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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 the exquisite conception, and it has a reversal plot that is different from the general alien invasion.

At that time, I was used to seeing different routines like the United Nations resisting aliens and bloody killings in Independence Day, or the alien creatures mixed with the crowd in Men in Black. A taste of poverty is revealed from the footage.

The aliens in District 9 are not as powerful as the alien creatures in other films. Although they also have high-tech weapons and interstellar spaceships, they have been enslaved by humans since they came to Earth.

Humans studied them and named these sudden alien creatures prawns. Later, the environment where they were placed became more and more remote and less valued. After the initial freshness and panic, the prawns have been abandoned. Many Humans despise these dirty, incommunicable, and unintelligent creatures from the bottom of their hearts...

It wasn't until the biggest highlight of the film, the identity change, that all humans' malice towards prawns was naked...

In fact, the birth of this film was quite tortuous. Earlier, Peter Jackson took over a job, preparing to form a team to shoot the movie version of the X-BOX game masterpiece Halo, and Jackson happened to take a fancy to the film version at an exhibition. Neil Blomkamp, ​​who has two MVs and a self-funded short film.

As a result, the Halo project was shelved indefinitely by the employer due to interest considerations, which made Peter Jackson, who admired Neil very much, feel uneasy. After thinking about it, this chubby who had little money and repeatedly gave up losing weight decided to pay for it out of his own pocket and took out 3,000. 10,000 dollars, let Neil make a film he wanted to make, so the Ninth District was born.

You know, Peter Jackson didn't take on projects for more than two years at that time, and the director bonus for the Lord of the Rings series and King Kong earlier was so much, and he spent a lot for experimental technology, 30 million has been It's a very big grant for him without hurting his life.

After all, Neil is just a rookie director who has never made a theatrical feature film. Except for Peter Jackson, who feels he owes something, no one will take the risk to support him. Jackson asked for it, and they prepared it for Halo. After so long, the project said no.

Inside the hotel room.

From time to time, Ryman draws a storyboard script on A4 paper.

Compared with Neil's constrained hands due to insufficient budget when he filmed The Ninth District, Lehmann is fully capable of bringing the project to a first-line masterpiece with an investment of about 130 million in the sci-fi genre.

This movie has stopped many mainstream audiences because of its rough B-level film style. If the budget keeps up, it will not be held back by special effects.

There is a little less visual enjoyment to impress the audience and attract tickets.

You know, the several trailers released by The Ninth District, everyone thought they were bad movies and shoddy productions just by looking at the pictures, but some of them turned out to be really fragrant, and most of them didn't go to the theater at all because the first feeling was not good.

That's why Ryman said District 9 was buried under its budget, and it grossed far more than $200 million.

Facts have also proved that this movie has completely established word of mouth and fame after its great success at the Oscars. After the DVD was released, it sold more than 20 million sets in 2 years, bringing over 130 million profits to Sony...

Now coupled with Lehman's own appeal and word of mouth, the special effects and shooting keep up, can't it attract more audiences?

How many of the sci-fi movies on the market can have such wonderful stories as District 9?

More importantly, Neil was constrained by funds, and there were a lot of things that he brought in a hurry. Layman can add some space on this basis. According to his ideas, the main content of this edition of District 9 is about 118. Minutes, including the logo at the beginning and the list of people at the end, the total duration is about 125 minutes, a little over two hours.

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

Later, researchers discovered the essence of prawns’ appearances. The social structure of prawns in the film is similar to that of ants. After the death of the queen ants, these worker ants have no specific action command, so they are stupid and unable to communicate. They only know how to eat. , dirty and violent, at this time, the attitude of human beings towards prawns turns 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 completely lost their curiosity about prawns. In addition, there were no major discoveries in the research over the years. Even the only interstellar spacecraft could not find out what kind of power maintenance, and all those with a little research role were evacuated. , became tattered, coupled with the fact that the prawns are very prolific, and the number is rapidly expanding, the government does not want to raise them, and the people generally begin to hate these ugly species that only know how to destroy but do not know how to produce them, and they are all transferred to a specific area - the slums in South Africa, delineated For the ninth district, let the prawns fend for themselves;

There are only more detailed foreshadowing of these - the original film also has it, but the description space is too small, and then the male protagonist's natural killing of prawns at the beginning seems to have no reason, but if the overall attitude of human beings is the same, these prawns If you don't have half a cent of affection, and you completely dislike it, then it makes sense.

This is like finding a termite nest, pouring cement into their nests, and trampling their eggs to death. From the perspective of humans, it is completely ok, because termites are very harmful to humans, and the people support this. Shrimp, the same is not good for humans...

Lehman took A4 paper to quickly describe these scenes. There are humans feeding prawns in cages, humans scolding and shooting a prawn who grabbed something, and the male protagonist is facing the camera, showing the prawns. The fetus, and then played to death, there was no guilt on the face, just novelty...

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

In practice, apartheid prevents non-white groups (even those living in white South Africa) from gaining voting rights or influence. This policy is implemented to ensure white power, because there are few white people, too many non-white people, and white people are noble They are afraid of losing their wealth and status...

After this part of the foreshadowing, the male protagonist came into contact with Christo, a rare intelligent body among prawns. He was sprayed by the energy liquid that it had collected for 20 years, and changed from humans to prawns that everyone hated. After that, The drama and plot tension of the film is further amplified.

A former human, the current prawn Wiggs finally saw the darker side, the research progress of the researchers on prawns, all kinds of disemboweled, ** experiments, when it is found that the male protagonist becomes a prawn and can be used After the alien weapon, the high-level human beings who were eager to get the technology, including the father-in-law who admired the male protagonist very much, decided to disassemble Wiggs' body to see how he was different from the prawn in the previous experiment.

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

The climax of the whole film is the madness of Wiggs after being tortured by a series of realities based on his former human position and his current prawn position. Deformation of the inhuman thought of man.

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

In other words, District 9 would have lost its luster if it didn't have Wiggs' psychological struggle after transforming into a prawn.

Thoroughly sorting out the thoughts on District 9 in his mind, Lyman put down his pen and stretched.

Then, Scott Ross was notified to let the digital field set up the project in advance.

After finishing this, Ryan called.

What are you doing now?

What about the studio, is there something wrong?

I Am a Hero is about to be painted. Are you coming to the celebration party?

Let's do it with Liam, I won't go here. Layman just remembered that it was already February before he knew it. I Am a Hero has been shown for 65 days, and it has already been released from the theater. down.

Oh, yes, I have read the script of District 9, and there are still some areas that need to be polished. In the script, Wiggs' family can be more content, mainly to capture the relationship between close people before and after the transformation. The change in his attitude, in my opinion, is also an important part of destroying Wiggs' psychology...