The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 519: Already Lost Strategically

Good-looking movies time flies faster, "The Wandering Earth" fully proves this.

"...In the third stage, in order to avoid the collision between the earth and the moon, hydrogen and oxygen deflagration is used to push the moon away from its original orbit...

Afterwards, the ten thousand planetary engines started synchronously... The earth revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit, accelerating in a ten-year "gravitational slingshot"...

…In 2075, when the orbits of the Earth and Jupiter overlap, the Earth will use Jupiter’s gravity to make a final acceleration sprint…

...and then break away from the gravity of the sun and officially embark on a journey of wandering.

In the fourth stage, after the earth escapes from the solar system...the planetary engine is fully powered...it will take 500 years to accelerate to five thousandths of the speed of light...

In the fifth stage, the earth enters the target star: Alpha Centauri galaxy orbit, arrives at the new home, and becomes a new member of the target star system. "

A faint light shines on the vast white enemy, and the roar of the planetary engine becomes louder and louder.

The camera retreats from the ground all the way to space, passing by majestic planetary engines.

The small planet dragged the blue tail flame of the fusion engine and the thrown atmosphere, like a comet, flying towards the vast unknown universe.

Immediately there was warm applause, turning the theater into an awards show for the Shanghai Film Festival.

Guan Hu said to Liang Jing who was beside him with some emotion: "I have participated in the opening film screenings of the Shanghai Film Festival several times, but the applause at the end of all previous film screenings is far worse than now."

Applause and cheers are a routine etiquette for this kind of film screening, especially the opening film screening. In the past, the opening films of the Shanghai Film Festival were either "beads" that were not shortlisted for the main competition unit, or films that were about to be released.

Most of them are literary films or small and medium-cost films. It is indeed the first time that a commercial blockbuster of the size of "The Wandering Earth" is used as the opening film.

Of course, this is not considered deviant. After all, Hollywood blockbusters sometimes land in Cannes or Venice. As the opening film, it is a win-win thing to promote yourself and increase the attention of the film festival.

Liang Jing seemed to be comforting herself and her husband: "This only shows that most people still like commercial blockbusters."

In fact, despite the fact that the main dishes of the Metropolis Film Festival are domestic and foreign literary films, most of the people attending the red carpet and opening ceremony are celebrities, and there are even Internet celebrities invited by the brand. Many ordinary viewers who bought tickets for the film festival.

Seriously, how many of these stars and reporters really love the literary films that were screened at the opening of the film festival in the past?

Of all the films shown at the festival, "The Wandering Earth" is definitely the most popular, and the one that suits most people's appetites.

"If "Apocalypse Eight Hundred" was used as the opening film, I bet the applause would not be lower than it is now."

Even though she was shocked several times while watching the film, Liang Jing did not intend to admit defeat at all, and her confidence in "Eight Hundred" was still very firm.

Guan Hu shook his head: "It's not that simple."

To be honest, the background involved in "The Wandering Earth" - predicting the helium flash of the sun, all human beings on the earth formed a joint earth government, and built many reverse propellers near the equator in a whimsical way, so as to reduce the gravitational force of the earth's rotation It is offset, and then the earth is pushed away from the solar system, and human beings are driven to wander.

This idea is indeed quite novel, and it contains majestic momentum in romantic science fiction.

This is a sci-fi setting that has never been thought of before. It can be called the coexistence of hardcore and unconstrained style.

Subterranean shelters after that, 35 billion human sacrifices, saturated rescue concepts rarely seen in commercial action movies - which would reduce the narrative intensity of individual heroism - and "igniting Jupiter" to push the earth back into its capture The sci-fi concepts of Destiny are amazing.

Moreover, this novel sci-fi story is told extremely smoothly, with thrilling action scenes in space, gunfight conflicts on the ground, adventurous rescue, road adventures in extreme environments, and the race against time at the last moment.

This is basically a one-pot stew, a sci-fi movie has the plot of many types of movies.

Chef Guo Fan perfectly blends so many different ingredients and flavors.

But this was not a few years ago, to be exact, it was not before Chen Jingxing appeared.

Domestic sci-fi movies are no longer what they used to be.

It is not uncommon to have a wild imagination and a grand and romantic mind.

Although every time it still makes people wonder where this imagination comes from, and every time they can get surprises, the quality of "The Wandering Earth" does not exceed the upper limit of people's imagination and expectations of DreamWorks.

Just need to admit, DreamWorks once again put out a good work of science fiction.

This fact once again makes people sigh and envy, but it does not subvert it.

For Guan Hu, this is just a less than ideal situation that was predicted before.

While colleagues were hoping that DreamWorks would miss out this time around, or even if it wasn't a bad film, it's okay to be mediocre and disappointing.

But this is the most optimistic expectation, and usually optimistic expectations are not easy to happen, especially when your opponent is DreamWorks.

As Jingying, the stakeholder who is most vigilant about "The Wandering Earth", it is normal to predict the quality of "The Wandering Earth" with the most pessimistic attitude.

Perhaps it was because he had made sufficient psychological preparations beforehand that Guan Hu didn't have the feeling of astonishment and pessimism that "the opponent is so powerful".

And even though he kept admiring Guo Fan's narrative techniques in his heart, how delicate the way he handled a certain scene in a certain scene, Guan Hu didn't look up to Guo Fan.

Guan Hu is an extremely confident person. He has also been hailed by the media as a genius director, and he believes that his talent exceeds most domestic directors, including Guo Fan.

If there was any real gap in fame and achievement between him and Guo Fan, it was also caused by Chen Jingxing.

Therefore, even though he was shocked several times in the process of watching the movie, Guan Hu did not lose confidence in himself and "Eight Hundred Revelations".

But even though he was prepared, he still inevitably felt a trace of frustration and frustration.

This is what Guan Hu can only feel when he is in his current position.

What frightened him the most about "The Wandering Earth" was not the unrestrained imagination that day, the intense and exciting plot, or the perfect blend of three-line narratives, but that he really built a movie universe with enough scalability and room for imagination!
Age of brakes, age of escape, age of accelerated wandering, age of decelerated wandering, and the age of the new sun.

This 2500-year, one-hundred-generation process of wandering with the ball, such an epic sci-fi background, has been calmly narrated in the romantic and grand portrayal of this movie, and it touches people's hearts.

A world view beyond imagination has been established.

As long as "The Wandering Earth" is a box-office success -- which shouldn't be a surprise given the applause at this point -- what will that mean?

The framework of a series of films has been established.

Chen Jingxing's "Matrix" series and Chen Sicheng's "Tang Detective" series are recognized as the most successful series of films in Huaguo, and they have made all filmmakers fully aware of how powerful such successful series of films are.

Not to mention the final result, when "Matrix II" and "Tang Detective" II and III were released, they were called all evils and changes.

Although "Apocalypse of the Eight Hundreds" is the opening blockbuster of the summer season, it has an advantage over "The Wandering Earth" in terms of time and place, and the high-level executives of Beijing Film and Television, including Guan Hu, have confidence in "The Eight Hundreds".

But at this time, Guan Hu has realized that from a strategic point of view, "Eight Hundred" and "The Wandering Earth" are no longer competing at the same level.

What they are worried about is the quality of "The Wandering Earth", whether it has much box office stamina, how much interference it will cause to "The Eight Hundred", which premiered two weeks after the release of "The Wandering Earth", and whether it will make "The Eight Hundred" Unable to achieve ideal box office.

And the obsession of a certain kind of loyalty buried in the heart.

It is not only Jingying's reluctance to DreamWorks, a rising star, but also Guan Hu's demonstration against the younger filmmakers.

Dreamworks, a young comrade who doesn't talk about martial arts, has almost no traditional studios that haven't suffered from him.

Jingying has been the victim of hardships several times.

As a veteran studio, even the former boss, in the face of the decline in recent years and the impact of DreamWorks, "Apocalypse Eight Hundred" is also regarded as a symbol of revival.

After all, "The Wandering Earth" and "Eight Hundred" have been set for half a month, so there is no head-on competition. Beijing Film Group's emphasis on "The Wandering Earth" and its awareness of competition from top to bottom are not only "snatching the opening film of the film festival". In addition to "resentment", it also includes the emotional disputes caused by years of grievances.

The idea of ​​surpassing "The Wandering Earth" in terms of popularity and box office results is enough to make many people in Beijing Film and Television understand their ideas.

But in Guan Hu's view, DreamWorks has jumped out of this game.

What people are doing now is not gaining and losing in one city and one place, but creating a movie series, a movie universe.

Even though DreamWorks had made such a statement before, listening to DreamWorks' "boasting" and having the facts right in front of your eyes are obviously two different things.

So what if the box office performance of "Eight Hundred" can surpass that of "The Wandering Earth"?
"Eight Hundred" is the only one, and "The Wandering Earth" is likely to be the golden hen after "Matrix", or even a golden hen bigger than "Matrix". It is a cash cow. After all, it is a grand epic of 2500 years With the history as the background, the extensible imagination is astonishing.

The hidden emotional conflict between him and Jingying seemed a little ridiculous at this time.

If he was Guan Hu a few years ago, he would naturally not feel so strongly, but now that he has become the top director of Jingying, he can be regarded as promoted to a capitalist-the director can no longer be a simple director when he becomes a big director. The exceptions are businessmen.

Only when I have reached this position can I truly feel this sense of powerlessness in front of a movie like "The Wandering Earth".

(End of this chapter)