Some time ago, Liu Cixin gave a speech when he was awarded the "2018 Clark Imagination Serving Society Award".
He said, “In reality, in 2018, no one will ever go to the moon. In the more and more comfortable comfort nest created by IT, people have gradually lost interest in space and are more willing to experience virtual space in VR. "
Then, he made a pessimistic comment on the current sci-fi works, mentioning that "the imagination of sci-fi has changed from Clark’s broad and far-reaching to the narrow and introverted of cyberpunk."
This speech is thought-provoking, and it also allows me to re-examine what I think I love science fiction movies so much? Once upon a time, I always felt that the special effects that bombarded the eyeballs were the only motivation for me to pay for the tickets to enter the theater.
But looking back, it’s not the Marvel superheroes who left deep memories for yourself, but those "2001 Space Odyssey", "Interstellar Crossing", "Arrival"...
Immerse yourself in the image, feel the complex time and space dimensions, challenge your existing cognitive dimensions, and satisfy your infinite curiosity.
As in "The First Man on the Moon," when Commander Gao was asked about the importance of space flight, he said: Space flight is not for exploration. It allows us to see something clearly, something that maybe we should have been able to see now.
However, this movie obviously does not arouse the curiosity of too many people, because it is more like a biopic in a sci-fi coat. The core of the story focuses on Neil, who left the first footprint on the moon. · Armstrong.
There is not much to tell about the plot of the movie. For events like this kind of concern for all mankind, the information that can be found on the Internet is more than that of the movie.
"The First Man on the Moon" is actually more about describing the "details" that make people anxious on the road to satisfying curiosity.
In the past sci-fi works, in order to ensure drama conflicts, some important events were always intercepted and amplified. The focus of this movie is the ubiquitous "details."
The documentary subjective perspective of "First Man on the Moon" makes those elements that have been ignored in previous sci-fi works become familiar and unfamiliar. The screws on the spacecraft can be seen very clearly, and they are in the ears during the lift-off process. Hearing the sound of metal collision, the friction between the cabin under your feet and the air turned red... You can feel the danger and the pressure of being in the dust together with Armstrong.
As the director said, "He wanted it to feel immersive and realistic like a documentary", in order to create a documentary-like reality, various methods were adopted.
The whole movie uses hand-held photography, and sometimes deliberately creates an out-of-focus effect to make the image more convincing.
In order to shoot the perfect reflective effect on the helmet, the crew abandoned the green screen and built a 180-degree LED screen in front of the X-15 model machine.
The crew will also find the previous video, adjust the picture format and adjust the secondary color to match the other shots of the film.
Even for the main event such as landing on the moon, the green screen was not used, and the shooting was completed in a quarry.
And the movie, in this calm, reproduced the entire history of mankind landing on the moon.
I have seen comments that Commander High is always a robot expression in the movie, as calm as the movie. But just imagine, a person who is emotionally unstable, will NASA let him fly to space for missions?
It is this characteristic that makes Armstrong a great astronaut, although it also creates a sense of distance from the audience.
And Armstrong's kick on the moon not only satisfies the curiosity of all mankind, but also magnifies the curiosity. He allows us to put our perspective into the vaster starry sky, where human curiosity is best.
Finally, the ending of the movie is very interesting. Like the director’s previous "Burst Drummer" and "City of Philharmonic", the two protagonists look at each other silently.
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