Chinese-style sci-fi film and television: both soft power and hard technology
2023-02-15
In the history of Chinese film and television, science fiction creation has been advancing in exploration. In particular, the 2019 Spring Festival film "Wandering Earth" came out in the form of a hard science fiction film, stimulating the public's imagination of the sea of stars, and prompting film and television people to expand new areas of practice and development ideas. During the Spring Festival in 2023, the director Guo Fan returned with "Wandering Earth 2", offering nearly three hours of shocking audio-visual experience to the audience, triggering public debate and winning more than 3 billion yuan at the box office. At the same time, the animated version, the TV drama version of "Three Bodies", and the animated film "Bears Appear and Appear with Me" Bear Heart "have been shown one after another, and the audience has also been introduced to a strange and splendid place with scientific technology and artistic imagination. From obscurity to fame, China's science fiction film and television has gone through several years of key development period, whether in the exploration of narrative level, the treatment of typology, or the innovation of technology and the excavation of the ideological core, have leaped to a new height. The "future" has come. If the Chinese sci-fi film and television creation was "an undefined X", now it presents a Chinese-style pattern that can be defined and has more possibilities, which not only injects vitality into the vigorous development of sci-fi culture, but also opens up broader imagination space for the Chinese film and television industry. The stills of the TV series Three Body. Information picture poster of the movie "Bears Appear and Appear with Me" Bear Heart ". The data picture work matrix explores the possibility of the fusion of science fiction culture and film and television art from multiple perspectives. The accelerated development of science fiction themes began in 2019. The films "Wandering Earth" and "Crazy Aliens" were released at the same time, setting off a science fiction boom. Both films are adapted from Liu Cixin's works, and their debut together is quite symbolic. Their box office victory marks the arrival of a new era of science fiction films. In particular, the phenomenal market performance of Wandering Earth shows the charm of science fiction images from multiple dimensions such as industry and culture. The basic configuration of science fiction film and television is technology and imagination. Before "Wandering Earth", Chinese science fiction films and television usually adopted a soft science fiction strategy, incorporating the vision of the future in daily life, and creating wonderful dramatic conflicts through some slight "impact" on real life. "Wandering Earth" builds a vast science fiction world with the visual wonders of heavy industry and the cold core of science fiction, and opens up a new path for the development of science fiction literature and art with the proud attitude of hard science fiction. With the rise of science fiction films, relevant policies have provided important assistance and scientific reference for promoting the rapid development of science fiction films. In August 2020, the State Film Administration and the China Association for Science and Technology issued the Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of Science Fiction Films, putting forward ten policy measures to strengthen support and guidance for the creation and production of science fiction films, distribution and screening, and special effects technology. Relying on policy support, science fiction film and television set off a creative upsurge, embracing the future with a more diversified and open attitude. "Mozart in Outer Space" and "Alone on the Moon" have opened up the traditional thinking of local soft science fiction, superposed with comedy, parent-child and other types, and effectively combined the vivid shock of science fiction scenes with the laughable burden of laughter and sincere and moving emotional interaction, making a beneficial exploration for soft science fiction creation. In addition to the "Wandering Earth" series, China's first mecha film "Tomorrow's War", as well as the TV series and animated version of "Three
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