Author: Whale
★This article does not contain key plot spoilers★
Ten years ago, Chinese audiences named Nolan's "Inception of Dreams" the title of "screen spectacle." 10 years later, this title will also apply to "Creed" .
The structure of "Creed" is palindromic. The first half of the hero is like a new game, to understand and master the skills of survival and fighting in the reverse world, and all these skills are applied in the second half of the film to officially enter the game clearance. model.
Watching Nolan's movies is difficult for you to lose your mind, and your heart rate will follow the hurricane. After Shuang Hi, I can experience the fun of high-energy reversal in the form of the movie.
In order to help you understand this movie better, we have carefully sorted out the ten knowledge points that appeared in "Creed". Students in need can read it before watching the movie.
1. Entropy
The mysterious reverse weapons appearing in the film, their trajectory is opposite to the normal weapons, and the bullets can automatically return to the barrel from the bullet holes. It is said that they are made of nuclear fission reverse radiation, and entropy is also the opposite.
So what is entropy?
Entropy is a concept put forward by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius in 1854. It is a parameter introduced from the second law of thermodynamics.
In the most layman's terms, entropy is used to represent the degree of chaos in a system . The higher the entropy, the more chaotic the system, and vice versa, the more orderly the system.
Take the recent hot search #9000块巨擊擊會計夢業戰了# for example. When the puzzles are put together, the entropy value is the smallest, because they are all placed where they should be.
However, the husband tilted the tabletop in order to better take pictures, and the puzzles were instantly destroyed. At this time, the entropy suddenly increased because they were completely messed up.
It can be foreseen that their family will also maximize the entropy...
The second law of thermodynamics defines that heat cannot be transferred spontaneously from a low-temperature object to a high-temperature object. In terms of entropy, it means that things in the world cannot spontaneously tend to be orderly, but become increasingly chaotic . This is the so-called The law of entropy increase.
In this case, once entropy is reversed, there will be a "reverse application" from disorder to order.
In this movie, you can see that the broken glass will instantly return to its original shape, and the car that had turned upside down will immediately "carp up" and return to the road.
This is not true in reality, but when things take on a completely different state than usual, it's hard not to be jaw-dropping.
Later, the meaning of entropy was also introduced into other fields, such as management. Peter Drucker , the master of management who once wrote "Innovation and Entrepreneurship," once said: "Management has to do only one thing, and that is to fight against entropy. increase."
2. Time clamp movement
When the protagonist returns to the past through the turnstile, people around him remind him to pay attention to the "time clamp movement." At the end of the battle, the red and blue teams also used time clamp movement to fight.
The most important feature of the pincer movement is symmetry . Whether it is the pincer movement of British office workers living in two places or the pincer offensive used in the defense of Stalingrad, both things echo each other-or the city. , Or the army.
The main body of the clamping motion in the movie is time. When a person is retrograde in time, he will have a symmetrical self in another time and space. His movements and trajectories are completely opposite to him in this time and space, and he must be in time. In this time and space, taking into account the self in another time and space, otherwise it will not be able to return.
Like "Interstellar" in Cooper in five-dimensional space-time can pass through their own bookshelves, see past himself, time line clamp motion, like in the mirror, once you find a moment in the mirror does not own, and it must Something happened.
However, when the time clamp moves, they are all opposite, and there is a certain time difference.
This kind of symmetry is also almost normal in the scientific field, as Nolan said: "Every law of physics is symmetric." Moreover, modern physicists believe that time reversal can also be achieved.
Let's take a look at the English title of the movie TENET and the overall fate of the characters. In fact, they all follow this symmetrical palindrome structure.
In fact, there are many behaviors in real life that are reversal of time and space. You post on Weibo, post to Moments, and read it again after many years. In fact, you are talking to your past self. When you use Huabei, aren't you spending money that belongs to the future?
3. Plutonium
The villain Sattar is painstakingly searching for nine algorithms that can change the world, one of which is plutonium, especially plutonium 241. He once picked up scattered plutonium when he was a child, and everyone else died because of it, but he survived.
Plutonium is a radioactive metal element, discovered by scientists in 1940. Plutonium can release high-energy helium nuclei, so it is used as a nuclear fuel and a fission agent for nuclear weapons. The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 was a uranium-plutonium bomb with a plutonium core.
There are twenty radioactive isotopes of plutonium. The longest lifespan is plutonium 244 with a half-life of 80.8 million years, and the shortest one is plutonium 241 with a half-life of only 14 years.
After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, plutonium 241 leaked from a nuclear accident was detected near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which once caused panic in the international community.
Plutonium is a huge hazard to the human body. Its toxicity is second only to polonium. There have been rumors that 5 grams of plutonium can poison all mankind (later dismissed). In 2017, the World Health Organization listed plutonium as a carcinogen.
4. Spy
Nolan did not use the theft type of "Inception" to shoot "Creed", but used the type of spy film, which is also his wish to achieve his own:
I am always ready to try the spy movie genre, which is what I have been looking forward to. I've loved secret agent movies since I was a kid. Its content is very interesting and exciting.
During the two world wars, espionage activities were already active, and in the following half a century of the Cold War, espionage played an important role.
They have a heavy responsibility to crack political secrets and are legendary. Therefore, spy novels also flourish. Among them, represented by Ian Fleming and John Le Carré , two different factions have been extended.
Ian Fleming's "007" James Bond is a romantic and suave, equipped with high-end equipment, and freely moving between intelligence agencies. It is a very romantic spy image.
In the books such as "Berlin Spy", "The Potmaker, Tailor, Soldier, and Spy" , John Le Carré portrays realist spies, full of complex humanity and fatalism.
The male protagonist of "Creed" is obviously more inclined to Ian Fleming's 007-style agent.
5.Kiev Trieste Oslo Tallinn
There are always some place names in the film that you haven't heard of. For example, can you tell which country these cities are located in?
"Creed" was filmed live in 7 countries , and the crew has moved to Estonia, Italy, India, Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Nolan believes that live shooting is necessary:
The global nature of the filming is consistent with the story, because it involves the threats faced by the entire world as a community, and these stakes are an indispensable part of the drama.
Okay, let's announce the answer below——
The Kiev Opera House where the terrorist incident occurred in the opening movie is located in Ukraine (but it was actually filmed in Linnahall, Tallinn, where the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games were held);
Trieste is located in Italy, a port city on the northeast coast of the Adriatic Sea;
Oslo is the capital of Norway. The plane crashing into the wall in the film happened in Oslo’s Freeport;
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
6. The hostage incident of the Moscow Theater
The terrorist attack at the Kiev Opera House at the beginning of the film makes people reminiscent of the real hostage incident in the Moscow Theater.
On October 23, 2002, forty or fifty Chechen kidnappers broke into the theater of the Cultural Palace building of the Moscow Bearing Factory, took more than 700 spectators, more than 100 actors and staff of the Cultural Palace there as hostages, and demanded that the Russian army withdraw from Chechnya.
The kidnappers had a confrontation with the police for three days and three nights. On the morning of October 26, the police used anesthetic gas to anesthetize everyone in the hall. 39 terrorists were killed and at least 129 hostages died from the anesthetic gas.
This incident was later filmed into the movie "Countdown" (also known as "Countdown to Life and Death"). The Russian government funded $7 million in funding for the filming, plus 8 helicopters and 6 fighter jets.
7. Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
Puglia mentioned Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project in the film. These two names are closely linked because Oppenheimer is the leader of the Manhattan Project .
During World War II, Germany tried to study the manufacture of atomic bombs. The US President Roosevelt , who had obtained the intelligence, responded quickly and began to implement the top secret Manhattan Project, to develop the atomic bomb before Germany.
In fact, in 1939, scientists only discovered the phenomenon of atomic fission in the laboratory, but it will soon be applied to the development of weapons of mass destruction. However, in order to end the war as soon as possible, Oppenheimer, Einstein , Fermi , von Neumann, and others have devoted themselves to the research on the application of atomic bomb technology.
After a complicated and difficult scientific research process, the world's first batch of atomic bombs was successfully developed in the Los Alamos laboratory.
In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which accelerated the end of World War II. Oppenheimer is also known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb."
8. Nine nuclear powers
In "Creed", the nine algorithms that concern the life and death of human beings have been disassembled and placed in nine countries to prevent unscrupulous people from getting it and endangering the lives of all mankind.
These nine countries are nine nuclear powers, namely the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel .
However, according to the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, countries that manufactured and exploded nuclear weapons before January 1, 1967 are legally nuclear countries, so only the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France can use it. For nuclear weapons, they happen to be the five permanent members of the Council. Other nuclear-armed countries are called illegal nuclear-armed countries. Among them, Israel has more nuclear warheads than the United Kingdom.
9. The grandfather's paradox
The villain Sattar in "Creed" went back in time and tried to kill all mankind, but the problem is that he killed his predecessors, wouldn't he also disappear in the future? Why does he bother so much?
Neal said this is called the grandfather paradox.
The grandfather's paradox was originally called the grandmother's paradox. It originated from the story told by French science fiction writer Herne Bachzaville in the 1943 novel "The Careless Traveler" .
If you go back to the past through the time tunnel and kill your grandmother before your father is born, then you will not be born in this world. Then, who killed your grandmother?
This can be explained by the parallel universe : when you go back to the past, you are actually entering another parallel universe, and what happens there will not affect what happens in this universe.
In addition, it can also be explained by the Novikov principle of self-consistency , which means that people can go back to the past, but they cannot change the course of history. If the traverser wants to do something that is inconsistent with the real world, there will be some power to stop him.
10.Goya
In the film, Catherine Barton sold a fake painting by Goya to her husband Sattar, but the husband who knew it seized her and made her unable to escape from the palm of her hand.
Francisco Goya 's work is now a hot lot in major auction houses in the world. His copper engraving "Bullfighting" created in 1816 was estimated at £500,000 at Sotheby's in London.
Goya was a court painter in the 18th century. His early Baroque style was dominated by his paintings, and "Maha in the Nude" was the most famous. In the later period, he developed a very expressive and disturbing style, and publicly accused the atrocities of war, the moral degradation of the church, and the social and political disasters, such as the famous "Shooting the insurgents on the night of May 3, 1808" " .
The works of Goya and Nolan are the same in spirit.
Goya's series of black paintings are the buds of the early dark winds. They were created a few years before his death. The paintings are black and gray and the themes are gloomy. The people in the paintings have ghostly expressions, like being possessed by the devil. It is chilling.
In recent years, Nolan has promoted the dark wind through superhero movies such as "Batman: The Dark Knight" . The story is dark, the villain is the protagonist, and the evil and pathological sense of religion and ritual exudes enough darkness to the bone.
In "Inception" in an abstract painting have appeared, it seems that Nolan really prefer this alternative aesthetic style.
Finally, add a few small knowledge points:
【1】
The secret codes of the hero's joint in the film are "This is a chaotic world" and "No enemies at dusk". He also joked that this is a poem by Whitman .
In fact, the 19th-century American poet Whitman did not write these two poems, but the words "chaos", "dusk", and "enemy" often appear in his work "Leaf of Grass" .
For example , the "Phantom" of "Mingyan Ji" wrote: "It will always be the beginning of chaos, it will always be a cyclical cycle, it is growth";
There is also a verse in "Song of Oneself" , "When I sniff the edge of the dusk, please look my face squarely";
In his poem "Reconciliation," it is mentioned that "because my enemy is dead, a person as holy as himself is dead".
Nolan also has a certain preference for poetry. In "Interstellar" he quoted the verse of British poet Dylan Thomas "Don't walk into that good night gently."
【2】
Catherine Button’s son offered to go to Pompeii. This former prosperous city was buried by volcanic ash ejected from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, and the writing of TENET was once found on the site of Pompeii.
【3】
Nolan is used to working with the same team, but this time, the soundtrack is no longer Hans Zimmer .
When he learned that his old partner could no longer cooperate due to schedule conflicts, he still had some nervousness. This enabled the Ministry of "Black Panther" soundtrack division Ludwig Gelan Song , his creation of electronic music with excellent bass shook the audience's eardrums, like a heartbeat adrenaline surge.
Producer Emma Thomas also said: "The new blood inspired Chris' creative energy."
【4】
In the final battle of the film, close-up shots of soldiers' watches appeared many times. This is the Khaki Navy BeLOWZERO watch specially customized for "Creed" by Hamilton .
This special edition watch uses a lightweight titanium case with a blue or red pointed second hand, symbolizing the classic color scheme in the film.
Prior to this, Hamilton Watch created " The Murph " (The Murph) for Nolan's "Interstellar" , which was highly sought after by fans; for the classic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" directed by Kubrick Designed the clock.
At present, Hamilton watches have appeared in more than 500 big screen movies.
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