This year's Spring Festival file is really hot, and now 6 blockbusters have been finalized and pre-sale has opened.
Three years of the epidemic, many people have not been to the cinema for a long time, and everyone wants to see a good movie too much.
As a sci-fi fan, of course, I pay the most attention to hard sci-fi movies - "The Wandering Earth 2".
The day before yesterday, "The Wandering Earth 2" released a special feature of the space elevator production on Weibo, opening the unveiling journey of "The Wandering Earth 2".
Watching the space elevator fly through at a high speed is even more amazing than the visual effects in the first part.
At the end of the first production, director Guo Fan said that he would never shoot elevators again.
It's too hard to shoot.
Not only are the special effects complex, but also too many manpower and material resources have to be mobilized to make a complex and huge iron box, and the difficulty of the project can be imagined.
But in the second part, the director shot a bigger elevator - the space elevator.
If the earth engine is the "hard prop" of the first "Wandering Earth", then the space elevator is the core "tool man" of the second part.
Earth engines are full of hardcore technology, and this time the space elevator is bigger and more complex.
Because the space elevator is large, it can accommodate many astronauts to and from space, which greatly improves the efficiency of commuting.
Like a cosmic highway wounded giant, it will send a large number of astronauts to farther and wider positions.
The space elevator starts with an engine propulsion that shoots out like a rocket.
When it reaches a certain height, it is changed to magnetic levitation upwards, going up like a normal elevator.
At the top, docking with the space station is completed.
The space elevator goes from the Earth launch platform to the target location, not only to launch out, but also to recycle it.
When he returned, in order to prevent the elevator from overheating against the atmosphere, the screenwriter designed an ice shield to instantly melt the flame into ice by injecting water.
This is inspired by Assimo's novel, and for a long time, it was just a science fiction concept that existed in everyone's mind.
And "The Wandering Earth 2" completely restored the space elevator, satisfying the wishes of science fiction fans for many years.
Therefore, as soon as the space elevator production special was released, netizens exploded and praised them one after another.
For the audience, the experience of the space elevator is very rare and magical.
Following the space elevator from the surface to space is like taking a high-speed space viewing elevator, flying from the earth to space, and you can also experience the depressive feeling of extreme weightlessness by the way.
The details of the space elevator show the grand imagination of "The Wandering Earth 2", and also fully show the more complex and detailed special effects than the first one, which makes people look forward to the release of the main film.
The Wandering Earth series created by director Guo Fan originated from Liu Cixin's novel and officially opened with the release of "The Wandering Earth" in January 2019.
"The Wandering Earth" is the first word-of-mouth film in the 2019 Spring Festival, with 1.82 million people scoring 7.9, which is rare for domestic sci-fi films.
The New York Times published a report at the time saying that "The Wandering Earth" marked the arrival of a new era of Chinese cinema.
Independent film critic Raymond Zhou commented that this is like the beginning of the first year of Chinese science fiction films.
With the fermentation of word of mouth, the box office result of "The Wandering Earth" finally reached an astonishing 4.686 billion.
It is no exaggeration to say that it has left a name in the history of Chinese science fiction films, erecting a new milestone in Chinese science fiction works.
Surprisingly, although Chinese films are still in their infancy in the production of sci-fi special effects, the amazing imagination and special effects scenes of "The Wandering Earth" are extremely shocking.
It is said that 3,000 conceptual design drawings, 8,000 split-shot drawings, and 10,000 props were made throughout the film to meet the needs of shooting.
The setting area of "The Wandering Earth" was about 100,000 square meters, and the film occupied the two largest studios at that time, and the scenes were repeatedly set up in the studios, accumulating more than 100,000 square meters.
"The Wandering Earth 2" has doubled 10 times, nearly 1 million square meters, and the total scenic area will exceed 100 football fields.
In addition, props, costumes, styling, and vehicle vehicles have been doubled and upgraded, and the scenery is not limited to China, but six or seven teams are used to shoot abroad.
"The Wandering Earth 2" also has innovation when filming character scenes, using virtual shooting technology to allow actors to see the visual script, understand the camera scheduling during on-site shooting in advance, and better assist actors to put into performance.
The cast is also very strong this time, starring Wu Jing, Andy Lau and Li Xuejian, and Ning Li, Sha Yi and Wang Zhi participate in the performance.
As a prequel to "The Wandering Earth", "The Wandering Earth 2" pays more attention to humanistic thinking and is more truth-seeking in details.
It shows that in the early days of the solar crisis, mankind struggled to move forward amid doubts, conflicts and differences, and had uncertain prospects and could only grop forward.
The developed countries of the West made the Ark plan, allowing the privileged to escape the earth alone, while a scientist fantasized about digitizing human beings and thus achieving immortality.
When human beings face disasters, they are more likely to expose their nature.
The complexity of human nature also verifies the famous saying in Liu Cixin's original book: the biggest obstacle to survival is never weakness, but arrogance.
Today's space elevator production special also said that science fiction movies are not to create shocking special effects and grand scenes, but to be more realistic and restore the real world.
Because the future is not a fantasy, but comes from reality.
Judging from the current posters and trailers, "The Wandering Earth 2" shows a unique and grand world view, and more imaginative rich plots are also revealed step by step.
Whether it is the visual effects that can be seen, or the atmosphere and texture of the story that can be felt, it is steadily upgrading compared to the previous work.
A small step in 2019's "The Wandering Earth" symbolizes a big step for Chinese science fiction movies.
This time, how brilliant will "The Wandering Earth 2" create? We'll see.