Chapter 40: It's Incredible! (2/4)

The first 90 minutes of "Earthfire" belong to the Hollywood tragedy movie setting.

Step by step, I sucked away hope, watched the target get farther and farther away from me, and finally died a vigorous death.

The protagonist, Liu Xin, witnessed the death of his miner's father when he was young, and is determined to conquer the mouth of the cannibalistic coal mine.

When he finally got ready, wrapped in the latest scientific and technological achievements and the support of the government, he returned to his hometown, only to find that all the people in the mine had lost their spirits.

The long-term stagnation of growth and the deteriorating market environment have taken away the determination of his old classmate Li Weimin to dedicate his life to the coal industry, worn away the mine manager's confidence in the future, and brought a dark cinder-like color to the whole city.

Liu Xin explained his vaporized coal transformation plan to the mine manager, and received a noncommittal reply...

Fire Chief Agul's horrific description of the earthfires he experienced himself illustrates how dangerous the project is, and even the distant BJ is preparing to cut the project's budget.

Liu Xin, who was extremely confident in his technology, could not turn back, and worked together with his classmate Li Weimin and the fire captain to build an experimental coal pit and personally lit the first fire.

The flame rises smoothly, like a celebratory bonfire, and it succeeds!

Coal can be dug up without going down the mine, and the tragedy of Liu Xin's father will no longer be staged.

Seeing all this, the mine manager expressed his gratitude and shame in his heart.

Then the story took a sharp turn, due to Li Weimin's imprudentness and silence in front of interests, the small passage between the experimental coal pit and the large coal yard was not blocked, resulting in a fire burning all over the mine.

In the face of the red alert, Liu Xin was stunned and at a loss, and he didn't know what to do if he hadn't gone down the well.

Fortunately, at this time, the mine manager stood up, maintained the basic order, tried every means to suppress the fire, and as the fire expanded, he even did not hesitate to destroy this century-old large pit with his own hands...

However, due to a miscommunication, ventilation was dismantled, which eventually triggered an early explosion of the mine, and all efforts to save the mine were in vain.

The accident led to a fire that spread throughout the city, withering and overheating the ground, which lasted for 18 years.

Zhou Liming didn't watch the trailer of "Earth Fire", it felt very novel...

The whole story is very real, the male protagonist Liu Xin grew up in the mining area, he has a special affection for the coal mining business, but he also has shortcomings, that is, he only understands theory and does not participate in practice.

Male No. 2, Li Minsheng played by Chen Xiao is a senior worker in the coal mine and a young friend of Liu Xin.

He is well versed in practice, but because the wages in the coal mine are too low, he also has selfish motives, and he did not stop Liu Xin's risky plan, which eventually caused a catastrophe.

The grass snake is thousands of miles, every plot has a foreshadowing, and every behavior of the characters has an interpretation.

The first half is the usual setting, culminating in the protagonist successfully igniting the coal mine and the whole set of equipment starting to operate;

Immediately afterwards, the fire spreads, the gates of hell are opened, and the story enters a pessimistic setting until the end, when the protagonist throws himself into the mine and feeds the fire with his body as the climax...

Especially the close-up of the disaster, where the lens clearly records everything:

The asphalt pavement has gradually begun to melt, the camera highlights the visible heat flow in the air brought by the high temperature, almost all the vehicles are scrapped, the cars on the road due to the melting of rubber tires are all integrated with the road in a strange attitude, due to the high temperature brought by the ground fire, the area near the source of the ground fire has begun to have a small explosion...

The cries of children and the radio of the evacuation of the army were mixed with each other, and everyone did not know what was happening.

The picture shifted to the People's Liberation Army, which was contrary to the direction of the flow of people, and the camera gradually pushed to one of the officers and soldiers, gradually focusing.

Then zoom out and switch to the scene of taking care of Liu Xin...

Seeing the hellish earth fire spreading, Zhou Liming gasped - it's too real!

No wonder it is said that the production cost is as high as 180 million, and it is indeed visible to burn money...

With the spread of the ground fire, the movie screen went black, Zhou Liming was ready to get up, and then the screen was lit up again, the tone became bright, it was a group of middle school students who came to experience the coal mine...

At the end of the experience, returning to the bright lobby, Chen Hao, who made a cameo, asked, "Students, what do you think?" ”

"It's so hard to be a person in the past! What stupid people used to be! ”

"It's just that it's not common sense to vaporize coal!"

Chen Hao restrained his smile, and his expression became serious: "We have all studied the "Theory of the Six Kingdoms", and there is a paragraph in it: Thinking about the ancestors of the ancestors, the frost and dew, and the thorns are cut to have a size. Children and grandchildren do not pity it, and give it to others, like abandoning grass mustard... Everyone should know what this means! ”

"We should be in awe of these ancestors!"

"Hypatia, skinned and burned by the Catholics, countless women and early doctors, beaten by the Church and slandered as witches and witches, as well as Copernicus, Galileo, Bruno, Voltaire, Cervantes... To this day, anti-intellectualism and feudal superstition still remind us from time to time that there is a long way to go. ”

"When a lot of technology is first applied, it's only ridiculed... But they have lit the light of civilization for mankind, and we, stepping on their shoulders, pave the way forward for the future! ”

"Okay, go back tonight and write an 800-word essay for each of you... Now come with me, let's go back to school..."

A group of people got on the driverless bus parked at the door, the difference is that the bus is suspended in the air, the camera shifts, it is a big panorama - 200 years later, human cities...

Humans live in a space city, and all the means of transportation are suspended cars...

At the same time, the soundtrack becomes rousing and the narration sounds:

The advancement of technology is bound to be accompanied by countless trials, errors, and sacrifices.

Liu Xin, the protagonist of our story, may be just one of thousands of idealists or pragmatists who have dedicated their lives to technology.

But it is thousands of Liu Xin, with their successes or failures, that pave the way for the ultimate progress and breakthrough of technology.

The spirit of exploration and curiosity are the unstoppable nature of human beings. It is a powerful embodiment of intelligent life in order to realize its own value.

When the sergeant heard this, he acted diligently. The trip to the avenue, regardless of good luck or evil. Thanks to the pioneering efforts of countless ancestors, our generation should take over the torch and keep moving forward!

Seeing this, Zhou Liming was a little dumbfounded...

This... This is filmed by the Chinese?

But when you think about it, only Chinese can make such a film - the interweaving of romanticism and real suffering, and a grand sense of time and responsibility.

The romance is the progress of science and technology, as well as the direction of science and technology workers to change their lives and destiny through science and technology, but the reality is the huge price that must be paid for this!

A work that contains grand thinking propositions about technological progress and the development of human history, a tragic epic of civilization!

"Earthfire" is too good to look like a Chinese movie. After carefully looking at the end credits, the names of more than a dozen special effects companies were listed, but the four special effects directors were all Chinese, namely: Wei Ming, Ding Yanlai, Xu Jian, Zhao Haoqiang...

Until the director of photography came up with a foreigner name: Roger Deakins.

Chief Director: Guo Fan, Assistant Directors Wang Jiushu, Yu Gang, Liu Na... It's all a bunch of newcomers!

Immediately afterwards, the name of the chief producer and director Shen Xudong appeared, and then the screen went black, accompanied by the narration, the screen lit up, and it was an actor with a bag who took an elevator from the dungeon to the ground, and then started the process of carrying a car:

'The Sun, located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, occupies 99.68% of the total mass of the solar system. Today, the Sun's inner core is extremely old and continues to expand, and the Earth will be engulfed. In order to survive, humanity has devised an unprecedented plan to drive the entire planet to flee to a new home 4.2 light-years away. The plan is divided into five phases.

In the first stage, mankind poured everything into building 10,000 "planetary engines" to drive the earth forward and 10,000 dungeons to shelter human beings.

In the second stage, the "steering engine" around the equator was turned on one after another, driving the Earth to stop rotating, and the Earth's rotation led to a monstrous tsunami that swept the world and nearly halved the world's population.

In the third stage, the Earth will use the Sun and Jupiter to complete the final acceleration sprint and officially embark on a wandering journey.

In the fourth stage, after the Earth leaves the solar system, the "planetary engine" is turned on at full power, and it will take 500 years to accelerate to 5/1000th of the speed of light, and glide for 1,300 years, then reverse the direction of the engine, and use another 700 years to decelerate.

In the fifth stage, the Earth docks into the target star system, arrives at its new home, and becomes a new planet in the target star system. This project will last for a hundred generations, although we don't know what kind of home the new sun will bring 4.2 light-years away. But from today onwards, the courage and perseverance of mankind will forever be engraved under the stars!

This long journey of despair and hope, which lasted for 2,500 years, is known as the "Wandering Earth" project. ’

After saying this, the camera pulled down, and it was Wu Mengda's face - Han Ziang, wearing glasses, white temples, and a serious expression...

That's right, the trailer for "The Wandering Earth"...

Zhou Liming suddenly had a feeling of being hit - these people are not talking hi, they are playing for real!