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Original: Biologist, her husband’s nickname "Ghost Bird", except for the trilogy, did not reveal her name. She is not a soldier, and neither is her husband (he is a doctor, and he is a doctor in the team when he enters the X area). Her husband is determined to go to the X area and their marriage is about to end. She has no interest in socializing and cheating, nor can she talk about silly things in bed with her husband. Basically, her only interest is natural ecology (she is not a cytologist, but an ecologist). She likes to stand alone in the tide. Observation of small ecological groups in pits and corners of cities is also her work for many years after graduating from university.
Movie: Lena, a biologist, has been in the army for seven years, teaching in university, very humorous, Kong Wu is powerful, wants to defeat the X area, is very affectionate with her husband (the kind of layman), crying at every turn (we cried several times in the film)... …Such a person, such a Hollywood role, will be complained by the ghost bird in the original, too vulgar, basically she has no so-called interesting soul, she is not unique at all.
In the original book, one of the reasons why the unique ghost bird is so important is that it is in contrast to the "ecological community" type of life/machine in the X area. The ghost bird’s ideas and countermeasures often go beyond the design of the X area. She survived tenaciously in the X area for thirty years (this is the third one). After the owl who accompanied her, who was suspected to be the incarnation of her husband, died, she was finally alienated into a thousand-eyed sea monster.
The original book discusses ecology, the relationship between ecology and life, and life forms. The movie only talks about cells and DNA? Don't tell me it's too old, but there is too much difference in the ideological structure. The final ending is Hollywood-style "kill the queen bee, all the other bee monsters will die, and it's over"...what the hell is this? ? ? What do you think of zone X?
I still recommend the audience who are interested in this story to take a look at the original. The first part can undoubtedly be read in one go. The second part and the third part are a bit difficult for impatient people, but when you finish reading, you will know this movie. It's too nuclear, too petty, too superficial, and too sorry for the movie. Is the art of film the only thing it can do? Not necessarily.
I have to add a few more. I have seen many comments saying that this story is not true, and there are many loopholes. For example, why did the United States send the five female protagonists to save the world at such an important juncture? Communication, borders, and so on. A bunch of problems... These problems are caused by Alex Garland's half-hearted adaptations. All the things in the original book can be justified, but the movie appears to be full of loopholes. These adaptations are not only the realization of destroying the big boss. The movie ending on the customs clearance is of no use.
The original work: Area X has existed for decades. In the early stage, the country exhausted its methods and sent tanks, aircraft, fleets and other things to the past. In the end, all of them disappeared. Humans could not help it. Then the South Border Bureau was set up to deal with it specifically because of the X area. It hasn't changed for many years, and the exploration of it has not made much progress. The headquarters still has the inner ghosts of the X area, so it gradually faded. When the heroine team entered, they were deceived to be the twelfth team. In fact, it is more than 60 teams. The reason why the players are all female is to test the X area. (But because of the so-called tension and Death line, the movie changed the heroine and husband to be soldiers, and must hurry to save the world... If you are in the early stage, how many of you guys will have your turn?)
There are also those signals, nothing works, Satellites can’t take images of it either. This is because the X area can distort time and space. If it falls into its “boundary” (the original is not transparent, the movie makes a layer of colored bubbles for visual effects), it will almost fall into a black hole. , To enter the X area, you can only enter through a specific “door”, which is not expressed in the movie, so it makes a mess.
In addition, as soon as a life enters the X area, its physical information has been completely copied. The X area can copy any form of life without doing anything, but the copy of memory probably needs another kind of "sucking." The way it works.
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Since there is some reading and response, please code more words.
First look at some behind-the-scenes information on IMDb:
1 Alex Garland has read only the first "Annihilation" of the "Forsaken South" trilogy, and the script was actually completed before the second one was published. His casting range is limited to actors he can meet during his production period and have worked with before, "Because he wanted to take the story in his own direction, he did not read the other two books while making the film in order to not be influenced by them." He wanted to follow his own meaning, so he didn't read the other two parts when shooting, so as not to be influenced by them.
(This is why he explained why the heroine chose Natalie Portman to play, because in the second part of "The Power", it is clearly written that the heroine Ghost Bird is an Asian mixed (the author assumes that she may be Asian Because the philosophical thinking of this set of books is Eastern), Portman’s appearance is a kind of Hollywood “whitewashing” behavior.)
2 When Garland was adapted, he did not re-read "Annihilation", but decided to adapt it into one. "like a dream of the book", a dream vaguely made through the memory of this book.
First, hehe, you are such an awesome man, why don't you create a dream by yourself, come to ruin this set of books?
3 Because of the unsatisfactory response to the screening, Paramount executive David Ellison worried that the film was "too complicated and too smart" for mainstream audiences, and asked for a recut that would attract the audience more, including making the heroine more attractive. Compassion, change the ending, etc. But producer Scott Rudin was on Garland's side and insisted on that. Then... Paramount sold the overseas copyright of this movie to Netflix, and it was released in theaters in the United States, Canada and China. The 40 million film production fee would not be collected. "Annihilation" hit the North American box office.
From this information, it can be seen that there was no sequel to this film adaptation at the beginning. The first one was already too smart and complicated. At the beginning, I bought the name of the Nebula Award winners, and I bought such a main line" A mutation area suddenly appeared somewhere, the heroine and several female scientists formed a small team to explore, the suspenseful and thrilling atmosphere process, and then ushered in the final result (the movie is done, the original is not done)". The current adaptation has indeed blocked the possibility of the follow-up of the original work. (Otherwise, Pharaoh, you are the manager?) So I use the movie to discuss the original, or discuss the X area of the movie, the logic of the South Border Bureau, basically meaningless, it is just some of Garland’s vague impression of the original , Some of his own pretense, specious.
Of course this is Hollywood, business, making money, no matter what your original book is, who can blame them? Paramount doesn't respect the original work at all, but what about Alex Garland? Let alone how he understood "Annihilation", what is his attitude? Knowing that there will not be a sequel, don't read the second and third part when it comes out. Does he really know enough about this story? Is there enough respect for this set of books? Why is he? (Alex Garland: I'm a screenwriter and director, and Paramount bought the right to adapt.)
Garland is undoubtedly a talented person, I like his "Mechanic Ji", but this time he is this" "Dream" well? The commerciality is broken, what about the literary and artistic qualities? How different is it from that main line of business? Even if he did not read the second and third parts, and only read the first part, his adaptation chose a completely different and mediocre philosophical core. The superficial understanding of life in the universe also made the charm of "Annihilation" completely lost. . (Or he can only adapt in this direction because of the requirements of the filmmaker? And this is too clever and complicated?)
Positrons and negative electrons are produced in pairs, but once they touch, they will be annihilated (Annihilation).
In "Annihilation", Annihilation is a code word. Psychologists (the director, the cancer in the movie) can use these code words to manipulate other team members who have received psychological adjustment training. Once she calls Annihilation, the team members will immediately and unconditionally commit suicide. But the heroine biologist gradually became unaffected in the X area, and finally the psychologist shouted annihilation to her over and over again, but the biologist had no response.
Positrons and negative electrons are like Adam and Eve. They represent different human individuals. It seems that each possesses "free will", or soul, whatever. The reason why seven billion people can be in a space without being annihilated is because of the natural distance, you can't see my mind, and I can't see your heart. This kind of distance is the foundation of this life form of human beings on earth, so it also brings all kinds of suspicions. This is everywhere in the trilogy. The first ghost bird and her husband are obviously the same kind of people, and they love each other very much. , But because of this distance, the suspicion almost broke; the second Southern Border Bureau and the General Bureau's intrigue, human civilization is dead, but they are still fighting for some sesame mung beans.
The two souls of human beings cannot be in contact with each other at zero distance, which means that they cannot really understand each other, nor can they contact and understand other creatures. Other lives, even those on earth, can't do it. This is the source of human sorrow and fear. The reason why we fear is because we are ignorant, and we are extremely self-righteous and pretentious. This is also the keynote of Cthulhu mythology and the keynote of "The Forsaken South." In fact, Garland's blasphemous adaptation of the original author, Jeff VanderMeer, I am angry and disgusted with his adaptation. If you think about it, it is also a product of this kind. The original author, film director, and audience, none of the souls can truly communicate.
Area X brings about annihilation. It can integrate all life of human beings and the entire earth, including material DNA information, including all soul will. This point is clearly described and metaphorical only in the first part. The consciousness of the dead can be incorporated into the complete body of the X area, and the X area can be freely distributed in form and will. For example, the pile under the trapdoor on the top of the lighthouse exceeds all. The expedition log of the total number of people in the team, such as the dolphin suspected to be the heroine's husband, such as the "light sense" in the heroine's body (the annihilation of electrons is a metaphor for photon pairs). The photon cannot be stationary, so it has no stationary mass, just like once a life melts into the X area, the matter and consciousness will not stop, but as part of the overall ecology, it will continue to repeat itself. Today can be a dolphin, tomorrow can be The owl, the day after tomorrow, becomes a human being... Do whatever it wants, and share information with all the different individuals before, without any distance, it has been annihilated. Annihilation does not mean destruction, nor does it mean creation, but transformation. Electrons are transformed into photons, and one biological form is transformed into another biological form.
Does the individual matter? Is it better to be composed of different individuals, or is it better to be integrated? Does the so-called free will really exist? Is the most unique ghost bird the answer to fighting zone X? These thoughts have been fully expressed in the first book, and the title of the book is called Annihilation. What do you want? The suicidal code that free will can be manipulated is called Annihilation, what do you want?
Then, Garland, what kind of refraction are you coming to make, the alienation of the material cells, the new combination of different lives (are they one?), facing the copy person and thinking "Who am I?" (to discuss this stuff, " "The Moon" is higher than you do not know where it is). Are you satirizing the original work or something? This movie shouldn't even be called "annihilation" because the things it thinks about have nothing to do with annihilation.
In the original book, this alien civilization life/machine that integrates thousands of individuals, this philosophical perspective, and this kind of science fiction is the fascinating feature of "Lost Southern Land". It proposes some new things, just The creation of science fiction stories has some new ways of playing. Faced with such a product, human beings need to consider not how to defeat it, but to reconsider whether their own form of life and civilization is really good, and whether it is more important to accept the X region in the vast universe. Beauty is more advanced?
Otherwise, with these old accents of this movie, can you agree that it beats "Three-Body"? Having said that, if Kong Ergou or anyone adapts "Three-Body" into such a story (not planning to make a sequel): A group of aliens, namely the Trisolarans, is going to invade the earth and build a stronghold on the earth to confuse some earthlings, the protagonist The group went deep into their nest through a series of clues and actions, and then killed a trisolaran BOSS. The other trisolarans naturally died (like "The Great Wall" fighting monsters). The trisolaran conspiracy was broken, and the humans got it again. Victory, the end.
The ending X area of "Annihilation" can be burned by a fire, just as the ending of the "Three-Body" movie does not have "You are bugs", all the shocks and deep thoughts in the original work are really annihilated. Can you be satisfied? How many three-body powder do you think will be satisfied? What about "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter"? Just ask those viewers who scold me, just because you don't love "The Lost Southland", do you not allow others to be angry with such an adaptation? This movie lacks basic respect for the original work!
If the original trilogy (even if only the first one) is the Leshan Giant Buddha, then this movie, this Garland’s "dream", is to move the Leshan Giant Buddha into a small movie theater for exhibition, and then Garland uses "My own will" knocked down a middle finger on the Buddha, then used a hammer to hit it, changing the form, and then painted some ghostly but actually no background paint, and finally moved this middle finger to the movie theater. Then said to the audience, "Look, this is the Leshan Giant Buddha."
You can marvel at this, I can also be angry and disgusted, this is where humans don't communicate. Also, I don't want to annihilate with you as a whole.
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