Why can the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" explode?

The Spring Festival file has come to an end, how many have everyone watched?

I originally thought that this year's Spring Festival would be a happy atmosphere, but I didn't expect that the contestants fought because of the theme and content, and they looked at a sense of fighting.

Sister Pickpocket has no intention of participating in the war, so she simply recommends a high-scoring domestic drama that opens the year, with a score of 8.1 for 170,000 people on Douban, and the performance plot lines are collectively online.

It is the much-anticipated sci-fi masterpiece -

"The Three-Body Problem".

【I】

The play is adapted from Liu Cixin's book of the same name "The Three-Body Problem", the original work is the first Chinese science fiction novel to win the Hugo Award, single-handedly, to raise domestic science fiction to the world level.

"The Three-Body Problem" is different from conventional science fiction works in that it does not focus on the spectacle of the battlefield and the depiction of aliens.

On the contrary, it focuses on using bold conjectures and assumptions to dissect the profundity of human tragedy, so as to achieve introspection of the civilization of the earth.

N years ago, there was news of the filmization of "The Three-Body Problem", and the result was slipped again and again, and when the goose factory officially announced the news of the remake, book fans were tired and unloved, until the show was scheduled to be broadcast, everyone found that the results exceeded expectations.

It can be said that this version of "The Three-Body Problem" made book fans and non-book fans feel the shock of the original work.

Domestic science fiction dramas seem to have found a suitable adaptation path.

Why can non-book fans find the fun of chasing dramas?

First of all, it is not obscure.

Many science fiction concepts are restored figuratively by means of film and television. Moreover, even if you are not interested in science fiction, you can completely watch it as a high-energy suspense drama.

The beginning fills the suspenseful atmosphere.

In 2007, many prominent physicists in the world suddenly committed suicide one after another.

Yang Dong from Beijing also went with them.

Her last words are strange and difficult to understand:

"Physics doesn't exist anymore."

The investigation by relevant departments found that these scientists had a connection with the "scientific boundary" before their deaths.

This is an organization that seems academic, but it is actually mysterious. Their purpose is to overturn cognition and rebuild cognition.

Wang Miao, a scientist who studies nanomaterials, has had contact with scientific boundaries. So, the relevant departments found him and tried to get him to dig for useful clues as an undercover agent.

Wang Miao visited the scientific frontier.

After that, he began to see many paranormal phenomena.

For example, an object suddenly floats into the sky and then sinks into the ground.

For example, the neon signs in the building turned into a pair of big hands, and, suddenly appeared in front of the eyes, a series of countdown numbers.

These phenomena cannot be explained by today's scientific concepts.

【II】

Who let Wang Miao see this? Is it related to scientific boundaries?

Can he dig into the truth of scientific boundaries? After knowing the truth, what should I do?

These questions have not been resolved, and two other story lines have emerged.

One is related to Ye Wenjie.

She is Yang Dong's mother and studies astrophysics.

The reason why the relevant departments found her suspicious, first of all, was because she was too indifferent to her daughter's death; Second, it is because her words reveal an identification with the boundaries of science.

There is also a story line related to the game world.

In order to untangle the truth about surreal elements, he enters the game world provided by the boundaries of science in search of clues.

The game world is a vague, uncertain, counter-common sense new world that breaks all the laws of survival and social rules in the real world.

Both Ye Wenjie and the game world conveyed an important clue.

Beyond Earth, there seems to be a more complex and advanced civilization - the three-body civilization.

With its posture of being above all things, it is trying to invade the earth and destroy mankind. As the Trimaran fleet sails to Earth, humanity must strike bravely and resolve to fight.

"The Three-Body Problem" itself is a sci-fi story with a strong sense of suspense.

Suicide scientists, treacherous academic organizations, and visions that subvert cognition are woven into a vast and delicate web.

This net trapped everyone including Wang Miao, Ye Wenjie, and Yang Dong.

Everyone wants to get out in their own way, and some people choose to introduce alien civilizations to destroy and rebuild this net. Some people choose to commit suicide by taking drugs and voluntarily fall out of the net to free themselves.

Why, everyone wants to leave this net, but they are getting deeper and deeper?

Because what it traps is the loopholes and crises of human civilization, and the choices and struggles of human beings against moral dangers.

The reason why this drama is powerful is not only that it can bring ordinary audiences into it and chase dramas indiscriminately. More importantly, it is necessary to satisfy the imagination of book lovers for novels.

In order to achieve this goal, the main creator adopted a realistic creative tone. There is no magic to change the plot, nor does it refuse to cut it, and even many dialogues directly quote the original work.

It hopes to create a suspenseful atmosphere with realistic texture through the deconstruction of life and scientific concepts.

For example, it will use the beer bottle that soars into the air to tell the audience what chaos life would be if physics did not exist.

This imaginative film and television method vividly restores the obscure description in the novel and directly hits the heart of the novel's fans.

On this basis, the play restores a large number of famous scenes of novels.

For example, the shocking cosmic flickering.

Wild billiards experiments.

Brutal shooter fable and farmer hypothesis.

In particular, the plot of the farmer's hypothesis plays the role of the perfect point. If you just use dialogue, the metaphorical effect will be much worse.

Therefore, the director directly used animation to vividly restore a series of scenes such as the farmer's feeding, the turkey scientist's discovery of the truth of the universe, and the farmer's killing of chickens.

Through this bloody fable, a metaphor is made of the harsh reality that humans may be farmers or turkeys.

What is even more cruel is that the farmer who tried to destroy mankind is a strange three-body civilization. This thriller of being stared at, throughout the play, makes people shudder.

【III】

As the saying goes, a good horse is worth a good saddle.

With a good story, a good director, a good screenwriter, you must be accompanied by good actors, this is enough taste.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to praise the casting of the show. Especially Wang Ziwen and Chen Jin, who played Ye Wenjie.

You know, Ye Wenjie is the core character of the plot of "The Three-Body Problem".

The character line is told from her youth to her later years, and fully explains how she went from a young woman to the female commander of the Earth Trisolaran.

When she was young, Ye Wenjie experienced betrayal and deception and felt despair about human nature.

She tried to use science to find the existence of a higher civilization, so she sent a signal of human civilization to the universe.

This is an unobtrusive and deep character.

When Wang Ziwen handles the role, he is accustomed to expressing Ye Wenjie's fluctuating and complex heart with his eyes.

A single look conveys the character's inner restraint, forbearance, calmness and pessimism, and the emotions are progressing layer by layer, and the rendering power overflows the screen.

Chen Jin played Ye Wenjie in his later years.

The coldness of the actor is like the character who sees through the world and is desperate for human nature.

Finally, Sister Pickpocket wants to say that "The Three-Body Problem" is a brave adventure and breakthrough, which presents the huge and obscure concept of science fiction with accurate visual images, lowers the threshold of understanding of the audience, and pushes Chinese science fiction to a farther and wider audience.

This in itself is a feat in the domestic film and television industry.

I hope that the creators of internal entertainment film and television dramas, when adapting novels in the future, will learn more about the ideas and attitudes of "The Three-Body Problem", do not mix water, do not change magic, seriously shoot science fiction, and talk about human nature, which is the right way to adapt.