In mid-July, the National Film Administration announced that movie theaters in low-risk areas of would open in an orderly manner on July 20, and fans finally waited for the day to enter the movie theater again.
But looking abroad, the North American film market as the vane of the film industry has not yet opened. Blockbuster films such as "Mulan", "Wonder Woman 1984", "Creed", "Fast and Furious 9", and "007" that were originally ambitious to dominate the global summer archives have all temporarily missed the big screen. Among them, the brain-burning film "Creed" directed by director Christopher Nolan has high hopes. The media and fans expect this film to become the savior of the global film market after the epidemic.
"Feel it, don't try to understand it." There is such a sentence in the trailer for Nolan's new film "Creed". (Click to read the speech of Photon, Executive Chairman of Creativity Gene: "What is the world? It is a bunch of possibilities, a bunch of "digital smoke"")
01 Can "Creed" be the salvation of the global film market after the epidemic? ?
After the official release of the first official trailer on December 20 last year, "Creed" has gradually unveiled its mysterious veil to a certain extent. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, in the past few months, the major players The film company's top-ranked films this year retreated like an avalanche. It is estimated that as many as 20 high-profile movies have disappeared from this year's schedule.
However, there are still some movies that stand hard on this year’s release schedule. Director Nolan wrote an article in the Washington Post at the end of March, calling on the government to provide assistance to theater staff and calling on film companies to establish strategies with movie theaters affected by the epidemic. Partnership.
Originally under his insistence, "Creed" had its world premiere on July 17, which was also the traditional premiere time of films directed by Nolan in the past. However, considering the reality, this new film, which is considered to be "the touchstone for the audience to return to the theater", has to announce that the North American schedule will be postponed from July 17 to July 31. At the same time, in order to make up for the vacant schedule of "Creed", it will Nolan's classic movie "Inception" will be re-screened, and the "creed" will be featured as an easter egg at the end of the film. The latest news is that the "creed" schedule has been postponed again to August 12.
Warner Bros. still confidently said: "We insist on showing "Creed" in theaters and on the big screen, but only if the theaters are prepared and public health officials say it can. Now we must be flexible and not treat it as A regular theater screening. We chose to release it in the middle of the week so that the audience can arrange their own time to watch. We also plan to release it for a long time, which is much longer than the normal schedule. "
shows that the film party has already done a long-term battle. Mental preparation. The relevant staff of the Film World Company, which is in charge of marketing in China, revealed that this film will definitely wait until the day the cinema opens to welcome audiences who have been affected by the epidemic.
When more and more big directors and big movies have to bow to online streaming media under the pressure of survival, and give up the opportunity to enter the theater, Nolan, the big director who still uses film instead of digital shooting, is almost alone. Zhili has taken up the heavy responsibility of allowing more people to enter the cinema, which is enough to allow us to spend more time and attention to understand this year's film market's salvation work.
02 Is "Creed" the sequel to "Inception"?
Judging from various signs, 's "Inception" released in July 2010 is inextricably related to the "creed" released in July 2020. On foreign film forums, netizens have also speculated whether "Creed" will continue the theory and story of "Inception".
Judging from the rhythm of Warner's release of materials, whether it is the release date or schedule of the three trailers, "Creed" and "Inception" have maintained a full 10-year time difference.
Instead of just watching the trailer, the "Creed" in the "Creed" of the high-rise cable drop, lying on the rail, the fight in the narrow space, the car crash, and the protagonist with a straight suit carrying a white suitcase, all appeared in "Inception".
Many scenes in "Creed" have appeared in "Inception"
"Hollywood Reporter" and even brainstorming, speculation: Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki in "Creed" The role may be the son and daughter of Xiao Lizi in InceptionLook like. Michael Kane may directly continue the role in "Inception" and play the grandfather of the two.
Nolan Queen’s old play bone Michael Kane returns to "Creed"
Aside from these visual similarities, the most important similarity between the two is that both movies are about manipulating time and space.
"Inception of Dreams" creates the hierarchy of dreams. The protagonist manipulates time and space in the dream, changing the dreamer's deepest consciousness, which can change the personality of the person, and the story begins under such a world setting. "Creed" also created a new world setting, but "Creed" involves preventing World War III, which shows that the film's story structure is larger than "Inception". Can the coexistence of time upstream and downstream shown in the
03 trailer really be realized?
Judging from the film title alone, we are full of expectations and doubts about this film. The English name of
film TENET has many meanings, and the literal translation is the purpose, creed and principle. TENET is a back-and-forth palindrome. The meaning of the positive and negative order is the same. This is not uncommon in English words. It is the same type as "Shanghai on the sea" in Chinese.
And more importantly, the word TENET appears in Sator Square. This is a five back-and-forth vocabulary slate composed of 8 letters, including 5 consonants and 3 vowels, whether it is left, right, up, down, or cross. Can form a palindrome. Sator Square first appeared on the ruins of Pompeii in Italy, and Pompeii was buried by a volcano in AD 79.
TENET in Sator Square is in the middle, which in Latin means "own" and "control"
In addition, Sator Square also appeared on the brick wall of St. Peter's Basilica in Italy in the 8th century, and there are other strong religions in Europe. The colorful places have the Sator Square pattern, and Sator Square has now been deconstructed in multiple ways, including the Christian church and some mysterious associations. Many people think that the letters and arrangement of the slate of represent codes and metaphors.
Therefore, we can speculate that there is a mysterious organization like TENET in the film, which attracts members to join and gives them the ability to control time.
In July last year, a foreign netizen in Estonia released the local filming of "Creed". The crew was down a whole highway, the cars were going backwards, and the people on the bridge were walking forward normally. This undoubtedly reveals a very important clue in the worldview of "Creed": in the same space, the people and things inside can flow in completely opposite timeline sequence, and it has no effect on the people and things around it. The extremely important core concept of
has many manifestations in the trailer released by the film: in the background of the male protagonist, there are both forward and retrograde trains; in the car chase scene, there are both normal black cars and slaves. A white vehicle that was knocked over to resume normal driving, and a black Audi that drove all the way back.
includes both black cars that are driving normally, white vehicles that have been knocked over to return to normal driving, and black Audis
that have turned all the way back. That is to say, the protagonist in "Creed" or some device has the ability to reverse time and space Ability, it allows people or objects to move forward or backward in time, while the world around it remains normal.
Although these descriptions sound like most sci-fi movies exclusive fantasy "big move", the purpose is nothing more than to add more visibility to the film, but director Nolan, who has always been prudent, can never let everyone catch him so easily. Vulnerabilities in logic and knowledge. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he mentioned that this reversal is inspired by real physics and entropy: "This is not a traversal movie. It is about time and the different ways in which time works. reversal refers to matter. The entropy of is reversed, so relative to us, time is going backwards."
04 Did Nolan play with space again? Many fans of
believe that "Creed" not only reverses time and space, but also has a story that travels through time and space. This conjecture comes from the "Maxwell Demon Chart" that appeared in the second trailer of the movie.
appeared in the second trailerThe "Maxwell Demon Chart"
is the hypothetical existence of demon in physics, which can detect and control the movement of molecules. It was introduced by British physicist James Maxwell in 1871 to explain the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics. Contemplated.
In simple terms, an insulated container is divided into two equal grids. In the middle is a small "door" controlled by a "monster". The air molecules in the container will hit the "door" when they make irregular thermal motions. "You can selectively place faster molecules in one grid and slower molecules in another. In this way, one of the cells will have a higher temperature than the other cell, and this temperature difference can be used to drive the heat engine to do work. This is an example of the second type of perpetual motion machine.
Maxwell's demon
"Creed" may use two parallel worlds instead of airtight containers, characters travel through them. Another supporting theory comes from the use of red and blue in the movie. The red and blue colors represent the two gases in Maxwell's experiment. Different colors are used to distinguish which parallel world the protagonists come from.
For example, the actress Elizabeth Debicchi wore two suits, red and blue, in the movie. This may be her from a different world. The actress
wears red and blue suits respectively. This may be from different worlds. The light hitting this machine
is both red and blue, which means this may be a machine connecting two worlds. It's "Maxwell's Demon Gate". Coincidentally, in the film, Debic's son is called Max.
The light hitting this machine is both red and blue.
In May, Nolan also published his film behind-the-scenes book, "The Secrets of Tenet: Inside Christopher Nolan’s Quantum Cold War." Christopher Nolan's Quantum Cold War). Most viewers came into contact with the concept of "quantum" in "Avengers 4" released last year. In order to defeat Thanos, Iron Man adopted Ant-Man's vision to go to the quantum world and change the timeline to stop Thanos. Action.
From this, we have learned a concept, that is: the timeline of the quantum world can be shuttled. (Click to read the speech by Lu Chaoyang, Professor of Shanghai Research Institute of University of Science and Technology of China: "Lu Chaoyang: In the Age of Quantum Information, China Needs to Overtake on Curves | Created") Then, the "Quantum Cold War" in "Creed" will be the same as "Reunion 4" "Does it also involve time travel?
However, in the trailer, the male protagonist denied the concept of time travel proposed by the role played by Robert Pattinson, and in the trailer, the bullet shot by the male protagonist returned to the pistol instead. It can be boldly predicted from the large number of clips in the film that the "creed" of adopts the concept of parallel universes in the quantum world.
05 In addition to playing time and space, what else is Nolan?
talked too much about the content of "Creed" playing time and space, and the exact quality will have to wait until the day of the movie to know. But for Nolan’s die-hard movie fans, their expectations of Nolan are more than just dazzling editing, camera switching and special effects.
Since the first impressive "Shards of Memory", Nolan's films have been impressive with their brain-burning bold plot and clever narrative structure.
"He tried to break time and space and then spliced it again and again, and even boldly explore the level of dreams, which is really refreshing. But to be honest, if you watch too much, you get a little tired. After all, I can guess some of his routines. To me personally In terms of characterization, I hope to see more characterization in his films, that kind of artist’s humanistic care for society and the world.
"A little earlier, his films did a good job in characterization, such as "Inception "The hero's salvation and regret for broken feelings", the touching father-daughter love in " interstellar ", the powerlessness of the characters in "Dunkirk" in the grand historical background...
Judging from the trailer for "Creed", it seems that the characters’ background story and personality shaping will be relatively weak. At present, they seem to be purely showing off their skills. He seems to emphasize the tension and suspense of the tense confrontation of spy films. Maybe Nolan wants HintThe current situation of confrontation between several forces in the world. "This is what a movie fan and an independent director said. In addition to the breathtaking wormhole shots in "Interstellar"
, there are also tearful love between the father and daughter
"Dunkirk". The scene and the little character
are worth mentioning that the script of "Creed" also came from Nolan himself. In the past, Nolan and his brother Jonathan Nolan (the author of the original novel of "Memory Fragment", "Fatal Magic", " "Interstellar" screenwriter, TV series "Suspect Pursuing the Murder," "Western World" screenwriter), co-authored the script.
Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan Nolan
Looking through history, it seems that Nolan himself participated in the script characters There will be some lack of strength and twists in the shaping of the movie. "I hope that he will pay more attention to the shaping of the character's personality, the process of character psychological and emotional changes in the movie. "In addition, in terms of film shooting skills, "Early Nolan was blacker, and the traces of genre films were heavier. In recent years, film techniques have become more mature, and at the same time more commercialized, less exciting and thrilling. "
Before Nolan's rescue work was officially unveiled, we certainly had enough illusions and expectations for this elegant but bold and open-minded British director. You can trust him in the film market. Status and appeal, he can make hungry audiences swarm, "Creed" box office will definitely be a new myth.
But in addition, in this troubled 2020, we need a god As he said, we cried and laughed together, and we followed the people in the movie to feel and grow together.
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