Chapter 879 The Cultural Perspective of 'Mission and Choice'
Lu Zhiyao was very speechless.
The script of "Mission and Choice" was originally given in segments. Director Zhu Xiaoce euphemistically asked Lu Zhiyao to "carefully figure out the plot of each segment, and don't have an impact on the current performance just because you know the ending in advance."
Director Zhu Xiaoce's goal has been achieved.
When Lu Zhiyao acted in each plot, he really put himself into the role of Captain Qin Yi. He had no idea what would happen in the future, so his acting was closer to Qin Yi's true state in the play.
But this also brought about a problem, that is, Lu Zhiyao was so cut off that he felt like dying.
Each time I was given a script, I was only given a short paragraph, but the development of the plot was very tortuous. Every time Lu Zhiyao wanted to know the next plot, I was sorry and stopped.
Now I finally got the script for the end of the movie, but I never expected that it was still in a broken state, and there was still no plot behind it!
This made Lu Zhiyao very collapsed and desperate.
Of course, he also knew in his heart that based on the current content, the entire story was actually complete, with everything from beginning to end, and it was more than enough content for a movie.
It is estimated that even directors Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce have not thought about the subsequent plot. They simply left such a tail to leave suspense for the next series of works.
But even if Lu Zhiyao knew this truth very well, it was inevitable that he would still be scolded as a "dog out of context".
After calming down for a while, Lu Zhiyao began to re-examine the last plot.
Before, his acting skills had been tested in all directions, and he originally thought that he had experienced hundreds of battles and was fearless.
But after seeing the last part of the script, Lu Zhiyao realized that the real difficulty was at the end!
The final ending still had many twists and turns. Qin Yi's mood first collapsed in despair, then he found a glimmer of hope in despair, and then he boosted the morale of all the soldiers through an impassioned speech, successfully letting mankind see the hope of victory.
dawn.
If the script ends here, then this is a standard popcorn movie with a very orthodox and passionate ending.
But just when Qin Yi was about to see the dawn of victory, the plot took a turn for the worse.
After comatose, Qin Yi found that he had a hive consciousness. The hive consciousness allowed him to naturally think about problems from the perspective of the Zerg and gain empathy for the Zerg. Qin Yi realized that it was actually humans who first started to treat the Zerg.
When it comes to attacking, strictly speaking, the Zerg are the ones being invaded.
After waking up, Qin Yi issued a cease-fire order to all soldiers, forcibly stopping the already intense war between humans and Zerg.
If the script ends here, with humans and Zerg shaking hands and making peace, building a beautiful universe together, it would be a standard Western politically correct ending.
However, Qin Yi did not want to shake hands with the Zerg and make peace. Instead, he deceived the Zerg and found the location of the Zerg Queen and all the secondary queens through the Zerg Hive Consciousness, and continued to carry out the beheading operation.
Qin Yi deceived the Zerg for the sake of mankind, but he himself was deceived and abandoned. In the end, because all the Zerg queens and sub-queens were wiped out, Qin Yi accidentally became the leader of all the Zerg and was exploited.
The Vitan beast carries it floating into the endless space of the universe.
In this part of the plot, Qin Yi's mood still changed drastically.
There is exciting blood, there is surprise at learning the truth, there is the cold blood of deceiving the Zerg, and there is the rage of being betrayed...
Especially in the last shot, when Qin Yi wakes up in the incubation tank inside the Leviathan beast, there will be a close-up, and Lu Zhiyao must express Qin Yi's various complex emotions with one look.
Obviously, for Lu Zhiyao, the difficulty of performing this plot is a level higher than that of the previous script!
And as Lu Zhiyao knew from the beginning, the reason why the role of Qin Yi is a test of his acting skills and difficult to interpret is because his role is set to be an iron-blooded soldier.
Qin Yi has no emotions in most situations. Even if he does, he is very reserved and restrained.
But in this script, Qin Yi's fate is too tortuous, and he always faces extreme despair or extreme pain, which makes it difficult for Lu Zhiyao to find a balance point.
If the force is slightly stronger, Qin Yi's character will easily collapse. A fierce warrior will be furious or have a mental breakdown, which is not in line with the character. If the force is not enough, the audience will feel that Lu Zhiyao has no acting skills and cannot express emotions well.
In place.
Comparatively speaking, young characters are easier to act, because the emotions of this type of character are often very simple, happiness is happiness, anger is anger, not that complicated, and the degrees are very loose.
On the contrary, it is the most difficult for someone with a strong will like Captain Qin Yi to act out his emotions.
Lu Zhiyao sighed softly. It seemed that he would be busy again in the next period of time.
He will continue to stay in the hotel room, ponder the plot in front of the mirror, adjust his acting skills and expressions, and perfectly express the final plot.
But before that, Lu Zhiyao first collected all the scripts so far, read them from beginning to end, and analyzed the story from his own perspective.
The most profound impression this story left on Lu Zhiyao was its "cultural perspective".
As an actor, Lu Zhiyao has of course watched many movies. He has watched movies from various countries and with various themes.
The story of "Mission and Choice", if taken apart individually and stuck to a small plot, is actually nothing special compared to many traditional science fiction movies.
Of course, this is normal.
After all, the theme of "Zerg" has existed in science fiction movies for decades. Various predecessors have expounded many different concepts from various angles and in various ways, leaving little room for innovation by future generations.
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There are so many classic works before us, and it is impossible to make every plot in the story subvert tradition.
But in Lu Zhiyao's view, the biggest breakthrough of "Mission and Choice" is actually the combination of Chinese cultural perspective and science fiction themes, which has never been done before.
In China, science fiction movies are very rare. Because science fiction movies require too much investment, they require a lot of professional props, special effects and staff. Without accumulation, it is easy to make them look different.
Therefore, even in the domestic film market, when it comes to science fiction movies, the first thing people usually think of are those European and American science fiction masterpieces.
The problem caused by this is that almost all popular science fiction works that can be seen currently are interpreted from a Western cultural perspective.
This has caused many domestic audiences to question and feel separated from the values and value orientation in these science fiction movies. Things that are common to Westerners are completely unacceptable to domestic audiences.
The idea for the story "Mission and Choice" was actually written by a famous foreign science fiction writer as early as 1985. It also won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. It is an eternal science fiction classic.
But in that story, the commander was a child. He felt very guilty after destroying the Zerg, so he took the young Zerg Queen to the universe to find a new home, hoping to atone for his sins.
This is standard Western thinking. Just like many people in Western animal protection organizations, they call on humans to become vegetarians and allow animals to enjoy the same rights as humans...
For people living in a Western cultural background, perhaps this is a natural political correctness and kindness.
But for people living in the Chinese cultural background, this is a kind of complete stupidity and hypocrisy, and a manifestation of the overflow of the Virgin Heart.
Westerners shout politically correct slogans and even fight for the rights of animals. In the final analysis, it is because their lives are too rich and comfortable, and because the materials are too abundant, they are squandering and wasteful, and they still have the energy to spread their excess everywhere.
of sympathy.
The reason why Westerners live a prosperous and comfortable life is because their ancestors exploited, plundered and killed the entire world hundreds of years ago.
While Westerners shout "Animals also have rights", they never look back at the indigenous people who were slaughtered by their ancestors; they don't think about the reason why they can obtain such rich material wealth by just using their hands and feet.
countries are plundering and exploiting other countries in the world.
While these Westerners are overflowing with compassion and soliciting rights for animals, their countries are bullying, oppressing, and exploiting other countries in the world, constantly spreading war, famine, and plague there, allowing their fellow human beings to live in the world.
In purgatory.
Therefore, from the perspective of Chinese culture, it is a very stupid and hypocritical behavior for humans to sympathize with the Zerg.
If Westerners use half of the compassion they have for animals to treat other races and people from other countries in the world, the world will become a much better place.
In terms of setting, the Zerg are a race that exists in the universe that poses an extreme threat to all life. They have a strong collective consciousness, the ability to efficiently share information, and a strong ability to mutate. The only meaning of the existence of this race is
Constantly expanding into the universe, multiplying, and wiping out all other races.
Even if this Zerg Queen really wants to coexist peacefully with humans, their race is still an extreme threat to human existence in terms of life form.
When humans sympathize with the Zerg and let the Zerg go, they are actually raising the legacy of the tiger. How to judge that the Zerg Queen is not lying? How to judge whether the Zerg Queen will change her mind in the future?
In this case, completely exterminating the Zerg is the most rational decision for mankind.
To sympathize with and protect the Zerg is to put humans in great danger.
"Mission and Choice" fully adopts the perspective of Chinese culture on this theme.