As we all know, domestic special effects have always been a pain in the hearts of China filmmakers. Compared with foreign mature special effects technology, domestic special effects do have a lot of room for improvement, which directly leads to many special effects films being sprayed into slag after being released.
Then why didn't Liu Xinci invite the excellent team from Hollywood? Is it because of patriotism or other external reasons?
When Cameron came to China to promote his new film, he repeatedly hinted that Liu would give him the film rights, and he could make six films. However, Liu did not let go.
Many fans want to know why "Three-body" can't be handed over to mature and advanced Hollywood. Recently, Liu appeared at the Shanghai premiere of Three-body II: Dark Forest, explaining why Three-body II could not be handed over to Hollywood.
Liu said: "The story and background of Hollywood science fiction films can be complicated and tortuous, but the theme can't be complicated, and it must be clear in black and white. However, Three-body violates this fundamental principle.
In fact, what Liu said is very reasonable. Science fiction plays are not just special effects, but the sublimation of the story theme is more important. Most Hollywood blockbusters and superhero movies are in black and white. Justice must overcome darkness, and the outcome must be beautiful.
This principle is not the theme expressed in "Three-body", but Liu obviously punctured some warm dreams that people take for granted in "Three-body". Common sense and logic are either invalid or distorted in Liu's novels. The theme of the three-body story is too diverse and human nature is too complicated. Liu's cold rational description is not as passionate as Hollywood blockbusters! "
Former US President Barack Obama is also a big fan of this novel. He even personally urged the screenwriter to revise it and got the sample in advance. China, Zhou, Lei Jun and others all regard this book as their own enlightenment reading. It is precisely because many things in this book have amazing guiding significance to reality that they will get the support of such bosses.
I can't see the movie version for the time being, but our Science Fiction of Liu has never given up.
We can open it in a more pleasant and simple way—
Authorized by Liu himself, chinese comic's "Liu Science Fiction Comics Series" lasted for four years and invested tens of millions.
Rebuilding China's Science Fiction Literature Classics
More advanced China cultural export.
In order to let more people feel the magnificent universe written by Liu, let science fiction fans see the thrilling "helium flash explosion" and "dimension reduction attack";
The team assembled more than 20 top cartoonists from all over the world, including famous people in chinese comic and internationally renowned cartoonists.
This book is not only a cartoon with superb artistic expression and excellent visual language communication, but also a literary work with great humanistic value, which can convey positive energy and China cultural confidence to readers.
Now, the first wave of comic works is freshly released, and the themes that adults and children like are specially selected, a total of four:
Wandering earth, country teacher, ocean of dreams, round soap bubbles.
Not much to say, now I will give you a wave of spoilers:
On the wandering earth, passing by boiling dark red Jupiter, the earth at this time is like a small blue marble.
The earth engine is called "God's blowtorch", which emits a dazzling huge beam.
Underground cities with a population of more than one million and a depth of 500 meters on all continents used to be like this.
Is the grand scene of Star Wars between carbon-based civilization and silicon-based civilization in Country Teacher what you imagined?
In the ocean of dreams, low-temperature artists who fly from alien civilizations to the earth to make waves are rational and cold.
In "Round Soap Bubbles", there are countless large and small soap bubbles flying from the Indian Ocean, conveying humid air to the northwest.
The author's story is magnificent and touching, which always makes us believe:
No matter how bad the situation is, there will always be a beam of stars shining, which will make everyone yearn for and forge ahead, and encourage us to cheer up and set sail again.
If you are also a big Liu Fan, if you also want to watch the rising China Science Fiction, then this set of comics will never let you down;
It allows you to enter Liu Yuzhou smoothly and indulge in this grand, magnificent, mysterious and dangerous science fiction world.
Why do you want to publish a comic version?
Liu: Images are an excellent expression of science fiction.
Everyone's reading and cognitive level is different, and watching science fiction works will be a little brain-burning.
From the perspective of comic language, if we use accurate pictures to interpret too abstruse words in the original, we can lower the reading threshold and get closer to the artistic conception that the author wants to express.
△ 10 o'clock real shot map
For example, the "Helium Flash Storm" mentioned in The Wandering Earth described the death of the sun in beautiful language just like a textbook. But for the vast majority of readers, there are still some majors.
Let's see how comics are interpreted:
△ The sea ice layer makes an earth-shattering noise; Gradually, the light shining on the ground softened and the sky looked slightly blue.
△ It is no longer the sun, and it no longer emits light and heat. This is the final result of the evolution of small-mass stars ... the sun is dead.
If one day, the sun, which has existed for 5 billion years, really wants to curtain call in the universe, it will probably be so earth-shattering.
This picture is exactly the same as the picture in Liu's mind when he was a guest in Reader on 20 17.
Inspire human compassion
Let the world know about "China science fiction"
There is an obvious "China complex" in Liu's works.
Even if the sun were to devour the earth, some people would not leave by spaceship, but 2500 generations would flee with the earth.
In this regard, The Wandering Earth director Frant Gwo also said:
"Unlike Hollywood-style desertion, China people choose to install engines on the earth and wander around with the earth. This is our deep attachment to our home and land. "
In this series of cartoons, we can use delicate characters to portray China's context and emotions vividly.
Take rural teachers as an example.
This work has a strong sense of conflict, on the one hand, it is a highly developed alien civilization; On the other hand, it is backward and poor villages with high loess slopes.
When the earth was about to be destroyed because of the low level of civilization, the last physics class of the rural teacher inadvertently saved the whole earth.
When describing a small village, the picture is full of China's unique rural customs:
Teachers who are busy cooking, children who are happy to eat, dilapidated classrooms, raised hands, and candlelight. ...
Needless to say, we can cross cultural barriers and convey praise for dedication, knowledge and civilization.
When aliens learned that people on earth "have no memory inheritance", they were very surprised and even said, "This sounds like a myth".
"They have an individual, a certain number, distributed in every corner of this group. This kind of individual acts as a medium for knowledge transfer between two generations of life. "
Human knowledge, culture and tradition are passed down from generation to generation through such inefficient means, and in the long history and culture of China for 5,000 years, teachers' "ancient vocabulary" is particularly precious.
In the last scene of the cartoon, the paper money commemorating Mr. Li is flying in the firelight, and the bright and distant starry sky is overhead. The long river of human history will always remember the name "teacher".
Set "Comic Sky Group"
Full of sincerity to restore words
In order to restore or even sublimate the written content properly, the project team really spent a lot of money this time.
It costs tens of millions, and the invitations include:
Zhang Xiaoyu, an outstanding young cartoonist in China, Thierry Robin, Stefano Raffray, American artist Dan Panossian and more than 20 world-class cartoonists.
Among them, Stefano Laffray, an Italian cartoonist and painter in The Wandering Earth, has participated in the characterization of more than 20 famous cartoons such as Batman and X-Men.
In order not to be influenced by his own creation, Lafley has never seen the film version of The Wandering Earth.
The style of American comics pays attention to the proportion, structure, perspective, light and shadow of the picture, creating a three-dimensional world like a 3D movie.
△ Laffray manuscript
The colors are rich and delicate, and even every structure of the earth engine is vividly portrayed.
The painter of "Country Teacher" is Zhang Xiaoyu, an outstanding figure in China's youth cartoon industry;
He won the Golden Elephant Award in the 38th Chambery International Comic Festival and the Golden Monkey Award in the 10 China International Cartoon & Animation Festival.
He put a lot of effort into every role. It took him a year and a half to draw nearly 100 pages of The Country Teacher.
Those children who live in the countryside, as we imagined, have a slightly dull expression and worn-out clothes, mostly gray colors.
The details are also very careful. For example, an esophageal cancer teacher can only give lessons to children at the bedside in the late stage, holding a bloody spittoon in his hand.
"Comic gods" strive for perfection, so that this set of books not only perfectly restores Liu's words, but also gives big readers and small readers an education about life and beauty with intuitive pictures.
△ Selected from Sea of Dreams: "Masterpiece" of Low Temperature Artists
There are many "golden sentences" full of humanistic care in the book:
"We must have hope, because we want to be a noble person."
"Who knows, maybe my life is a joke. It is also a mission for a person to joke all his life. "
In order to pursue the best printing effect, this book is printed by Leo Paper, a European printing company that has won many international printing awards and Disney certification.
All the paintings are printed in Europe, and after four color corrections, they are only presented for the pursuit of perfect colors.
There are also many hidden folding pages, which give you a shocking visual experience.
Why should we read science fiction?
In Liu's view, science fiction is a way to know the world, not a writing technique. Good science fiction describes the craziest fantasy as a news report.
Therefore, the significance of science fiction is not to explain science, but to lead to philosophy, not to predict the future, but to teach people to reflect.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a pioneer in Soviet space, said that the earth is the cradle of human beings, but human beings cannot live in the cradle forever.
Through science fiction, we are finally lucky enough to go to the world behind the cradle and have a glimpse.