Science fiction movies are divided into "hard science fiction" and "soft science fiction". If it corresponds to science far-fetched, it should be that hard science fiction is related to science and technology, and soft science fiction is related to social science. If you directly correspond to the characteristics of movie performance, it can be clearly seen that hard science fiction movies win by scenes, and soft science fiction movies win by plot. This is also determined by the characteristics of the science category.
Science and engineering technology will have strong external manifestations, such as space shuttles, touchable computers, cloned sheep, and so on. No matter how magnificent the theory behind it and how complicated the details are, it will eventually be applied to simple objects. Therefore, the most prominent feature of hard science fiction movies is the sophisticated equipment from beginning to end, such as the pannier tank in "Star Wars", the super large space station Death Star, the laser sword, the cloned soldier, the flying spaceship fighter plane and so on. . Since this kind of movie wants to win with the scene, it must highlight the "super cool" and "super cool" characteristics of the real thing. So a lot of special effects and props must be applied to fill the entire film. The most typical hard science fiction movies such as "Star Warriors", "The Fifth Element", "Jurassic Park", "The Matrix", "X-Men", "Avatar", "Iron Man" and so on, all with gorgeous pictures, sophisticated Special effects to conquer the audience. Considering the production cost, such films are all in the form of single-episode feature films, which are obviously made into drama series.
Social sciences are all theories on paper. Although they are closely related to people's lives, their manifestations tend to be long-lasting, slow, and latent. Therefore, soft science fiction movies must explain the "reason" with plot promotion. Compared with hard science fiction, its value is reflected in storytelling rather than expressiveness. Deducing a "truth" is not an easy task. It cannot be propagated mechanically, otherwise it will not have the entertaining nature of the film, and it must unknowingly give the audience a sense of "epidemic". Therefore, the portrayal of the characters and the design of the plot will be very important. Because this kind of film only relies on the characters to promote the plot logically, can the audience really convince the "reason" of the film. Without this, the value of soft science fiction movies will disappear. The representative works of this kind of movies are "Matrix Animation", "Moon", "Battlestar Galactica" and "Lost". In fact, the most representative works are not movies, but novels such as "The Base" and "Three Body". Take "Base" as an example, the most powerful equipment is nothing but a nuclear-powered spacecraft, which can only be regarded as an entry-level equipment in hard science fiction, but the "social development psychology" it expounds absolutely has important practical significance. He wrote five books and hundreds of thousands of words, and wrote a simple truth, "The basic conditions for the continued existence and development of human society are neither pagans all over the world, nor a harmonious society that seeks common ground while reserving differences. It can only be the world. The world of Datong". It looks quite communist. :)
Therefore, although there are thousands of sci-fi movies, not all sci-fi movies can satisfy our appetite. We know what we want, we can choose the right type of film to fully satisfy our appetite. If you are extremely clever, curious, and your responsibility to live and learn, then pay more attention to soft science fiction films. And the hormones are high, hyperactive, trendy and fashionable. If you have money, you can watch IMAX and pay more attention to physical entertainment than spiritual entertainment. You can choose more hard science fiction to see that you will not waste your time and achieve happy effects. After all, the gorgeous special effects of "Super Battleship" are more suitable as the raw material for hamburgers than the tedious and tedious plot of "Battlestar Galactica".
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