Chapter 879 The Cultural Perspective of "Mission and Choice"
Lu Zhiyao was speechless.
The script of "Mission and Choice" was originally given in segments. Director Zhu Xiaoce called "Give Lu Zhiyao a good idea to understand each plot well and don't have an impact on the current performance just because you know the ending in advance."
Director Zhu Xiaoce's purpose has been achieved.
When Lu Zhiyao acts in every plot, he does bring himself into the role of Captain Qin Yi, and has no idea what will happen in the future, so he acts closer to Qin Yi's true state in the play.
But this also brought about a problem, that is, Lu Zhiyao was cut off and wanted to die.
Every time I give the script, I only give it a short paragraph, but the plot development is very tortuous. Every time Lu Zhiyao wants to know the next plot, I feel embarrassed and it is broken.
Now I finally got the script at the end of the movie, but I never expected that it was still broken, and the plot was still not there!
This made Lu Zhiyao very collapsed and desperate.
Of course, he also knew in his heart that just judging from the current content, the whole story is actually complete, with both beginning and end, and as a movie, it is more than enough.
The plot behind is probably not even planned by director Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce. They simply left such a tail to leave a suspense for the next series of works.
But even if Lu Zhiyao is very clear about this truth, he will inevitably scold him for "out of context".
After calming down his emotions, Lu Zhiyao began to re-examine the last plot.
Before, his acting skills had been tested in all aspects without any blind spots. He originally thought that he had experienced many battles and was fearless.
But when Lu Zhiyao saw the last script, he realized that the one that was really difficult was at the end!
The final outcome still reversed many times. Qin Yi's emotions first collapsed, then found a glimmer of vitality in despair, and then he encouraged the morale of all the soldiers through his passionate speech, successfully allowing mankind to see the dawn of victory.
If the script ends here, then this is a standard popcorn film, a very orthodox passionate ending.
But when Qin Yi was about to see the dawn of victory, the plot took a sharp turn.
After unconscious, Qin Yi found that he had the consciousness of insect nests. The consciousness of insect nests made him naturally think about problems from the Zerg's standpoint and had empathy for the Zerg. Qin Yi realized that it was actually humans who began to attack the Zerg first. Strictly speaking, the Zerg was the invaded side.
After waking up, Qin Yi issued a ceasefire order to all the soldiers, forcibly stopping the already fierce war between humans and the Zerg.
If the script ends here, humans and Zerg shake hands and make peace and build a beautiful universe together, it will be a standard Western political correct ending.
But Qin Yi did not want to shake hands with the Zerg to make peace, but instead deceived the Zerg, while finding the locations of the Zerg queen and all the secondary queens through the insect nest consciousness, and continued to carry out the beheading operation.
Qin Yi deceived the Zerg for humans, but he himself was deceived and abandoned. In the end, because all Zerg queens and secondary queens were destroyed, Qin Yi accidentally became the leader of all Zergs, carrying them to the endless universe by the Leviathan monster.
In this plot, Qin Yi's emotions still change very drastically.
There are inspiring passionate blood, there are surprises when you learn the truth, there are cold blood when you deceive the Zerg, and there are rage when you are betrayed...
Especially in the last shot, when Qin Yi wakes up in the hatching pool inside the Leviathan monster, there will be a close-up close-up. Lu Zhiyao must use a look to express Qin Yi's various complex emotions.
Obviously, for Lu Zhiyao, the performance difficulty of this plot is one level higher than the previous script!
And just like Lu Zhiyao knew from the beginning, the reason why the role of Qin Yi tests acting skills is difficult to interpret is because his role is set as an iron-blooded soldier.
In most cases, Qin Yi has no emotions. Even if he has, he is very subtle and very restrained.
But in this script, Qin Yi's fate is too tortuous and always faces the emotions of extreme despair or extreme pain, which makes it difficult for Lu Zhiyao to find a balance point.
If you use a little harder force, Qin Yi's character will easily collapse. A iron-blooded warrior is furious or mentally collapsed, which is not in line with the character; and if you lack strength, the audience will feel that Lu Zhiyao has no acting skills and does not express his emotions properly.
In comparison, young characters are easier to play because the emotions of this type of character are often very simple. Joy is joy, and anger is anger. It is not that complicated, and the degree is also very relaxed.
On the contrary, it is the most difficult for Captain Qin Yi, who has strong will, to act out his emotions.
Lu Zhiyao sighed softly, and it seemed that he was busy again during the next period of time.
He wanted to continue to stay in the hotel room, think carefully about the plot in front of the mirror, adjust his acting skills and expressions, and perfectly express the last plot.
However, before that, Lu Zhiyao first took all the scripts so far together, read them from beginning to end, and analyzed the story from his own perspective.
The deepest impression this story left on Lu Zhiyao is its "cultural perspective".
As an actor, Lu Zhiyao has also watched many movies, various countries and various themes.
If the story of "Mission and Choice" is broken down separately and a small plot is actually nothing special compared to many traditional science fiction movies.
Of course, this is normal.
After all, the theme of "Zerg" has existed in science fiction movies for decades. Various predecessors have explained many different concepts from various angles and methods, and there are actually not many places for future generations to innovate.
There are so many classic works in front of you, and it is 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 combining the cultural perspective of China with science fiction themes, which has never been seen before.
Science fiction movies are very rare in China. Because science fiction movies require too much investment and require a large number of professional props, special effects and staff. If there is no accumulation, it is easy to make a four-dimensional appearance.
Therefore, even in the domestic film market, when it comes to science fiction movies, the first thing people think of is often those European and American science fiction blockbusters.
The problem brought about is that almost all the popular science fiction works that can be seen at present are explained from a Western cultural perspective.
This has caused many domestic audiences to question and divide the values and value orientations in these science fiction movies. Things that Westerners are accustomed to 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, and won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. It is an eternal science fiction classic.
But in that story, the commander was a child. After destroying the Zerg, he felt very guilty, so he took the young Zerg queen to the universe to find a new home, hoping to atone for himself.
This is a standard Western thinking. Just like many people in Western animal protection organizations, we call on humans to eat vegetarian food and allow animals to enjoy the same rights as humans...
For those living in a Western cultural background, perhaps this is a natural political correctness and kindness.
But for those living in the Chinese cultural background, this is a complete stupidity and hypocrisy, and a manifestation of the overflowing heart of the Virgin.
Westerners shout politically correct slogans and even fight for rights and interests for animals. Ultimately, they are because their lives are too rich and comfortable. Because the supplies are too rich, they have the spare time to spread their excess sympathy everywhere.
The root of Westerners' wealth and comfort is the exploitation, plunder and bloody killing of the entire world hundreds of years ago by their ancestors.
While Westerners shouting "Animals also have rights", they never look back at the indigenous peoples who were slaughtered by their ancestors; they don't think that they can obtain such rich material wealth by just making moves because their country is plundering and exploiting other countries in the world.
While these Westerners were sympathetic to seek rights for animals, their countries were bullying, oppressing, and exploiting other countries in the world, where wars, famines and plagues continued to spread, allowing their fellow humans there to live in purgatory on earth.
Therefore, from the perspective of Chinese culture, humans sympathize with the Zerg is a very stupid and hypocritical behavior.
Westerners treat other races and people in other countries as they treat the world with half of their compassion for animals. The world will become much better.
In terms of setting, Zergs are a race that exists in the universe that has an extreme threat to all life. They have a strong collective consciousness, efficient information sharing ability, and powerful mutation ability. The only meaning of this race's existence is to continuously expand and reproduce into the universe, and eliminate all other races.
Even if this Zerg queen really has the idea of living peacefully with humans, their race is still an extreme threat to human existence in terms of life form.
Humans sympathize with the Zerg and let go of the Zerg is actually raising tigers to suffer. How to judge whether the Zerg Queen is not lying? How to judge whether the Zerg Queen’s idea will change in the future?
In this case, completely extinction of the Zerg is the most rational decision for human beings.
And sympathizing with the Zerg and protecting the Zerg is to put humans in great danger.
"Mission and Choice" completely adopts the perspective of Chinese culture on this theme.
Chapter completed!