Yu Dong was dealing with onlookers at the Victory Cinema, while Liu Cixin was arranging cars to take his colleagues to the cinema to watch a movie in the evening.
After much effort, they arrived at the cinema at almost eight o'clock in the evening. Sitting in the cinema, Liu Cixin looked at the leaders of the units in the front, still feeling a little uneasy.
After impulsively saying that he wanted to invite his colleagues to watch a movie, he regretted it.
It's not that he couldn't bear to pay for the tickets, but inviting his colleagues to watch a movie in such a big way made him feel a bit ostentatious. Moreover, their unit is relatively remote, 40 kilometers away from the city center of Yangquan, and there is no "
To see "Bring Her Eyes", you can only go to Shimen, which is more than 70 kilometers away.
Later, the director of their office joked with Liu Cixin that since he was inviting his colleagues to watch a movie, why not invite him.
There was no other way, so Liu Cixin had no choice but to invite the director.
After inviting the director, naturally other leaders also had to be invited. In the end, the entire department, including top to bottom leaders, including the department heads, were invited.
"It's all my fault for my bad mouth."
In the darkness, Liu Cixin silently slapped his mouth.
But he didn't have time to think too much at the moment. After some notes were played on the screen, the main movie started.
The first scene of the movie is outer space, a huge alien planet base, with humans in spacesuits constantly shuttling through it. Obviously, humans already have the ability to station on other planets.
The camera then tracks a set of signals through space and back to Earth.
After these two sets of shots ended, the name of the movie appeared.
The literal translation of the English title should be "Her Eyes", but the Chinese subtitles still use the name of the original novel "Bring Her Eyes".
In the novel, there is no foreshadowing in the early stage. Just before the hero goes on vacation, the boss gives him a pair of "eyes".
But in the movie, there is a foreshadowing at the beginning, explaining the whole life of the protagonist the day before his vacation.
Liu Cixin can understand the reason for filming this way, because it is impossible for a movie to use a lot of narration to introduce the background of the era. It can only use this kind of plot to allow the audience to quickly understand the technological level of this era, such as what "eyes" are and why they exist.
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Also, in the novel, Sunset No. 6 only appears after the hero and heroine have finished their journey, but the movie sets the stage at the beginning, and the news of Sunset No. 6 is broadcast on TV on the first day.
It's just that this news is very inconspicuous. If you haven't read the original work, most people will ignore it.
When the leader handed a pair of "eyes" to the male protagonist in the movie, Liu Cixin heard someone next to him whisper: "It's quite interesting."
This also speaks to the sentiments of most people present. In fact, they rarely read science fiction. Their understanding of science fiction is limited to elements such as spaceships and aliens, so when they saw the setting of "eyes", they thought it was quite good.
interesting.
In the middle of the movie, in order to add drama, some conflicts were added compared to the original work. For example, the male protagonist encountered someone stealing money on the grassland, and the female protagonist was there to instruct him on how to fight back. Or, for example, he saw several people in a small town.
She is a beautiful woman, but the heroine doesn’t want the hero to look at her. When she sees the handsome guy, the heroine wants to look at her, but the hero turns around desperately.
In fact, in Liu Cixin's opinion, these plots are a bit routine, but it can be seen from the audience's reaction that the effect is very good. The audience found it quite interesting to hear the two people noisy.
Moreover, in the movie, it is obvious that the love between the two has developed, unlike in the novel, which is vague and hazy.
Also because the love between the two was quite obvious, the male protagonist's mood changed very drastically after he learned the truth.
Audiences who have seen the original work understand the difference between the movie and the original work, while audiences who have not seen the original work are directly confused by the twist at the end.
It was obviously such a happy scene before, but in the blink of an eye, it turned out to be so miserable?
Only then did they remember the foreshadowing done in the early stages of the movie, such as the news the protagonist saw on the first day, the fact that the "eyes" were not delayed, and the heroine occasionally saying that she was lonely...
With a well-prepared reversal, not only will it not make people disgusted, but it will also give people a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
"So this is ah."
The final ending, the dedication of the heroine and the endless loneliness she endured sublimated the theme of the movie and made the audience feel lost. Some female viewers even silently wiped away tears.
After watching the entire movie, Liu Cixin suddenly remembered a "bottle theory" that Yu Dong mentioned when he and Yu Dong were talking about drama.
At that time, Yu Dong used bottles to summarize various types of dramas. When talking about tragedy, Yu Dong said: If a bottle breaks, it is a tragedy, and if you want people to remember this tragedy, it had better be a beautiful bottle.
This movie is a bit like this theory. It painted a beautiful picture in the early stage, and some viewers were even looking forward to the scene that the male and female protagonists wanted to see. But later, this picture was shattered by the director.
From a dramatic point of view, his original novel is not good enough at this point. Of course, the novel is a novel and the movie is a movie, which are two different things in themselves.
Liu Cixin was looking at the big screen in a daze, when suddenly there was a burst of applause and cheers in the cinema.
He took a closer look and saw that his name was in the curtain call.
Original work: Bring her eyes.
Author: Liu Cixin.
For these colleagues, no matter what others say, they are not as effective as these two lines on the big screen.
It is a wonderful feeling to see the names of colleagues around you appear in the credits of American blockbusters.
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After the movie ended and they left the cinema, the head of their department deliberately stood side by side with Liu Cixin and chatted about the movie for a while.
After learning that "Bring Her Eyes" has been released in the United States, the leader asked curiously: "How is the box office of this movie in the United States? Are many people watching it?"
Liu Cixin thought for a while and said: "Two days ago, Mr. Yu from Deep Sky told me that the box office performance in the first ten days of release was average, and it seemed that it was only over 10 million."
"More than ten million." The leader smiled, "That's not bad. After all, we're not looking for any big stars."
In the past two years, the Chinese people's threshold for box office experience has increased. After all, there are several movies with box office sales of tens of millions every year, and some even over 100 million, so the number 10 million does not sound special.
The leader continued to comfort him: "Don't worry, although Americans don't buy it, I am still very optimistic about this movie. It will not be a problem to make 20 to 30 million yuan at the domestic box office."
Chapter completed!