The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)
Chapter 1912: Interstellar
The gray dust is falling slowly like a drizzle, and piles up little by little on the bookshelves. Books, models, and shelves all accumulate a thick layer of dust, and the bright sunlight penetrates down. The flying dust presents a snowflake-like grace and beauty, but following the passage of the camera, the barren and decadent, gloomy and lonely world is slowly laid out in the audience's field of vision.
"At that time, my father was a farmer, just like everyone at the time." A gray-haired old woman said in an interview, "Of course, he was not a farmer from the beginning."
Cooper used to be a pilot. During the flight, he encountered an accident and the aircraft lost control, but he stubbornly tried to save the situation. As a result, the commander took over the control of the aircraft through the computer; then, the aircraft crashed, and he lost his title and could no longer Continue to fly. Then he became a farmer.
"father?"
That experience became Cooper's nightmare, lingering, always struggling in the dead of night, but didn't want to wake up his little daughter again.
After awakening profusely, Cooper raised his eyes to take a look at his daughter, and then closed his eyes tightly, concealing his fragility, "Sorry, Murphy, go back to sleep, baby."
"I think you are a ghost." Murphy stood at the door of his father's room, stubbornly refusing to leave.
"No." Cooper turned around, facing the ceiling, leaving only one side facing his daughter, and then raised his hand on his forehead to cover his eyes and expressions, his voice said hoarsely, "World There are no ghosts here, baby."
Murphy put her hands on her chest like a little adult, "Grandpa said you can find ghosts!"
Cooper turned his head, the light in his eyes loomed in the darkness, and then the corners of his mouth rose up, "Maybe that's because Grandpa is about to become a ghost." He teased mockingly, smiled ridiculously, and turned his head again. When he came back, he said perfunctorily, "Hurry up and go to sleep."
But Murphy didn't know to give up, "Did you dream of that crash again?"
"..." Cooper didn't answer, he was silent for a long time, and said slowly, "Hurry up and move your little **** to the bunk, Murphy." There was a deep tiredness in his voice, even with the corners of his mouth rising. I can't make the smile lighter again.
This time, Murphy finally felt the weight of her father, and she turned and left.
But Cooper could no longer fall asleep. He sat up again and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze for a while. In the dimness of the dawn, his eyes faintly drifted away. The focus and focus seemed to be collapsing, but it only lasted for a moment. He lowered his eyes and concealed all his emotions, then stood up, came to the window, stared at the endless green cornfield outside, and his deep eyes fell into his emotions again.
"The wheat is dead." The narration of the interview sounded again, telling the background of the whole story, "Fusarium wilt strikes, we can only burn them all. But we still have corn, large tracts of corn. But the most common one is still Sandstorm."
"I can't describe it, it's always blowing, and the sand will never stop for a moment." Just like a documentary, another elderly woman said in an interview.
Then there was another older woman, "We sometimes hold a cloth to cover our mouth and nose so that we don't inhale too much dust."
"When setting up the dining table, the plates must be placed upside down. Cups and dishes are all like this. They must be placed upside down." This time it was an elderly man.
The beginning of the film presents the status quo of the entire world in a documentary way. Those piled up dust, flying sand, overwhelming sandstorms... even the sun reveals a gray depression, dry and sultry, Repressive and chaotic, everything is full of disturbing gloom, so lifeless that people can't help but want to vent something, even if it's just a scream.
This kind of opening is obviously not much more interesting than the opening of the screen "Inception" that the audience was expecting. Could it be said that the movie is going to take the route of "Batman: The Mystery of Shadows"? But even in "The Mystery of Xia Ying", the texture of the opening picture seems better. However, Christopher Nolan’s signature is that he is always good at presenting the texture of the story through his own lens language, which also makes the audience more patient and willing to sit still and wait to see.
Not to mention Lan Li's performance.
Many spectators at the scene did not respond. Who is the man with beard, messy hair and vicissitudes of life? Until dawn, the sun shines through the windows and falls in the hall of the house, and the middle-aged man appears again. At this time, I realized that it was actually Lan Li!
After the consciousness reacted, the second wave of accidents struck again: Lan Li actually played the role of the father, and he was also the father of two children!
This...Is this really good?
Many of the reporters sitting in the theater have a vague premonition: they can finally understand that the comments made in the previous internal screenings are not good reviews or bad reviews, but a vagueness that is not good enough. In the comments, the quality of the movie itself seems to have withstood the test, but the feedback from the market is in an unjudgeable state. Just from the beginning of the movie, these people in the industry can feel the charm.
During the family breakfast, the daughter complained that his models and books had fallen off the shelf again, while the son complained about his sister's "ghost" prank. This is the second time that ghosts are mentioned within less than three minutes of the beginning of the movie.
As a pilot, Cooper is a person who believes in science. Naturally, he doesn't believe in these ghosts. He doesn't want to get too mixed into the topic. But under the warning from his father-in-law, he patiently explained the so-called to his daughter. "Scientific verification", if Murphy really believes in the existence of ghosts, then she should start collecting data to prove her claim.
In just two scenes, you can faintly feel Cooper's "absent-mindedness". His bond with his family is undoubtedly deep, but he seems to be evading those emotions, and he is still unable to fully engage in it, as the lines and performance reveal. The details, one shot and one action, gradually stabilized the tone of the whole story.
Lan Li is worthy of being Lan Li!
Even in commercial movies, Lan Li can still show strong emotional power between gestures, and then guide the audience into the emotions of the story. This ability and strength is second to none in Hollywood; and when Lan Li When meeting Christopher Nolan, Renly can easily make up for Nolan’s emotional shortcomings, and make up for the missing parts of the character. At least from the beginning, the cooperation between Renly and Nolan can see the effect. coming.
"Interstellar" is obviously not the summer sci-fi movie that audiences are looking forward to. It is more like a small-cost independent sci-fi work such as "The Moon", "The Beast" or "Doomsday". It uses emotion as the keynote and presents the apocalypse. Human self-entanglement shows a touch of warmth by describing despair.
At the beginning of the story, the film spent a lot of space to present Cooper's life, more about the relationship between Cooper and a pair of children, especially his daughter Murphy.
He patiently explained the reason for Murphy, who adopted "Murphy's Law" in his daughter's name; he took Tom and Murphy to chase the drones of the Indian Air Force, trying to solve the reason for mitigating the sandstorm; he told Murphy how to use it Morse code communicated; he argued with school teachers and leaders for his son's future entrance to university instead of becoming a farmer; he accidentally mentioned that his wife had died of a malignant tumor...
And so on.
This is really a very strange look.
If this is an independent art film, the audience will be more than happy to calm down and appreciate it carefully. Anyway, this is not the first time they have watched Lan Li's works of art, is it?
But the problem now is that the audience is looking forward to a popcorn commercial blockbuster, or a brain-burning science fiction blockbuster, but they see the trivial parents, the anxiety caused by the gap between the expected value and the expected value. But it’s wasting the audience’s patience bit by bit
At least most of the audience is so.
The only interesting part is that history was directly "modified" in the movie. Tucao Apollo plan is completely a hypothesis, and the moon landing plan is even more a show, which is entirely intended to bring down a political/government activity in the Soviet Union. When the teacher in the movie spoke about the "facts" in a serious manner, the audience chuckled.
Can this be regarded as Nolan's personal taste?
But that's all there is to it.
At this time, the audience still maintained the last trace of patience because of their trust in Nolan and Renly, whether it was Nolan's "Batman" series and "Inception", or Renly's "Edge of Tomorrow" Unlike "Gravity", these works are not commercial blockbusters in the traditional sense, but they can still bring audiences an unparalleled viewing experience through different methods~lightnovelpub.net~ This makes everyone willing to keep patience and continue watching Go down.
Then, the movie finally took its first turning point.
Cooper and Murphy witnessed the chaos on the farm with their own eyes, and the compass and compass all failed; then together they witnessed the messy books and models scattered in the room irregularly. This was obviously not Murphy deliberately mischievous.
"I counted the gaps on the bookshelf, in case the ghost wants to communicate with us? I'm trying Morse code now." Murphy's answer still failed to attract Cooper's attention, and he tried to be more scientific To find out the reasons behind this series of abnormal phenomena.
An unprecedented huge sandstorm struck, and the entire world was plunged into darkness, and the visibility was even as low as five yards.
The audience in the theater of China/National Theater finally cheered up: the first turning point they were waiting for has arrived!
Then, Cooper and Murphy saw that the room was like a sandstorm fairyland, with countless lights and shadows intertwined to form a maze!