Regarding the end of the curse, think about it carefully. In addition to the horror and despair created by the previous part, the inertia of looking forward to the handsome guy alone in saving the earth is rigidly interrupted, and the viewers are extremely uncomfortable, the ending is profound. The battle between the world and the world, not the battle between humans and another world, can be seen from the English film title, so humans can do nothing. Perhaps the original author abandoned the growing arrogance of human beings when he wrote this story at the end of the 19th century, so at the end, aliens popped up to the earth and the waters and soils refused to obey the bacteria, and he secretly admired it. Our world is not only dominated by humans. Humans are too arrogant and selfish, so they fall into despair so quickly, whether it is bacteria or the end of a pop song that succumbs to aliens and saves the earth, it is black and humorous. Humans should reflect on it.
Regarding the actor, Brother Tom, a while ago, before this film was released, I surfed the Internet with great interest every day to watch how the handsome guy from Renmi became a jumping clown step by step. When I got older and engaged in passionate marriage proposals, TV shows jumped up and down, and of course the media and entertainment also attributed the motivation to the promotion of this new film. Since Brother Tom is so willing to toss about it, of course I have to go to the theater to have a look, and I have taken Old Si, and asked Brother Tom to play this film. When he was young, he led the fans of the world to defeat aliens and save mankind. My heroes also have middle age, so poor jobs, divorce, rebellious children, real middle age crisis. When the aliens come, the child’s father will no longer stand up, wise and brave, but safety first protects the child, hides in Tibet, and even kills the same kind who intends to resist the aliens for self-protection. This is true. human nature. When desperate, humanity is exposed, and the car robbing period is its classic. So, we look forward to it for a long time, and Tang did not become a hero, but he did become a competent dad. Yeah, I hope that the current brother Tom is not arrogant and self-appreciating, and there is nothing wrong with being a cautious and responsible Uncle Tom.
Regarding the original author Wells, he is the sci-fi writer he admires. One of the reasons why Olds was criticized for being mentally handicapped was because he was faithful to the original, and high-tech audiences laughed at the low-level mistakes made by aliens in the sentence. However, Wells, a writer at the end of the 19th century, his sci-fi works have strong Humanistic inclination, like "Frankenstein" written by Mary Shelley, is still moving because of thinking about human nature and technology, rather than keeping up with the technological progress of the four modernizations. Moreover, Wells's novel is also mainly showing the incompetence of human beings in the face of alien attack. This can be understood by looking at the original book. As for the metaphors in the story, let others think about it.
Regarding the tradition of Western science fiction stories, I saw a good article in the Science Communication Center of Peking University.
We already know that science fiction is not a fashion, a popular culture, but a deep tradition in a modern technological society. So, what kind of tradition is it? Let us go back in history and take a look at the source of science fiction.
The steam engine gave birth to an industrial era and also gave birth to a new literary variety of science fiction. The history of modern science fiction is sprouting in the early nineteenth century. At that time, from Europe to North America, a series of writers created sci-fi novels. Later, the world's science fiction community promoted Mary Wollstonecraft's "Frankenstein" as the pioneering work. There are two points surrounding this novel that need everyone to pay attention to. First, the author is a twenty-year-old woman. If she lives in China this year, such a female author might write campus literature, romance novels, or even “body writing” instead of writing a work full of science and technology. "Frankenstein" is by no means only symbolic. The word "Frankenstein" has become a proper noun in the West, describing people who have released "demonic power" because of irresponsibility and are opposed to addiction. The latest film adaptation of the book collected by the author was shot in the 1990s. The vitality of the work can be seen.
Second, it was formed in a unique atmosphere: a group of young British literati: Byron, Shelley and others, affected by the huge impact of the industrial revolution at that time, had an infinite vision for technological progress. The two poets even went to conduct scientific experiments in person, trying to discover the mysteries of the universe. As Shelley's lover, Mary was deeply influenced and she was in the pen. This is an excellent combination of technology and humanistic spirit. Compared with humanists who are indifferent, skeptical, and even hostile to technological advancement, science fiction writers are very different from the beginning.
The first writer to let the world's readers really know what science fiction is, of course, it is Extraordinary Erna. What's interesting is that I don't know how many articles that introduced him to see such a false positive: Verne is an excellent scientist. Wrong, not only is he not a professional scientist, he has not even received any systematic scientific education. He is a typical literary youth. His ambition is to be a playwright, and his most important early literary activity was to learn writing under the guidance of Dumas.
In the end, Verne did not become "Dumas Second", but became the world's first professional sci-fi writer. When people look back on his life, it is actually the last thing to ignore this point. Just imagine, today an intellectual who graduated from a university's literature department (no matter which country's literature department is), would he praise science like Verne did? I'm afraid it will be difficult. If they don't use all kinds of "postmodern" vocabulary to hit science, it would be thank good. What kind of tradition is science fiction? It is a wonderful flower that combines scientific spirit and humanistic spirit. In master writers, this couldn't be more obvious.
The next master is the author of "War of the World", Herbert George Wells (H•G•Wells), a young British man who only went to junior high school and mastered profound knowledge through self-study. Similarly, he is also a young man of the age who loves science and eulogizes science. A young man who came out as an apprentice at the age of fourteen not only taught himself scientific knowledge, compiled biology textbooks that had been republished more than a dozen times, but also personally listened to Huxley's lectures. Wells not only understands science, but also loves it deeply.
The theme of "World War" is to mock religious obscurity from a scientific point of view. This is the theme that Wells has always insisted on in many works: in "Doctor Mono Island", religion is compared to a comical "pension and pain house", and the priest is compared to an orc who likes to speak "big ideas." In "Divine Food", people can create new people without laboring God. In the World War, the author satirized the religious theory of "God creates man". At that time, astronomers were already speculating that there might be other life in the universe, even intelligent life. And if there is life in space that is far smarter than human beings, is it created by God? Isn't it made by God? This question is meaningless to contemporary Chinese audiences living in a secular atmosphere. At that time, God created humans in his own image and granted them privileges. That is an unchangeable doctrine. The extraterrestrial intelligence, the effect of this doctrine is bumpy. (Where is this theme? Haha, read Wells's original work. It is clearly written in it.)
In the twentieth century, especially in the United States, a country with the highest level of technology in the world, people have almost faith-like devotion to scientific and technological progress. This fertile soil eventually transformed science fiction from a weak, scattered seed into a towering tree. In 1926, the world's first professional science fiction magazine-"Amazing Stories" appeared there. In the first issue of this magazine, the boss Gensbach named this literary variety, which has existed for nearly a hundred years but has not yet a unified name, as "Scientfiction". Later evolved into "Science fiction", which is now "Science Fiction".
In the United States, science fiction has not only a "famous" but also a "fact". There are a large number of writers who create science fiction systematically, not like in European countries, but a few writers occasionally try it out. The sci-fi galaxy emerged in the sky within a few years: Asimov, Heinlein, Campbell, SMS, Lester Del Rey, Van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon , Cowan Bruce, Frederick Boll, Anderson, Shekley... Most of these names are probably not seen by Chinese readers, but a sci-fi film adapted from their original works will surely be touched by a disc fan. Been there a lot.
These predecessors got together to create American science fiction and the golden age of world science fiction. Excellent works are reproduced, and the themes are refurbished. And what lays the color for this trend is still the desire for technological progress. It can be said that without the scientific spirit, there would be no science fiction.
So, I think, this is one of the few films worth going to the cinema. Plus the original novel is also worth seeing.
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