On Valentine’s Day this year, David Fincher, who had disappeared for two years, suddenly brought a trailer for his short film series “Love, Death, Robot”. This announcement rhythm is in line with Netflix’s pattern of not playing cards according to routines. , but for Everbright sci-fi fans, it is undoubtedly a huge surprise. Eleven directors, sixteen episodes of short films, unrestrained imagination, and strange painting styles, everyone is looking forward to a new decade of sci-fi classics. Coming, looking at the response of the vast majority of people, they have already waited, and I will continue to wait.
What are the advantages of "Love Dead", the various evolutions of the diversity theme, it must have been said by countless people by now, I also appreciate most of these places, so I won't repeat them. Today I want to talk about me The hidden dangers seen from "Love Dead".
I clicked on the first episode of "Sonny's Advantage" and was looking forward to seeing deep themes, excellent characterization and art design beyond my imagination, but what did I see? I only saw the monster fighting that took up half the length of the film, which had no effect on the progress of the plot. The violent and explicit sex scenes were all abrupt and eye-catching. At the end, there was a big reversal with excessive force, and the so-called anti Turning around, it didn't leave any foreshadowing in the front, it didn't shock me in the slightest, it just didn't make sense.
The "Witness" that was blown to the sky, no one in the circle of friends no longer discusses it, but for me it was just mediocre, only at the end, the long chase and striptease in the middle seemed to be forcibly stuffed inside, and to this day This year, the theme of time and space reincarnation only comes up with this little thing, which is difficult to impress me. I have already guessed most of the meaningful beginning. When the truth was revealed, I was not shocked. There is only an old tune. feel.
After watching a season slowly, I can only say that I don't feel it at all. Basically, every episode has such big or small problems. The visual heartyness is a spiritual wasteland that cannot be concealed. Why can Netflix spend so much money? A lot of money to make a few real pictures, but you don't want to polish the script? Blindly playing with yellow storms in many places has deviated from the original intention of the story.
As far as I am concerned, this is a collection of test hands made by a group of new animation people. I can give encouragement, but I really don't think it looks good, and it can even be regarded as ugly, not to mention worthy of the high score of 9.2 points. If you compare literature, it is like a collection of short stories of sci-fi by a group of new writers. The reputation has surpassed the award-winning masterpieces of many sci-fi masters. It makes me feel so bad. On the shoulders of the master, there is nothing new about himself.
So, I'm going to ask some questions: why now? Why "Love Dead"? In this early spring without any warning, why is it on fire? Why not another TV series, not another movie? What can it bring us?
In fact, if we look back at the small circle of science fiction in recent years, we will find that science fiction movies have not had a good road in the past few years. The old sci-fi masters have fallen to the altar, and the rising stars have lost their box office. The rise of streaming media has caused the rapid decline of traditional product factories, and they have become obsessed with return ratios and financial statements. Under such circumstances, Hollywood can only continue to launch two kinds of movies: 1. Independent movies and plots with a cost of less than 30 million movies and horror movies. 2. Belt production costing more than 100 million yuan.
This affects a large number of directors who produce neutral-cost movies. High-cost and high-concept sci-fi movies are often rejected by production factories, and those that fail will be put into the cold palace together with the director. Those names that have created countless brilliance, "Alien", "Star Trek", "Mad Max", have withdrawn from the stage one after another in box office failures, and the day of restart is not in sight. The failures of "Arrival", "annihilation" and "Blade Runner" have already announced the death of the hard sci-fi genre in traditional studios. Even if he is stronger than Nolan, he can't take his "Interstellar" to make peace with it. Black Panther's first-week box office comparison. So, as you can see, there's no reason for Hollywood to make sci-fi any more.
It can be said that for most people, it may have been too long to see a sci-fi film that has aroused heated discussion among the whole people and made people's eyes shine.
At this time, an anomaly appeared - Netflix, which has been hiding in the shadows for many years, and Netflix, which has a great family business, has finally extended its tentacles to the film industry after years of hard work. Netflix's unique operating model makes it not limited to the success or failure of a movie, but also dares to try a variety of genres. Take a look at the sci-fi films produced by Netflix over the years, "Netherworld", "Cloverfield Paradox", "Murder Monday", "Mute", "Light", each of them has creative and selling points, and is quite important Now, in the 1980s and 1990s, the sci-fi prosperous era, these movies have also achieved quite astonishing hits, but they all have one characteristic, they are really not bad.
Therefore, Netflix's launch of "Love Dead" at this time is the result of several years of accumulation. Netflix's big data algorithm allows it to clearly understand what the audience wants to watch and what it will do, while "Love Dead" , is undoubtedly the master of this fast food art. Sixteen episodes of short films, each episode is compressed within fifteen minutes, which is in line with the fragmented life rhythm of modern people. Within fifteen minutes, the plot and themes should be developed, and it is best to add some eye-catching adult elements. . It can be said that this is a one-step service. What you think you want to see seems to be there.
In many places, themes that can clearly be experienced by the audience are also brought to their lips by Netflix. The beauty of self-thinking is the source of the charm of sci-fi movies, but it also sacrifices the meticulous service in this step. In the end, Netflix didn't even have the courage to make an open ending, and let me accept a full seven minutes of philosophical edification in "Qima Lan".
But I also have to admit that perhaps for today's audience, such works are already what they need.
No one will spend an hour and a half experiencing the despair of space drifting just to feel the joy of finally touching the earth. They want to see the outer space cut off their hands to survive, and it only takes ten minutes.
No one is obsessed with the scientific rigor of growing potatoes on Mars anymore. The same is the outer space colony, they may want to see the mechs are just aliens.
No one is willing to follow the astronauts to explore Prometheus, waiting for the faceworm to burst out after being suppressed. In contrast, the Monster Arena seems to be coming more smoothly.
So I don't know, what was I expecting when I opened the first episode of "Love Dead"? I look forward to seeing the stars in the sky and the vast universe, I look forward to seeing the choices of humanity in different time and space, and I also look forward to regaining the feeling of shocking the senses in the past.
But I failed, some people may succeed, but I failed, Netflix may do it in the future, but not today. It's been too long since we've seen a shocking sci-fi work, and instead appealed to such a fruitless sci-fi platter, which is just a vulgar work with a strong commercial atmosphere, and it is not a good general even in a dwarf. Netflix only guaranteed the immortality of sci-fi, but it failed to prevent its regression. I sadly admit that all this is the general trend. The success of such works will only lead to more follow-up works, and the standards will be even more uneven. The real science fiction era has long since passed, and now I am no longer Knowing what to expect, I've admired the blazing fire next to the constellation Orion, only to worry that no one will tell.
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