When the editor was burying his head in the book, the mobile phone "ding", a push came, zhou Xingchi directed the "Mermaid" box office has been angry 2.9 billion, refreshing the Chinese film box office record. So "In those years, everyone owed director Stephen Chow a movie ticket money", is this the rhythm of paying it off at one time?
No need for a small screenwriter, now everyone on the earth knows that "Mermaid" is a poor second generation (Deng Chao) who has become an upstart chasing a mermaid (Lin Yun) who has transformed into a girl, and then the official cp (Zhang Yuqi) of the second generation of the poor generation grits his teeth while chasing and killing the mermaid, while lamenting the feeling (huan) people (bao) story of "the people who chased me are lined up from here to France, but you go to soak a fish".
Cough, speaking of which, the "mermaid" was a world-class big IP many years ago, probably few people did not hear Grandpa Andersen's "Mermaid's Story" when they were young, right? Disney, of course, has also remade animated films.
Of course, the mermaid in the fairy tale is not so lucky, and eventually does not turn into a human and a prince in love, but sadly turns into a bubble at sea...
There have always been many live-action movies about mermaids, and the ones I remember most are "The Legend of the Mermaid of the Sixth Sense" starring Zheng Yijian, Zhong Liti, Jin Chengwu and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" starring Johnny Depp.
(Please let the editor be obsessed with it, at that time, Zheng Yijian was really handsome and split, and Jin Chengwu at that time was really full of collagen!) ）
(Please make the editor jealous again, the mermaids in "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" are really casually pulling out one, and they are too beautiful to be unwanted!) ）
But no matter how soulless these mermaids look, the best mermaid story in the eyes of the editor is actually not a movie, but Shunji Iwai's "Wallace Mermaid", a simplified version of the novel launched Chinese 2011.
It is said that during the filming of "Love Letters", Ishii, a member of the Mimi group who came to visit the class, commissioned him to help him make a mermaid-themed movie. Mr. Ishii's original intention was to "add the emotion of "love letters" to this mermaid story, but Iwai involuntarily let this "love story between humans and mermaids" continue to be biased toward science, and his first suspense novel was born in this situation.
Biologist Wallace bought a pregnant female and raised it in the home of his friend Haizhouhua. The mermaid's daughter, the Sea Scaled Woman, was raised by humans, and the Sea Scaled Woman could always feel the call of her mother, and the ticking water was the signal they sensed with each other. A hundred years later, scientists once again discovered mermaids and began a huge research project...
Once humans discover a new species, the first thing that comes to mind is research and dissection. We study other creatures with the attitude of higher animals, and use our discoveries for our own use, but do we really have this right? Could it be that the more human beings evolve, the more violent they become?
In fact, the fate that mermaids are forced to face today is the fate that we will not escape in the future. We were all mermaids swimming in the deep sea, until one day and sometime, we went to land and became Homo sapiens breathing with our lungs; and the sea woman and so on continued to dive on the deep seabed, making a mermaid with only her cheeks and strange fins.
"If there is not a drop of clean water in the world, there is no fresh air, and no matter how much money you make, it is also a dead end" - Hoshiya's "Mermaid" expresses this concise environmental protection theme with a pure love story, and Shunji Iwai uses a calm story to bring us more meaningful thinking.
It is said that a reporter asked Zhou Xingchi: What kind of story is "Mermaid"? Star Master replied: The mermaid is just expecting to see the story of positive energy. Also about the fate of mermaids, the same about innocence and love, Iwai Shunji's mermaid story, obviously to make people feel more empathetic, although that book: to, now, not, by, film, into, electricity, shadow!
In the same year that Wallace Mermaid was published, the Fukushima nuclear accident occurred in Japan. The evil consequences of human beings doing whatever they want are like opening a Pandora's box. This incident also inspired Shunji Iwai, who created another novel that made people more painful, "The Dog of the Court Keeper"——
Years later, in the future world, humanity will rely primarily on nuclear power plants for energy. This was followed by a large number of spills and pollution accidents, a sharp deterioration of the earth's environment, and the decline in the ability of humans to reproduce, and the division of men into "stallions" and "naughty little boys", the latter completely lost the ability to reproduce. Humans also suffer from a variety of diseases, and even have to breed transplant pigs with cloned genes to transplant organs from pigs.
The protagonist, Wu Masong, is one of them. He worked as a doorman in a pharmaceutical company and in front of the mayor's residence. An old friend, who works at a sperm bank, comes to persuade Wu Masong to sell the photo and hang it on the website in place of the bald donor. The couple who bought sperm came to the door, started to "verify the right body", found that Wu Masong was a "naughty little boy" who could not have children, and beat him up with his hands...
After retrieving his life, he wandered in his homeland, caring for the last bit of gossamer fire of hope in his heart, but found that the world had already collapsed in lust and greed, and he had become a dog.
Xiaobian once fell in love with Shunji Iwai's youth as bright as a ray of sunshine because of "Love Letters" and "Flowers and Alice";
Also because of "Swallowtail Butterfly" and "All About Lily Chow", I believe that youth is a dark night light that can illuminate despair and cruelty;
And "Wallace Mermaid" and "The Dog of the Court", the story of a mermaid and a watchdog, which is an alternative fairy tale world outlined by Shunji Iwai.
In this alternative fairy tale world, survival is cruel and the future is difficult, but no matter how difficult it is to live and how complicated people's hearts are, the sun will always illuminate the darkest corner of people's hearts in the early morning of silence.