In 2020, mankind entered the first year of the third decade since the new century.
Along with the New Year's bells, there are songs and dances that reverberate around the world, blessings that have been kissed by various languages.
People are immersed in the joyful rivers and seas, and they believe that in the next decade or even the next century, human beings on this planet will continue to call the wind and rain and change the world.
They believe that the scenes that appear in the movie will be realized, like in [A Thousand Guns], through genetic modification, human beings can be reconstructed; like [World War], a laid-off human worker can kill an alien mech;
Worst of all, it will be like in [Robot Story], after the failure of the earth, humans will relocate to the spaceship and continue to live with bells ringing.
[World Wars]
But 12 days later, before the New Year's bells rang out, the World Health Organization announced the emergence of a new virus that can cause serious respiratory diseases, which they called the "2019 novel coronavirus." That is to say, in a month or two, the world that was tempered into a steel and iron bone by the information revolution in the 21st century was turned upside down.
Countries, from Asia to Europe, from the Americas to Australia to Africa, have declared a state of major catastrophe and implemented wartime control.
It's like the beginning of a horror movie, a huge planet, all public places are closed, everyone is isolated at home, overnight, circulation freezes, boiling and stopping.
Cinema lines around the world have been closed.
Sun-ray Theater in Jacksonville, Florida: Movie Theater Closed. Until our real life is no longer like a movie.
Following China, on February 25, 2020, five northern regions of Italy took the lead in canceling all public events as of March 1, including the closure of all schools, museums, concert halls and cinemas.
On March 13, the Aero Cinema in Los Angeles also announced that "due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the cinema has suspended the film industry, and the opening time is undecided." Subsequently, north American amc, regal, cineplex, alamo drafthouse and other large theater chains have announced the closure of their theaters.
On March 14, the French national theater line was closed. All cinemas in Spain are closed. Most german cities close their cinemas. Countries such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Poland and Greece are closed to all cinemas.
Movie theme parks around the world have also closed.
On March 12, 2020, six Disney parks around the world were closed for business. On March 14, Universal Studios Hollywood also closed its doors and closed its doors.
Movie withdrawal.
On January 23, 2020, the seven films that will be released in the most important Spring Festival slot of Chinese cinema, including "囧Mom", "Win the Championship", "Emergency Rescue", "Detective Chinatown 3", [Vanguard], [Jiang Ziya], and [Bear Haunting Wild Continent] announced their withdrawal at almost the same time.
On March 5, 2020, [007: No Time to Die] was changed from April 10 to November 12. Like Death whistling, after the premiere on March 13, the $290 million [Mulan] announced its withdrawal. [A Quiet Place 2] was also withdrawn a week before the release, and the specific release time is undecided.
[Mulan]
Next, [Fast & Furious 9], [Black Widow], [Eternals], [Shangqi], [Doctor Strange 2], [Thor 4], [Black Panther 2], [Captain Marvel 2] and other films have been announced to be withdrawn.
Films that are being filmed, such as [Avatar 2], [Elvis Presley Movie], [Mission Impossible 7], [The Matrix 4], [Batman], [King Richard], [On the Cliff], also had to announce a halt to filming and wait for the epidemic to pass.
Even [Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them 3], which was scheduled to start in London on March 16, had to be suspended, and it is unknown when work will resume.
[The Matrix 4]
Just like the rushing of thousands of rivers frozen in an instant, the filmmakers who originally flew all over the world had to stay in their rooms and do home isolation.
Some people work out, like "Thor" Chris Hemsworth, and write a fitness diary. Some people do public welfare, but they all choose the way with the least interpersonal contact, such as reading for children. "Little Freckles" Eddie Redmayne read "Zog", and Jack Gyllenhaal read "Where Do Balloons Go?" 》。
Some people take the opportunity to watch movies like director Edgar Wright, who has watched more than thirty films, such as [Old Boy], [Forty Guns], [Breeze Whistle], [We Are the Best], [48 Hours], etc., basically old movies and particularly old movies.
Edgar Wright
Some people turn to the Internet.
Spielberg in the online film club launched by the American Film Academy, for everyone to explain the network broadcast of the "Wizard of Oz". David Finch brings a video masterclass to students at the National Film and Television School.
The old god Godard did a webcast, facing netizens and fans around the world, he said, "I can only talk about my private life with a few friends such as Houmai, Truffaut, etc., and everyone can get together and watch a movie 4 times in an afternoon to exchange views with each other."
At least 12 different languages appear in the responses below the comments section.
Godard does live
Some filmmakers have been infected with the virus, such as Tom Hanks, Idris Elba, Christopher Hayview, Alan Tweet, Kankuro Miyato, and Ivina Lynch.
Some filmmakers have died of the virus, such as Japanese comedy Tenno Shimura Ken, such as Italian actor Lucia Poseidon, such as American actors Mark Bloom and Andrew Jack.
Experts estimate that if the outbreak continues into May, Hollywood alone will lose $20 billion. Looking back today, May is just a too optimistic number.
This is not a linguistic expression of cinema or a literary rhetorical metaphor, and it took 125 years for the film to be crumbling, crisis, unprecedented.
Even in the 1930s, when the book Glory and Dreams described it as "millions of people can only be saved from death if they live like beasts", movie theaters are still open, and people are even more willing to walk into them than usual, because for a few cents, you can avoid those sufferings and get two hours of happiness.
Now, everything will be rewritten, and some seemingly conventional order has come to the brink of end.
[Cairo Purple Rose]
This epidemic is not the left hand of the devil or the right hand of the angel in the history books, but a combination of both. The problems that were originally worried by the older generation of filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Spielberg were magnified by the epidemic to the maximum and spread out in reality.
The pandemic is not destroying the film, but pushing the film more quickly towards the changes that are coming.
If you agree that in the first 20 years of the 21st century, human society ushered in a peaceful and prosperous era because of information sharing, then you must also face another change brought about by sharing. A world that has been tampered with by innovations that seek profit as the first purpose adds to the uncertainty of greater uncertainty. As a kind of structural building with both culture and commerce, film is bound to be torn down and rebuilt in the storm.
Martin Scorsese
An era of cinema that may be more cinematic is coming, an era that may be cinema dead is also coming, and everything depends on our choices at this moment.
When we talk about cinema, are we talking about a spiritual symbol or a physical presence? When we say we love movies, do we love movies that have already appeared or movies that are about to appear?
When we lament the death of cinema, do we lament the demise of a filmmaking model or the emergence of a filmmaking grammar?
When we say change, are we not just talking about changes that fit our imagination and reject changes that are beyond our imagination?
Once history has made its choice, it will not look back.
[Avatar 2]
Change is just change, and any adverb or adjective that precedes change is a person in the midst of change, a wishful embrace or rejection of change. But the change was unmoved, and it continued to crush step by step.
This epidemic is more like a self-purification behavior of human society's own immune system, which reminds us that a healthy world has always been the coexistence of several orders.
After the epidemic, we will see more and more respect for diversified development forms, and in the same way, films with a high concentration of social forms will also appear.
The movie doesn't die, it's just shedding something and generating something at the same time.