Philip K. Dick is a well-known American science fiction writer. His works have been featured on the big screen many times, including the famous "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report." The former is a work of the famous director Ridley Scott in the 1980s, based on Philip's original novel "Do Robots Dream of Electronic Sheep?" "Adaptation, although the box office was not good when it was first released and the bad reviews continued, but with the passage of time, it has gradually become a classic in the hearts of movie fans, and it is also known as the pioneering work of "cult" movies. The latter is directed by Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise, and has a double harvest of box office film reviews. This year, it was developed by Fox into an American drama and put on TV screens.
"The Man in the High Castle" was published in 1962 and won the Hugo Award the following year. This Philip's representative work in his early years has been adapted into a film and television work, but the road has been twists and turns. In 2010, the BBC announced that it would work with Scott Studio to adapt the novel into a four-episode miniseries and put it on the screen. Scott himself will serve as the executive producer of the film. However, in 2013, media reports said that the development of the show became an American science fiction television station, but Scott's status as an executive producer remained unchanged. But then things took a dramatic turn. In October 2014, Amazon's Amazon Studio announced the launch of a pilot episode of the show, making the show one of the first self-produced episodes that Amazon has tested after entering the streaming media industry. . On January 15, 2015, the pilot episode was broadcast online, becoming the "most viewed" TV series pilot episode (Amazon Vice President Roy Price). Amazon then announced in February that it would renew the full season of the show, and it will be fully live by the end of the year.
The original setting of "The Man in the High Castle" is very bold. The author Philip K. Dick fictionalized a parallel world completely different from reality: World War II ended in the defeat of the Allies, and the world was divided by the victors of the war, Germany and Japan. The former U.S. territory, bounded by the Rocky Mountains in the middle, was divided into two colonial nations, each controlled by their respective overlords. But one of the writers in the book, the "Man in the High Castle" Hawthorne Abendsen, also constructed a virtual world in his novel "Heavy Grasshopper", that is, a world where fascism fails and the anti-fascist alliance finally wins. . Of course, the world in "Heavy Grasshopper" is similar to the real "reality", but it is also slightly different. There are many characters portrayed throughout the novel, some of whom know each other and some do not know each other, but they are all related to each other. The author draws on the ideas in the "Book of Changes" to construct the entire novel, making the work as a whole exude a unique temperament that is different from traditional Western science fiction.
The original author Philip once said that the ending of his novel was originally open. From this point of view, the adaptation of the TV series did follow the author's ideas. The entire series finally launched this time retains the original background settings and main characters, but drastically modified the plot, which can basically be called a re-creation. The heroine Juliana Craine lives in San Francisco under Japanese occupation. Her sister was killed by the authorities because she joined the resistance organization. Before she died, she handed her a film, the film "Heavy Grasshopper" made by "The Man in the High Castle". . In order to find out, Juliana boarded a shuttle bus to the "neutral zone", looking for her sister's linker, and met Joe Blake, a truck driver from New York City in the eastern German-occupied area. Joe's true identity is a lurking Nazi agent, whose purpose is to find "people in the high castle". There was a spark of love between the two, and the various choices they made afterwards constantly changed the existing trajectory of life. In addition, through the portrayal of the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Greater German Reich" (Greater German Reich), the Minister of Trade of the "Pacific States of America" and other figures, the power struggle within the German Third Reich and the German The background of the times such as the brewing of the prelude to the war between the two countries has been comprehensively laid out.
After the pilot episode went live, many viewers said that the plot of the play was lackluster, many places fell into cliche, and the rhythm of the story was slightly weaker. In fact, judging from the entire series on the line, this accusation also applies. However, there are indications that this is only the beginning of this series of dramas, the main purpose is to explain the background and elicit the characters. Based on the story setting of this play, subsequent episodes will have a larger breakthrough space in the advancement of the plot. At the same time, the biggest highlight of this play is that under the subversive background setting, it is a panoramic display of a fictional but extremely realistic parallel world. Times Square in New York in the 1960s in the German-occupied area, and the commercial districts of San Francisco, these "brain-opening" scenes, the play is based on reasonable imagination, carried out a very detailed restoration, plus the reference to the contemporary United States The appropriate use of Japanese classic music into the plot makes the whole drama extremely impactful in the visual and auditory senses.
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