At the same time as the Three-Body Problem 2 movie is selling well, the peripheral products of the movie are also being sold together at this time, and the most important part of these sales is naturally the novel of Three-Body Problem 2.

This novel also began to sell after the movie was released, and relying on the popularity of the movie, it was also extremely popular for a while. When people read the novel, they can't help but praise that the story is already very good, and it is a very wise choice to adapt it into a movie.

However, how troublesome it was in the adaptation process of this movie is only known to the actors who are really involved.

A movie can attract enough audiences because its plot is attractive enough. If half of the characters in the movie are the performances of the actors, then the remaining half must be the way the script is written. Not all good novels can be adapted into screenplays, after all, movies and books are different carriers.

And this script makes people feel very good after watching the movie, and it obviously has a lot to do with the script.

The story of the three-body problem is an adapted script. His original author is a Chinese, and the story is also a novel, and Downey knows all these things. Few people will notice how much effort it takes to adapt a movie script from a novel to a screenplay, but Downey had read the novel carefully before, and he knew very well how much the script had changed.

The story adaptation of this film itself is a lot of work.

Compared with the first part of the three-body problem, the story of the second part is actually far less compact than the first part, compared to the story of the first part revolves around the deceased from beginning to end, several clues spiral up and condense together, and then branch out to form a climax, and the story of the second novel is actually much worse. This novel is difficult to adapt: although the quality of this novel as a science fiction work is not low, the problem that the plot is too weak makes it have great shortcomings.

The first three-body novel. can be carried out with the plot of a detective drama, but in the second part, the plot is too scattered, which makes it difficult to be adapted. The scattered four wall-facers, together with the Beihai chapter, the United Nations, and the lives of ordinary people on the earth that constantly appear in them, these aspects are equivalent to dividing a story into six or seven branches—for a novel. This kind of writing is a little scattered, let alone turning it into a movie?

It is precisely because there are too many troubles in the original plot of the novel that Levy has to make some changes.

He deleted some redundant things, such as synthesizing Zhang Beihai's father and son into a person, omitting future history, and simply brushing over the fog umbrella plan for the monitoring of the Trisolarans, and some of the more prominent scientific and technological things in the original plot were weakened by him.

Even if this movie is cut, it actually has a lot of scientific elements. Although it's a science fiction movie. There are many parts of fantasy technology in the movie, but in this movie, where the existing technology is involved, the movie still takes into account a lot of scientific and technological knowledge.

Movies and novels are not the same. In the novel, this scientific and technological knowledge can be imagined and depicted to the fullest, but in the movie, the space is limited. Naturally, I can only pick up the more important ones. Although these things can't be said to be unimportant, they deviate from the main line of the core quite far, so Levy naturally passes by.

Do so. In fact, it does not affect the scientific pursuit of the film. After the movie was broadcast, the silent space and the unprecedented weightlessness made many people praise these things. In the movie, theoretical physics is elevated to the level of the most important human science, and at the same time, the mission of saving mankind is handed over to the social sciences, which is also praised by those scholars.

Of course, in addition, he also changed some things that had to be changed because of the adaptation of the first part: for example, in the first part, the movie has said that the Trisolarans have completely abandoned the planet that they may destroy at any time and immigrate to the earth as a whole, and at the same time, the first part also said that the technology of the Trisolarans has not detected other planets that can immigrate, so in the second part, the bargaining chips used by sociologists to negotiate with the Trisolarans naturally became the safety of the solar system: after all, this is already the only choice for the Trisolarans. In this case, whether the Trisolar is destroyed or not, the Trisolarans don't care at all: it seems to them that it will be destroyed sooner or later.

Of course, there is also the fact that Suzanne revealed the information to the sociologist in the novel, but in the film it is changed to Susanna's daughter - after all, in the first part, he has already changed some of the character's image.

Later, he added some plots, such as expanding Rediaz's death into a political conspiracy, and turning the matter of Seanes's wife into something that Sines had known about for a long time, to strengthen the conflict of ideas in the film.

The intensification of this contradiction seems to scold human society very miserably, but the practice of doing so is also the gradual acceptance of the idea that people are naturally suspicious and contentious between people. It is precisely because of this that in the end, the ideas of sociologists can be quickly accepted by the audience: if human beings have always been united, people believe in each other, are harmonious, united, and friendly, then this theory is somewhat groundless.

Mutual suspicion between people, especially mutual doubt and selfishness before the end of the world, is a deep human nature, and this selfishness extends to the universe as well.

Levy's deletions and revisions are mainly aimed at connecting the story. Although Da Liu's original work is very good, it lacks a clear enough main line, which is also a big problem. After Levy changed it, he highlighted all kinds of suspicions and contradictions in the novel, and then through the protagonist, he raised it from the contradiction in the small environment of the contradiction of the earthlings to the contradiction in the universe.

In fact, if you are serious, the dark forest theory in Three-Body Problem 2 is only a hypothetical theory after all, and Da Liu's research on social science is not particularly in-depth, and this theory also has many shortcomings. If the focus of the portrayal of the movie becomes the theory of portrayal, then no matter how well it is filmed, it is difficult for the theory of the movie to stand. If the core theory of a big production is questioned, then the overall style of the movie will be low.

However, Levy echoes the connection between the front and the back, and changes its focus to the excavation of humanity before the end of the world. The depth of the film has naturally changed.

Some of these changes are simple, others are not, such as the one in the film where the sociologist is asked to smile at the end of the stage, and in order to echo him, this smile must be reinforced in the front. And in order to move the scene of the direct dialogue between sociologists and the Trisolaran to the United Nations headquarters, so as to make this declaration even more exciting, the people in front of the wall will also be planted here in succession.

These changes are tantamount to strengthening the continuity of the story, and reducing the scientific content of some of the stories, through such means. Movies are better - the way science fiction movies are made is destined to be made only after they have undergone heavy commercialization, and it is impossible to make money without thinking about how to make money.

Being able to take into account different sciences at the same time and having a good plot can only be organically combined by screenwriters who have hosted professional TV dramas like CSI for many years.

And after putting it together, it has to be written with a sense of rhythm.

The plot of some movies is very cool, but after it is cool. It seems that there is nothing left. When I watched these movies for the first time, I felt very enjoyable, but the second time I watched them, I felt a little boring. Such a movie may have beautiful fight scenes. Maybe the action scenes are amazing, but a movie that can't stand watching it again and again is not a classic.

Even more inferior than such movies are naturally those movies that generally know how to act after watching them. Even. Some of the worse films, after watching the beginning, people already know the plot of the end. The narrative of the movie is good or bad. It is also a key issue that determines whether the movie is good.

And there is another kind of movie that has always made people feel very depressing. From beginning to end, the feeling of repression continues to increase and thicken, and it is not until the last moment that this repression is vented.

Of course, some of the more nonsense movies are suppressed from the beginning to the end, and even the catharsis is exempted......

Such movies are generally well received, but they rarely have a good box office, after all, few people watch movies and will especially like the depressing atmosphere.

But this movie can be said to be very good in this regard.

The story of the film itself can be said to be quite depressing, from beginning to end, the movie tells the story of a human being struggling to survive in an oppressed environment. In this process, humanity has hardly achieved a single success, several different plans have failed, humanity itself continues to kill each other in the process, even in the face of the pressure of alien armies, there are still traitors emerging from within the earth, countries are still calculating with each other, and different cultures are still hating each other - it stands to reason that this story is quite a dark one.

If it is really filmed according to the situation of the novel, then until the last moment, the whole movie is very depressing. Human beings continue to fail, continue to be hit hard, constantly fall into despair, and don't even have the strength to struggle, and they don't turn the tables until the last moment - although the final comeback can give people a lot of pleasure, but as a movie, are the audience willing to endure more than two hours of depression? This in itself is a big problem.

After all, a movie is not a novel, it needs to rely on its own pictures to grasp the audience's emotions.

When watching this story on the movie, people at least don't have such a depressing feeling.

The pace of the movie has been well controlled. After too dark planning, there will always be some laughs that feel ridiculous, and after too uncomfortable failures, there will always be some new hope for people to look forward to, these ways make the movie look very good-paced.

Light and shadow are intertwined, and people's moods are constantly changing up and down, which can make the movie act well.

If it keeps being dark, the main tone of the movie will not be so lovely. In that way, even if the character has bright spots, it is only possible to become a good actor in people's hearts, not a popular idol.

However, a movie has a picture, actors, and twists and turns in the plot, coupled with new broadcast methods, so that the audience has a completely different viewing experience, and these things are combined to have the box office of this movie.

Of course, Levy's ambitions aren't just at the box office. (To be continued......)