On March 21, Netflix released all eight episodes of the first season of the British-American co-production " Three-Body Problem ", which basically covers the plot of the famous Chinese science fiction novel "Three-Body Problem 1" and also mentions "Three-Body Problem 2" a small part of.
In fact, when everyone saw the casting, they understood that expectations should not be too high:
First of all, in this Western version of The Three-Body Problem, the villains and negative characters are all Chinese, while the positive characters are basically changed to British and American people.
Secondly, some of the trailers, trailers and stills involve China, but they don’t look like they were shot.
At that time, many people thought that the special effects of the Western version of Three-Body Problem would be better!
Moreover, the West is very experienced in making gunfight movies, police and gangster movies, and war movies.
As a result, Netflix filmed Operation Guzheng. When netizens saw it: That’s it? That's it? That's it?
What is Operation Guzheng?
is an action by the traitor "Earth Trisolaran Organization" (eto) in which humans around the world unite to deal with the traitors who surrendered to the Trisolarans in "Three-Body". The goal is to pass by Eto's "Judgment Day" ship. During the Panama Canal, advanced nanomaterial "flying blades" developed by scientists were used to form a "zither" to "slice" the ship and take the opportunity to seize the alien information held by ETO.
According to the setting of the original work, this action is related to the fate of mankind around the world, so it is normal to ambush an army near the action site, right?
Aid also mentioned that after the "Guzheng" cut the ship into pieces, a large number of troops came out of the ambush and surrounded the ship.
So how did Netflix film Operation Guzheng?
First of all, the operations headquarters has been changed. It was originally a force united by the whole world. Scientist Wang Miao just came to observe the actual application effect of the "Flying Blade" he took the lead in developing.
Netflix is better, there is no global alliance, the West’s own “Black Palace” has been responsible from beginning to end, and only the commander of the “Black Palace” directs the actions, there is no staff officer, only the Netflix demon has changed his personality, gender and Several scientists in the character design plus were changed to with the help of Zhang Beihai, an Indian.
So, we don’t want professional people to do professional things?
Are scientists coming to participate in directing special operations operations?
Do scientists understand military affairs?
Do scientists understand special operations?
The most important point is that scientists have not received professional military training, nor have they witnessed the cruelty of special warfare and combat operations.
So in the Tencent version, Wang Miao's reaction of observing the action process nervously and with some fear is a reasonable reaction.
In the Netflix version, when a group of scientists observed the action process, they were simply calm and calm. Is this the reaction they should have? There is also a dialogue in the original work of
, in which the US military colonel who commanded the scene told the scientist Wang Miao the story of the US military's invasion of Barnabas in 1989.
Netflix version has all been deleted.
Do you think this is because Americans have no confidence at all now? It's possible with
.
But even so, you Netflix can't change it to a conversation like this:
Indian version Beihai asked Wang Miao, who changed his gender to a woman, in a flat tone, if "Flying Blade" is useless?
Wang Miao said, it will definitely work!
What's the point of this conversation?
If the setting of the Netflix version is worried that the "Flying Blade" will fail, why is there no backup plan?
And this scene is very simple, the layout is similar to the security monitoring center of an office building.
Looking back at the Tencent version, various communication equipment, information combat equipment, as well as command staff, sentry guards, and a large number of troops are deployed. This is the attitude of fighting for global security!
Let’s look at the “Guzheng” cutting scene again:
The novel writes that the people on the deck were cut into several pieces unexpectedly, and the same was true for the members of the Trisolaran organization inside the ship.
Their leader Evans realized all this too late. Finally, the military police followed the direction of his eyes and discovered the hard drive storing Trisolaran information.
restored the data smoothly because the cut of the "flying blade" was very smooth.
Then the Netflix version of Three-Body Problem is very baffling.
After the people on the deck are cut, what is the rest of the plot?
The people on the boat immediately realized that a disaster was coming, and then began to scream and run away. This section takes up a lot of space.
Among the escaped Trisolaran members, there are two major events:
1. Evans's escape
Evans ran around with the hard drive, but in the end he couldn't escape and was cut by the "flying blade" while holding the hard drive.
May I ask why the military police in the original novel were racking their brains to think of how to act quickly? Aren't you afraid that if the operation takes too long, people from the Trisolaran organization will take the opportunity to destroy the data?
According to the plot of Netflix's Three-Body Problem, Evans would have smashed ten or eight hard drives in no time, right?
2. The death of children in the Trisomy organization
Of course, Western laws do not seem to allow them to directly show the tragic death of children in movies and TV dramas.
I carefully recalled the original work, and it seems that the original author of did not mention that there were a large number of children on the ship?
However, the Netflix crew seems to have a special interest in the tragic deaths of children. They arranged a large group of children on the ship out of thin air. These children kept screaming and running away after realizing that the helicopter was being cut by "flying blades".
Then there is a long shot, shows a large row of children's schoolbags being neatly cut, what is the metaphor of ?
I didn’t expect you to be like Netflix.
The final scene of the ship being cut up is also very speechless. The special effects of
are too perfunctory, giving people the feeling of computer special effects from 10 years ago.
What is even more puzzling is that after the cutting, the ship burst into flames.
After all, "Flying Blade" is fictitious. If the ship was really sliced into pieces, we don't know whether it would cause a fire.
But are you too perfunctory with your firefighting helicopters? Just two of them flew in, then sprinkled some water, and then they were gone. No...
Where is the ambush army? What about the fire brigade?
Isn’t that too perfunctory?
Can’t afford extra actors?
It is said that the production cost of one episode of the Netflix version can exceed the total cost of the Tencent version.
So where did the money for special effects go?
Is there no money left for extras?
In general, for such a big scene as "Operation Guzheng" in Netflix's Three-Body Problem, the script cleverly deleted some plots in the original work, including all the well-trained military and police teams in the original work.
Where is the Western film and television industry that has produced many classic war action films?
According to online reports, Netflix's version of The Three-Body Problem is one of their most expensive film and television dramas to produce, with a total shooting cost of US$160 million, or 1.15 billion yuan, and an average of US$20 million per episode, or 144 million yuan.
From this point of view, I can only wish the executives of Netflix, as well as the writers, directors, producers, and others of the Netflix Three-Body crew, a happy harvest.
