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Scifi channel releases several minis every year, I have watched or will watch it myself, and in recent years, I have done some light.
2002- Taken / Hijacking 2003- Battlestar
Galactica / Battlestar Galactica
2004- Legend of Earthsea / Legend of Earthsea Dark Kingdom: Dragon King 2002- Taken / Hijacked the "Taken / Support" series produced by Steven Spielberg in 2002, burning 40 million US dollars, a total of ten episodes, each about 90 minutes, supervised by ten different directors. Let's take a look at the various directors and their styles first. Tobe Hooper, director of episode01 Beyond the Sky. Tobe Hooper is a famous horror film "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/Texas Chain Saw Massacre/Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series creator, directed "Masters of Horror/Masters of Horror" an episode is his recent work. The general thinking of people who make horror movies is puzzle-like, and many unrelated clues are put together to form a complete puzzle at the end (the most typical example is the "The Grudge" series of Shimizu Tsao), so the first episode The same is true, the three main lines that are closely related to the whole story are entangled by the Roswell incident.
Breck Eisner, director of episode02 Jacob and Jesse.
Breck Eisner's relatively large-scale film should be 2005's "Sahara/Sahara", adventure style; all adventures always begin with peace, and this episode describes the countryside that is about to break the peace, which is almost like this The rhythm of the story about the origin of the second generation of JACOB and JESSE.
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, director of episode03 High Hopes.
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan directed Battlestar Galactica, Invasion, some episodes of Into the West. From the perspective of BSG and ITW, they are all very personalized or large-scale productions, which of course fully affirms the director's ability to drive slaves. This episode happened in 1962 and continued the story of Jacob and Jesse.
Bryan Spicer, director of episode 04 Acid Tests.
Bryan Spicer directed "The X Files/X-Files", "Dark Angel/Dark Angel", "CSI: Miami/Crime Scene: Miami Chapter", "House, MD/Monster Doctor House" and other works In some episodes, there are mixed people in the SF world and non-SF dramas, and it tells a story, somewhere in Alaska, where people similar to Jacob are mixed with ET.
Félix Enríquez Alcalá, director of episode05 Maintenance.
Félix Enríquez Alcalá has directed many non-SF series, including Lois & Clark/The New Adventures of Superman, ER/Spring in the ER, CSI/Crime Scene series, The Shield, The Unit/Secret Ops, etc., what I feel about directors like this is that they tell the story in a rhythmical way.
Thomas J. Wright, director of episode06 Charlie and Lisa.
Thomas J. Wright has directed TV series: "The X Files", "The Pretender", "Angel", "Dark Angel", "CSI/Crime Scene", "Angel" Smallville/Smallville", "One Tree Hill/Basketball Brothers", etc., the story of this episode should be handed over to such an experienced director. The time line of this episode's story jumps very frequently.
Jeremy Paul Kagan, director of episode07 God's Equation.
Jeremy Paul Kagan's works are more famous for "Ally McBeal/Ellie's Rabbit" and "The West Wing/The White House". The director's story is very smooth. This is the smoothest and most touching one I have seen. episodes, including the scene where the daughter orders her father to be shot. A lot, a lot happened all at once in this episode.
Jeff Woolnough, director of episode08 Dropping the Dishes.
Jeff Woolnough's directorial works include three popular SF dramas: "Stargate SG-1/Stargate SG1", "Dark Angel/Dark Angel", "Smallville/Smallville". This episode uses a lot of special effects stories and sets up a lot of puzzles, which are standard SF stories.
John Fawcett, director of episode09 John.
John Fawcett's credits include: Nikita, Ginger Snaps, Queer as Folk, and last year's adaptation of novelist Simon Maginn's 1997 best-selling thriller Sheep's horror movie The Dark. I don't know if it should be arranged this way on purpose, because the episode tile of this episode has the same name as the director.
Michael Katleman, director of episode 10 Taken.
Michael Katleman has directed some of the following series: "The X Files", "ER/Spring in the Emergency Room", "Gilmore Girls", "Dark Angel", "Smallville/Smallville" ", "Everwood/Everwood". As a retracted chapter, when the director tells the story to the end, you suddenly feel a power over you, and I attribute this feeling to Speilberg, who is the producer, because I often feel this way when watching his movies. .
PS. The works directed by the directors exemplified here may be before or after the director of T.
The whole story is mainly divided into four time periods, the first and second episodes occurred in 1940-1950; the third and fourth episodes occurred in 1960; the fifth and sixth episodes occurred in 1970-1990; the seventh, eighth, ninth, Ten episodes take place now. As far as the storytelling is concerned, the last four episodes will be relatively smooth to watch, the plot will be relatively coherent, and the rhythm will become quite fast and consistent.
Taken's slogan has this sentence: Some secrets we keep. Some are kept from us.
And Allie's little girl, Dakota Fanning, who was only eight or nine years old at the time, told her the secrets she wrote in her diary in each episode, which made people feel deeply. The following are some sentences from the little girl. . DF has also played important roles in "Charlotte's Web", "Hide and Seek", "War of the Worlds" (with Speilberg again), but I don't remember her. The character in Taken is impressive.
ep03
The world is made up of all kinds of things,
but some are called small things, some are called big things, things
that may be important to you are not at all dismissive
to others
ep04 When I
was a child, even soap bubbles or water pipes The rainbow of water that shoots out
can also take our attention away It's
just that as we get older these things become more and more alien to us
ep05
People sometimes go through life without really thinking about it
slowly and then , they become more sad and lonely
and they don't know why they are so sad and lonely
one day, something happens
they meet some special people
their smiles contain special feelings
maybe love is just ...
find someone who can make you feel less lonely
Sometimes people suddenly
find that they have a chance to change their current situation and become someone else
but they will rebel against him
if things don't go as well as they thought
they will spend the rest of their lives
Delusional thinking about what
it place...
ep06 Is
every moment of our life destined? If so, are we not responsible for what we do, or are we born with responsibility? After you hit the ball, do you stand there and see if it flies out or just run and let it be destiny? People say that when we grow up we 'll be rebellious and we won't accept what our parents have worked so hard for us to get rid of and we want to get rid of them but I don't think that's why we're rebellious I think it's when we think our parents don't know as much about the world as we do Rebellion we don't all understand it when we see they keep lying to us we start to rebel that there is no santa at all sometimes when it comes to approaching something new the best way is to take the familiar way take it slow We are constantly going to different places, the familiar things let us pretend that the face is very unfamiliar, you use careful and familiar methods, you want to be honest, and you don’t want to live in a world where nothing has changed. But you still have to live, but sometimes
You want to go back to the old days.
My mother said that life is like a roller coaster, going
up and down.
Sometimes it's scary, but there are slow places
and flat places. The
only difference is that
every time you stop,
you get off
and you go up. Places are different at all
ep07
if dreams are just dreams
what happens in your head while you are asleep
then it doesn't matter
that is yours that brings you to the dawn
and fades away in the morning light
but if the dream happens while you are awake
and with the light Come together then it matters what
we 're looking for is...
dreaming what we
dream seeing other people we see
when dreams come true
sometimes the only consolation is that you find out you are not the only one
ep08
when You do something you can't regret,
something you don't understand and
you start
clinging what you understand
and trying to understand everything
because if you believe that
all you should do is point out the reason
but when you find the reason
it doesn't What if it's not your own reason?
How do you find comfort and meaning in it?
ep09
Sometimes in nightmares you have a feeling that
you are running and running, something dark and huge is chasing you
You want to stop and let that
dark , huge thing catch you
some misfortune is about to happen
you can't change but you can look back and watch it come
you can see the truth of the nightmare
ep10
people talk a lot about it like life
The most important thing is to always see things as they are
But everything we do We plan is some kind of lie
We close our eyes and
pretend the day we don't need to plan will never come
Hope is the greatest Lies are the best lies
You have to move on like it's important
or we can't move at
all How can you let people go
How do you know that's right
Everything is changing
How do you find the one that makes you feel the
best It's not the way to break your heart The hardest thing
you 'll learn is to say goodbye
I don't know what's going to happen next time
I I'll be in the future What
I'm going to know
But all I know is that
all life is about asking questions It
's not about knowing the answer.
It's wondering what's behind the mountain that keeps us going.
We've got to keep asking questions, expecting to know
. She likes to see the clouds during the day and the stars at night, especially the stars
We sometimes play
a called "What's out of the sky?"
We imagine darkness, or dazzling light
or something we don't know how to name
but, of course, it's just a game There's nothing over there
in the sky The
sky is the sky, endless.
We play our game under it
. Another successful character in Taken is Joel Gretsch, who is equivalent to the villain Owen Crawford. This actor still looks quite distinctive. So when he first appeared in "the 4400," it was instantly recognizable. Looking through his information, I also found that he once played a character named Donald Dubin in "Minority Report/Key Report". MR is also a movie in 2002, so it is equivalent to two cooperations between JG and Speilberg that year.
In fact, between Speilberg, DF, and JG, another person can be intertwined, Tom Cruise, because the starring of WOTW and MR are both TC. What a weird coincidence. Taken said that.
2003-Battlestar Galactica/Battlestar Galactica
The Mini at the beginning of BSG was directed by Michael Rymer, and his previous works were more advanced in 2002's "Queen of the Damned/Vampire Queen", this film In preparation, it was treated as "Interview with the Vampire II", because the original author of the novel was also Anne Rice.
BSG remakes the old version of the 1978 series of the same name. Due to the success of Mini, the series continues to be launched, and now the third season is ready for release, which also makes BSG another pillar of Scifi after the "Stargate" series. By the way, the "Stargate" series is actually a spin-off series of the 1994 film of the same name by director Roland Emmerich (1996 "Independence Day", 1998 "Godzilla", 2004 "The Day After Tomorrow"), who is famous for making disaster films.
The story of BSG was a very big scene from the beginning, which tested the director's skills. In this extremely complex continuous cutscenes, many people and many things were carried out in the corridor of the spacecraft.
The Celtic-style soundtrack makes the somewhat religious BSG plot even more mysterious, and makes the setting of the space epic route look grand and beautiful. The drum beats with strong rhythm when the battle scenes or plots are tense make people feel the smooth feeling of standing in the storm. People often awaken their wildness in the strong wind. This is probably because under such conditions, the human heart It dances so hard, it beats like a drum at a fast tempo.
I have written a rather strange BSG review, and I won't say much about the rest.
2004- The original story of Legend of Earthsea/
LOE is one of Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning novel series of stories. The director has also directed series like "The X Files", "The Dead Zone" and many others, as well as a 1996 "Titanic" that should also be Mini.
Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki's son Miyazaki Goro also chose LOE as his initial supervision animation work. Will be released in the near future.
Related content:
http://mymovie.blogbus.com/logs/2005/12/1702108.html
Although I haven't read the original book, I can see that this Mini has diluted a lot of details, but also made the whole storytelling look smoother and integrated. Although it is also a completely overhead world, the route it takes is different from that of LOTR (Lord of the Rings).
In terms of soundtrack, Mini has a Scottish bagpipes soundtrack at the beginning and end, which is quite suitable for creating an atmosphere. Such a story feels as if it should have happened on some islands in the ocean to the west of Europe.
2004- The director of 5ive Days to Midnight/
5DTM should be very active in the TV series directing industry, and the recent popular "Into the West/Western Wind and Cloud", "Prison Break/Prison Break", "Smallville/Smallville" and so on He has directed.
This story is probably about the protagonist knowing that he will die at some point in the future, so he begins a tense and dangerous process of finding the murderer.
The slogan of 5DTM can explain the essence of this story very well: His future is running out of time.
This is basically a SF story with some detective reasoning.
2005- The Triangle/Bermuda
Triangle tells the story of a team of civilian scientists led by billionaire Eric Benirall trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance of their cargo ship in Bermuda.
One of the protagonists in it seems to be the protagonist of another Scifi series based on Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", and about this series, I have only seen the Mini at the beginning of it, it seems It's 1999, in general.
TT's story writer Dean Devlin is quite famous. His works include "Universal Soldier/Rebuilt Warrior/Devil's Order" in 1992, "Stargate/Stargate" in 1994, "Independence Day/Independence Day" in 1996, 1998's "Godzilla/Godzilla", and the other person on the screenplay is the director of this year's "Superman Returns/Superman Returns", the Uncredited Director of last year's "King Kong/King Kong", and the director of the "X-Men" series and screenwriter; but even with such a strong combination, the plot is not too deep, maybe this can only be blamed on a third-rate director...
If we can sum up what we want from TT in one sentence, then That is: if the balance is destroyed, we would not exist... 2006- Dark Kingdom: The Dragon
King/Dark Kingdom: Dragon King Sci Fi station will launch a four-hour magic mini-series http://ent.sina.com.cn/v/u/p/2006-01-11/1908956500.htmlDK is based on a 2004 German Mini "Ring" of the Nibelungs/The Ring of the Nibelungs", so let's talk about the ROTN you've already seen before you're ready to watch DK. The background is the open isthmus of northern Europe, the clear blue sky, the Celtic music floating in the ears, full of history and exotic taste. Because of the many classic settings, it always feels like playing Heroes III.
Although it is a patchwork of some very classic elements, such as dragons and treasures, slaughtering dragons, bathing in dragon blood, invulnerability, trust and betrayal, heroes and beauties... and tells a poignant story, but some In terms of rhythm, it makes people feel that the director's skill is not very good. But overall it is much better than the legend of Earthsea.
The ethereal Celtic soundtrack accentuates the strong flavor of the worldview created.
I watched the last scene by the way: the hero slept on the boat decorated with dragon skulls, the arrows flew with arrows, the arrows lit the boat with fire, the queen of Iceland stabbed the sword into her belly, During the dance between the fires, the boat gradually sank to the bottom of the lake, and finally the keel sank into the water without any struggle on the water surface, during which the eagle named Armenia was circling in the air watching all this, I think if the eagle rushed forward with interest If they self-immolate with the hero and beauty in the fire, the story will definitely be more shocking, and the plot will become more powerful... YY....
Because Scifi's current top dye pillars are all SF-oriented, so they are sure Would love to launch a fantasy franchise, and given that Scifi's remakes are so good (BSG, SG series), maybe DK is a great start.
PS. Now it seems that DK is completely RN--|||
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Generally speaking, Scifi's Mini drama is simple Talk about these, because the others have not been touched or seen.
The most recent one is Painkiller Jane's mini, but I haven't seen it yet, the show is chasing
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