Chapter 314 We Need Gravity!

"China's manned spacecraft was successfully launched, and a spacewalk was successfully conducted!"

"China has become the third country in the world to complete a spacewalk, behind China and Russia!"

"China's aerospace power should not be underestimated. The next step is for them to try space docking technology, and the exploration of the moon should also be included in the plan."

"Since the completion of the International Space Station project, we have not carried out any space exploration plans for a long time."

"The last moon landing was in 1972, which was more than 30 years ago!"

Baji, who was sitting in front of the computer at home in San Francisco, kept browsing the chat records in the group chat.

Since China successfully launched Shenzhou VII on the other side of the ocean two days ago, the topic of the chat among the cosmology enthusiasts in his group has been inseparable from China's aerospace industry.

It has to be said that China's progress in the past decade has been really fast.

On November 21, 1999, the last month before the advent of the 21st century, China successfully launched Shenzhou I, which was just an unmanned test spacecraft.

Eight years later, China has successfully developed from unmanned tests to manned space flight and then spacewalk.

Although this speed is not as fast as the United States' five years, it was the period of the US-Soviet hegemony, and time was bought with money at all costs.

China did not invest a lot of money in the aerospace field, not even 1% of GDP, but it took eight years to complete this feat.

Baji and his friends are constantly sighing that China's development is really too fast.

Five years ago, everyone's impression of China was still a backward society under the "GCZY" planned economy, and they never thought that they would make achievements in the aerospace field.

But in the blink of an eye, they have already stepped on the ground and looked up at the sky.

When the world's most populous country shifted their sights from the yellow land under their feet to the sky, the energy that erupted was really too great.

"Japan, Europe, and South Korea have been shouting slogans about space exploration for decades, but they haven't even launched a test spacecraft yet."

"China does what it says. It has completed the transition from testing to spacewalking in just a few years. According to the plan announced by the China Space Administration, they will also conduct space docking in 2010 to prepare for the establishment of a space station in the future!"

"If all goes well, their first test space station will be launched in 2011."

"It's all too fast!"

The group was still chatting, and Baji looked at the news and echoed a few words from time to time.

China's "Tiangong" space station plan has long been no secret. The China Space Administration has long disclosed this plan, and even a model will be unveiled at the 2009 Spring Festival Gala half a year later.

It is also because China's own aerospace technology has developed so rapidly that the movie "Gravity" is not so "mysterious", and it is not surprising for movie fans to believe that the story in the movie takes place in China.

This is like when Americans make all kinds of hard science fiction movies, audiences around the world don't think that the American soldiers in the movies who are technologically advanced and can fight aliens are out of place.

Because they are really the most technologically advanced country on the earth, it's not surprising that any high-tech appears in American movies.

If you change to countries like India and South Korea to make such movies, do you think international audiences can accept it?

With the rapid growth of China's aerospace power, the appearance of "Gravity" will not make people laugh at the Chinese people's wild imagination.

They really have a real space station plan, and it will be launched in the next one or two years.

"Hey, now that you say that, I want to watch "Gravity" even more." Baji said in the group.

After that, he also sent a web link to the group.

These are some reviews of "Gravity" copied and forwarded by some Americans or Chinese who know Chinese from the Chinese Internet.

It's not just the Chinese who like to forward and translate some foreign reports and news every day. As the birthplace of the Internet, many people in the United States also pay attention to hot news in other countries.

Gravity, which has caused a phenomenal hit in China, has also attracted countless attention from the United States.

As the film became popular in China, many forwarded translated reviews appeared on foreign websites.

The more they read these reviews, the more American aerospace enthusiasts like Baji wanted to watch this film.

It's because the reputation of Gravity in China is so good!

All the praises are from special effects to actors' acting skills to the story.

It is definitely unrealistic to say that this film is so good that there are no shortcomings.

But who said that this is a science fiction film made by the Chinese themselves?

Everyone selectively ignored the shortcomings and praised the advantages.

Foreign netizens don't know the inside story. They only know that this film is perfect in the mouths of Chinese fans, and such a huge amount of praise does not look fake.

"Damn it, our petition at the White House has hundreds of signatures, but it's not getting any attention at all!"

"I think we should do something!"

"Hey, why don't we forward the film reviews and video clips to some sci-fi fan groups?"

"It's been a long time since Hollywood has produced an excellent hard science fiction movie. I believe that many science fiction fans are also waiting for a good movie to appear!"

"There are far more of them than us."

Several smart group members made a great suggestion.

Not all astronomy enthusiasts and cosmology enthusiasts are science fiction fans.

Similarly, science fiction fans are not necessarily all astronomy enthusiasts.

In fact, most science fiction fans just love to watch science fiction movies, and they don't really pay attention to astronomy, the universe, and aerospace in their daily lives, let alone join such forums or group chats for enthusiasts.

"Kevin's idea is great!"

"I know a forum for science fiction fans, I'll post it now!"

"And me, I have an online friend who is a science fiction movie fan, he should have many channels to speak out!"

"Damn, I don't know any science fiction movie fans, but I can find a forum now!"

In this way, many people in this small group of only a few dozen people mobilized their personal connections and tried to promote "Gravity" on the North American Internet.

According to the six degrees of separation theory, any two people in the world can be connected through at most six people.

This is also the reason why TV series, movies, and songs can become popular quickly without official promotion.

Especially after the emergence of the Internet, a product that brings people closer together.

The speed of information transmission is very fast.

In just half a day, the promotional introduction of "Gravity" appeared on major film forums in North America, all of which were carefully made English subtitled trailers.

Many fans who have never heard of this movie (Hollywood will not promote a Chinese movie) heard about the movie "Gravity" for the first time.

This sounds absurd, a movie that is so popular that even children know it on the other side of the ocean, but it is unknown on the other side of the Pacific.

But this is the reality. The mouthpieces of the media in various countries are always in the hands of a small group of people. The public will know what they want to let the public know.

However, the emergence of the Internet has broken this information cocoon.

At a time when there are no dominant Internet giants in various countries, and when platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have not monopolized all Internet voice channels like physical media groups, the Internet has truly played the role it was born to play.

It allows information to be transmitted more quickly between people.

Through a large number of movie forums and social platforms, "Gravity", a hard science fiction movie from China, quickly became popular among North American movie fans.

Well-made trailers, real and amazing special effects space scenes, and exciting space crises have all aroused the interest of North American movie fans.

As the largest ticket warehouse for science fiction movies, North American movie fans love science fiction movies!

In recent years, Hollywood has indeed not produced many excellent hard science fiction movies. The three magical and fantasy IPs of "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" have led the Hollywood fantasy style in the past decade.

It was only last year that the emergence of "Transformers" slightly revived the influence of some science fiction blockbusters.

Now, a hard science fiction movie "Gravity" has been tested in the market in Asia, praised by all, and has achieved great box office and reputation. The director is Wu Yuan, who is familiar to them. How can they not want to watch it?

The appearance of "Gravity" just happened to coincide with the great opportunity when North America is in urgent need of science fiction blockbusters and movie fans are eager to see science fiction movies!

Otherwise, by next year, three science fiction movies, "Avatar", "2012" and "District 9" will sweep the world, and North American movie fans will not lack science fiction movies at all, let alone be interested in a Chinese science fiction movie.

It can only be said that the release time chosen by Wu Yuan is really too clever!

"Gravity" has mastered the right time, people and location.

And North American movie fans are working hard to make up for this lack of location!

The post on the White House website petitioning for the introduction of "Gravity" to be released in the United States originally received only hundreds of replies in half a month, but after the news of the "Gravity" movie spread among American movie fans, the number of replies to this post exploded.

One thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, fifty thousand!

In just three days, the number of replies to the post exceeded fifty thousand, and a large number of North American movie fans called for the introduction of Gravity as soon as possible. They need this movie!

In the conference room of Universal Pictures headquarters.

"Damn the Internet!"

"Since the Internet came into being, people are too easily mobilized!"

An executive vice president of Universal angrily slammed the table.

He was very dissatisfied with the sudden wave of calls to watch Gravity on the Internet.

The matter has become so big that the Big Six in Hollywood can't just ignore it.

They don't even have a good reason to refuse to introduce Gravity.

At least on the surface, this is a simple space disaster movie, without any political, racial or other sensitive issues, but the movie was made by Chinese people.

Could they refuse the voices of American movie fans on the grounds that "this is a Chinese movie, so it can't be introduced"?

This will only lead to greater dissatisfaction and anger among movie fans!

Reaching out and rubbing the root of his nose, the vice president said with a headache: "Go, send someone to contact China."

"We can introduce "Gravity", but at most only 500 cinemas will show this movie."

"Tell Daniel that this number is the limit that can be given."

"He is a smart man and will understand what I mean." (End of this chapter)