"Independence Day" is a sci-fi disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich in 1996. This is his early work and a famous work.
The background of the movie is located on July 6th, during Independence Day, when people are celebrating, a giant alien warship is approaching the earth, and the mothership in space splits many warships to go to various big cities. This visit by an extraterrestrial civilization surprised people, and the U.S. authorities also attached great importance to this negotiation and sent a helicopter to welcome it. However, in exchange, it was a devastating blow to mankind. New York, Washington, and major cities in the world were attacked and turned into rubble. The top executives of the United States also urgently retreated in the crisis and fled to Area 51 for refuge. Seeing that its own country was about to perish, the U.S. government sent many F16 fighter jets to carry out military strikes on the warships, but everything was to no avail. The alien plane chased, and Will Smith skillfully shot it down by taking advantage of the terrain, and intercepted an alien. However, the U.S. government still did not give up and attacked with nuclear bombs, but the outcome was the same, the warship was unscathed. In Area 51, scientists have discovered aliens as early as 50 years ago and have an alien plane. Scientists were studying the intercepted aliens, but they were actually killed by them. The aliens penetrated the president's brain through brain waves. It turns out that this group of aliens is a nomadic people, plundering the resources of various planets, all the equipment is robbed, and coming to Earth is no exception. Seeing this form, the president transmits air combat signals to the world through radio, hoping that human beings can unite to defend against the enemy. In the end, a computer virus was successfully implanted into the mothership computer through an alien plane, hacking the shields of all battleships, and blowing up the mothership with a nuclear bomb. The battleship without the shield was quickly defeated by the human missiles, and the human race was victorious.
I think the film's success lies in the idea of solidarity it conveys. When the end of the world is approaching, human beings will no longer fight for the friction between countries, and even no longer fight or revolution for the evil deeds of some countries such as tyranny and persecution. At this time, all the countries that were attacked by the aliens were completely defeated. If they did not unite, they would be wiped out, and the human race would be wiped out. Humans can be compared to the Allies during World War II, and aliens to the Axis powers. It was only after Germany baptized Europe that the countries of the world realized that the union would lead to victory, and the United States was also one of the countries that initiated the joint initiative of the Allies. At this time, the United States was not a scumbag in the eyes of other countries, but justice and resistance. The symbol, against fascism, has set off a wave in the world, and countries have joined the ranks of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. After a series of confrontations with Germany, Japan, and Italy, they have achieved victory. The United States played a leading role in this war. representative of justice. This is similar to the pre-war mobilization delivered by the president before the final air battle in the film, and the impassioned speech convinced the majority of the audience. It was what the aliens had done before that made humans feel helpless and hopeless, and the thoughts of resistance and revenge emerged spontaneously, which paved the way for the final battle of the movie. All emotions erupted during the speech, which made the audience feel at the end of the human Feeling joy and pride in victory also achieves the purpose of the film to mobilize the audience's interest through emotion, and also fits the theme of the film on Independence Day. The same main storyline and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and "Avatar" are the core ideas of unity and resistance.
In conclusion, "Independence Day" is different from other films where aliens invaded the earth. The director fully tapped the audience's original inner emotions, ignited the audience's inner flame through a speech event, and allowed the audience to receive resistance, unity, and finally independence. core idea.
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