Chapter 552: A New Era of Domestic Science Fiction
"The premiere of "The Wandering Earth" is huge. I am used to seeing New York and Los Angeles that are riddled with holes in Hollywood blockbusters. Let's look at the depressed Beijing, Magic City, Ninghang and Hangzhou in the extremely cold weather in "The Wandering Earth". All the scenes in the movie
It presents a "sense of apocalypse" that is comparable to Hollywood blockbusters!"
"The Earth's 10,000 planetary engines, the icy seawater canyons on the surface, the eternal night after the twilight line, the Spark Project, the use of Jupiter's gravity to stretch the solar system... and a series of other settings, whether it is from special effects or physics
In theory, "The Wandering Earth" has achieved first-class standards, and it also proves that Chinese filmmakers can also make such a large-scale science fiction film!"
"Before July 4th, the term domestic science fiction seemed so inconsistent in my eyes. The two words domestic and science fiction should not be combined together, but this time I saw the familiar Beijing Underpants and the Oriental Pearl Tower in the Magic City.
Everything has become frozen into the Ice Age. This apocalyptic scene of ice and ice appears for the first time in a domestic scene, but it looks so wonderful."
"The Wandering Earth" is so popular that it can already be pre-ordered as the best movie of the year. When Americans make science fiction, they often abandon the earth to explore new human settlements. However, the Chinese in the movie do not abandon the earth and keep their homeland.
Sentiment, this kind of science fiction movie is more in line with the Chinese people’s definition of home, country, and family love. This is our country’s own science fiction movie!”
"In Hollywood movies, the male and female protagonists usually fall in love during the apocalypse, but in "The Wandering Earth", we can still wear ugly school uniforms to go to school, we still have to play mahjong and eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, and we can also eat Lanzhou Ramen.
We still have to set off twelve-ring fireworks. After watching the movie, I felt that nothing in this world can change the enthusiasm of Chinese people for life. The Chinese nation is the most passionate about life, the most tenacious, and the least likely to be defeated in the world.
nation!"
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"The Wandering Earth" was officially released, and countless viewers walked into the movie to catch a glimpse and want to see what the first domestic science fiction film was like.
Perhaps because of domestic science fiction, the audience had too much to say. Online posts and topics about "The Wandering Earth" were all over the Internet during the day on the first day of its release.
Any relevant or unrelated forum will have the voices of viewers who have watched the movie.
However, although it is a science fiction film, it is still a hard science fiction film, but the first comment that comes up is not how good or exciting the film's special effects are.
The living environment in the post-apocalyptic dungeon in "The Wandering Earth" is almost the same as in modern times. Students still have to go to school, and there are grassroots organizations like the police station. During the Spring Festival, everyone eats dumplings and sets off firecrackers.
In the apocalypse, a perfect social order is maintained, and it is also a social order with Chinese characteristics, which especially makes the audience deeply moved.
In fact, the most successful thing about the movie is that it perfects the world view of the apocalypse, which is much more difficult than the special effects that are blown away by the audience.
It is not easy to create a new world, a world that is related to reality but different from reality, and to make the audience believe it.
Only with this foundation can we support an apocalyptic science fiction film.
As more and more audiences praise the movie, the box office of "The Wandering Earth" continues to rise rapidly. More and more viewers who are still doubtful about domestic science fiction begin to put aside their doubts and enter the cinema, and then
After watching the movie, I can’t wait to share it with others online, Amway.
"The rescue of the earth that burns to tears, the road to redemption of despair and hope, and more importantly, this is a Chinese! Science! Fiction! Movie!"
"The first half of the chapter is filled with the feeling that humanity is hopeless, and one even doubts whether it will end in tragedy, but the last moment brings human courage and wisdom to the extreme, this kind of igniting hope from complete despair.
, it’s simply so exciting!”
"The most exciting thing this year was watching "The Wandering Earth" in the IMAX theater. The dazzling Jupiter in the climax, and the elegant Earth with its long tail, even felt like watching "Interstellar"!"
"It turned out to be a really hard science fiction movie. It completely exceeded my imagination of domestic movies. Although the plot is a bit cliche and sensational, not all Hollywood blockbusters are like this. The special effects are definitely the best among domestic movies. The apocalyptic world is too
It's real.
The only fly in the ointment was that at the beginning when my younger sister was in school, my mother suddenly said that people would still study at the end of the world, and said that if I had studied so hard when I was a child, I wouldn't be in such a miserable state now."
"The powerful Amway "The Wandering Earth" is so shocking and beautiful. It's no exaggeration to say that there was no peeing spot in the whole show. I didn't even bother to pee!!!"
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At the beginning of the entire summer season, only one movie, "The Wandering Earth", was released. The crew's one-month road show and small-scale screenings had already spread word of mouth.
It was officially released today, and the reviews from countless viewers were the same as when it was screened before. The public no longer has any worries.
Thanks to countless praises on the Internet, the box office has also begun to rise crazily since the evening.
By nine o'clock in the evening, the box office was basically stable, and the first-day box office of "The Wandering Earth" also reached an astonishing 370 million!
The next day, Friday, it undoubtedly broke 400 million in a single day and got 430 million.
On the third day, Saturday, the first working day, the single-day box office also set a new record outside of the Spring Festival period.
Breaking 500 million in a single day!
Prior to this, only "Monster Hunt 2" had a higher box office than this on the first day of the Spring Festival.
On Sunday, the box office itself has reached its limit. Before that, "Avengers 4" had an audience of 600 million on the first day, which is a cumulative audience for the series. Plus the last one, there are sky-high ticket prices that can easily reach hundreds or even thousands.
The box office dropped slightly by 20 million, and it received 480 million on the fourth day.
During the four-day opening weekend, the total box office was 1.78 billion.
A scary enough number, even the production cost of "The Wandering Earth" was a full 500 million.
The box office was a hit, the reputation was also booming, and it was a domestically produced science fiction film. In a sense, it is definitely not as good as "Wolf Warrior 2", which set off a patriotic craze in the film and television industry, or "Nezha", which revitalized the Chinese comic industry.
The major party media and state media also spared no space and frantically reported on "The Wandering Earth".
Not for online news, the extremely precious paper news space also leaves enough space for "The Wandering Earth".
"The Chinese concept of family affection, heroic feelings, dedication, homeland complex and international cooperation concepts reflected in "The Wandering Earth". The movie is no longer about superheroes saving the world, but about human beings working together to change their own destiny.
This concept is a breakthrough in the narrative routine of Hollywood science fiction movies. It integrates China's unique thoughts and values into the imagination and discussion of the future of mankind, and expands mankind's vision of a better future.
— "People's Daily"
This familiar official media analyzed the film itself from the perspective of domestic films making breakthroughs in the science fiction genre that is almost represented by Hollywood.
Indeed, from the time of preparation, Guo Fan planned to make a science fiction film full of Chinese characteristics. From the core and plot, this is the case. Even the most superficial special effects are in the Soviet industrial aesthetic style, not Hollywood.
aesthetics.
"The various anti-routine settings in the plot of "The Wandering Earth" are a more scientific and reasonable vision of a community with a shared future for mankind in the face of the apocalyptic crisis, and are made with Chinese characteristics. Mountains that block the road are removed, and seas are filled with disasters.
The sky was broken and mended, Foolish Old Man moved the mountains, Jingwei filled the sea, and Nuwa mended the sky.
These heroic feelings of fighting against heaven and earth, which are woven into the blood of Chinese people, perfectly match the theme of the film about fighting for life and finding hope in the face of the apocalypse. The film highlights the saturated rescue of a collectivist spirit that is not afraid of sacrifice.
First of all, it hits the audience’s pain points and becomes an important symbol of domestic science fiction films climbing to the world’s advanced level. It satisfies domestic audiences’ long-standing expectations for domestic science fiction blockbusters. More importantly, the film has Chinese characteristics and is full of Chinese temperament.
Unique and innovative.”
— "Guangming Daily"
...It brings out allusions such as Jingwei filling the sea and Yugong moving the mountains. It is also a very unique and official article.
Anyway, the official media basically evaluates movies from these aspects.
Targeted movie websites like the Movie Network under the Movie Channel start with the development history of domestic science fiction.
"There is a sentence in the novel "The Three-Body Problem": In China, any transcendent and soaring thoughts will crash to the ground. The gravity of reality is too heavy, or due to the limitations of the scientific and technological level of the Republic of China and the war and turmoil, the Chinese people are in trouble.
The imagination of the external universe is always lacking in movies.
In 1963, the 31-minute short film "Little Sun" shot by the Magic City Science Education Film Studio came out. The film was based on the theory of atomic nuclear explosions and created an artificial sun to change the global climate conditions of cold winters and warm summers.
"Little Sun" shows the rich and rigorous imagination of Chinese filmmakers, especially the construction of outer space scenes, which has never been seen before in domestic films. It not only fills the vacuum of domestic science fiction films in the past 60 years, but also explores the truth.
and scientifically rigorous attitude have redefined Chinese science fiction.
Unfortunately, due to political events, the combination of science fiction and film ceased to exist in the 1960s and 1970s and stagnated..."
Seventy, eighty, ninety, each decade is recounted in detail.
"Since the 21st century, especially since the era of "domestic commercial blockbusters" has begun, "science fiction films" seem to be a forbidden area that film creators keep secret. Occasionally, if someone enters, they will often end up with a violent death.
All of this will be rewritten after "The Wandering Earth". It is not a milestone of success, but a clarion call for progress. This is the true meaning of the so-called "first year of domestic science fiction movies" in my eyes.
Perhaps in the face of many shortcomings, "Smooth Earth" cannot be called a top-notch masterpiece, but the benchmark that "The Wandering Earth" has set for the history of domestic films is more significant than the film itself. Half a month later, another science fiction masterpiece "
"Fortress" will also be officially released, and we have more reason to believe that the spring of domestic science fiction films is just around the corner!"
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A landmark work is more than just a movie.
The attention "The Wandering Earth" has received is not limited to the film industry. The only commercial blockbusters that have received the same treatment before are "Wolf Warrior 2", "I'm Not the God of Medicine", and "Return to Youth" which looked back on the past few decades.
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However, the biggest impact on the film industry is the box office and reputation.
It seems that it is another movie that is going to hit the 5 billion level. This time it is different from "Nezha". This time I can only envy and hate it.
After "Nezha", the entire industry took action, hoping to follow the trend and make a fortune. In the past six months, Optoelectronics has launched animated films one after another, and all kinds of cats and dogs have come out.
However, "The Wandering Earth" is difficult for most film and television companies to copy.
After watching the movie, the bosses of major, medium and small film and television companies, as well as the capitalists waving checks, had just thought of following him, but then they were stunned again.
I can't shoot it. It's hard science fiction. I can't shoot it.
Moreover, one shoot lasts four to five years, which is too long.
Many people have given up following the trend. They can't do it anymore. They really have no choice but to watch "The Wandering Earth" continue to explode.
However, there are still some people who are unwilling to give up and have not given up the idea of following the trend.
As for another sci-fi film "Fortress" that is about to be released, I don't know whether I should be happy or not.
In the conference room of Penguin Pictures, Chen Wu, who was sitting in the main seat, fell into a tangle.
Chen Wu has been in meetings since yesterday, and there has been no result.
The only topic of the meeting was how to deal with the phenomenal performance of "The Wandering Earth".
Some people think this is a good thing. Currently, the audience's enthusiasm and confidence in domestic science fiction is unprecedentedly high. Riding on this trend, "Fortress" will definitely take off.
Some people think that something should be done. "The Wandering Earth" was so popular. If the reputation of "Fortress" is not so good, or even worse, there will be a comparison in the minds of the audience. Under this comparison, maybe
That's not good.
Moreover, the success of movies like "The Wandering Earth" does not meet Penguin's strategic needs.
After weighing it countless times, Chen Wu finally made up his mind.
"It is indeed too much. We should curb it and take action. Contact Ahri and Baidu."
Chen Wu shook his head. As a representative of capital, Penguin Pictures' model has always been traffic-hype-light speed shooting-light speed online-light speed gathering capital.
This is especially obvious in the TV drama industry, while the film industry is progressing relatively slowly.
For him, anything that goes against this model should be resolutely suppressed.
"The Wandering Earth" is obviously the complete opposite. It doesn't rely on traffic or hype, it relies entirely on quality.
This is completely a benchmark, even more benchmarking than the few movies that have exceeded 3 billion in box office in recent years.
Just like a group of men in the world who are all about girls, the public is used to being about girls and thinks this is normal.
Suddenly one day a tough guy appears. It seems that this only tough guy is an alien and does not fit in with the crowd, but this tough guy is very likely to change the audience's aesthetics.
The current popularity of young people does not happen overnight. It is caused by subtle influence and publicity. When the Internet and hot searches are full of such people, they become the "mainstream" of the entertainment industry.
What Chen Wu has to do is to curb the influence of "The Wandering Earth" in time. It can be a hit at the box office, but it can never become a benchmark.
As Penguin, the mainstream of the capital market, made its decision, Ali, Baidu and other capitals, as well as all related companies and employees in the entire industry chain that relied on these capitals and this model, all started to take action.
In an invisible place, a huge force that was born in recent years is gathering together in a tacit understanding, preparing to launch an offensive.