A drama like "The Three-Body Problem" really shouldn't be filmed casually.
How popular the novel is, the heart of the TV series director and screenwriter must be big, otherwise take quick relief pills twice a day, and have to carry back three times.
On January 15, 2023, the TV series "The Three-Body Problem" was broadcast. This is the fourth time that "The Three-Body Problem" has appeared on the screen, and given the experience of the previous few times, before the broadcast, many people sang that it must not be filmed well. Frightened the crew.
After the broadcast, the reviews were polarized. Black fans scold every day: water-injected drama, so mysterious, toes picking the ground, a bunch of problems:
The male acting skills are embarrassing, the female dubbing is embarrassing, the indoor scene arrangement is embarrassing, and the outdoor special effects are embarrassing. What kind of cyberpunk is a good drama!
And book fans expressed ecstasy: deep restoration, beyond expectations, there is that taste.
There is a saying, a novel that has been standing on the cusp of the storm for many years will never satisfy everyone, compared with several previous attempts, this remake is worth a sentence from book fans: domestic science fiction drama, the future is bright.
"The Three-Body Problem", a Chinese super science fiction novel urged by Obama using the power of the White House, has been carrying too much praise and expectations for more than ten years since its publication.
Before it was frantically spread, the vast majority of Chinese people did not seriously think about what we would do if one day, a Chinese exposed the whole world to the vision of alien civilizations, leading to the complete destruction of civilization and life.
And Liu Cixin told such a story: in the era of ten years of turmoil, Ye Wenjie, a young female scientist who experienced the destruction of her home and the impact of her soul, successfully contacted the alien "trisolarans" and invited them to come to Earth to "cleanse" human beings.
As a science and engineering man, Liu Cixin's writing can only be called "smooth", and the portrayal of characters and details is really not too delicate. The first part of the original book is full of a large number of physics proper nouns, watching liberal arts students in the clouds and foggy, ready to play, but the author still insists on making the atmosphere a little suspenseful.
The adaptation of this story is really not easy.
But what touched book fans was that the adaptation of the "Three-Body Problem" drama was not only very faithful to the original work, but also smoothed out many problems in the original work.
The screenwriter cut from the time point before the 2007 Beijing Olympics and gave us a familiar background; Starting with the death of female scientist Yang Dong, a long list of mysterious deaths of scientists is involved, setting a suspenseful tone for the story and easily opening the situation.
Although it is difficult to start, Ye Wenjie's experience in her youth is still inserted in the form of memories. The tragic death of his father, the collapse of the family, and the harsh environment were all reflected one by one, giving Ye Wenjie a reason to summon the trisolarans, giving the story a complete logic and full of breath; Chen Jin's acting skills are blessed, and the flavor is better.
In the "Three-Body Problem" game mentioned in the book, the powerful special effects support the grand scene, dehydration, immersion, and human column computer, almost perfect restoration. A climax on the barrage: this is what I imagined the game scene to be!
Zhang Luyi, Yu Hewei and Lin Yongjian's acting skills did not say that Wang Ziwen, who many people questioned before, almost restored the role "close to his face".
The lines are directly cut into the book, the details of the little characters become full, and the chat is about the places where you need to understand a little brain, such as "turkey theory", and directly on the animation, and the confusing and dizzy content in the original work is cleverly dismantled.
So the pace seems a little slow.
So the atmosphere seems a little mysterious.
There are too many characters, and it is natural to feel that some actors do not meet expectations.
The plot is complicated, and a little distracted will feel a little chaotic.
But the flaws are not hidden. Such a work with a grand imagination and a slight lack of details can be restored to the current level, book fans must feel that they have earned, and drama fans are definitely not at a loss.
If you really feel that not criticizing is not enough to motivate progress, we can look at the previous case. You will find that the "Three-Body Problem" in 2023 has improved too much.
Before the broadcast of the "Three-Body Problem" drama, in fact, we had already experienced three three-body adaptations.
The least influential one was in 2018. At that time, there was a reading variety show called "A Good Book", and the content of some good books was put on the stage, including "The Moon and Sixpence", "No Life Left" and "The Three-Body Problem".
Due to the limited stage conditions, there are naturally no stunts and complex plots to watch, the degree of restoration is not high, and the adaptation is also quite personal. At that time, Zhao Lixin played Luo Ji, a wall-faced person, whose main task was to monologue and dialogue on stage.
For The Three-Body Problem, it was a seemingly trivial but monumental attempt, and the novel hit the screen and stage in an interesting way, not satisfactory, but interesting.
For die-hard book fans and two-dimensional user groups, "The Three-Body Problem" has long had a complete animated version, 9 years ago, a group of college students who love the original book with a playful but reverent attitude, modeled with "Minecraft" and made a version of "My Three-Body Problem", which is where the dream began.
At the beginning of the first episode, it can be seen that these children are purely hot-brained.
All the characters are like this.
Here's the scenario.
The barrage is dazzling, and the subtitles are a headache.
Try to watch for three minutes, and the screen is full of squares stacked on top of blocks. This is probably the so-called "road to simplicity".
The picture quality of the spicy eyes, the sparse special effects, but everyone watched it. There are two reasons: the plot is highly restored and the story line is clear; Excellent voice acting.
This is a matter of heart.
"My Three-Body Problem" is a cultivation work, growing under the noses of fans and getting better and better. In the fourth episode, it has neat subtitles.
In the sixth episode, suspected of injecting funds, the opening credits are regularized, the scenes are refined, and the barrage calls it a "technological explosion".
Nine to eleven episodes, and the money burns right in front of you. With a B station rating of 9.8, "My Three-Body Problem" completed the gorgeous turn of the fandom to force the official.
In the second "Luo Ji Biography", the picture quality has improved by leaps and bounds, and the quality of the script has not declined; The third "The Legend of Zhang Beihai" was broadcast, and there was already a bit of a blockbuster.
Fans are still urging the fourth part. Although everyone knows that the fourth part cannot be perfect due to the style of painting, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough to encourage this kind of interpretation full of true feelings.
Everyone said, sincerity for sincerity.
That's why the 2022 version of the "Three-Body Problem" animation has been scolded so much. The audience said it didn't have a long heart.
It took nearly five years from the preliminary preparation to the finalization, spending 120 million yuan, less than 12 hours online, and the broadcast volume of station B exceeded 100 million.
The "Three-Body Problem" animation jointly produced by Station B and Art Painting Kaitian started a big battle.
It's just that the thunder and rain are falling, and after fifteen episodes are broadcast, there are only 4 points left on Douban. At the end of 2022, the Chinese people took pleasure in the group mocking the "Three-Body Problem" animation, and every detail of the failure was pulled out and repeatedly executed. It will become a classic negative textbook in the history of the adaptation of "The Three-Body Problem".
In fact, the details are not so bad, it is nothing more than inexplicably doing some slow motion, which is deflating.
Adding some plots that are not is of little significance.
The background is rough, the molding, and occasionally giving the character four knuckles, these are nothing.
The key is the entry point of this anime: it erases the first.
Ye Wenjie's inquiry into human nature and civilization became the atrocity of careerists, ten years of tragedy disappeared, and the shelf of the story collapsed. Passing the trial is not a reason, the TV series and cartoons next door have been reviewed.
In the words of netizens, this plot cannot be written without a three-hundred-year cerebral thrombosis.
2023 is coming, and everyone is tired of scolding after the New Year. Some people began to reflect: in fact, these works are all "big productions", but the things put into them are different. Watching coldly, each film has its own advantages, why should we be so blaming? Isn't it good to have fun?
Everyone said, not good. "The Three-Body Problem" is of great significance to the Chinese people, to book fans, to the macro situation of Chinese science fiction literature, and to personal growth in the micro sense. We want it to be perfect.
Nowadays, even if you have never understood the Chinese of "The Three-Body Problem", you have heard more or less about the legends of this book.
For example, when the first part of "The Three-Body Problem" was first published in the United States, Obama personally urged the good news.
In addition, the English and electronic versions of the novel were released worldwide, and sales once exceeded 1.5 million copies.
The novel is worthy of its name, but anyone who has read it carefully has been impressed by Liu Cixin's shocking imagination, fantasizing about the moment of "answering", or the strange scene of the three-dimensional earth turning into two dimensions.
But unlimited imagination and super sensory stimulation are only the smallest virtues of the novel. Xu Zidong once wrote in his book why the three-body problem is precious - because it allows Chinese people to go to the world psychologically.
Xia Zhiqing once criticized modern Chinese writers, saying that they only cherish China's problems, but do not frame the pathology of the country as the pathology of the modern world. Regard China's predicament as a unique phenomenon that cannot be compared with other countries. And Liu Cixin broke this shackle.
In the first part of "The Three-Body Problem", Ye Wenjie went to work in the Inner Mongolia Construction Corps, and the so-called construction was to cut trees without limit. She was confused whether this was production or sabotage.
Later, she secretly read a book called Silent Spring, which mentioned Western environmental concepts. Ye Wenjie thought that from the perspective of nature as a whole, human use of pesticides is no different from "turmoil". From this perspective, Liu Cixin skillfully integrated the background of "The Three-Body Problem" into the background of the world.
He also made many readers rethink many seemingly "normal" and even "just" behaviors of human beings, perhaps all of which are "evil" hidden under the iceberg, and began to conduct a macroscopic examination of their words and deeds, the overall plight of human beings, re-understanding human values and moral bottom lines, and philosophical speculation on "survival" and "life".
"The Three-Body Problem" also gave many people a popular science on what "Darwinism" is, allowing fans to start thinking about the length and breadth of life. Should the years be civilized, or should civilization be given years?
In a sense, "The Three-Body Problem" elevates the dimension of the reader's soul, and the merit is immeasurable.
However, many people also say that after reading "The Three-Body Problem", they fell into nihilism, the vast universe, hundreds of millions of years are just a snap of their fingers, the earth is just dust, how small are human beings, what is the meaning of individual behavior, bitter happiness, life and death?
In 2022, before the first episode of the "Three-Body Problem" animation, Liu Cixin gave an opening speech. In the video, he told fans that using bugs to describe humans is still too big, and we can't even count dust.
However, if we look at it from another perspective, it takes 93 billion years or more for light to travel from one end of the universe to the other, so for the life of human beings, the universe is only a static picture. It's nowhere near a trip with your loved one, and a greeting to your parents means a lot.
Facing the universe, I am just a speck of dust, and facing myself, the universe is a dead corpse, while I am alive. The universe is big, life is bigger, and that's what he wrote about the three-body problem.
And this is also the reason why people like "The Three-Body Problem".
I heard that foreign countries will also film "The Three-Body Problem", and it is estimated that he will be scolded after the broadcast. The original is too good, and there will always be something wrong with the remake. I hope that the directors of the three-body problem are all strong hearts and calm down when scolded. That's part of the plan.