There are several foreign works, and many netizens praised one of them called "The Pantheon", which has some connection with Chinese science fiction, because the original author of the animation Liu Yukun is a Chinese, and the English version of "The Three-Body Problem" cannot be

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There are no new film and television cultural works in China recently launched, and the film and television market is in a slump. There are several foreign works, among which many netizens praise one is called "The Pantheon", which has some connection with Chinese science fiction, because the original author of the animation Liu Yukun is Chinese, and the English version of "Three-Body Problem" cannot be separated from his translation.

I will not analyze "Pandem" here. In fact, there is also a domestic science fiction animation with no inferior quality in China.

Also, I can personally put the words here. Since the opening of Chinese science fiction blockbusters from "The Wandering Earth", if there is no domestic science fiction drama yet, and " Spirit Cage " in science fiction animation has opened the door to domestic science fiction, then this animation has filled the gap in domestic hard science fiction.

This animation is "Black Gate". The first season has officially ended, but unfortunately it has not become popular because of the high threshold.

2022 is the year when Chinese science fiction blooms after "The Wandering Earth". The movie includes " Loneliness Moon " and " Tomorrow War ". The animation "Season 1 of the Spirit Cage" ended, "Black Gate Season 1" ended, and the same company's space opera "Galaxy Heart" was officially aired a few days ago.

I personally finished watching "Black Door", I thought it would be a very interesting thing to compare with "The War of Tomorrow". Although both science fiction works are not very successful in the market, especially the animation "Black Door" can be said to be unpopular. But "Black Gate" provides an idea for Chinese science fiction, and it can even be said that it can become a Chinese science fiction in the future.

is the kind of work that can support the backbone of a cultural market theme. The disadvantage of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" happens to be the advantages of "Black Gate", which determines whether it can make Hong Kong science fiction go further in domestic science fiction.

Brain Universe, Virtual Reality? Is it suitable for the Chinese version of "Ghost in the Shell"? The details of this animation are not detailed here. I hope you can check out the original work. It is not complicated to tell a story. One of the previous generation founded several brain-computer systems was named Yuan Zhiren. He believed that the brain-computer system opened a door to human evolution , but it was not enough. When people's consciousness entered the brain-computer system, they did not study much consciousness in the brain microtubules.

Anyway, Yuan Zhiren believes that through the brain-computer system, people who use the brain-computer system can create a super consciousness. The last episode reveals that this super consciousness is formed in the brain microtubules of all people who support this super consciousness. Human beings will be highly unified in their thoughts and highly consistent in their actions, and finally complete a new evolution.

The protagonist calls this thing swarm disease. The swarm thinking will cause chaos in human society.

This animation is really hardcore, with the script, lines and rhythm handled in an orderly manner. There is no trace of dragging and mysterious, unlike the current British and American dramas, where there are highlights in the settings, the narrative is disrupted, the characters are digging, and then they dig a bunch of pits, but they do not fill in the end, leaving more pits.

You are curious, you go to watch the second season, but the second season has more pitfalls, and it ends up rotting.

The setting and the pit dug of "Black Door" are very clear, but they left a suspense at the end of the first season. I won’t say this anymore. I think there are two points. It is not just domestic science fiction animation, but it is worth learning all Chinese science fiction works in the future.

First, we have taken another way to explore the theme and found our own way of expression in the concept of science fiction. At the same time, like many of the works of the Four Great Heavenly Kings of Chinese science fiction, we have learned from drawing on Western philosophy to integrating Eastern philosophy, and finally created our own Eastern science fiction culture.

For example, in this science fiction concept, it talks about brain computer systems, virtual reality, and then artificial intelligence consciousness, etc.

Because foreigners have an earlier and more mature scientific foundation, science fiction works are also more mature, so they have already spent a lot of fun in this virtual reality science fiction concept. For example, Japan's "Ghost in the Shell" is a story of human beings who live together on the Internet to find themselves and evolution.

The virtual world parent of the United States' "The Matrix", "The Number One Player" is a virtual world game that buys copyrights of cultural works all over the world. The setting of human connection devices entering the virtual world in foreign science fiction works has long been bad, but no work has ever talked about human connection to the brain computer world.

The human brain, human consciousness, and the impact of brain computer systems on human evolution.

"Black Door" perfectly bypasses other classic foreign works and finds a science fiction concept that suits your own expression.

For example, in this philosophical expression, the title of this cartoon has perfectly explained everything. How humans virtualize into the brain-computer system, and the repeated statue of "Zhou Chu eliminates the three evils" points out the theme.

This superconscious work adopts the philosophy of Plato , innate majeure desire, acquired courage to be implanted, and the rationality to balance the two, as well as self-reflection.

Chinese allusion about "Zhou Chu eliminates the three evils" is that Zhou Chu was originally a bully, but I heard from the villagers that there are three evils to eliminate. He killed the tiger first and then the dragon, and finally realized that the third harm mentioned by the villagers was himself, and he was the "head of the three harms". Therefore, he changed his past and abandoned evil and followed good. The last episode of

animation also reveals the truth about Min Nai. The choice of the male protagonist Tu Yi is the "head of the three evils" in this story.

The villain Yuan Zhiren guided him step by step, and finally made the protagonist discover that he was the first to complete the plan. If the protagonist creates a super consciousness by himself in order to erase the super consciousness created by Yuan Zhiren, he will achieve Yuan Zhiren's goal. As for the second point, let’s talk about it later.

The animation is coming before "The War of Tomorrow"? It is recommended that Louis Koo check out this domestic science fiction animation

The second point is the last two episodes of "Black Gate". I personally think there are several interesting plots. The company responsible for brain computer systems in the film is called Oasis, the person responsible for maintaining the brain computers of citizens is called Brain Machine Doctor, and the company responsible for supervising the brain computer systems is called Aisha. Although there have always been two or three leaders, you don’t think anything yet.

Until Episode 11 Yuan Zhiren's swarm was getting worse, and he wanted to control a plane with hundreds of people to engage in a terrorist incident. The Oasis Company of has received news. At this time, several interesting plots and shots appeared.

The officials on this oasis made a red call directly, and then activated the military radar and discovered the plane.

Then there is a supporting role named Chang Fu on the oasis, who directly led the male protagonist into the military airport , and then a picture of paying tribute to the Chinese fighter appeared. Then the two protagonists directly started a fighter , which was escorted by Chinese Air Force . Finally, the two parachute jumped over the passenger plane and boarded the plane through the exoskeleton.

There was a terrorist incident in China, the government took action, the Air Force controlled it, and then the fighter carried the protagonist group to intercept the plane, etc. There is no doubt that this setting and plot will naturally do this when the main creator creates it.

These plots and science fiction concepts and philosophical expressions of "Black Gate" were combined with the combination of philosophical expressions, and I immediately thought of "The Wandering Earth", "The Spirit Cage", "The Lonely Moon", and Louis Koo's "The War of Tomorrow" and other domestic science fiction works.

"The War of Tomorrow" is a science fiction concept, science fiction setting, and science fiction culture that has nothing of its own. Of course, if Hong Kong police and gangster films are worn under that sci-fi skin, they are indeed good at Hong Kong movies.

Nowadays, Hong Kong commercial films are all similar problems. The difficulties lie in government units, cultural core, and self-positioning.The military unit and government functions of "The War of Tomorrow" are very inconsistent. Michelle Yeoh also invested in a science fiction movie a long time ago, but it also got rid of it.

That is the description of the overhead city is too general, I don’t know where it is, and there is no basis for it.

Military units and government departments are different, at least they do not have the atmosphere of military government functions in the world of doomsday. Therefore, this setting makes the audience out of the play, at least makes the mainland audience feel that they do not have empathy with , and have no cultural consensus, and they will only feel that they are becoming more and more cliché.

You can take a look at this "Black Gate", then "The Wandering Earth", and even the "Spirit Cage" that covers the world.

"The Wandering Earth" can only be the top in the history of world science fiction, but why is it the peak of Chinese science fiction films? What it loses is the overall industrial level and the artistic level of inadequate experience. It is not worth mentioning for Chinese film industry, which is nuclear bomb , and the film and television industry is put into Hollywood , and the level of film art is even worse.

Its biggest advantage is that it is different from the Chinese science fiction and expression of Chinese humanistic spirit in Hollywood blockbusters.

This movie even lost the "state-owned" artistic creation, and now even the main theme movie cannot be made under the humanistic spirit of the past. It made the spirit of science fiction blockbusters such as the Chinese movies "Shangganling", "Storm and Clouds", and "Breaking Out of the Sky".

Anime news before "The War of Tomorrow" came out, I thought that the expression of animation should be better than the movie version of the Hong Kong police and gangster film in science fiction, but there is a problem that needs to be directly faced.

This pre-transmission animation may have a theme similar to "Spirit Cage", such as the same alien plants, mechas, doomsday wasteland, etc.

In the early stage of "Spirit Cage", many netizens in China cursed, and the focus of the scolding was not the foreign protagonist, which was completely based on Western culture. Even if it still built a wasteland science fiction ecosystem relatively complete, "The War of Tomorrow" does not have these things yet. "Spirit Cage" truly became a hit, and the final episode of the first season, representing the ground team of Eastern culture appeared.

finally formed the concept of science fiction, and the cultural core expression has a correspondence between the East and the West, and the ground team appears to control everything, which is both ignited and exploded, beating the religious forces on the lighthouse, dividing people's hearts and suppressing Western forces, which ignited countless audiences.

Can the animation prequel of "The Legend of Tomorrow" have these? I find it very difficult. Of course, it can copy the Western style like a movie, but it is still the problem. If you leave the mainland market, how many audiences will this style be in Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, and the United States?

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I have no objection to Hong Kong filmmakers, but I think Hong Kong filmmakers do not have a science fiction pattern, technology is not a problem, the problem is that there is no modern scientific physics education, the genes of national defense and military rise and industrial development , and the political environment is originally a bit disconnected from us, and people's science fiction concepts are never with you. Military weapons and equipment are modified by the US military, and it has nothing to do with you.

Hong Kong and Taiwan have been brilliant due to historical reasons, but the kernel expression is really "too small". The key is that the past glory is still complacent, and the mainland market is not good. If it is not good, it will burst a bubble. It will be so angry that the mainland audience does not know how to appreciate it and will strait the mainland peers. This is not good.

Finally, "Black Gate" is really not successful, it is a very niche type.

But I personally amazed that such hardcore science fiction works have appeared in China, because starting from "The Wandering Earth" and then to the animation "Spirit Cage", this year's "The Lonely Moon", the newly launched space opera "The Heart of the Galaxy", and the animation version of "The Three-Body Problem" that may be scheduled to be released at the end of the year, and the "The Wandering Earth 2" during the Spring Festival.

Science fiction will become a theme that truly surpasses Hong Kong movies from the trinity of film and television industry, core expression, and popular culture. We need more "The Wandering Earth" and more "The Black Gate", which is not very popular, but very hardcore, come on, Chinese science fiction!