Nowadays, the dispute between theaters and streaming media has become more and more intense, but at the moment of the epidemic, many producers can only sell movies to streaming media in order to keep profits, and then pay to watch online.
Although it is a win-win for the filmmakers, it is undeniable that if some movies can only be watched on computers or televisions, the special effects for their shock will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
The big screen of the movie theater is made for special effects, and now there is a movie released, to tell the truth, if you don't go to the movie theater to see it, it's really a pity -
"Hot Air Balloon Pilot"
The Aeronauts
The film is a British film released before the epidemic, strictly speaking, the product of 2019, and it has finally landed in mainland theaters.
The stars are Little Freckled Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, yes, Hawking and his wife in The Theory of Everything.
Don't string dramas first, "Aviator" is certainly not a Hawking couple to continue the leading edge, in fact, the two people do not even have an emotional line in the film.
The story takes place in nineteenth-century Britain, before the invention of the airplane, and the tool for people to explore the sky is the hot air balloon.
Before that, human beings had already known the stars in the sky through astronomical telescopes, and knew the shift of the stars, but it was not enough to just observe.
Scientists desperate to understand the sky set their sights on hot air balloons, which were quite mature at the time.
It seems that as long as you fly upwards, you can go further away from the unknown.
James, played by Eddie, is an expert meteorologist with an extraordinary dedication to exploring the weather.
He thought the weather was predictable and regular, but to the people of the Royal Society, it was whimsical.
They vetoed James's proposal and even ridiculed him for not being so self-absorbed.
However, James did not give up, he thought of hot air balloons, and James, who had a theory in the air, decided to explore the clouds through hot air balloons.
But because he had never ridden before, he also needed an assistant.
So he found Emilia, an experienced hot air balloon pilot.
In the nineteenth century, a woman's duty was still to marry and have children, but Emilia was special, brave, fearless, and always supported her husband's hot air balloon career.
Yes, her husband is also a hot air balloon pilot, and the two have worked together and taken off countless times.
But in an accident, Emilia's husband fell from a height of 10,000 meters, and that accident became Amelia's eternal pain.
Until James found her, she thought she might never touch a hot air balloon again, but her yearning for the sky and the nostalgia for her dead husband drove her on this magical adventure.
They're going to challenge new world records, they're going to soar higher into the sky.
"Hot Air Balloon Aviator" is an adventure movie and a visual blockbuster stacked up by special effects.
James and Emilia work hand in hand through thick clouds, through brutal storms and thunderstorms, challenging human limits in an environment of lack of oxygen and low air pressure.
They fought the god of death and eventually landed hard with wisdom.
Although there are only two hours from liftoff to landing, the film is not boring, not to mention the flow account, but interspersed with many flashbacks of the past of the two people, making the character more full.
Emilia is a particularly enthusiastic woman, she is tenacious and bold as if she has endless energy, and her rich experience in lifting up has made her extra confident in her abilities.
She personally supervises the production of hot air balloons and strives for details.
Therefore, when unexpected situations occur during the liftoff, she can always cope with it calmly.
James, on the other hand, is a rational, rigid scientist who always speaks with data.
When you go on the hot air balloon, you also carry a lot of instruments, what thermometers, barometers, everything.
But he was dismissive of the waterproof jacket that Emilia had repeatedly reminded, because he didn't think he needed that kind of thing.
However, the data displayed by the instrument was still on paper after all, and it was obviously speculated that it would not rain, but when it took off, the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds.
Not long after it was lifted off, the clouds became thicker and thicker, and then the direct lightning and thunder sounded, and the fierce wind made the hot air balloon crumbling.
It was a challenge they encountered after lifting off, but not so overwhelmed, and under the guidance of Emilia, the two men desperately grabbed the basket and lost a lot of weight, so that the hot air balloon quickly passed through the clouds.
After some thrilling rescues, the hot air balloon and death passed by, and finally they came to a relatively stable stratosphere.
The sun shone directly on them, and even the butterflies floated up with the air current.
The world was dead silent as if it had been turned on in silent mode, and it seemed only a matter of time before the French had broken the world record previously held.
But the thin air and the temperature below freezing made ice crystals begin to form in the hair of the two people.
Amelia thinks the expedition should stop and they should land, but James is driven by a strong desire to reach an unknown world.
He even felt that he should continue to take off until he touched the stars and witnessed the shift of the stars.
In junior high school geography, the temperature decreases with the increase in altitude, and the thinner the atmosphere goes up, the less oxygen in the upper atmosphere.
There is only one consequence of the hot air balloon being lifted off all the time, because the air pressure in the hot air balloon expands and explodes.
The two argue over whether the trip should end immediately, and eventually Emilia wins again with her own experience, and James has even begun to hallucinate due to lack of oxygen.
But at this time, the top of the hot air balloon has frozen, and if the pressure cannot be released in time, then they will undoubtedly die.
At the moment of the first attack, Emilia could only start climbing up the rope ladder from the basket and opening the ventilation hole on her own.
This is definitely the climax of the whole movie, when the perspective is pulled away, people see a woman at an altitude of 10,000 meters, without any protection, slowly climbing to the top of the hot air balloon.
A little carelessness is really a place to die.
In fact, the visual effect created by the whole movie, summed up in two words, is the fear of heights.
Unlike the visual impact of other so-called rocking, the fear of heights comes from the weakness of human beings themselves, and just a bird's-eye view is enough to make the audience panic.
In fact, there is no way you can't help but fear heights, because this is a story of two feet off the ground.
There's no way not to guess the outcome, and the existing physical and geographical knowledge tells us that the trip is doomed to fail.
But aren't the countless principle formulas summed up in repeated failures?
"The Balloon Aviator" is not a love story, nor is it a biographical legend, but more like a microcosm of those in history who have been constantly exploring for the sake of intellectual curiosity.
The sky is high, and people can't stop their desire to fly in it.
The world is so big that it can't stop people's dreams from going to every corner.