chapter 396. looking up at the stars
On the third day after the Lantern Festival, Dr. Chen met the person in charge of the cooperation project mentioned by the vice president.
The other party looked like he was in his mid-20s, exuding a calm temperament and a bit of wisdom in his eyes. This look gave Dr. Chen the feeling that he was like the academic masters in the institute, which were precipitated after experience.
"Hello, I am Xu Rui from Huandai Media."
The other party spoke, shook hands with Dr. Chen, and looked around.
"This is the first time I have entered the observatory, and I have always wanted to come when I was a kid."
He smiled, making the atmosphere much more relaxed.
"I've also gone to the cinema before to watch "Your Name". To be honest, the depiction of comets in it fascinates me."
Dr. Chen naturally knew Xu Rui, not only because he was an alumnus Jia Ningjiang fellow villager, but also because many of Xu Rui's works contain elements such as starry sky. For example, during the release of "Your Name", students who visited the observatory often asked about comets.
"I heard from the teacher that you found him and want to build some mathematical models of celestial bodies?"
After a brief introduction, Dr. Chen asked directly.
"Yes, we are going to make a science fiction movie recently, which will produce some special effects of the universe, hoping to get support from relatively scientific mathematical models."
"Do you need mathematical models to make movies?"
Dr. Chen felt a little incredible.
There are generally two types of films that can be called science fiction movies in China, disaster movies and superhero movies.
Disaster movies are usually earthquakes and tsunamis. The mysterious thing is that comets hit the earth, aliens invade, and superhero movies are people with superpowers to save the world, or develop mechas, etc. These movies are said to be science fiction, but they are actually feature films with fantasy elements.
Works that are truly rigorous and rational like science fiction novels are dull and profound, and the public doesn't like to read them.
Over time, Dr. Chen doesn't like watching these movies very much. If he is just an audience, he can watch them without his brain, but if he studies these things too much, he will be a little embarrassed when watching them.
He originally thought that science fiction movies would be enough as long as they had enough special effects. Anyway, the audience was watching fancy and strange scenes, so the crew would not require rigor at all. As for the mathematical models of astronomical phenomena, it is estimated that few actors and directors knew this concept.
"Yes, I have some simple examples here."
Xu Rui said, took out the tablet in his bag and took a look at Dr. Chen.
Originally, Dr. Chen thought that Xu Rui was just trying to get data such as meteorites or comets, but when he saw the concept design draft, he widened his eyes.
It was a war of civilization at the cosmic level, not like the fantasy battles in past movies, but just moving the strong ships and cannons into the universe, but a war that truly transcends the cognition of modern humans.
Millions of interstellar warships perform short-range jumps, which utilize the energy of a star, from one star to another. This jump consumes a large amount of energy from the star, causing a brief red shift in the star's spectrum. So, at the edge of the galaxy, a red light belt that lasts several light years, surges towards the center of the galaxy like a red wave.
There is also the scene of stars being destroyed.
Around the micro black holes, the dust and force fields, were surrounded by space, and rushed towards the stars. The hot star surface suddenly deformed when it touched the surface of the micro black hole that had been removed from the force field control. It was like a vast ocean, a deep pit, flame, gas, and light suddenly appeared with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. Everything was sucked into it. The white light gushed out from the event horizon of the black hole was even more dazzling than the stars. In the end, the star collapsed, and billions of years of life came to an end in just a few dozen minutes.
These are all scenes that Dr. Chen dared not think of in the past.
In astronomy, it is quite difficult to be able to carefully observe the birth and death of stars. Although in one breath, millions of stars may be destroyed and hundreds of thousands of civilizations rise and fall, human observation methods are limited by human observation methods. In more than a hundred years since the establishment of the Beishan Observatory, it has only captured a star system that has entered its twilight years more than 40 years ago. This star system is more than 100,000 light-years away. In other words, this is a huge and sad death that happened more than 100,000 years ago.
"What movie do you want to make?"
Dr. Chen was shocked. Even in the interstellar war, such a magnificent picture may not be able to be used, which has surpassed human imagination.
In the past space opera-style space war movies, most of them imitated the old-age ship war mode. Dozens of warships on both sides of the enemy and us opened fire at each other, and countless aircraft were shuttled through them. This scene was full of explosions and light and shadow, which was exciting for the audience, and at the same time, it also facilitated the protagonists and other characters to turn the tide.
But according to Xu Rui's vision, on this light-year scale, humans are insignificant in the confrontation of millions of warships, and no matter how powerful the protagonist is, he will not be able to make the world come true.
Just imagine, on the ground, the battles of tens of thousands of people were stretched out very long, so what Xu Rui wanted was to magnify this scale by millions of times.
In this scene, even a huge warship is just like an ant. This is a magnificent scenery under the macro scale of nature and a magnificent scene that countless people cannot see until death.
Dr. Chen took his thoughts back from the distant starry sky and looked at the young man in front of him.
"What we want to make is a science fiction movie, Director."
Xu Rui replied naturally.
“Real science fiction movies.”
He added another sentence.
"But let's not talk about whether the information we have mastered here can establish a reasonable mathematical model. It should be very expensive to make special effects alone."
Dr. Chen asked back, he probably knew why Xu Rui had to find the vice president. This kind of scene, relying on human imagination alone, is not necessarily good-looking, but not reasonable. If there is a scientific and reasonable astral mathematical model as the basis, it will be much simpler in producing special effects. However, this scale of special effects is expensive according to the production level of the academic community, let alone the film and television industry?
"It's okay, we spare no effort to present the real starry sky."
Xu Rui smiled, and from his smile, Dr. Chen saw confidence and expectation.
He heard that some rich people paid for designing and researching rockets in order to fulfill their dream of flying into the universe. However, Xu Rui in front of him might really be to satisfy his childhood longing for the starry sky, so he did not care about the cost.
"Okay, there are just a few students here who are studying this part. I'll introduce them to you."
Dr. Chen was also moved when he saw such a person who was purely yearning for the starry sky.
Chapter completed!