Author/Boki
The presentation of the finale of Tencent's "Three-Body Problem" "Operation Guzheng" is amazing!
Nagging about imaginary sci-fi scenes appear in front of you in a more realistic and clear way. The movie-level texture has also rushed to the hot search, and everyone is urging the second season online!
The Nano Flying Blade will perfectly cut and disintegrate a huge cruise ship containing materials from the three-body civilization like cut tofu, leaving the ETO (Earth Trisolaran Organization) defenseless. "Operation Guzheng" has obtained more useful information for mankind to understand the three-body civilization and face the upcoming three-body people.
The drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" also mentions the breakthrough and improvement of nanotechnology. Stronger nanomaterials are likely to allow humans to "soar to 90,000 miles", successfully build a space elevator, and strengthen the earth's defense system.
The "space elevator" was "built" in the Spring Festival hit "The Wandering Earth 2", and when the elevator took off, the three-body civilization was anxious to extinguish Wang Miao's nano research, nagging had a more intuitive feeling, goosebumps suddenly rose in the theater.
In the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem", in 2007, we saw the "past" side of nanotechnology for building space elevators - "nano flying blades". In "The Wandering Earth 2", in 2058, see the grand imagination mentioned in the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" become "reality".
This wave of coincidental dreams is linked, and in the two original sci-fi masterpieces from Liu Cixin, I see the past and future of science and technology.
As a sci-fi film and television work with a timeline close to us, the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" brings us a stronger substitution, and the wonderful excitement of the collision of reality and sci-fi on the one hand;
On the other hand, Nag also saw a new solution to science fiction film and television works, taking the development of human civilization as the line, using wonderful "ideological wonders" to broaden the audience's cognitive scope, and immersing themselves in the science fiction world that seems to be happening around them.
"The Three-Body Problem"
A huge brain hole in realistic science fiction
Many people say that "The Wandering Earth 1" opened the first year of Chinese science fiction in 2019. And the recent hit "The Wandering Earth 2" ushered in the era of film industrialization that we have been waiting for for a long time.
The box office of Xiao Broken Ball 2 exceeded 3.3 billion yuan, and the surrounding crowdfunding exceeded 100 million. The movie's unique "running with the ball" Chinese science fiction, as well as hardcore space elevators, planetary engines, intelligent quantum computers... It's all a feast for the eyes.
Such a technological leap is not easy to come by, after "The Wandering Earth 1" initially explored the road of industrialization, and gradually ran through this road, only then did the second part present the "physical steel behemoth", which shocked and shocked the audience.
The drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" opens up another path - the wonder of ideas.
The characters in the play stand from different perspectives, and the ideological game between them is like an experimental observation of human nature based on scientific embodiment, and looking back and looking forward to cosmic civilization based on the current reality.
Based on the practical problems brought by scientific development, what kind of future will science and technology bring us?
The ETO Adventists in the play, their answer is negative.
Growing environmental problems, uncontrolled logging, oil spills and pollution, and scientific and technological development are human desires, which are unequal and destructive to their species.
So there are "extremely crazy" Evans and Pan Han, who have solved the problem in a way that betrays human civilization, and asks the three-body civilization to come and destroy human civilization and replace human civilization.
Will the brilliant side of human civilization be wiped out because of this?
What buys time for human civilization is precisely "science and technology". The nano flying blade brought about by scientific and technological development and progress is destruction for the Judgment Day and Adventists, but the meaning for the entire human civilization is "salvation".
Many things seem to be the tip of the iceberg on the surface, and after digging into it, it is terrifying to think about it.
For example, the chilling "Dark Forest Theory" in the second "Dark Forest" of the original book has begun to appear in the play.
Especially in 1979, young Ye Wenjie saw "Don't answer!" Don't answer! Don't answer! The warning still chooses to press the button that decides the fate of humanity, making the nagging even more chilling.
In episode 19, the elderly Ye Wenjie told Wang Miao about the Fermi paradox, mentioning "radio silence", that is, the signal signals sent by humans to alien civilizations have never been responded, and this "no response" does not mean that there is no other civilization in the universe, but they choose not to respond.
After watching the finale and thinking back to this paragraph, this paragraph of the elderly Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao is not like a discussion, more like a statement. Because young Ye Wenjie has certified the Dark Forest theory.
Why is the universe dark and quiet? Why has the active and enthusiastic search for extraterrestrial intelligent life, the search for human beings of the same kind, never received a response?
The universe is like a dark forest, you don't know how many hunters lurk in the darkness, and in order to ensure that they are not threatened, hunters will destroy any life that exposes their existence.
At the end of the series, the information of the three-body civilization is cracked, Ye Wenjie tells his story and inventory, and all the fog of thought becomes clear and clear. The Dark Forest theory was confirmed that the Trisolarans were hunters lurking in the Dark Forest, and Earth was their target.
The high moral standards of the imagined higher civilization have also become dreams. Environmental protection issues to resist technology is the "dyeing plan" of the trisolarans, and the romantic spectacle "the universe twinkles for you" is also the "miracle" trick of the trisolarans to disrupt human scientific thinking... The survival and destruction of science and technology and civilization is an unsolvable problem from different perspectives.
The science and technology mastered by the three-body civilization is a cold and irresistible force for human beings, the physics of human research can be manipulated and changed, human civilization is doomed to destruction, everyone is a turkey, the earth is just a two-dimensional bullseye in the eyes of higher creatures, and everything becomes meaningless.
Seeing this, I believe that everyone has also seen Yang Dong's spiritual picture and understood her despair for the world.
For the trisolarans, humans are "bugs" that can be pinched to death at will, has the sunset of human civilization begun?
"The Three-Body Problem" shows us a different "temperature" from traditional science fiction.
The dusk sunset turns to the green and vibrant wheat field, and under the surging vitality of locusts, through Shi Qiang's "bug spirit", the spirit of human courage and perseverance is still conveyed "knowing the unknowable".
Tomoko's dimensional contraction and unfolding, the factional rivalry in the three-body world, the worldview structure of the three-body civilization, how humans respond to the crisis of interstellar aggression... The further you look back, the more you can see some god-sealing moments, and the dimension of thought is constantly being opened.
"The Three-Body Problem" has a story based on reality, a universal core, and a science fiction story that expands the boundaries of ideas, and we are more curious about the process of evolution of our own ideological dimension as the plot is promoted than visual presentation.
Such science fiction film and television works have created a kind of ideological science fiction, which is a new form of science fiction different from traditional science fiction.
Beyond "The Wandering Earth"
"The Three-Body Problem" finds a new solution to Chinese science fiction
At present, the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" has scored a high score of 8.2 in nearly 210,000 people on Douban, and the last ten episodes of high combustion and high energy go hand in hand! (It was still 8.1 before writing!) It also rose by 0.1 points after the finale was released)
The restoration of the original work in the drama version has won countless praise from the original party, and its presentation method has also allowed many audiences to enter the science fiction theme.
It gained 25,000 popularity on Tencent's station within an hour of broadcasting, making it the fastest drama to break 20,000 in popularity. In addition to the influence of the IP itself, the TV series presents the content in the original book in a more concrete way, such as billiards demonstrations and the relationship between turkey farmers, which are relatively high for people who have not seen the original work.
As well as the will of the main throughout the play, the flickering of the universe, the past of the Red Bank Project, and the three-body world view laid out by the three-body game, the key elements and highlights are vividly expressed.
"Soaking", "dehydration" and "turkey" have become the social currency of the social platform "Trisolarans".
The drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" enriches the imaginary world through the details of the timeline and the realism of the characters, creating a "real, near-looking sci-fi world".
Let the audience's thoughts be substituted into the plot, and the changes in the characters' thoughts in the play affect the audience's heart.
Especially when the plot progressed to Ye Wenjie receiving a reply from the trisolaran, Ye Wenjie's actor Wang Ziwen's comment area became a square for the audience to play terriers and discuss.
There are "Adventists" who want to retire early, and "Adventists" who urge changes, and viewers who care about human civilization roar "Don't answer!" Teacher Yu Hewei also commented passionately.
Using the wonders of thought to create a sci-fi drama has also won the resonance and interaction of the audience as the wonderful plot progresses. In vain the polishing of the script of "The Three-Body Problem" for 4 years, the main creator's purpose is to bring broad values to the audience.
This approach is a successful experiment for the industry, a breakthrough in the science fiction genre.
In the past, the sci-fi style led by Western sci-fi limited the audience's cognition of sci-fi to the categories of space opera and doomsday wasteland, and these two sci-fi genres mean high cost and high investment, making a large number of practitioners discouraged from sci-fi, which to a certain extent limited the development of Chinese sci-fi film and television dramas.
Science fiction is not only equivalent to high cost and special effects technology, the success of "The Three-Body Problem" shows that telling a good story, broadening the boundaries of ideas, and understanding the wonders of ideas is also a good solution.
In 2023, whether it is the movie "The Wandering Earth 2" or the TV series "Three-Body Problem", in the exploration of the two pioneers, the blue ocean of Chinese science fiction is more extensive, and the picture of Chinese science fiction is slowly unfolding.
Starting from the footsteps, Chinese science fiction film and television works are setting out towards the warm and vigorous "Changheng Era".