After sitting down and reviewing the film quietly, eight characters came to my mind: simple and vigorous, serious and lively. That's right! This is how I feel about this year's first Sci-Fi blockbuster. The whole tone of the film is very comfortable. Even if it involves such deep themes as survival and death, loneliness and courage, the film does not force sensationalism, so it will not happen that watching "Interstellar Crossing" cry out to be a dad—— Speaking of "Interstellar", we might as well regard "Martian Rescue" as a parallel universe of the former. It is also Comrade Pony who lonely landed on an alien planet to die, and Dr. Mann of the former blackened and embarked on it. The scum of the pit teammates does not return, and the latter's little brother Mark is born "inspirational" and hard to give up. He relied on himself and wrote an immortal poem with a technical house.
This space version of survival in the wilderness story is calm and humorous most of the time, and I saw the laughter of the young and old around me. But if I want to say something that makes me laugh, it must be the moment when the "China National Space Administration" appeared. It turned out that the all-evil American emperor also has today. My family can't save my family, so I can only ask for help from the great eastern country. And my Great Heavenly Dynasty is also the Madonna of Strength. Although the director does not speak Chinese very well, he generously took out his own No. 1 secret to help, and the booster will leave you! The rocket ascends to the sky, the pony is saved, and at this moment, your rabbit's aura is 140 million miles.
What a touching international friendship, isn't it! Seeing thunderous applause from the audience-of course, this scene did not happen around me. This sentence is what I imagined when the film was released in China. I can almost see that when Chinese audiences see the peculiar Chinese elements in the film, the kind of reaction mixed with speechlessness, laughter, surprise, pride, etc. Warm picture. As for the film’s distributor Fox, he had already smirked when the audience was full.
Why China? After watching the movie, I looked through some American reviews, and the answer turned out to be very simple: this is how the original book is written. However, in the original book, it is conditional for China to readily help, that is, to place an astronaut on our side in future Mars missions. There is no performance in this exchange of conditions film, but directly at the end of the film to explain it, which shows that the cooperation between the two sides is full of human love and no political factors.
Is this the end of the problem? Of course not. Let me say that, outside of the movie's story itself, "The Martian" is a huge fable, a metaphor about how the Chinese save American movies.
In the not-too-distant future, Hollywood, as the top of the film industry, is already experimenting with cutting-edge production models, but the risks are huge. During the project development process, some films were evaluated as "dog-banded" by superiors, so half of them were given up, and the rest were ordered to return to the traditional model and target the American domestic market-but because they have gone too far, return also needs Look for North at a certain time. At the same time, the abandoned members of the project team persisted in making the film out of self-improvement, and sent a letter to their superiors in a trumpet: You can save it by watching our movie, and the project will be revitalized by some money! After all, the top Hollywood executives had spent their money at the beginning and wanted to save it, but the North American market was helpless, and the publicity was overwhelmed as soon as it was released for a long time. At this time, someone suggested: Let's ask the Chinese for help! The result is as you can see. Without the help of China (the market), movies will never go to heaven, and Americans will never be saved.
"The Martian" is such a metaphor. American critics once criticized the design of the main characters of the film as being “too central in the United States”, because in the future, neither NASA nor other agencies will be able to maintain the long-term operation of space exploration by relying on the power of a certain country. International cooperation is The only right way. I don’t know if the space agencies have understood the importance of international cooperation, but the film industry has already understood it. From the early studios working alone, to the later investment model of platter, and then to the later multinational platter, exploring Mars may only require NASA to come forward, but making a movie is no longer a company that dares to do it alone.
For Hollywood nowadays, China is just like the "sun god" in the film is to Xiao Ma, and it often acts as the savior of the world. It can even be said that even if the "little horses" of Hollywood can't grow potatoes at all, the Chinese dad can save the small horses as well. "Jupiter Ascends" North American word-of-mouth box office doubled, China still sent 280 million box office; "Transcendental Hacker" is shameful enough, but Depp came to China for a walk, and another blockbuster film over 100 million. So-do you understand why Duanmeng and 384 have to follow the director to come to China to sell laughs?
Although we have reason to believe that if someday Americans really want to borrow our secret rocket, our country’s response must be deep sympathy (serious face) but "no appointments, no appointments." However, in the film circle, China will not only engage in one In the quota system, there is really not much way to say no. As a super-large gold mine with a market for funds, China will be the "sun god" that Americans will never forget for a long time to come. In particular, China is expected to surpass North America to become the world's largest film market in 2017. What the Chinese can provide to the United States at that time is not just a booster.
The Director of the China Space Administration in "The Martian" has a Hong Kong face and speaks a lame Chinese language that Chinese people don’t understand. In fact, it reflects the current state of Hollywood’s mentality and docking in Sino-US cooperation: for the broad sense. "Chinese film", they are more familiar with the Hong Kong film model, and they trust the Hong Kong film industry more; and in specific operations, it is easier to find Hong Kong filmmakers to cooperate. As for the mainland film industry, which has the strongest momentum and the most representative of "Chinese films", Hollywood's feeling is basically a mysterious different dimension, completely incomprehensible, otherwise there will be no China National Space Administration in the film that makes you laugh. And the Chinese people who have left you speechless.
Under the gaze of people around the world, Xiao Ma was successfully saved by the copycat "Iron Man" in space. What does this show? It shows that even if the Chinese hegemony gives you some help, American commercial films are still the ultimate kingly way that Americans consider themselves to be. This is really too cunning.
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