Chapter 37: The Tech Tree of Alien
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"Alien" took a little longer to produce than Caesar's previous life, and because the screenwriter was a prodigy Caesar, it was not screened in May like in his previous life, but chose to face off with "Rocky 2", which was in the limelight.
Actually, this is not a fight between Ridley Scott or Shergeney Weaver and Stallone, many people think that this is a collision between prodigy Caesar and popular action superstar Stallone.
In Hollywood in 1979, most movies avoided the summer file "Rocky 2", because the plot of this film and the story of the actors themselves are very inspirational, and the genre is boxing, which is both an action and a sports theme, and the success of the first part is used as a foreshadowing.
However, Caesar doesn't think so, and his advice to Fox is that the summer file "Alien" is the best.
What's more, Caesar also knows that "Star Trek" and "Mr. and Mrs. Kramer" in the Christmas file are the top three box office in the past seven or nine years.
This time, Caesar is confident that "Alien" will squeeze out the third place in his previous life, but "Star Trek" has the influence of a TV series there, and there are countless fans before the movie is made, which is obviously just right.
"Mr. and Mrs. Kramer", as the box office champion of the year, reflects the realistic single parent theme and Dustin Hoffman's actor-level performance...... Caesar reluctantly comforted himself with the words of a certain Zhuge , "This sincerity cannot compete with it." ”
In this life, "Alien" is not comparable to the previous life from the script to the publicity, first of all, the selling point of the Caesar prodigy is the guarantee of the box office in the first week, no matter how good it is, everyone has to see what the prodigy writes, and this curiosity can earn at least more than 10 million.
Secondly, Caesar has refined the script of "Alien" based on the film reviews of his previous life and combined with his imagination and understanding, as long as Ridley Scott is not suddenly brain-dead, "Alien" in this life is definitely better than the previous life.
On top of that, Caesar added an Easter egg from Predator at the end. Yes, he just wanted to bury the predator in the first "Alien".
He didn't want the audience and players to be like many people in his previous life, and to express the thunder of grafted games and movies like "Alien vs. Predator".
At half past two in the afternoon of July 7, at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ridley Scott held his wife, and Scherney Weaver held Caesar, and the four of them were baptized by flash on the red carpet.
Caesar also wanted to hold Xue Geni, but his age and height were hard injuries, and the two of them carried their arms together, no matter how they looked at it, they were just elders with little boys.
Shegurney Weaver is very grateful to Caesar in her heart, although this prodigy did not name herself to star, but just a recommendation made producer Fox carefully examine his appearance and acting skills.
This surprised her at the initial authority of Caesar, a prodigy who was not yet ten years old, in Hollywood, and at the same time she was extremely curious about Caesar.
Caesar actually has no choice, and it's too difficult to find a more suitable alien heroine than Shegeney Weaver at this time.
First of all, it can't be too pretty, the sci-fi thriller theme is completely noisy, only perverts and Japanese people will think that intimidating or even abusing and killing beautiful women is a highlight.
Secondly, you can't be too weak, and you can't be too girly, if the heroine is a green girl or a weak young woman...... A boatload of people died, and in the end you let her a weak woman survive? By what? Shit luck?
Your audience doesn't believe it at all. If the audience doesn't believe it, the story doesn't hold up at all.
Choose Brother Chun as the protagonist? The audience will be worried about the life of the alien, absolutely.
Caesar once looked for actresses in his teenage years, and finally sighed helplessly that the producers of the year were still very accurate.
Some people say change actors? It can only be said that whether it is a movie or a game, the protagonist of a terrible horror thriller series must be a woman or at least a woman as the protagonist.
"Silent Hill", "Resident Evil", "Midnight Bell", "Clock Tower", "Nine Grudges", "Zero", "Horror Cruise", "Evil Possession DLC", "Cursed"......
The weaker the protagonist, the stronger the contrast with the monster or villain, and the stronger the audience's fear or horror experience after entering the plot.
Of course, unless it's a movie that curses the kind of movie where the final protagonist is completely wiped out, the heroine of the final surviving type is too weak and will have the previous concerns of Caesar, and the audience jumps out of the plot because they don't believe it and begins to doubt and even curse the street.
A high school girl who doesn't have any survival skills survives in front of an alien? Hehe......
Therefore, Caesar's recommendation of Shegeney Weaver, a woman with softness and strength, seems to be a last resort, but it is actually the best choice. For this, Caesar really wanted to praise the casters in his previous life.
The most unusual thing about this premiere was that a large group of reporters were frantically chasing Caesar, the youngest celebrity, off the red carpet.
It's really a prodigy screenwriter, and the selling point is really amazing, not to mention that Caesar also has "Transformers" and "Garfield" by his side.
Caesar has nothing to say about any issues, he only says one word, gives a limited interview after the premiere, and gives a full and thorough interview after the box office and film reviews are released.
Before the movie was shown, Caesar refused to participate in all the routine speeches and fan interactions.
His character is like this, talking with dry goods. Including his previous life, he debated with others on the Internet, and he always talked about dry goods, and he took out the information and was tough, and he squinted if he didn't. Those who don't work and spray will be ignored like shit.
Foreplay without Caesar's participation is like eating pasta without ketchup, and Fox has temporarily compressed the garbage time before the screening and hastily got to the point.
When the theater was completely dark, the audience burst into applause.
Not for the movie, but for Fox's "sensible". The early publicity has done enough, and the theater is already full, what's the point of fooling around?
Audiences were surprised to find that, for the first time, the opening credits of the Twentieth Century Fox Searchlight swept were not accompanied by the loud and classic drum music, but the weeping wind and the orchestra's strings set the mood.
Behind the dark curtain in the background of the cosmic starry sky, the camera slowly moves over the planets of different shapes to the "Nostrom" spacecraft, and introduces the destination of the spacecraft in guò letters, and flies back to Earth.
Skimming past the ship's intricate exterior and inside, the viewer's eyes will light up.
The most interesting thing about the film "Alien" is the setting of the cultural background, and the world in the story seems to be a parallel space completely overhead.
A variety of unknown but obviously rough and clunky devices, not only the appearance of a silly personal computer, but also the noise is particularly irritating, the keyboard with various functions, the strange symbols on the keyboard, and the seemingly reasonable layout of the keys.
Caesar had said in his previous life that the world technology tree of "Alien" was crooked, you said it was black technology, and the mechanical and electronic devices in that world were too different from the appearance of the equipment used by people in real life.
You say it's backward freak, but it makes a lot of people feel that the aesthetic is so appealing, and many of the features can't even be achieved by 2015 technology.
The so-called "Prometheus" of the prequel to "Alien" was sprayed miserably because the technology tree and "Alien" were not consistent.
Many people say that the level of science and technology in seven or nine years is limited, and they can only shoot like that, but it is not true. The technological equipment in Alien is a unique texture that has nothing to do with the times.
If you are curious, you can search for what the mechanical and electronic devices of the late 70s and early 80s were like, and then compare the equipment in the alien movie, and you will find that there are completely two routes.
The most striking feature of "Alien" is that the equipment does not pursue miniaturization, as long as the individual can use it in his hand, the most notable example is the rifle in the Alien series.
At that time, AK and M16 had been popularized in American movies, and in the "Alien" movie, humans could already travel across the stars, and they still insisted on using the seemingly tall, but actually stupid, black, and coarse propellant-driven rifle as a single weapon, which was not because of the limitations of technology and imagination in the seventies, but because the screenwriters and directors at that time deliberately designed this special texture of the technology tree.
You know, "Star Wars", which was released before "Alien", has reached eleven laser weapons a dime.
The first appearance of this strange look and texture of the tech tree caused some viewers to whisper.
And that's exactly what Caesar and Ridley Scott wanted.