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No money, no broken circle, can "The Three-Body Problem" go abroad like "The Wandering Earth 2"?

It's been a while since the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" ended.

The sealing of the last ten episodes made all viewers look forward to it, hoping that the sequel would be launched as soon as possible, although the wishes are beautiful, but the implementation is not easy.

"The Three-Body Problem 1" has made a profit, but the effort is not proportional to the return.

Because of the realism of the original work of the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem", the original party especially liked it, and the score rose all the way, from 8.1 to the current 8.5.

However, due to the threshold for viewing "The Three-Body Problem" and the slow progress in the early stage, it naturally rejects many non-original parties, although it is a high-scoring drama with "Crazy", but it is very different in popularity.

In other words, "Three-Body 1" did not go out of the loop, which made the preparation of the second part difficult.

The director himself out of love for the "Three-Body Problem" series, as well as the support and urging of fans, Tencent and even the country, Yang Lei took over "Dark Forest".

However, he does not have enough confidence and has a "cautiously optimistic" attitude, for now, the technology to shoot "Dark Forest" is enough, and the biggest constraint is money.

Only by allowing "Three-Body 1" to achieve the long-tail effect can more capital see its profitability, increase investment, and make "Dark Forest" have sufficient funds.

At the beginning, the dilemma of "Three-Body 1" was the same as "The Wandering Earth", demolishing the east wall to make up for the western wall, but in the end it was not enough.

Because of the lack of money, the senior management of the "Three-Body Problem" crew did not take salaries, and gave the saved money to the crew at the bottom, and the actors' salaries were mostly friendship prices, so that more money could be used for production.

But even so, it is still a drop in the bucket.

"Three-Body Problem" is hardcore science fiction, although the special effects scenes involved in the first part are not much, but it also needs to burn money, but the pocket is shy, so that the guzheng project and other parts have been repeatedly reduced, it is difficult to restore the grand setting in the original work.

But this cannot all blame Tencent for not increasing investment, after all, this is a brand new attempt, the risk is greater, no one can guarantee to make money, Tencent does not dare to stud.

Compared with "The Wandering Earth", "Three-Body 1" has a little less luck.

They did not meet Wu Jing, let alone people like Wu Jing, willing to invest 60 million yuan in huge venture capital for the development of domestic science fiction films, and did not want remuneration, and were obliged to promote the film.

"Three-Body 1" is also not like "The Wandering Earth", with a wider audience, with super first-line actors like Wu Jing standing on the platform, there is no lack of fame, and whether to make money can be seen intuitively through box office figures.

But there is one point, "The Three-Body Problem" is the same as "The Wandering Earth", that is, the value of cultural export and talent training, "The Three-Body Problem" is far greater than many domestic sweet pet dramas.

On IMDb, The Three-Body Problem has a rating of 7.9.

Starting from episode 12, each episode has a single episode rating of 9 or more, and episodes 25-30 are even close to 9.8, 9.9 and 9.7 out of perfect.

I hope that "Three-Body 2" can also have the same confidence as "The Wandering Earth 2", and promote the industrialization of the domestic film and television industry together with "The Wandering Earth 2" and reproduce the prosperity of a hundred flowers.

At the same time, it can also take Chinese values and export them to the world as a soft culture, which is the subtle main theme, rather than an internal propaganda film that completes the values from the beginning.

China has always been a weakness in the link of cultural export.

Due to the influence of etiquette and rule by virtue in Confucianism, we have placed too much emphasis on moral models and nobility and inferiority in culture, while ignoring the differences between systems and cultures.

When we are external, we spread the Confucius Institute, Peking Opera art and Hanfu national tide, not to mention whether foreigners can empathize, these things may not be able to be thoroughly eaten by themselves, so don't expect foreigners to study hard.

Natural cultural barriers, coupled with too high thresholds, for many years, these high-end cultures have been popular in niche circles in China as status symbols and social attributes, and cannot be expanded.

No money, no broken circle, can "The Three-Body Problem" go abroad like "The Wandering Earth 2"?

In contrast, South Korea and Japan next door are the first factor they consider when exporting to the outside world.

At all times, the world is dominated by people with insufficient literacy level, and if you want them to like them, you have to be popular, low threshold, or even no threshold.

It is under this premise that Japanese anime and Korean boy and girl group culture can take the world by storm.

In turn, they can spread their own values, enhance their country's image, make the West change their perception of their country, and promote economic development and cultural exchanges.

The same is true of the United States, using the influence of Hollywood to concoct a batch of Americanist theme films, so that audiences around the world can inform the movie that they are fascinated by the United States.

In this regard, China should put down its position, do a good job of simplicity and popularity, and not rush it.

"Shangganling", "Heroic Sons and Daughters" and "Garland Under the Mountain" are all very good main theme movies, but these movies can only blossom inside the wall and incense inside the wall.

Foreign audiences do not have collectivism engraved in their genes, let alone experienced or heard of the history of defending the country, they will only watch it as a movie.

But when these main theme films lose their ideological bonus, they will obviously lose some grades in the quality of the finished film.

For example, "Shangganling", "Heroic Sons and Daughters" and "Garland Under the Mountain" have domestic ratings of 8.4, 8.0, 9.5, while in IMDb it is 6.6, 6.5, 8.1.

In this way, the value output we pursue cannot achieve the expected effect, and foreign audiences cannot even talk about liking, let alone agreeing.

"The Three-Body Problem" has strong Chinese values, such as the plot of the homeland, the feelings of home and country, and defeatism.

These Chinese values are not directly given in the main theme of the past, but are conveyed through characters or stories, and are more acceptable to both foreign and domestic audiences.

Even if you don't understand this Chinese value when you first watch it, you will be slowly influenced in the subtle, empathize with "The Three-Body Problem" ideologically, and gradually identify with Chinese values.

Now is a good time, and Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem" itself has a wide audience abroad.

Coupled with the praise of the TV series "Three-Body Problem 1", we can take this opportunity to do a good job in the "Three-Body Problem" series, export our own culture to the outside world in the form of film and television, and use "Three-Body Problem" as a successful case to copy more latecomers.

In the cultivation of reserve talents for film and television industrialization, "The Three-Body Problem" is also not reluctant.

In 2019, "The Wandering Earth" was released, Wu Jing was interviewed, and was asked why he supported the sci-fi film "The Wandering Earth" directed by Guo Fan, and was not worried that the filming would be bad and ruin his reputation?

Wu Jing said bluntly: "Even if the shooting is bad, it is better than no one filming." In fact, we have succeeded, because 7,000 people participated in the production of this film, and in the future, these 7,000 people will be the seeds of Chinese science fiction movies."

Looking at it now, what Wu Jing said is not a fantasy.

People who came out with "The Wandering Earth" have indeed made many highly industrialized films after training, such as "Thousands of Miles Home", "Walking on the Moon Alone", "Assassination of a Novelist", "The Wandering Earth 2" and so on.

And thanks to the drive of director Guo Fan, they brought these experiences into the film school, so that the seeds of industrialization not only blossom in the circle, but also increase their efforts in education.

In fact, "The Three-Body Problem" can do this too.

As director Xie Fei said, TV series such as "The Three-Body Problem" can cultivate students' visual image perception, artistic conception, creative practice execution, and innovation in the use of technology.

When a group of educated students gradually enter the film and television industry, compared with their predecessors, their thinking is new, their foundation is more solid, and they make fewer mistakes, which can make the industrialization of film and television come earlier.

This form of feeding back makes film and television education more perfect, rather than four years of undergraduate life like many colleges and universities.

It seems that after getting a graduation certificate, he still has no job after graduation, or he does a job different from the major he studied in college, and he wastes four years in vain.

I hope you can support good works like "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Wandering Earth 2", because they are really doing practical things for the industry and benefiting the audience.

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