Chapter 194 On the Relationship Between Social Change and Science Fiction Films

"I've read the entire script. Your imagination is really rich. All the filling details are hard for ordinary directors to think of, such as this paragraph."

Alice turned to a certain page of the script. It was a line in which a soldier in the armored vehicle inside showed off his equipment to Ripley, who was the "Alien Consultant", when the transport plane was flying towards the surface of the asteroid.

["Don't worry, Ripley, we will all protect you."

The transport plane was trembling during the landing process, but this kid walked up and down the cabin excitedly, showing off the "sci-fi" equipment of these interstellar marines in a tone as if he was on drugs.

"This is an independent aiming particle gun system... Wow, it's guaranteed to burn the alien into coke!"

With a disgusting expression on his face, he swayed in the cabin like he was twisting his waist, not afraid of falling: "We still have missile systems, the most advanced space weapons, and ultrasonic electron guns. ! We also have nuclear weapons, and very sharp blades..."]

Alice spread out such a script line in front of everyone: "Cameron, what is your purpose for writing this line?"

Cameron did not doubt that he had him, and smiled proudly: "Of course it is to show the audience the weapons of the star era. You have also seen that particle guns and ultrasonic electron guns are standard sci-fi equipment, and I I also specifically mentioned nuclear weapons. Is there anything more cool than a ten-member marine squad that can use nuclear weapons?"

"Of course there is."

Unexpectedly, after Cameron proudly finished talking about his ideas, Alice looked at him innocently, and started talking along the lines: "For example, Gauss series light weapons, high-energy flame guns, strong Fusion plasma grenades, force field shields, shield chargers, orbital airdrops, interstellar armor, phase transfer arrays, aren’t these all more cool settings?”

Such a long series of words was said by Alice as if playing.

Then, it was the moment of silence for all the men, women and children in the house.

To be honest, many professional terms in English require special memorization to understand the meaning. The so-called college students can't understand the words and sentences of financial newspapers. This kind of joke in China is a real thing in English-speaking countries.

However, the words Alice used above were not enough to be completely incomprehensible to everyone who is both good at character and learning.

"You, you, you... wait a minute, let me be quiet, let me be quiet."

Cameron was a little messy: "What electromagnetic... er... force field shield, and... er... Star Wars... Alice, can you say those things again?"

Alice easily repeated the above term, and then added: "Actually, I know that it would be very difficult to make these settings with the current shooting technology. But to be honest, if it is really an army in the interstellar age, this This technological configuration is normal."

Having said that, everyone has long been shocked by the series of sci-fi settings that Alice easily spit out. To be reasonable, as a middle school student who is both famous and good at learning, both Qian Qian and Maiya have also paid attention to some things about technological development. And after Alice decided to shoot "Alien 2" and revealed the outline of the plot, who hasn't obsessed with the equipment of future soldiers?

"It's too exaggerated..."

Sissy groaned weakly and groaned: "I don't understand the meaning of several of these things you said, Cameron, can you make that... what transfer teleportation array?"

"Phase shift..."

After all, Lawrence, who is an investment professional, has the highest education and the most cultured. He said thoughtfully, "Alice, do you mean space teleportation?"

"Actually, this involves an old-fashioned problem."

Seeing that the topic is inevitably going in the direction of technology geeks, Alice is also happy to show off the science fiction view of the 21st century to everyone: "For civilizations that can really enter the interstellar age, even from the perspective of soft science fiction and movies Think about it, what technology should it have?"

The scope of the question is vast, but Cameron's eyes light up like light bulbs. You know, he was originally a mechanical fanatic with the highest priority on technology. He had just heard Alice say such a series of settings that he didn't understand, and then he was going to have a science fiction fantasy tea party.

"Travel faster than the speed of light, this is a must!"

"Then what kind of energy does this FTL engine use?"

Alice's rhetorical question caused Cameron's blurted words to stop immediately.

Maiya pondered and said, "Fusion energy?"

Obviously, everyone knows that fission is impossible, so they just skipped it.

"Or condensation nuclear fusion, annihilation of positive and negative matter, and zero point energy in the void, all of these are fine."

Saying three more unclear words in one breath, Alice smiled and said: "Then the question is, as a civilization that matures to use a certain kind of energy, what is it like in its entirety and in all its aspects?"

Speaking of this, everyone can see that Alice really deserves to be the author of "Jurassic Park". This imagination of science fiction definitely exceeds 99% of ordinary people in the world!

Cameron was the one who guessed the most positively: "I understand what you mean, Alice. Just like our current society, the steam revolution and the electrical revolution have brought a geometric multiple increase in social productivity. Just a steam The productivity of the revolution in a hundred years is equal to the sum of thousands of years of farming, and the productivity of the shorter electric revolution is many times that of the steam revolution in a hundred years. And now..."

"Take a good historical look at the present..."

Alice said with a smile: "Our current energy is still the same. Although we have built nuclear power plants, we are still an electric society. The difference lies in the invention of computers."

This is Alice's old business. Cameron seemed to suddenly think of something, and clapped his hands vigorously: "Yes! Look at the current stock price of Microsoft! That one hundred thousand dollars investment is definitely something I have done in my life The wisest decision has been made!"

Alice resolutely avoids the wrong story: "Because of the electrical revolution, computers were produced, and on the basis of the electrical revolution, the upcoming ... information revolution is extended."

Anyway, everyone present is his own people. As a director, Cameron will only be more inspired when he hears it. Alice continued without any worries: "Let's take the state of the global Internet that will definitely come, AD Can it be completed in 2000? From 2000 to the beginning of the electrical revolution, will there be 150 years?"

"The application of electricity has changed the overall state of society from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. What kind of concept is this? To put it bluntly, when Edison invented the electric light, he could imagine that electricity would bring Come to a product like a computer?"

"Then the question is, when human beings can enter the interstellar like in "Alien", what should all aspects of the entire society be like?"

Seeing Cameron's pensive look, Alice said persistently: "There is a saying that nothing is impossible, only unexpected, but for sci-fi movies, there are both unexpected and impossible. One is the People in the 'backward' society must not be able to fully and correctly conceive all aspects of the future society, one is... well, the shooting technology is not enough~"

The last sentence made everyone laugh, and after listening to Alice's long speech, Maiya was fine, but Sissy already yawned: "Just say you want to change the script, it's fine again. All kinds of messy technologies, what kind of social revolution, what are you doing so far?"

That's right, after everyone's topic accidentally turned a lot, Sissy brought it back with a single word.

"If the script is changed..."

Cameron flipped through the results of his hard work for half a month: "I wrote this one myself, and I am sure I can shoot it. Then, Alice, where is your script? It doesn't mean that this movie is going to be yours." Writer?"

Alice rubbed her nose: "Isn't what you wrote just the idea and outline I gave? It's just that some details can be revised, after all, we want to reflect that it is a future world. According to the description in your script, It seems that the soldiers are just wearing ordinary marine uniforms?"

Cameron knew that she must have the next sentence: "Yes, but in this kind of place, is there anything you can change?"

Alice shrugged her shoulders easily: "I just said, interstellar armor, or exoskeleton armor is fine, no matter how bad it is, it must be dressed as the Stormtrooper in "Star Wars". Since they are all called marines, why not?" Can you have some good equipment?"

"It's easy to say."

After watching everyone discuss for a long time, Lawrence interrupted again: "The question is, if you want to make this movie very...realistic, how much budget do you need?"

"Yeah, that's a big problem!"

Sissy also interjected, "The price of Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic is not cheap."

This time, Alice didn't have instant questions and answers. She parted her legs, lowered her head, and began to think hard.

"Alien 2" ah...

This movie in history, as a product in 1986, is considered very good.

Although under the urging of Fox at the time, the shooting period was only about 21 days, but in such a short period of time, Cameron was able to shoot it so wonderfully, what if it took 42 days? 63 days?

Moreover, this is "Alien 2"...

The marines are fighting the alien head-on on the planet, which is also unique in all the movies in the entire Alien series.

Such a movie is in my hands, how can I not make it so exciting?

Then what should be done?

Alice just thought about it silently for five minutes. During this period, everyone tactfully did not disturb her, and it happened that they all said they were tired, so everyone took a rest on the spot.

After a while, Alice raised her head.

"Maiya, the driver is driving, let's go somewhere!"