What movies did the movie channel put in that impressed you?
Many people watched an old science fiction movie on the Movie Channel when they were young, and they had the impression but didn't know what the name was.
After looking up it for a long time, I found that it was called "Forbidden Planet".
This film is a landmark work in the history of space exploration films, the B-grade film theme was raised by MGM to A-class production, began the high-budget era of science fiction blockbusters, was the direct inspiration for the "Star Trek" series, the film was based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest", found this film again, saw a comment: pay attention to its year, 1956. Therefore, it can be directly proved that many classic space opera movies and television series in later generations have paid tribute to and even directly copied the various settings of this film.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > forerunner and classic of space opera films</h1>
The film is set in the year 2200, 20 years ago, when a human expedition team landed on a planet (Altair IV)) and the entire army was destroyed. 20 years later, humans sent a team to investigate, and found that only one doctor and his daughter were alive on the planet. After they landed on the planet, they were attacked by a mysterious monster, and some hidden facts were gradually revealed.
There was once a group of highly intelligent creatures on the planet, the Quills, who were able to build self-sufficient and self-healing machines that could operate endlessly, like what we call "perpetual motion machines." But these highly intelligent creatures still did not escape the fate of extinction, and the machines they left behind could continue to operate, but the race had perished, what was the point of the existence of these machines?
It can be seen that the profound topic of self-destruction of higher civilizations has been pondered as early as the 1950s.
However, the protagonist of this movie is still a human being, and the protagonists of this interstellar journey have found that these highly intelligent creatures, science and technology have been advanced enough to visualize the human subconscious through the machine, so that the energy of the consciousness increases exponentially, and the human subconscious is enlarged, forming a powerful entity image, which is the so-called human nature and evil, when the desire reaches the highest, the inherent evil of human nature is released, and eventually becomes the devil, but will devour itself.
This is the secret of the demise of the Quells, who killed each other and eventually led to genocide.
The spacecraft in the film looking for the missing expedition arrives on the planet Altair IV and meets two survivors who have lived on the planet for 20 years, Dr. Edward Mobis and his daughter Altana.
Dr. Mobis lives with his daughter in a high-tech mansion with all kinds of equipment and a robot, Robbie, who is both a chef and a driver. Robbie can simulate human language for dialogue and can make everything from diamonds to clothing to whisky.
This is the first artificial intelligence image created by "Forbidden Planet" on the Hollywood movie screen - Robbie
Its shape is slightly bulky, the whole body is composed of different shapes of metal geometry, the head is a white transparent cover, which is filled with complex mechanical circuits, in order to obtain a perception of the world, the attributes of the machine dominate, revealing a strong industrial temperament
The image of artificial intelligence in science fiction films has always carried people's expectations and imaginations, and in early science fiction movies, although artificial intelligence has some human thinking, its body structure is very different from that of humans. Hegel once emphasized in "Little Logic": "Thinking is the exclusive nature of man, the essence of man's separation from other objects." ”
After the expedition landed on the planet, it was attacked by a mysterious invisible monster.
And this invisible mysterious monster, in fact, is the doctor's own subconscious, living on the planet for most of his life, and finally he accepted this fact, it turned out that the human expedition team 20 years ago was completely destroyed, but also thanks to him...
In the end, in order to destroy this monster, Dr. Mobis finally chose to destroy himself and the planet.
The film conveys the concept that the higher the IQ of the creature, the greater the harm of the subconscious.
Although the film now seems a bit dated, but the era aside, the whole story of the movie is still very interesting, the real monster comes from the inner subconscious, this idea is interesting to put in the space adventure.
The most brilliant thing in the film is undoubtedly the artificial intelligence - Robbie
He was a competent butler and a machine that obeyed orders. Although allowed to use firearms and weapons, the strict implementation of the order not to harm humans is the "Three Laws of Robotics" in the 1950 book "I, Robot".
1. Robots must not harm humans, or cause harm to humans due to inaction.
2) Unless the first law is violated, robots must obey human commands.
3) Unless the first and second laws are violated, the robot must protect itself.
Later, Asimov added a new law: the zero law.
0. Robots shall not harm the human race as a whole, or cause harm to the human race as a whole due to inaction.
Nowadays, many science fiction movies and novels have mentioned this, and in "Forbidden Planet", this order also has a contradiction in the face of the monster's attack later, he cannot attack the monster, because the robot understands that this monster is the doctor, and he must protect the doctor while not hurting the monster, this contradiction is beyond the scope of the robot's logical operation. (It seems that even robots understand the truth, but humans do not understand.)
I don't know how many people in this film have enlightened science fiction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a fresh attempt at electronic music to enter movies</h1>
As a great sci-fi movie, other elements of this film are also avant-garde.
First and foremost is the field of cinematic music, the first feature film to use electronic music entirely, the first to combine electronic music with tape recordings, and Forbidden Planet shows the audience a new form of music.
In the mid-1950s, to obtain electronic music, including editing, recording, stitching, looping, accelerated playback and other technical work is very complicated, the original "Forbidden Planet" producers did not intend to use electronic music for the whole film, but tried a 20-minute sample, the result of this avant-garde, experimental electronic music made the producers shine, decided that the entire film will use electronic music.
At that time, an electronic instrument that people often used was called the "Tremen", which was invented by Liv Tremen in 1919, which was able to make a creepy roar with rapid strokes, and the most unique thing about this instrument was that it could "slide" from one note to another, without strings, without keys, and the timbre was different from any instrument, it was a unique electronic instrument.
In Forbidden Planet, the boundaries between music and sound are broken here, and sharp and terrifying discord tones represent the panic caused by unknown civilizations to humanity, creating an atmosphere of strange mystery.
Michel Theon writes in Audiovisual: The Construction of Illusions: "In a film, the situation of a sound of a silent source can evolve along two different forms, first seeing the sound source and then becoming a silent source, or starting with a silent source and then seeing the visible sound source... The second scenario is common in films of mystical emotions, which remain mysterious until the source of the sound is explained. The sound of the silent source maintains suspense, which in itself constitutes a theatrical technique. ”
The music of the monsters in Forbidden Planet represents the darkest side of the human psyche – Dr. Mobis's jealousy and greed.
Therefore, this part of the music sounds the most mysterious and terrifying.
When the mysterious monster dies, this music becomes the sound of the circuit, gradually weakening and getting smaller, until finally the circuit is completely scrapped and cannot be used... It has to be said that the music in this film is also part of the emotions that drive the audience.
Electronic music in the science fiction film began to try, now with ease, so that the sound in the film beyond the imagination on the screen, the audience followed the picture and music into the inner world of the characters, "Forbidden Planet" this film from beginning to end of the strange sound continuously, is also one of the characteristics of the film.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
About science fiction movies, from beginning to end are warning mankind, the good use of science and technology, whether it is human nature or technology, what we can do is to move towards a better future, the role of science fiction movies can not only make people's horizons become broader, but also make everyone's vigilance strengthened, the future is unpredictable, what we can do is to "live in the present".
Regarding artificial intelligence, the technology we now have, only a rational view of the logic of human survival and development and the reality of scientific and technological alienation, in order to make people coexist in harmony with artificial intelligence, the story tells people: civilization is developed, even if it can not rely on the flesh and exist, in the end it is destroyed by the demons in the subconscious, civilization is therefore difficult to escape the catastrophe.
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