Chapter 1456

Star Trek!

Listening carefully to Andy's explanation of the whole story, combined with the fit of time, Langley immediately deduced the whole picture of the "Christopher Nolan" project.

"Star Trek", officially released in 2014, is a science fiction work created by Christopher after he finished shooting the "Batman" trilogy. If "gravity" is about philosophical reflection on the origin of life in the universe and space, So "interstellar crossing" is about the vastness of time and the vastness of human emotion in the vast universe.

The film tells about the near future, the earth environment is becoming more and more bad, human almost can not survive, but at the same time, human still did not give up the plan to find a suitable planet in outer space.

Cooper is a retired astronaut, married and had children, living a quiet and peaceful life on the farm; And then, under the professor's strong persuasion, he chose to rejoin the crew of astronauts and go to outer space to explore three potential planets suitable for human survival.

In the process of shuttling between the stars and the Milky way, they feel that one hour is equal to seven years of vicissitudes, and the dislocation force of time completely breaks out. When they return again, the world is completely different: the father is still young, but the child is old, and the class relationship defined by human society has reversed. How should they get along with each other?

In short, the story under the shell of sci-fi exploration, in the final analysis, is a grand motif about time and emotion, human nature and the universe——

The emotional fetters between Cooper, his son and daughter burst out in the vast universe, and then reflected the magnificence and insignificance of life, time and space dimensions. Especially after stripping the shackles brought by the fixed order of age and appearance, Cooper returned to the purest emotional communication in the soul, which also revealed a lingering loneliness.

Human beings come and leave alone. Is it true that everyone is lonely after all?

The movie does not give the answer, but leaves the audience to savor. Undoubtedly, this is a bold attempt by Christopher Nolan to use the emotional fetters in "Inception" as a branch line and the main line of "interstellar crossing" to tell stories, and to re-establish himself on the most fundamental and essential feelings of human beings from the dimensions and heights of science fiction and the universe.

Is this Christopher's best work?

Obviously not.

After the release of the film, it caused many disputes. Many people began to question the rationality of the theoretical basis of the film. They thought that there were many flaws and loopholes in the second half of the story. Then they began to attack the whole framework and idea of the film with theoretical knowledge, and even denounced the idea of the film as absurd.

But in fact, all the theories of the whole film, including the theory of story plot and the theory of computer special effects, are derived from the deduction and calculation of Kip Thorne. In other words, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics has personally calculated the direction of each story and the changes of each picture, and has had in-depth discussions with his colleagues, Finally, it presents the finished product that the audience sees on the big screen.

Opinionated make complaints about science. But there is no doubt that the film represents a theoretical branch of the current research results. It is beyond doubt that all theories are worthy of scrutiny and trial. It's just a joke.

Despite these controversies, the film's reputation has not been able to surpass that of "Dark Knight", "Inception" and other works, or even slightly inferior to that of "Dunkirk". The media's comprehensive evaluation is 74 points, the fresh index of rotten tomatoes is 71%, with an average of 7 points, the popcorn index is 85%, and the cinema score is B +.

However, it is worth mentioning that "Star Trek" is still popular among IMDB's senior fans. With a high score of 8.6, it has successfully ranked in the top 30 of the 250 classic list in film history, and has become Christopher Nolan's third leading work among the top 30.

Just from the score, we can see that this is not a work with strong box office appeal.

In the end, the global box office figures prove it.

The box office in North America is 188 million. Compared with several previous works by Christopher, "Star Trek" has not even crossed the threshold of 200 million, which is a disappointing achievement; The global box office is 677 million, and the excellent performance of overseas market shows Christopher's rare appeal.

However, compared with the production cost of 165 million yuan and the global publicity cost of more than 30 million yuan, the income and expenditure account of the film can only be regarded as a small profit, less than 40 million dollars. Although it avoids the tragedy of losing money, it is far from satisfactory.

But objectively speaking, this is a work that Langley likes very much. It can be ranked fourth or fifth in Christopher's directing works, which is even more popular than "memory fragments" and "fatal magic", because Langley thinks that this is an exploration and challenge for Christopher on the way of directing.

Before that, Christopher was an expert in playing with forms. Apart from the works of "following", "memory fragments" and "Inception", the fragmented editing in the "Batman" trilogy is also impressive. Through the sharp sense of lens and editing, the weakness of the script and the thinness of the role are weakened to a certain extent, Magnify the shock of visual effect and narrative suspense itself.

The reason why "Dark Knight", the only exception, can be regarded as a classic in film history, is that Batman, clown and double faced man make their own choices and decisions between justice and evil, and "escape from the light to the dark, but to better protect the light", The charm of this kind of philosophical reflection is incomparable.

"Star Trek" and "Dark Knight" have something in common, and Christopher goes a step further, making the lens and editing, special effects and pictures all serve for emotion, striving to create a sense of contrast between the magnificence of time and the smallness of human beings, and finally settling in human beings themselves.

This is an important exploration and attempt for Christopher. On the way of the director's growth, he is getting rid of the shackles of structure and technology. Instead, he is making structure and technology serve the plot. After "Star Trek", Christopher filmed "Dunkirk" again. Obviously, he has made progress again and is moving towards the direction of the master step by step.

At the same time, it's also one of Christopher's most actor dependent works.

In the last life, "Star Trek" was full of stars. Annie Hathaway, Jessica chastan, Michael Caine, Cathy Affleck, Matt Damon and so on, no matter how important the characters were, they all gladly accepted Christopher's invitation to play in this work.

The hero is Matthew McConnell.

Matthew, who used to be a famous Hollywood vase, has always acted as a prodigal son in romantic comedies. His stereotyped image has never changed, and his glib and playful way of acting is constantly self repeating. He is the type of actor most hated and rejected by the Academy, just like Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart is just like the idols.

However, after years of ups and downs in Hollywood, there was no invitation for any work for almost two years. Matthew finally learned from the experience and completed the transformation. In 2012, he ushered in a comprehensive transformation of acting skills. His outstanding performance can be seen in the "sludge", "Newsboy" and "magic Mike", And peaked in the Dallas buyers club in 2013.

If the track of history is consistent, Matthew won the Oscar nomination in February 2014 with the Dallas buyer's club, which is his only Oscar nomination.

Then, the 2014 TV series "zhentan" let people witness his superb performance again.

It's no exaggeration to say that 2012-2014 is the heyday of Matthew's acting skills. During this period, his performance has a strong power burst out from the inside out, which is really impressive.

After that, he gradually fell into the routine, unable to break through and surpass himself; And under the influence of the curse of the little golden man, it seems a little confused to choose works. Until the rebirth of lanli, he has not been able to play in any works worth mentioning again.

"Star Trek" was released in 2014.

According to the truth, this should be Matthew's peak period, and the performance is naturally worthy of affirmation and expectation; But the actual situation needs to be seen in two.

From a positive point of view, Matthew's performance is still delicate and vivid, especially the helplessness and bitterness of several scenes in the tunnel of time and space. Matthew's eyes show incisively and vividly, which makes people see the style of the film king and deserves applause; But from a negative point of view, Matthew's performance does not match the keynote of the whole film.

Strictly speaking, Matthew is not a method school acting, but a performance school acting. His performance has a track to follow. Words and small movements are his way of performance, such as chewing gum with his mouth, unconsciously manipulating small objects with his hands, flickering between bright and dark eyes, especially when he speaks. These details are the focus of the role——

Through the performance school acting skills carefully set the details of the focus.

This way of performance is undoubtedly successful without any problems; The problem lies in the overall style of the movie "Star Trek", which is magnificent and majestic. Matthew's detailed actions are too many, which are superfluous and cumbersome, destroying the integrity of the whole lens. However, if those "superfluous" actions are stripped off, the emotional rendering of the performance will not be enough to achieve Christopher's original intention.

Matthew is really excellent, but in lanli's view, this is a failed casting.