Fiction about space is great

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The space science fiction movie genre has been in demand for quite some time. Just think, from Protazanov's masterpiece "Aelita" to the most recently released "Gravity" and "Ender's Game" almost 90 years have passed!

Do you remember how it all started

It was a very bold step in the hungry and cold Soviet Russia to take and shoot (only a year after the release of Alexei Tolstoy's work "Aelita", which became, as they would now say, the bestseller), the first "cosmic-fiction" in the history of world cinema feature film. However, it happened. And the infernal beauty of Yulia Solntseva (a Martian), and the nobility of the engineer Los (Nikolai Tseretelli), and the wonderful debut of the great Igor Ilyinsky, as well as Mars itself (as Soviet artists imagined it), Moscow exhausted by the civil war - everything was preserved on film. Isn't this a miracle? This is how cinematic fantasy about space began.

Middle-aged people probably remember with endless nostalgia the work of Richard Viktorov "Moscow-Cassiopeia" and filmed after "Youths in the Universe". Today, the adventures of schoolchildren in the early 1970s in the vastness of other worlds and the then special effects seem naive. However, then it was alsoachievement! After all, films about space are fantasy and a rarity at that time. American masterpieces are still so far from the USSR ("Cold War" in full bloom).

Subgenre Classics

If we talk about modern foreign cinema, then several directors were indisputable authorities, "trendsetters" of the subgenre "fantastic about space". One of them is Stanley Kubrick and his much-quoted (especially the weightlessness scene accompanied by Strauss's immortal w altz) film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe someone is annoyed that only at the 25th minute of the timing the first word is heard. However, the fact that this is a good science fiction about space and a cult thing is undeniable. Another classic is George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, who filmed three parts of the franchise more than 30 years ago, and years later returned to the topic and put on three other prequel series to already beloved episodes. Ahead is a continuation, the premiere is scheduled for 2015. In the list of actors you can see familiar names: "veteran" Solo - Harrison Ford, the legendary Leia - Carrie Fisher, Luke - Mark Hamill. How it will be is hard to imagine. Ridley Scott started the Alien saga, James Cameron brilliantly continued, and David Fincher directed the dark third installment. The end of the franchise was not triumphant, despite the presence of the same Weaver and Winona Ryder. However, these are all examples of what science fiction about space should be.

Through thorns - to the stars

List of interesting and excitingrepresentatives of this subgenre of science fiction is great. Utopia Tim Burton with Mark Wahlberg "Planet of the Apes". The sparkling tape "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the audience first drew attention to the British Martin Freeman (future Watson and the hobbit Bilbo). A remake of Steven Soderbergh's "Solaris" with George Clooney (the picture did not become a complete cast of Tarkovsky's work, it came out uneven, but also worthy of respect). The epochal "Armageddon" by Michael Bay with one of the best roles of Bruce Willis. It is impossible not to recall the parody films, which are also science fiction about space. "The Sixth Element" with Leslie Nielsen, mischievous "Spaceballs" sparkling Mel Brooks, German "Space Watch. Episode 1".

The ratings and box office of Alfonso Cuarón's recently released "Gravity" are already going through the roof. So, the genre is alive and in demand. For its development, there are forces, means and the desire of the directors to go further.