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The story of "The Ninth District" is very strong. The reason why it has a double harvest at the box office is due to its subtle conception, and it has a reversal plot that is different from the general alien invasion.

I was accustomed to seeing the different routines like the United Nations resisting aliens and bloody fights in "Independence Day", or the crowd of alien creatures in "Men in Black". I felt new and new and endured the bad A smell of poverty revealed from the lens of the screen.

The aliens in Zone Nine are not as powerful as the alien creatures in other films. Although they also have high-tech weapons and interstellar ships, they have been enslaved by humans since they arrived on the earth.

Humans studied them and named the prawns for these alien creatures that came suddenly. Later, the environment where they were placed became more and more remote and less attention was paid to them. After the initial freshness and panic, the prawns have been abandoned. Many Humans look down on these dirty, incommunicable creatures with no intelligence...

It wasn't until the highlight of the film appeared and the identity changed that all humans' malice towards prawns was nakedly revealed...

In fact, the birth of this movie was quite tortuous. Earlier, Peter Jackson took over a job to prepare a team to shoot the movie version of the X-BOX game masterpiece "Halo", and Jackson happened to have a fancy at an exhibition that only filmed at the time. Neil Blomkamp, ​​who has made two MVs and self-funded short films.

As a result, the "Halo" project was shelved indefinitely due to interest considerations. This made Peter Jackson, who admired Neil very much, feel sorry for him. After thinking about it, this little fat man who has little financial resources and has repeatedly given up weight loss decided to pay out of his pocket and put out 3000 Ten thousand dollars, asked Neal to make a film he wanted to make, and this "District Nine" was born.

You know, Peter Jackson hadn’t accepted the project for more than two years at that time. Earlier, the director bonus for the "Lord of the Rings" series and "King Kong" was so much, and he had already spent a lot of money to experiment with the technology. It is his very large support without damaging his life.

After all, Neal is just a new director who has never made a feature film on theatrical line. Except for Peter Jackson, who feels owed, no one will take the risk to support him-Jackson was looking for them, but they prepared for "Halo" After so long, the project said nothing, then nothing.

Inside the hotel room.

From time to time, Lehman used a pen to draw a storyboard script on a4 paper.

Compared with Neal's lack of budget when shooting "District Nine", Lehman is fully capable of mentioning the project as a masterpiece of science fiction with an investment of about 130 million.

This film has blocked many mainstream audiences because of the rough b-level film style. If the budget keeps up, it will not be hindered by special effects, which will impress the audience and attract the visual enjoyment of buying tickets.

You know, the several trailers released by "The Ninth District", just by looking at the pictures, everyone thinks they are bad and shoddy, but some of them are really fragrant, and most of them are because the first feeling is not good. They have not been in the theater at all.

This is why Lehman said that "The Ninth District" was buried in its budget, and its box office performance was far more than 200 million.

Facts have also proved that the film has completely gained a reputation and fame after it shines at the Oscars. After the DVD was released, it sold more than 20 million sets in two years, bringing Sony over 130 million profits...

Now coupled with Lehman's own appeal and reputation, special effects and shooting keep up, can it not attract more audiences?

Of those science fiction movies on the market, how many can have such a wonderful story as "The Ninth District"?

More importantly, Neil is subject to funds and has a lot of things hurriedly brought along. Lehman can add some space on this basis. According to his idea, the content of this edition of "The Ninth District" is about 118. Minutes, including the opening logo and the list of people at the end, the total time is about 125 minutes, a little more than two hours.

For example, after prawns are discovered by humans, they should be placed well in the first place, and they will be far away from human society, because they are unfamiliar, mysterious, and will definitely keep a safe distance. This is the first stage;

Later, the researchers discovered the virtual nature of prawns-the social structure of prawns is similar to that of ants. After the queen dies, these worker ants have no specific action commands, so they are stupid, unable to communicate, and only know how to eat. , Dirty and violent. At this time, the human attitude towards prawns shifts to the second stage, allowing contact with ordinary people and even putting them in the park for tourists to visit;

In the third stage, the public had completely lost their curiosity about the prawns. In addition, the year-round research had no major discoveries. Even the only interstellar spacecraft could not find out what kind of power system it was, so any research effect was emptied. In addition, the prawns are very viable, and the number is rapidly expanding. The government does not want to raise them. The people generally start to hate these ugly species that only know to destroy but not know about production, and they are all transferred to a specific area-South African slums. For the ninth district, let the prawns fend for themselves;

There are only more detailed preparations-the original film also has, but the description is too short, and then the male protagonist's natural killing of the prawns seems to be somewhat lacking in reason, but if the overall human attitude is like this, the prawns If you don't have a half-hearted feeling, or dislike it completely, then it makes sense.

This is like finding a termite nest, pour cement into their nest, trampling their eggs to death, and from the perspective of humans, it is completely ok, because termites are very harmful to humans, and the folks support this. The contrast is great. Shrimp is not good for humans either...

Lehman took a4 paper and quickly depicted these scenes. Some humans were feeding prawns in cages, some humans shot and killed a prawn who snatched something, and some male protagonists showed the prawns to the camera. The fetus, then played dead, there was no guilt on his face, it was just a novelty...

The reason why director Neil of the original time and space came up with the idea of ​​segregating prawns is because this person happened to experience the apartheid policy in South Africa when he was a child.

In practice, the apartheid system prevents non-white ethnic groups (even if they live in the white areas of South Africa) from gaining voting rights or influence. The implementation of this policy is to ensure white power, because there are few whites and too many non-whites, and white human rights are expensive. We are afraid of losing their wealth status...

After the preparation of this part, it was the male protagonist who came into contact with Christo, a rare intelligent body in prawns, and was sprayed by the energy liquid it has collected for 20 years. From humans to prawns that everyone hates, after that, The drama and plot tension of the film is further expanded.

A former human being, and now the prawn Wiggs finally saw a darker side. The scientific researcher's progress on prawns, various open-mouthed, in vivo experiments, when the male protagonist becomes a prawn can be used outside After the Star Weapon, the high-level humans who were eager to obtain technology, including the father-in-law who admired the male protagonist, decided to disassemble Viggs' body to see how he differed from the prawn in the previous experiment.

Even after Wiggs fled, it was reported that Wiggs had an affair with the prawn, which completely overwhelmed the human side of Wiggs from public opinion.

The climax of the whole film is the kind of madness that Wiggs has been tortured by a series of realities based on the former human position and the current prawn position, which perfectly fits the humanistic speculation that Kafka’s "The Metamorphosis" wants to express, that is, human Deformation of the "inhuman" thinking.

That is, when people's "individuality" and self-mind are ignored, they will inevitably go to destruction.

In other words, if "The Ninth District" hadn't had the psychological struggles of Wiggs' deformed prawn, it would have lost its color too much.

After thoroughly sorting out the idea of ​​"District Nine" in his mind, Lehman put down his pen and stretched out.

Then, he informed Scott Rose to let the digital field set up the project in advance.

After finishing all this, Ryan called.

"What are you doing now?"

"Where's the set, is something going on?"

"I'm a Hero" is going to be painted. Are you coming to the celebration party?"

"You can do it with Liam, I won't go here." Lehman just remembered, unknowingly it is already February, and "I Am a Hero" has been screened for 65 days and it is already going from the theater. Downshift.

"Oh, yes, I've seen the script of "District Nine", and there are still some areas that need to be polished. In the script, Wiggs' family can be more content, mainly to capture the close people before and after the transformation. The change in his attitude, in my imagination, is also an important part of destroying Wiggs’ psychology..."