When the second weekend of May passed, all the media were amazed at the box office trend of Levy's films.

Levy's film caused a craze as soon as it was released this summer, which was something that the media did not expect before. Although Levy's movies have always had a good reputation, but in terms of box office, he is not a great director, he shot a blockbuster this time, although the media hype is great, but it is more to help the film promotion, and this movie is more cautiously optimistic.

However, it turned out that Levy's film was a success again, and, surprisingly, this time Levy's film succeeded not in word-of-mouth, but at the box office.

Levy's films have a good reputation, and people are used to it, but it is still a little surprising that his films have a high box office.

Soon, people also set their eyes on this movie, what is the reason for the box office success of this movie?

First of all, people are targeting this structure of the film.

The three lines go hand in hand, which seems to have nothing to do with each other at all, but relying on the suspense in the three lines to attract people to watch, and while the three lines progressively explain the suspense, the relationship between the three lines is explained, so that the three stories intersect together to form the same story, and finally push the film to a climax through a new peak after the integration of the three stories - this kind of film narrative technique can be said to be extremely novel.

Reflecting the whole of a big idea, focusing on one thread is difficult to portray the comprehensiveness of the story. And divided into several clues, it is easy to scatter problems. How to make a movie with multiple clues to narrate, and still be able to form a story clearly and smoothly, is a major test for the director in itself. The problem of multiple clue narratives is that the audience forgets the front after watching the back, and they can't remember everything, and the more they watch, the more chaotic they become. I don't understand it at all.

But Levy has done an excellent job of this. Although his film is the result of multiple clues, it does not give people this sense of distraction.

In fact, one of the key to the problem lies in the setting of those questions.

The story in Three-Body Problem 1 is largely a process of decryption. The process of advancing this story is also a process of solving mysteries one by one. And the reason why Levy's film does not disperse is because he does not let the audience remember the story, but only let the audience remember those questions.

When it comes to the narration of a story, people tend to read it and forget it. As for some questions, people will use their brains to think about it somewhat. And these doubts, often in the next story. It will be more or less involved, so that the audience is constantly updating their information and making new guesses, which makes the audience have no way to forget the previous plot.

Of course, this also requires the stories to be intrinsically connected. The plots of the three stories and the characters can have nothing to do with each other, but the inner core of the three stories must have a certain relationship so that these questions can be repeated constantly. Movies can be scattered in form. But the soul aspect of the film cannot be scattered. The form is scattered, and this is the most important part of this narrative structure.

On the other hand, these questions used to attract the audience should not be too difficult, not too difficult for people to understand, and not too simple. It is easy to understand at a glance, and at the same time, it is necessary to constantly answer questions to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and at the same time to ask new questions to make the audience understand - this is the ability to control the rhythm of the script and the director. It's a great test.

And amazingly, Levy did it. Five years of experience, a top-notch team. In these aspects, he has no problem doing it. Although the original work of the Three-Body Problem novel is not a very suitable work for film, Levy and his team have turned this story into a good movie.

In the movie, questions are set up layer by layer, and layer by layer unlocked, and the later the stage, the closer the connection between the stories, these means are the reason why Levy's structure works.

It is precisely because of these questions in the movie that the story is strung together as a whole, so that the audience can't stop watching it, that the movie can be twisted into a rope.

And another success of the movie is that although this movie relies on these suspense to attract the audience to think, he does not deliberately sell anything.

Science fiction movies are movies built on science fiction, and such stories often have a big possible problem, that is, there are too many fantasies, too far away from reality, and the audience can't understand it.

A big reason why blockbusters are blockbusters is sold out is because they can create scenes that are not available in the real world. Because these scenes do not exist in reality, people will find it novel and beautiful. But while it is novel and good-looking, what must be considered is whether the audience can understand this electronic music. The more bizarre it is, the more difficult it is for people to understand, and how to make the audience understand it is also a difficult problem.

This can also be said to be an important reason why science fiction movies are not easy to shoot: many science fiction works are too far away from reality, and it is too difficult for the audience to understand.

However, the three-body problem chosen by Levi avoids this problem very well.

The Three-Body Problem does not have much amazing things in terms of scientific and technological principles: although this is a science fiction movie, except for the device that plays the game, the other technologies on the earth are basically items that have appeared on the earth.

Whether it's the mathematical problem of the three-body problem, or the basic knowledge of the movement of celestial bodies, or even SETI, nanomaterials, these things already exist. As for things such as non-existent ball lightning, Levy just mentioned it in the movie, and did not deepen it, which makes the story a science fiction movie, but it is more strung together by whimsy, rather than relying on technology that has never appeared to occupy the audience's attention, which also makes the story much easier for the audience to understand.

And the story is not without those black technologies that seem extremely ridiculous: the emergence of human columnist computers in the fourth world, and the idea of turning a proton into a supercomputer, all of which can be said to be beyond modern science. However, these stories are paved with three stories as foreshadowing, which quite well reflects the pace of scientific and technological progress in that world. When the black technology in the back appeared, because there was foreshadowing. Naturally, it doesn't seem strange.

And even for these three stories, Levy also chose different era backgrounds, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Middle Ages, and the changes in these scenes also attract the audience and make people not feel bored. Compared to a simple introduction, this kind of fantasy tour is much better.

This movie tests the audience's ability to think, but it does not test the audience's ability to understand, which is also an important reason why the audience likes this movie.

Of course. If there's any other important reason, it's the picture.

"The special effects part of the Three-Body Problem movie, which can be said to be after the Lord of the Rings, has a masterpiece. Four different world annihilations, a detonating bomb, a slicing ship, and the two-dimensional unfolding of protons are all enough to shock anyone. ”

this aspect. All the reviews in Hollywood have given this movie a high rating, and this movie can be said to be well-deserved.

On the one hand, this praise comes from the fact that the picture of the film is really well done - Levy's special effects company has one of the best technical standards in the whole of Hollywood. Levy has given enough time and money, and the quality of the pictures they produce is naturally not a problem.

Of course, Hollywood movies. There are not a few people who have good pictures, and good pictures are of course not only the most important reason for people's approval. What's even more important are these images from Levy's films. It's amazing.

In the story of the three-body problem, there are many gorgeous scenes. Extreme cold, destruction where even the air can freeze, extreme heat, destruction where the earth is burning, and anti-gravity beyond imagination, worlds where everything on the surface automatically levitates and destroys - these different ways of destroying worlds can be said to be extremely wonderful.

In Hollywood movies, it's not that big scenes have not been filmed, but no matter how majestic the scene is, no one likes to shoot the destruction of the world. Moreover, it's just a matter of shooting a world to destroy the world, in this movie, the three-body world was destroyed four times in one go, and it was not the same to change the fancy way of destroying the world, so that a world was destroyed many times, this approach may be a bit excessive for the three-body people, but for the audience, they are very satisfied.

Anyone who sees such a scene as destroying the world will feel shocked once they see it, let alone three or four times? Watching the birth of countless civilizations on a planet, but destroying them again and again, this vast breath of the universe is also deeply implanted in my mind in the process.

And even if you don't talk about the part of the world that destroys, it's something else, which can be said to be a surprise. The two-dimensional unfolding of protons, the use of human-train computers, and the nanowire cutting of large ships can also be said to be rare and wonderful.

Many times, in a movie, a novel and weird shot is enough to make people feel refreshed, but in this movie, there are many incredible shots in one breath. In front of these shots, the detonating bomb, preventing a nuclear explosion, which can be used as the most important finale in other films, is just a small climax in this story - a nuclear bomb, and compared to those things, it is simply a small thing.

These things are also an important reason why a science fiction film can attract people. The use of various black technologies has always been one of the important reasons why people are interested in science fiction. And this movie also satisfies people's psychology.

Of course, the most important thing is the depiction of these technologies, which also makes people aware of the difference between the two worlds and the cruelty of this collision - the special effects are in the service of the theme of the film, and this film has not forgotten this. Whether it is the momentum of the large-scale scene or the reason for the use of new technology, it is all around the theme, which is also the main intention of the special effects.

There are too many wonderful pictures in the movie, which is also the most important reason why this movie is attractive.

A movie that can make people think by suspense, can attract the audience by relying on the picture, and at the same time, there is nothing too complicated and incomprehensible, such a movie has all the elements and conditions to attract people.

Since the release of this movie, it has been decided, and its box office will definitely not be bad. (To be continued......)