The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 277 2 minutes 40 seconds

Gravity Trailer?

Oh, it really means that Cao Cao Cao Cao will be here.

As soon as I saw my fans discussing this "alleged" movie, the trailer came out.

However, "Gravity" is a summer movie, and as the number one seeded contestant, it is reasonable to see the popularity of the trailer released now.

The "stage name" of Cheng Hongtao's film review is "Records Department", so fans call him Si Da.

The name of the Department of Records he gave came from the classic science fiction novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in the Rotten Kingdom.

Cheng Hongtao's political spectrum can be seen from the name he secretly picked up.

Lu Xun said it well, a person's political spectrum determines his position on everything, including film and television dramas of course.

Cheng Hongtao's film reviews naturally fit his political spectrum.

His film reviews basically treat imported films with the eyes of a lover, and the halo effect is very strong. If you describe it in terms of ratings, every foreign film basically has a nationality point.

He doesn't comment on bad movies, but he can find out the bright spots of passable movies.

For example, the plot of "The Jungle Book" is a bit mediocre, so he just skipped it, focusing on the special effects technology. Of course, the CG technology of this movie is really amazing.

As for domestic films, it is mainly based on complaints. Fortunately, the average quality of domestic films in recent years has been really good, and his sharp complaints are also very good.

For similar domestic movies, he will focus on picking out the bad parts to make complaints about. If it is a bad movie, he will have no scruples, and people will not be able to find faults.

It would have been no difficulty for him.

But the emergence of Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks has become a bug in the domestic film and television industry, and this bug is getting bigger and bigger, and it cannot be ignored more and more.

Cheng Hongtao's way of dealing with it is to turn a blind eye, just like treating many good domestic films in the past, and not to criticize them.

However, in the past year, the popularity of DreamWorks' film and television dramas has become more and more popular. There is really no way to completely "block".

Therefore, his approach is to praise good sci-fi ideas, and then pick out some shortcomings to make less serious criticisms in the tone and attitude of "prodding DreamWorks to continue to improve", so as to win "sensibility", "objectiveness" and "neutrality". reputation.

The only film review that does not contain "whip" on DreamWorks film and television dramas is the recent "Black Mirror", a large-scale film review that was reposted by many fans with a record high click-through rate—the second episode of "Black Mirror". The daughter's control and shielding mechanism are extended to the relationship between the country and the people-this is a film review before he praised "The Jungle Book".

Therefore, his style of film criticism is to tout the good foreign films and make complaints about the bad domestic films. Although there are exaggerations, he does not tell lies or confuse black and white. This is also Cheng Hongtao's cleverness.

And Lu Xun also said that a film critic will inevitably attract fans who share the same political spectrum as him.

Although Cheng Hongtao does not express political opinions, he naturally attracts fans who share the same thoughts through film reviews.

So when some fans praised the domestic special effects blockbusters that were inconsistent with his spectrum, he was still a little angry, and the timely rebuttals and sieges of other fans also made him feel relieved.

For "Gravity", a space sci-fi masterpiece that has been hyped by the media for more than a year, even people like Cheng Hongtao, who do not take this movie seriously, are curious.

Of course, after appreciating the revolutionary technological breakthrough of "The Jungle Book", he still has a mentality of looking down on the visual effects of "Gravity", as if he participated in the production of "The Jungle Book".

As a film critic who thinks he has a good understanding of the special effects of domestic movies, and even DreamWorks' works, he doesn't think that the special effects of "Gravity" will hit him in the face and overthrow what he and his fans have said. Comment the same opinion.

What was the last film that DreamWorks produced? Operation Mekong.

Although "The Mekong" is an industrial film, it does not have many special effects shots, and it is not a special effects blockbuster. The special effects part is far less than last year's "Illusion City".

The last one was "Source Code". After all, "Source Code" is a medium-investment sci-fi movie. The story and rhythm are at the top level of Hollywood, but the special effects really don't show much.

As for "Cosmic Super Battleship", which has been praised and even reversed the stereotype of domestic 3D inferior animation to a certain extent, its CG level and visual effects are not worth mentioning in Cheng Hongtao's opinion, even ordinary Hollywood 3D animation films are far behind. Not as good, let alone the level of "Children of the Forest".

Of course, he also understands that "Battleship" is just an animated series with limited production costs, so it is not suitable compared with animated films, but he still thinks that the ink that has been faintly touted as the top special effects studio in China will not be very high, especially when compared with Hollywood. compared to.

Of course, "Gravity" invited foreign special effects studios to produce special effects, which he knew, but inviting foreign special effects studios does not mean that the level of special effects can reach the level of Hollywood. The movie proves it.

In his opinion, "Monster Hunt" is considered to be the top level of special effects of this kind of film produced by foreign special effects companies, but it is also far from Hollywood's current first-class level. The monsters in it are designed with smooth skin, and even without Hair, that's enough proof.

Cheng Hongtao clicked on the hot news, swipe down, skipped a long paragraph, and entered the video page.

After DreamWorks' Silver Moonrise animation, the video plunged into total darkness.

White neat fonts emerged.

【Gravity

Works by Chen Jingxing]

In the soothing music of the piano, rows of small characters appeared and disappeared in the black screen one after another.

[600 kilometers from the earth

The temperature fluctuates between 100°C-125°C]

[There is no medium for sound transmission
no atmospheric pressure
no oxygen]

【Life cannot survive in space...】

And at the same time that lines of small characters silently appeared and disappeared, it was obvious that a low, soft and gentle male voice sounded simultaneously through the communicator.

Lei Jiayin?
Cheng Hongtao immediately recognized the owner of the voice, but the volume was not loud, as if whispering, he frowned and turned up the volume.

"...during my first spacewalk, guess what I thought when I saw a starry sky like this?"

"what idea?"

"After being drunk, I don't know that the sky is in the water, and the boat is full of dreams and the galaxy..."

"Tang poetry?"

"There is another sentence, the stars and the moon are bright and clear, and the river is in the sky...don't be too nervous. According to my experience, the more nervous you are, the slower your work efficiency will be...how do you feel?"

"what?"

"Poetry? I don't believe that a person will not have poetry springing up in his heart when he sees such a scene...Wenchang, Wenchang, do you have any corresponding poems to remind Dr. Ye?"

"...Actually, what I think of is my daughter...not an ancient poem, but a poem by Dylan Thomas...she asked me what this poem meant...before...going...on the hospital bed... …

Do not go gentle into that good night..."

Cheng Hongtao looked impatiently at the still pitch-black picture, the subtitles slowly appearing and disappearing, and the soft voices of male and female voices off-screen.

It is also the first time I have seen a trailer with a black screen for such a long time.

But then, the screen lit up.

The huge semi-circular outline that occupies half of the screen, the dim picture breaks the quiet darkness.

The gradually increasing brightness of the light outlines a line of gold along the curve of the semicircle.

The slender golden edge of the semicircle gradually turns into a dazzling white halo, and a blue planet reveals its magnificent face as the sun gradually moves.

The huge space station was also gradually forced out of hiding by the bright light.

The camera rotates and gradually advances, and an astronaut standing on a robotic arm and another astronaut wearing a space jetpack spacesuit floating not far from the space station come into view.

The white space station with a strong sci-fi feel, the intersecting core module, and the huge orange-red solar wing that can only be partially cut out in the picture.

Of course, there is also the blue planet below, which clearly shows that it is the east coast of Africa.

Brown, blue, white, continents, rivers, oceans and clouds painted in various colors like oil paintings.

The strong visual impact interrupted the complaints in Cheng Hongtao's mind, and even made him stop thinking for a while.

What brings visual impact is not just the magnificent picture like an oil painting, the huge space vehicle, and the outline of color and line from the light of stars.

There is also a visual shock like the fear of giants.

The earth, which occupies two-thirds of the screen, is so weird that even if it is only displayed on a computer screen with a small size, it can still bring obvious giant visual effects.

This shocking picture made the concepts of "special effects" and "CG" fly away in Cheng Hongtao's mind.

Obviously, he may not be able to judge the details and technical content of the special effects, but this kind of picture makes him unable to give birth to any idea of ​​​​pushing.

There is no meticulous hair processing, but it is more shocking than the visual spectacle of "The Jungle Book".

During the dialogue between the two astronauts and the ground, the perspective of the camera surrounds the two astronauts, showing almost 360 degrees of the entire visual spectacle of space. How magnificent the earth is, how quiet the dark starry sky is.

Then the piano sound changes from soothing and beautiful to dangerous and gradually intense.

More than a dozen fast bullets of white objects whose shape cannot be seen clearly pass through the screen.

A female astronaut on a long outstretched robotic arm tumbles as the space station spins after being hit, like a toy being pulled.

The huge spacecraft rolled and shattered, was torn apart by the impact, and began to disintegrate, and the debris covered the screen.

The camera follows the female astronaut as the mechanical arm is thrown and rotates, accompanied by the fierce percussion of the piano, the female voice's rapid breathing and shouting, and the voice of Lei Jiayin coming from the transparent mask.

Even though it was a small screen that didn't even take up the computer screen, and didn't even have a 3D effect, Cheng Hongtao in front of the computer felt a little dizzy.

The screen and music stopped abruptly, and the screen went black for a second before turning on again.

In the picture, only the astronaut played by Wu Yue is left alone, against the background of the earth that occupies half of the frame, he is constantly rolling in the dark starry sky with only faint spots.

There is no background music, only the sound of Wu Yue's breathing inside the mask and the constant cry of "Wenchang" for help.

The sun is about to eclipse the edge of the earth.

The sunlight gradually changed from white to gold, then faded to orange and red.

Unable to stop the tumbling inertia, the astronaut gradually disappeared in the dim light under the red light until it was pitch black.

Only Wu Yue's unremitting call was in the darkness, and the voice became farther and farther away, and became weaker...

Cheng Hongtao recovered from his daze and looked at the progress bar at the bottom of the video.

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But it gave him an unreal feeling as if he was in a dream.

(End of this chapter)