The animated version of "The Three-Body Problem" gave the audience a head-on blow, except for the guzheng project in the first episode, the entire work can be called a rout.
Many viewers once believed that presenting a magnificent masterpiece like "The Three-Body Problem" at the level of a Chinese drama was definitely not as good as the animated version.
When the animated version is pulled across, the audience does not even dare to raise expectations for the drama version, and there is no shortage of pessimistic views on the Internet:
In a work like "The Three-Body Problem", it is better not to shoot it if it is not good.
However, when the drama version was launched, the praise came, and the Douban score even soared to more than 8 points, and the domestic science fiction theme work was the first time to receive this praise.
Does the success of the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" rely solely on the foil of the animated version of its peers? Of course not!
Audiences who follow dramas, especially fans of the original works who follow dramas, can truly feel that the success of the drama version comes from the ubiquitous sincerity of the independent creative team.
Adapting a big IP requires sincere restoration and careful second creation.
As a world-renowned science fiction work, "The Three-Body Problem" is absolutely epoch-making, and it is also recognized by everyone as difficult to adapt and restore.
As the director of the animated version said in an interview, Da Liu's text is not friendly to film and television.
But the difficulty does not mean that the adaptation process can overturn the original work, ignore the story, and delete and modify at will.
The adaptation of the drama version was jokingly called by netizens:
PowerPoint of the original.
From the beginning of the first episode, it is a chilling restoration and truth.
As the lens gradually zooms out, from micro to macro, from planet to universe, the field of view is grand.
Later, the period music and scenes appeared.
The Cultural Revolution and the Red Bank Base followed the steps of the young version of Ye Wenjie, and the turbulent years spread out the picture.
The screen shows the information of the base's harvest:
Don't answer.
But Ye Wenjie responded to the opposite message, she compiled the position of the earth into data, pointed the antenna at the sun, and decided to expose the position of the earth to distant extraterrestrial civilizations.
It was only before pressing the button that she hesitated.
This paragraph is the prologue of the first part of the "Three-Body Problem" series.
Whether Ye Wenjie pressed the button or not, it is also necessary to rely on the later plot to introduce her experience, and use the betrayal and injury she experienced in the Cultural Revolution to lay down her psychological motivation for making choices.
Then, Yang Dong's suicide flashed, and Shi Qiang knocked on Wang Miao's door.
The characters are appearing quickly, and fans of the original book are pleasantly surprised by the high degree of restoration of the story, and non-readers will never understand the difficulties.
Wang Miao, an ordinary scientist, understood at a glance that although he was a doctor, he was by no means a top scholar in the scientific community.
Before Shi Qiang knocked on the door, Wang Miao lived calmly and indifferently in scientific research day after day.
When he opened the door and saw Shi Qiang, his life changed dramatically:
One scientist after another in the scientific community committed suicide, and everyone left their last words - physics does not exist.
The scientific boundary of the mysterious organization told him two stories, thinking about it with great horror, urging people to collapse their worldview——
Hunter with turkey on the farm.
The countdown that appeared out of thin air brought him psychological and physical torture, and the end of the countdown was death or the destruction of the world?
When metaphysics, mythology, and supernatural could not explain the countdown, Shen Yufei presented Wang Miao with a greater impossibility -
The universe flickers for a set time.
When Wang Miao was almost forced to collapse and become the next scientist to commit suicide, Shi Qiang, a police officer who did not understand science, cleverly pulled him back to the world of reason:
Living is more important than anything else.
The plot progresses in the stimulation suffered by Wang Miao, completely presenting the story structure of the original work, adding secular bridges to enhance the viewing experience, and firmly grasping the spiritual core of the original work.
There has never been a savior or an immortal emperor, and the only way for human beings to survive is a "community with a shared future for mankind".
Adapting science fiction works requires sincere details, careful fantasy.
Good science fiction should be like documentaries about the future.
According to the timeline of the original book, the first part tells the encounter and discovery of Wang Miao in 2007.
In terms of time, this is a story about the past, but because of the intervention of three-body technology, the plot needs to find a balance between reality and fantasy.
This balance is established by the contrast between reality and special effects.
Special effects are an absolute problem that can be solved under heavy money, and realism is the focus of the whole story.
So the framing of the episode became a highlight:
Yang Dong's physics laboratory, shot in the Beijing electron-positron collider BEPC, the series captures the shocking size and precision of the collider.
The place where Wang Miao observed the twinkling of the universe is the Miyun Station of the National Astronomical Observatory, those huge radio astronomy satellite launchers, which have both a sense of age and a sense of the future.
Ye Wenjie's past story takes place in the Red Bank Base, but also in the Sihetang (Qingliang Valley), and the barrenness of the lofty mountains highlights the mystery of the Red Bank Base.
In order to better present the "science" of science fiction works, the series invited many scientific giants as scientific advisers:
Liang Wenjie, Wang Lan, Wu Chenggang, Liu Qian, Chen Pengfei, Zhou Liyong...
Just search for their names until, these are the pillars of the country, scientific and technological elites.
With their presentation of the technology part of the series, the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" presents a sense of technology like a documentary.
This reality, combined with the cosmic flickering and countdown created by Tomoko, perfectly restores the delicate balance between science and fantasy in the first part.
Grasping the essence of the original work requires sincere recognition and careful interpretation.
The spiritual world of "The Three-Body Problem" is a purely philosophical world that belongs to Chinese.
There are often different voices that believe that Da Liu created a cold and cruel social Darwin, a pure law of the jungle, lacking humanistic care and literary romance.
Da Liu's understanding of civilization is true and thorough, and "civilization" is never more compassionate than the higher it is.
Recall the various civilizations on Earth, when the powerful warships of Europe landed in the Americas, the primitive natives were faced not with Sven and politeness, but with plunder and killing.
Civilizations of different degrees of development and their classes have never given compassion, let alone face the absolute weak in science fiction works.
Who has ever seriously compassionated an ant that has been trampled to death?
Instead of creating false compassion in literary works, it is better to tell a story based on real civilization.
The novel "The Three-Body Problem" is profound and simple in the presentation of civilization itself and civilization.
No matter how brutal and complex the struggle between civilizations, civilization itself is not complicated, and the first priority of any civilization is survival.
Only by surviving can we talk about civilization.
So in the play, when scientists are trapped in Chiko's scientific and technological blockade and commit suicide in despair, Shi Qiang's simple logic breaks the true meaning of civilization, no matter what difficulties he faces, trying his best to survive is the most important!
Dead cut the details, strive to restore, in the face of such a masterpiece as the "Three-Body Problem" drama version, what is there to say? There is only one sentence:
Don't miss, don't miss, don't miss.