Cover News Reporter Xu Yuyang
When talking about science fiction, I have to mention "The Wandering Earth", which realizes China's science fiction dream, brings us too much expectation and fantasy, and at the same time produces different sounds. At the opening ceremony of the Fifth International Science Fiction Conference held in Chengdu on the morning of November 22, the forum of "From Type to Light and Shadow: The Road to Science Fiction Films in China" invited Liu Cixin, the original author of "The Wandering Earth" and Hugo Award winner, Share his insights on the adaptation of science fiction movies.
"This year is the happiest Spring Festival I have had"
Liu Cixin said that he was very satisfied with the adaptation of "Wandering Earth" and greatly exceeded expectations. In his opinion, this kind of film can only be presented in five to ten years, but he did not expect it to appear so soon. "So this year is my happiest and best Spring Festival." The reasonable configuration of
science fiction movies should be part of it. Part of the adaptation of IP is original, and more may be original. Liu Cixin believes that most of the current domestic IP adaptations may reflect a shortage of original science fiction.
"The original authors of movies who are satisfied with the audience are usually not satisfied."
Liu Cixin said that novels and movies are completely different forms, and the restrictions on movies are beyond the imagination of writers, especially high-cost movies. The audience is different.
"Science fiction may only be for science fiction fans, and science fiction movies must be for all audiences. Therefore, it is particularly difficult for a novel originally written for science fiction fans to become a movie that all audiences like."
adaptation. "Before, the creative team asked me whether I was satisfied or not with the movie. I think it doesn't matter whether I am satisfied or not, but whether the audience is satisfied or not. But generally speaking, our original authors who are satisfied with the audience are not satisfied, but this is not important. "The soft and hard of
science fiction lies in the way of thinking, not scientific knowledge.
movies are full of flowers, and all types of science fiction films should exist. Liu Cixin believes that we currently have a misunderstanding about the soft and hard of sci-fi. Many people think that full of scientific knowledge is hard sci-fi. "But the soft and hard of sci-fi lies in the way of thinking rather than the amount of scientific knowledge. For example, Inception, it is nothing. Scientific knowledge, but it is hard science fiction." He said that some sci-fi movies supported by scientific knowledge, as long as they are made well, will definitely be welcomed. To shorten the gap between
and the Chinese Surgical Fantasy lies in the establishment of a perfect system
. At the same time, Liu Cixin mentioned a point that no one has paid attention to. Hollywood movies dare not use too new ideas. They strictly screen the previous ideas and they are all old-fashioned. Very old-fashioned, it is a large number of science fiction novels that prove that the audience can accept creativity. "At the time, "The Wandering Earth" my biggest worry was that it used a rare idea in science fiction and used the earth as a launcher. This would never be adopted in high-cost Hollywood movies. It was too risky. Of course, it proved that the result was very good. "
In Liu Cixin's view, the gap between us and Hollywood lies in the number of gaps. Whether it is science fiction or movies, high-quality movies cannot be produced with just a few works. "Hollywood has a mature production and system, and we must also establish a sound industrial system to mass-produce science fiction films and novels, so as to make Chinese science fiction films better."
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