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From the affectionate girl, to the sexy and charming elder sister, to the coquettish mature woman.
In Hollywood, only she can satisfy all men's fantasies about a woman- Jennifer Connelly .
In "Once Upon a Time in America," Jennifer Connelly played less than half a minute, but she became the first love of countless people on the screen.
Sexy is not terrible, what's terrible is that her sexy is fatal.
As he grew older, Jennifer Connelly began to experiment with different dramas, and his bold and avant-garde style made the audience stunned.
The goddess of the past will slowly take off her clothes and show her sexy without reservation.
Although he has starred in many popular works such as "The Boiling Point of Passion", "Flying Spirit", and "The City of Moving Souls", he did not get rid of the label of "Vase".
But she is very smart and knows how to choose the right script without being restricted by any film or character.
So in 2001, with the film "Beautiful Mind" directed by Ron Howard, Jennifer Connelly won the first Oscar statuette and finally won the recognition of Hollywood.
Few actresses like her can break into fame and make a man willing to bow down under the pomegranate skirt, and finally, with her superb acting skills, achieve a gorgeous turn and embark on the superstar's altar.
Unexpectedly, she, who has been active on the big screen, moved to the small screen this time, and once again surprised me.
The theme is bold, one episode breaks the ratings, Hollywood R-rated sci-fi drama, the goddess is the biggest attraction:
"Snow Country Train Season 1"丨Snowpiercer
Four years ago, news of the filming of "Snow Country Train" began one after another.
It wasn't until 2019 that the poster of the drama version was exposed at the San Diego Comic Show, which attracted widespread attention for a while.
Just by looking at the title of the show, you should be able to guess why this show is so exciting.
If 7 years ago, it was based on the IP effect. So now, there is still the halo blessing of the Oscar director.
In 2013, Feng Junhao made his fifth feature film "Snow Country Train".
After the movie was released, it not only broke the record for the highest box office of a local single, but also caused a huge response in Korean society.
For the drama version of "Snow Country Train", Feng Junhao served as the producer.
On the first day of its broadcast, "Snow Country Train" reached the top with 3.3 million ratings, breaking the highest record held by the TNT channel of "The Silent Angel The Alienist" in 2018.
However, not long after the broadcast, the ratings were declining at a rate that was visible to the naked eye, and word-of-mouth was also polarized.
The reason is that many viewers compare the drama version with the movie. In fact, the two versions are completely different stories.
In my opinion, the drama version is the closest to the original comics .
1. The past and present of "Snow Country Train"
"Snow Country Train" is adapted from the French comic "Le Transperceneige", which is a comic with a strong tragic color.
Compared with the film version and the drama version, the original is more cruel and dark.
In 1977, the French writer Jacques Robb had a novel idea, but shortly after writing, his partner Alexis passed away.
Five years later, it wasn't until the cartoonist Rochette joined that the first volume of "The Escaper" was born.
With the peculiar story setting and the minimalist black and white style, it has been loved by many comic fans.
Today, the manga has been regarded as the greatest science fiction masterpiece in the history of French comics .
However, the incident suddenly happened. Due to the death of the author Rob, the entire comic was forced to stop. As time passed, it was gradually forgotten.
During this period, Rochette always wanted to restart the comics, so he found Benjamin Legrand, and the two worked together to create the sequels "Survey Team" and "Interlace".
However, the sequel broke the setting of "the train never stops", and the style of painting has also undergone great changes, which makes it unacceptable for many original readers.
As expected, the sequel was reduced to a mediocre one.
But it was the opportunity of this adaptation that gave the manga a chance to be published in South Korea, and it was unexpectedly favored by Bong Joon-ho.
2. New footprints in the history of science fiction movies
One day in 2005, Bong Joon-ho came across a manga in a manga shop near Seoul National University.
Unexpectedly, he was deeply attracted by the stories in the comics, and he has been lingering in his mind.
Afterwards, Bong Joon-ho called Park Chan-wook and bought the rights to adapt the comics as a producer.
Eight years later, this classic Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster "Snow Country Train" was born.
The movie only took the setting of the comic "Ark Train" and made a drastic adaptation of the plot.
The background of the story takes place in the future. In order to reverse the greenhouse effect, humans launched a refrigerant code-named CW-7 into the atmosphere.
Unexpectedly, the unpredictable side effects pushed the earth into the abyss of extreme cold that would never be restored.
So a train full of survivors became Noah's Ark, a symbol of hope.
A train that never stops has become the epitome of the entire real society.
The 1001 carriages are divided according to the level of social class. The farther the carriages are, the more abundant resources they can enjoy, and the lower the carriages, the more severe they will be oppressed and enslaved.
As a result, the irreconcilable class contradictions led to the outbreak of a revolution that had been brewing for a long time.
Although the movie is a typical Hollywood heroic story, the ending is not a heroic ending that you would like to hear.
The so-called revolution turned into a complete joke in the end.
No matter how far human civilization has evolved and how rich material resources are, class differentiation will still exist.
The film version of "Snow Country Train" maintains Feng Junhao's consistent style, tearing open the naked reality with a dreamy technique, and finally perfectly compatible with business and art, breaking the stereotype of Hollywood in its own way.
However, after the movie was released, there were many bugs in the plot logic, and the ratings and reputation plummeted.
In the final analysis, the film version of "Snow Country Train" did not deal with the relationship between hypothesis and reality, which made the story have certain drawbacks.
Three, an excellent doomsday science fiction story
The drama version of "Snow Country Train" is based on the original comics and movies, and basically continues the background setting of "the end of the world."
Seven years after the temperature plummeted and the world turned into a frozen land, the few survivors boarded the train developed by Wilford Industries.
So this endless train has become both a sanctuary for human beings and a cage that restrains them.
But the drama version is not willing to copy the model of the film version, trying to create a new story on its own in the plot.
So at the beginning of the first episode, I simply added a short history to the person at the back of the car.
At the last moment of the Great Frozen Seal, the dignitaries boarded the Snow Country Train one after another. This move caused dissatisfaction among the civilians at the bottom of society.
So they launched a riot and broke into the 1001st carriage before the train started.
Compared with the film version, the civilians at the rear of the car were given the image of "resistors" from the very beginning , making their subsequent resistance "starting points" ambiguous and difficult to define.
Moreover, the "opposing relationship" on the train is no longer limited to people in different cars, and there may even be contradictions in the same car.
More importantly, the "triggering point" of the contradiction is no longer the upper-level oppression of the lower-level, but the limited living space.
In fact, there is a weird tradition in the American drama industry, that is, when the screenwriter does not know how the plot unfolds, a bizarre murder case will be introduced to solve the situation.
This will not only make the story more dramatic, but also arouse the audience's interest in the first place.
Therefore, the biggest highlight of the drama version of "Snow Country Train" is undoubtedly the whole story.
You know, the drama version has enough space than the movie version to conceive the plot in all directions and present a larger world view.
Instead of unilaterally depicting the gloom of the last carriage, you can also focus on the ugliness of the upper class.
4. The charm of dystopian themes
In fact, since the publication of George Orwell's "1984", the subject of dystopia has only begun to receive widespread attention.
As a result, a large number of movies with sci-fi shells came into being, such as "V for Vendetta", "District Nine", "The Matrix", "Son of Humanity".
Although "Snow Country Train" is also a subject of this type, it does not seem so pure.
At the beginning of the movie "Snow Country Train", the scene presented is a typical dystopia.
At the end, the two children walked out of the snow country train arm in arm, and the ice and snow world they saw gave the movie a "Utopia" label.
Such a profound ending creates a great contrast, and its irony is also very obvious.
The drama version uses science fiction as a selling point, wrapping the entire story with suspense, and in-depth realism of the content everywhere in the form.
In order to highlight the "political correctness" , the protagonist of the original work was changed from white to black.
Don't underestimate these details. What the director wants to show is not only the fate of the bottom people, but also a warning political fable.
Who can be sure that when the people in the last carriage successfully resist and establish a new order, there will not be another oppressive utopia?
After all, human beings always live in a certain system, but they have the dual desire to stay in the system and break through the system.
Wherever there are people, there will be a "Snow Country Train"!
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