Chapter 164: The box office has shrunk
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Back home, a group of excited film critics published articles praising "Gravity" on the website, and such articles were overwhelming, and soon swept the entire Internet.
Nirvana, a well-known Hollywood film critic, wrote on Time.com: "I think this movie is only 90 minutes long enough to watch?
This is another classic space film, Chen Yongren almost slapped all kinds of movies that rely on fighting for a long time to improve the cost performance: there are no superfluous shots, with conscientious acting skills and lens switching, he sounded the horn of "firing at the Oscars" in the winter when bad movies are flooded.
Bring your 3D glasses and get ready for this space adventure, as the heroine Li Ruien said, no matter how it ends, this is a hero's journey.
In all fairness, the film's first recommendation is its graphics and special effects: using a documentary-like lens to depict the space disaster escape, for most people who only occasionally watch the spacecraft launch in the live broadcast room, watch the astronauts and say hello to Hai, just following the camera to look down on the earth or look up at the starry sky, feeling the various details under zero gravity, as if passing through a spacewalk addiction, let alone how the space debris running at 20,000 miles per hour has created one thrilling disaster after another.
Under this extreme audio-visual stimulation, coupled with a simple plot and a virtual set, the actors' acting skills are especially valuable.
Li Bingbing, who is the queen of the film, and Chen Yongren, who was newly promoted to the actor not long ago, are undoubtedly just the right performances, making the film stand out from the whirlpool of being reduced to a documentary.
Human nature shines like stars in space, regardless of politics, borders, or races, just a simple optimistic and tenacious desire to live, as well as the heavy past that needs to be let go of to survive, and the consciousness of not giving up easily.
There are three times in the film that I have reached emotional resonance, once called parting, once called despair, and once called enlightenment.
On the space station, Li Ruien and Mader have just returned to the ISS from the wrecked Discovery spacecraft after the risk of lack of oxygen and fuel.
Just when they and the audience thought that they could adjust their safety for the time being, due to the residual collision and rotation, Madder floated away from the space station with zero power, and once he left, he would circle the earth forever, while Li Ruien hooked the rope of the parachute on the space station with his foot, trying to desperately bring Madeira back, but with every force, the rope tied to his ankle was loosened.
Mader: You've got to let me go...
Ryan Lee: I won't let you go...
For Li Ruien, she was forced to lose her daughter, she can only drive around day after day, year after year, driving everywhere and afraid to stop, facing teammates who have a glimmer of hope to recover, unless Ma De himself unfastens the safety buckle, Ruien will no longer want to face the situation of being forced to lose something or someone.
However, Mader finally unbuckled himself, and still unfazed Ryan on the radio as always, as if he was not heading for death, but for a temporary parting, a record-breaking parting.
There are many kinds of postures in the face of death and the unknown, which one is almost understandable, but only a few can make people awe-inspired, and Mader's extremely optimistic posture is even more moving.
Ryan finally arrived at the ISS confined module with extreme oxygen deprivation, finally able to replenish oxygen and fuel, and finally made it to the power module, ready to go to the final stop with only 7 minutes left before the second wave of debris arrived: Tiangong in Huaxia.
However, when the ignition left, he found that the power module and the space station were tied to the rope, and when Ryan tried to untie it, a second wave of debris rushed in.
In the chaos, although he escaped from the power module to save his life, he found that the solar panels used to power it had been destroyed, and at this time, the sun slowly disappeared, leaving an almost eternal darkness.
Escaped death but reappeared as a Jedi, there was no Mader, no radio contact with NASA, only a strange person and a dog, the language barrier could not communicate, they could only learn to bark at each other, and Ruien, who was almost wailing, turned down the oxygen and was ready to give up - after experiencing such ups and downs, he thought that he could survive in a desperate place, only to find that he was only trapped in another more desperate abyss.
Looking at the ice flowers condensed on the porthole because of absolute zero, the exhaled air was filled with mist, as if the spark of hope was also slowly condensing, and the greatest hope must have bred the deepest despair.
But only in the deepest darkness can we see how bright that little light, which is usually inconspicuous.
In a daze, Ryan suddenly realized that he could use the spare landing buffer energy, and at the last moment, he regrouped and began to fight back - to fight back against the self-doubting self who had been haunted by the departure of his daughter, and to fight back against the self who could not move forward like a walking corpse - Ryan said to his daughter and Mader in his memory:
I've found your red shoes, they are under your bed, and they haven't disappeared......
Mader, please tell my daughter that I have always loved her......
After entering the Heavenly Palace, she said to the National Space Administration console in Beijing:
Or make a successful landing, live to tell this glorious saga, or be dyed to ashes with the atmosphere, but in any case, I'm ready.
At this point, the film enters the most, the satellite module that crosses the atmosphere like a meteor, the solar panels that are violently torn and disintegrated, and the clouds, mountains, rivers, and seas that are getting bigger and closer can be seen with the naked eye, and the parachute released at the last moment, the heroine finally landed safely in the sea of the blue planet, returning to the world full of gravity again.
In the final shot, Ruien is like a phoenix in Nirvana, standing weakly but firmly on the shore, staring at the trajectory of several other fragments of meteors in the sky, and the play ends.
I can't use superfluous words to describe the shock and insight that this story brought me, but I can only thank the director and actors, with almost immersive superb skills, with the most silent but convincing narrative method, leading us through a space disaster, a metamorphosis from novelty to panic to despair to hope.
Five stars unmistakable, highly recommended. ”
Film critic Han Qilong wrote on Weibo: "'Gravity' is both technically and artistically where the film has not yet been.
It is as if people have the most cutting-edge technology spacecraft of Earth, floating in space that is difficult for ordinary people to reach.
The style of the movie is elegant and refined, in the thrilling story, the protagonists do not cry, do not brag, do not hang, but truly show the essence of the human romantic spirit.
The fear and calmness of death, the awe and gratitude for nature, and the feelings of love and hate for life are naturally flowed out by the actors' natural performances, creating an ancient poetic sense of calm beauty in a dangerous void.
Like other great and classic works of art in human history, it pierces the hearts of the audience with simplicity and accuracy, giving people a feeling of being reborn and having the charm of religion.
For the film's creators, Gravity is silent. Because it shatters all the lies that deceive the audience, we can only sigh in vain that our imagination is not yet beautiful to that extent.
Technically speaking, in addition to the new generation of powerful rendering and light and shadow coloring technology, "Gravity" is the perfect use of technology Previz, it can be said that this film is not shot by people, it is shot by software according to the director's lens design control robot. With the support of robotics technology, the technology Previz has finally unleashed its full power.
Under the direction of the director, the robot and software take over the control of the camera and lighting, and the actor becomes the plaything of the machine. The renderer, which can realistically reproduce all kinds of light and shadow, and the robot system that can control any light and shadow, seem to have helped the director to get rid of the constraints of gravity and have the freedom to realize all kinds of imagination.
If there is a flaw in the film, it is that the spacecraft in the film is illogically fragile. This is actually a very interesting thing, first of all, for the danger in the sky, the film is still very real.
The safety of spacecraft is actually built on the unimaginable efforts of aerospace engineers. It's not that life isn't fragile in space, it's just that human beings actually make a lot more effort than ordinary people think. This gives a glimpse of how amazing China's aerospace engineers are.
The inability to fully understand and praise one's own heroes is a nation's sorrow and cultural shame.
But after watching "Gravity", I can't help but sigh that when the Chinese engineers have sent the real spacecraft into space and flown back and forth a few times, some filmmakers who don't know how to learn and don't know how to play 3D can't even make fakes.
I can't help but wonder how many thoughts and spirits in the brains and souls of these people are worth expressing and worth spending money on by thousands of people.
It is foreseeable that after "Gravity", the Chinese film industry will inevitably hold many seminars.
Experts from all walks of life have expressed their opinions, analyzed the current experience of the film industry and the development trend of the market, and finally came to the important conclusion that in the context of the box office of the Chinese market surpassing that of North America, the domestic film technology will gradually and eventually surpass Hollywood, and it may also be in order to satisfy the audience's patriotic enthusiasm and the country's desire to catch up with Europe and the United States.
But the big names still don't study isometric sampling denoising, solving inverse geometric constraints and bishop flat scaling operations, or working on robot control script compilers.
Because this is not the responsibility of high-level talents such as the cultural elite. Their primary responsibility is to extract great commercial significance and market value from worthless works, rather than learning technology and cultivating talents. ”
The first thing many film critics do when they get home after watching the movie is to express their feelings about watching the movie and share their excitement with everyone.
And the movie score that has just been opened, "Gravity" soared to a terrible 9.6 points.
Of course, the score of the movie will gradually drop after that, but the score of 9.6 is still beyond everyone's imagination!
Chen Yongren's film seems to be another space god film, and at this moment, all kinds of film reviews praising the movie have also been released one after another.
There are some viewers who are not afraid of the risk of spoilers, and they watched the comments of these film critics on the Internet for the first time, and after watching it, they looked forward to this movie even more, especially the audience at the zero point show.
Shortly after the premiere, these viewers did not forget to swipe Weibo to see the comments of those who watched the movie for the first time on major websites.
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