Chapter 129 New "3 Body"
Chapter 129: The New Three-Body Problem
"I also agree with Mr. Wang's overall design."
Wen Pengcheng, head of the screenwriting department of Galaxy Interactive Entertainment, also expressed his views after Zhang Yang expressed his opinion.
"By doing this, the plot design of the film can be closer to the audience's thinking.
After all, movies are popular art. If you explain to them what the Three-Body Planet and what the Three-Body aliens are, it would take up a lot of space and be very boring.
But if it is just a confrontation between good and evil, then this kind of conflict will exist.
And judging from Mr. Wang’s design, this human villain organization will probably have a lot of roles. This will greatly enhance the character arc of the villain and make the story more interesting.
With today’s audience’s appreciation level, it is easier to understand.”
Upon hearing this, the others nodded.
Wang Hao was very satisfied to see that everyone agreed with his overall plan for the second phase of the main plot of the sci-fi movie universe, so he said:
"Okay, now that the main storyline has been determined, we would like to invite Teacher Liu to tell us about the general background of the second phase and the Trisolarans."
When Liu Cixin heard Wang Hao calling him, he was stunned at first, then he reacted and distributed the documents in front of him to everyone.
“This is a partial copy of the manuscript of my new book, The Three-Body Problem, which I wrote based on Mr. Wang’s film chronicles. You can take a look at it.”
Everyone took the document and began to read it. Liu Cixin took the opportunity to begin to explain his own story.
"In this book, the Trisolarans were forced to migrate as a tribe because their planet was facing an astronomical disaster, and they turned their attention to the starry sky.
On Earth, in the "Red Coast" base built to explore extraterrestrial civilizations, Chinese astronomer Ye Wenjie came into contact with an ancient civilization buried in history for the first time. He learned that before the emergence of human civilization, another alien civilization had come to Earth and left behind many mysterious alien traces.
With the help of the ancient knowledge of celestial bodies and feng shui that she had acquired from her good friend while working in the Greater Khingan Range, she verified it with modern astronomy and finally succeeded in deciphering the message left by the ancient civilization. Using the sun as an antenna, she sent the first cry of Earth civilization into the universe.
This voice, full of wisdom and logic, was naturally received by the Three-Body people.
After learning about the situation of the Trisolarans, Ye Wenjie, who had despaired of humanity, established contact with the aliens and took the initiative to expose the coordinates of the Earth.
It was also on this day that Ye Wenjie confirmed that she was pregnant.
Because of the kindness of human nature, Ye Wenjie felt remorseful when the matter came to an end. However, the earth-shaking changes that followed in China allowed Ye Wenjie to return to a normal life and bury the incident deep in her heart.
However, after returning to campus, Ye Wenjie took on an important project to design a large radio astronomy observation base.
While searching for a location for the base, Ye Wenjie met a foreigner named Evans.
This Evans is a staunch environmentalist. In order to save an endangered bird species, he planted trees alone on the Loess Plateau.
The two had the same understanding and soon became good friends.
Unfortunately, three years later, the forest planted by Evans was completely cut down by short-sighted local villagers and exchanged for money.
Evans felt disheartened and despaired of saving human society. Even though he inherited a huge inheritance and multinational corporations from his parents and elders, these riches could not stop human madness.
Ye Wenjie was deeply touched when she saw this situation and recalled her past experiences. So when Evans complained to her that humans no longer had the ability to change themselves, Ye Wenjie was moved and told Evans the secret of the Trisolaran existence.
After Evans got the information about the existence of the Trisolarans, he returned to his country and used the inheritance left by his father to carry out activities and recruit personnel. It took him three years, and he finally completed the reconstruction of the Second Red Coast Base on a cruise ship called Judgment Day, and successfully established contact with the Trisolarans in outer space.
After this, the Earth Trisolaran Organization (ETO), led by Ye Wenjie and Evans, began to operate in secret, delivering intelligence about human society to the Trisolarans, while carrying out their missions, hindering the development of Earth's technology, and preparing for the coming of the Trisolarans.
At this point, a magnificent struggle began to slowly unfold.
And this is "Past Events on Earth", the prequel to the novel "The Three-Body Problem".
As for how the ETO organization led by Evans and the Special Affairs Office led by Shi Qiang will compete with each other, it depends on Director Wang’s arrangement and planning for the “Three-Body” series of films.”
Liu Cixin finished his speech, but the magnificent "Past Events of Earth" made everyone present linger on it for a long time, and it was difficult for them to recover for a while.
They also didn't expect that they had only made three movies, but behind these three movies, there was such a magnificent world hidden.
In the end, it was Wen Pengcheng from the screenwriting department who reacted first. He looked at Wang Hao and asked:
"Then Mr. Wang, can the main plot of the entire "Three-Body Problem" be understood as a story of confrontation between the ETO organization led by Evans and the team led by Shi Qiang?"
"That's basically it," Wang Hao nodded, "but the specific details still need to be discussed."
As he said this, he picked up the pen and drew a vertical line on the white board. On the left side of the vertical line, he wrote the three words "ETO", "Evans" and "Painter".
To the right of the vertical line, the two words "Shi Qiang" were written.
"There are heroes and villains, and different characters will have different solo movies, like the 'painter' in 'Fatal Call' who only exists in the background.
He is the leader of a transnational counterfeit money gang and is also responsible for providing funds for the ETO organization. I wrote a script specifically for him.
In addition to these single-player movies, the struggle between the two sides surrounding the arrival of the Three-Body aliens will also be the main plot of the Three-Body series.
"What is the main focus of this struggle?" Wen Pengcheng from the screenwriting department asked again.
Wang Hao did not answer this time. Instead, he pointed at Zhuo Ping, who was sitting next to Liu Cixin and went by the pen name Fang Baiyu, and said:
"I have entrusted the design of the main struggle of the Three-Body series to Mr. Zhuo. Let him explain it to us next."
Upon hearing this, Zhuo Ping stood up and, like Liu Cixin, distributed the manuscript in front of him to everyone.
“Hello everyone, regarding the design of the main plot of The Three-Body Problem, Mr. Wang gave me a basic outline a few months ago.
After that, I integrated and improved my novel "Game Era" and finally wrote this version of "Three-Body" 1.0."
He paused, waiting for everyone to quickly glance at the contents of the document, and then said: "Of course, regarding the main plot, this is not the final version of the story.
After all, each solo movie is intertwined with the main storyline. If the solo movies are not finalized, the main storyline will also be difficult to finalize. So if you have any opinions, please feel free to raise them as soon as possible to avoid conflicts later, which will make it difficult to change. "
He gave a reminder first, and when everyone nodded to show that they understood, he began to talk about the main plot of the "Three-Body" series of films.
“Regarding the early background of the Three-Body series, Liu Cixin has just introduced it to you. I will continue.
It is said that the Three-Body aliens received Ye Wenjie's signal and locked onto the Earth's position in the universe, so they decided to launch an expedition to the Earth and migrate the entire nation there.
However, from the information passed on by Ye Wenjie, they also learned about the situation on Earth. After analysis, they found that the technological development on Earth was extremely fast. If they continued the expedition in this way, by the time the Three-Body Fleet arrived on Earth, it was very likely that the technological level of the Earthlings would have surpassed theirs.
So the Trisolarans used their own technology to create two "sophists" and launched one of them to Earth at the speed of light."
"What is 'Smart Child'?" Li Qian suddenly raised her hand and asked.
Liu Cixin stood up and said, "Let me explain this."
"The so-called sophon is an intelligent weapon created by the Trisolarans. They use a giant accelerator to expand the dimensional space inside a proton, and then etch circuits on it to turn it into an extremely tiny proton computer.
This tiny weapon can fly at the speed of light, is loaded with a large amount of information, and has the ability to think. It can interfere with the research of microscopic particles by scientists around the world and hinder human development in microscopic physics.
In addition, it can monitor the entire world and create many phenomena that cannot be explained by science, interfere with the psychology and thoughts of scientific researchers, and completely block the potential for the development of science and technology on Earth."
Liu Cixin explained in detail that the special weapon "Smart Son" was originally conceived by him, so the explanation was also very detailed.
After hearing the explanation, Zhang Yang asked, "Since Chieko is so powerful, how can the villain with the help of this weapon be defeated?"
Liu Cixin seemed to have anticipated that someone would ask this question, so he pointed out Tomoko's shortcomings.
"First of all, creating sophons is not a simple matter. It requires a huge amount of energy and is also very dangerous.
Even with the technological level of the Trisolarans, they only successfully produced two sophons.
And because a single sophon cannot be communicated with from a macroscopic perspective after it shrinks into a microscopic particle, the Trisolarans only launched one sophon to Earth.
In addition, when the sophon shrinks into microscopic particles, its impact on the macroscopic world is almost zero.
Therefore, it is impossible to expect Zhizi to assassinate a human being. "
"So this is an invisible monitor who is like God and can know what's happening around the world." Zhang Yang nodded in understanding and smiled, "This kind of villain is still very difficult to deal with."
The others nodded in agreement. They were all practitioners in the film and television industry, and they all had almost the same characteristic in that they watched a lot of movies.
If we take a closer look at domestic and foreign films, we will find that enemies as omniscient as Tomoko are indeed rare.
Therefore, it becomes a difficult problem to design the plot so that the resistance faction and the advent faction can compete with each other, or even defeat each other.
As everyone was thinking about this, Zhuo Ping had some time to speak, so he continued:
"When Sophon arrived on Earth, it was already 2005. The Second Red Coast Base where Evans was located had already reestablished contact with the Trisolarans. Not only did they transmit a large amount of intelligence about human society to them, they also obtained a lot of high-tech technologies from the Trisolarans.
With the support of the Trisolarans, the Earth Trisolaran Organization ETO developed rapidly and formed a huge force. At the same time, they also followed the instructions of the Trisolarans and carried out anti-human tasks.
There are two main tasks.
1. Through environmentalism and other movements, the earth's people are led to hate science and hinder the progress of technology;
2. Destroy large-scale scientific and technological infrastructure projects, assassinate important scientists, and suppress new discoveries in the scientific field.
Naturally, their rampant actions attracted the attention of governments around the world.
After exchanging intelligence, governments of various countries discovered that they were facing the same enemy. Although they knew nothing about the enemy's appearance, the enemy's goal seemed to be to hinder the development of human science and technology, or even to destroy the entire human society.
The emergence of a common enemy forced the countries on Earth to cooperate with each other and set up a special operations department to deal with the crazy destruction of the Earth Trisolaran Organization ETO.
Shi Qiang, who appeared in "The Shallows" and "The Call", is a member of this special operations department.
It was during this confrontation that the smart people in the special operations department guessed that the Trisolaran Organization (ETO) had the special ability to monitor the entire globe, and also unraveled the other party's plan to block the development of Earth's technology.
In order to destroy the other party's conspiracy, the Earth government began to intensify the siege of the Trisolaran Organization ETO, while also starting to find ways to break through the technological blockade of Sophon.
The key equipment in the "Heart Labyrinth" series, the "Subconscious Therapy Device", is one of the powerful weapons used by the Earth Government to fight against Sophon.
After all, no matter how powerful the sophon is, no matter how magical its function is, it is still a particle of matter, and the "subconscious therapy device" involves the mysterious and illusory dream subconscious.
The special operations team then implemented the "Wallfacer" plan, establishing its headquarters in the dream world to avoid Sophon's surveillance.
In addition, as you have seen in "Fatal Call", the "Subconscious Therapy Device" can combine the dreams of two people and simulate a virtual world that is close to reality.
Therefore, relying on this principle, and adding the high-tech equipment excavated from the ruins of ancient alien civilizations, a large-scale virtual online game "Dream Chaser" jointly operated by multiple countries and participated by more players in their dreams came into being.
In this virtual world, human history began to evolve from scratch and developed rapidly at a faster pace.
Scientists can also conduct technological simulations in the virtual world and then verify them with the real world, thus avoiding interference of intelligent particles in high-energy physics experiments.
Of course, the ETO organization will not allow the Earth government to break free from the technological blockade. They have also formulated the "Wallbreaker" plan in response to the "Wallfacer" plan.
Surrounding the virtual dream game "Dream Chaser", the struggle between the resistance and the advent faction naturally reached its peak.
This is the general plot of the first half of the Three-Body series."
(End of this chapter)