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What is the movie Coming? According to the nebula award and Hugo award winner, China science fiction writer Ted? Jiang's short story "The Story of Your Life" is adapted and tells the story of an alien spaceship coming to the earth. Amy. Adams plays a linguist who is employed by the government to communicate with aliens and understand the purpose of their visit. However, when using alien languages? Seven-limb bucket? When communicating with these visitors, her whole life, from birth to death, known or unknown, suddenly appeared before her eyes. Jeremy. Reina will play a physics professor employed by the government with Adams as a linguist.
Introduction to the film "arrival" Director: Dennis? Villeneuve
Screenwriter: Eric? Heather/Jiang Fengnan
Starring: amy adams/Jeremy? Reina/Forest? Whitaker/Michael? Stubba/Ma Zhi/Mark? O' Brien/Joe? Cobden/Pat? Kelly/Natalie? Hipoti/Yuan Luosu/Christian? Jeddah/Julian? Casey
Type: Drama/Science Fiction
Country of manufacture: USA
Language: English
Length: 1 16 minutes
Awards of the 73rd Venice Film Festival (20 16)
Golden lion award (nomination) in the main competition unit
74th Golden Globe Awards (20 17)
Best Actress in a Feature Film (Nominated) Amy? Adams
Best original soundtrack in film category (nomination)
The 70th British Film Academy Awards (20 17)
Film Award for Best Film (Nomination)
Best Director (Nominated) for Film Awards Dennis? Villeneuve
Best Actress in Film Awards (Nominated) Amy? Adams
Best adapted screenplay film award (nomination)
Best Photographic Film Award (Nomination)
Best film editing award (nomination)
Best Original Music Film Award (Nomination)
Best sound film award (nomination)
Best visual effects film award (nomination)
The 69th Directors Association of America Award (20 17)
Best film director (nomination) Dennis? Villeneuve
23rd screen actors guild awards (20 17)
Best Actress in Film Awards (Nominated) Amy? Adams
The 69th American Writers Association Award (20 17)
Best adapted screenplay film award (nomination)
The 28th American Producers Association Award (20 17)
Best film producer award (nomination)
The 3rd1American Photographic Association Award (20 17)
Bradford young for Best Feature Film Photography (Nomination)
The 67th American Editors' Union Award (20 17)
Best Feature Film Editing (Nomination)
The 2nd1American Art Directors' Guild Award (20 17)
Film Award for Best Fantasy Film Art Director (Nomination)
The 88th National Jury Award (20 16)
Best actress Amy? Adams
Best film of the year (nomination)
22nd American Film Critics' Choice Film Awards (20 16)
Best picture (nomination)
Best Director (Nominated) Dennis? Villeneuve
Best actress (nomination) Amy? Adams
Best adapted screenplay Eric? Haiser
Best Photography (Nomination)
Best Editing (Nomination)
Best production designer (nomination)
Best score (nomination)
Best sound effect (nomination)
Best visual effects (nomination)
Best science fiction/horror movie
The 4th1American Film Academy Awards (20 16)
Best film of the year
15 Washington Film Critics Association Award (20 16)
Best picture (nomination)
Best Director (Nominated) Dennis? Villeneuve
Best actress (nomination) Amy? Adams
Best adapted screenplay Eric? Haiser
Best Photography (Nomination)
Joe Walker for Best Editing (Nomination)
Best original score (nomination)
Best Art Director (Nomination)
In recent years, every late autumn, a phenomenal sci-fi film will always appear on time: Gravity at 20 13, Interstellar at 20 14, and Last year's Mars Rescue, all of which are excellent works in terms of film quality, box office performance and award season. And this year this baton was handed over to Dennis? It's been more than two months since the sci-fi movie "Coming" made by Villeneuve (director of "Scorched City" and "Black Border") premiered in Venice on September 2nd. After a period of word-of-mouth fermentation, the freshness of this rotten tomato is still 100%, and the Metacritic score is as high as 8 1.
For the author who can't put it down after reading the original novel twice, the adaptation of Coming can't be called success. After watching the movie for nearly two hours, Villeneuve made great changes and filled in the plot on the basis of the original novel, especially after 50 minutes (nearly half the length of the film), almost the original plot pushed the film to a very magical and difficult ending. But even so, as far as visual wonders are concerned, Coming is much worse than the three works in the previous three years.
"arrival" is adapted from China famous science fiction writer Jiang Fengnan (Jiang Fengnan? Jiang) The story of your life, a science fiction short story that won the nebula award. Anyone who has read the original book knows that although the story of Your Life is set by aliens on the earth, the theme of the novel is all Louise, the protagonist linguistics professor. Banks tried to understand, decipher and learn the language and characters of the octopus-shaped alien "seven-limb barrel". Even until the end, there was no spectacle of spacecraft launch, space war or even crossing a black hole that most movie audiences expected.
The story of your life is wonderful because it faces a problem that most science fiction novels and movies avoid talking about? How humans communicate with aliens. In most sci-fi works (including hard sci-fi works), it is very cunning and irresponsible to set whether aliens speak English with a "language translator". In The Story of Your Life, Jiang Fengnan brought the charm of linguistics to the extreme, and showed it step by step, completely showing the process of Louise learning the language of "seven limbs barrel".
Limited by the form of expression, the film can't put the rigorous language and physical arguments in the novel on the screen. Even if it can be forced into the film, it doesn't meet the positioning of the mainstream science fiction film "Coming". Therefore, in the movie, Louise's process of learning alien languages (hereinafter referred to as "seven languages") was simplified again and again, and director Villeneuve replaced most of the space for learning seven languages with a part showing visual wonders. For example, the "semi-peanut-shaped" spacecraft, the black stone tablet like "200 1 Space Roaming" and the change of gravity direction when a group of scientists enter the spacecraft all occupy a large part of the time. These are almost ignored in the novel, and the dialogue between the protagonist and the seven-limb bucket in the novel is only in an ordinary room, and it does not enter the spaceship like a movie script.
Spaceships with seven limbs and barrels have appeared all over the world.
This shift in focus leads to the extremely simple decoding process of the film in seven languages, so simple that it only takes about 5 minutes of montage to perfunctory things, basically losing the essence of the original.
The description of the alien's seven-limb barrel in the original work is also very detailed, which is different from the clumsy, barbaric alien image that will only invade the earth in general science fiction works. They "have seven long limbs and a cylinder hanging on the shaft." Each of the seven limbs can be a leg and an arm, as stable as a hovercraft. " When they write, they "get a round screen, put it on a small base, and a bunch of messy graffiti will appear on the screen". Unlike the octopus in the movie, even the way of writing is to stretch out a long limb, from which black objects like ink are ejected, forming round characters like China's calligraphy in mid-air.
It is true that this will be more beautiful visually, but the seven-legged bucket in the movie is more like some kind of beast in a cage in a zoo, with no civilization and no communication with each other. It's not like an advanced civilized creature who has mastered interstellar flight at all.
In the novel, the most exciting part is the breakthrough of decoding seven languages. This breakthrough was not made by Louise, the protagonist, but through the simultaneous communication between physicists and seven-limb barrels. The physicist demonstrated the experiment of Fermat's minimum time law for the seven-limb bucket, and the seven-limb bucket repeated the experiment. In this process, human beings found that the causal relationship between the basic cognition, physics and mathematical theorems of the seven-limb bucket is exactly the opposite of human beings. Complex theorems for human beings are the most basic ones for the seven-limb bucket, while the most basic theorems for human beings, such as speed, are extremely complicated under the cognitive system of the seven-limb bucket. This discovery accelerated Louise's ability to decipher and learn seven languages. In this process, Louise found that Lan Qi is a kind of behavior theory, which means that the communication between two seven-limb barrels is just a show, and both sides already know what they want to say.
Humans are having a preliminary communication with the seven-limb bucket.
This is also the most attractive part of the original: if you master seven languages, you can foresee your future. At the beginning of the novel, Jiang Fengnan uses the narrative method of combining the first person and the second person, and the two timelines cross, telling the process of Louise's decoding and learning seven languages together with the story of Louise's oral daughter's growth. This is a combination of reason and sensibility. The process of babbling, toddler growing into a girl, and then dying unexpectedly is warm and sad. The process of decoding seven languages is exciting and thought-provoking. Jiang Fengnan's words are like a poem: What will you do when you know that your daughter will die unexpectedly at the age of 25, but there is nothing you can do? Such a heartbreaking story makes your life story transcend the cold theoretical deduction level and sublimate into a classic with real humanistic feelings, warm enough and sad enough.
In the film, the priority of these two story lines is too obvious. The story line of Louise's Daughter is obviously less than the main line, even less than one fifth, and the connection between cross-clips is also extremely alienated. So that the audience did not bring in the role of daughter, and also lacked the sigh of fate in the novel. This may also be the reason why the film was finally named Coming instead of the original title "The Story of Your Life".
If the above can only be regarded as a change in details or emphasis, there is no harm. Then the drastic adaptation of the original work in the last 50 minutes of the film will make the film go in almost the opposite direction to the novel. It is neither reasonable nor reasonable to change "Your Life", a short science fiction novel with a superficial story and only a short sketch, into a bloody war drama with a compelling plot conflict. Stupid humans and China, indispensable in sci-fi movies, are online again, ahead of other countries (Russian, Cuban, etc. ) launched a military attack on the seven-limb barrel together. Not to mention Louise as Amy. Adams's satellite phone conversation with General China in Mandarin, which is even more difficult to understand than the seven languages, is completely confusing, just like a dog's tail and an uneditable mink.
Close contact with the seven-limb barrel.
But this is precisely the main reason why Coming is still popular among North American film critics. America once again acts as the world policeman to save the universe. The difference is that they don't rely on Tony this time? Stark and his friends rely on an international phone call from a university language professor. This is incredible enough for ordinary viewers who have never seen the original, let alone the original powder.
As we all know, Dennis? Villeneuve was chosen as the director of blade runner 2. How to continue the glory of this sci-fi classic is his biggest task at present. To some extent, "Coming" can be regarded as Villeneuve's practice for the upcoming "blade runner 2". Although Coming is not satisfactory in many aspects, the atmosphere that the director is good at is still there from Prisoner and Black Boy on the Border.
Except for his famous work "scorched earth city", Villeneuve did not write any other feature films himself. It can be seen that scriptwriting is not his strong point, but how to visualize the story is his strong point. In this way, the quality of the script basically determines the final quality of his directed works. Coming is by no means brilliant or even a failure, but we can still see some ideas of Villeneuve in shooting sci-fi scenes. It can be said that I have done enough, but I lost my soul.
Compared with the original work "The Story of Your Life" in science fiction, "Coming" is definitely a mediocre work, and domestic audiences still lower their demands and look forward to it cautiously.
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