The key plot of "The Wandering Earth 2" comes from the composition questions of the college entrance examination?
Director Guo Fan: Has a subtle influence
On February 3, the movie "The Wandering Earth 2" "We Are Here" National Roadshow Chengdu Station came to Eying 1958 Film City, and many main creators came to the scene to interact closely with fans in Chengdu.
Before the road show, director Guo Fan, lead actors Wu Jing, and Wang Zhi were interviewed by reporters from Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News to reveal the behind-the-scenes story of the filming.
Key plots such as "intelligent life" and "memory transplantation" in "The Wandering Earth 2" have aroused heated discussions among movie fans.
Sharp-eyed netizens discovered that both Gong Geer and Guo Fan, film producers and directors, were college entrance examination candidates in 1999, and the essay topic for that year's college entrance examination happened to be "If Memory Can Be Transplanted"!
The book "The Wandering Earth" Film Production Notes also revealed, "In the summer at the end of the 20th century, both of them faced the same college entrance examination essay question "If memories can be transplanted"".
Director Guo Fan responded to this topic in an interview with Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter.
Film Adaptation Turns into a Battle Between Reality and Virtuality
When asked whether the composition topic "If Memory Can be Transplanted" in the college entrance examination that year had an impact on his creation of "The Wandering Earth 2", Guo Fan said that it might really have a subtle influence, so that he was still thinking about it some time ago. It is impossible to turn this college entrance examination topic into a movie.
He felt that in such a tense state of the college entrance examination, seeing such a topic was very sci-fi and interesting, and it had something to do with digital technology and digital life.
It happened to be in the process of growing up as a teenager, and he remembers it very vividly.
The original novel "The Wandering Earth" was published in the seventh issue of "Science Fiction World" in 2000. In Guo Fan's view, the impact of science fiction reading on the imagination of young people is more like a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.
Guo Fan said that what he focused on at the beginning was actually the content related to machines. Later, when he was really doing science fiction, he realized that it is useless to have only machines and these structures in the knowledge framework, and there must be theory Knowledge to support, that's why I expanded my reading, and began to slowly build a framework for the background knowledge of sci-fi science.
If you go deeper into it to a certain extent, you will find that if you want to build a world view, this is not enough, and you may have to learn social science knowledge.
When asked whether the "Wandering Earth" series of movies are a reshaping of the original story, Guo Fan said that the core has not changed.
Liu Cixin established the most ambitious fulcrum of "The Wandering Earth", which is to take the earth to wander.
This is a profound cultural attribute and the soul of the entire film.
They are just based on this basic point and expanding their worldview with the times.
"The Wandering Earth" was published in 2000. At that time, mobile phones were not yet developed, there were no cameras, and there was no moss.
But today, 23 years later, our lives have been changed by technology, changed by technology.
Therefore, in order to allow today’s audience to have more empathy or identity, they introduced more algorithmic, digital, and virtual things into film creation, and replaced some concepts. The battle between the spaceship faction in the original novel has become a battle between reality and fiction.
Will "The Wandering Earth 3" make the audience wait for 4 years?
When referring to the current advantages of domestic sci-fi films and the gap with Hollywood, Guo Fan said that we are gradually closing this distance.
Compared with "The Wandering Earth", Guo Fan bluntly said that he encountered more difficulties when filming "The Wandering Earth 2", "We thought it would be a process from 1 to 2, but later found that it was very similar to the first episode, and it was very difficult. It has become a start from scratch. With the increase in production scale, shooting difficulty and plot complexity, we still don’t know how to solve many new problems.” He laughed and said, “We started from the workshop, This step is not yet industrialization, this step is construction site, and the next step of construction site may be a rudimentary form of industrialization, because we are constantly exploring.”
Regarding the visual effects shots praised by the audience, Guo Fan said that it is a very complicated calculation. The visual effects shots of "The Wandering Earth 2" currently have more than 3,300 statistics, of which more than 1,000 are related to faces. , which is also the most complex and difficult.
"In addition to the part that needs to change the face, there will be visual effects behind it, so that part of the visual effects lens was split into two parts, and a single batch of faces was changed, and the visual effects behind it can be done, so It should add up to more than 4,000 workloads."
Will "The Wandering Earth 3" make the audience wait another 4 years?
Guo Fan is not sure, he explained that there is actually a research and development process.
"For example, when we want to de-young or aging faces in the second film, we have done a lot of tests, and there is also a research and development process. We have also integrated a lot of technologies, including artificial intelligence learning. Whether it is sound or sound, it is actually a research and development process.”
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao Intern Deng Xinjie Photojournalist Wang Huan Li Huan