with hope or on the eve of the end, the meaning of return is higher than everything else. Even if you escape from the solar system, human beings can't abandon the earth that they are deeply in love with, and they will bring their homes when they are sailing.
In this picture of the survival of human civilization, we have seen the emotional core of the East way, saw the philosophical theme of science fiction, and saw the traditional Chinese Confucian cultural values. Such a strong East-style thinking and complex is something that Hollywood sci-fi movies have never expressed and is difficult to reproduce. Therefore, "Wandering Earth" is a Chinese science fiction movie, just like "Star Wars" is in the United States. This movie is absolutely worthy of " The title of China's first hard science fiction movie.
On the screen of special effects, "Wandering Earth" has also made an unprecedented new height in Chinese movies. Underground, surface, and space, "Wandering Earth" divides the doomsday disaster scene into three battlefields, showing three rescues across the universe.
Like the Hollywood sci-fi movie's consistent "destroy landmark buildings" game, this time, "Wandering Earth" has also opened a similar model. When you see the frozen CCTV building in Beijing, you can see the frozen Oriental Pearl Tower, the realism of all the props and scenes, and people are amazed.
It is no exaggeration to say that this time, China’s film industrialization level can finally keep pace with the world. Even as Hollywood increasingly “softens” science fiction movies into visual effects, China has created a hard science fiction movie that truly belongs to the Chinese themselves.
This time, the Chinese hard science fiction film has a pioneering work. This year, Chinese science fiction movies ushered in her highlights. With the release of "Crazy Alien", "Shanghai Fortress", "Assassination of Novelists", "Tomorrow's War" and "Tian Xing", 2019 will even be a first year of high jump.
However, the journey of mankind is long and unknown, and the long road to Chinese science fiction movies is also out of reach. Because our journey is the sea of stars. And we, like the idea of "Wandering Earth" running through the whole film from beginning to end, believe in hope, believe in China's science fiction, its future will be as far-reaching as the universe.