"Wandering Earth", how to create the best model

The picture is a poster of the film Wandering Earth.

The picture is a poster of the film Wandering Earth.

The picture is a poster of the film Wandering Earth.

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Wandering Earth is not only a milestone of Chinese science fiction film, but also a successful artistic practice of Chinese film from plateau to peak, which fully reflects the cultural confidence of Chinese film.

Since the film Wandering Earth, directed by Guo Fan and adapted from the novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, was released on the first day of the New Year this year, as of February 20, the domestic box office has exceeded 4 billion yuan, the number of people watching the film has exceeded 85 million, and the overseas box office has exceeded 5 million dollars, setting the best overseas performance of Chinese film in the past five years. The film has become a phenomenal blockbuster in the Chinese film market and the history of Chinese science fiction films.

On February 20, the "Wandering Earth" seminar hosted by the National Film Administration was held in Beijing. At the meeting, experts unanimously agreed that the success of Wandering Earth is the great achievement of the main creators' painstaking creation and pursuit of excellence. It is not only a milestone of Chinese science fiction films, but also a successful artistic practice of Chinese films from plateau to peak, which fully reflects the cultural confidence of Chinese films.

Celebrate family and country feelings and promote Chinese values

The film Wandering Earth envisions that the sun will one day have a catastrophe and burn the earth. In order to escape this disaster, people will put the earth on the engine and turn it into a spaceship to leave the solar system. In the core of this story, human beings did not flee the earth like Hollywood science fiction movies, but chose to take their homes and the earth to wander.

Wang Xiaohui, executive vice minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and director of the National Film Administration, believes that the Chinese core values promoted by Wandering Earth well meet the aesthetic needs of the audience. The success of the film first benefits from the value benchmark it sets and the moral commanding heights it occupies, showing cultural elements different from those in the West. "Family and country feelings are the constant gene and background of the Chinese nation, and also the softest feelings in the heart of every Chinese person. Only by singing the spirit of the times, eulogizing the family and country feelings, and reaching deep into the heart of today's film works, can they have a positive interaction with the audience, so as to promote the development of China's film industry." He pointed out that family is a positive and constructive social force, Wandering Earth not only brings about changes in time and space, but also new values and a new understanding of people.

Meng Hua, deputy director of the Press and Publicity Office of the Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, said that words such as "heroes", "science fiction" and "saving the earth" have been flooding Hollywood blockbusters for a long time, while "Wandering Earth" tells a story with Chinese cultural characteristics, and it is of practical significance to think about the future destiny of the earth in a proactive manner, The plan for a hundred generations of people to wander around the earth reflects the indomitable spirit that the Chinese people have advocated since ancient times.

"The film broke away from the escape from the earth paradigm dominated by American science fiction, and created a new wandering earth paradigm, reflecting the deep feelings for the earth home. This paradigm can be said to be rooted in the deep layer of the Chinese national cultural tradition, inheriting the tradition of defending their own homes represented by the myths of Yugong moving mountains, Jingwei reclaiming the sea, and embodying a unique imagination and solution of the Chinese cultural tradition to the future world science fiction proposition. " Wang Yichuan, Dean of the School of Arts of Peking University, said.

Publicize a community with a shared future for mankind and reflect the responsibility of a major country

Different from the individual heroism advocated in Hollywood science fiction movies, in Wandering the Earth, in the face of the disaster that the earth is about to face, mankind has established a coalition government, and all mankind, represented by the Chinese people, unite to seek solutions and resist the occurrence of disasters. Experts believe that through this bold idea, the film promotes the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and provides a Chinese solution to the problems of all mankind.

La Peikang, one of the producers of Wandering Earth and chairman of China Film Corporation, said that Wandering Earth was the first time for audiences to see on the big screen that in the face of a huge disaster, all mankind, represented by the Chinese people, saved the earth together, greatly improving the self-confidence, pride and patriotism of the Chinese people. "The film has strengthened the Chinese people's' cultural confidence '. China's ability to produce Wandering Earth is the inevitable result of reform and opening up, economic development, and national strength improvement."

"The film reflects China's great country style and lofty feelings", said Hu Zhifeng, dean of the School of Arts and Media of Beijing Normal University, The "China Plan" of wandering together with the earth advocates equality and harmony among all nations, and is deeply attached to the earth, the common home of mankind. This is a profound accumulation rooted in the excellent traditional culture of China, and at the same time, it has absorbed rich and colorful achievements of modern civilization, which is also the 40 years of reform and opening up in China, In particular, the rapid development in recent years has cast a vivid reflection of high cultural consciousness and cultural self-confidence.

Han Song, a science fiction writer and deputy director of the Xinhua News Agency's external news editorial department, said that after a country grows into an economic power, its strength must be reflected in culture and technology. Imagination is an important element of the strength of a big country. Wandering Earth shows China's strength accumulated in recent years. "From the very beginning, the film considered the dialogue between China and the world. It not only conveys China's traditional cultural concepts, but also reflects the common values of mankind. Science fiction films will certainly be an important platform for China to spread cultural soft power," said Han Song.

"Wandering Earth has changed the concept of time and space in Chinese films, turning Chinese people from a 'backward looking' journey into a 'forward looking' imagination." Yin Hong, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University, believes that the film has greatly broadened the concept of time and space in Chinese films from time to the future and from space to space, It not only reflects the major changes of Chinese films towards the future, but also reflects the great power style, spirit and strength of Chinese films in the new era.

Promote the new exploration of Chinese film typology and industrialization

As a science fiction film, Wandering Earth is also a new exploration and practice of Chinese film in the dimensions of typological narration and industrialization level, showing the courage of Chinese filmmakers to dare to practice. The film not only takes root in local characteristics, but also explores the mysteries of space. It has a strong sense of the times, bold imagination, dazzling and shocking audio-visual effects, refreshing the audience, and reflecting the achievements of the film industry and film technology innovation in recent years.

In recent years, China's film market has developed rapidly. In 2018, the national film box office exceeded 60 billion yuan, ranking the second largest film market in the world. The total number of screens exceeded 60000, making China the country with the largest number of screens in the world. The huge film market needs to be filled with films with rich and diverse themes. In the past many years, due to technical and narrative deficiencies, science fiction films have always been the soft spot of Chinese films. With the appearance of Wandering Earth, people call it China's first hard science fiction film, which also indicates that the creation of Chinese science fiction films has taken a big step forward.

"After watching Wandering Earth, I was shocked. It not only opened the first year of Chinese science fiction films, but also made a big step forward in the industrialization of Chinese films." said Han Yan, a young director who had shot Animal World and Tumour King, "As a director, I clearly know how difficult this step is. It is not a Hollywood blockbuster with a huge amount of money. Behind it is a director's cautious and cautious attempt and cultivation." He believes that the experience gained by the production team of Wandering Earth will help future sci-fi film creators avoid many detours, Let them have more energy to make new breakthroughs.

Guo Fan, the director of Wandering Earth, believes that science and technology and science fiction are twin flowers under the scientific system. Science fiction films plant the seeds of science fiction and science in people's minds, and the development of science fiction films cannot be separated from the development of science and technology.

In this regard, Meng Hua especially said that 2018 is the "big year" of China's space program. After 15 years of struggle, China's lunar exploration program has been at the forefront of the contemporary world's space and lunar exploration field. At a time when China's hard power in aerospace science and technology has made a major historic breakthrough, the science fiction blockbuster Wandering the Earth, which reflects the country's soft power, was released, making the scenes inside the play and the reality outside the play complement each other, further arousing the public's attention and strong interest in aerospace and the future, and also triggering new expectations for Chinese science fiction movies.

Liu Cixin, the author of the novel Wandering Earth, said that the development of the country has provided fertile soil for the development of science fiction films. There is reason to believe that with the development of Chinese science and technology, the upgrading of the film industry, and the enhancement of the comprehensive national strength, there will be more and better science fiction films to meet the audience.

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