Chapter 186: The Critics' Carnival
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Not long after the premiere, the major media basically reported the relevant news.
"The Martian premiered hotly, and the atmosphere was warm!"
"The Martian premiered with a hot bang and a great reputation!"
"The space sci-fi blockbuster "The Martian" directed by the famous director Chen Yongren held a grand premiere tonight at the Longteng Grand Theater in Longteng Film and Television City!"
"Tonight, the high-profile blockbuster "The Martian" premiered in Beijing, countless domestic and foreign celebrities, directors were all present, and director Chen Yongren also lived up to expectations, once again dedicating a wonderful super space sci-fi blockbuster to fans at home and abroad!"
"The premiere of "The Martian" was very lively, and fans and audiences were frequently shocked by the extremely realistic 3D effects and wonderful special effects. β
In the media coverage, the zero point of "The Martian" also followed, and fans from all over the world flocked to the cinema to watch it.
Early the next morning, Chen Yongren received the box office data of "The Martian", which grossed as much as $130 million worldwide, setting a new box office record in world film history.
Filmmakers from all over the world have been amazed that Chen Yongren's another gold-absorbing monster is coming.
Media around the world have reported that the topic of "The Martian" has been discussed on major website forums, and "The Martian" has exploded.
And film critics who have been immersed in the night have also begun to express their viewing feelings, and major film review websites, Weibo, and forums have also ushered in the carnival of film critics.
Liu Qing, a well-known Chinese film critic, wrote on Weibo: "The Martian tells the story of an astronaut who is alone on Mars and makes full use of the existing supplies on Mars to wait for rescue.
When the storm came, the male protagonist and his teammates were collecting samples of Martian soil. In the process of emergency evacuation of the scientific research team, the male protagonist was blown away by the signal disc plate blown by the storm, and his whereabouts are unknown.
Several teammates, mistaking him for death, took off before the craft fell, terminating the mission and leaving Mars.
The best thing about the whole film is the detailed portrayal. Before pulling out the antenna in his body, the male protagonist took a big breath, and he could see that he was very nervous, but he had to strongly restrain his nervousness, and then there was a slightly bloody operation, and a close-up of the wound that was being operated on, the description was too real to make the audience immersive, and the shot may also cause discomfort to some viewers.
Modeling of various equipment, walking in space...... A detailed depiction of the Martian environment, a car speeding on Mars in the head, but from a distance, at a large scale, compared to the Martian scale, the movement of the car is insignificant, and it seems that no matter how you go, you can't go to the end.
Contrasting the grandeur of the scene with the insignificance of the car, the loneliness of the protagonist drifting alone on Mars is vividly depicted. All kinds of broken parts of the aircraft floated in the warehouse, and every screw could be seen clearly.
After spending more than 180 days on Mars, the protagonist is noticeably emaciated, and his skin is not as shiny as when he first came to Mars. A series of detailed portrayals increase the reader's sense of substitution.
Another highlight of this film is the reversal of the plot. At first, Mark was unfortunately blown away, and his teammates actively searched for him, and when I thought everyone would carry forward the spirit of not giving up and not giving up, they left him and fled, leaving poor Mark alone on Mars.
I like the character of the male protagonist very much, even in such a situation of isolation and hopelessness, he can remain calm and rational, do not give up hope, entertain himself, and find a way to survive.
If it were me, I might have died in despair at the moment when I knew that I was left on Mars and couldn't return to Earth.
But the male protagonist is very calm, he breaks down the problem first, starts to try to solve one problem and then another, and does not give up if he fails. This kind of optimism and positivity in the face of adversity is something that few people can achieve.
We often think about the difficulties that may arise before we start solving the problem, and then we start to hold back and dare not do it before we have taken the first step.
If we don't think about the result like the male protagonist and work hard with the best ideas, success will be closer and closer to us. β
Dai Bo, a well-known independent film critic, wrote on the Huaxia Film Review Network: "I thought that I would not be able to write a fully objective film review immediately after the first review, because I was already excited and couldn't sleep two or three days before the release, and my hands began to tremble when I got the movie ticket."
It's not just because Chen Yongren is one of my favorite directors, and it's not just because Chen Daoming is my favorite actor.
In fact, in the past few years, after seeing the two excellent space movies "Interstellar" and "Gravity" directed by Chen Yongren, I am more looking forward to what kind of surprises this year's most famous "The Martian" can bring us.
If you can see a classic space movie for several years in a row, it will be a gluttonous feast for fans, especially science fiction fans like me, so I would like to thank director Chen Yongren for making such a classic science fiction work.
But after watching "The Martian", I quickly calmed down.
It's not because of disappointment, but its viewing experience is completely different from other similar films, it doesn't have the dazzle of "Interstellar", the coolness of "Gravity", the exploration of "Chrono Contact", and the philosophy of "2001: A Space Odyssey".
It's just an adventure story that seems to be told by your parents on your pillow when you were a child, "Once upon a time, there was a scientist named Mark who was stranded on Mars during a mission with his friends......"
Oh, and I'm not saying it's naΓ―ve or anything, I'm saying that The Martian is very, very rustic and plain.
Even if it is an IMAX screen during the whole viewing process, I will even automatically ignore the special effects of the movie, as well as the acting skills and soundtrack of the actors.
Sitting in front of the screen, as if you are in the film for every member of the human race who cares about Mark, I just want to pray quietly for him, pray that he will not die alone tens of millions of miles away from us, because he is one of us.
Yes, that's how I felt during the whole movie. But when the film ends, there is still a sense of grandeur in my heart.
This is an epic for mortals.
People often say that you should always be grateful, so to see such a beautiful film, I would like to thank the following individuals and organizations: Thanks to director Chen Yongren, please make the next space sci-fi masterpiece as soon as possible.
Thank you Chen Daoming, please bring the king of "Iron Man 3" back to let everyone see what a superhero is.
Thanks to Huaxia Aeronautics and Space Agency. β
On Time Online, the first wave of fans who watched the movie also commented one after another, and a movie review written by one of the netizens, Cat Biscuit, became a popular movie review, and many fans who watched it praised it:
"This movie, also known as "I Was a Farmer on Mars", is super suitable for tech nerds, especially engineers and entrepreneurs. Say it's a science fiction film? No, no, no, after watching it, you will find that this story is playing out around you every day.
The synopsis of the movie is probably like this: My name is Ma Dumeng, and I am doing an entrepreneurial project in a team of six.
At first, we went well, until suddenly an accident happened, and the rest of our team left, taking money and resources with them, leaving me poor.
I have two problems in front of me: one is how to finish the project, regain the favor of the bigwigs, and get the investment, and the other is how to survive until the funds are available.
Luckily, my team didn't have time to take the data and devices with them.
Although the rest of the equipment is old, and although the source code is not commented, it is not difficult to turn around with them.
The first problem is solved, and the second problem remains. I don't shave or bathe, and in order to save money, I grow my own potatoes to support myself, and finally solve the problem of eating.
What touched me was that the bigwigs have been paying close attention to the progress of my project, and have sent experts to give me remote guidance, and even promised me that as long as my project can survive this year, they will invest in me in more than a year and save my life.
However, as soon as the first fund was launched, it encountered a financial turmoil and all of it was lost. Misfortune did not come alone, my potatoes were frozen to death in a once-in-a-century cold wave, and the food was also cut off.
This is my most desperate time, every day looking at the barren horizon, I think, create a hairy industry, why didn't you become a civil servant in the first place.
At the critical moment, my friends didn't abandon me. The remaining five people on the team resolutely decided to abandon the company's plan to go public, take a venture capital, and turn around and come back to save me.
It was a great and difficult decision for them, because the company was already taking shape, and my project was the most difficult and risky, and if all the company's money was thrown on it, it might be wiped out and everyone would go back to living in the basement.
However, the friendship and trust between our team overcame everything, with six members working overtime and staying up late to overcome technical difficulties, and experts from outside the field to provide guidance, and finally we risked our lives to get the product online on time. You've all seen the end, our company has become the most promising startup of the year, with countless users.
Someone asked me if I was scared when I was faced with the predicament of being poor and white on my own? I tell you, I didn't think about anything else at that time, I just wanted to solve one problem first, and then solve another, and that's it.
Come, let's give a round of applause to the new entrepreneurial star Ma Dumeng.
Jokes aside, let's talk about movies. This movie is definitely the best of the year! The picture is not to mention, the desolate and vast dark red land is the tone of the whole film, accompanied by the lack of oxygen and water on Mars, and the unobstructed starry sky in the middle of the night, it is simply beautiful.
The subject matter is even more remarkable, unlike similar themes of "Interstellar" and "Gravity", although this "The Martian" is set in outer space, it is surprisingly quite down-to-earth.
This does not mean that the actor is on the ground 90% of the time in the whole film, but that the process of solving problems again and again in the film is so familiar.
Thrown alone on an alien planet, don't think about anything, first adjust the oxygen level to normal, take care of the wound, eat a mouthful, and sit down to analyze the problem.
It doesn't matter if we grow it ourselves, Mars has sunlight, the oxygen at the base is also sufficient, and there are reusable poop in the toilet, which is quite natural except for the nausea.
Fortunately, there is compressed hydrogen, which can be burned to produce water, so please give me a pass in middle school chemistry.
Can't contact the Earth's Star? Use all the resources you can use, find the line between the Mozi and the Earth, although that thing only has a camera, but fortunately the camera can turn, and then use a hexadecimal code to transmit information.
My friends came to save me, but my spaceship was too heavy to take off? Throw away the seats, windows, and ceilings, how cool and cool the convertible rocket should be.
What should I do if I am too far away from my friends in space to fly over? The spacesuit cuts a hole in each hand, and the person is like Iron Man and controls the balance with both hands and flies over!
You see, every time the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no way to survive. is different from the questions in the textbooks in school, the actor doesn't have many resources at hand, and all the questions he faces are "the first time for the earth", there is no experience of his predecessors to refer to, and there is no standard answer.
At this time, the only thing you can rely on is your own solid technical foundation, the brain hole that breaks through the sky, and the courage to try boldly.
Not taking the usual path, this kind of hacking spirit can make people desperate. All of you who do technology, you must feel the same way when you see this.
Every project we face is not simply copied and pasted by predecessors, there are so many new requirements and challenges, so many seemingly unachievable technical difficulties, and so many strange user needs.
At this time, the only way to fight your way out and innovate desperately, even if the method seems incredible, the one that can produce results is a good method. Even if the code is written, the product made looks unreliable, in short, it is ...... Let's talk about it when it's online first.
Time waits for no one, and if you are timid, you will starve to death.
Of course, it is not enough to rush in and put it into production without testing.
While this movie teaches us to be brave and innovative, it also shows us the serious consequences of design loopholes - Ma Dumeng used the method of burning hydrogen to make water for the first time, and he was blown up at the slightest fire without considering the oxygen he breathed.
After three months of work, NASA finally launched a spacecraft loaded with relief supplies, but it crashed due to a technical error. Don't underestimate the mistakes in the details, in the critical moment, it can be fatal.
For tech nerds, the movie-watching experience is really good.
Just talking about the narrative technique, it is also what I like quite a lot - flat and direct narration is not sensational, if "Gravity" is a prose full of emotion and humanistic care, "The Martian" is like reading a technical report, there is no literary style, but it is definitely not boring.
The parts that should be filled with "feelings" and "lofty themes" have been replaced by concrete small projects.
Director Chen really knows how to capture the hearts of the dead house, and turn a difficult Martian survival battle into zero, and every small task is just within the scope of the actor's ability, making people feel that his final victory is not because of goldfinger or shit luck, but the real, technical nerd's victory.
The character of the actor is also a plus, and Chen Daoming played this optimistic and humorous "Mr. Martian Pirate" super cute.
Even in the most difficult times, he did not forget to complain that "the most miserable thing is to eat potatoes without ketchup" and "Captain, the music you left behind is so old-fashioned".
To be honest, I once doubted the authenticity of this character - who could be so happy to be thrown on an alien planet, but when the hero cleared the base, counted the food, and started to make a survival plan, I understood that being left alone on Mars was far from the scariest thing for a tech nerd.
Think about it, on an uncultivated planet, with a certain amount of tools and potential ingredients in hand, and complex instruments with technical documentation - what is more exciting than worrying about when you will die is not to immediately start planning a hundred and one surviving plans?
Albert Einstein once said that the best profession for a scientist is a lighthousekeeper. Because on the lighthouse, scientists can concentrate on research without distractions.
So I think the most suitable "disaster" for engineers is such an alien survival battle - there are enough possibilities on Mars for you to carry out the most interesting innovation.
The final statement of the male protagonist to the newcomers to NASA also points out this theme: "I was not afraid of death at that time, but solved one problem first, then the next, and then I will come back!" Indeed, his ultimate goal is to return to Earth, but his focus is on the question of "how to do it".
This reminds me of what Mark Zuckerberg said in a conversation with Chinese college students.
Someone asked him how he managed to start a successful business, and he said, "If you always think about the best company, you won't succeed." If the goal is to change the world, then there are good ideas, then there can be good companies. β
It is true to have grand and utilitarian goals, but at every step, our eyes must always focus on those complex and wonderful questions, which are too basic to be basic -
For example, start with how to grow potatoes with poop.
With your feet on the red earth and the stars in the sky, there is nothing you can't achieve. β
Chen Yongren also took a look at everyone's evaluation of "The Martian" on the Internet, and basically gave a very high evaluation, Chen Yongren also breathed a sigh of relief, he was really a little afraid that fans would not buy it.
And the opening score of "The Martian" of 9.5 also made filmmakers around the world sigh, it is another space science fiction classic, I really want to see how Chen Yongren's head grows, one after another.
The movie was in full swing, and Chen Yongren took a plane the next afternoon and flew to Nanjing to continue filming the rest of "Wolf Warrior".
After filming the special training of the wolf warrior squadron in the domestic scenes, as well as the scenes of disappearing mercenaries entering the country and fighting abroad, the filming can be completed......