973. The Martian Premiere (Part II)
In the end, the pro-rators took the initiative and persuaded the supervisor to agree to the rescue operation.
Of course, things are not so simple, the rocket cannot be lifted off immediately, and they also have to get in touch with Mark first.
In the end, Mark had a flash of inspiration and found a way.
In 2015, Huaxia launched the 'Stone Monkey' Mars rover, and after completing the mission, the rover was left on Mars forever because of energy exhaustion, but it was not damaged, as long as it was supplied with energy again, then it is likely to be restarted.
The rover is to explore the Martian terrain, and it has a camera on its own, so as long as it is successfully launched and makes contact with the other side of the earth, then it can communicate through pictures.
Fortunately, the space center also guessed Mark's purpose based on the trajectory of Mark's movement on the satellite map.
In the following ten minutes, Mark can be said to be completely favored by Lady Luck.
The movie is set in 2030, and the 2015 'Stone Monkey' Mars rover has been on Mars for 15 years, but it still successfully started and made contact with Earth.
And the potatoes planted by Mark also grew very well, and the first batch was harvested with a full 400 potatoes.
And during this period, it also brought waves of emotion to the audience.
For example, the moment the stone monkey's camera turned for the first time, Mark yelled excitedly, as if he was crazy.
And when the potatoes are planted, I look at the bunch of potatoes Mark and shed tears.
It is this kind of small hope, but it is like a drizzle of rain moistening things silently, quietly penetrating into the hearts of the audience, so that they will be moved and cheered together for every small difficulty that Mark overcomes, and they will also worry about the difficulties encountered by Mark.
Just as it is impossible for all movies to make the protagonist all the way to his destination safely, Mark is also in trouble.
The first is his vegetable patch, which was damaged by another black storm, and coincidentally, it happened to be Mark's vegetable patch.
Then there was the bad news that made the audience worry, the launcher that the space center rushed out to deliver supplies also exploded after liftoff.
"Wouldn't it be three months at the earliest!?" The moment the rocket exploded, the audience's eyes showed despair.
Because the construction speed of these vehicles has been mentioned more than once in the previous movie, three months is already the fastest, and now everyone has watched a 'fireworks show', so if you want to wait until the next rocket launches, won't it take three months, but can Mark, who has lost the vegetable field, wait another three months?
With the desperate expressions of the space center in the movie, the audience no longer knows the answer.
Of course, the plot will not completely block Mark's way to survive, the next second the camera switches, and the news reports the failure of the rocket launch in the news, but the people who watch the news become Americans.
It turns out that the Americans also have a Mars launch program, and it has been preparing for a long time.
At the same time, a genius expert in astrodynamics had a good idea, and he even suggested that the Shenzhou spacecraft, which was preparing to return to Earth, should not land on Earth, but directly return to Mars along the Earth's orbit with the materials launched into space.
This proposal, of course, was vehemently rejected by the director of the space center.
"This is actually a multiple-choice question, just like Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", is it worth saving one of six?" said Wang Jinsong and Professor Luo Ran beside him.
"But it's really a test of human nature, and I love it in the movie, because this scene will make the audience choose to think, and no matter what kind of answer they come up with, it will be a gain for the audience. Luo Ran replied with a smile.
Both of them are professors of Jingdian, but one is responsible for acting and the other is responsible for directing, but they are also Nie Wei's mentors, Wang Jinsong Needless to say, Nie Wei was Nie Wei's class supervisor for four years of college, and Nie Wei's doctoral supervisor was Luo Ran.
Although Nie Wei may be the least class-loving student Luo Ran has ever led, he is also the most proud of him, or the student who makes the entire Jingdian proud.
"Well, you're right. Listening to Luo Ran's words, Wang Jinsong smiled and nodded.
A good movie is to make the audience think and experience the choices made by people in the movie, these choices are often not absolutely right or wrong, but the more this is the case, the more worthy of making the audience think deeply.
Of course, at this moment, most of the audience's minds are still angry at the refusal of the director of the space center.
"This director is brainless, what the director said just now is right, this matter should be decided by the scientific expedition team members on the spacecraft. ”
"I hate this kind of person who doesn't seek merit but seeks no fault, it's just a corpse vegetarian meal. ”
"According to what this director said, why do you have so many plans, anyway, Mark will definitely starve to death by then, and everyone will be able to wash and sleep. ”
For this supervisor who constantly obstructs the rescue, the vast majority of the audience is very unhappy.
But there is also a small group of people who agree with the supervisor's approach.
"In the choice between one and six, I would probably choose six. ”
"What's wrong with this director's choice, I think this is the most sensible, after all, those experts also said that this theoretical action is dangerous, why let people who are not in danger risk their lives to save others?"
"I still support the director's idea, but I know the movie definitely won't be like that. ”
As one viewer guessed, the suggestion made by this expert in astrodynamics was passed on to the scientific expedition personnel on the Tiangong, and after their vote, they unanimously decided to go back and save Mark.
The audience, who was extremely depressed because of Mark's continuous bad luck, finally breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.
Mark finally went through many difficulties, and was rescued by the scientific expedition team to recover the spaceship, and the story is coming to an end, and the audience will still whisper to each other in the early and middle periods, but in the end, as the plot becomes more and more tense, the audience's discussion has long been gone.
There was only an occasional exclamation from the audience in the screening room, which must have been when Mark was in danger, but with Mark returning to Earth, the audience could finally let go of their hearts that had been hanging for more than two hours and show a relaxed smile.
As the relaxing music at the end of the film sounded, the audience did not leave the seat, because they were already familiar with Nie Wei's directing style, and there must be easter eggs at the end of the film.
Sure enough, after a few subtitles, easter eggs appeared in anticipation.
First of all, the director of the space center who has always insisted on saving Mark came to the stage to speak, Huaxia is going to hold a manned scientific expedition to Mars again, when the reporter asked what is different from the previous plan, the director replied humorously: "There is no difference, if I have to say that there is, I hope that this time my team members can return to Earth at the same time." ”
There was a chuckle in the theater, and those who had just seen the movie obviously knew why the director would say that.
There is also the daily life of several members of the scientific expedition team, and the little brother who drove the spaceship became a senior, and flew to Mars again with a group of new students.
The computer experts and chemistry experts in the scientific expedition team had a good impression of each other during the last operation, and the feature film did not introduce it further, but in the easter egg, the two even have a pair of twins.
and the captain of the scientific expedition who was complained by Mark that his music taste was very 'poor', this time he finally changed the music, and it was Nie Wei's classic "E-are-Young".
What's even funnier is that when the scientific research captain played by Fan Binbin held his mobile phone and asked Mark, 'Is this song also hard to listen to?', the audience couldn't help but laugh out loud.
In the end, the protagonist Mark's easter egg was not pulled down, and he went to the university to give a speech.
"I think it's like life, it can't always be smooth sailing, and even sometimes there will be a leak in the house and it rains overnight, and what we have to do at this time is not to just accept it, then your life will be over. ”
"What we need is effort, you have to feel like this is just the beginning, we solve a problem, we solve another problem, don't be knocked down by the problem, but knock down the problem, and when we solve enough problems, you succeed, like I came back to Earth from Mars. ”
Mark on the podium was like an old man who was pessimistic about life, telling his feelings in a calm tone, and the applause on the scene rang out as the words landed.
And not only the students who applauded on the screen, but also some of the audience who were watching the movie.
Mark's words seem simple, and many people understand it, but those who have just watched the movie can deeply understand Mark's inner feelings when he said this.
At the same time, they feel the same way.
It is precisely because of this precious quality that Mark has not been knocked down by difficulties that he has been able to survive on Mars, and the same is true for everyone.
After watching the two-and-a-half-hour movie, the audience not only felt tired, but also had a feeling of unfinished business.
When I walked out of the screening hall, many people were discussing loudly, and they were also actively participating in the investigation at the entrance of the theater.
"It's so interesting, some people say it's a space version of Robinson Crusoe, I think it might not be appropriate, although it's a story of survival alone, but it's not the same between the two, I probably like The Martian more because I like the main character, Mark, who always maintains a mentality of hard work and hope. ”
"Nie Wei is very handsome, Fan Binbin is also very beautiful, and of course Uncle Daoming is also very stylish. ”
"I think this movie has a lot of connotation, Mars survival seems to me to be just a surface, and what it wants to express in its bones is the attitude of people in the face of difficulties, as well as the possible consequences of choices, which are worth thinking about as a audience, and I have decided to watch it again. ”
"Nie Wei's movie did not disappoint us as always, this film is really fantastic, those who said on the Internet that Nie Wei will only use special effects to make some hot shots to attract the audience can shut up, this movie review has no hot shots from beginning to end, but it just deeply attracted me!"
"The main line is clear, the rhythm is tight, the plot is not bloody, and there is no deliberate sensationalism, and the moving in the process makes me feel very pure, and it is the kind of completely heartfelt touch. ”
The messages were accepted by the theater, then transferred back to the company, and then transferred to Nie Wei.
The film evaluation questionnaire on the first day showed that the audience's satisfaction was as high as 97%, and only 3% of the audience felt that it did not meet their expectations, but the vast majority of the audience agreed that this was a rare good film.
Of course, there are also some points that have been complained about by the audience.
For example, the problem of implantation.
The milk that Mark drank was Yili's, so Nie Wei also specially designed a 1L package for Yili, which appeared in the movie with a new package.
For the packaging design and the less than six-second shot in the movie, Yili paid a full $5 million for implantation.
Of course, all of this is obviously worth it, the first day of the movie's broadcast, is also the second day of Yili's 1L pure milk on the market, compared with the previous day, the sales on the first day of the movie's release have more than five times, which also makes Yili's senior executives shout that the money is too well spent.
In addition to this, there are various electronic devices of Lenovo, for which Lenovo spent three million dollars on implantation, and of course the equipment is also provided by them.
There was also a fierce competition between Pepsi and Coca-Cola for implantation, and in the end Coca-Cola won.
And what they got was of course not to bring Coca-Cola to Mars, it was impossible, but Nie Wei also had a way, people always had to drink water, and Mark was no exception, and his cup was printed with the Coca-Cola trademark.
At the same time, Huayi also cooperated with Coca-Cola to launch a new bottle of the "Martian" version.
At the same time, a lottery will be held, and those who buy the "Martian" version of Coca-Cola will have the opportunity to draw signed photos of Nie Wei, Fan Binbin and others, and even have the opportunity to win VIP tickets for the 2010 Huayi Family Concert.
Of course, they also paid a million dollars for this, and at the same time carried out a wave of publicity for "The Martian", after all, Coca-Cola's sales in China are very high.
There are also many implants, some viewers have found it, and some have not found it at all, and nearly 30 million US dollars in the total investment of the film are subsidized by the cost of implanted advertising.
When these data were released in the future, Nie Wei was also put in the headlines by the media, praising his ability to attract money.
After all, these implanted advertisers are willing to spend money for his name.
As time passes, there are not many people queuing at the entrance of the theater, even if it is 10 o'clock in the evening, there is still more than 60% attendance.
The 24-hour IMAX-3D screening hall has never dropped 80 percent in attendance.
Even if the box office on the first day has not been finally counted due to time constraints, everyone knows that this must be a very staggering number.