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Cover news reporter Yang Fan
In the past 20 years, the human world has had several large-scale outbreaks of severe infectious diseases, SARS in 2003, H1N1 in 2009, mers in 2012, and the H5N1 and H7n9 influenza viruses that are interspersed with a certain case fatality rate but are not so well-known. After every plague on the world, the face of world cinema history changes slightly.
Those familiar with European history will probably find it a coincidence that the medieval period of history began and ended with the only two plague epidemics in European history. Whether it was the first plague pandemic known as the "Plague of Tstiny" in the 6th century AD, or the second plague pandemic known as the "Black Death" in the 14th century AD, a large proportion of the European population was wiped out and profoundly changed the social order, demographic structure, cultural economy, political pattern and living environment of Europe. Disaster films are known to be a very large group of films, and the outbreak of global infectious diseases has had as far-reaching effects on the genre as the plague on European history.
The plague of the 1970s and Sophia-Roland's Cassandra Bridge
From the perspective of the timeline of film development, the shooting of disaster films in various countries began in the 1950s and flourished in the 1970s. The 1970 release of "International Airport" was a milestone, followed by "Poseidon" in 1972, "The Great Earthquake" and "Burning Skyscraper" in 1974, in addition to of course the 1977 release of "Cassandra Bridge" starring Sophia Roland.
"Cassandra Bridge" tells the story of two international terrorists who break into the headquarters of the International Health Organization in Geneva to carry out a terrorist attack, and two are accidentally infected with the deadly plague bacteria, one of them escapes to a train bound for Stockholm, and on the way he infects more passengers.
A cover reporter reviewed an investigative report and found that in the 1970s, there was a peak incidence of plague, with 2,756 cases worldwide in 1974, of which 1,592 were in Vietnam. The background of the filming is the social environment in which people "talk about rat discoloration" at that time.
Cassandra Bridge
As a "memory killing" for generations of fans, "Cassandra Bridge" is not only a very classic non-Hollywood police blockbuster (filmed by West Germany), but also the pioneering work of infectious disease-themed disaster films.
Another data points out that since the 1970s, there have been nearly 30 new infectious diseases reported globally, most of which are new viruses, most of which have the characteristics of strong pathogenicity, wide spread and great harm, such as Lassa virus, Ebola virus, human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and a variety of hepatitis viruses are highly valued "new viruses". In the 20 years after "Cassandra Bridge", there has never been a thriller-level disaster film in the history of cinema, the main reason is not that the director's material and inspiration are not enough, but that the special effects technology at that time is not enough to put the anti-epidemic story on the big screen.
Until 1996, "12 Monkeys" starring Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe and others came out. The film tells the story of the world being invaded by a deadly virus, and the few remaining humans can only survive underground. To change that, scientists devised a plan to change all of this and eventually found the "culprit" for releasing the virus.
The first emerging virus sars of the 21st century brought disaster filmmaking to a new climax
The SARS virus that hit the world in 2003 was the first emerging virulent virus discovered in the 21st century, and from 2004 onwards, disaster films with infectious diseases began to enter the first climax in history. That year, the Japanese film "Infection", the American blockbuster "Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse" and the Thai film "SARS War" were released one after another. Directed by Japanese horror film master Masayuki Ochiai, "Infection" tells the story of a medical accident that causes the death of a patient, and at the same time the hospital personnel begin to have a creepy viral infection incident, which is the world's first film work to integrate the theme of infectious diseases into the elements of horror films.
Resident Evil 2 Apocalypse
Resident Evil 2: Revelations created a Hollywood template for biochemical disaster films, after which this style of film and television drama began to become popular, and also further promoted the starring Mira Jovovich to the status of Hollywood's A-list actress. Another "SARS War" is directly named after the SARS pandemic that shocked the world in 2003, but the plot is more imaginative, and the so-called SARS virus in the movie is not a real-world infectious disease, but directly turns patients into zombies.
"I Am Legend"
Since 2007, filmmakers around the world have further "opened their minds" and produced more and more infectious disease disaster films, the most influential and most box-office value of which is the first to promote "I Am Legend" starring Will Smith. The film is about the year 2012, when humanity was finally crushed by the virus, and former military virologist Rob Niffer became the only survivor in New York City because he had natural antibodies in his body that were not infected. The deserted New York in the film has a unique morbid beauty.
Blind Flu
Before 2008, films about viral contagion were often difficult to make, they were only popular in the field of commercial films, and the so-called three major European film festivals (Cannes, Venice and Berlin) that focused on literature and scholarship basically did not choose this type of film, but "Blind Flu" rewrote this history. In 2008, the 61st Cannes Film Festival made the film the opening film, adapted from Nobel laureate Jose Saramago's novel Blindness, about a city caught in a blinding virus, where people want to stop the spread of the disease at the cost of their lives.
After the H1N1 virus raged, the big-name "Infectious Disease" became an anti-epidemic god
The 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic (also known as H1N1), an infectious disease that originated in pigs, first broke out on the border between Mexico and the United States. In the year of the outbreak alone, it caused about 60 million infections, 270,000 hospitalizations, and 12,000 deaths in the United States alone. Allegedly, in 2009 H1N1 spread to 214 countries, causing about 280,000 deaths in the global pandemic. After the H1N1 flu, the shooting of the disaster film with the theme of anti-epidemic entered the second climax.
The pneumonia infected by the new coronavirus has made many Chinese stay at home, and people have a lot of time to "brush up". The disaster film "Infectious Disease", released in 2011, once burst the circle of friends, not only on the hot search, but also on January 28, it landed on the 10th place in the iTunes movie rental list, becoming an "anti-epidemic movie" god.
Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases is directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film features marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Lawrence Fishburn, Jude Lowe and Gwyneth Paltrow. The story follows a woman returning home in Minnesota from a business trip to Hong Kong, and although she exhibits fatigue and cold-like symptoms, she believes it is nothing more than jet lag. Over the next 24 hours, she eventually died, and a deadly virus swept across the globe.
The whole story and main line of the film is simple: discover the plague, take measures, find a way, and finally discover a vaccine. The plot will probably disappoint many people who come to see so many big stars, but it truly reflects the government's reaction, departmental measures, social phenomena and people's struggles throughout the process. The so-called qualities and civilization are only the appearance of people walking in a stable and stable society, and when the unknown threat occupies the hearts and minds of people, the original sin caused by panic will be revealed.
Perhaps the other ending of the film is that no vaccine is found, but it is not the plague that destroys humanity, but the human beings themselves. This theme of the film makes people who are experiencing the torment of the new coronavirus feel empathy.
The rise of Korean filmmakers Behind "Busan Trip" is the trauma of mers
"Infectious Disease" began filming after the outbreak of the H1N1 virus, as did the Korean disaster film "Clematis Invasion" released in 2012, except that the protagonist of the film is not a flu virus, but a parasite. The film tells the story of office worker Jae-hyuk who fights to save his family with his brother Jae-hyuk, who is a policeman, in a crisis situation where humans are threatened by parasites and continue to die. Unlike american anti-epidemic films that pursue special effects scenes and sensory stimulation, this film focuses on portraying the subtleties of human nature in the face of the epidemic. Therefore, "Clematis Invasion" not only exploded in word of mouth that year, but also made Korean filmmakers familiar with the shooting of another similar theme film, "Busan Trip".
"Busan Trip" is another disaster film that has recently been mentioned no less than "Infectious Disease", and many fans who missed the film have taken the initiative to "make up lessons" at home. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Kong Liu, Jung Yu-mi, Kim So-an, Kim Yoe-sung, Ma Dong-seok, Choi Woo-sik, etc., "Busan Trip" was released in 2016, telling the story of a single father and daughter on a high-speed train to Busan, the deadly virus brought by a young girl on the train began to rage and spread, and the train fell into disaster in an instant.
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