Time Contributor | Fumi Minamino
Cult movie gluttony.
For most viewers, The Wandering Earth 2 means top-notch special effects and audiovisual effects.
Compared with the cold doomsday scene of the first film, the special effects style of this one is more cool and magnificent, and the stunning "space elevator" scene is quite shocking.
In fact, the film is also interesting in paying tribute to the meme level and the brain-burning sci-fi setting.
While making people smile heartily, they can always think of the brain supplement linkage of "The Wandering Earth" in 2019.
Of course, what is more interesting is that the sci-fi setting of the second part, once studied, is chilling.
Let's take a look at what interesting details Easter eggs are hidden in "The Wandering Earth 2"?
(Spoiler alert: there are a lot of spoilers below)
01
Mosquito cakes
Shortly after the opening of "The Wandering Earth 2", Zhang Peng, played by Sha Yi, complained to Liu Peiqiang, played by Wu Jing, that there were "fried mosquito cakes" before, 500,000 mosquitoes to make one, fragrant.
The "mosquito cake" here and the "earth dragon (earthworm) skewers" in the first part actually reflect the drastic reduction of human food types after the great changes in the world.
02
Two lines of tears for loved ones
After the release of "The Wandering Earth" that year, the paragraph of "thousands of roads, safety first, irregular driving, two lines of tears of relatives" became an Internet buzzword and became popular.
In "The Wandering Earth 2", this sentence is hidden in a bridge section of the astronaut training base.
When the coach was training Liu Peiqiang and other preparatory astronauts, he inadvertently joked, "Then your parents will only have two lines of tears left", which is actually referring to the traffic broadcast.
03
Chinese and Russian comrades-in-arms
In the two movies before and after, there are two pairs of Chinese and Russian comrades-in-arms who have a close relationship.
In the first part, Liu Peiqiang and Lao Ma, and the second part is Zhang Peng and Nov, so the dialogue style of these two pairs is also quite similar.
For example, the phrase "Mom, I want to go home", in the first part, appeared in Lao Ma blurted out when he was in danger outside the space capsule.
In the second part, it is the line when Nov piloted a fighter and a drone to fight.
Both roared majestically - Russians are invincible in space.
They also made a promise with their respective Chinese comrades to go salmon fishing in Lake Baikal.
It is worth mentioning that Nov's Chinese name "Nov" is the same as "Coward", which is why Zhang Peng always calls him that, and the latter also asked Zhang Peng to call him his full name in his first appearance.
04
equip
Many of the equipment in "The Wandering Earth" also appeared in the second part.
For example, the spherical steering wheel of the carrier vehicle in the first part is still a rarity in the second part, and has only appeared on the lunar rover where Tu Hengyu is located.
In the first part, the widely used escape balloon ball only appears in the climax of the second part, the bridge of transporting the wounded underwater.
In the first part, the extremely critical spherical "Flint" appeared for a few seconds in the experiment of the second month-by-month plan.
05
Sulawesi construction base
Hao Xiaoxi, played by Zhu Yan Manzi, introduced the Sulawesi construction base after the "Moving Mountain Plan" was verified.
This base is the end of the first part, Liu Qi, Wang Lei and others try to detonate Jupiter through the steering engine of this base, pushing the key place where Earth escapes the solar system.
06
Han Duoduo
After Liu Peiqiang went to the material distribution office to collect food, he met a lonely little girl and then distributed the fruit he had just obtained to her.
As everyone knows, this girl is the "Han Duoduo" played by Zhao Jinmai in the first film.
As for the name "Han Duoduo", it was actually Han Ziang who passed her name to her adopted daughter in honor of her daughter.
07
Black comrades-in-arms
The funny scene of Liu Peiqiang's black comrades wiping their tears through a glass helmet is actually a tribute to the mixed-race Tim in the first part, who has a similar scene of funny crying in a carrier car.
08
Möbius ring
Ma Zhao, played by Ning Li, drew a "Mobius ring" in his last words on the way to the Beijing root server.
This figure, discovered by German mathematicians Möbius and Johann Listin in 1858, has the meaning of "infinite loop".
This seemingly inconspicuous "suicide note" is actually a metaphor for the most core sci-fi setting in the entire "The Wandering Earth 2".
09
Beijing room prices
After Tu Hengyu and Ma Zhao dived underwater into Beijing, they found that the advertisements of real estate agencies said that Beijing's housing prices had fallen to an ultra-low price of 500 yuan per flat.
This triggered a joke from Tu Hengyu: house prices are finally cheaper.
10
Ma Zhao and Lao He
When repairing the root server in Beijing, the way Tu Hengyu and Ma Zhao cooperate, as well as the plot development, pay tribute to the bridge when Li Yiyi and Lao He rewrote the engine program in the first part.
For example, Ma Zhao and Lao He respectively said: Without hardware support, you recover a fart; Without the help of hardware, you crack a fart.
Tu Hengyu and Li Yiyi are both responsible for software cracking, while Ma Zhao and Lao He are responsible for solving hardware problems.
Later, the fates of Ma Zhao and Lao He were very similar.
Ma Zhao was unable to get Tu Hengyu's rescue after drowning because the door was stuck; And Lao He also died heroically after being smashed on the head and bleeding because the door was stuck.
11
Space elevator
In the film, the stunning "space elevator" scene comes from the scientific conception of Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Later, in the 1978 science fiction novel "Fountain of Heaven", the famous writer Arthur Clark began to describe this idea in detail from a technical point of view.
In fact, this sci-fi idea does not stop at pen and paper, and scientific research institutions in various countries have already invested a lot of money to build a real "space elevator" in the near future.
12
The relationship between Tu Hengyu and MOSS
The deepest hidden clue in the film is actually the relationship between Tu Hengyu and MOSS, and it can even be said that the future direction of mankind is largely determined by these two "existences".
After Tu Hengyu drowned in the flesh, his consciousness was uploaded to the 550W intelligent quantum computer, and after his daughter Tuya's digital life reminder, a series of montage pictures appeared in his mind.
If you pay close attention, there are both the scenes in the first part of "The Wandering Earth", where Liu Peiqiang burns the MOSS with wine, and there are also some very strange scenes: such as the old Zhou Zhezhi, the bald Tu Hengyu wearing a mecha, and Liu Peiqiang's costume that has never appeared.
Or we can say that after Tu Hengyu's digital life is uploaded to the network, he can freely shuttle through the long river of time, and he can see the past and the future.
And the "life" of him and his daughter has jointly shaped the personality of artificial intelligence MOSS.
13
The gaze of MOSS
From the first to the last scene at the beginning of the film, a large number of camera close-ups appear.
While these close-ups create a terrifying atmosphere, they have already told us that MOSS and Tu Hengyu's "digital life" have been peeping into every choice of human beings.
Of course, MOSS has been the culprit since the 2044 space elevator disaster, which is also in the Easter egg part of the film, MOSS directly admitted what he did.
If you pay attention when you brush it twice, you will find that in fact, the damage of the 550C quantum computer, the sudden loss of warning of solar storms, and the sudden jamming of the computer warehouse door where Ma Zhao is located may all be caused by MOSS.
Even Tu Hengyu's daughter Tu Yaya was likely killed by MOSS using traffic lights.
You know, if Tuya had always existed, MOSS would not have been born.
Correspondingly, the mysterious warning patterns received by scientific research institutes in various countries - 2044 and 205807 may be the work of Tu Hengyu's digital life, which confronts MOSS head-on.
He tried to warn humanity of disaster in the real world.
14
Time travel
The sci-fi setting of the "time travel" mentioned above is not the first time it has appeared in "The Wandering Earth 2", and such settings are involved in Nolan's "Interstellar" and Villeneuve's "Arrival".
In "Interstellar", Matthew McConaughey's astronaut Cooper first held hands with the past Brand across time and space after entering high-dimensional space, and then communicated with his adult daughter in the form of Morse code.
In "Advent", it is paved step by step, until the end that the heroine played by Amy Adams suddenly realizes that the future can affect past decisions, and the causal relationship is not linear, but circular.
15
How did Liu Peiqiang come back to life?
In order to "resurrect" the role of Liu Peiqiang, played by Wu Jing, "The Wandering Earth 2" filmed a prequel story.
However, at the premiere of "The Wandering Earth 2", Wu Jing asked the audience curiously, "Director Guo Fan said, if you don't lose money, you will continue to shoot "The Wandering Earth 3", but I still don't know how I should live in "The Wandering Earth 3"? I'm crashing into Jupiter? Can't shoot prequels anymore, right? ”
The audience below boldly gave suggestions: "Go and play Liu Qi" and "Resurrect with digital life".
Wu Jing also smiled after listening to it: "I play my son? Okay? Although I also want to participate, but about how I survived, everyone is welcome to actively submit and help Liu Peiqiang resurrect and participate in "The Wandering Earth 3", thank you. ”