To be honest, in recent years, there have been more and more science fiction films with the universe as the background.
Countries are constantly exploring the mysteries of the universe and putting their imaginations into film and television.
2010's "Interstellar" integrates scientific theories to present space travel, and "The Wandering Earth" released in 2019 has become a milestone for Chinese science fiction films...
These cosmic science fiction films always take the audience to introduce a wider space and tell all mankind that the world is more than the earth.
However, Dong Ge's introduction to you this time is also a cosmic-level movie, but its core is not to explore outward, but to return inward - "Gravity"
After "Gravity" was broadcast, too many "gimmicks" were pasted on it one by one.
It premiered on August 28, 2013 at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, the first 3D film in the festival's history to be selected as the opening film.
At the 86th Academy Awards in 2014, it was even more popular, with 10 nominations and 7 awards (Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, etc.), becoming the biggest winner of the night.
After its release, this film cost as little as $100 million, but the world has received up to 720 million at the box office, which is the legendary applause and popularity.
So the question is, why is it exaggerated in the history of its name?
First of all, its director is the internationally renowned Alfonso Cuarón.
The director is a regular oscarist, harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, son of mankind, and Rome.
The screenplay for the film was also co-written by him and his son Jonas Cuarón.
Let's talk about the starring role of this movie.
The heroine is Sandra Bullock. She starred in "Hidden Sky: Beauty Plan" and also voiced "Minions Big Eyes", for which she was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress.
It is worth mentioning that before Sandra Bullock, the opponents competing for female lead actors were not generalists.
Angelina Jolie ("Sleeping Curse"), Scarlett Johansson ("Black Widow"), Natalie Portman ("V-Kill"), Marion Cotillard ("Batman: The Dark Knight Rises") and other internationally renowned actresses are all popular candidates for the heroine of this film.
This also shows from the side that the script, choreographer, producer and other hard powers of this film are excellent and extremely attractive.
The male protagonist is George Clooney. He is the star of popular American dramas such as "Friends" and "The Story of the Emergency Room", and has also starred in the "Eleven Arhats" series of movies.
It is also worth mentioning that when the director began to prepare for this film, the original choice of the male protagonist was "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr.
After the introduction of the main actor, we began to enter the main topic of the movie.
The film tells the story of a female astronaut who rescues herself from space and returns to Earth.
The beginning of the story locates the environment in the deep and vast outer space of the earth.
At this time, the camera is focused on a space station belonging to the United States, and several astronauts who have come aboard the Space Shuttle Explorer are repairing the Hubble Space Telescope outside the capsule.
Dr. Stone (Sandra Bullock), a female doctor who is in space for the first time, and Kowalski (George Clooney), an experienced astronaut, are scrutinizing every part.
Just then, shocking news came from the space headquarters in Houston:
Russia launched missiles to destroy one of its abandoned spy satellites, and a large amount of satellite debris from the explosion is spreading in Earth orbit at a rate faster than a bullet.
Even more frightening is its chain reaction over the Earth's atmosphere:
These satellite fragments accidentally hit other satellites, causing a series of fragmentation between most of the satellites, creating more new satellite fragments.
Soon, the satellite fragments flew toward Stone and his party, instantly destroying the Explorer spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Stone's companions were devastated to pieces and almost completely destroyed, leaving only her and Koławski to survive.
Later, in order to save Stone's life, Koławski chose to bury himself in the universe.
Sadly, this restoration work happened to be Koławski's last spaceflight work before he retired.
In order to live up to Kovorski's life, Stone did his best with faith to find a way back to Earth in space.
At this point in the story, Brother Dong will not say too much, and what deserves more attention is the beauty of this movie.
Many professional film critics have praised the beauty of the film after seeing its release version.
Super director James Cameron directly ignored many of the previous space gods and directly held it to the highest point:
I think it's the best space-themed film ever made.
I haven't seen this kind of movie in a long time.
The Hollywood Reporter also had this to say about the film:
"Gravity is not a science fiction film in the traditional sense, it is full of tension and surprising bridges, Alfonso Cuarón has created one of the most realistic and beautiful space films."
The New York Post also praised its magnificence:
"Gravity depicts outer space in a spectacular way, as groundbreaking as 2001: A Space Odyssey."
In Dong Ge's view, this film has different strengths for the shaping of beauty: sometimes light, sometimes heavy, sometimes virtual, sometimes realistic.
First, the light part runs through the whole film.
In fact, don't even think about it, as far as the environment of outer space and the identity of astronauts are concerned, the audience also has a certain "light" visual rehearsal presented in the brain.
Full-screen is greeted by slow-flowing satellites and azure earth, and against the backdrop of the universe, this floating beauty is picturesquely still and has a soft tension like water.
The angle of beauty is more relaxed under the film's photographic creation, surrounded by the grand beauty of the universe, there is a small and beautiful place that makes people inseparable from the eyes:
Stone undid his spacesuit and tried to curl up and sleep quietly...
The composition and lighting here are stunning, as if the hope is about to fade in the darkness, but the body is supported by the light and never falls.
Under such a soft space "light" quality, the film presents that slow and leisurely state just right.
The director maintained the rhythm of the plot in less than 90 minutes, completely detailed the return story, did not invade the field of vision, did not let go of the details, is really skilled.
Second, the heavy part, friction to generate heat.
This part is the opposite of the first part: the first part is relatively static, and this part highlights the dynamics.
And this dynamic is violent, stemming from the friction and gravity of outer space.
As they flow through space, any misstep "air exchange" can amplify or even detonate friction.
Most appropriately, Dr. Stone escapes from the fire on the International Space Station.
A few small flames floated in the cabin, not paying attention, the flames instantly used external gas, and after thermal expansion, they were instantly magnified by dozens of times, almost directly destroying the entire space station.
However, in the hands of the film's cinematographers, this scene magnifies the beauty of the flame filling, and also increases the beauty of the explosion after the destruction.
Another scene is even more spectacular.
After rubbing against the atmosphere, the various parts of Tiangong-1 disintegrated and returned to the earth, and sparks with metallic luster rushed to the earth's surface.
Heavy cabins flew with straight exhaust, varying in size but uniform.
When all the cabins appear above the azure earth, the meaning of weight is to return at this moment.
Third, the virtual part highlights the smallness.
First, target two bokeh shots in the film.
One was a screw that almost floated away, and the other was Dr. Stone's tears of crying.
The former blurs the universe, people and other irrelevant impurities, highlights this metal particle and then returns to the universe, which is the substance after the blur;
The latter blurs Dr. Stone and the objects in the cabin, highlighting the crystal clear teardrops, but in fact focuses on the fragility of people, the smallness of hope, and the boundless loneliness.
The scene that impressed Dong Ge the most was that Dr. Stone did not stop falling after leaving the space station.
The single mirror makes the white spacesuit smaller and smaller against the boundless black background of the universe, giving the audience a powerful visual impact.
This place instantly became the heroine's one-man show, but it also gave people the feeling that the play was about to end.
Although it is getting quieter and quieter, the suffocating feeling of space being instantly closed is self-evident.
And this scene is also a unique show of the protagonist born to death, which pays attention to more details of the heroine:
Breathing rhythms and dense communication words fill the audience's ears, rendering extreme tension while watching, but also releasing pressure in an increasingly quiet, virtual reality-dependent atmosphere.
Fourth, the solid part stems from the impact.
The film has two impacts, one is a hard impact and the other is a soft impact.
Hard impacts occur between satellite debris and the space station.
This scene embodies the kind of scattered brokenness, but without losing the beauty of blooming, but releasing the fragmented delicacy.
Even if it is destroyed, it still arrests people.
Soft impacts are aimed at parachutes returning to Earth.
Gravity supports the fall of the small cabin, and the red and white parachute is magnified, and this scene harmoniously and gently presents the idealized beauty of the landing.
When her feet finally stood on the earth's dirt, that moment was no longer desperate and disheartened, but the joy of the rest of her life.
In fact, all of the above is due to the visual effects team behind the film:
1, all space shots are made of CG.
It is reported that in this movie, 60% of the lens pictures are produced using CG technology, and the outer space that brings the most beautiful feeling is actually the credit of CG.
Among them, the 20-minute opening scene of the film uses computer special effects to the extent of "Avatar".
In the entire film, only most of the scenes in the space station are filmed on the set, and only sandra Bullock and George Clooney's faces are related to real life.
2, every lens picture is based on reality.
According to the film's special effects supervisor, in addition to the modeling details of China's Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou spacecraft, most of which are based on imagination, other space stations and satellites in the film have been accurately modeled.
3. Take the creation of animation as the direction and inspiration.
Director Alfonso Cuarón repeatedly mentioned in the process of promoting the film that one of the key points in the production process of the film was to create animation as inspiration to make the film look like animation.
It took the crew two and a half years to determine how effectively the lighting, shooting angles, and animated characters would be visualized, and finally decided to let the actors audition.
Overall, this is a film that plays very well in every way:
The story plot is gripping, the rhythm of the movie is flowing, the theme is straightforward but not conventional, the protagonist's acting skills are online, photography and visual effects are its plus, and the different strengths of beauty are scattered throughout the movie.
And its reverse journey back to earth is conveying to the audience:
Returning to home and roots is the eternal motif of human beings.
Maybe that's why the movie is called Gravity!
Brother Dong, | of the Bluestone Editorial Office
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