The second half of the 20th century was a blowout period of science fiction. Many of the most powerful works were produced at that time. The writers were like a group opened up, and when looking at the Milky Way, they burst out extremely advanced, romantic and imaginative concepts.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" created a mother ship system, which was later used up. Basically, as long as there is a plot to explore the unknown, there are smart mother ships. I remember that there were also tablet computers, dormant capsules, anti-gravity systems, moon bases, and Blackstone. Some were used as basic settings by current sci-fi creations, and some became real products. There is also the "ST" series of TVs that accompany the growth of the people of a certain country, with great humanistic care and future prospects. I still remember someone said that the first encounter with the face-holding bug in "Alien I" was called the most touching image of the exploration of alien life in the entire movie history. Of course, although the insects in this "Star River Fleet" are also high-IQ creatures, the setting does not seem to be as impressive as the aliens. I think they are also a bee colony structure. I don’t know why this social structure is regarded as an advanced system by many types of novels. I think it might be an allusion to a centralized and authoritarian society in the original work.
The original novel was translated into "Star River Paratrooper" to distinguish it from the film. One emphasizes the collective and the other emphasizes the individual, which coincides with the focus of the film and the original. The original book pays more attention to the process of the protagonist becoming a citizen, and the movie pays more attention to the adrenaline of the audience.
We can see the continuation of many existing models. The Army and Air Force have been transformed into a Marine Corps and a Flying Corps, and then merged into a fleet to achieve the integration of sea, land and air. This has become a common setting in many online novels with a fantasy future as the background. In the future, the Marine Corps can be equipped with exoskeleton and the flight team can fly mechs, so as to combine another common sci-fi line, but I still don’t like mechs. However, perhaps because imagination is limited to some extent by the level of technology at the time, the most powerful weapon in the film is the nuclear bomb. And when the male protagonist used a cannon barrel to fire a nuclear warhead when he bombed the wormhole, how could he hang it so unscientific? What I don’t understand is why everyone uses laser beams to shoot during training, but downshifts to machine guns when going on the battlefield? If the laser beam has no recoil, there is no need to end the gun with both hands. The Marine Corps of the male lead is still training for somehow, and the girlfriend has just started the battleship. What kind of development is this? You can drive it well, even if you adjust the autopilot, you can change the route. Anyway, I'm very happy to see it, your face is green, and I'm yellow. At first, I was still thinking that Zerg just tortured and killed human beings. It didn't eat meat or suck blood, and couldn't determine the biological level based on the food chain. Later, I remembered that people only need the essence of the brain.
I used to think that this was just a standard commercial film sprinkled with blood, but now I think the Zerg setting has something to do with it. At the beginning of the film, the teacher of the anatomy class said that human beings always think that they are the longest of all things and are above the rules. They don't know that one person and one insect are actually not as big as we think. Her words are very interesting. In daily life, people usually look down on insects and lower arthropods because they are primates. When you have extreme contempt for something, you often "see it as an ant", which seems to be the highest level of contempt. However, think about what Liu Cixin said in "Three-Body I", how far humans and insects are in technology, for thousands of years, humans have still been unable to control or eliminate the ant pests that they look down upon. And human beings themselves are treated as insects by advanced life forms. If there is a conflict, will human beings survive? So, don't look down on the bugs, or slice you in minutes.
The original text has a strong political meaning, the federal government controls all mankind, and there are conspiracy theories, so I won’t talk about it here. It was originally given five stars, but why is there still a prom, football team, and cheesy love line in the future. Can the people of a certain country make progress? One star for this one.
I hope that in the not-too-distant future, we can have the opportunity to travel around the galaxy and embrace the stars. It's easy to be sad to say too much. In the eyes of latecomers, our era should belong to a transitional period. Technology has not been developed to the extent that humans can look back and introspect themselves. If you really want to develop Changyou Interstellar into a universally convenient technology within a hundred years, it will be useless not to count on a few technological explosions.
However, no one can take away the beautiful imagination of the future and the longing for the boundless universe. Because even though I am in a nutshell, I still consider myself the king of infinite space.
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