Text | Ling Hu Boguang
The total box office of "The Wandering Earth 2" exceeded 3.8 billion, surpassing the box office of "Operation Red Sea" some time ago to enter the top ten of the Chinese film box office list, but predicting the final box office of 4 billion is still a threshold, and whether it can finally surpass the 4.067 billion "Watergate Bridge" to become the ninth, now it feels a little suspended.
From a movie perspective alone, "Ball 2" is smoother, more reasonable in structure, and more grand in layout than "Ball 1", but objectively there are also some shortcomings, such as a bit messy in the multi-line narrative, some bridges are a little too forceful, and some bridges can be more delicate, of course, this is also because 80 minutes have been cut.
If from a movie point of view, the difference between "Ball 2" and "Ball 1" is to add the two clues of MOSS artificial intelligence and Zhou Zhezhi's political line, which is a huge attempt and breakthrough, and also leaves a lot of suspense for the future third part. Either way, "Ball 2" has come to an end, thanks to the epic leap of "Ball 2".
These countless audiences are very looking forward to "Ball 3", and many netizens have written "Ball 3", here is also speculation.
What is the biggest breakthrough in "The Wandering Earth 2"? In addition to the pattern, there is also this one
If this shot of "Ball 3" is concerned, the political line and Liu Peiqiang line are better handled at present, that is, follow the original work. It has been learned that Hao Xiaoxi, the character played by Zhu Yanmanzi in "Ball 2", is Li Yiyi of "Ball 2", that is, Li Changtiao's mother, which can be arranged on the political line.
The male protagonist in the original work is actually a personal camera, which can be arranged for Liu Qi of "Ball 1" in terms of age. In the original work, the male protagonist has a Japanese wife, so arrange another female protagonist. At the same time, the movie "Ball 1" has Zhao Jinmai's sister Han Duoduo, and this character can arrange a line connecting the male protagonist and politics when he grows up.
This mother is Hao Xiaoxi's Li Yiyi is the same, and these two characters are really not difficult to write from the existing plot.
This line or two lines combined, and finally according to the original book is that the male protagonist chooses to become a rebel, capturing the coalition government and freezing thousands of government officials and scientists, if Hao Xiaoxi is still in power at this time, Li Yiyi's ideal and his mother's family conflict, Liu Qi and his sister Han Duoduo, and his wife's conflict.
Is this a dramatic dramatic conflict, the social significance of the human tragedy and the original helium flash comes out, and of course, there is Zhou Zhezhi, who is suspected of wielding the sword. I think these two lines are really not difficult to write, mainly depending on the specific plot of the director and screenwriter, character shaping, and how to describe emotional conflicts.
The biggest breakthrough of "Ball 2" in addition to the film and television industry, in fact, is to add the digital life map Hengyu father and daughter, MOSS artificial intelligence and Zhou Zhezhi political line these two clues, Wu Jing's Liu Peiqiang clue is for the first review, and Liu Peiqiang's life to complete.
The first two lines are indeed better to speculate according to the original book, unless the director and screenwriter want to play something else.
According to the foreshadowing of "Ball 2", the biggest difficulty if you want to shoot "Ball 3" is the second artificial intelligence MOSS that improves the pattern, as well as the digital lifeline of Tu Hengyu's father and daughter. Although the director of digital life may have borrowed the setting of Liu Cixin's "China 2185".
But the entire storyline, character development, and MOSS threat to humanity are all written by the director and screenwriter. The third part of another line follows the original, the pattern and irony of the plot are full, this line pattern and details if the crotch, can not be said to be finished, but it is definitely greatly reduced.
How to shoot "The Wandering Earth 3"? In addition to how to resurrect Liu Peiqiang, there is also this biggest pit
The difficulty to be solved in the third part is that in addition to how Liu Peiqiang is resurrected (or choose to give up not to resurrect, let him live in memory), the biggest difficulty is artificial intelligence moss, after all, the digital life of Tu Hengyu and Tuya is almost bound to him, and there are two difficulties at present.
1. MOSS has autonomous consciousness is certain, but whether it wants to destroy mankind, or eliminate strife within human beings in a way that destroys human beings, so as to unite human beings, and ultimately save human beings, the underlying logic set by the machine.
The film finally explains that artificial intelligence gave human hints as early as the seventies and eighties, then the space elevator crisis in 2044, then the moon fall crisis in 2058, the gravitational crisis of Jupiter in 2075 and the solar helium flash crisis in 2078, and the first big problem arises here.
So how was MOSS autonomous consciousness generated? When was it born? And how do you travel through time and space?
I don't know how the main creative team designed it, but if the subsequent films can have some interesting and in-depth design and discussion on the setting of MOSS's "super-quantum computer" and the way MOSS generates self-awareness, it may be able to meet the standard of "subversive setting".
"Ball 2" also leaves this part of the foreshadowing, and there is still a lot of room for play.
It is said on the Internet that quantum mechanics multidimensional through space-time, and my understanding of quantum mechanics is very layman, but I like some contradictory phenomena of quantum mechanics about "time" and "causality" (such as quantum entanglement). So I wondered if MOSS is not only quantum in terms of computing power, the existence of MOSS itself is similar to "quantum ghosts", and the unidirectionality of time for humans does not exist for MOSS.
In this way, it can explain to a certain extent why the first message "2044" received by mankind in the film is in 1987, this information comes from the future, but not from the future of the end, but from the moment when MOSS becomes a "four-dimensional/quantum creature" and can see the "beginning and end" of "time"?
If you want to shoot "Ball 3", how do you fill the pit of MOSS? Quantum mechanics is not desirable
However, many netizens think that in such a hard sci-fi blockbuster, what kind of rotten multidimensional space, parallel universes, and even alien mechanical séances and other metaphysics to explain obviously cannot support another line, Guo Fan may be the second part to seal the god, the third part will destroy the god.
Since the second part is not clearly explained, some netizens believe that there is no quantum mechanical time travel, which is a problem that the audience understands.
MOSS intelligence and computing power is not born at the peak, but gradually improved in decades, according to the world view in the movie, may have been born in the network before the 1980s self-awareness, and later several key nodes including the emergence of quantum computers, digital life plans, Tuya consciousness upload, Tuhengyu consciousness upload, are the key elements of MOSS intelligence improvement, until the end of the film really become an almost god-like super artificial intelligence.
Regarding the several crises planned by MOSS, as well as the reminders and threats to humanity, you can go back and carefully look at the reminder messages sent, and the timing of the prediction is becoming more and more accurate, from "2044" to "2058.7" to "2075.2.15", which shows that MOSS not only secretly planned these things, but also took into account all possible development directions of human society, after infinite calculation, and finally reached a conclusion.
Subsequently, with the improvement of MOSS intelligence and computing power, and the approach of time, the time of the event is more and more accurate to deduce.
So this is not necessarily high-dimensional space + time travel, but because some of Da Liu's short novellas are not seen much, some details in the long story are not carefully cut, in fact, Da Liu's own works, for the idea of time travel is a little repulsive, if the film team really wants to do Da Liu universe, then basically will not use the idea of time travel.
Then there are only three problems that "Ball 3" needs to solve; The first is how to explain how Moss awakens and purpose, and the second is to fill in the four time warnings of "Ball 2", creating three major crises and giving human beings the answer to warn again.
The third point is naturally the digital life of Tu Hengyu and Tuya, including the important characters of Zhou Zhezhi who flashed the picture, what position and relationship are in the third part, and how to deal with the characters' emotions.
To be honest, I watched "Ball 2" because I was more worried about Andy Lau's role, because the created character is easy to write down. But Andy Lau's performance was beyond my expectations, I think Tu Hengyu is the most outstanding character in "Ball 2", but the plot arrangement of this character is a big hole.
It has been clearly hinted in the movie that the previous two failures caused the space station to fall, and the overload of the lunar engine was related to Tu Hengyu, but he was still arranged to restart the Beijing root server, although in the end he sacrificed himself, but also because he used the quantum computer to reshape his daughter's life to remember the password and successfully restart the root server.
He is constantly using quantum computers to upload his daughter's consciousness, constantly iterative evolution, and has produced electronic life artificial intelligence. The red dot camera that appears many times in the movie, that is, the predecessor of MOSS, and finally there are Zhou Zhezhi and a bald head, wearing two flashbacks of exoskeleton Tu Hengyu (except there is no Liu Peiqiang).
These are all pits in the subsequent plots, no less than how moss awakens, purpose and setting.
"The Wandering Earth 2" is a god, how to shoot "The Wandering Earth 3"? Guo Fan has these options
Although "The Wandering Earth 2" is a story plot created by the director and screenwriter themselves, there is also character shaping. But in the sci-fi setting, Liu Cixin actually borrowed a lot, digital life borrowed from "China 2185", and the matrix nuclear bomb that blew up the moon borrowed from "Devourer".
This includes the picture of Zhou Zhe's direct flashback of teacher Li Xuejian, and the director clearly said the image of the sword bearer in his heart during the roadshow.
Therefore, although "Ball 2" dug a bunch of pits, "Ball 3" has to bury a bunch of pits, but netizens have given a very Liu Cixin Fan idea to fill the pit, in addition to Da Liu's "Mirror" There is also a detail of the Red Bank Project in "The Three-Body Problem": "The article lists the areas where technological mutations are most likely to occur:
1. Physics: [omitted], 2. Biology: [omitted], 3. Computer Science: [omitted], 4. Looking for alien civilizations: This is the most variable area of all technological mutations, and it is very likely to produce a sudden and huge breakthrough, and once the technological mutations in this field occur, its influence will exceed the sum of the above three fields of technological mutations. - "The Three-Body Problem 1"
In real history, China also began the research and development of transistor computers at the same time as the novel Red Bank Project, so the AI awakening in a 550 project research transistor computer began to have autonomous consciousness in 1987, and it is not impossible to refer to this, and the final filling of the pit is the same.
I personally feel that it is quite difficult to encounter aliens and biology, and Liu Cixin himself does not like to engage in multi-dimensional space, and the setting of time travel.
In the end, it can only be solved on quantum entanglement in computer science, or some kind of physics. Now everything is so-called speculation, and the second part leaves too many pits, which really tests the ability of the director and screenwriter.
In general, "Ball 2" is far beyond the level of "Ball 1" in terms of plot and special effects, I can only say that I hope that "Ball 3" can be filmed well, and the third part should also be on the original plot, as long as the other line is filmed well, it will really be a sci-fi epic masterpiece series, the only one in China, the world's top, and the future is immense.
Finally, the last simple and crude self-speculation, I think the third Liu Qi line is written earlier without mentioning, and the protagonists are Andy Lau and Li Xuejian, they are respectively used as the two main lines of the film, Tu Hengyu uses digital life and exoskeletons to complete memories and use exoskeletons to "resurrect" in reality, and the second film has a clip of his bald head at the end.
Part of the third part should have the helium flash crisis in 2078, after all, this has not been filmed, only the gravitational crisis of Jupiter in the first part, and the third part should be filmed to destroy the 550 series and avoid the helium flash crisis. Among them, the white-haired teacher Li Xuejian holds something like a trigger under the light.
At that time, the rebel group had already laid down most of the UEG headquarters and engine control center, and teacher Li Xuejian held the trigger button that could turn off the engine and tear the earth plate and destroy most of the human race to confront the rebel group——