However, it clearly failed me! The first half of the movie is basically the same as the novel. In the not-too-distant future, people have mastered the technology of time and space travel, so a special industry came into being - time and space hunting. Time and space to hunt what they are hunting, mammoths, dinosaurs, etc. But there is a strict rule, that is, hunters must strictly abide by the arrangements of the Time Hunting Company. People must hunt the designated target at the time designated by the hunting company, and people must also walk on the semi-floating anti-gravity walkways set up by the hunting company for each hunt. They can't step on any grass or tree, leave no trace, not even a footprint. The prey they hunt is also strictly calculated, and that prey is about to die, so even if they are hunted by them, it will not affect the development of history. In short, although they can go back to the past, they cannot change anything in the past, because even a tiny change to the past, after tens of thousands of years of accumulation and amplification (butterfly effect), will affect the future. Cause unpredictable major changes, even catastrophes. Written here, some people who have read similar science fiction thrillers can guess the following plot, in a time-traveling hunting, a small accident happened, a tourist walked out of the floating channel and stepped on a butterfly (very symbolically), and it turns out that when the group travels back to the future—the time they live in—their lives have undergone a terrifying change for them. The novel ends here, and the end of the novel is a sentence: a thunder!
Movies are not made this way in China. The novel is written like this and ends like this, and it can be a short masterpiece full of philosophical thinking and thought-provoking. But the film looks dull, boring, but exciting! So the movie also tells of a tourist who trampled a butterfly to death, but the disaster caused by it was multiplied by the screenwriters, and when the hunting party returned, it was discovered that humans might be destroyed by their mistakes. So the movie can be played at this point, and it is the heroes who overcome all obstacles, move forward bravely, and save mankind without fear of sacrifice, and recover the losses. A team of people with guns and guns traverses an unrecognizable city full of various mutant creatures to complete their mission. In the second half of the movie, the movie naturally returns to the old way of typical Hollywood sci-fi and action movies. But to be honest, the effect is really average, and it is very likely that it will not satisfy the audience who has been hooked, at least I don't think so! There is also the picture of the film, whether it is the future city or the primitive past, the production is really average, I wonder if the director advocates the retro style!
The original work is indeed an excellent work that is very attractive and thought-provoking, but I have to admit that if the original work is adapted into a movie, it may appear bland. People, without wonderful scenes, it is difficult for the audience to buy it by relying on the appeal of the original work. The film company has added a lot of terrifying, hot, exciting and thrilling scenes to the film, trying to make the film look good. Who would have thought that a tiger can't be an anti-dog! If the essence of the original work is not thoroughly studied and the essence of the original work is not filmed, the Hollywood plot that follows will not be able to save the situation. It may also be that he paid too much attention to the follow-up plot. The content of the original book was also shot so-so. It is said that Warners paid a lot of money for this film. I really don’t know where the money went?
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