I went to the internal screening room of Flowserve to watch Mars Rescue in advance, and it has been more than a week now. Please write a few words before the second scan.
I like the original work of Mars Rescue very much. I read it for several days in the middle of the night. I often laughed inexplicably and scared the people next to me. It can be said that I have never read a book about engineers like this. From the perspective of the engineer, the thinking of the engineer , Nakedly presents the terrifying power and amusing nature of engineers. Since this novel has a special sense of picture, it seems that I have watched the movie once when I read it, but at the same time I am worried about the movie, because obviously many technical details are not easy to tell in movie language. There are spoilers next.
After watching the movie, I feel that the screenwriter and director have solved the above problems ingeniously, although they have caused other problems. For example, the unburned hydrogen accumulated in the water produced in the book almost killed Mark. He was so scared that he ran into the rover, and ran back after detailed calculations. He was terrified to remove hydrogen, but he still exploded because he didn't count the exhaled gas. This is too complicated. The movie was directly processed as the first step of water production, and there was an explosion. The bombed Mark was burnt and smoked, and the scene was also very interesting. But at this time Mark said "I forgot to calculate the exhaled gas" and it doesn't make sense, because there is enough oxygen in the air in the water production stage, and the exhaled gas affects the oxygen ratio in the hydrogen removal stage. (Eh, if I heard it wrong Please remind me).
It seems that I have paid attention to too many boring details. When I first saw the solar panel, my first reaction was that its inclination was not 14 degrees as written in the book.
In addition, driving a long distance on Mars is an impossible mission in the original book. It has undergone many trials, is full of dangers, and has experienced various lessons (and the smell of the sky). When he finishes reading how to modify the three major The detailed mental journey of the piece, how to turn the impossible into possible, I found myself already reading on my knees. Of course it is impossible to shoot all of these in the movie, but the screenwriter has tried his best to get Mark to briefly talk about the three major things to be remodeled. As for drilling holes and digging boards, dismantling the east wall to make up the west wall, transforming the trailer, all kinds of heavy physical work, I won't go into details at all, but I was surprised that every detail was flashed in the camera. There are so many shots like this in the whole film, fast and accurate. If you read the original book, you will know "oh this is the thing" right away. You can only rely on your brain to make up for the movie. The problem with this simplified processing is that Mark’s long journey looks warm and comfortable, not dangerous at all, and starving, because he often stops to see the scenery. Since the film cannot explain how the three pieces were cut, it cannot explain how the cutting of the oxygenator must stop moving on the day of gas production, and stopping moving is beckoning to death.
The series of causes and effects that ruined Pathfinder and lost contact with the earth have all been cut off. Although it is a pity, it seems to be a reasonable choice. The sandstorm crisis directly caused by the loss of connection was also deleted (there is no sandstorm? At least there is a car rollover, right? Sorry, the car rollover is also deleted). From the perspective of the rhythm of the movie, the final climax is either a sandstorm or a space rescue. If you can only choose one of the two, you must choose the space show. However, the negative effect of this is that it makes long-distance travel look simpler. After an inner monologue that enhances the atmosphere, Mark rushes to the MAV.
When I first heard that Matt Damon played the leading role, I was a bit shocked, because in my heart, Ma Da has always been an unsmiling and murderous agent. Even if I became an astronaut, I had to be a sinister killer astronaut. , It’s quite different from what I imagined to be funny than geek Mark Watney. Can you imagine Matt Damon using the cute unit of Pirate Ninja to do arithmetic problems seriously? Can you even imagine saying the word pirate-ninja from Matt Damon's mouth? But Ma's acting skills are not disappointing. You won't feel that in the movie, you won't feel that it's against you. Of course, the script has also made a little bit of adjustment to Mark's image. It will be more tough and persevering, less nervous and nonsensical, even if it is a joke. Be normal. In the movie, when NASA worried that Mark was lonely and depressed, he was thinking "Disco! Please! Why disco!", and the patient Mark in the book was thinking: "Aquaman can control whales for hair? Whales are mammals. makes no sense ah..."
With Ma Da's serious temperament, he can barely make the first joke, I don't think he can make the second joke.
The earthlings and the Hermes crew are not very concerned anyway. Feel free to shoot what you want, but for movie audiences, this part of the scene is easier to understand and empathize, so...not only the filming is very complete, Some dramas were also added, for example, the dead house engineer used dramatic body language to explain some plots of basic aerospace knowledge in front of the NASA boss (yes, he didn't even know it). It's a bit contrary to the common sense of the universe.
The last space jet rescue has been adapted to more Hollywood, you know the action scenes. Potential methods such as cable-cutting and gloves-cutting must be used if they are available, otherwise the audience will always feel itchy. After all, flying around is still very exciting, and it has also fulfilled Mark's Iron Man dream.
To sum up, this work is definitely worth going to the cinema to see the big screen, full of realistic space documentary science fiction, you should experience it. Then I also recommend the original novel, which can give you a different pleasure.
-2015.11.25
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