In 1990, a huge spacecraft appeared above the earth, and people were panicked but also extremely curious. After a period of intense waiting, the alien spacecraft never moved. Humans finally approached it cautiously and forced their way into the cabin, only to find countless aliens. They describe them as ugly, shrimp-like, and in extremely poor health and weakness. It turned out to be a group of refugees from aliens who were eventually taken in by Earthlings and isolated in an area of Johannesburg, South Africa, called "District Nine". After 20 years of breeding, the number of alien refugees has expanded to as many as 1.8 million, and there are constant conflicts with the surrounding humans, and more and more humans are calling for the "prawns" to be driven out of the earth. After consultation, the MNU (League of Nations) decided to relocate alien refugees to more remote areas. MNU's Alien Affairs agent, Vikus (Sharlto Copley), specializes in relocation work. Wikus was arrogant and casual during the mobilization process, and clashed frequently with the local population. Eventually, he pays for his actions, infected by the alien's mysterious fluid, and Wikus slowly transforms into an alien form.
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Aliens shaped like lobsters
Agent Wikus, who is eventually infected and transforms into the form of an alien
That's the story told by the film "District 9", which is actually adapted from a short film made by South African director Neil Blomkamp in 2005, "Aliens in Johannesburg", which is only 6 minutes and 25 seconds long. In 2009, he expanded the short film into a film that went on to amaze the world, and the film was nominated for multiple Oscars, making Neil another hot new sci-fi director in Hollywood. Since then, it has been out of control, and many other wonderful science fiction films have been filmed, let's take a look.
1. Raqqa
The film was shot in 2017 and is 22 minutes long. It mainly tells that in 2020, the earth was colonized by alien creatures in the shape of lizards, transforming the earth into a habitable planet and becoming the ruler of the earth. But the earth is still the home of mankind, and the human resistance army, in order to fight against the aliens, makes bombs and makes brainwave barrier machines to resist the psychic control of the aliens. The person who survived the lizard alien human modification experiment, Emino, gained the ability to connect the lizard man's brain and accurately predict the lizard man's actions.
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The Lizard Man transforms the environment
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The human traitors were killed by the rebels
2. Firepower bunker
Filmed in 2017, it is 27 minutes long. The story tells the story of a Vietnamese farmer whose home was destroyed by artillery fire and became a monster "river god" under the combination of resentment. The film focuses on an American soldier who comes into direct contact with the monster in a cave and survives, and then visits the wounded soldiers who have been attacked by the river god and survived with the CIA agents, and finally organizes the troops to enter the jungle to capture the river god.
Although "Fire Bunker" is less futuristic, it rearranges some real historical videos with special effects, and also deliberately makes some shooting materials old, making it full of mysticism and making the whole film look more realistic.
The most wonderful thing about it is the portrayal of the "river god". Since it was in the Vietnamese jungle, the dirty and chaotic feeling of the past was naturally much weaker, but Neil's dirty sci-fi style was still reflected in the image of the "river god": a bare skeleton with electromagnetic devices, condensed into armor with dead flesh and blood, wrapping itself in armor. In addition, the powerful superpowers of the river gods (stealth, mind control, mind movement, knife and gun inaccessible, resurrection of corpses...). ), in the Marvel and DC universes, it is estimated that it can also be ranked among the best.
3. Zygote xenos
Filmed in 2017, the film is 23 minutes long. The film begins with subtitles in the following context, at a closed mine in the Arctic Circle, and notes that there are 100 people in total, only 2 of whom are still alive, and are fleeing in horror from something. The man in the two is a manager who has gouged out his eyes when he sees something he shouldn't be looking at, and a female bionic person is helping her escape. It was later learned that the monsters that pursued them were strung together by the bodies of 98 victims. The monster image is designed to be very Cthulhu, and its mournful cry seems to be the cry of the ghosts of these victims, which is creepy and creepy.
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3. Adam
There are 3 episodes in total, the first episode is 5 minutes and 42 seconds, the second episode is 7 minutes, and the third episode is 9 minutes, which were completed in 2016 and 2017 respectively. This short film is mainly a sci-fi animated short film created and rendered using the Unity engine, showing the visual effects technology brought by the new Unity 5.4 engine, including more natural ambient light performance, more realistic material display, and smoother character movements, complex physics and so on.
The first act tells the story of the protagonist waking up to find himself transformed into a robot, confused, and the other robots enslaved by humans, and then two mysterious people come to liberate them.
Titled Mirror in the second act, the protagonist robot follows the mysterious man to a base where he encounters a man in a black cloak who can read the robot's information and tell the protagonist that the crimes he was accused of before being transformed into a robot were political heresy, terrorism, and treason.
In the third act, a woman kneels down and begs a bald man to save herself. The bald man agreed, but on the condition that she stone her robot brother to death first. The woman promised him, and after the smashing, the bald man just touched the top of the woman's head with his hand, and he was immediately healed. There is a reversal at the end, and the following is the viewing address you can see for yourself.
4. God. Serengeti
The film tells the story of God and His Assistants playing with human beings who are still in primitive society. In the film, the whole world is a deduction of God in a sandbox, and God is sitting on the sofa of a castle, looking like an old-school aristocrat, and his assistant is a butler. Mankind, on the other hand, discovered fire on its own, twenty years before God's plan, and thus angered God, who, after some toying, commanded the steward to inflict the worst punishment on mankind.
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