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Chapter 180 A refreshing movie
The movie opens in the male protagonist's home when he was a child. The father is drinking wine and teaching his son Dundun.

"Life, this thing of life..."

"Unpredictable, everything is probability and opportunity, just like a twig floating in a stream, caught by a small stone, or trapped by a small eddy..."

In order to make the movie easier for foreigners to understand, not only did it have double subtitles in English and French, Gu Zhongyu also added English dubbing to the movie.

Many Chinese movies often have some special expressions or slang, these language habits are not easy for international audiences to understand, especially costume movies.After converting these dialogues into English dubbing, the audience can understand the movie content more intuitively and enjoy the movie better.

Although some viewers may think that the original dubbing is more in line with the traditional taste and artistic style of the film, "Ball Lightning" is a modern science fiction film, and the words in it do not have a strong Chinese cultural flavor, so the dubbing does not actually have any impact.

Of course, this also depends on the specific situation. Some Chinese-language movies need to maintain their original flavor and be presented in the original Chinese sound.

With English dubbing, even foreigners who know nothing about Chinese can easily see it. Although Asians are still a little face blind, Gu Zhongyu's facial features are quite recognizable, so everyone watched it with relish.

The entire first half of the movie "Ball Lightning" is full of suspense. There are not many special effects scenes, but the dialogue between the characters is very interesting. There are not only many philosophical dialogues, but also many scientific ones. The discussion was all centered around ball lightning, a logistics phenomenon that exists in real life, which gave many film critics and audiences a refreshing feeling.

In this day and age, science fiction movies like this are actually very rare.

This year is 2012. Superhero movies have not yet dominated the market, but there are already signs of it. The living space of other types of Hollywood movies is beginning to be squeezed, and special effects are increasingly valued, thereby neglecting plot and connotation.

In 2012, when the future and the possible doomsday of mankind are discussed every day, science fiction movies seem a bit weak.A very important factor is that science fiction, as an element, has become generalized and even rampant in movies (especially commercial blockbusters).

Commercial blockbusters such as "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", "The Amazing Spider-Man", "The Avengers" and even "The Bourne Supremacy" and "4: Skyfall" are full of science fiction content: "The Dark Knight Rises" is super handsome The Batmobile and Batplane, the drug that can change human DNA in "The Amazing Spider-Man", the super airship in "The Avengers", and the drug that can control people's minds and behaviors in "The Bourne Supremacy".

But according to the strict standards of the IMDb website, these can only be regarded as fantasy/action movies, not standard sci-fi movies.

The generalization of science fiction elements is nothing new. For example, most of the superhero movies that have proliferated in recent years contain science fiction elements.The generalization of science fiction elements, on the one hand, shows that science fiction movies have a huge influence, and science fiction has become one of the indispensable common techniques in movies; on the other hand, it also makes the audience become more and more numb to "science fiction elements", and many science fiction creative ideas They have all become cliche and can be seen everywhere without any new ideas.

The intensive presence of science fiction elements in "Star Wars" once excited the audience. Nowadays, science fiction concepts such as robots, death rays, space travel, superpowers, and alien invaders are difficult to excite the audience.The sci-fi nature of commercial blockbusters has, to a certain extent, eliminated the unique charm of sci-fi movies, turning sci-fi elements into embellishments and gimmicks (such as Nolan’s Batman series).In this way, commercial films focusing on science fiction have to use science fiction elements and concepts to the extreme, constantly exaggerating and amplifying, and creating more exciting spectacles to attract audiences.

Contemporary science fiction commercial blockbusters are actually deficient in ideas and perspectives. They lack the sharpness, boldness, paranoia or even fantasy of the science fiction movies from the 80s to the [-]s.Therefore, today's science fiction commercial films always seem to be uneven and difficult to chew and savor.Bizarre science fiction movies like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Escape from New York," "The Thing" and "The Thing" are hard to see these days.

But "Ball Lightning" brings people a completely different feeling. The film shows Bunin's style of romance and nostalgia, sacrifice and loftiness, strong self-esteem of nationalism, views on industrialization, "hearing the way in the morning, dying in the evening". "It's okay" and no hesitation, these are things rarely seen in current assembly-line science fiction films.

The background and tone of the movie are gradually revealed. It is the childhood of the protagonist and the author. It is the eternal gray sky in North China, the residential buildings in the shape of matchboxes, the compound piled with sundries, the simple life and Warm memories, and old friends who have passed away but never seem to leave.

On top of this background are the frigid ice fields and vast winds of Siberia, the forgotten scientific research bases of the former Soviet Union, the warm stoves in the forest huts, and the old scientists sitting by the fire smiling wryly at the dreams of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the building. Sour.What echoes silently among all these images is the fate of man, the killer bees on the battlefield!

As the movie progressed to the desert base experiment, the mysterious phenomenon of ball lightning was gradually unraveled.

The electrons as big as balls, the macro universe that exists independently of our world, the quantum state between life and death, and the wild imagination are even more amazing!
As guests, Shalizi and DiCaprio also went from being careless at the beginning to fully immersing themselves in the movie.

As actors, they are more professional, they see the difference between this movie and Hollywood science fiction films, and they also agree with the hero and heroine's exploratory spirit of risking everything for the sake of knowledge.

Gu Zhongyu, who was sitting in the front, heard the constant exclamations and praises from the foreigners in the back row, and knew that this movie should be solid.

The film finally came to the first official date after the initial success of the experiment. Lin Yun played the piano for the hero. As the music progressed, Chen Guang stared at the lonely Lin Yun. The movie ended abruptly here...

The audience felt that they were still unsatisfied, but the subsequent subtitles told everyone that this was only the first part, and there would be a sequel later, and the Easter eggs at the end of the film were also very surprising. I didn't expect that there are such weird physical miracles in the world!
At the end of the screening, there was thunderous applause in the hall!
Feeling the atmosphere of the scene, Gu Zhongyu and Guo Fan finally smiled smugly, and Yang Mi couldn't even close his mouth. He didn't expect that he would have a day in Cannes, and finally he didn't let Gu Delai play for nothing!
During the applause, Shalizi stood up and hugged him, and DiCaprio also congratulated them on becoming famous in the movie.

In the crowd, Gao Yuanyuan and Fan Binbin looked at Gu Zhongyu with complicated expressions, feeling both joy and unwillingness. They also wanted to go up and hug Gu Zhongyu, but the aura of Sha Liz, an international movie queen, was too strong, so they didn't dare. Go up and fight her.

(End of this chapter)