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"The Wandering Earth 2" is on the New Year file after four years, compared with the "Pulling the Mountain" in 2019, the Spring Festival schedule in 2023 is still "threatening", and the positive one is "Avatar 2", which is also a sci-fi theme.
From popularity to word of mouth, "The Wandering Earth 2" has grasped the viewer's aesthetics without suspense, and pushed "The Wandering Earth" from the first year of science fiction four years ago to the ceiling of today's Chinese science fiction movies.
Director Guo Fan adhered to the theme of the first film, from the quality of the picture to the storyline to the humanistic feelings, step by step to shape the doomsday hero into flesh and blood, and depicted the tenacity and fearlessness of human destiny from desolation and despair.
Authentic details keep the movie smooth and believable
Science fiction is a kind of film that goes beyond the scope of scientific explanation of reality from a certain point of view, and how to make people not play, believe that it will really happen in a certain period of time in the future, depends on the details of the movie.
"The Wandering Earth 2" has done its homework on this point.
In the film, there are N space stations, space elevators, spacesuits, space capsules and other spaces and details that are unfamiliar to the general audience, and each prop and each scene are highly realistic, which is the reason why this movie is very inviting.
Take a simple robotic arm, which was completed by the team behind the scenes through hand-drawn design and MDI production.
Such a complicated and time-consuming method can withstand the 360-degree shooting of the lens, and reproduce the real thing in the script to the greatest extent.
In the movie, Sha Yi piloted a vertical take-off and landing version of the fighter, and the scene of fighting hundreds of drones, the fire generated by the explosion impact, and the picture detail when the fighter changed the left tilt flight attitude, which made people have a real experience like being on the battlefield.
In the scenes near the end, the sense of substitution is even stronger.
The most common thing in sci-fi films is the UI scene, "The Wandering Earth 2" involves a large amount of UI, how to make this picture look more realistic, the director team used the most "stupid" method, they did not use the "green" means to shorten the shooting time, because "green" will lose the reflective feeling when the figure is close to the screen.
The director team made all the UI of each screen, and the realism at your fingertips cannot be replaced by any high technology, which is also the key to the "immersive" sensory experience of the film.
These subtle sets, as small as a light, a button, a hole, may not be found in the lens at all, and even most of the props in these settings do not appear in the main film, but it is precisely their small size that ensures the smooth and real nature of the entire movie.
Li Xuejian, Andy Lau and other old drama bones crazy acting skills
The starring cast of "The Wandering Earth 2" far exceeds that of four years ago, Wu Jing, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li, Wang Zhi, Zhu Yan Manzi are all drama-level actors, coupled with Andy Lau's special appearance, making this movie full of the meaning of old drama bones.
Zhou Zhezhi, played by Li Xuejian, is responsible for mediating with many countries at the United Nations.
As a decision-maker, he is calm, has a big heart, and great benevolence, and Mr. Li Xuejian uses his rich acting skills to interpret these characteristics to the fullest.
Although Mr. Li's voice was hoarse and even his words were blurry, his resolute eyes and straight spine brought Zhou Zhezhi such a humble and unassuming-minded diplomatic temperament to a big country.
The most impressive picture of this character in the whole movie is Zhou Zhe standing in front of the button with a cane, firmly shouting: "Ignite"!
The belief that all mankind will win through doubts, and the sense of responsibility and mission of a great power, make the viewers feel their admiration for this old man.
In addition, Andy Lau's Tu Hengyu is also a character with complex emotional lines, he has been unable to face the death of his daughter Yaya, and persistently uses all kinds of methods, hoping to let her continue in her digital life.
Tu Hengyu is the most variable person in the entire movie, and his personal obsession seems so narrow and selfish compared to other characters.
Under the choice of "giving her daughter a complete life" and the survival of all mankind, Tu Hengyu is contradictory. He spent 14 years to finally "resurrect" his daughter for 2 minutes, and the excitement and missing the child's emotions made Andy Lau with tears in laughter, a thousand words but unable to say a word, presented to the audience.
From a top scientist to a paranoid father who spent 14 years calculating his daughter's "resurrection" after losing his daughter, Andy Lau superimposed the inner changes of the character, and the accumulation of emotions allowed the audience to gradually understand the existence of the character.
In addition, Liu Peiqiang's master Zhang Peng, played by Sha Yi, also presented acting skills that made people cry throughout the film.
When facing the astronauts to bring their own nuclear bombs to the moon to detonate, Zhang Peng shouted: "China Space Flight Squadron, over 50 years old", a sentence that made countless spectators burst into tears.
Wu Jing sublimates the feelings of the whole film
"The Wandering Earth 2" has improved its humanistic feelings to a higher level than four years ago.
If four years ago it was still a great love for human survival choices, then this one today is already a symbiosis of solidarity and symbiosis in which human beings all over the world abandon egoism and retain the back path of human civilization.
The phrase "no civilization without people, meaningless" has become the torture of the human soul.
In the face of this big pattern and big perspective, Liu Peiqiang, played by Wu Jing, is much smaller in the contradiction between loyalty and filial piety.
But it is such a perspective to cut in, but it can be small and broad, so that Wu Jing has the opportunity to play Liu Peiqiang full of flesh and blood.
Faced with his sick wife, he chose to give up at first, and finally exchanged his wife's life for his son and father-in-law to enter the dungeon to survive.
But years later, his son's incomprehension and accusations against him left Liu Peiqiang speechless, because he really felt guilty in his heart.
Back in time many years ago, when Liu Peiqiang could still take care of his sick wife and enjoy the warm time of a family of three, the audience began to wonder for him, if he did it again, what would he choose?
With the unfolding of the plot of the movie, Liu Peiqiang gradually shocked his feelings from the "irrational" inner impact for his family, and gradually embarked on a grand plan to save all mankind.
His transformation director did not start from changing the character's personality and cognition, but let him always maintain "irrational" thinking.
If Liu Peiqiang, like MOSS, would only coldly carry out the orders of his superiors, then there would be no such thing as giving up his righteousness in order to save all mankind.
Many friends commented after watching the movie, did not feel the deep conjugal relationship between Liu Peiqiang and his wife, in fact, this is the performance of the sublimation of the theme of the movie, in the face of great love, how can this kind of son-daughter love be compared, just like Liu Peiqiang's master bravely "out of line".
epilogue
"The Wandering Earth" is the first year of Chinese science fiction films, whether it is the ceiling, but the director has always adhered to the core ideas of the two works, although it is a commercial blockbuster, it is done with conscience and quality.
The two films are 4 years apart, and there is no work of the same type that can compete with them, on the one hand, "The Wandering Earth" can be regarded as standing at a certain height, and other works are difficult to match its production standards and depth of thought.
On the other hand, Chinese science fiction films still need to continue to struggle, a director can dominate the film market for four years with one work, it seems that Chinese science fiction films still have a long way to go in the future, but they are still promising!
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