Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 642 A stick beat us back

Affleck had asked Zhang Zhong to go to New York to attend the premiere, but Zhang Zhong was too lazy to run away, and finally found a movie theater in Chicago directly.

Zhang Zhong didn't want his parents and Pengpeng to come over, because the movies shown here were all in English, and they couldn't understand them, but his parents said it's okay, it's good to join in the fun, and contribute to the box office of the new movie.

Pengpeng hugged a small bucket of popcorn and complained, "This bucket is so small, their buckets are bigger than mine."

Indeed, her bucket is very small.

This small bucket was also specially requested by Zhang Zhong, and the waiter smiled and reminded that this kind of small bucket was not cost-effective, and generally people who came to the cinema would not choose this small bucket.

The staff member of Wenner told them to go to Beverly Hills to appreciate American culture, but Zhang Zhong felt that places like movie theaters and shops could better appreciate American culture.

At least a taste of American food culture.

Very simple, the food culture of the United States is just one word - big.

Nothing is big.

Chinese people are pursuing bigness in everything now, but compared with Americans, they pale in comparison.

Americans' pursuit of "big" seems to have been deeply rooted in their bones.

Just look at those buckets of popcorn at the ticket counters, the largest ones are estimated to be over 100 ounces.Of course, the size of the United States is now much smaller. If it used to be, the scale would be even more terrifying.

Hugging the popcorn, Pengpeng couldn't help but ate a mouthful, but frowned, "Ah, it's salty."

"Is it salty?" Hu Huifang also took one and tasted it, with a very expressive expression, "It's really salty."

Zhang Xingjun had no interest in popcorn at first, but he heard that it was salty, so he took one and tasted it, "It is indeed salty, which is strange, it's not that people here don't eat salty, but why are they popping?" The rice crackers are salty, but the taste is okay."

Zhang Chong said with a smile, "Their popcorn is indeed salty, which is said to have something to do with World War II. And they eat popcorn with butter, so let's stop it."

Pengpeng hugged the popcorn, her face wrinkled.

Originally, the bucket was smaller than someone else's, but she didn't expect that the popcorn was still salty, and she couldn't get used to it at all.

Zhang Zhong patted her head, "Do you want me to change a big bucket for you?"

……

The movie changed a bit.

It also had to be changed, because the content in the book is too much, even if the movie is more than two hours long, it is impossible to stuff all the content in the book into it.

If the filming is done according to the book, the part where the starfish astronauts prepare to go to an alien planet will take a long time to film.

Then there is the coming of the overlord.

After the coming of the Overlord, there was a government of a big country who wanted to destroy the Overlord's spaceship, but failed, and was overthrown by the people.

Overlord Threatens South Africa, Bans Cruelty To Animals…

In the mid-term, there is still this line of the protagonist.

The protagonist tried his best to sneak into the hometown of Super Lord and stayed there for a while.

It is impossible to express all the plots in the book, so it has to be adapted.

I have to say that Affleck is a good screenwriter, and he also knows what the audience likes to watch.So from the beginning, he told the story from the perspective of the last starfish man, Yang, and used flashbacks. The beginning of the movie is the scene of Yang returning to the starfish from the super master's hometown.

Looking at the unrecognizable starfish, Yang unfolded his memories.

Since the title of this movie is "The Last Starfish", telling the story in flashback is not afraid of spoilers in advance.

When talking about copyright before, Affleck asked if it was possible to change the protagonist to an American.

The reason why he wanted to change the protagonist to an American was because of the box office.

It may not matter to you when you read a book, it doesn’t matter which country the protagonist is from, but it’s different when you watch a movie, because the audience can directly see what the protagonist looks like.

Movies with Caucasian protagonists always have a higher box office. This is a fact.

But Zhang Zhong did not back down at that time.

In the end, Affleck found a Chinese actor with one-eighth white mixed race in desperation.

Although the movie has changed a lot, the main line has not changed.

There are many things in the book, but the main content can be easily summarized.

The superlord descends—force deterrence—takes over starfish—peaceful development—appears star child—destroys human civilization.

The story in the movie also develops along this line.

At the end, when the protagonist Yang talks to the super master in the super master base and tells them everything that happened to the starfish, those conversations and those scenes, Affleck tried his best to reproduce them on the screen.

"The river's gone, too, but the sky hasn't changed. I can hardly breathe. The moon still shines there, weird. I'm glad they didn't take it away, but now it's lonely—"

"Light! From below me—from within the starfish—shine up, through the rocks, through the earth, through everything, brighter, brighter, blindingly bright—"

The epilogue may be the most special-effects moment in the entire movie, as the Earth's core releases its stored energy in a silent crash of light.For a short period of time, gravitational waves travel through the solar system time and time again, slightly shaking the orbits of the planets.

Then, the remaining children of the sun continued to run along the ancient track, just like a stone fell into a quiet lake, making the small wooden stakes on the lake flutter gently with the ripples.

The audience in the movie theater watched the starfish annihilate through the glasses of the third brother, and the children raised by the starfish sucked the last atom from the starfish.

At the end of the movie, the frame was fixed 60 billion kilometers away from the orbit of Pluto. The screen in front of the super-lord Karellen went dark. He looked out of the window, his eyes were deep into the dark deep space. As for what he was thinking, Nobody knows.

In this way, Starfish's last movement was played.

At the end of the movie, many viewers sat in their seats and sighed deeply. This movie is too pessimistic and unacceptable.

What is the future of mankind, the mission of mankind, and the meaning of human existence?
They have been taken to the unknown and vast universe by countless excellent space movies, but now they seem to be hit back by this movie in an instant.

Starfish, there is no hope.

Really depressing.

Many people don't even dare to look up at the sky when they come out of the movie theater, because they don't know what is waiting for them there.

This is also the first time that Zhang Zhong has seen the complete "The Last Starfish" movie. The tension of the movie has exceeded his expectations, and Affleck is even more talented than he expected.

Just look at the reactions of the audience in the movie theater. Even if this "The Last Starfish" cannot be called a blockbuster, it will definitely not fail.

"Dad, are those monsters bad guys?"

After watching the movie, Peng Peng was still asking.

In fact, apart from Zhang Zhong and Xu Yuhan, Peng Peng and the others just watched the show. After all, this movie has the original sound and no subtitles.

Zhang Zhong said with a smile, "They are aliens, not monsters."

"Don't aliens have big heads?"

(End of this chapter)