Although some pictures are difficult to show in comics, Liu Cixin also believes that comics are the most popular art form for young people. If the works of “Three-body” are comicized, it can make this science fiction work among the teenagers, Spread within the scope of the.
Editor’s note: This article is from Tencent Technology, author Sun Shi.
Although there are a thousand Hamlet in the eyes of a thousand people, if you ask the question “What is the greatest science fiction in China?”, I am afraid that many people will answer in unison – “Three-body.”
Since 2006, serials have been published, and the Trilogy has been published for more than 13 years. In the past 13 years, the heat of the “Three-body” has not faded. Similar to the “details of the details in the “Three-body”,” the platform is still being paid attention to.
More importantly, with the advancement of the years, the call for comics and filming of the “Three-body” is getting higher and higher. In recent years, the rumors of “three-body” to be made into movies and TV series are endless, but in the end they all prove to be false rumors. But now we have heard a good news: “Three-body” animation has arrived. According to official news, the “Three-body” comics will be officially serialized on November 23, 2019 in Tencent Anime APP and Bodong Planet APP.
The “Three-body” comic is on the line. For the first time in history, the contents of “Three-body” are displayed in non-literal form. What does the trio look like? How will the “Three-body” comics affect young people? Will the comics make the spread of the “Three-body” more profound? With these questions, Tencent Technology talks to the author of “Three-body” Liu Cixin, revealing the secret behind the “Three-body” comics, and Liu Cixin’s thinking about science fiction literature and comics.
Manga will make science fiction literature more popular
With the popularity of the “Three-body”, plus two Chinese writers, Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, successively won the highest award for science fiction literature – the Hugo Award, and the box office miracle of “Wandering Earth”, many people are shouting “The golden age of Chinese science fiction literature is coming.”
But in fact, science fiction literature is still a niche area in China. “From a narrow point of view, whether it is a novel or a movie, China’s science fiction industry is still in its infancy, and its scale is still not in the golden age.” Liu Cixin held a science fiction literature conference last weekend.Said this.
It is against this background that “science and technology literature industrialization” has become an important way to promote its further development, and the important ways of industrialization include changing science fiction literature into film, comics, animation and so on.
For such a viewpoint, Liu Cixin also agreed: “Fiction is a narrative, comics are pictures, and science fiction is more suitable for use in pictures. That is to say, some sci-fi imaginations have never appeared in reality, just use words. It is difficult to express clearly, and the use of pictures is more advantageous.”
Some of the three-body comics can’t show up, but it will lower the reading threshold
Focus on the “Three-body” comics, the question in many three-body fans is: What does the three-body look like? Because according to the information in the book, we can only know that the trisex people can resist the high temperature and glare when many days occur at the same time, and have evolved the ability of dehydration and dormancy. For its appearance and image, we have nothing. know. Therefore, the birth of the “Three-body” comics is expected to bring the official version of the three-body image.
But in Liu Cixin’s mind, there is no specific three-body image. Liu Cixin admits that he has never described it. In the heart of Liu Zizhong, it is not a kind of image like a human being. It is not the same shape as a human being. The appearance and expression are similar to people, and they are similar to people. image of.
In the dialogue, Liu Cixin stressed that he did not participate in the creation of comics. If he had to create an image, he could only say that “three-body people must be at first glance that it is difficult to recognize that he is a living body. That kind of image.”
In the original work of “Three-body”, there are a large number of professional vocabulary in the scientific field, such as curvature motion, quantum mechanics, etc. Therefore, how to transform professional literary vocabulary into easy-to-understand comics is also a great test. The place of the person, even Liu Cixin also believes that some content is very much displayed in comics. “Low-dimensional expansion is difficult, the scale is very large, far more common sense, so it is really not very good to use the painting, the picture is good to draw that thing, but it really shows that scale, that is very strange The scene is very difficult.” Liu Cixin commented.
When talking about this issue, Liu Cixin took the movie “Interstellar Crossing” as an example. In this movie, the director once used the picture to express the concept of five-dimensional space, but it was not successful. Therefore, Liu Cixin himself is not clear about how some scenes in “Three-body” achieve a sense of the picture. “I don’t know how to behave. I don’t think comics can reduce these specialties. I can only say that comics avoid these things, which will lower the reading threshold.”
Although some pictures are difficult to show in comics, Liu Cixin also believes that comics are the most popular art form for young people. If the works of “Three-body” are comicized, it can make this science fiction work among teenagers. Spread on a larger scale.
So, for the upcoming “Three-body” comics,Liu Cixin is also full of expectations, hoping that it can promote the development of science fiction animation. Because in comics, sci-fi is not such a clear-cut thing, many comics are hard to say whether it is sci-fi or fantasy. Therefore, Liu Cixin expects the “Three-body” comics to increase a sci-fi component in Chinese comic art and to drive more of this sci-fi work.
In the serialization of the “Three-body” comics, Tencent Animation will be one of the most important channels. Liu Cixin emphasized that Tencent is a large network platform with strong communication capabilities, which is his incomparable advantage.
“I never thought about the ending”
Returning to the original work of the Three-body, in many external interpretations, Liu Cixin actually wants to use the three-body to uncover the ugly side of humanity, such as the indiscriminate killing of lower civilizations and the selfishness of human beings in the face of disasters. Lee.
For such an interpretation, Liu Cixin gave an answer that is neither positive nor negative, because the ultimate goal of the “three-body” is science fiction itself. Humanity is only something that is manifested in the development process of the story. “I don’t think how ugly humanity is in the Three-body. It is such a reality. People will naturally respond accordingly to the survival of the people.” Liu Cixin emphasized this.
The ending of “Three-body” is actually very controversial. Because the final outcome of the “Three-body” is actually free from the main line of the story, and what is the end of the three-body? Is it because of the quality of the five kilograms left by Cheng Xin that caused the destruction of the universe? There is no clear explanation in the book.
When we left this question to Liu Cixin, Liu Cixin replied categorically: “I have not thought about it. I am not trying to convey ideas through science fiction. I am trying to give readers a good story, a science fiction imagination. Space, a sci-fi idea, if they like the space of the story, they can naturally interpret what they think they can interpret.”
Whether the universe has restarted, Liu Cixin gave a similar answer: “It should still be left to everyone to imagine, because the book is over, I have not continued to think about anything.”