What are some examples of the integration of science fiction, science and technology, and film and television?

Classic example: 200 1: a space odyssey.

"200 1: A Space Odyssey" was released on 1968, which tells the story of astronauts going to Jupiter for investigation and experiencing a series of fantastic processes, and is known as "the milestone of modern science fiction film technology".

In 200 1: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick explored the complex relationship between man and technology, and between man and the universe with film language.

What Kubrick did was not a simple creation, but a complex and profound exploration based on scientific truth and full of technical details.

The first is the scientific consultant of this film.

"200 1: A Space Odyssey" consulted 65 scientific research institutions, and scientists were hired as film science consultants to help the creative team create scientific pictures and plot details, provide logical explanations for the story scenes, and guide actors to better play scientists and astronauts. For example, Frederic Odway, a scientist of NASA, and Harry Lange, an aerospace engineer, based on the most advanced science and technology at that time, deduced the "future technology" needed by Kubrick's artistic creation, and together with the creative team, integrated it into the narrative and pictures of 200 1: A Space Odyssey. For example, nuclear reactor based on gas core, high temperature ionized gas technology, trans-planetary manned space mission plan and so on. In order to show the origin of human beings in the film, "Where do we come from?" The ultimate question, Kubrick and the famous Arthur Clark visited anthropologists Harry Shapiro and isaac asimov together. ...

Secondly, it is the ultimate pursuit of technical truth.

For the first time, I was shocked when I learned that Kubrick paid 750,000 dollars to Wex Engineering Company for "200 1: A Space Odyssey" and spent half a year building a real centrifugal cabin and gravity wheel. Such figures are not unique-from Kubrick to Nolan, from 200 1: A Space Odyssey to Interstellar, in fact, many things have cultural roots, at least some social soil makes such figures who pursue the integration of science fiction, technology and film and television constantly born.

The third is the relationship between this film and various technology companies.

Look at this list: IBM, Bell Telephone (AT & amp； T's predecessor), ABC, Pan Am, General Electric, Honeywell ...

These enterprises are deep partners of 200 1: A Space Odyssey. Obviously, they are interested in the virtual testimony of "200 1: A Space Odyssey" to the future: how humans will enter space in the near future, and how to go to neighboring planets that shine forever in the night sky; What the future spacecraft will look like; What people wear, what they eat, what they talk about decades later ... and these brands hope to exist in this future.

Finally, what did the scientific community get?

Scientists who participated in "200 1: A Space Odyssey" can get popular science from the public through the virtual witness of the film, at least, it has aroused the curiosity and imagination of many people.

My personal favorite example: interstellar.

I walked into the cinema seven times and watched the stars with IMAX. Not only did I not feel less fresh because I watched it repeatedly, but with more and more understanding behind the scenes of Star Trek, I was full of admiration and respect for this film. Today, I still haven't explored the whole picture of this iceberg.

First of all, how did Interstellar come?

1980, the famous astronomer carl sagan Voyager-1 (a famous golden record launched into the universe), an important scientist and leader, the scientific consultant of the sci-fi movie Contact with Time and Space, and the original author of the novel enthusiastically arranged blind dates with Kip Thorne, a young theoretical physicist from Southern California Institute of Technology, and Lynda Obst, who was about to enter Hollywood. The two men had an affair for a while, but they didn't get together in the end. It was not until 2005 that Kip Thorne met Linda again at the party. At this time, Thorne was already a prestigious physicist, and Linda also grew into a successful film producer in Hollywood. The two quickly reached a cooperative understanding on a film project, which includes wormholes, black holes, gravitational waves and sci-fi content in five-dimensional space.

In February, 2006, they completed the outline of the story, and quickly got Spielberg's favor. Then jonathan nolan became the screenwriter of this project.

However, this is still a long nine-year journey, with many twists and turns. Finally, Christopher Nolan took over, and Paramount and Warner Bros., two big competitors, cooperated to make the Interstellar, which was praised as a masterpiece by many audiences.

Secondly, how do Interstellar's science and art interweave in the picture?

In the initial creative stage, the creative team and the scientific consultant reached two consensus:

1. The plot of a movie should not violate the known laws of physics and our definite knowledge of the universe.

2. Unclear physical laws and conjectures about the universe should come from real science, and the basis of conjectures should at least be recognized by mainstream scientists.

Spielberg, the first director to take over the project, even called 14 scientists from different fields for a one-day seminar, including space biologists, planetary scientists, theoretical physicists, cosmologists, psychologists and space policy experts. It was this meeting that set many important "anchor points" for Interstellar.

On April 20 19, when the photos of black holes taken by scientists around the world were released, many people found the movie pictures rendered by the interstellar crew. Everyone's feelings are basically: "Isn't this the HD version of the black hole?" Jeep Thorne said: "I have always known these principles and arguments, but knowing them is completely different from seeing and feeling them." This model, in turn, gave me a new understanding of what kind of gravitational lens effect a rapidly rotating black hole will produce. "

As for the most incredible "five-dimensional space-time hypercube" in the film, its scientific degree is probably beyond most people's imagination:

Details 1: About high-dimensional space.

Cooper looked up-he saw the view from the floor of the study to the ceiling;

Cooper bowed his head-what he saw-the perspective of the ceiling of the study on the ground;

Cooper to the left-look at the perspective of the desk;

Cooper to the right-looking at the bedside perspective;

Cooper back-see bookshelf perspective;

Cooper forward-look at the scenery at the door;

All this is deduced strictly according to the optical path of the four-dimensional spatial structure deduced by mathematics. (Interested students can search the papers on the mathematical model of four-dimensional space. )

Cooper's hypercube moved directly from a high-dimensional black hole to Murphy's research on the earth, which is why the gravity of the farm was abnormal from the beginning of the film, because the hypercube had already reached the earth at that time.

Detail 2: About time.

Cooper in the hypercube can move to different time points in the study, thus completing the information transmission.

The "pipeline" extended by Cooper's hitting the hypercube will also pass from right to left like ripples, because according to the mathematical setting, from left to right is the time sequence of building the hypercube (simplification), and the events that occur now may gradually drift away in the past.

As Brand said in the film: "In the eyes of high-dimensional life, time is just another physical space dimension. In their eyes,' the past' may be like a canyon, and they can jump into it at will; The future is just a mountain to climb for them. "

20 15, Interstellar won the Oscar; On 20 17, Kip Thorne, the planner and scientific consultant of Interstellar, won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Third, how incredible Interstellar's voice is.

I believe many people have a brand-new understanding of the organ as an unpopular instrument because of Interstellar.

As director Christopher Nolan said: "Even if the stars have nothing to do with religion, the organ, the church, the building ... all represent human beings' attempts to those mysterious things, those things that transcend us and our daily life."

Hans Zimmer, a master musician, said, "You can feel the power brought by the low notes of the organ on your temples, and the church windows begin to vibrate, because too much air is pushed into the room, which contains a primitive and dangerous quality-this thing is going to explode! There are many human characteristics in this, because it can only happen through breathing, and it needs breathing-you can hear breathing on every note. "

Nolan deeply agrees with this: "You feel someone in every voice. I think it is very important to stay in the film, not only about the universe we see, but also about the people in the universe. Use it in a very intimate way while maintaining grandeur. "

In addition, when the protagonist landed on the planet in an hour equivalent to seven years of the earth, the ticking from soothing to urgent was accompanied by a mountain of waves. Those tracks that have become a little distorted since they left the earth ...

This is a movie that can be viewed from any detail and from any angle! And the deeper you know, the more you will find "the grandeur of underwater icebergs".

Finally, what impressed me most was the interstellar space.

The two core driving forces of this film are provided by the science consultant and the artist.

Scientifically, gravity can penetrate all dimensions. This is just as Liu and Cameron said in a conversation: I know that the craziest and most incredible imagination is produced by cutting-edge science.

But what impressed me deeply was the father's love for his daughter, which penetrated all dimensions and time and space. It was in the vast and cold universe on the movie screen that the father who went straight from the black hole to the back of his daughter's bookshelf in five-dimensional space was regarded as a "ghost". All this followed the familiar corn fields. When you look back at the beginning in the ending, you can't help crying.