It didn't take long for the lights in the screening room to slowly dim and the screen to light up again, and the second ending began to play.

Compared with the previous version, the new version looks obviously a little rough, although the appearance of the characters and the type of the scene have not changed, but there is a kind of unnatural feeling that is dazzling, just like a high imitation wax figure to a real person, a little less human. Everyone knew that this was due to the fact that the lighting rendering was not fully done, and they were not particularly surprised, and everyone focused on finding the difference.

The biggest difference appears in the actor Liu Xia.

After the rebels seized the wheelhouse of Earth, he did not follow him to the ground to watch the mass execution ceremony as he did last time, but wandered around the bridged platform of Earth, which had been suspended, looking around and looking, trying to hide his sadness with curiosity.

There are many people who stay here like him, and the bridge is the most important place on the entire planet, whether it is simply curiosity or vandalism, someone has to keep an eye on it, and they are all the most hardcore and determined rebels.

Then someone recognized Liu Xia and knew that he was the husband of Captain Shanbin, who died in Australia, so he handed him the relics of the female captain, saying that there were the last words left for him. The so-called relic is actually an old-fashioned smart watch, because it has not been charged for a long time, and the three hands are adsorbed under the panel glass and do not move.

This watch was bought by Liu Xia at the auction of relic items, and he gave it to Shan Bin as a birthday gift. As an old antique produced hundreds of years ago, the outdated lithium-ion battery did not provide good battery life, and it was necessary to carry a special adapter with him to charge it, but Shan Bin did not bother at all and wore it until the moment of near death.

Thinking of the above last words, Liu Xia took out the adapter in his pocket and connected the power supply to this old antique that had experienced the war.

The black dial soon lit up, revealing a blue bee flapping its wings, the emblem of the bee group.

There was a burst of heartfelt laughter in the small screening room, both for the shrewdness of bees and for the slowly commonplace placement of advertisements.

When the watch is turned on, the year, month and date appear on the dial, and the hands fall and float between the dial and the front cover, and the time is obviously different from the big screen around it.

Noticing this difference, Liu Xia habitually checks the watch casually, and the numbers representing the date flip quickly in the close-up. When he turned to February 29th, he was suddenly stunned, his face changed as if he was thinking about something, and then he yelled: "I understand!"

The others looked at him inexplicably, but the latter didn't care to explain, and took out his personal terminal to look it up, and found that today's calendar had indeed been modified, and it was a whole day faster than a hundred years ago, so he yelled again: "I understand! I understand!"

The problem lies in the disappearing leap year.

The earth's revolution (return year) is 365.24219 days, which is derived from the Western calendar of the Gregorian pope, which stipulates 365 days in a common year and 366 days in a leap year, with 97 leap days every 400 years, so it is a leap every four years, no leap in a hundred years, and a leap again in 400 years.

In the era of brakes, people stopped the rotation of the earth, and in the era of escape, comets were released on the moon, and the earth's orbit was pulled and lengthened, and these changes caused the sun, month, and year to lose their original meaning. In order to facilitate the calculation, the joint parliament legislated that the new calendar will be implemented worldwide from the brake date, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the abolition of leap days, leap seconds and time zones. In this way, it can not only maintain the same general consistency with the previous living habits, but also kick out the annoying leap day leap second time zone conversion, saving operating costs for the whole society.

As for the problem of restoring the urban area and leap seconds in leap years when the orbit of Proxima Centauri comes to the future, it can be completely handed over to future generations more than 2,000 years to have a headache.

Up to now, the new calendar has been running smoothly for more than 70 years, and most people have been exposed to it since childhood. If it weren't for this antique watch, Liu Xia and Shan Bin, like most people, wouldn't have known that there was still the 29th in February.

Then the problem arises, because a dozen leap days are omitted, and the new calendar date is ten days later than the old calendar. The "helium flash day" that has passed in the new calendar has not yet arrived in the old calendar. The reason why the Zhengfu army defected and defected at the beginning has a lot to do with the "helium flash prediction" that has failed, but if the time is not up, the prediction may still be effective?

Thinking of this, Liu Xia's expression was straight, and he opened his communication channel and began to shout. He doesn't have control of the city's radio system, but he has the authority to shout at the level of a major, so that his voice can be heard by middle- and low-ranking soldiers within a certain range around him.

"Comrades-in-arms, please wait! I'm Major Liu Xia! I found that the current time calculation is wrong, because the leap day is omitted, the current calendar is more than half a month faster than before the earth stopped, so the helium flash day has not yet passed, and the sun may still have problems. I hope you can wait a few days to see the situation, and then it's not too late for me to deal with it if the helium flash doesn't come!"

His words are actually half-true, the "daily difference" of the leap year loss is true, and the possibility of helium flash is nonsense, so he just wants to postpone the ice sea banishment ceremony that is going on outside. Liu Xia knew very well that people often acted irrationally because of their emotions, and if they could delay for more than ten days, the last "Earth Faction" outside would probably get a trial, and then save their lives at the cost of losing their freedom.

It's just that Liu Xia himself knows that the so-called mistake in leap year is just a reluctant reason and a straw crutch, and he actually doesn't believe these in his heart.

"Fight! It's a big deal, you'll be caught spreading rumors, and you'll just go to the ground to see the stars for a few years!" he cheered himself on.

Repeating the shout, Liu Xia nervously looked at the holographic picture projected by the terminal, most of the receivers did not respond, a small number of people sent doubtful questions, and some forwarded his shouts. In fact, like Liu Xia, they all want to stop this crazy revenge, and when they see someone handing over a reason, they immediately forward it and do their best.

The suit isolates the inside and outside air, which can slow down the change of body temperature, but also makes it impossible for people to have a good conversation, so there is a simulation system based on wireless communication and ranging technology. Essentially, this is still a chat system, which can be easily forwarded and amplified.

When the last "Earth Pie" was taken off the battery of the sealed suit and driven to the depths of the ocean, some people kept sending or forwarding Liu Xia's voice shouts. Habit is the result of this, people didn't notice the leap year before, but now that they have noticed, they naturally want to make up for it, after all, the power of orthodoxy and habit is still strong, and they are also worried about what if they are wrong?

As a result, the film is quickly divided into two parts, one side is a group of shivering people walking on the smooth ice under the bright starry sky, and on the other hand, there is a constant spread of mass messages. The staggered presentation of the two scenes is the most classic parallel montage technique.

The people on the ice walked more and more slowly, but no one fell, and more and more people reposted the news, showing an exponential explosion trend. The United Securities Mansion has just been overturned, and the new management body has not yet been established, but Liu Xia's "rumors" have hit this juncture at once, and no one can cure it for the time being. After a cycle of shouting and forwarding by him and others, the news quickly spread throughout the city, and also spread to other cities around the world.

When the rebel leader received this news, he was depressed to find that the "rumors" had completely spread, and it was too late to close his mouth. Knowing that he couldn't cut the grass and eradicate the roots today, he could only remember the name Liu Xia in his heart, and then ordered the banishment operation to be stopped and sent someone to recapture and imprison the prisoner.

Before leaving, he reluctantly looked up at the brightest star in the bright starry sky, which was the sun that had just been abandoned by the earth. The leader comforted himself and said, "If you don't kill this time, there will be a next time." The victory is decided, I don't believe they can turn the sky around!"

After years of self-hypnosis, these "solar factions" are extremely convinced that the sun is fine, and since it has been burning peacefully for 5 billion years, it should continue to burn the remaining 5 billion years for a long time!

However, this time he was slapped in the face. As he looked up, the leader's vision suddenly brightened and turned white, his eyes briefly blinded by the sudden brightening of the sun, and the song in his ears fell rapidly, replaced by a terrible silence that spread rapidly.

It didn't take long for his eyesight to return to normal, but the leader was still staring blankly at the red orbs in the sky that were getting bigger and darker, and he couldn't speak.

The same was true of the other people around him, and the people who were still singing to the sun just now were petrified and craned their necks and couldn't speak.

On the ice in the distance, the "Earth Faction" who had helped each other to march with difficulty also stopped walking, and also cast their incomprehensible gaze on the red sun in the sky.

It wasn't until someone suddenly shouted, "Help, help, they're dying!" that everyone regained their mobility and ran towards the sea with a strange noise. The hermets on the bodies of the "Earth Faction" have been removed from the batteries, and they will soon lose their body temperature and freeze to death if they stay on the cold ice, of course they can watch it with peace of mind just now, but now it is not possible, the sun has proved who is right and who is wrong, everyone naturally has to find a way to make up for the mistake, but fortunately it is not too late to make amends!

Countless people rushed to the thick ice, some people helped to support, some people donated batteries, some people cheered, under the canopy of half stars and half auroras, on the ice surface where the starlight reflected the skylight, in the background music that suddenly became passionate and majestic, staged a magnificent and touching ice sea rescue. It was not only the more than 5,000 exiles who were rescued, but also the more than 100,000 people on the shore, who would have a hard conscience if it really caused a tragedy.

It is worth noting that the background music at this time is the rearranged "My Sun". Different from the vocal chorus just now, the symphonic version is still grand, but a little less fanatical, faintly with a little sadness and nostalgia, not only for the gradually darkening sun overhead, but also for this group of heroes who have gone through hardships, and even more for the earth under everyone's feet!

The sun has exploded, except for the broken earth under our feet, everyone has nothing to retreat from, so they can only pack up their mood and embark on a long journey without looking back.

When the film freezes again, the lights gradually turn on, and the small screening hall suddenly bursts into more enthusiastic applause. is not only because of the new ending, but also because of Wang Luobin's skills, this is not a new ending, but a readaptation, has the idea changed?

Everyone has read the original book, and naturally knows that the so-called leap year is completely new to the film. There is also no such thing as a "helium flash day", only that it will inevitably happen in 400 years, and every time the earth passes perihelion, the whole world is terrified. The frenzied rebellion that followed also had something to do with it, and when fear could not be overcome, people would turn their anger on the person or thing that reported bad news, such as slamming the phone and scolding their subordinates.

However, this situation is usually temporary, and it is often regretted afterwards that I tried to remedy it, and the second ending is reasonable to arrange this way.

"It's a pity," Editor-in-Chief Yao spoke first, "If it is released this year, it will be able to catch up with the 100th anniversary of the release of "The Party Fights Differences". ”

In 1916, American director David Griffiths made the first large-scale use of parallel editing in the black-and-white silent film Intolerance, in which he combined four unrelated but similar stories: the husband was wronged and his wife tried to save him, Jesus was betrayed and suffered, St. Bartholomew's massacre in Paris, and Barenlon's destruction by his own high priest led to the destruction of foreign enemies. The unique narrative technique of gradually tense and finally completes the release of tension in the climax ending of the husband being rescued, which is called "Griffith's Last Minute Rescure".

It's a pity that it was the eve of World War I, and the United States was mobilizing its propaganda machine to comprehensively advocate a declaration of war against Germany. In the end, this $2 million, 220-minute masterpiece did not achieve the effect the director expected, and the first shot of parallel editing failed to fire, and the audience said that they couldn't understand it, and there were still too few people who could hold their urine for four hours and hold on to the ending.

Today, parallel editing has become a classic film technique, and as the originator of the mountain, "The Party Fights Differences" has naturally been recognized as a classic early film. There is no shortage of works in film history that learn from and pay tribute to this film, and the same is true of the second ending they just saw, which can see the connection between the two films at a glance.

Wang Luobin didn't deny this, but said with a smile: "It's good now, it's too much." ”

"There's a question I've wanted to ask for a long time," Editor-in-Chief Yao continued: "This second ending is obviously more in line with the appetite of ordinary audiences, and it has been changed very well, both in terms of the scene and the story. But why did you get the previous one? Did Da Liu put pressure on you?"

"Mr. Liu was very cooperative with us and didn't set up problems," Wang Luobin explained with a smile: "Actually, we did two endings together, but the second ending was longer and more complicated, and the progress fell behind." ”

(End of chapter)