If you have an understanding of popular conspiracy theories in American society, then you can easily find the difference between "Global Storm" and previous disaster blockbusters: humans and human technology have become disasters in the confrontation with the natural environment. The cause of sexual consequences, not the solution. And the core keywords, "government manipulation of the weather" and "global warming fraud", also replaced the traditional people-oriented for the first time: the status of human nature in the story is far lower than that of conspiracy theories. This is one of the few, if not the first, in liberal-dominated Hollywood and among the mainstream commercial productions.
The development of disaster movies, especially under the influence of the devastating madman Roland Emmerich, has successfully influenced a large number of movie viewers who have a special interest in visual effects, and has also biased the creative direction of current commercial movies. . But on the other hand, if the visual effects can determine the character of a disaster movie with one hand, it is definitely a misunderstanding of the movie itself. This kind of fallacy is the same as the above-mentioned widely spread conspiracy theories. The reason why they survive and spread is due to the lack of basic logic education: after all, there are five necessary and sufficient conditions, and the arguments and topics are unfounded and unfounded. Influencing the stubbornness of the word, just open your mouth-it can't stand scrutiny, it doesn't matter. After all, the threshold of being a shit stick is much lower than learning a bit of knowledge.
The separation between the scientific method and the mass society has a long history, but the mass society has never been separated from the scientific method.
For example, "Global Storm". Long before it was released, we had already seen many precursors of a "disaster-level" movie: the delayed release date, a large number of post-shots, and even the complete elimination of certain characters and the introduction of new characters. Compared with the frequent extreme weather in the past period of time, the level of chaos in the production of "Global Storm" is even higher. And the final result is naturally obvious: Compared with the predecessors of "The Day After Acquired", "2012" or even "The End of the Day", in addition to the CG special effects that cost a lot of money, "Global Storm" is extraordinarily stupid and boring.
A well-known conspiracy theory enthusiast, Dean Devlin, Emmerich’s long-term partner, personally came out after the fiasco of "Independence Day 2". He changed from a screenwriter/producer to directing and brought Jerry Brook Hymer and Skydance backed it up and presented such a spectacular visual effect, but there is no catastrophe movie. On the one hand, the film is extremely flattering with current affairs, implying that global warming has nothing to do with carbon emissions, and is a problem that can be easily solved by near-future technology; at the same time, it uses the target audience to know little about this aspect, and designs dozens of different Visual effects to show the scene of extreme weather destroying the homeland that would not occur scientifically and logically, subtly pushing the efforts of the scientific community to the opposite of the general public, and placing the protagonist of personal heroism with a highly conservative attitude. The moral high ground of the "Big Break Conspiracy Theory".
Anti-science under the banner of science is probably like this. Dean Devlin once again used entertainment as an excuse to plan a well-designed plot. The real motivation is to show the destructiveness of CG on the big screen as much as possible (and this purpose even Not implemented).
In other words, only real disaster artists can create real disaster movies.
"Global Storm" waited for more than a year, and finally waited for the time when the United States withdrew from the Paris Agreement, but the film itself was very different from "The Day After Tomorrow", and there was no willingness to discuss or arouse discussion of climate issues. Of course, we don’t want to see a commercial production with the influence and ideological consciousness of "An Inconvenient Truth", but Dean Devlin deliberately marginalizes basic science issues (named "Storm", But there is not even a real storm), so that the film loses the most basic credibility and becomes Gerald Butler's personal show.
In contrast, in almost all of Michael Clayton’s novels, the well-known author of science and technology thriller fiction expressed his concerns about technology itself, but he did not show disrespect for technology itself and pure technology practitioners. In the end, The object of reflection is always the human being. This also makes his works show a special humanistic charm while having a solid scientific foundation. In "Global Storm", the script co-created by Dean Devlin did not deconstruct the previous successful model, but plunged into a filthy conspiracy theory and packaged it with the latest CG, which is compatible with "Independence Day." Like 2", it seems outdated and unknowingly.
Perhaps one day, we can see Hollywood screenwriters telling a story that science makes the world a better place (such as a more Spielberg's "Tomorrowland"), but this is obviously far from the current Hollywood movies. .
In Dean Devlin’s career, he mostly participated in Roland Emmerich’s feature films as a screenwriter. This also explains the temperament of "Global Storm" and most Roland Emmerich movies. Of the same origin. Although Emmerich’s disaster movies often miss convincing roles, he mainly relies on the natural charm of the actor to make up for the obvious shortcomings in the script. In 2017, "Independence Day 2" and "Global Storm" cannot match the selection of actors as they did 20 years ago. As a result, the distracting effect of CG for the audience is greatly reduced, and there are also loopholes in the plot and setting. It seemed particularly dazzling-why did the abnormal weather suddenly disappear as soon as the virus was removed? Even if your target audience doesn't really care about science, but even the basic logic doesn't make sense, then it is too self-indulgent.
"Global Storm" should be the same as the title, making the storm the core and focus of the movie (such as "The Day After"), rather than the serious tough face of Gerald Butler. In this type of film, any lens that is not massively destructive is a waste of film.
Lack of imagination and stingy big scene shots, crude CG special effects, B-level art design, completely out of shape storylines and second-line actors, the US$120 million investment in "Global Storm" can be said to be deliberately thrown into the water. . A well-designed plot (and even more side plots for remakes) is meaningless, and even by the standards of an action movie, it seems extraordinarily stupid, and the villain is already obvious to the cast on the poster. degree.
Not all efforts can be simply measured by the time and money spent. Behind "Global Storm" and every failed movie in the past, there must be countless people's hard work, but when the initial direction is wrong, any The follow-up efforts are not worth regrets.
In short, the south is far from the north.
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