Wen | Ling Fox Bo Guang
"Dune" is still a lot of discussion on the domestic Internet, the original party for its pursuit, as well as the influence of science fiction literature around the world (and director fans), most of the audiences who have not seen the original work, especially in the 2000 era from "Terminator" and "The Matrix" began to contact western science fiction Chinese audiences.
The film seemed to them to be a "space opera" cloaked in sci-fi skin with Western medieval skin at its core; combined with a slow pace and an incomplete story, it ended up being old-fashioned and uninteresting.
If you want to ask my personal opinion: I personally read the "Dune" novel, I can't read it for a while, and I don't like this series very much after reading it. If you want to ask me how I feel about this movie, the setting and cultural expression of the film can still be obtained, and for the mature film and television industry in Hollywood, and the grand and delicate director, China lacks the traditional culture to make such a director and film and television industry.
This is an epic science fiction movie, but I personally am not very friendly to the viewing process of this movie, I don't feel it in the process of watching it, after watching it, I feel like I have watched the recently concluded domestic suspense drama "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" in the cinema!
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="7" how simple is the movie Dune >? The story is only half told, and the content can be clearly explained in three sentences</h1>
The world view and background setting of the movie "Dune" will not be discussed here, how simple is it to tell the story plot alone? The story of the first part is only half of the original novel, the most important thing is that the content can be clearly explained in three sentences, of course, the detailed point of three sentences must not be clear, here are three paragraphs.
Prologue:
The native natives of Arakis, who began to produce spices, fought with the soldiers of the Haknnan family who were responsible for mining spices in the Empire, and one day the Haknan family was summoned by the emperor, who sent the Ertridi family to the planet to confess to the heroine, Chini (Zandaa Coleman).
First paragraph:
The male protagonist Paul (played by Timothy Chalame) is the hope of the Erridi family, I have a big brother who can mingle with the natives, Aquaman retired as a pilot, there is Thanos who taught me swordsmanship in another universe, there is a good personal doctor, there is a father who loves me, and a mother who always loves to yell at me, pua me, behind what "sisterhood" teaches into the gods of the gods, the father refuses to let me go to the planet first, the mother of the Mother comes and the gods are nagging, I overheard them talking about what I was the allegory savior, and they also said that it was feudal superstition (and deliberately spread).
Second paragraph:
After arriving at that planet, My father took me to see the mining car for the spices, and in the middle I saw the sandworms that produced energy, so big; Daddy and we went down to open the dragonflies in order to save people, I had hallucinations the first time I touched the spices, so dizzy; after I went back, I took medicine and slept to death, and as a result, I was closed by the traitor Dr. Yue, the Hakenam family did not talk about Wude to engage in sneak attacks, our family's knife did not cut each other, my father's tone did not stink the enemy, and my mother and I were thrown into the desert.
Third paragraph:
My mom and I met the escaped Sea King, supposedly the Pilot Sand King. Find the emperor and the overseer in the middle of the family, we know that it was the emperor who deliberately yin my family, and now the top priority is to cooperate with the natives to go back to revenge, the middle enemy killed the sea king and died forever became the sand king, I and my mother through the sandworm territory to find the indigenous leader, the leader saw that I was a small fresh meat decided to want me, actually did not want my mother, and then he was beaten by my mother and decided to take us with him, and as a result, they had a subordinate who was just pushed by me, and the stingy one was going to duel.
Is he usually so brave? Doesn't he know I can do kung fu?
In the end, I had no choice but to kill the little bastard, and the indigenous leader took me and my mother to the indigenous dungeon, and when I first arrived, I didn't go into the city.
In fact, this story can really be said in three sentences: I am the hope of our family, my father loves me, my mother loves me but the gods are nagging, and our family has a group of elites. My family has just taken over a new energy company, and the result is that the boss is afraid that my family will deliberately yin us, and the former CEO sneaks into my house to destroy my family. I decided to work with the locals for revenge, and it was over as soon as I found the locals.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="31" > what is the movie experience of "Dune"? I felt like I had seen "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" in a movie theater</h1>
This science fiction movie does have an epic sense, but I personally feel that I don't feel that in the process of watching the movie, after thinking about it, it is really quite like the domestic suspense drama "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", especially for most ordinary Chinese audiences, the three aspects of the feeling should be quite similar.
First, at the level of production, the grand and delicate but ordinary audience may feel a bit showy or even inexplicable
The director of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is China's sixth generation of famous director Wang Xiaoshuai, the film team used in the web drama, the production is full, high-grade blue-green art and filters, quite exciting soundtrack, showing the shaking shots of the character's emotions, especially in the first few episodes to show the character's encounter.
A lot of Wong Kar-wai-style frame-pumping virtual focus lenses, peek-at-the-angle cameras and so on are used.
"Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" If you only talk about the production level, this domestic suspense network drama must be top-notch, after all, there are not many real film teams in China to shoot network dramas, and there may be a single shot and processing, and the director team still thinks that they have deep meaning.
"Dune" because of the strength of Hollywood's film and television industry, art, costumes, soundtrack, sci-fi spaceships, etc. are all visual enjoyment. At the same time, the director's technique is grand and delicate, the macro shot is gentle and beautiful, such as several spaceship landings, transitions and other shots, microscopic shots like killer bees and so on are very delicate, and indeed have an epic sense.
When we combine the two works, this similar aspect arises.
First of all, the soundtrack is above, and it feels very internally verified, but it is a surprise. There are many soundtracks in "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", obviously two people are talking, there is no suspense at all, and the result is that the exciting soundtrack suddenly appears. The director may feel suspenseful, but the average audience will only feel surprised at first.
The same is true of "Dune", such as the scene where the family spaceship takes off to the planet and the male protagonist is at the water's edge.
The second is the shot of the inner shaping of the character. The important characters in the play "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", every time it involves the death of Xuan Zhen or the scene of inner trepidation, there will be such a virtual focus shot, and the memory will appear once at a time, almost most of the characters use it this way.
"Dune" is the male protagonist, every time Paul dreams or hallucinates, or sees someone who will appear the heroine's illusion, soft light filter, facial close-up, the camera rhythm is like mv. If the soundtrack is intimate with the heroine, it will be soothing, and the heroine will be shocked when she pokes him.
Of course, the good point is that "Dune" is only used by the male protagonist, and "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is used by most characters.
The second is that the character god nagging does not speak human words, and the shaping of the suspense of the character's shaping story depends on the character's god nagging
In the first half of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", except for Xuanliang's wife and policeman, almost all other characters are nervous. Don't say anything, rest assured, the world is going to be destroyed, others ask you, hey, he just doesn't say. Then Xuan Liang was irritable, Xuan Nian Mei was melancholy and rebellious, Xuan Zhu was a stuffy gourd with a deep face, and so on.
On the side of "Dune", that is the role of the male protagonist's mother. Her own Virgin's spaceship descended, she was afraid of the gods nagging, the Virgin tested the male lord, she was worried about the gods nagging outside the door, the male protagonist asked her to cultivate herself, she did not say, she went to find her husband before the gods nagged, when the dragonflies flew into the sandstorm may crash, she is still the gods nagging.
As long as the male protagonist of this film seriously asks her mother, her mother tells the secrets and things behind it, in fact, she understands everything.
The third is that the twelve episodes of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" do not tell any story and plot, and "Dune" is 155 minutes long for more than two hours, and the content can be summarized clearly in three sentences.
The twelve episodes of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" are really too long, the first eight episodes can cut at least five episodes, the first episode explains the story plot and background case, the middle of which removes a bunch of useless emotional pulls and a bunch of redundant shots, the footage showing the pain of the family is left, and then cut into the juvenile problem part of Xuan Zhen and Xuan Zhu, and the last two episodes remain unchanged, and the score is at least eight points.
"Dune" deleted redundant memories and many scenes showing the emotions of the characters (such as the male protagonist watching the spaceship take off by the river, etc.), and added 30 minutes to the second half of the original film, the whole movie is about 3 hours, and the average audience may still not appreciate it, but the reputation and perception should be much better.
It will definitely not be as up and down as it is now, even if it is not performing well abroad.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="56" > epilogue</h1>
Finally, after watching this movie and watching the original book, I can get why this science fiction work was so great in the past, and I will not repeat it here. At the same time, I can also understand why ordinary audiences, especially Chinese audiences, can't get this work, and everyone has nothing to argue about.
If the only thing to say is the viewing experience, except that the process is really similar to the mystery of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog".
My biggest personal experience is to envy the maturity of the Hollywood film and television industry, and to have this kind of director who can make epic films without collapsing. Even if we don't talk about this "Dune", his first two science fiction "Arrival" and "Blade Runner 2049" are the types of art science fiction films that are scarce in Chinese films.
It is normal for Chinese audiences not to like "Dune", but what we lack is the ability to put the skin of science fiction and the core of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or Chinese martial arts works on the screen. If we think about it carefully, if we really have that strength, then it doesn't matter whether he likes foreigners or not, it will also lose to us wearing science fiction skins to spread traditional Chinese culture.
Finally, I hope that Chinese science fiction and Chinese film and television dramas are getting better and better!