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Don't walk gently into that good night.
This "deep-pocketed" drama has an investment of up to $153 million, which is beyond the reach of many theatrical movies.
It is a highly acclaimed drama.
Rotten Tomatoes has a freshness of 94%, an average IMDb score of 8.6, and the highest score of a single episode is 9.0, far ahead of Netflix's sci-fi giant "The Three-Body Problem".
This is also a drama in which the original party is more pleasantly surprised than passers-by.
The original story that fully respects the game's world view perfectly restores the apocalyptic wasteland world in the hearts of old players.
Today, Time Jun will come with you to watch-
Fallout
Adaptation of the saga
As we all know, there are two Nolans in the film and television industry.
One is the elder brother, the famous Christopher Nolan, who only won the Oscar for Best Director for "Oppenheimer" last month.
One is the younger brother, Jonathan Nolan, who is often hidden under the aura of his brother, and is also nicknamed "Little Joe" by fans.
Brother Left, Brother Right Unlike Christopher, who is obsessed with directing dreams, Jonathan majored in English at University and once focused on being the man behind his brother.
The movie "Fragments of Memory" is adapted from his short story, and he also participated in the screenwriting of "Deadly Magic", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "The Dark Knight", "Interstellar".
However, after the American drama "Suspect Tracking", which independently wrote the script, became famous, Jonathan also began to be eager to direct his career.
As a result, there is the equally popular "Westworld" series.
This western science fiction work, which he wrote, directed, and produced as a producer, is laying the groundwork for his classic IP "Fallout" directed this time.
And, in a sense, the new work also echoes his brother's award-winning work.
"Oppenheimer" tells how the nuclear bomb was created.
"Fallout" explores how people struggle to survive in a nuclearized world.
The original game of the same name, Fallout, originally published in 1997, is an American RPG set in a wasteland world after a nuclear war.
The work was widely praised by the player community as soon as it was released. In the following 20 years, it has successively released sequels "Fallout 2", "Fallout 3", "Fallout: New Vegas", "Fallout 4", "Fallout 76", and spin-offs "Fallout: Shelter" and "Fallout: War".
Over the years, it has accumulated a large number of loyal fans around the world and has already become a well-known IP in the industry.
The reason for the game's longevity lies in its apocalyptic worldview rooted in nuclear panic, its exploration gameplay with a high degree of freedom, and the suspense of the plot that requires players to deduce the secrets of the world from the fragmented text content.
After watching the series with screenshots of the game "Fallout 4", you will find that the reason why this film and television adaptation has been a great success is precisely because it has completely inherited the advantages of the original on the spiritual level.
And on this basis, create a rich and new adventure story.
Survive in the wasteland
The first thing to emphasize is that in the basic setting, the world of Fallout has been separated from reality since 1950.
In this parallel world, the scientific and technological tree of mankind does not focus on semiconductor components and integrated circuits, but devotes all its energy to the research of nuclear energy.
So, despite the devastating nuclear war in 2077, the characters look as if they are still living in the '50s, still using old-fashioned cameras, bulky transistor TVs and computers.
After that, 219 years have passed, and the world for the rest of my life after the catastrophe has also undergone earth-shaking changes.
The series itself is not a single narrative structure, and the three main characters come from different camps.
The first to appear is Lucy, a resident of the Underground Vault.
Vault Tec was the largest technology company in the United States before the war, and it was openly claimed that people could buy shelter services to hide deep underground after the nuclear bomb hit and start a new life without the effects of radiation.
But the truth is, the vault is nothing more than an enclosed place for them to conduct human experiments.
Lucy, on the other hand, was just lucky, living in Vault 33, which served as a normal control group.
From childhood to adulthood, she received a good education that was no different from before the war, and had a complete moral outlook and a beautiful vision of life.
Lucy firmly believes that the Vault exists to allow humanity to thrive safely. One day, when the radiation from the ground disappears, they will be able to return to their homes.
For this reason, she even willingly married a stranger she had never met.
Unexpectedly, what was waiting for her ahead was a "bloody wedding".
Residents of Vault 32, who were scheduled to marry Vault 33, were slaughtered by a group of above-ground residents at some point.
They took the opportunity of the wedding to infiltrate No. 33, and after eating and drinking, they went on a killing spree.
In the end, both sides were defeated, and the custodian of Vault 33, who was also Lucy's father, was abducted and disappeared.
In order to rescue her father, Lucy had to muster up the courage to go to the ground for the first time in her life.
The dark side that this world has never revealed to her.
During the journey, Lucy meets two other "companions".
One is Maximus from the "Brotherhood of Steel".
As a child, Maxsimus' home was razed by a nuclear bomb, and he was rescued by a Brotherhood knight and raised by a frequent.
The Brotherhood is a powerful force on the ground, dedicated to collecting, managing, and controlling the science and technology that remains in the wasteland, and has powerful military equipment such as laser rifles, airships, and power armor.
At the same time, there is a strict hierarchy within the organization.
Those who are qualified to equip Power Armor are called knights, and each knight has a servant who carries supplies for him.
Maximus was one such servant.
However, when his knight was seriously injured and still insulted and threatened him, Maximus chose to sit still and watch the other man die without medical treatment.
Determined to make a name for himself and get ahead, he seized the power armor and began to impersonate a knight on a mission.
The third person is a "ghoul" named Cooper Howard.
Under the influence of nuclear radiation, many creatures on the ground have mutated, such as giant cockroaches, two-headed cows, two-headed bears, and man-eating newts...... Human beings are no exception.
Some of these humans, due to long-term exposure to radiation that does not cause death, are gradually transformed into long-lived ghouls. Cooper is one of them.
Before the war, he was a well-known American actor. Since his wife is a Vault Tech employee, he even starred in a promotional commercial.
However, over time, Cooper gradually discovers the conspiracy of Vault Tech and becomes completely hopeless about the world.
Today, Cooper is a ruthless bounty hunter.
Anyway, he can't die, as long as there is money to be made, he is willing to do any dirty work of killing people and setting fires.
A prop that may change the situation in the world has become the key to the trio of people.
During the continuous encounters and fights, as the truth of the world is revealed little by little, the truth and complexity of human nature are gradually exposed in front of the audience.
For Lucy, this journey is a process of witnessing the sinister heart of the human heart.
The contempt of the inhabitants of the shelter by the inhabitants of the ground, and the way of life in which people cheat and kill each other in order to survive, have made her from an "ideal country" miserable.
However, even though her idealism and sense of morality are difficult to work in the wasteland world, she still chooses not to forget her original intention and not be assimilated by this cannibalistic other world on the premise of preserving herself.
For Maximus, a rebel, this adventure was an opportunity and a choice.
He was ambitious, of course, and allowed the knights who dictated to him to die.
But when the classmates who had bullied him in the past became his subordinates and thought about him wholeheartedly, he couldn't kill him.
He still has the bottom line.
The memories of the ghoul Cooper are also the most brutal part of the whole play.
We can witness the gradual alienation of human nature under the threat of weapons of destruction.
His wife was an ordinary woman who was afraid of war and wanted nothing more than to protect her family.
However, the existence of the shelter opened her eyes to another possibility, taking the future into her own hands.
In order to ensure that the experiment can attract investment, be officially put into use, and continue the future of mankind, she does not hesitate to drop a nuclear bomb with her own hands to destroy the world that makes her feel uneasy.
Cooper, who learned the truth too early, fell into despair too early.
Although he didn't immediately go insane like the other ghouls, his existence is a true sample of how this cruel world grinds away humanity bit by bit.
When three people with completely different ideas and methods collide, where will they go in the future?
Everyone was happy
For gamers and casual viewers alike, the Fallout adaptation is a surprise gift.
The general audience can know nothing about the content of the game, because it uses the volume of eight episodes to slowly unfold the complete apocalyptic world in front of your eyes.
You can follow in the footsteps of the three protagonists as a player, and be conquered by the charm of this world little by little.
Since director Jonathan himself is a deep player of Fallout 3, it is only natural that the show is also full of original elements that will make fans of the game smile.
For example, the beep boy wrist device.
When Lucy obtains an important item, she is told that she can go somewhere to find her father. The other party manipulated the beep-beep boy and hit the target coordinates on her map.
Obviously, this is the process of taking on tasks and getting coordinate guidance in the game.
The dog companion "Dog Meat" throughout the play is also a popular character who accompanies players on their adventures in the game, and has also won the "Best Dog Award" in the game industry.
Familiar names such as "Delicious Brand Devil Egg", Nuka Cola, Dingqua Supermarket, and Red Rocket Repair Station can continue to evoke good memories of the game.
At the same time, the game's black humor of "I want to ridicule the world in spite of everything" is also perfectly inherited by the series.
The reason why Cooper was able to escape under the siege of a group of Brotherhood members was because of the flaws in the design of the power armor that he complained about before the end of the day, which have not been corrected to this day.
Maximus, who had just become a knight, decided to act bravely, but only to save a psychopath.
The humans on the ground, who had always looked down on the inhabitants of the Vault, immediately indulged in the gentle countryside after enjoying a hot bath and popcorn......
The director of "True Fragrance" even paid tribute to himself in the second episode. found an old friend "Otaku" Michael Emerson and asked him to play a lame character with a dog again, and "head and face" to the last episode.
I believe that every fan of "Suspect Tracking" will burst into laughter because of this.
How can it not be considered to have a head and a face...... The series was a hit, and it even fed back into the game itself.
After the launch of the TV series, the number of online players on Steam for all games of Fallout has increased significantly, with Fallout 4 rising from an average of 1-20,000 players per day to more than 90,000 online, the highest since May 2016.
Fallout 76 reached 43,000 online passes, the highest since it landed on Steam.
The end of science fiction is reality.
When we discuss the future development of science and technology and the evolution of society, we are actually reflecting on history and speculating on the current situation.
No matter how technology evolves, human nature will always be the switch that controls the survival or destruction of the human race.
Jonathan Nolan has always been good at creating works like this, which provokes the audience to think. But it is another, equally well-known, shortcoming.
Now Amazon has confirmed that Fallout will produce a second season.
So far, the feedback for the first quarter has been good. I only hope that with the blessing of the rich settings of the original work, the "Fallout" series can break the curse of opening high and going low, and make a good start for more game adaptations of film and television dramas in the future.
After all, in this era of original exhaustion, popular games such as "Real Estate Tycoon", "Fishing Sail Undercurrent" and "It Takes Two" are also on the road to film and television, aren't they?
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