Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 548 I'm Still Optimistic (Part [-])
Yu Dong was dealing with the onlookers at the Victory Cinema, and Liu Cixin was arranging a car to take his colleagues to the cinema to watch a movie at night.

After a lot of effort, they didn't arrive at the cinema until near eight o'clock in the evening.Sitting in the movie theater, Liu Cixin looked at the leaders of several units in front, feeling a little uneasy.

After impulsively saying that he would invite his colleagues to watch a movie, he regretted it.

It's not that he was reluctant to pay for the ticket, so he always felt a little ostentatious by inviting his colleagues to watch the movie with such a big fanfare.Moreover, their unit is relatively remote, 70 kilometers away from the center of Yangquan City, and Yangquan does not have "Bring Her Eyes" to watch now, so they can only go to Shimen, which is more than [-] kilometers away.

Later, the director of their office joked with Liu Cixin, since he was inviting his colleagues to watch a movie, why not invite him.

There was no other way, Liu Cixin had no choice but to hire the director.

If the director is invited, other leaders will naturally be invited as well. In the end, the entire department, including the department heads, are invited.

"It's all my fault for my broken mouth."

In the darkness, Liu Cixin clapped his mouth silently.

But right now he didn't have time to think too much, and after playing some precautions on the screen, he started the feature film.

The first scene of the movie is outer space, a huge alien planet base, and humans in space suits are constantly shuttling through it. Obviously, humans already have the ability to station on other planets.

The camera then tracks a set of signals through space and back to Earth.

After these two sets of shots ended, the name of the movie appeared.

The literal translation of the English name should be "Her Eyes", but the Chinese subtitle still uses the name of the original novel "Bring Her Eyes".

In the novel, there is no foreshadowing in the early stage, it is directly before the male protagonist takes a vacation, the leader gave him a pair of "eyes".

But in the movie, it is a foreshadowing at the beginning, explaining the whole life of the protagonist the day before the vacation.

Liu Cixin can understand the reason for this filming, because it is impossible for a movie to use a lot of narration to introduce the background of the era. It can only use this kind of plot to let the audience quickly understand the technological level of this era, such as what "eyes" are and why there are such things. .

Also, in the novel, Sunset Six does not appear until the hero and heroine have finished their journey, but the film has paved the way from the very beginning, and the news of Sunset Six is ​​broadcast on TV on the first day.

It's just that this news is very inconspicuous. If you haven't read the original work, most people will ignore it.

When the leader handed over a pair of "eyes" to the hero in the movie, Liu Cixin heard someone beside him whisper, "It's quite interesting."

This also speaks out the aspirations of most people present. They actually rarely read science fiction. Their understanding of science fiction is limited to elements such as spaceships and aliens. Therefore, seeing the setting of "eyes", I think it is quite interesting.

In the middle of the movie, in order to add drama, some conflicts were added compared to the original work. For example, when the male protagonist encountered someone who robbed money in the grassland, the female protagonist instructed him how to fight back. The beauty, the female lead doesn't let the male lead look at him, but when he sees a handsome guy, the female lead wants to see it, but the male lead desperately turns his head away.

In fact, in Liu Cixin's opinion, these plots are a bit routine, but it can be seen from the audience's reaction that the effect is very good, and the audience finds it very interesting to hear the two people quarreling.

And in the movie, it is obvious that the love has been cultivated between the two, unlike the novel, which is vague and hazy.

It is also because the love between the two is more obvious, so after knowing the truth later, the male protagonist's emotional changes are very intense.

Audiences who have read the original work are all aware of the difference between the movie and the original work, while those who have not read the original work are directly stunned by the reversal of the ending.

It was obviously such a happy scene before, but in a blink of an eye, it was so miserable?
At this time, they remembered the foreshadowing made in the early stage of the movie, such as the news the protagonist saw on the first day, such as the "eyes" without delay, and the heroine occasionally saying that she was lonely...

With a well-prepared reversal, not only will it not make people disgusted, but it will make people feel suddenly enlightened.

"So this is ah."

In the final ending, the dedication of the heroine and the endless loneliness she endured sublimated the theme of the film, and also made the audience feel lost. Some female audiences even wiped their tears silently.

After watching the whole movie, Liu Cixin suddenly remembered a "bottle theory" that Yu Dong said when he was talking about drama with Yu Dong.

At that time, Yu Dong used bottles to summarize various types of dramas. When talking about tragedies, Yu Dong said: A broken bottle is a tragedy, but if you want people to remember this tragedy, it must be a beautiful bottle.

This movie is a bit like this theory. A beautiful picture is being painted in the early stage, and some audiences are already looking forward to the scene that the hero and heroine want to see.But later, this picture was shattered by the director.

From a dramatic point of view, his original novel does not do this well enough.Of course, a novel is a novel and a movie is a movie, two different things in themselves.

Liu Cixin was staring at the big screen in a daze when suddenly there was applause and cheers from the cinema.

He took a closer look, and it turned out that his name was in the curtain call.

Original: Bring her eyes.

Author: Liu Cixin.

For these colleagues, no matter what others say, it is not as effective as these two lines on the big screen.

It is a wonderful feeling to see the names of colleagues around you appear in the curtain calls of American blockbusters.

……

After the movie was over and they left the movie theater, their department leaders stood shoulder to shoulder with Liu Cixin and chatted about the movie for a while.

Knowing that "Bring Her Eyes" has been released in the United States, the leader asked curiously: "How is the box office of this movie in the United States? Are there many people watching it?"

Liu Cixin thought for a while and said, "President Yu from Deep Space told me two days ago that the box office performance in the ten days before the release was mediocre, and it seemed to be only in the early 1000 million."

"More than 1000 million." The leader smiled, "It's not bad, after all, I haven't found any big stars."

In the past two years, the Chinese people's perception threshold of the box office has increased. After all, there are several movies with a box office of tens of millions or even over 1000 million each year, so the figure of [-] million does not sound special.

The leader continued to comfort him: "Don't worry, although Americans don't buy it, I am still very optimistic about this movie. It is not a problem to cut 3000 to [-] million domestic box office."

Liu Cixin smiled and said nothing. He knew that the leader must have misunderstood. In fact, the 1000 million he said was not RMB but US dollars.

　Thank you [Gabriel] for the 100 reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)