From when Simon casually mentioned the concept of the Three-Body Problem when chatting with everyone in Australia, to Sylvia writing this story into a novel, to the recent completion of the final script by Daenerys' team of screenwriters, the entire idea is much better than what Simon had once done The memory has been changed beyond recognition.
In the new version, the heroine's name is Angela Winston.
Angela, a deliberate name.
Angel, devil
Angela Winston was born in World War I, experienced World War II, and then the long Cold War. She saw mankind almost destroy itself many times. As an astrophysicist, when she participated in a secret alien detection project in the United States, The story unfolds after unexpectedly receiving a signal from the Trisolaran people.
A brand new story, from Sylvia's perspective, the initial tone is still the most politically correct topic in the world, peace.
However, with the emergence of the Trisolarans, the news became public and almost destroyed all existing ethical orders in human society, ushering in a special era that lasted for hundreds of years.
The script that has been completed, the first season is mainly based on the first part of the previous novel, with a suspense style, telling the story of human society step by step to reveal the terrifying truth that Trisolarans have deeply penetrated into every aspect of the earth. The most exciting part is, Naturally, protons still lock humanity’s cutting-edge technology.
In addition, the setting of the three-body game was deleted and changed to a secret three-body problem research club.
After all, clubs are more popular in the West.
The golden sunset shines beside the curtain wall of Shell Villa.
When Simon heard Sylvia's question, he shook his head and said: "Actually, many times, creators don't think too much when completing a story. The key is what the readers see, or what they hope to see. "
Sylvia's new husband, Steve Elworth, chimed in: "A thousand readers, a thousand Hamlets."
Simon nodded: "Yes."
But Nancy Brill said: "I have read the first draft of Sylvia's novel and the follow-up story concept we just talked about. Simon, I believe you must be trying to express something?"
"If I have to say, from 'War and Peace' to 'Existence is Nothingness', there are indeed many," Simon shrugged and said with a smile: "Even the same plot, different times, my personal thinking has been different, so , the question still lies with you, what do you want to see?"
No one answered, but Nancy chased after her: "So, Simon, you must have read the script recently, so what did you think of?"
Everyone looked over again.
Simon thought for a moment and said, "There is indeed one."
"Um?"
Simon said: "I have been thinking about utopia recently, and I have come to a quite pessimistic conclusion."
No idea.
Everyone looked confused.
Even Sylvia, who wrote the story herself, was inevitably curious: "Simon, what do you mean?"
Simon felt the little guy on his lap struggling to return to his mother's side, so he had to pick him up and hand it back to Nancy next to him. After sitting down again, he said: "Some of my recent random thoughts, coincidentally, can also be related to the Trisolaris." To some extent, it is related. To put it simply, I suddenly discovered that Utopia is against human nature, or, to be more straightforward, Utopia is against the survival nature of human beings as creatures. We cannot demand that everyone should be like a saint. Noble, the result of forced suppression will only be counterproductive.”
There are all smart people here, and when Simon said this, everyone couldn't help but fall into association.
After a moment, Janet said first: "An ideal that most people are pursuing is destined to be impossible to exist. This is really a sad thing."
Janet sighed with emotion, but her tone was not sentimental at all.
And some smiles.
Nancy said with some rebuttal: "Idealism is definitely not wrong. It represents our best expectations for the world as thoughtful human beings. What is wrong is just a series of bad realities."
Sylvia was a little confused: "Simon, are we talking about the three-body problem? I don't understand what you are talking about?"
Simon said: "I don't understand either. I've been thinking too much in recent years and I can't help but talk nonsense."
Another burst of laughter.
Everyone laughed, and Sylvia added: "The problem is, Simon, it turns out that neither utopia nor dystopia is in line with our real society, right?"
"Of course," Simon said, "So, I am very pessimistic about the future of this world, because our nature is always easy to drag something to one extreme, and it is difficult to maintain a middle state."
Steve said again: "Simon, I probably understand what you are worried about, but isn't our system very good at preventing this society from going to extremes in any direction?"
"Our system." Simon sighed a little, looked at the young man opposite him who was about the same age as him, and said, "Steve, you have to know that people are always easy to fall into the illusion that the situation they are in is At a certain moment, a relatively beautiful moment, I regarded it as eternity and thought that the world would always be like this, but in fact it is not like this."
Steve Elworth was momentarily puzzled.
Simon said: "In this way, based on the current average life span of 70 years for us humans, going back 70 years, from 1930 to 2000, is equivalent to a person's life. Then, if you recall, our world has experienced a lot during this period. How many bad moments were there when they were almost on the verge of destruction. Or, you can arbitrarily cut out 70 years from the last one or two thousand years with clear human history records, and see how many turmoils and disasters have occurred during this period."
No one else at the scene had obviously considered this question.
After Simon finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but reminisce together, and then they all inevitably lost a bit of their smiles.
really.
Let’s not talk about more distant history, just talk about the seventy years from 1930 to 2000. If this is a person’s life, he or she will inevitably experience the Great Depression in the United States, the outbreak of World War II, the Cold War confrontation, the Cuban Missile Crisis, The long Vietnam War, the oil crisis, the stagflation of the 1980s, the Gulf War
It was just one bad moment after another.
After a while, Sylvia still said: "Simon, I think the present is definitely different from the past. In the future, I mean, we have entered a new era, and the future should be full of hope, right?"
Simon took Janet's little hand next to him and rubbed it gently, nodding slightly: "Maybe."