The science-defying setting in the movie "The Meg" is not only whether a known extinct archaeology can continue to reproduce in a specific environment, but also that the currently known deep-sea creatures have generally deteriorated their vision after tens of millions of years of specific evolution.
Poster for the movie Megalodon
Second, deep-sea pressure environments make it difficult for these creatures to survive in shallow waters.
Third, the sulfur-based ecosystems of the deep sea are very different from the carbon-based ecosystems of other parts of the earth, so if a deep-sea organism can break through the barriers of nature and swim to shallow waters, then this may be biologically equivalent to humans surviving on the moon without any auxiliary equipment.
Moreover, all the great powers in the world today have installed effective detection sonar systems in their territorial waters and their contiguous areas, and wouldn't the underwater behemoths of more than twenty meters long that swim from the East China Sea to the South China Sea overnight in the movie attract the attention of the military?
Because the publicity has been emphasizing that "Megalodon" is a "deep-sea version of "Jurassic Park", or the so-called "Jurassic Park + "Jaws"", I can't help but have some more real ideas when watching the movie, purely from a scientific point of view, "Megalodon" is indeed inferior to "Jurassic Park".
The novel Megalodon Chinese Simplified book
Similar to the "Jurassic" series of films, "Megalodon" also has the original book, which is adapted from the 1997 science fiction novel "Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror", written by the American science fiction novelist Steven Alten, who is very interesting and publishes novels that are basically related to sharks, but he majored in sports medicine in college. The translation of the title of this novel in Hong Kong and Taiwan as "Jurassic of the Deep Sea" is Orton's debut work.
The novel is about: Seven years ago, during a secret mission by the US military to explore the Mariana Trench, Taylor was attacked by an unknown "luminous body" full of white giant teeth, resulting in the death of two members of the team, and he also received three months of psychological treatment in a naval nursing home for claiming to have seen the legendary prehistoric megalodon. Seven years later, Taylor, as a marine paleontologist, was invited by the Tanaka Institute of Oceanography to return to the Mariana Trench to find the robot that had accidentally disappeared. Just as he and his partner were carrying out salvage operations at the bottom of the trench where they could not see five fingers, a fluorescent white "luminous body" quietly approached silently...
Su Yin, played by Li Bingbing, tries to inject anesthetic into the megalodon shark underwater
Since one of the producers of the film is the Chinese-funded Gravity Film and Television Investment Co., Ltd., "Megalodon" has made a Chinese transformation. This can't help but be reminiscent of the "Great Wall" which is also a monster theme, but unlike the "Great Wall" that is not flattering at both ends of China and the United States, "Megalodon" does not bluntly emphasize the so-called Chinese elements, but dissolves into it, such as Zhao Wenxuan and Li Bingbing playing father and daughter in the film, borrowing Li Bingbing's mouth, the audience can understand the implicit feelings of Chinese for their loved ones, and in this regard, it is better than shouting slogan-style loyalty and filial piety and benevolence.
Jason Statham plays Taylor in the film, where he is a deep-sea rescue expert
Here may wish to praise Li Bingbing two more sentences, in recent years, many domestic first-line actresses like to take the "big heroine" route, but they mistakenly take the strong as the expression of the "big heroine", Li Bingbing's previous performance in "Zhong Kui Voldemort: Snow Demon Spirit" can also be regarded as the "big heroine" route on the "fire into the magic", fortunately, this role is finally chosen correctly, she did not become a common vase from the East in Hollywood movies, but showed the style of contemporary Chinese professional women independent and self-reliant, And strive to balance the relationship between career and family, and do not twist and squeeze love.
The main actors of "Megalodon", the film was actually filmed in Hauraki Bay, New Zealand, and the little girl named Cai Shuya, a mixed Chinese-English child, had previously played a role in the movie "There Is a Place Only We Know"
Speaking of the movie itself, I'm a bit "thankful" for the novel. Shortly after the original novel was published in 1997, its film and television adaptation rights were sold to Disney, but Disney, which took the family fun route, was somewhat "out of tune" with the novel, and sure enough, the film and television adaptation of the book was full of twists and turns, negotiating the producer of "Minority Report" Jane de Bonter, and the Mexican director Gilmour del Toro, who won several important Oscars for "The Shape of Water", but all of them were fruitless.
At the end of the film, the megalodon shark makes a big fuss in Sanya
Eventually, Disney transferred the film adaptation rights to Warner Bros. in 2015. What I mean by "thankful" is that the original book is more suitable for the "dark" style of Warner Pictures in temperament.
Director Joe Det Durbar, best known for his National Treasures film series, and Eli Rose, who co-directed with Quentin Tarantino on Shameless Bastards, are already trying to avoid factual errors in the original when adapting the original. From the translation of the book in Hong Kong and Taiwan, "Deep Sea Jurassic", we can know that the original novel is somewhat similar to the fan fiction of "Jurassic Park", but the story of the megalodon in the late Cretaceous period vs. Tyrannosaurus rex (it is clear that the bookseller completely ignored the difference between Jurassic and Cretaceous), there is no scientific basis, because from the fossils currently unearthed, the two paleontology never lived in the same era.
The adaptation of the film obviously deliberately avoids many details of megalodon, and because it is necessary to take care of the Chinese background of the film, the plot of the movie is directly moved from the Mariana Trench to the coastal zone of China, but the problem is that the East China Sea and the South China Sea are really not deep enough compared to the Mariana Trench, so this scientific unreliability is very abrupt.
Perhaps the production team has clearly understood the "pseudoscience" of this film, so they have used all their strength on visual effects. The $150 million budget is a B-class theme with A-level expenses. Judging from the results, it is really quite scary. So it is more appropriate to say that it is not so much "Deep Sea Jurassic", but it is better to say that it is "Deep Sea Alien", anyway, how scary is how to come.
Of course, the film still maintains the consistent principle of Hollywood movies - children and puppies do not die. The dog named Pippi at the end of the film will make many viewers' hanging hearts let go ↓↓↓