science fiction films have a very large audience around the world, but there are very few people who like science fiction in China
but Chinese science fiction is not the same as the global science fiction aesthetics
some very popular science fiction series abroad are rare in China Some people know that it was left out in the cold. The most typical of
is the Star Wars series!
Since China first introduced the "Star Wars" series of movies in 1999, many Star Wars fans are naturally happy, but in fact, the four "Star Wars" that were released in China from 1999 to 2015, among them Domestic box office performance is very small in the global box office. It can be said that in such a huge market in China, "Star Wars" has not cut a big piece of cake.
"Star Wars"
a rebellion occurred in a distant galaxy, the Galactic Republic was overthrown, and Princess Leia (played by Carrie Fisher) of Alderland led a resistance organization against the Galactic Empire, but was unfortunately defeated by the Galactic Empire. Captive by Lord De (David Prowse). The robot R2-D2 took the structure diagram of the new weapon of the Galactic Empire "Death Star" and its companion translation, the robot C-3PO escaped to Tatooine Star. On the way, it was caught by the Gava and sold to the young Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) Mark Hamill)'s uncle. With the help of Luke, the crowd found the reclusive Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness). Obi-Wan handed Luke to The Way of the Jedi, and took Luke and the two robots to the port city of Mous East, and hired the smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the Millennium Falcon spacecraft to Alder Lan... This film won the 50th Oscar for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Editing, Best Original Music, Best Sound Effects and Six Awards and Special Contribution Award (Ben Burt Ben Burtt), and won four nominations for best film, best supporting actor (Alec Guinness), best director (George Lucas), and best original film music.
Why is the "Star Wars" series not so popular in China? The first reason for
is: The debut time is too early.
is different from the problem of various movies eager to seize the market and attract loyal fans. "Star Wars" was not released late, on the contrary, it was released too early, as early as China has not yet begun to introduce a large number of Western science fiction films.
When the first "Star Wars" was released in 1977, we were still in a period of no reform and opening up. After missing the 4, 5, and 6 main story trilogy, "Star Wars 1" was released for the first time in China. By 1999.
This caused "Star Wars" to not lay a good foundation in the new generation, but left an outdated impression that "Star Wars" was a movie watched by his father's generation. The second reason for
is: unfriendly to novices
In the words of the game industry, this movie is very unfriendly to novice players. Since the "Star Wars" series has built a huge universe model and world view that is his own, for novices, everything in it needs to be understood. General understanding is not enough. You must have a comprehensive and solid grasp of the basic knowledge to make it more interesting. . The third reason for
: Industry competition
has continued to have three good box-office "Sorrel Wars" in recent years, and it has cast a shadow over the already sluggish "Star Wars", so I just asked my colleagues to know " Star Wars? They all said they knew, the monkeys rebelled against people! Listen, how ugly is this, what does Luke think? ! Does this make Master Yoda still alive? !
In addition, relatively speaking, Chinese audiences prefer stories that take place on Earth, such as the "Avengers" and "X-Men" series that continue to be popular. The various knights and their own movies in it are all made in a popular one. To put it bluntly, people like things they are familiar with. Either these knights are still humans, or they were once humans, or mutated, etc. And even if their superpowers are acquired in the universe, they are ultimately displayed in the mortal world, and they truly come from the people and go to the people. So people like movies where superheroes are humans because he satisfies people's fantasy well.
Reason 4: The most important point is that the audience’s sense of substitution is not strong
Mr. Jin Yong said, why did he putThe protagonist of the martial arts story writes so good, because he was not handsome when he was young, so he hoped that the protagonist would be either handsome or ugly but his character was invincible in the universe. When I was young, I didn’t have a beautiful girlfriend. I hope that the protagonist in the story has a beautiful girlfriend. I just don’t know if his wife hears this, will Mr. Jin's life be better? In short, it is to make you dreams. The effect is exceptionally good, do you dare to say that you have not substituted yourself for the protagonist when you read martial arts novels? The same goes for
. When the audience appreciates this kind of science fiction blockbuster, if they see Spider-Man, people will imagine that they have been bitten by a spider, and will not be angry anymore in school units. Seeing Iron Man, one would think that one day he would have such a suit of armor, and he would definitely have to fly back and forth in New York. Seeing Green Lantern, forget it, the color of this brother doesn't look so friendly.
On the contrary, I saw various starkillers, The Force, Jedi, Sith, and lightsabers in Star Wars. Just seeing such vocabulary, people will have a feeling of "I know every word, but I don't understand it." All kinds of strange characters often feel confused when people look at them, so it is difficult for everyone to substitute, and the welcome level will definitely decrease.
In addition to the "Star Wars" series, there are also these popular foreign, but Chinese sci-fi movies
"The Matrix"
In the near future, the cyber hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) will face this seemingly normal reality. The world has doubts. He met the hacker Trinity (Kelly Ann Moss) and met Murphys (Lawrence Fishburne), the leader of the hacker organization. Morpheus told him that the real world is actually controlled by a computer artificial intelligence system called the "matrix". People are like animals they raise, without freedom and thought, and Neo is the savior who can save mankind. However, the road to salvation has never been smooth sailing. Where is the real world? How can we defeat those superhuman special services? Is Neo the hope of mankind? This is the empire of hackers, programs and codes welcome everyone.
"Expanse of the Sky"
tells the story of the future two hundred years later, when humans colonize the solar system. Due to the influence of gravity, the humans in the solar system are gradually divided into terrestrial people, Martians and Ceres people who are dominated by asteroid belts. The relationship between them has become tense due to the competition for resources. Detective Josephus Miller (played by Thomas Jane) together with captain Jim Holden (played by Steven Street) and his crew uncover a conspiracy that threatens order, peace and the survival of mankind.
is currently in the third season.
"Battlestar Galactica"
"Battlestar Galactica" (Battlestar Galactica) was launched on December 8, 2003 on the American Science Fiction Channel, and then on October 18, 2004 on the British Sky One TV channel The first season of the premiere. The show has won 7 various awards including 3 Saturn Awards in 2006, 11 various nominations including 5 Emmy nominations, and has become the most popular American science fiction channel in terms of ratings. Welcome to the original series.
The play mainly tells the story of the war between humans and the Cylons, and the 50,000 surviving humans looking for a new home on the earth.
In an unknown place in the universe, there is an interstellar country composed of 12 human colonies. For the convenience of humans, humans have created a robot with independent thoughts and feelings-Cylons to serve humans, but people can never think that these are supposed to help humans. The robots turned their heads to fight against themselves. Cylons rose up against humans. The war between humans and the Cylons they made began... After decades of bloody battles with countless casualties, Cylons left the colony to establish themselves. Homes. Forty years of peace let mankind relax his vigilance. Cylons created some robot discs that are exactly the same as mankind. They penetrated into the human world and paralyzed the human defense system, destroyed the Battlestar fleet, and turned the colony's cities into ashes with nuclear weapons. Battlestar Galactica is the only surviving aircraft carrier. Under the command of Captain Adama, it leads dozens of various civilian ships and nearly 50,000 humans.The remaining survivors fled the colony’s galaxy and began a journey to find the 13th colony of mankind-Earth.
