Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 753 The Moon (13)

Congratulations on wrapping up filming!

"Thanks…"

Shen Yan was quite happy…

To be honest, filming "The Wandering Earth" was a wonderful memory for him!
—After all, he's just an actor; he doesn't need to worry about too much.

It's much better than filming "The Martian"—"The Martian" was truly a process of creating something from scratch, and Yan Ge really put in a lot of effort into that project…

Wu Jing suggested, "How about we have a drink tonight?"

Shen Yan nodded: "Okay..."

Wu Jing can't really drink much; he can only drink a few bottles of beer... and about half a jin of baijiu is enough for him!

But he quite likes to drink…

Enjoying drinking and having a high tolerance for it are two different things!

I've heard that some veteran actors go to work drunk every day...

I don't know if it's true or not!

Anyway, Brother Yan has never encountered it.

"I'll go back and pack up first, and book a hotel... You guys can come over after you finish filming."

After saying goodbye, Shen Yan turned and left...

Once in the car, Chen Xu said, "Brother Yan, 'Moon' grossed 1.03 million yesterday!"

"Did they win the box office championship?"

"Take it!"

"It's good that you took it..." Shen Yan nodded, then asked Chen Xu, "What's the reputation like?"

"Douban rating 8.7..."

Where's the cat's eye?

"Cat's Eye rating is only 9.2..."

Shen Yan sighed, then said, "That's normal!"

Actually, Maoyan has a very 'good' algorithm for rating: as long as you buy tickets through Maoyan, watch the movie, and don't rate it, it will automatically give you 10 points!
Therefore, most of them have a Maoyan rating of 9 points or higher.

The difference between it and Douban: A high rating on Douban does not necessarily mean it is good, but a low rating definitely means it is bad;

On Maoyan (a Chinese online marketplace), a high rating doesn't necessarily mean a good product, and a low rating doesn't necessarily mean a bad one.

However, those with low ratings are definitely not to the taste of mainstream audiences!
Therefore, the film with the lowest Maoyan rating is "Long Day's Journey into Night," which received a score of 2.6, later rising to 3.0. Another film with the lowest Maoyan rating is "The Hotel Never Sets," which had a score of 3.3, later rising to 3.8…

These two films made the audience feel deeply deceived!
Especially "Long Day's Journey into Night," which was marketed with the theme of a "New Year's Eve kiss," but after only half an hour of the movie starting, more than half of the audience had left the theater...

Moon has a Maoyan rating of 9.2…

It's highly unlikely to reach 6 million in box office revenue!

However, "Independence Day: Resurgence," which was released on the same day, only received a score of 8.4 on Maoyan...

"What about Now You See Me 2?"

"8.8..."

Is Independence Day 2 really that bad?

"Yeah, I've seen a lot of people say this is a bad movie!"

"Roland Emmerich has completely given up..."

Roland Emmerich, like Michael Bay and Tony Scott, is an excellent genre film director.

His ability to handle large-scale scenes was evident in his early work, such as *Stargate*, and later films like *Independence Day* and *2012* further solidified his reputation. However, with the increasing number of special effects blockbusters, simply showcasing large-scale scenes has become less effective in captivating audiences…

Another point is that genre film directors often lose their status after messing up a high-budget blockbuster. For example, his fellow countryman Wolfgang Petersen messed up "Poseidon," and Stephen Sommers disappeared without a trace after messing up "G.I. Joe."

After Independence Day 2, Emmerich's career was a complete flop. His subsequent film, Midway, no longer featured any of the Hollywood Big Six, and instead relied heavily on Chinese investment.

Then came *Moonfall*, produced by Lionsgate—they saw Emmerich's cost-saving ability in *Midway*, a film where many scenes were cut from other movies…

I never expected Moonfall to be so bad!
Independence Day 2 was even worse…

In fact, the most difficult story to tell in science fiction war movies about alien invasions is how humanity fights against aliens.

why?

Since aliens can achieve interstellar teleportation, it means that their civilization level is at least level 2 or higher!
That would be a dimensional reduction attack on Earth!

The only way Earth can defeat them is through the viruses that are native to Earth…

Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks!" is a comedy, but it's certainly a valid approach.

……

The movie *Moon* is simple. The protagonist, Sam (played by Andy Lau), works on the moon, responsible for collecting helium energy. As the only staff member at the lunar base, he has signed a three-year contract with the company, which will allow him to return to Earth and his beautiful wife and newborn daughter upon completion of the contract. However, an accident causes his death in the collection vehicle, and the scene shifts to Sam lying on an operating table inside the lunar base.

Upon waking up, he overheard the robot assistant Gerty talking to the company's management, asking it, "How can you destroy a collection vehicle and an employee in one day?"

Sam became suspicious and insisted on going outside to check, despite Gerty's objections...

The result was chilling: he discovered another version of himself at the site of the accident.

That's right, Sam is a clone!

This man has a wife and daughter. He will spend three years mining on the moon, and then he can go home when the mining is finished.

He spends his days relying on his wife and daughter's false memories and videos, and in his spare time he tends to his flowers and makes sculptures.

Three years is the final deadline. His body is failing, he's nearing the end, lying in the incinerator dreaming of reuniting with his wife and daughters, before he's burned to ashes in an instant...

The film explores themes of cloning, humanity, loneliness, and even ethics...

From a developmental perspective, including cost-saving, cloning humans to work on the moon is in the best interests of humanity.

After all, the cost of training a lunar miner is too high.

Moreover, sending a normal human to work on the moon for three years is too risky—long-term exposure to cosmic ray radiation, and even with solar winds in the base, the effects of sunlight on humans are still very significant. Normal people cannot live on the moon for an extended period, and fully mechanical artificial intelligence requires clones to assist in certain situations.

The ending is a plot twist—Sam's true identity is actually the deceased founder of Lunar Energy Company!
In other words... the boss cloned himself!
Furthermore, memories were implanted with the clone…

This ending was quite unexpected, completely overturning all the preconditions...

There are no purely good guys or bad guys in the entire movie…

Also, the budget for "Moon" was actually very low; it was mostly solo scenes, plus one robot...

The lunar base is already built!
The cost was 4000 million...

So, the box office figures for the first three days of the weekend are in: 3.27 million yuan, and everyone is quite happy!
……

"For us, the success of 'Moon' means that many similar films can be made... which shows that audiences are also interested in niche science fiction themes!"

Shen Yan was also present at the promotional event for "The Moon" in Shanghai, answering reporters' questions.

"Because 'Ex Machina' and 'Moon' are actually very niche genres, exploring very profound themes... we can't say that every viewer will be interested..."

"Therefore, when we were writing the script, we tried to simplify the scenes as much as possible to reduce costs... Brother Hua should know that 'Moon' was filmed entirely on the lunar base we built, and there was no other scene at all!"

Andy Lau nodded: "That's true...and I was the only one acting from beginning to end..."

Director Kong Dashan chimed in, "When Brother Hua was filming, he was always worried that the results wouldn't be good..."

"Because I've never acted in this kind of role before!"

(End of this chapter)