2024-03-23 22:31:54
[The Epoch Times, March 24, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Tong Yijia) The American version of the TV series “3 Body Problem” adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name by Chinese writer Liu Cixin will be released on the streaming media platform on March 21 Netflix is officially on the shelves. Zine Tseng, who is from Taiwan, played the lead role of “Ye Wenjie” in the play when she was a teenager. She recalled that during the audition, she thought it was a student production.
Netflix’s “The Three-Body Problem” is produced by David Benioff and Daniel Weiss, the producers of the American TV series “Game of Thrones” (Taiwan translation: A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones). DB Weiss) is the director, and the other main producer is the American screenwriter Alexander Woo; the original author Liu Cixin and the English version translator Liu Yukun serve as production consultants. The whole drama has a total of 8 episodes.
The first episode, which was officially released on Netflix on March 21, showed an extremely bloody and cruel scene at the beginning: Ye Wenjie, a female college student majoring in astrophysics at Tsinghua University in Beijing, witnessed her father, a famous physicist, with her own eyes. Ye Zhetai’s insistence on Einstein’s theory of relativity and other theories was exposed by his wife at a criticism meeting during the Cultural Revolution, and he was eventually beaten to death by the Red Guards. (Related news: The US version of “The Three-Body Problem” opens with criticism of the Cultural Revolution and is rumored to have been banned by the CCP.）
Later, Ye Wenjie was recruited by the military because of her professional background and participated in a secret plan to search for aliens. However, Ye Wenjie, who had experienced the tragic experience of human relations, had lost faith in human beings, so she secretly asked an alien named “Three-body” The star group sent a signal and prepared to cooperate internally and externally to let aliens take over the earth; while another group of scientists could only rack their brains to find a solution. Thus, the story surrounding the theme of destruction and salvation unfolds…
Because the Netflix version of “The Three-Body Problem” reproduced the “Cultural Revolution”, it led to polarized evaluations both inside and outside the wall. Some little pinks who watched the American TV series “The Three-Body Problem” after circumventing the wall claimed on Weibo that the plot had been “magically modified”, questioned the show’s filming of “Cultural Revolution” criticism scenes as “smearing China”, and criticized “for this disc” These dumplings are made of vinegar.”
On the overseas X (formerly Twitter) platform, there are mainly discussions and reflections on the history of China’s “Cultural Revolution”. Some netizens said: “The opening is really awesome, the original work is restored to 90%+.” “The Netflix version of “The Three-Body Problem” finally completes the content of the Tencent version of “The Three-Body Problem” that everyone wanted to see but didn’t.” Some people believe that the recent cyber violence incident in which Little Pink criticized Chinese writers Mo Yan and Nongfu Spring on Weibo for being “unpatriotic” is like today’s “Cultural Revolution” and echoes the first scene of “The Three-Body Problem”. (Recommended reading: Yue Shan: The American version of “The Three-Body Problem” reveals the secret code of collusion between high-level officials of the Chinese Communist Party）
Zeng Jing, who played the role of “Ye Wenjie” in her youth in the American version, recently accepted a joint interview with Taiwanese media and said happily: “I am Taiwanese and I live in Tamsui.” Looking back on the opportunity for the audition, she said that she was studying at the University of Southern California in the United States. When she was doing her MFA (School of Dramatic Arts), a friend from film school asked her if she wanted to participate.
Zeng Jing originally thought it was a student production because people from the film school often came to ask if they could help. It wasn’t until she arrived at the audition that the casting director told her: “This is a big production for Netflix. It will be shot in London, England, and the work period will last 8 months.”
This caused Zeng Jing to face a big problem: since her drama major required close cooperation with her classmates, if she flew to London for eight months and could not keep her classmates waiting, she would have no choice but to take a leave of absence; When you go back to school to study, you must start from the beginning. However, she didn’t think about it for too long. She felt that since she wanted to be an actress, the opportunity of Netflix was right in front of her, so she had no choice but to give it a try.
In this way, Zeng Jing passed all the tests and stood out in an audition attended by 3,000 people, and finally won the role, making “The Three-Body Problem” the first major work of her acting career. At the same time, she made no secret of saying that her first movie “was also a profitable one.” After the filming, she traveled to Europe for 20 days at her own expense.
Zeng Jing revealed that she did a lot of homework in order to play the role of astrophysicist Ye Wenjie. “I was not very good at physics before. I was not very interested in issues such as speed, mass, circuits, etc., and I always stayed away from them. But this time I took three physics classes and learned a lot about the solar system. I was very happy to listen to the lectures given by the professors at Oxford University.”
As for the most impressive filming process, Zeng Jing said that a “Cultural Revolution” scene was unforgettable for him: “There were about more than 500 people on set, and the exterior scenes were shot in London, and a huge stage was set up.” (Click to watch the clip）
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