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Chapter 402 The philosophy of the “King of Science Fiction”?

Taking off his 3D glasses, Jiang Yong took one last look at the subtitles with white characters on a black background. There were no Easter eggs. He looked down at his watch.

Sure enough, two and a half hours.

It's a little shorter than "The Matrix".

It's a full hour longer than "Gravity".

This is not surprising, after all, the plot does have a lot more twists and turns. The limited time and dense amount of information create a fast pace, and the level of hardcore is far higher than that of "The Center of the Earth".

The fast pace and dense amount of knowledge made these two and a half hours seem to be condensed into a moment, like a dream, without any feeling of time passing, and even the physiology was frozen.

Therefore, the sudden and strong desire to let go forced Jiang Yong to stand up and walk out of the theater with some unfinished content.

There were applause and cheers from the corridor, probably caused by the film's creator coming on stage to speak, but it didn't attract Jiang Yong's attention as he was still half-immersed in "The Martian."

In his opinion, this ending is really charming. The shots, characters, lines, rhythm...the style of the entire movie is very unified.

Of course, it is not absolute, nor is it clear-cut. The female protagonist of "The Earth's Core" also has a wise side, and the male protagonist of "Mars" also has an emotional, fragile and entangled side.

Of course, Jiang Yong does not expect Chen Jingxing to continue to be talented, but if this creative peak period can be extended as much as possible, it will undoubtedly be a treat for Chinese films, science fiction films, film critics like him and the general audience.

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The heroine of "The Center of the Earth" is the embodiment of the emotional side of the human soul.

But Chen Jingxing's own movies are on a different line from "Black Mirror". They are positive and positive from beginning to end, even in the dystopian setting of "The Matrix".

""Gravity" is about the human soul, and "The Martian" is about human wisdom. The two combined into one can give birth to the courage and will that allow humans to overcome difficulties and continue to progress. If it is in "Aquila Warrior"

Medium, it’s almost completed…is there anything else missing?”

After this self-reflection, Jiang Yong seemed to have opened a new door. He seemed to have a glimpse of the inner world and philosophical thoughts of Chen Jingxing, a talented director who is well-known at home and abroad.

Fifth-generation directors, sixth-generation directors, Jiang Wen, Ang Lee, Wang Jiawei, Hou Hsiao-hsien and other film masters, their concepts, their thoughts, and their imprints can be found in almost all works.

"The Martian" actually continues the imagery of "Gravity" and strengthens the echoes of this imagery.

However, the young directors who have emerged recently, especially the directors of commercial films, are relatively difficult to read.

Maybe a few years ago he would have ridiculed this like many movie fans, but in recent years, maybe because he is getting older or because he has watched more and more movies, he now understands that this is a normal phenomenon.

One is the expansion of wisdom, which is the strength born after facing difficulties and overcoming them.

It can be reading, it can be watching other movies and TV shows, but the most important thing is actually life.

He didn't know about Chen Jingxing's plan for a "Chinese version of the Pacific Rim mecha movie", so he was inevitably surprised by its "extravagant extravagance".

As a film critic, he doesn't think that the title of master can be obtained just by relying on the box office.

The male protagonist of "Mars" is the embodiment of the rational and scientific side of human beings.

It can only be said that Chen Jingxing's brain may really be different from normal people.

Even if Chen Sicheng makes "Tang Detective" to the tenth film, and the series of movies has a box office of tens of billions, can he be called the King of Comedy? Or the King of Comedy Detectives?

The same is true for Guo Fan. In Jiang Yong's opinion, even if he makes ten more movies of the level of "Mekong", he cannot be called a master of military films or a king of military action. No matter how great his creativity is or how good his arrests are overseas.

Many evil people.

Not long ago, Jiang Yong was shocked by the animation "Sky Eagle Warrior" and thought of the "Human Completion Plan" of this animation.

"Science fiction may provide us with a possibility of the future, allowing us to re-examine our present, become aware of the state of human existence, learn from it, and become part of mankind's grand efforts to create a better future." Isn't this exactly what Chen Jingxing said?

A famous quote from the speech at Beijing Film Academy?

It is praised by many science fiction fans as sounding the clarion call for non-realistic themes such as science fiction to enter the mainstream aesthetic system of upper-class literary and artistic works.

The overall temperament is different.

He suddenly discovered that the powerful, wise, optimistic, rational and outrageous protagonist played by Lei Jiayin was the personification of human beings, part of the personification.

But when he looked back and re-examined it, when he used the poem "Don't go gentle into that good night" to connect the two movies "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars".

In Chen Jingxing's film, it seems to have become a war song.

Spiritual growth is about epiphany and imagery, so 90 minutes is enough for the heroine to establish her own character arc.

It's just that some are conspicuous, some are obscure, some are so strong that they overflow the screen, and some are as silent as spring breeze and rain.

He can already be regarded as a peerless genius.

However, "Aquila Warrior" surprised him again, and it was no less amazing than "The Matrix".

Moreover, the male protagonist also shows some kind of "superhuman" characteristics, an embodiment of an ideal personality. Although the heroine of "The Center of the Earth" is also a "strong person", she is closer to ordinary people, or more emotional, bursting out of emotion.

Compared with the superhuman will of "Mars", the male protagonist in "Mars" seems to be a lot thinner, without that shocking inner and cosmic explosion.

The deeper meaning shows the poet's pessimism and worry about the fate of mankind.

What a rich brain!

Starting from "Comet", Chen Jingxing has expressed his thoughts, but perhaps because of his excessive creativity and abundant imagination, his first few films felt that concepts and imagination were greater than content.

Have an interesting science fiction idea, and then package the idea with a well-structured story to let the audience marvel at their imagination.

But Chen Jingxing is different and should be different.

Chen Jingxing still didn't miss this time, of course this is to be expected.

It’s not just the gender gap between the protagonists, or the fact that the scene ranges from space in low-Earth orbit to Mars, which is tens of millions of kilometers away.

It's really different from "Gravity".

At the time of "Gravity", many people interpreted the meaning of this poem.

It was also the appearance of "Gravity" that gave Jiang Yong a glimpse of Chen Jingxing's science fiction concepts. This genius who has always focused on science fiction and even single-handedly brought science fiction film and television works to unprecedented heights cannot only have imagination.

And there is no own concept of constructing through science fiction.

The poem "Don't Go Gentle into That Good Night" appears in both films.

Just make money and that's it.

Not only because Lei Jiayin and Wu Yue, a pair of "space professionals", have completed some kind of "intertextuality" of mutual salvation across the movies, but the core values ​​and concepts of the two movies not only merged into the same river, but also gained

Stronger resonance.

Every great director has his own values ​​and worldview, as well as answers to certain ultimate propositions after thinking about them.

"Sky Eagle Warrior" not only allowed Jiang Yong to write a film review for an animated series for the first time, but also gave him a signal that Chen Jingxing will most likely still be at the top, and there seems to be no downward trend.

Jiang Yong is more inclined to think that most of them have no deep and valuable thinking at all. Their cultural level may not be as good as that of ordinary people. What values ​​​​can they have and what thoughts do they have? Pretending to be profound, mixed with private goods.

It might even make people laugh.

Of course people have their limits.

The temperament of "The Center of the Earth" is more literary and the narrative is more poetic. This is why it has become the darling of major film awards. It is a treasure that perfectly integrates technology and film art.

One is the transformation of the soul, gradually becoming stronger.

I'm afraid this is also the fundamental reason for the difference in temperament between the two films. Why in "The Center of the Earth" Chen Jingxing used poetic lens language to describe the spiritual growth of the female protagonist, and in "Mars" he used humor and hard-core scientific knowledge to depict the male protagonist's survival.

This is definitely a work led by Chen Jingxing.

Chen Jingxing seems to be saying through these two movies that only the perfect integration of human soul and wisdom, sensibility and rationality can give birth to true courage and will.

Oscar night made this bold statement become a reality, and it seems that the "King of Science Fiction" began to describe his ideas based on science fiction to the world from here.

Through "Aquila Warrior" and "The Martian" he just finished watching, Jiang Yong seems to have connected several works after "Gravity" and seen the science fiction philosophy of the "King of Science Fiction".

Directors like Chen Jingxing who have maintained high standards for seven consecutive films since their debut and are still improving are very rare.

Although this is an animated drama, and Chen Jingxing is not the director, the amazing "Human Completion Project" and the ideas in the animation have a strong Chen Jingxing style.

In "Gravity", what Jiang Yong got was the shock of life roaring unyieldingly at death, inspiring people who encounter a seemingly invincible fate not to give up on themselves gently, not to accept their fate gently.

The difficulties Lei Jiayin encountered on Mars that tried to knock him down symbolized the challenges that humans will encounter in their progress and exploration.

Some things need to be accumulated, even creativity needs to be accumulated. There is a huge difference between an immature idea and a complete and practical idea.

And "The Martian" proves it.

The fruit of wisdom and the fruit of life.

This made him a little inexplicably excited.

But there are still subtle connections, such as the time travel in "The Signal" and the time travel in "Source Code", which have been further developed and extended in DreamWorks' subsequent film and television works.

And if "The Center of the Earth" is compared to Yin, then "Mars" is Yang, rational, optimistic, and enterprising. Even the heaviest plot has a strong sense of resistance and burning thoughts.

And these things are difficult to hide, and the greater the director, the harder it is to hide them.

The power of reason and wisdom requires repeated hardships to be demonstrated, so Chen Jingxing transformed into a stepfather and punched the male protagonist again and again in the name of fate.

Just play around with film techniques and it will be amazing.

If we say that during the movie watching, Jiang Yong, who was deeply involved in the protagonist's situation, also felt similar to Chen Jingxing's resentment of being addicted to sluts and tossing the male protagonist.

Jiang Yong thinks this is normal, and it is also what Chen Jingxing must do. A master must not only have superb skills, but also have superb thoughts, let alone a "King of Science Fiction" who has already reached half of the altar.

Already.

This is not bad, but if some directors are not willing to be "embers" and want to recreate or even surpass the glory of the past, the results will often be even more disastrous.

In other words, their movies do not carry their thoughts and beliefs on some grand issues.

This level of creativity is actually willing to be "squandered" on a two-dimensional hand-drawn animation theme?

Artistic creation is output, and people will be exhausted by just output, so there must be input.

While driving home, Jiang Yong was still thinking excitedly: "Now that I calm down and think about it carefully, "Mars" is indeed based on the same routine as "The Center of the Earth", but the things presented are very different..."

When "Gravity" and "The Matrix" were released one after another last year, he thought this was Chen Jingxing's peak, and usually he would go down after the peak.

For film critics like Jiang Yong, it is only in recent years that he has reached the level of reading the director's inner world through movies. Reading movies is like reading people.

The same thing is that both of them burst out with amazing courage and will.

It is not surprising that many great directors in the world have made bad films, or at least mediocre films. Especially for a film critic like Jiang Yong who has read countless films, he deeply understands that talent is not infinite.

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Some directors may exhaust all the creativity and talent they accumulated in the first half of their lives in one or two movies, and then fall into mediocrity. All subsequent works are like the embers of a supernova explosion, with the shadow of a supernova explosion everywhere.

However, this yin and yang, one sensibility and one rationality, all reach the same goal through different paths, achieving a perfection that transcends the film structure.

If "The Center of the Earth" emphasizes inner activities and sensibility, then "Mars" is almost the embodiment of human rationality.

"Black Mirror" is a surprise. It symbolizes Chen Jingxing's reflection on technology and explores human nature from the impact and even alienation of technology on human society. In Jiang Yong's view, "Black Mirror" marks Chen Jingxing's bid farewell to purely entertaining science fiction creativity.

, with a foundation that can carry and balance both business and art.

Movies often carry the creator's private goods, and generally speaking, only mediocre movies do not have private goods.

In "The Martian", it seems that he has become a hero exploring space and roaring unyieldingly at fate. It is a metaphor and symbol of the faith and courage of human beings in exploring space.

Jiang Yong also checked the source of this poem at that time, which was a poem by Dylan Thomas, a poet in the early 20th century. The most superficial meaning is that the poet strongly hopes to arouse his father's will to survive and use his strong soul to defeat disease and time.

It is said that literature conveys truth, and it is obvious that Chen Jingxing placed some of his beliefs and emotions in these two space works that can be recorded in the history of Chinese science fiction films.

But it does have a focus.

Jiang Yong was excited to go home and immediately wrote this personal film review of Chen Jingxing while his thoughts were flowing. At the same time, he was also trying to piece together the whole picture of Chen Jingxing's personal thoughts.

"The space trilogy... what will be the remaining one? The Walls of the Heart from Aquila Warriors? Or Love from The Matrix?"

The resurrection of the male protagonist at the end of "The Matrix" comes from the kiss of the female protagonist. The discussion of how the male protagonist becomes the savior is also a hot topic among movie fans. The mainstream point of view is of course love. This should also be what Chen Jingxing wants in "The Matrix" something to express.

He has never been so looking forward to a movie that has not even been approved yet. The movie that the stars gathered on the Internet a while ago is obviously not the last part of the space trilogy. The name "Inception" is very similar. Compared with Chen Jingxing's previous works, it seems a bit too straightforward.

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