Special feature of 1905 film network On the screen, the spaceship hit the moon in mid-1902, and the ancestors touched Blackstone in 1968; In reality, the industrial revolution leads social progress, and the development of science and technology explores the mysteries of the universe. The imagination of light and shadow and the creation of reality have already set each other off. At present, how many screen fantasies have come true, and how many are still on the road.
Yan Peng, a special film critic and electronic knight, chatted together. When the future has come, science fiction has come into reality.
"Food, clothing, housing and transportation" changed by technology
The rapid development of science and technology has affected our lives in all aspects. Next, let’s take stock of the sci-fi designs in those classic sci-fi movies from the four aspects of "food, clothing, housing and transportation".
There is an invisibility cloak in science fiction movies, which can be invisible when put on, and this garment has been basically realized by optical refraction now; Sports shoes that can automatically tighten shoelaces in movies have also become available in kind.
In addition, there will be exoskeleton armor in many sci-fi movies. The most impressive thing for everyone is Iron Man’s armor, which is invulnerable and has its own repair function. It is full of sense of science and technology. People in the movies also wear mechanical armor to fight against alien species. In reality, some special occupations have begun to use this kind of exoskeleton armor, such as expeditions and rescue teams.
Food is the most important thing for people, and future food is indispensable in sci-fi imagination. However, in sci-fi movies, no effort has been made in the color and flavor of food, but it has gone to the other extreme.
The film "Green Food" envisages that people in the future have reached a state of extreme lack of resources, and people’s food is made by recycling some people after death. The film was shot in the 1970s, and it was set in 2022. Fortunately, there is no such crisis in human society at present.
In terms of housing, science fiction movies often show a kind of contradiction and conflict — — High-tech and low-life, such as the residence in the movie is like a small warehouse; In the park, tens of thousands of people are arranged in a crowded building.
In Cyberpunk’s sci-fi movies, for example, the future city in Hong Kong is modeled on the Kowloon walled city in Hong Kong. No matter how grand the future city is, people’s living space is relatively narrow, and future technology only solves the problem of efficiency.
The imagination of "traveling" in science fiction movies is relatively rich. There are maglev trains in the movies, and there are images about autonomous driving in "The Fifth Element". Even in domestic science fiction movies filmed as early as 1963, land flying cars and light rails appeared.
The flying cars shown in blade runner, Black Lightning and other films have been shown in the recent Beijing Auto Show, and now they are trying to do some short-term flying experiments, and science fiction movies are about to come into reality.
Science fiction movies interact with real life.
Although many sci-fi imaginations have come into our lives and become a reality, there are still many sci-fi movies whose imaginations seem to be somewhat meaningless, and even many of them are still behind the current development.
This is because our imagination is actually limited, and the science fiction writer Asimov once put forward the "elevator effect" to illustrate this phenomenon. The "elevator effect" refers to an imaginative person who lived in the 19th century. He may predict the appearance of skyscrapers in the future, but he can’t predict the elevator. Therefore, the operation mode of skyscrapers he predicted will be somewhat ridiculous to us today. This concept is intended to show that human beings will have limitations in predicting the future.
Science fiction is different from fantasy, it must be based on scientific fantasy. The reason why our current life can surpass the imagination of science fiction movies is that technology is developing too fast now, just as the development of artificial intelligence has left many science fiction movies about AI behind, so science fiction movies will be limited by the times.
In the past, some films involving space were often labeled as sci-fi, but some time ago, the Russian film "Challenge" completed the real shooting in space. This innovation is not only a technical breakthrough, but also a bold attempt in concept, which makes science fiction really come into reality.
Nowadays, our lives are more and more inspired and influenced by science fiction movies. In the future, we also expect the imagination of science fiction movies to be more unconstrained, thus promoting the development of our economic life, and hope that our lives can bring more inspiration to science fiction movies.
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