Special feature of 1905 film network To all the "low-headed people":
Don’t underestimate the mobile phones in your hand, because maybe one day, they will collectively "become fine" and launch a crazy counterattack against human beings.
This is not an idiotic dream, but a true story in Indian science fiction films.
Indian films have always been known as "brain holes", which we have learned in the epic baahubali. The mythical theme is still the case, and it is even more unscrupulous in the field of science fiction.
In the Bollywood Robot 2.0, which was released this weekend and claimed to be the highest investment in Bollywood, the director will refresh your three views with all kinds of bizarre settings and 3D special effects.
When the film was released in India last year, it easily broke the opening record of "baahubali", and won the box office champion in India in 2018 and the second place in the box office of Indian film history.
However, as the first Indian sci-fi film to be introduced to the mainland, the performance of this Bollywood robot on its first day in China market can be described as "bleak". The box office is only over 6 million, and the Douban score is only 5.8 points.
Xiao Dianjun, who has seen the film, said responsibly,The story and logic of the film are really a long story, and the strong Bollywood style is not in line with our sci-fi aesthetics.
However, all kinds of "brain-hole-level" special effects that knock off the chin are still quite enjoyable, and the whole process gives a high-energy sigh of "you can still do this". You can’t miss it if you like curiosity.
The starting point of the film is very "realistic": India, as a country with population and technology, has more than 1 billion mobile phones. In order to attack the city, mobile operators frantically set up base stations all over the country, leading to electronic radiation in off the charts.
Birds have become the biggest victims of cell phone signal radiation, and they have died and are on the verge of extinction.
While the screenwriter was "self-deprecating", he did not forget to praise China. "China is the most populous country, but they only have three communication operators."
At this time, a scientist who loves birds like a life stepped forward and did not hesitate to kill himself to generate negative energy, on behalf of birds to destroy you (human beings).
Looking at it carefully, is the image of this "bird man" big boss vaguely familiar?
Yes, he is one of the most expensive actors in Bollywood. He once starred in Akshay Kumar, who waited for movies.
In order to play the image of this possessed "bird man", he also worked very hard, and all kinds of shocking shapes came to everyone, spending more than three hours on makeup every day.
You ask what this mysterious "negative energy" is? The director won’t talk, and we dare not ask.
Anyway, the combat effectiveness is quite open, and everyone’s mobile phones can be absorbed and controlled to form a mobile phone army, and different forms can be changed at any time.
Among them, "bird monster" and "giant" are the most common, and they can also become fluid, tree-like, and pervasive.
As the "culprit", the head of India’s telecommunications department and the owner of the operator bear the brunt, becoming the number one target of the mobile phone legion’s revenge, and their deaths are quite tragic.
Some were sneaked into the bedroom by mobile phones and burst alive from the body;
Some were swallowed up by huge waves and blown into fireworks;
Some people can still hum in the air with blood in their mobile phones after death.
The first half of the film is not a science fiction film, it is simply a living cult horror film.High-energy pictures one after another, the timid little electric gentleman was really scared.
After the killing of the "mobile phone monster", the hero robot "Seven Brothers" finally arrived late.
Several rounds of fierce fighting between the seven brothers and the "Bird Monster", especially the final stadium Armageddon, also became the biggest attraction of the film.
"Big Bird Monster" can control the mobile phone army, and the seventh brother can also make robot troops. Diamond cut diamond two people began several rounds of "super change" big battle.
The "Bird Monster" unleashed an army of giants, and the seventh brother opened a 360-degree "lipstick" (oh no, machine gun) solution.
The "Bird Monster" showed its original shape, and the Seventh Brother was adjusted to the "Golden Bell Cover and Iron Cloth Shirt" mode.
The "Bird Monster" has the form of a giant, and the Seventh Brother also has the form of "Wan Ciwang+Iron Man".
It can be said that the magic is one foot high and the Tao is ten feet high.
No one thought that the big move to defeat the villains turned out to be the bird monster’s favorite army of birds, and the specific way Xiao Dianjun would not be dramatized here.
The bird monster controls the mobile phone to attack human beings, but human beings use birds to complete the Jedi counterattack. The director of this wave of "Deal with a man as he deals with you" played quite well.
Finally, the director did not forget to tell the main idea of the film through the mouth of the scientist who invented the seventh brother: "We should use technology to cure diseases, eliminate poverty and promote education, and if we abuse technology to satisfy selfish desires and encourage greed, we will one day reap the consequences."
Generally speaking, this Bollywood Robot 2.0 is not a successful science fiction film, the plot is difficult to delve into, and the presentation of the theme is very far-fetched.
But there is no doubt that several climax action scenes in the film show the development level of Indian special effects technology and the amazing imagination beyond the technical level.
Although most of the technical teams behind the scenes have Hollywood backgrounds, they have successfully created a brand-new sci-fi style in the context of Indian movies.
In the sci-fi movie circle where Hollywood has the right to speak, Indian sci-fi is undoubtedly a "mudslide".
Since the 1990s, India has gradually begun to try science fiction films. In the early days, Mr. India starred by Sridevi. Recently, the representative ones are Bollywood Robot series, Indian Superman series, time-travel theme and Douban with a score of 7.8.
The fourth film in the "Indian Superman" series has been filmed since 2003, which tells the story of Indian Superman Roche who defeated the dark forces many times and saved the world after gaining the super power and wisdom endowed by aliens.
It is not difficult to see that the film imitates and draws lessons from Hollywood classic sci-fi movies such as E.T. from the title, modeling, setting and special effects, but the ubiquitous song and dance elements and Indian humor are very Bollywood-like, which embodies the Indian sci-fi style.
In contrast, the Bollywood Robot series is more original. The top visual effects created by huge investment, bold and exaggerated action scenes with strong comic style have become the signature features of this series.
As early as 2010, the first film in this series, Love of Hollywood Robots, won nearly $100 million at the global box office, and the special effects and action design in it seemed very advanced at that time. Although the second film’s reputation is not as good as expected, judging from the egg at the end of the film and the box office results in India, the third film is a foregone conclusion.
The action design in is very distinctive.
With the development of Indian space technology, the theme of Indian science fiction films in recent two years has gradually left the earth and soared into space. In 2018, "Blowing the Stars" became India’s first space-themed film. The film "Mission Manual" adapted from real events and showing the launching process of the Indian Mars probe was also released this summer.
Two Indian space films: Blowing the Stars and Mission Manual.
In the past decade, with the overall progress of India’s science and technology industry, major Hollywood studios have outsourced their special effects work to Indian companies. The rise of Indian science fiction movies also benefited from the development of the whole visual effects industry to some extent.
Judging from the current box office and word-of-mouth of Bollywood Robot 2.0 in mainland China, it is still difficult for Indian sci-fi with unique style to conquer the taste buds of overseas audiences, but no one can ignore the mysterious force that this sci-fi film circle is rising.
