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Chapter 204, on the relationship between social change and science fiction movies

"I have read the whole script, and your imagination is indeed very rich. All the filled details are hard for ordinary directors to think of, for example, this paragraph is."

Alice opened a page of the script, and it was a line from a soldier among the armored vehicles inside the aircraft showing off his equipment to Ripley, who was a "Alien Consultant".

Such a script line, Alice spread it out in front of everyone: "Cameron, what is the purpose of writing a paragraph?"

Cameron did not doubt that he had him and said proudly: "Of course it is to show the audience the weapons of the star-rated era. You have also seen that particle guns and ultrasonic electronic guns are both standard science fiction equipment, and I also mentioned nuclear weapons specifically. A land squad with a size of more than ten people can use nuclear weapons. Is there anything cooler than this?"

"Of course there is."

Unexpectedly, just after Cameron finished speaking his creativity with a proud look, Alice looked at him innocently and said as he went: "For example, electromagnetic light weapons, high-energy flame guns, strong-melting plasma grenades, force field shields, shield chargers, orbital airdrops, interstellar armor, and phase transfer teleportation arrays. Aren't these cooler settings?"

Such a long string of words was spoken out like Alice.

Then, it was the moment when the whole room was silent.

To be honest, many professional nouns in English require special memory to understand the meaning. The so-called college students cannot understand the words and sentences of financial newspapers. This kind of joke in China is a real thing in English-speaking countries.

However, the words Alice used above are not completely unaware of.

"You, you, you... wait a moment, let me be quiet, let me be quiet."

Cameron was a little messy: "What electromagnetic...uh... force field shield, right? Then...uh... war armor... Alice, can you say the things just now again?"

Alice easily repeated the above nouns on one side, and then added: "Actually, I know that it will be very difficult to make these settings with current shooting technology. But to be honest, if it is really an army in the star-rated era, this kind of technological configuration is normal."

No matter how that is it, everyone has long been shocked by the series of science fiction settings that Alice easily spit out. To be honest, as a middle school student with both good character and academic performance, Sissi and Wuya have also paid attention to some technological development. After Alice decided to film "Alien II" and revealed the plot outline, who had never fancied the equipment of future warriors?

"It's too exaggerated..."

Xixi moaned weakly, "I don't understand what the things you said, Cameron, can you make that... what kind of transfer teleportation array?"

“Phase transfer…”

As a person in the investment industry, Lawrence, who has the highest education and the most educated, said in contemplation: "Alice, do you mean space teleportation?"

"Actually, this involves an old problem."

Seeing that the topic inevitably turned toward the technology home, Alice was happy to show off her 21st century science fiction view: "For civilizations that can truly enter the star-rated era, even if they consider it from the perspective of soft science fiction novels and movies, what technology should it have?"

The scope of this problem is too big, but Cameron's eyes are as bright as a light bulb. You know, he is a mechanical maniac who is technology-first. He just heard Alice tell such a bunch of unscrupulous settings, and then he was going to hold a science fiction tea party. How could he not excite him?

“Traveling at super light speed is a must!”

"So what energy does this superluminal engine use?"

Alice's rhetorical question made Cameron blurt out in an instant.

Wuya said in contemplation: "Fusion energy?"

Obviously, everyone knows that fission is impossible, so they jumped over it.

"Or condensation nuclear fusion, positive and anti-matter disappearance, and zero-point energy in the void, all of these can be done."

He said three unscrupulous words in one breath, and Alice smiled and said, "Then the question is, as a mature civilization that uses a certain energy, what is its entire aspect like?"

Speaking of this, everyone can see that Alice is truly the author of "Jurassic Park". Her imagination of science fiction is definitely more than 99% of ordinary people around the world!

Cameron was the one who had the most positive guess: "I understand what you mean, Alice. Just like our current society, the steam revolution and the electrical revolution have brought geometric multiple growth to social productivity. A steam revolution alone, its productivity in a hundred years is equal to the sum of thousands of years of the farming period, and the shorter electrical revolution has exploded with productivity many times that of the steam revolution in a hundred years. Then now..."

"Look at the present from a historical perspective..."

Alice said with a smile: "Our current energy is still the same. Although we have built nuclear power plants, it is still an electric society. The difference lies in the invention of computers."

This is Alice's old business. Cameron seemed to suddenly think of something and clapped his hands: "Yes! Look at Microsoft's current stock price! That $100,000 investment is definitely the smartest decision I have ever made in my life!"

Alice firmly avoids the wrong things: "Because of the electrical revolution, computers were produced, and the upcoming information revolution was extended on the basis of the electrical revolution."

Anyway, everyone in the audience was her own people. As a director, Cameron, as a director, would only inspire him more when he heard it. Alice continued without any concern: "Just considering the global Internet state that will definitely come, it will be completed in 2000, right? Is there 150 years since 2000 to the beginning of the electrical revolution?"

"It is an application of electricity that will allow the overall state of society to be replaced from the mid-19th century to the present. What is this concept? To put it bluntly, when Edison invented the electric lamp, could he imagine that electricity would bring a product like a computer?"

"Then the question is, when humans can enter the interstellar like in "Alien", what should all aspects of the entire society be like?"

Seeing Cameron's contemplative look, Alice continued to say: "There is a saying that there is only one who can't imagine it, but for science fiction movies, there are both unexpected things and unsuccessful shooting. One is that we, as people in the 'backward' society, cannot completely correctly conceive all aspects of the future society, and the other is... Well, the shooting technology is not up to standard~"

The last sentence made everyone laugh, and after listening to Alice's long speech, Wuya was fine, but Xixi had already yawned: "Just say you want to change the script, it's all kinds of messy technologies, what is the social revolution? Why do you do that far?"

Yes, after everyone accidentally turned a lot of people's topics, Xixi brought it back.

"If you change the script..."

Cameron looked through the results of his hard work for half a month: "I wrote this one myself, and I'm sure I can shoot it. So Alice, what about your script? Didn't you say that this movie will be written by you?"

Alice touched her nose: "Aren't you writing the concept and outline I gave me? But some of the details can be modified. After all, we need to show that it is a future world. According to the description in your script, it seems that the soldiers are just wearing ordinary Marine uniforms, right?"

Cameron knew she must have the next sentence: "Yes, but in this kind of place, do you have anything else to change?"

Alice shrugged easily: "I just said that Star Warfare Armor or Exoskeleton Armor is OK. No matter how bad it is, it is the storm soldier dressed in Star Wars. Since they are all called Marines, how can they not have some excellent equipment?"

“That’s all easy to say.”

After watching the crowd for a long time, Lawrence interrupted again: "The question is, if you want to make this movie very...realistic, how much budget is required?"

"Yes, this is a big problem!"

Xixi also interrupted: "Lucas's industrial light and magic price is not cheap."

This time, Alice could not answer questions immediately. She split her legs and her head hangs, and she began to think about it hard.

"Alien Two"...

This movie in history is very excellent as a product in 1986.

Although the shooting cycle was only about 21 days under Fox's urging at that time, Cameron could shoot it so wonderfully in such a short period of time. What if it was 42 days? What about 63 days?

Moreover, this is "Alien II"...

The Marines exchanged fire with the aliens on the planet. Looking at all the videos in the aliens series, this is also unique.

How can such a movie not make it so exciting?

So, what should I do?

Alice thought about it silently for five minutes. During this period, everyone tactfully did not disturb her. They just happened to say that they were tired and everyone rested on the spot.

After a moment, Alice raised her head.

"Maiya, the driver drives, let's go to a place!"

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Chapter completed!
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