Chapter 879: The Cultural Perspective of Mission and Choice
Lu Zhiyao was very speechless.
The script of "Mission and Choice" was originally given in sections, and director Zhu Xiaoce said in a beautiful name that Lu Zhiyao "should figure out the plot of each paragraph carefully, and don't affect the current performance because you know the ending in advance".
Director Zhu Xiaoce's goal can be regarded as achieved.
When Lu Zhiyao acted in each plot, he really brought himself into the role of Captain Qin Yi, and he didn't know what would happen in the future, so he acted closer to Qin Yi's real state in the play.
But this also brought a problem, that is, Lu Zhiyao was cut off to death.
Every time I give the script, I only give a short paragraph, but the plot development is still very tortuous, every time Lu Zhiyao wants to know the next plot, I'm sorry, it's broken.
Now I finally got the script at the end of the movie, but I never expected that it was still in a broken state, and there was still no plot in the back!
This made Lu Zhiyao very devastated and desperate.
Of course, he also understands in his heart that just judging from the current content, in fact, the whole story is complete, and there are both ups and downs, which is more than enough as a movie.
It is estimated that even Director Huang Sibo and Director Zhu Xiaoce didn't think about the plot in the back, and they simply left such a tail to leave a good suspense for the next series of works.
But even if Lu Zhiyao knows this truth very well, it is inevitable that he will still scold two sentences of "broken dog".
After calming down a bit, Lu Zhiyao began to re-examine this last piece of the plot.
Before, his acting skills had been tested in all directions, and he thought he was already experienced and fearless.
But seeing the last script, Lu Zhiyao realized that the real difficulty was in the end!
In the end, there were still many reversals in the ending, Qin Yi's mood was first desperate to collapse, then he found a glimmer of life in despair, and then he lifted the morale of all the soldiers through impassioned speeches, successfully allowing mankind to see the dawn of victory.
If the script ends here, then it's a standard popcorn movie, very orthodox bloody ending.
But when Qin Yi was about to see the dawn of victory, the plot took a sharp turn again.
After being in a coma, Qin Yi found that he had a hive consciousness, and the hive consciousness made him naturally think from the position of the Zerg and have empathy for the Zerg. Qin Yi realized that it was actually the human race that first started to attack the Zerg, and strictly speaking, the Zerg was the one who was invaded.
After waking up, Qin Yi issued a ceasefire order to all the soldiers, so that the already fierce war between humans and the Zerg was forcibly stopped.
If the script ends here, and humans and the Zerg shake hands and make peace and build a beautiful universe together, it will be a standard Western politically correct ending.
But Qin Yi didn't want to shake hands with the Zerg and make peace, but while deceiving the Zerg, he found the location of the Zerg Empress and all the secondary empresses through the Worm Hive Consciousness, and continued to carry out the decapitation operation.
Qin Yi deceived the Zerg for the sake of mankind, but he himself was deceived and abandoned, and in the end, because all the Zerg empresses and secondary empresses were completely wiped out, Qin Yi accidentally became the head of all the Zerg, and was carried by the Leviathan giant beast to the endless cosmic space.
In this part of the plot, Qin Yi's mood still has very drastic changes.
There is the exhilarating blood, the surprise of learning the truth, the cold-bloodedness of deceiving the Zerg, and the fury of betrayal......
Especially in the last shot, when Qin Yi wakes up in the hatching pool inside the Leviathan giant beast, there will be a close-up close-up, and Lu Zhiyao must show Qin Yi's various complex emotions with one look.
Obviously, for Lu Zhiyao, this plot is a notch higher than the previous script!
And just like Lu Zhiyao knew from the beginning, the reason why Qin Yi's role tests his acting skills and is difficult to interpret 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 very restrained.
But in this script, Qin Yi's fate is too tortuous, and he is always faced with the emotion of extreme despair or extreme pain, which makes it difficult for Lu Zhiyao to find a balance.
If you use a little more force, Qin Yi's character will easily collapse, and a Predator will be thunderous or mentally broken, which is not in line with the character design; And if the strength is insufficient, it will make the audience feel that Lu Zhiyao has no acting skills and does not express his emotions in place.
Comparatively speaking, young roles are easier to play, because the emotions of this type of characters are often very simple, joy is joy, anger is anger, it is not so complicated, and the degree of this is also very relaxed.
On the contrary, it is a person with a strong will like Captain Qin Yi who wants to perform his emotions, which is the most difficult.
Lu Zhiyao sighed softly, it seemed that in the next period of time, he would be busy again.
He wants to continue to stay in the hotel room, figure out the plot in front of the mirror, adjust his acting skills and expressions, and perfectly express the last plot.
But before that, Lu Zhiyao first got all the scripts so far, read them from beginning to end, and analyzed the story from his own perspective.
The deepest impression that this story left on Lu Zhiyao was its "cultural perspective".
As an actor, Lu Zhiyao has of course watched a lot of movies, movies from various countries and themes.
The story of "Mission and Choice", if it is dismantled separately and a small plot is picked, it is actually no special compared with many traditional science fiction movies.
Of course, this is also normal.
After all, the theme of "Zerg" has existed in science fiction movies for decades, and 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 classics in front of you, and it's impossible to make every plot in the story subvert the tradition.
But in Lu Zhiyao's view, the biggest breakthrough of "Mission and Choice" is actually the combination of Chinese cultural perspectives and science fiction themes, which has never been done before.
In China, science fiction movies are very rare. Because science fiction movies require too much investment, they require a large number of professional props, special effects and staff, and if there is no accumulation, it is easy to make four different films.
Therefore, even in the domestic film market, when it comes to science fiction movies, the first thing that comes to people's minds is often those European and American science fiction masterpieces.
The problem with this is that almost all of the popular science fiction works that can be seen today are interpreted from a Western cultural perspective.
This has made many domestic audiences question and feel separated from the values and value orientation in these science fiction movies. What is taken for granted by Westerners is 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, and it also won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, which is an eternal science fiction classic.
But in that story, the Commander is a child who feels very guilty after the destruction of the Zerg, so he takes the young Zerg Empress to the universe to find a new home, hoping to atone for his sins.
This is standard Western thinking, like many in Western animal protection organizations, calling for a vegetarian diet and for animals to have the same rights as humans......
For people living in Western cultural backgrounds, perhaps this is a natural form of political correctness and kindness.
But for people living in the background of Chinese culture, this is a kind of utter stupidity and hypocrisy, a manifestation of the overflow of the heart of the Virgin.
Westerners shout politically correct slogans, and even fight for animal rights, in the final analysis, because their lives are too rich and comfortable, because they are so rich and rich in materials, that they have the spare energy to spread their excess compassion everywhere in addition to squandering and wasting them.
The root of the abundance and comfort of Westerners is the exploitation, plundering and bloody killing of the whole world carried out by their ancestors hundreds of years ago.
Westerners shout "animals have rights", but they never look back at the aborigines who were slaughtered by their ancestors; Without thinking about it, you can get such a lot of material wealth with your own hands and feet because your country is plundering and exploiting other countries in the world.
While these Westerners are compassionate and soliciting the rights of animals, their countries are bullying, oppressing, and exploiting other countries in the world, constantly spreading wars, famines, and plagues there, and leaving their fellow human beings to live in purgatory on earth.
Therefore, from the perspective of Chinese culture, it is a very stupid and hypocritical behavior for human beings to sympathize with the Zerg.
If Westerners give half of their compassion for animals to other races and people in other countries in the world, the world will be a lot better.
In terms of setting, the Zerg are a race that exists in the universe and poses an extreme threat to all life. They have a strong collective consciousness, the ability to share information efficiently, and the ability to mutate, and the only meaning of the existence of this race is to continue to expand and multiply into the universe, and wipe out all other races.
Even if this Zerg Empress really had the idea of peaceful coexistence with humans, their race was still an extreme threat to the survival of humans in terms of life form.
And human beings sympathize with the Zerg and let the Zerg go, in fact, they are raising tigers. How can you tell if the Zerg Empress is not lying? How can you tell if the Zerg Empress's thoughts will change in the future?
In this case, the complete extinction of the Zerg is the most rational decision of human beings.
And sympathizing with the Zerg and protecting the Zerg is to put humanity in great danger.
"Mission and Choice" completely adopts the perspective of Chinese culture on this theme.