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Take a look at the picture above, which is the first time the crew has landed on an unplanned, unfamiliar planet. The voiceover simply reported the composition of the air here, and everyone got off the spaceship in fancy clothes. Then, two people in a row were infected with a brand new "germ". I want to say: is it sprinkled. Even on the same earth, a large-scale plague broke out when the Europeans landed on the American continent. You just disembarked like this. Where did your common sense go?
Once you notice this like I did, you basically have a hard time accepting this video because you don't believe it. "Do not believe", this is very important, there is a professional term in the acting profession called "prescribed situation", which is used to require actors to complete the performance accurately, and is given by the script or the director. Then from the perspective of the director and the play, a prescribed situation should be given to make the audience believe in him. If there is no convincing "situation", then all the actors' performances and the things presented on the camera are nonsense to the audience. (Especially this kind of hard science fiction)
Hollywood's strong film industry level has well guaranteed the establishment of "Alien Covenant" in the visual situation. However, this point refers to the level of the picture. Another very important point in the establishment of the prescribed situation is the establishment of the character's identity. A group of unreliable people has appeared in a world that is more believable, and this intention is still to make people play.
And look at the following three screenshots [from Youku trailer]
This is the first time that the cosmic expedition team has discovered the mutation of teammates. The entire paragraph is filled with irrational shouting and urging. I want to ask, who are you? Untrained kindergarten teachers? Especially before your teammates mutate, what are you all panicking about? The lady running in the corridor, you have locked them in the isolation room, why are you running away in a panic? You know your teammates will be back in no time, and you're running to grab a gun! You also opened the isolation door alone! You also shot randomly! Tell me, what are you thinking about? Are you really part of an expedition of two thousand settler ships without a little training?
The big brother in the picture above, as the main pilot of such a large mothership, you stubbornly put the mothership carrying more than 2,000 lives on the brink of a dangerous storm regardless of the objection of the co-pilot and the mothership system. get in touch. Excuse me, your driver's license is a small car C book, right? Astronauts in your country don't need psychological tests, right?
It's over, the more I write, the more I want to complain. I have to restrain myself. Let's go back to the topic and talk about the establishment of a prescribed situation. Let's recall a positive example.
Oh my god, I just wanted "The Martian" since "Interstellar" is also here, so I'll put it on the front.
I still remember the reactions of the teammates after Matt Daemon was blown away by the storm in "The Martian", no matter how sad everyone is and how much they want to go back to him, the trained sense is still there, for the sake of more people and people The safety of the spacecraft, we must make a choice. And there is a huge "time pressure". In contrast, when you look at the alien situation, every decision is necessary but not urgent, and every character seems to make a willful choice for the advancement of the event.
The hard sci-fi situation of the film "Alien · Contract" itself is not as solid as "The Martian" and "Interstellar", and the establishment of the characters is so biased. It also broke the original situation that was not solid.
After talking about the situation, I couldn't help but complain a few more points below:
The eldest brother in the picture above said: What are the chances of finding the earth's crop wheat in aliens?
Teammates replied: Very little.
Then everyone has this discovery or doubt... there is no more.
Please look at this handsome silhouette above, just when everyone was besieged by alien cubs at night, an "Assassin's Creed" suddenly appeared and put a flare in the sky: Follow me.
Then he followed the stranger without even asking a question! Didn't your mother teach you to dyke strange bad uncles? What's even more unforgivable is that the director didn't even take a look of their doubts. Or don’t have any doubts, everyone will always have an attitude towards this suddenness!
In the last climax part, ask our heroine, you can easily lock the little monster in a certain space by controlling the hatch, why do you have to take the risk of expelling the alien in a panic?
It's really annoying.
But anyone can complain, but as a professional, after saying what others are wrong, you have to give a solution. I think it's actually quite simple - time pressure.
Whether people lose their minds in the face of huge decisions depends on how long you have to make decisions.
If the mothership has to get in touch with the expedition within a minute or they will never be able to, then it is more understandable for the pilots to decide to take the risk;
if the mothership cannot reach the planet they want to go to because of the flare, then they decide to come to this planet It's not that you won't die if you don't do it, it's that you have to be forced.
If the aliens are not expelled from the mothership within three minutes, a hundred aliens will be born, and the situation will be irreversible, so the heroine should take risks.
No matter writers, directors, actors, please remember this important concept - time pressure.
[Strange, wasn’t it originally intended to write a prescribed situation? How to write time pressure? I digress again]
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