"Wait, you mean, the crystal fell from the sky?" Chen Chen asked to confirm.
"Yes, the crystal doesn't look like a product of the earth at first sight, does it?"
Landis spread his hands, "After all, we all know that this kind of substance does not exist on the earth, and the crystal is just a storage device. What really gives the protagonist super powers should be the alien plants inside."
Chen Chen's heart sank when he heard this, and he suddenly had an unpleasant thought, but he did not interrupt him.
Landis continued, "I got the inspiration from an article. I wonder if you have heard of it. A torture expert who is good at using lie detectors discovered by chance that plants can actually receive human will. "
"The torture expert initially just wanted to know how long it took for water to travel from the bottom of the dragon's blood tree to the leaves, so he used a polygraph machine. You should know that when a person lies or has mood swings, the lines on the polygraph machine drawing It will rise and fall sharply.”
"When used on plants, the lines will slowly rise because the resistance of the leaves slowly decreases due to moisture. However, the actual situation is the opposite. The lines on the drawing go down at first, and then jump slightly, just like a person who is afraid of being The same thing happens to people taking polygraph tests."
Landis slowly recounted, "Then he wanted to continue to explore the emotional response of the plant, such as giving it a huge threat. When he came up with the idea of burning the leaves with a match, the lines on the polygraph drawing began to fluctuate violently, but he had not yet I just wanted to burn the leaves, but somehow, the dragon's blood tree seemed to sense this idea and became extremely frightened."
Chen Chen listened quietly.
"Then he actually lit a match and shook it under the leaves of the dragon's blood tree. The lines on the drawing were still jumping up and down. It was not until he put the match back that the lines on the drawing softened and finally became In a straight line."
"But if such false threats are made many times, the dragon blood tree will not react. It seems to know that the experimenter is not serious."
Landis laughed and said, "It was this experiment that inspired me. The alien plants in the plot can secrete a substance, which is the crystal in the movie. They protect themselves through this method, and at the same time, it can also give humans superpowers. It’s like the host of a computer, and the three protagonists are extensions, so the three of them can sense each other and the presence of the host.”
Following Landis's words, Chen Chen's heart sank a little bit, but he still asked, "What about the principle? Why can alien plants give humans superpowers, and what is the principle of the three protagonists' abilities?"
Hearing this, Landis and Trank both looked at Chen Chen strangely, and Trank could only explain awkwardly, "I'm sorry, we didn't consider this issue at the beginning."
"Just like Superman and the Hulk, the audience only sees superpowers, but who cares about the scientific principles behind superpowers..."
Landis also shrugged helplessly, "We should leave these problems to scientists to consider."
When Chen Chen heard this, he felt helpless, but he understood that what the other party said was true.
Superpowers are a conventional thing. Even the X gene in "X-Men" only shows that the X gene can give people superpowers. But who can explain why the X gene can give people superpowers? superpower
But at this moment, Chen Chen suddenly thought of a possibility.
Perhaps, it is precisely because there is no setting that there are infinite possibilities
Just like "Superman" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", everyone knows that the second movie is more science fiction than the first one, but the USB flash drive only admits "Superman" and not "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". Why?
If it is directly stated to be an RNA retrovirus like "Planet Rising", but in reality there is no RNA retrovirus that can do the scene in the movie, but it is considered unscientific by the USB flash drive
"Actually, strictly speaking, this story was not my idea, but Trank's idea."
While Chen Chen was deep in thought, Landis looked at Trank aside and continued.
"Yes, this movie was inspired by me on the set of "The Ghost Story", which is equivalent to a daydream of mine. Later, I found Landis and asked him to turn my idea into a reality. "
Trank seemed to be thinking of that year, with a look of reminiscence, "High school boys have obtained the superpowers they dream of. Just like muscles, they can become stronger and stronger as long as they practice hard. This was my earliest thought."
"Then your daydream turns into a nightmare." Chen Chen joked.
"After all, we don't want to make a cliche superhero movie, we want to... pursue some depth."
Landis explained, "By limiting the protagonist's character and family, we achieved the dramatic effect of the film and turned it into a tragic film, which is what we wanted to do."
When Chen Chen heard this, he sighed secretly in his heart, "As for the last question, are there any dangers for people who have superpowers? For example, it can affect human hearts, the danger of being taken over by plants, etc."
"We didn't think too much when designing the first part. After all, it was something that had nothing to do with the plot. We still focused on the creation of the protagonist."
Landis was also a little helpless, "Until the second part, I really wanted to make the plants darker and more dangerous, but unfortunately I was kicked out by the main creative company."
Hearing this, Chen Chen perked up and said, "In other words, in the first part, you didn't set the threat of plants?"
"Yes… "
Neither of them understood why Chen Chen wanted to get to the bottom of it, but they still nodded.
"Very well, please wait a moment, both of you."
Chen Chen nodded with satisfaction and began to write something on the computer.
It was not until ten minutes later that Chen Chen exhaled, "In that case, I will set the second part ten years later."
As he spoke, Chen Chen began to describe, "The ending of the first part was: the dark side of Andrew's heart broke out, cousin Matt reluctantly stabbed Andrew to death, and then went to travel around the world, so the second part can unfold like this -"
The two of them said nothing, waiting for Chen Chen's next words.
"In the past ten years, Matt has traveled all over the world, but he has not found any clues about the crystal. Moreover, the location where they found the crystal has long been blocked by the government, and ordinary people cannot approach it."
Chen Chen whispered, "So, Matt, who had been searching for ten years without finding any clues, sneaked into the cave. However, after going through all the trouble to enter the cave, he found that it had been transformed by the government into a huge underground base. …”
"At the same time, he also discovered that Andrew was not dead. It turned out that although he was penetrated through the abdomen, he was saved by the government and kept in a coma to study his body."
"Moreover, the government also cut the crystal into thousands of fist-sized crystals, and took out the alien plants inside. Only then did they discover that those crystals could only store part of the power of the plants. What is really important? It’s actually the plant itself.”
"However, the plant died soon after leaving the crystal because it could not adapt to the earth's environment, and the government also lost the means to mass-produce superpowers."
"This also explains why the government has not killed Andrew for ten years."
Chen Chen was typing while talking. After he finished speaking, he turned the computer screen to the two of them. "After the plant dies, the crystal that stores part of the plant's power becomes a disposable consumable."
"The government used those divided crystals to create superpowers one after another. However, the amount of radiation they received was only a few hundredth of the original three protagonists. Therefore, the superpowers they obtained were very weak, and even their growth potential was very low. Extremely low-level, far less exaggerated than Andrew and others.”
"And if you want to gain stronger power, you can only get more super crystals..."
Chen Chen took a deep breath, stood up and finally concluded, "This is all the settings I gave for the second part. You two must perfect the second part according to the settings I provided."
"At the same time, give our childhood a happy ending... "