Chapter 876 The Cultural Perspective of "Mission and Choice"

Lu Zhiyao was very speechless.

The script of "Mission and Choice" was originally given in sections. Director Zhu Xiaoce euphemistically called Lu Zhiyao "to figure out the plot of each section carefully, and don't affect the current performance just because you know the ending in advance."

Director Zhu Xiaoce's goal has been achieved.

When Lu Zhiyao acted in every episode, he really brought himself into the role of Captain Qin Yi, completely unaware of what would happen in the future, so the acting was closer to Qin Yi's real state in the play.

But this also brought about a problem, that is, Lu Zhiyao was cut off to death.

Every time I give a script, I only give a short paragraph, but the development of the plot is very tortuous. Every time Lu Zhiyao wants to know the next part of the plot, I'm sorry, I cut it off.

Now I finally got the script at the end of the movie, but I never expected that it was still broken, and there was still no plot behind it!

This made Lu Zhiyao very broken and desperate.

Of course, he also understands in his heart that just judging from the current content, the whole story is actually complete, with its beginnings and transitions, and the content of a movie is more than enough.

It is estimated that Huang Sibo and director Zhu Xiaoce didn't even think about the following plot. They simply left such a tail to keep suspense for the next series of works.

But even if Lu Zhiyao knew this truth very well, it was inevitable that he would still have to scold him as a "broken dog".

After calming down, Lu Zhiyao began to re-examine the last episode.

Before, his acting skills have been tested in all directions without dead ends, and he thought that he was already experienced and fearless.

But after seeing the last script, Lu Zhiyao realized that the real difficulty is at the end!

There are still many reversals in the final ending. Qin Yi's emotions first collapsed from despair, then he found a glimmer of hope in despair, and then he boosted the morale of all soldiers through impassioned speeches, successfully showing mankind the hope of victory. dawn.

If the script ends here, then this is a standard popcorn movie with a very orthodox hot-blooded ending.

But when Qin Yi was about to see the dawn of victory, the plot took a sharp turn.

Qin Yi, who was in a coma, found that he possessed the hive consciousness. The hive consciousness allowed him to naturally think from the standpoint of the Zerg, and he had empathy for the Zerg. Qin Yi realized that humans were the first to attack the Zerg. Strictly speaking, the Zerg was the one that was invaded.

After waking up, Qin Yi issued a cease-fire order to all the soldiers, forcibly stopping the fierce war between humans and Zerg.

If the script ends here, and humans and Zerg shake hands to make peace and build a beautiful universe together, it will be a standard Western politically correct ending.

But Qin Yi didn't intend to shake hands with the Zerg, but while deceiving the Zerg, he found the location of the Zerg queen and all the sub-queens through the nest consciousness, and continued to execute the beheading operation.

Qin Yi deceived the Zerg race for the sake of human beings, but he himself was also deceived and abandoned. In the end, because all the Zerg queens and sub-queens were completely wiped out, Qin Yi became the leader of all the Zerg races by mistake, and was taken advantage of. The giant beast of Vitan floats to the endless cosmic space.

In this episode of the plot, Qin Yi's mood still undergoes very drastic changes.

There is the inspiring passion, the surprise of knowing the truth, the cold blood of deceiving the Zerg, and the fury of being betrayed...

Especially in the last shot, when Qin Yi wakes up in the hatching tank inside the Leviathan monster, there will be a close-up close-up, and Lu Zhiyao has to express Qin Yi's various complex emotions with one look.

Obviously, for Lu Zhiyao, the acting difficulty of this episode was a level higher than that of the previous script!

And as Lu Zhiyao knew from the beginning, the reason why Qin Yi's role is a test of acting skills and difficult to perform is because his role is set as an iron-blooded soldier.

Qin Yi is emotionless in most cases, and even if he does, he is very reserved and introverted.

But in this script, Qin Yi's fate is too tortuous, always facing extreme despair or extreme pain, which makes it difficult for Lu Zhiyao to find a balance point.

If you use a little more force, Qin Yi's character design will easily collapse. A predator jumps into a rage or has a mental breakdown, which does not fit the character design; if the strength is not enough, the audience will feel that Lu Zhiyao has no acting skills and cannot express emotions. in place.

In comparison, young characters are easier to play, because the emotions of this type of characters are often very simple, joy is joy, anger is anger, not so complicated, and the degree of it is also very loose.

On the contrary, it was Captain Qin Yi with a strong will who had the hardest time acting out his emotions.

Lu Zhiyao sighed softly, it seems that he will be busy again in the next period of time.

He will continue to stay in the hotel room, ponder the plot in front of the mirror, adjust his acting skills and expressions, and perfectly express the last episode of the plot.

But before that, Lu Zhiyao took all the scripts so far together, read them from beginning to end, and analyzed the story from his own perspective.

The deepest impression left by this story on Lu Zhiyao is its "cultural perspective".

As an actor, Lu Zhiyao has of course watched many movies. He has watched movies from various countries and themes.

If the story of "Mission and Choice" is disassembled separately, and a small plot is stuck, it is actually not special compared with many traditional sci-fi movies.

Of course, this is also normal.

After all, the theme of "Zerg" has existed in science fiction movies for decades. Various predecessors have expounded many different concepts from various angles and in various ways, leaving little room for future generations to innovate. .

There are so many classic works, and it is impossible for every plot in the story to subvert the tradition.

But in Lu Zhiyao's view, the biggest breakthrough of "Mission and Choice" is actually the combination of China's cultural perspective and sci-fi themes, which has never been done before.

In China, sci-fi movies are very rare. Because sci-fi movies require too much investment, requiring a lot of professional props, special effects and staff, without accumulation, it is easy to make four different shots.

Therefore, even in the domestic film market, when it comes to sci-fi movies, the first thing people think of are those European and American sci-fi giants.

The problem that arises from this is that almost all popular science fiction works that can be seen at present are interpreted from a Western cultural perspective.

This has caused many domestic audiences to question and feel divided about the values ​​and value orientation in these sci-fi movies. Things that are taken for granted by Westerners are completely unacceptable to domestic audiences.

The idea of ​​the story "Mission and Choice" was actually written by a famous foreign science fiction writer as early as 1985. It also won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. It is an eternal science fiction classic.

But in that story, the commander was a child. He felt very guilty after destroying the Zerg, so he took the young Zerg queen to the universe to find a new home, hoping to redeem himself.

This is standard western thinking, just like many people in western animal protection organizations, calling on humans to be vegetarians and allowing animals to enjoy the same rights as humans...

For people living in a Western cultural background, perhaps this is a kind of natural political correctness and kindness.

But for people living in the background of Chinese culture, this is a kind of outright stupidity and hypocrisy, and it is a manifestation of the overflowing of the Virgin Mary.

Westerners shout politically correct slogans, and even fight for the rights of animals. In the final analysis, it is because their lives are too rich and comfortable, and because their supplies are too rich, they still have the energy to spread their surplus everywhere after squandering and wasting. compassion.

The root of the rich and comfortable life of Westerners is the exploitation, plunder and bloody killings carried out by their ancestors on the whole world hundreds of years ago.

While Westerners shout "animals have rights too", they never look back at the aborigines who were slaughtered by their ancestors; countries are plundering and exploiting the rest of the world.

While these Westerners are sympathetically seeking animal rights, their countries are bullying, oppressing, and exploiting other countries in the world, spreading wars, famines, and plagues, and letting their fellow human beings live in the world In purgatory.

Therefore, from the perspective of Chinese culture, it is a very stupid and hypocritical behavior for human beings to sympathize with Zerg.

Westerners use half of their sympathy for animals to treat other races and people in other countries in the world, and the world will become a lot better.

In terms of setting, the Zerg is a race that exists in the universe that poses an extreme threat to all life. They have a strong collective consciousness, efficient sharing of information, and a strong ability to mutate. The only meaning of the existence of this race is to continuously expand and reproduce in the universe, and wipe out all other races.

Even if the Zerg Queen really has the idea of ​​peaceful coexistence with human beings, their race is still an extreme threat to human survival in terms of life form.

And human beings sympathize with the Zerg and let the Zerg go, in fact, they are raising the legacy of the tiger. How to judge that the Zerg Queen is not lying? How to judge whether the future thinking of the Zerg Queen will change?

In this case, it is the most rational decision for mankind to completely exterminate the Zerg race.

To sympathize with and protect the Zerg is to put human beings in great danger.

"Mission and Choice" fully adopts the perspective of Chinese culture on this theme.