If "Three-body" is to be made into a movie, will Hollywood be a better choice?

Three-body is a series of long science fiction novels written by Liu.

The concept of making "Three-body" into a movie has been prepared for a long time. The trailer for the movie version of Three-body has been out for several years, but there is still no news of the film's release, and it has been postponed indefinitely. In an exclusive interview with Liu, he also mentioned that he regretted the transfer of the copyright of Three-body. Will Hollywood be a better choice for the movie version of Three-body?

We still have to repeat this question. What's good for Hollywood? Recently, the summer movie "Nezha" has achieved both box office and word of mouth. Judging from the special effects of Nezha, the later special effects of Three-body in China are not much worse than Hollywood. Some professionals have made a budget in order to perfectly interpret the connotation of Liu's Three-body from the perspective of film and television. The budget funds are guaranteed to be around 3 billion. This is just the post-production cost of a single special effect. The production cost of Nezha is only 60 million. Before the success of The Wandering Earth and Nezha, no domestic investors were willing to invest huge sums of money in works on national romance and science fiction. This is also the core wish that "Three-body" can be extended indefinitely. It is reported that Amazon may invest 654.38 billion US dollars to make the movie "Three-body". It can also be seen from this picture that it wants to make a movie version of "Three-body". The core issue is the capital investment in the early stage. Who will get the film will be a better choice, mainly depending on who can solve the financial problem.

This is indeed quite subversive. The essence of ecological discourse rewritten and incorporated by neo-liberal discourse is to replace God as the center of the world and gradually replace nature and the universe translated into nature as the center, that is, the so-called "death will last forever" in the three-body system. As a "primitive" life like a bug, human beings are bound to be in this cycle of "natural law" and "natural divinity", which is the logic and rule of neo-liberal ecological discourse that is almost universal at present. In this sense, is "Three-body" more like the interstellar version of "The Hunger Games"?

This is not to deny the literariness and literary significance of Three-body, but to further illustrate that it has not created a different future for us that most people once sincerely believed. In fact, the starting point of binary opposition in the novel is untenable. Einstein not only suffered a life experience that was no better than Ye Qitai's, but also the China government delegation actually participated in and attended the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972, and even inserted Chairman Mao's quotation into Article 3 of the Declaration on the Human Environment, which is now regarded as the Bible: "Mankind must constantly sum up experience, make discoveries and make inventions. History is so cruel, and this ridicule is no less than Carson's.

History is indeed so paradoxical, including science fiction. Today's era seems to have reached the critical eve of the revolution of network technology and biotechnology, but we are actually so deeply embedded in the cognitive structure of the neoliberal discourse that has dominated the world since 1980, and the sense of historical depth has been erased as never before. In this dimension, our discussion of Three-body is far from fully developed. It may not be a future-oriented literary masterpiece, but to a great extent, it is only a contemporary echo of the discourse system and resources that existed as strategic applied literature in the Cold War era and the post-Cold War era in the new century.

Today, all our imaginations may be wrapped in the neo-liberal ecological discourse, and we can only be imprisoned under the dome of this neo-liberal ecological discourse. After all, for the middle-class stakeholders in current popular culture, the escape caused by ecological disasters in sci-fi works, including Three-body, is only a true projection of the fear that daily life may never return in the current and foreseeable economic crisis cycle of global deflation. After all, it is much easier for these groups, who are recognized as the majority of the world, to imagine the destruction of the earth and even the solar system in Three-body than to imagine the end of capitalism, not to mention the reflection on the modernist aesthetic paradigm that has accompanied capitalism since it ruled the world. This is all the secrets of the neo-liberal ecological discourse that promotes the evolution of current science fiction literature, and it is also the clearest dream. Everything is so real and natural, everything is out of reach.

So, how to wake up from this most lucid dream? Theoretically, in order to break the illusion of neo-liberal ecological discourse, we must first break the dichotomy of putting the relationship between nature, universe, human society and human activities in a binary to vertical structure, although today it is almost an irreversible world view.

Because, especially since human society started the process of modernity, nature has never existed outside human society. We just don't discuss it in the sense of evolution. A balanced, orderly, harmonious and stable nature or universe with perfect self-regulation mechanism does not exist or has never existed, and is full of unpredictable mutations and disasters, which is the real normal state of nature and universe. It's just that these once "common sense" are obviously ignored and covered selectively, because it can't be the "common sense" allowed by this era.

To sum up, is science fiction still possible today? How is that possible? In other words, how should mankind constantly sum up experience, constantly discover, constantly invent and create, and constantly make progress? The answer is still floating in the wind.

Anyone who has seen "Three-body" knows that neither grand scenes nor fantastic future technology can be easily copied by film and television. Although the domestic computer 3D production has reached the level of Hollywood, many scenes of Three-body can't be displayed, such as four-dimensional space, two-dimensional solar system, proton unfolding etching circuit, doomsday war and super-large bunker world. Even if these can be completed, the essence of this masterpiece is the in-depth description of the inner world of the characters in the book. Liu used most of the whole book to describe the thoughts, consciousness and emotions of the characters. These things are the soul of this masterpiece. If these links are abandoned, the whole work will be eclipsed.

"Three-body" belongs to the mapping of the ideological and cultural background of the Chinese nation, and its connotation and thought are essentially different from those of western society, so it is difficult for Hollywood to really understand and reflect it. China's culture can only be interpreted by China people themselves.

"Three-body" is the cornerstone of China's science fiction, and Liu used it to pull China's science fiction into the world-class level.

This work presents us with the "dark forest" law of the universe and the deepest darkness of the universe, which is undoubtedly the most attractive place of this book.

However, beyond that, it is the interpretation of human nature. The more comfortable, the more enjoyable, the more carried away. Even at the moment of deterrence, internal struggles continue, leading many extremist organizations to prevent some human organizations from fleeing to the universe. "Fish on land are no longer fish." What's the hurry? Even Luo Ji, who abandoned his wife and children for the whole human world and struggled for 54 years to protect the sword-wielder, was finally brought to court by his own people, causing readers to think deeply about human nature.

There is no doubt about the Excellence of the works, but we can't consider such a grand cosmic technical problem in China and China first, and we can't just shoot it by showing human nature! The more it reflects the reality, the more it exposes the ugliness of human nature, and the more it cannot be tried. China is not without good works, but there is a faint darkness in harmony, and even the depth of the film content is not as good as that of South Korea! If you want to present the contents of the book completely, there is no chance in China!

Three-body is a novel by Liu, which consists of Three-body, Dark Forest of Three-body Ⅱ and Forever Death of Three-body Ⅲ.

With its unique perspective, Three-body briefly describes the information exchange, life-and-death struggle and rise and fall of the two civilizations in the universe.

If you want to get better technology in shooting, then Hollywood should be the best choice.

Although as a native of China, it doesn't matter that China should be the director to spoil the domestic world-class science fiction such as Three-body. If it's going to rot, it will rot in China's own hands. But as an ordinary audience, I still hope Hollywood will shoot it. After all, people's industrial system is there. An A-level production, from the preliminary preparation to the final stage, people have to shoot for several years. This time, the domestic three-body was suddenly announced from the day of release. . Look at the director again. . I was born a thriller. According to my many years of experience in watching movies, domestic thrillers are all jokes, and they are all testing places for some newcomers or dirty directors. . I can't believe that such a director can balance movies and novels. There seems to be no precedent for domestic movies to shoot multiple songs, but domestic TV dramas often change actors. What worries me most is that the characters in the play will change actors frequently because of the schedule and pay. After all, when the audience begins to accept the role, the actors will be changed in the next play, which will make the audience lack the sense of identity with the role. Generally speaking, half the people in Hollywood rarely change actors. In recent years, Hollywood has been making farce, so many foreign novels and animations have been remake and adapted. It is only a matter of time before the three-body is popular in Europe and America. Then the problem is coming. What would it be like to shoot "Three-body" in Hollywood? According to Hollywood's adaptation habit, the experience of the first three films will be completely westernized, and the protagonist must be played by a white boy. Considering the culture and the background of China's box office and policy stories, we must not tattoo leather, but take the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union as the story background, reflect on human development through dark political games, and finally export universal values. In order to attract the China box office, several China actors will be invited to make guest appearances, or China actresses will play the leading role, and finally the white boy will win the beauty. . . In short, the adaptation of Hollywood will definitely be full of urine, but only Hollywood in the world can shoot the three-body well. After all, science fiction is somebody else's major.

Not necessarily.

As the world's top film shooting base, Hollywood is certainly very powerful. The most important thing is that it is willing to spend a lot of money on post-production and special effects. The "five-hair special effects" that can be achieved in China are really different from those in China.

Recently, however, Chinese people are not without big moves. Liu's The Wandering Earth special effects production is very conscientious. There are many conscience special effects movies and TV series, and it won't be bad for China people to do special effects seriously. However, considering the cost of special effects, the box office rate of the film itself and many other factors, the conscience film team is still a minority, and even fewer can shoot well.

Judging from the novel itself, many countries can perform. Of course, Liu's great god is still. If he can come out to help out and cooperate with Hollywood, led by famous directors and starring domestic and foreign stars, it will definitely be a work that people look forward to.

Not necessarily, it is inevitable that foreigners will not accept continental drama.

Science fiction movies are hot in the movie market. With the continuous strengthening of people's imagination and the continuous development of various special effects technologies, science fiction movies have brought waves of surprises to the audience.

Hollywood has always played a very important role in many sci-fi movies. It seems that many sci-fi blockbusters can only be made with big productions like Hollywood, but there has never been a decent sci-fi movie in the domestic film market.

In fact, in the hearts of many sci-fi fans in China, there has always been a sci-fi novel with high hopes, and it is famous not only in China, but also all over the world. Even Obama and Zuckerberg are obsessed with it, and that is Liu's long series of sci-fi novels-Three-body.

In 2007, Three-body won the Yinhe Award, the highest honor award in China's fantasy world, and then won the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Award for Best Novel in 20 15, which became a milestone in China's science fiction and was directly praised as "the first science fiction in Asia".

It is precisely because this work is so excellent that many fans are looking forward to being adapted into a film one day and releasing the charm of this work again in another form. So, two years ago, the movie version of "Three-body" was announced to start under such a long-awaited situation.

In the original plan at that time, the film version of Three-body was produced by China Youzu Film Industry, directed by Panpan Zhang and starring William Feng, Zhang Jingchu, WU GANG, Tang Yan, Du Chun and Hans Zhang.

However, just before the early filming of the film was about to end, it was reported that Panpan Zhang was dismissed from his directorship, the special effects team of Three-body was replaced, and Kong Ergou, CEO of Youzu Film Industry, resigned. It is precisely because of this series of storms that the film version of "Three-body" failed to be released on 20 16 as originally planned.

Until the end of last year, it was reported that the dominance of the film "Three-body" had been transferred from tourism film industry to light media, and the tourism film industry only participated in the production, and later the team followed up.

Things have progressed to this point, and many fans' expectations for the movie "Three-body" seem to be less enthusiastic than before. Even the original author Liu Ye said that "I don't want to talk more, generally speaking, it has nothing to do with myself."

It is also reported that the film "Three-body" will be released on 20 18, but fans are more concerned about the post-special effects production of this film than the release time. After all, as a science fiction film, special effects are much more important than the cast and other aspects.

Some netizens think that it is a pity that the original author of the novel "Three-body" did not sell the copyright of this work to Hollywood. After all, judging from the current situation of the film market, it seems that only Hollywood can hope to shoot those huge and magnificent scenes.

On the contrary, some people say that in fact, as early as 2009, the tourist film industry began to buy the copyright of this work, but the original author Liu Xinci did not accept it at that time, but waited for a long time without the other party proposing to buy this copyright, and finally sold it to the tourist film industry.

It can be seen from these that the shooting difficulty of this work is absolutely serious. In fact, for fans, although the film "Three-body" has been delayed again and again, it is much better than simply launching a work to meet the audience. After all, I left a thought for the audience.

Do you like trisomy?

I like it.

What do you like?

The scene is grand, and most importantly, it is a world-class science fiction novel written by China people.

Do you like movies about wandering earth?

I like it.

What do you like?

The scene is grand, and the most important thing is the world-class science fiction film made by China people.

What about foreigners filming China science fiction?

Ah, I haven't thought about it, but it will be a little embarrassing. Not so fresh and proud.

Therefore, the best outcome of this incident is that China people can only make China's films to enhance the image of China's films (although special effects really need the help of foreigners to support such a grand plot).