Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

Dongyang, Pangu base.

In fact, the film was finalized more than a month ago. If Kang Chi wants to watch it in advance, he can watch it at any time.

However, in order to make this event more ceremonial, Zhang Qing suggested holding an internal screening at the same time as the premiere.

So a laboratory in the base that had not yet been used was turned into a screening hall. The audience included soldiers and generals from the Pingfeng Mountain Base, as well as scientific researchers from Datang Heavy Industries.

And, of course, Kang Chi himself.

After a slightly tense conversation, the film quickly connects to another time and space through the protagonist's thoughtful eyes: the Seagull Camera Factory in the 1990s.

The protagonist has also changed from Kang Tao to Kang Tianming, a workshop worker in a camera manufacturing factory.

He and his wife both worked at the Haiou Camera Factory. When electronic products from the island country entered the market, all employees at the Haiou Factory were laid off.

As a result, Kang Tianming, whose life was in trouble, was extremely disappointed with the craft of making cameras, and eventually became the biggest obstacle against his son Kang Tao's career in the optical field.

"This road is too difficult."

"There's no way you're going to get anywhere with this."

"They have decades of technology and hundreds of billions of capital. How can you fight them?"

"Run our shop down-to-earth, just fix the machines and make a living."

"..."

However, faced with his father's doubts, Kang Tao insisted that someone must stand up and take this step.

Otherwise, China's optical technology will always lag behind the island countries and be harvested by them.

However, although times have changed, the situation still has not improved.

The dilemma of Haiou Factory also appeared in Panlong Optical Factory.

After rejecting Soni's acquisition, Panlong Optical Factory immediately suffered various suppressions, was plagued by lawsuits and eventually went bankrupt. Kangtao also fell into self-doubt and despair.

This is obviously a substantial adaptation based on the needs of the plot.

In fact, it was only after Daqin Optics successfully exposed Soni's conspiracy that Fujita Yoshiki came to Kang Chi to discuss the acquisition.

But in the movie, the order was reversed. First, the acquisition failed, and then the suppression was carried out, and the suppression was successful.

In the story of the movie, Kang Tao, who was burdened with huge debts due to the bankruptcy of his company, had no choice but to go back and continue to run a camera repair shop. Although his father ran away after he failed to save him, he still chose to sell out in order to help his son repay the debt. The family moved to a dilapidated rental house.

In short, Li Chen's situation here is so miserable that he can try to change it.

The purpose is to fully mobilize the audience's emotions through this plot and let everyone know about the suppression of domestic enterprises by foreign capital...

Fortunately, Kang Tao in the movie did not give up. He used every moment after work to conduct self-study and research, and met some elders and friends in the process.

Fang Qiming, Zhang Qing, Yan Hui, Wu Lihong and others can all find their own shadows in it.

They contributed money and effort, and together they helped Kangtao re-establish Panlong Optical Factory.

Engaging in scientific research and manufacturing equipment is actually a very long process. Before Kangchi built cameras and photolithography machines, it also spent a lot of energy on developing silicon wafer manufacturing equipment.

However, the length of a movie is limited after all, and Li Chen could not capture all of this in detail, so this section was mainly skipped through a series of pictures.

Next, the villain takes action again.

However, the products released by Panlong Optics this time are a little different...

This climactic press conference naturally corresponds to the one held by Daqin Optics at the Bird's Nest.

The emergence of domestic mirrorless cameras and photolithography machines has made the villain's methods pale and weak.

During this press conference, Li Chen used a lot of group shots to show the reactions of all parties, and finally the camera showed Kang Tianming lying in the hospital.

He looked at the TV screen and smiled for the first time in this film.

The film ends here.

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Although this movie is based on Kang Chi's story, the adaptation is actually quite extensive.

Not only has the story been selected and reorganized, many characters have also been significantly symbolized.

For example, Kang Tianming in the film actually represents the older generation of Chinese camera manufacturing craftsmen.

Kangtao represents the technological craftsmen of the new era.

Li Chen tied the fate and mission of two generations into one family.

In addition, the time story lines of the two time and space are actually constantly intertwined and interspersed throughout the film, and are finally connected into a complete story.

This technique is Nolan's favorite. It can make a story that might otherwise be dull become more suspenseful, and at the same time add some historical heaviness and fullness.

Such an adaptation would definitely be unqualified as a documentary biopic.

But as a commercial film, or a film about promoting the spirit of scientific research ingenuity, it can be regarded as a good niche product.

At least most people can watch it, and in the final climax, when the group portraits and music sound, it will definitely be on fire.

Moreover, Li Chen was obviously suffering from a literary illness, which was actually quite serious.

This kind of literary youth disease just makes this story a little more evocative.

At the same time, the photography, art, lighting, props, etc. of the entire film are all basically done to the extreme.

For example, when the Panlong Optical Factory was re-established, the scenes of Kangtao building lithography machines were all shot on-site in the lithography mechanism department of Datang Heavy Industries. The equipment in the shots was very real, professional and high-end.

As the film came to an end, Zhang Qing turned to look at Kang Chi and asked with some anxiety: "What do you think?"

"Looking at my own story, I must be wearing some colored glasses. If I have to say... Although it feels a bit like a literary film, it is generally a commercial film with a good pace. To be honest, the scope of this adaptation is greater than I imagined. ”

"Hmm... don't you think anything has changed?"

"That's not true. Kang Tianming's role will probably make my dad confused and doubtful about life..."

"Haha, this is indeed a problem. I can only ask you to go back and explain it to your uncle and aunt, saying that this is necessary artistic processing."

"Um……"

When the end credits of the film were playing, the small screen next to it also showed some real Kang Chi, mixed with the video clips that appeared in the mass media.

There are shots of him at work and some of live press conferences.

The last thing that appeared was the photo of him receiving the academician certificate a few days ago...

"Haha, I have to use photos to make up the number."

"I feel that the speed of filming this movie cannot keep up with Mr. Kang's scientific research speed."

After the audience in the theater saw this photo, they couldn't help but start discussing it.

"Just asking when the second part will be released!"

"What are you filming in the second part? Building an airplane?"

"Isn't Mr. Kang the chief engineer of nuclear fusion now? Maybe it's a nuclear fusion reactor?"

"..."