Chapter 204: On the Relationship between Social Change and Science Fiction Films

"I've read the whole script, your imagination is really rich, and all the details filled in are difficult for the average director to think of, such as this paragraph. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

Alice flipped to a page of the script, which was the line of a GI showing off his equipment to Ripley, who was an "alien advisor", in the armored vehicle inside the plane, when the transport plane was flying towards the asteroid.

"Don't worry, Ripley, we'll all protect you."] ”

The transport plane trembled during the landing, but the kid walked around the cabin excitedly, showing off the "science fiction" equipment of this group of interstellar marines in a tone as if he had taken drugs.

"This is an independent aiming particle gun system...... Wow, make sure to burn the opposite sex into charcoal!"

With a disgusting expression on his mouth, he shook his body in the cabin as if he was twisting his waist, and he was not afraid of falling: "We also have missile systems, the most advanced space weapons, and supersonic electron guns! We also have nuclear weapons, and very sharp blades......"]

Such a script line, Alice spread it out in front of everyone: "Cameron, what are you writing a paragraph for?"

Cameron did not doubt him, and smiled proudly: "Of course, it is to show the audience the weapons of the star era." As you can see, particle guns and ultrasonic electron guns, these are all standard sci-fi equipment, and I specifically mentioned nuclear weapons. Is there anything cooler than a dozen marines being able to wield nuclear weapons?"

"Absolutely. ”

Who knows, just after Cameron triumphantly finished talking about his idea, Alice looked at him innocently, and followed the words: "For example, electromagnetic small arms, high-energy flame guns, strong melt plasma grenades, force field shields, shield chargers, as well as orbital airdrops, interstellar warframes, and phase transfer teleportation arrays, aren't these all cooler settings?"

A long string of words was uttered by Alice as if playfully.

Then, it was a moment of silence for the men, women and children in the room.

To be honest, many technical terms in English require special memorization to understand the meaning. The so-called college students can't read the words and phrases of financial newspapers, and this kind of joke in China is a real thing in English-speaking countries.

However, the words used by Alice above are not completely incomprehensible to everyone present.

"You, you, you...... Wait a minute, let me be quiet, let me be quiet. ”

Cameron was a little messy: "What electromagnetism...... Belch...... Force field shield, right, and ...... Belch...... Warframe ...... Alice, can you repeat all that stuff again?"

Alice easily repeats the term, then adds, "Actually, I know that it will be very difficult to make these settings with current shooting techniques. But to be honest, if it is really an army in the star era, this kind of technological configuration is normal. ”

After all, everyone has long been shocked by the series of sci-fi settings that Alice easily spit out. To be reasonable, as a middle school student with excellent academic qualities, Sissi and Maiya have also paid attention to some things in the development of science and technology. And after Alice decided to shoot "Alien II" and revealed the plot outline, who hasn't been interested in the equipment of the future soldiers?

"That's an exaggeration......

Sissi groaned weakly, "There are several of these things you said that I don't understand what they mean, Cameron, what can you do with that...... What kind of transfer teleportation array is going to be made?"

Phase Transfer ......

In the end, Lawrence, who is still a member of the investment community, is the most educated and the most educated, and said contemplatively: "Alice, do you mean spatial teleportation?"

"Actually, this involves an old problem. ”

Seeing that the topic is inevitably tilted in the direction of technology nerds, Alice is also happy to show off the 21st century science fiction concept to everyone: "For a civilization that can really enter the star age, even from the perspective of soft science fiction and movies, what technology should it have?"

The scope of the question is too big, but Cameron's eyes are shining like light bulbs. You know, he was originally a technologically supremacious mechanical maniac, and he just heard Alice say such a series of unclear settings on the front foot, and he was going to have a sci-fi fantasy tea party on the back foot, how could this not make him excited?

"Faster-than-light travel, it's a must-have!"

"So what kind of energy does this faster-than-light engine use?"

Alice's rhetorical question made Cameron's blurt out instantly disappear.

Maiya pondered and said, "Fusion energy?"

Obviously, everyone knew that fission was impossible, and directly skipped it.

"Or condensation nuclear fusion, positive and antimatter annihilation, void zero-point energy, these can be. ”

Uttering three more unclear words in one breath, Alice smiled, "Then the question is, what is the whole aspect of it like as a mature civilization that uses a certain energy source?"

Speaking of which, everyone can see that Alice is really worthy of being the author of "Jurassic Park", and this imagination of science fiction definitely exceeds 99% of ordinary people in the world!

Cameron was the most positive: "I see what you mean, Alice. Just like our current society, the steam revolution and the electrical revolution have brought about a geometric increase in social productivity. The productivity of a steam revolution alone in a hundred years is equal to the sum of thousands of years in the agricultural period, and the output of an electrical revolution in a shorter period is many times greater than that of a hundred years of the steam revolution. And now ......"

"A good look at the present ...... from a historical perspective"

Alice said with a smile: "Our current energy source is still the same, although there are nuclear power plants, but it is still an electric society, the difference is the invention of computers." ”

This is Alice's old business, Cameron seemed to suddenly think of something, and clapped his hands vigorously: "Yes! Look at Microsoft's current stock price! That $100,000 investment is definitely the wisest decision I've ever made in my life!"

Alice resolutely avoids crooked buildings: "Because of the electrical revolution, computers were born, and on the basis of the electrical revolution was extended to the coming ...... Information Revolution. ”

Anyway, everyone present was his own people, and Cameron, as a director, would only be more inspired by hearing it, and Alice continued without any worries: "Let's take the state of the global Internet that will definitely come, can it be completed in 2000 AD? Is there 150 years from 2000 to the beginning of the electrical revolution?"

"What kind of concept is it that is the application of electricity, which makes the whole state of society change from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present? To put it bluntly, when Edison invented the electric light, can you imagine that electricity will bring such a product as a computer?"

"Then the question is, when human beings can enter the interstellar world like in "Alien", what should all aspects of the entire society look like?"

Seeing Cameron's pensive look, Alice continued to say: "There is a saying that only the unthinkable, nothing can be done, but for science fiction movies, there are both unthinkable and unfilmable." One is that we, as a 'backward' society, will certainly not be able to conceive all aspects of the future society correctly, and the other is ...... Well, the shooting technique is not up to par~"

The last sentence made everyone laugh, and after listening to Alice's tirade, Maiya was fine, but Sissi had already yawned: "You just said that you want to change the script, it's all kinds of messy technology, what kind of social revolution, what are you doing so far?"

Yes, after everyone's topic was accidentally crooked a lot, it was moved back by Sissi.

"If you change the script......"

Cameron flipped through the results of his hard work for half a month: "I wrote this one myself, and I am sure that I can shoot it." So Alice, what about your script? Didn't you say you were going to write the screenplay?"

Alice touched her nose: "Isn't what you wrote is the idea and outline I gave? It's just that some of the details can be revised, after all, we want to reflect that it is a future world." According to the description in your script, it seems that the soldiers are just wearing ordinary Marine uniforms, right?"

Cameron knew she must have the next word: "yes, but in a place like this, do you have anything else to change?"

Alice shrugged lightly: "I just said, the Star Warframe, or the exoskeleton armor is fine, no matter how bad it is, it must be the dress of the Storm Troopers in Star Wars." Since they are all called marines, how can they not have some sophisticated equipment?"

"That's all there to say. ”

After watching the discussion for a long time, Lawrence interjected again: "The problem is, if you want to make this movie very ...... Realistic, how much budget do you need?"

"yes, that's a big problem!"

Sissi also interjected on the side: "Lucas's industrial light and magic is not cheap. ”

This time, Alice didn't have an instant answer, her legs parted, her head drooped, and she began to think about it.

"Alien II"......

This movie in history, as a 1986 product, is considered very sophisticated.

Although under the urging of Fox at that time, the shooting period was only about 21 days, but in such a short time, Cameron was able to shoot it so wonderfully, so what if it was 42 days? 63 days?

Moreover, this is "Alien II"......

The Marines go head-to-head with the Aliens on the planet, and it's unique across all the films in the entire Alien series.

When such a movie comes into your own hands, how can you not let it bubble wonderfully?

So, what to do?

Alice thought silently for five minutes, and during this time, everyone did not interfere with her, and they all happened to say that they were tired, and everyone rested on the spot.

After a moment, Alice lifted her head.

"Maiya, the driver drives, let's go somewhere!" (To be continued.) )