But these still cannot change my conclusion. China has never had a decent science fiction film. There has not been in the past, and there is no now. I am afraid it will be very difficult to have in the future. We have more science and education films. If you have to be more serious, you can only say that I'm afraid you haven't seen a few decent science fiction films, at least maybe you haven't even watched classic films like "Back to the Future".
Martin in "Back to the Future 1" is a 17-year-old high school student who lived in 1985. He is good at skateboarding and loves music. He has a lovely girlfriend named Jenny, and a madman, Dr. Brown, who has made scientific inventions all year long. Dr. Brown invented the time machine, but was unfortunately killed by terrorists during the experiment, while Martin drove the time machine back to 1955 from 1985 while escaping for his life. Martin's mother, Lorraine, was in Mindfulness High School, and she actually fell in love with her son from the future...
This kind of story itself is quite interesting. To use the famous saying of Sister Pomegranate: You actually fell in love with your mother, my God! Such a rebellious and conscientious thing is really...exciting! Of course, simple excitement and fun can't make a classic movie, and you can shoot three movies in one shot. One of the reasons for the success of "Back to the Future 1" may be the potential thinking needs of American audiences on the topic of egg pain under the long-term heavy taste immersion at the time, and the more reason is that this is a good movie. It meets all the standards of a good movie.
The realization of an idea.
All good movies are derived from a good idea, and good ideas are often born when the creators are poor.
Robert Zemex and Bob Gale met when they were studying at the Film School of the University of Southern California, and they became screenwriter partners. Classmate Zemi is a lucky guy. His graduation short film "A Field of Honor" was appreciated by Spielber. Spielber is a patient mentor. He has oversaw the film "Ichi Yoshizawa" and" Intrigue." Like all the unlucky kids who have just set foot on the road of movies, the two films have a good reputation after they were released, but they all failed at the box office. In the meantime, the two brothers did not forget to thank their mentors and came up with ideas to create the script for the movie "1941", which eventually became a rare failure in Spielberber's career.
Depressed Bob Gale returned to his hometown in St. Louis to visit his parents. In the basement of his home, Bob accidentally retrieved his father's high school yearbook, and unexpectedly discovered that his father was the representative of their graduates. Bob couldn't help sighing about his high school years, he didn't even know his graduation representative in the year he graduated. At this time, Bob came up with an idea: If he and his father go to high school together, will the two become friends? It’s just such an idea. Bob and Zemi discussed, and the work turned his father’s classmates into falling in love with his mother. It was exciting, so it slowly developed and formed the prototype of the "Back to the Future" script, brother. The two sold their ideas to Columbia Studios and successfully got a script contract in September 1980.
A friend of mine who loves movies said that every time she sees a good movie, she always imagines what the screenwriter looks like, and every time I see a good movie, I always care about how the screenwriter gradually improves from a simple idea. A full story, and finally made a good movie. In fact, every time this process is not a simple and easy journey, those who dream of being inspired, writing a thousand words, and then becoming famous in one fell swoop, it is best to stay away from artistic creation, not everyone who gets into the basement will look through his father's collection. Instead of the illustrated version of "Jin Ping Mei" in the high school yearbook, not everyone who reads the high school yearbook will fantasize about going to high school with his father instead of the school girl in the yy group photo. The most important thing is that everyone who has such an idea will be like Bob and Zemex spent a lot of time scrutinizing it like that, persevering in achieving it. How long is this large amount of time? "Back to the Future 1" was released in July 1985.
The first draft of the script was completed in February 1981. Columbia decided to resell the project after reading it. So in the next four years, the project "Back to the Future" was rejected by major Hollywood studios. Modified twice. In the early 1980s, American audiences had a heavier taste. The hot youth comedies on the screen were mainly sex comedies aimed at the adult market. The reason for the rejection of "Back to the Future" was mostly because the book was not bad enough. Of course, Bob and Zemick Si can cater to the market and turn the story into a hero back in the past. With the knowledge that transcends the times, he frequently picks up girls, and there are definitely no less sex scenes, just like most Chinese-made online novels. But a great creative person can adapt to the times, and will never cater to the times, because those really painful problems have always passed through the times and flowed in the long river of history, so the real achievers are often those who understand the " The five words at the end of the Count of Monte Cristo-hope and wait.
Zemicus thought about looking for his teacher Spielberg, but he was afraid that the box office would still fail and he would never have the opportunity to make a movie again. In desperation, Zemicus could only put "Back to the Future" aside and filmed the movie "Emerald" for Fox. As a result, he became a big success at the box office and became a promising new director in a blink of an eye. Life is such a drama, "there is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and there is nowhere to go, and the willows are in the dark." With such a foundation, Zemikes has found Spielberg again and let Universal buy the "Back to the Future" project. In the end, Was able to start shooting.
To produce a film of
fact, the idea back in time like we had also been to visit, but also come under the main theme background. Around 1999, the education department suddenly became worried about the imagination of the post-80s, so they decided to start with the liberation composition and started the open composition. The title of the composition for the college entrance examination that year was "If the memory can be transplanted", so later candidates Questions such as "If we can go back in time" and "If we can be invisible" have also appeared in the essay questions of practicing hands.
But after a long period of domestication, we basically lost the ability to think about egg pain. We can only write at a time. If the memory can be transplanted, we must let the children who have suffered to remove the memory of suffering and implant the happy past; if time can be used Backward, we will help the grandmother to cross the road, and accompany the grandmother through the last road of life. Of course, you may have a lot of imagination and write stories about going back in time and your mother falling in love with you, but this will be even more unfortunate, because you will not be able to enter college because of unqualified composition.
"Suppose I want to make a science fiction film. I don’t have scientific knowledge. I can go to the university to attend a class. Without imagination, I can drink two or two and sit on the wall. As the saying goes, cow dung falls in the field and the sun is big. After three days, it will ferment and bubble. I drink two or two a day, sit for three hours, year after year, and I don’t believe that I can’t think of anything---the best science fiction book is not a human thought. Is it? Later, I had a good book, and investors were willing to pay. As for actors, it is very easy for them to experience life in universities and scientific research institutions-to get this step. , The question is: suppose I want to make a movie like "Jurassic Park". How can I tell it? What is the practical significance of my film? What is the positive significance? Why should I make it like this? A weird movie? The main question is: how does my movie fit the current situation? I can't answer any of these questions, but I can't answer them. Thinking about it this way, the conclusion comes out: I was back then. You shouldn't make this trouble for yourself."
This is a concluding remark made by Wang Xiaobo in the article "Why Are There No Science Fiction Films in China".
What's the point of going back to the future? Classmate Zemi probably didn't think about it. What he considered was how to time travel, what problems time travel will encounter, and what kind of story he will interpret. Of course Zemigis was not too rigorous about science fiction at that time. The "Back to the Future" series was basically dominated by comedy stories, but even this was enough to shock us across the ocean.
Of course, the topic of turning back in time became very common in movies, but the difference in thinking can still be seen. In Hong Kong films, turning back in time will be set as a "jackfruit" spell, the way to turn back is a light; in French films, the medium for turning back in time will be an ancient bronze sword, and the way back in time will be from the bathtub. Or sinking in the toilet; in mainland movies, going back in time must be a dream of Nanke. The protagonist wakes up to find that he didn't love learning in the past and doesn't understand the hard work of his parents, so he changes his mind and becomes a new man. Although the main story of "Back to the Future 1" is a light and humorous comedy, we can still see the American attitude towards this scientific proposition. ), Europeans treat it as humor, while mainlanders treat it as education. Only Americans explore possibilities more.
In 1997, Zemigis filmed another breathtaking science fiction classic "Contact" ("Contact"). When I first watched that film, I believed that 97% of the people in the United States believed that the content of the film was real.
The logic of a story
The title "Back to the Future" itself is a paradox. The future has not happened yet, how can we go back?
The first thing to face in time travel is the causal relationship between the chicken and the egg. One of the problems that makes many scientists painful is called the "grandmother paradox" or "grandfather paradox". It is said that if a time traveler goes back in time, he would shoot and kill his grandmother before his grandmother became pregnant with his mother. (Why is the grandmother always injured? Scientists’ assumptions are always simple and rude), then according to the great theory of "a country, there is a home", this time traveler does not exist, but he does not exist anymore, how can he come back to fight? Granny dead, this paradox has made many scientists thinking back in time faintly bloated?
"Back to the Future 1" faces this paradox, and its explanation is that as long as the key changes are restored, the logic will be in order. So when Martin returned to his parents’ high school days 30 years ago, he attracted his mother by accident. He did not feel the excitement mentioned by Pomegranate, but felt a crisis. Because his mother fell in love with him, he didn’t. With his dad, he and his brothers and sisters were gone. Martin realized the seriousness of the problem when he noticed that the photo of his brothers and sisters with him had faded. So he needed to try his best to match his parents, and because his match changed his father's character, when Martin returned to 1985, his father changed from a cowardly character to a stalwart man. At the same time, Martin wrote a note to the doctor about the shooting incident on the doctor in the future. When he returned to the future, the doctor took out his body armor and smiled triumphantly. The audience also sighed with relief.
Although "Back to the Future 1" tells the story with a relatively rigorous scientific attitude, its loopholes are still obvious. Of course, this is also one of the logical funs of many people watching time travel movies. I want everyone to find the difference game.
Martin returned to 1955, told Dr. Brown about the time machine in 1955, and returned to 1985 with the help of Dr. Brown. In this case, Dr. Brown in 1955 understood the time machine. Then Martin Back to the moment when the doctor was shot and killed, it is logically impossible that the warmth scene will happen. In addition, Martin’s wife and father’s personalities have changed a lot, but their lives are basically the same. Children, etc., there are still many logical problems of this kind. Because of the need for storytelling in movies, "Back to the Future 1" follows the linear logic under the single-world theory.
Under the logical premise of the single world, the past is changed, then both the present and the future will be changed, and the logic presented by this change should be non-linear, which is the chaos theory called by the butterfly effect. A small change is a brand new s future. This kind of logic is not used to deal with the problem of going to the future. I go to the future from this moment, and the me at this moment disappears, and what I am facing disappears. The future developed by me in the future has disappeared, but it is used to deal with returning to the past. This kind of time problem is painful. It is not just a problem such as the grandfather's paradox, but a small change to the past. The "now" at the moment of crossing is changed, and the existence of crossing this matter loses its logical basis. .
So the screenwriters in "Back to the Future 2" began to add the theory of parallel universes. Of course, since the entire Back to the Future series is still based on science fiction comedies, there is no particularly profound theoretical explanation. For such a movie born in 1985, The logic is already admirable. After all, Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" was only completed in 1988.
Contributed by coincidence
Sometimes, by coincidence, it becomes a classic. "Back to the Future 1" is said to have originally planned a nuclear explosion scene. Like previous sci-fi movies, it uses big scenes and big events that everyone has never seen before to promote time and space. Later, due to funding reasons, the nuclear explosion was cancelled. After rushing to a large desert, the director decided to put the story only in that small town, so that there are those warm details, the scene is smaller, but the emotions are more detailed.
In the original script, the time machine is a mechanical box, which looks like a refrigerator. Once you put people in it, and use sound and light effects, people will go back to the past. When shooting, some people worried that after the broadcast, the little friends would imitate them. The refrigerator in the house became frozen little friends, so they turned the time machine into a sports car. This change is extraordinary. The effect is that time is originally related to speed, plus a sports car is much more convenient than a refrigerator, and many plots can be unfolded.
At the end of "Back to the Future 1", the professor came to Martin in a flying sports car and said that something happened in the future and he would go with Martin. This small segment that seems to indicate the sequel was originally just a small part of the director's play treasure, play with a little humor. As a result, since "Back to the Future 1" was sold at the box office after the broadcast, the audience thought there was a sequel, so there was a sequel, which became another trilogy classic.
In "Back to the Future 2", it was originally the story of Martin's family. As a result, Martin's father in 1 didn't want money to play, so in the script of 2, the director turned Martin's father into a piece directly. Tombstone, this thing tells us not to threaten the director. However, this change makes the story of "Back to the Future 2" more complicated.
There are many coincidences and many stories. After becoming a classic, there are always people who tirelessly dig out the stories behind them. In fact, those details and stories are just icing on the cake. What really makes the classics is the creativity and sincere emotion of the story.
A sincere emotion
Watching a trilogy that tells a story in a row often ends up in the last one, and the song ends and people fall apart. This is true for watching "The Lord of the Rings" and "Back to the Future".
Hollywood movies are actually better than education. Almost every cartoon actively educates children, but they use stories to contain emotions, unlike in our country where education always has to be stern.
The "Back to the Future" series is a film for teenagers to some extent. Martin in the film is a high school student and the doctor is also an old child. Since it's a teenager's film, I can't forget the education, so after the story of the trilogy, there is a finishing touch at the end.
M: I thought I couldn't see you, doctor! (Doc, I thought I'd never see you again!)
D: You can't make a scientist always idle. (You can't keep a good scientist down)
After all, I have to come back to pick up Einstein (Doctor’s dog is called "Einstein"), (After all, I had to come back for Einstein) You worry about me. (And I didn't want you to be worried about me.) I brought you a little souvenir.
M: Great, doctor. thanks. (It's a great, Doc. Thanks.)
M's woman: Dr. Brown? The words I brought back from the future have all disappeared. (Dr. Brown? I brought this note back from the future, and now it's erased.)
D: Of course it will disappear! (Of course it's erased!)
M: What does this mean? (But what does that mean?)
D: This means that your future has not been decided yet. (It means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has.) Everyone's future depends on their own struggle, (Your future is whatever you make it) This will create a beautiful future. (So make it a good one, both of you.)
M: We will, doctor. (We will,Doc.)
D: Goodbye! Okay, kids, let's go! (Stand back! All right, boys, buckle up!)
M: Hi, doctor! (Hey,Doc!) Where are you going now? Is it going to the future? (Where you going now? Back to the future?)
D: No. I've been there already. (Nope.Already been there.) The
future is in our own hands, and we have to rely on our hard-working claws to weave the dream of the future. There are also many old-fashioned educations in our country, but "Back to the Future" has been reversed after three parts of time and space. After the protagonist and the doctor have gone through life and death tribulations, these words appear to be natural and sincere and touching, so the "Back to the Future" series has become a classic.
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