Chapter 998 Incredibly Good! (Twenty Four)

The first ninety minutes of "Earthfire" belong to the setting of a Hollywood tragedy movie.

Taking away hope step by step, watching the target getting further and further away from him, and finally died a vigorous death.

The protagonist Liu Xin witnessed the death of the miner's father when he was young and determined to conquer the man-eating coal mine cave entrance.

When he was finally ready, armed with the latest technological achievements and government support, he returned to his hometown, only to find that all the people in the mine had lost their spirits.

The long-term growth stagnation and deteriorating market environment have robbed old classmate Li Weimin of his lifelong determination to dedicate his life to the coal industry, eroded the mine manager's confidence in the future, and brought a dark cinder-like color to the entire city.

Liu Xin explained her vaporized coal transformation plan to the mine manager and received a noncommittal reply...

Fire Chief Aguli's horrific description of the ground fire he experienced personally shows how dangerous the project is. Even in distant BJ, there are people who are taking the plunge and preparing to cut the project's budget.

Liu Xin, who was extremely confident in technology, could not look back. Together with her classmate Li Weimin and the fire captain, Liu Xin built an experimental coal pit and lit the first fire himself.

The flames rose steadily, like a celebratory bonfire, success!

Coal can be dug out without going down the well, and the tragedy of Liu Xin's father will no longer happen.

The mine manager saw all this and expressed his gratitude and shame from the bottom of his heart.

Then the story took a turn for the worse. Due to Li Weimin's carelessness and silence in the face of interests, the small passage between the experimental coal pit and the large coal field was not blocked, causing ground fire to burn throughout the mine.

Facing the red alert, Liu Xin was stunned and at a loss. He had never been in a well before and didn't know what to do.

Fortunately, the mine manager stood up at this time, maintained the basic order, and tried every means to suppress the fire. As the fire expanded, he even did not hesitate to destroy this century-old large mine with his own hands...

However, due to a communication error, the ventilation facilities were dismantled, which eventually led to an early explosion in the mine, and all rescue efforts were in vain.

The accident caused a ground fire that spread throughout the city, withering vegetation and overheating the ground, which lasted for 18 years.

Zhou Liming hasn’t seen the trailer of "Earth Fire", it feels very strange...

The whole story is very real. The male protagonist Liu Xin grew up in a mining area and has a special affection for the coal mining industry. However, he also has a shortcoming, that is, he only understands theory and does not participate in practice.

The second male lead, played by Chen Xiao, is Li Minsheng, a senior engineer in the coal mine and Liu Xin's teenage friend.

He was well versed in practical matters, but because the wages in the coal mines were so low, he also had selfish motives and did not stop Liu Xin's adventurous plan, which eventually led to a catastrophe.

Every plot is foreshadowed, and every behavior of the characters is interpreted.

The first half is the usual setting, with the protagonist successfully igniting the coal mine and the entire equipment starting to operate as the climax;

Immediately afterwards, the fire spread, the door to hell was opened, and the story entered a pessimistic setting until the end, when the protagonist fell into the mine and climaxed with being fed into the fire...

Especially the close-up of the disaster, the camera clearly recorded everything:

The asphalt road surface has gradually begun to melt. The lens highlights the visible heat flow in the air caused by the high temperature. Almost all means of transportation are scrapped. The cars on the road all have a strange posture and the road due to the melting of rubber tires. Integrated into one, due to the high temperature brought by the ground fire, small explosions have begun in areas close to the origin of the ground fire...

The cries of children and the sound of military evacuation broadcasts were mixed together, and no one knew what was happening.

The scene shifted to the People's Liberation Army, which was in the opposite direction of the flow of people. The camera gradually moved towards one of the officers and soldiers and gradually focused on it.

Then zoom out and switch to the scene of Liu Xin being guarded...

Seeing the hell-like ground fire spreading, Zhou Liming took a breath of cold air - it was so real!

No wonder the production cost is as high as 180 million, which is indeed a visible money burn...

As the ground fire spread, the movie screen went black. Zhou Liming was about to get up. Then the screen came back on and the colors became brighter. It was a group of middle school students who came to experience the coal mine...

After the experience was over and we returned to the bright lobby, guest star Chen Hao asked: "Students, what do you think?"

"People in the past were so difficult! People in the past were so stupid!"

"That's right, isn't it common sense to vaporize coal?"

Chen Hao stopped smiling and his expression became serious: "We have all studied "The Theory of Six Kingdoms", and there is a passage in it: The ancestor Sijue exposed the frost and cut the thorns to have a sizeable land. The descendants did not cherish it and raised it. Giving to others is like throwing away grass and mustard...Everyone should know what this means!"

"We should remain in awe of these ancestors!"

"Hypatia was skinned and burned to death by the believers; countless women and early Western medicine practitioners were beaten and slandered as witchcraft and witches by the church, as well as Copernicus, Galileo, Bruno, Voltaire, Cervantes... until today , the anti-intellectualism and feudal superstition that persist in ancient times but not today still remind us from time to time that the road of continuous exploration has a long way to go.”

"Many technologies were only ridiculed when they first started to be applied...but they lit up the light of civilization for mankind, and we, stepping on their shoulders, pave the way forward for the future!"

"Okay, let's go back tonight and each of us will write an 800-word essay and give it to me... Now follow me, let's go back to school..."

A group of people boarded a driverless bus parked at the door. The difference was that this bus was suspended in the air. The camera shifted to reveal a large panorama - the human city in 200 years...

Humans live in space cities, and all means of transportation are suspended cars...

At the same time, the soundtrack became passionate and the narration sounded:

Technological progress is inevitably accompanied by countless trials and errors and sacrifices.

The protagonist of our story, Liu Xin, may be just one of thousands of idealists or pragmatists who devote themselves to technology.

But it was the thousands of Liu Xins who, through their success or failure, paved the way for the ultimate advancement and breakthrough of technology.

The spirit of exploration and curiosity are unstoppable human nature. It is a powerful manifestation of intelligent life in order to realize its own value.

When a sergeant hears the Tao, he will practice it diligently. When traveling on the great road, it doesn’t matter whether it’s good or bad. Thanks to countless ancestors who have opened up the road, we should take over the torch and keep moving forward!

Seeing this, Zhou Liming was a little stunned...

This... was this taken by the Chinese?

But if you think about it carefully, only the Chinese can make such a movie - a mixture of romanticism and real suffering, as well as a grand sense of the times and responsibility.

What is romantic is the progress of science and technology, and the desire of science and technology workers to change lives and destiny with technology, but what is realistic is the huge price that must be paid for this!

A work that contains grand thoughts on technological progress and the development of human history, a tragic epic of civilization!

"Fire" is so good that it doesn't look like a Chinese movie. I carefully read the ending subtitles, and the names of more than a dozen special effects companies were listed, but the four special effects directors are all Chinese, namely: Wei Ming, Ding Yanlai, Xu Jian, Zhao Haoqiang...

Until the director of photography showed up with a foreign name: Roger Deakins.

Chief director: Guo Fan, assistant directors Wang Jiushu, Yu Gang, Liu Na... they are all a group of newcomers!

Then the chief producer and director Shen Xudong's name appeared, and then the screen went black. As the narration sounded, the screen lit up. It was an actor carrying a bag who took the elevator from the underground city to the ground, and then started the process of transporting the vehicle. :

‘The Sun, located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, accounts for 99.68% of the total mass of the solar system. Today, the core of the sun is extremely aged and continues to expand, and the earth will be engulfed. In order to survive, mankind has formulated an unprecedented grand plan, driving the entire earth to escape to a new home 4.2 light-years away. The plan is divided into five phases.

In the first stage, mankind spent all its resources to build 10,000 "planetary engines" to drive the earth forward and 10,000 underground cities to protect human life.

In the second stage, the "steering engines" that circled the equator were turned on one after another, driving the earth to stop rotating. The earth's rotation caused huge tsunamis to sweep across the world, and the global population dropped by nearly half.

In the third stage, the Earth will use the sun and Jupiter to complete the final acceleration sprint and officially embark on a wandering journey.

In the fourth stage, after the earth leaves the solar system, the "planetary engine" is turned on at full power. It will accelerate to five thousandths of the speed of light in five hundred years, and glide for one thousand three hundred years. Then it will reverse the direction of the engine, and it will take another seven hundred years. Hundreds of years, slow down.

In the fifth stage, the Earth docks into the target star system, reaches its new home, and becomes a new planet in the target star system. This plan will last a hundred generations, although we don't know what kind of home the new sun 4.2 light-years away will bring. But starting from today, human courage and perseverance will be engraved under the stars forever!

This long cosmic journey that coexists with despair and hope and lasts for 2,500 years is known in history as the "Wandering Earth" plan. ’

After saying this, the camera pulled down to reveal Wu Mengda's face - Han Ziang, wearing glasses, with gray hair on his temples and a serious expression...

That's right, the trailer for "The Wandering Earth"...

Zhou Liming suddenly felt like he was hit - these people were not just having fun, they were playing for real!