author丨Buer
editing丨Nuguo
Domestic science fiction masterpiece " Three-Body " animation version finally "begins to come out after thousands of calls". At 11 o'clock on December 10, the domestic animation "Three-Body Linux" officially landed on B station, and the number of people watching online at the same time on the animation site hit a new high for online videos on B station. At 9 o'clock that night, the "Three-Body Problem" animation officially announced that its total playback volume had exceeded 100 million times.
This work, which carries the expectations of countless netizens and repeatedly displays pigeons, was officially launched by B website in the 10th anniversary celebration as early as 2019, but it was not officially released until three years later.
According to B station, the animation version of "Three-Body Problem" has been polished for five years. Whether it is capital, time or production, it is regarded as the largest project of B station, and it is highly expected from the beginning and is developed as a long-term IP. What kind of work will be polished out by the accumulation of time and funds? Netizens' expectations have long been full.
In addition to B station's animation version "Three-Body Problem", the TV series version "Three-Body Problem" produced by Tencent also released posters and trailers in June.
is starring many powerful actors such as Zhang Luyi , Yu Hewei , Chen Jin , Wang Ziwen , Lin Yongjian and other powerful actors. It attracted much attention as soon as it was released, but it soon became silent. This key project, which has long been included in the list of Tencent's major dramas, is expected to be released in 2022 and has not yet been scheduled. According to Tencent's expectations, has a hope of being released at the end of the year or early next year. The first Chinese special of the "Three-Body Problem" season 1 has also been officially released recently. Although there are very few spoilers in the video, most of which are interviews with the starring actors, the main creators of " Game of Thrones " David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are the producers, and the original author Liu Cixin and English translation Liu Yukun serve as consultants. Many famous directors co-directors. Netflix's consistent level, international style of a big-name director and attitude of paying tribute to the original work also attracted much attention.
As soon as the news of the film and television adaptation of "Three-Body Problem" came out, major companies and teams wanted to get a share of the pie. It seemed that as long as they were involved with "Three-Body Problem", they could get the traffic password.
However, although the film and television news has been released frequently, the true chapter has not been seen for a long time. After several times of release of pigeons, I am still "holding the pipa half-covering my face." The filming of "Three-Body Problem" was even more rumored to have been filmed in 2014, and has been shelved indefinitely.
Fortunately, everyone's waiting finally echoed. With the animation version of "Three-Body Problem", if nothing unexpected happens, from the end of this year to next year, "Three-Body Problem" multiverse will collectively explode. Can the first IP of domestic science fiction create world-class influence from now on?
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adaptation of "Three Body" is not that simple
mentions IP with international influence, including "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and "Marvel" abroad, while China has always lacked a world-renowned IP.
In 2015, Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" won the world-class science fiction novel award Hugo Award , as industry insiders commented: Liu Cixin single-handedly promoted Chinese science fiction literature to a world-class level.
Obama, Zuckerberg, Jack Ma , Ma Huateng and other domestic and foreign celebrities have publicly expressed their love for "The Three-Body Problem", and and even James Cameron personally asked Liu Cixin for the adaptation copyright.
"Three-Body Problem" has a broad fan base, and it is really appropriate to operate it as a Chinese IP that goes to the world.
However, compared with the popularity of the "Three-Body Problem" IP, the adaptation difficulty of implementing "Three-Body Problem" is far beyond imagination. Until now, whether it is a series, animation or a movie, the content creation of "The Three-Body Problem" has been stumbling, and the official releases the pigeons again and again.The primary reason for this is that the original work is not so easy to adapt into film and television.
First of all, the time span is long and the length is very wide. The trilogy of "Three-Body Problem" has a total of more than 800,000 words, spanning 18 million years. With such a huge size, it is very difficult to ensure the timeline and the logic is clear in the film.
The more flawed way is to only select a few of the chapters to shoot, but this will have a very high viewing threshold for those who are not familiar with the original work. And if all the films are finished, it will be unimaginable whether it is the capital or the length of the film.
You should know that although "The Wandering Earth" is the first, it took four years to produce more than 3,000 concept pictures and more than 8,000 storyboard , but the original work was only 23,000 words. In contrast, it is no exaggeration to describe the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy as "a masterpiece".
Secondly, the magnificent "famous scenes" in the novel, although they are full of imagination, but the description is too abstract. Liu is famous for his concise writing, and there are a lot of "blanks" in the original work.
What does the three-body person look like? What is the specific form of Zhizi ? How cool is water drop that instantly destroys the entire fleet of the earth? These Liu's original works do not have very specific descriptions.
As for the famous scenes such as the "dimensionality reduction strike" carried out by higher civilizations in the original work with "two-way foil" to the solar system, how to present it to reflect the incredibleness of the original work is an extremely test of the creative team.
How to "emptiness and wonderful existence" turn these words into pictures that conform to people's imagination? This can not only be solved by money, but also the whole team's passionate love for the original work, imaginative creativity, hard-working investment, and the fusion of rich details and plot.
Compared with these official teams that give people endless imagination and expectations, fans' homemade works "generating electricity for love" brought some surprises. The most typical one is the animation " My Three-Body ", with Douban scores as high as 9.4, 9.5 and 9.6 points respectively in the three seasons.
Its production is a group of loyal fans of the novel "Three-Body Problem". Due to capital and technology, they only enter the perspective of a certain character. The picture is cleverly composed of block people made using the game " Minecraft ". Although the picture is so blurry that it cannot even be seen as a man or a woman, the plot is smooth, natural, logical, and faithful to the original work.
In 2016, the "My Three-Body" team was officially included in the "Three-Body Universe" and received more technical and financial support. Another fan's work, "Water Drops", lasts only 14 minutes and 43 seconds, only restores the famous scene in the original work where the Three-Body Water Drop Detector destroys more than 2,000 human fleets. Its exquisiteness has even been highly praised by Liu Cixin himself.
is visible. In content production, technology, team, and even experience are not the most important. The love and familiarity of the original work and the team's attentiveness can better determine the final outcome.
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still needs to give the "Three Body" some time
No matter how good the fans' works are, they are not regular soldiers after all, and the extent to which they can do it is limited. The international journey of "The Three-Body Problem" still depends on the major companies and teams that have obtained the official copyright.
animation, film and television, domestic, foreign... All teams in the production of "Three-Body Problem" adaptation show their magical powers and are about to face review by the audience. Judging from the trailers and trailers currently released by each team, they all have their own strengths and weaknesses.
This B station animation version of "Three-Body Problem" is indeed remarkable for the live-action version of "Three-Body Problem". It is true that there is the innate superiority of the art form of animation, which can freely display the content and artistic conception of science fiction novels. Especially in the production of special effects, it is still inconsistent with the cost of a live-action version, and the animation can obviously be much smoother and smoother.
For example, the domestic male fantasy IP "Douluo Continent", the reputation and influence of the drama and animation version are far different. At the same time, the producer Yihua Tiankai represents the highest level of domestic animation at present. The shocking glance of the previous work " Spirit Cage " has attracted countless fans for it, and has laid the fan base.
However, the release of the animation trailer for "The Three-Body Problem" also brought some doubts. A considerable number of viewers believe that the characters in it do not conform to the original work, and even have a "spiritual cage smell" (that is, the image collided too much with "The Spirit Cage", and some people think that some scenes are not amazing enough. It remains to be seen how many points can be scored in the audience's mind.
Tencent version of the super web drama "Three-Body Problem", the director is Yang Lei , which has filmed the classic main theme drama " Red ", with a Douban score of up to 9.1. I believe that people can feel at ease in script arrangement, editing pictures, and actor acting skills. , especially when , Chen Jin, version of twilight , Ye Wenjie, waved his arm: "Eliminate human tyranny, the world belongs to the three bodies", which makes people shout "Ye Wenjie is here"!
But there are also vague worries. The young Ye Wenjie looked up at the sky forty-five degrees, and it seemed a little wrong. And I don’t know if it’s a editing issue, the trailer is a bit like a criminal investigation drama. As for the special effects, we have only seen the famous scenes of "Guzheng Operation", and the final effect will be questioned.
Many people once hoped for international teams, believing that only experienced international teams could meet expectations in the production of special effects. However, Liu Cixin himself once expressed that the story theme of "The Three-Body Problem" is not so black and white, and does not conform to the basic principles of Hollywood .
His concerns were confirmed in the trailer released by Netflix. Although there were not too many shooting scenes and clips, it showed the actors' interpretation of the script. Some actors' understandings are indeed somewhat different from the original work, and it is not obvious that the team has grasped the core of the original work.
At the same time, since most actors have European and American faces, some of them are out of the way. Netizens' expectations are not optimistic at the moment, and there are many people who are afraid of taking pictures like four.
"Three-Body Problem" undoubtedly represents the highest peak of China's current science fiction level. To enhance the influence of "Three-Body Problem" and build it into a world-wide IP is not only the wish of the Three-Body Problem universe, but also the common wish of all Chinese science fiction fans. The deep love and the deepest culprit of netizens, netizens' expectations for several major versions of "The Three-Body Problem" have also put huge pressure on the producers.
But the formation of a real big IP will always go through ups and downs and polishing, and iteratively develop. Due to its particularity, it is extremely difficult to complete the science fiction works to make classics at one time.
There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Even if the special effects and shooting skills have made great progress, the main creators have different understandings and interpretations of the original work, and it is difficult to say whether the effect will satisfy all the original work parties.
Fans might as well look at each version of "Three-Body Problem" with a developmental perspective, give "Three-Body Problem" time, wait for the flowers to bloom, and let the readers' love "Three-Body Problem" can truly move towards the sea of stars through richer media.
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