Special feature of 1905 film network The animated version adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name was launched on December 10th, 2022. The first day of its launch, the broadcast volume exceeded 100 million, but it was controversial by word of mouth. At present, the score of Douban fell below 5 points. At the same time, the drama version of "Three-body" was granted a distribution license, and the film version is still on the way. With the expectation of the audience and the blessing of capital, the road to film and television of "Three-body" is even more unstoppable, but what kind of "Three-body" does the audience need?

Such a high broadcast volume has won countless bad reviews and such a low score. In the view of film critic Lin Pin, this controversy stems from a huge contrast: "Three-body Universe is the most well-known super IP in the field of science fiction in China, and Three-body animation is the animation project with the largest investment and the largest publicity and promotion. The production company of Three-body animation opened the sky and won a good reputation with the animation work Linglong. Many viewers will have very high expectations for the animation of "Three-body", and the final product is not as good as "Linglong" which was launched three years ago. As far as the story adaptation is concerned, it is not as good as My Three-body, which was made by the original lovers of Three-body. Therefore, there is a huge contrast between high expectations and the quality of finished products, which has ignited controversy. "

In the relevant comments, it can be found that modeling collapse and plot confusion are high-frequency words, and in addition to these two shortcomings, the animation of Three-body pays more attention to exaggerated action scenes, but lacks patience to do literary drama well. "Three-body" is a sci-fi work full of thought experiments, in which there are many important sci-fi concepts and settings, which need to be explained in simple terms with the help of characters’ dialogues. However, the animation of "Three-body" is relatively weak in explaining the sci-fi concepts, such as the setting of "face-to-face" and "why can’t everyone lie", which leads to the ignorance of passers-by fans and viewers who have never seen the original.

The lack of high-quality literary drama makes the cartoon characters of Three-body over-entertaining and faceless, and some characters that are deeply loved by original lovers collapse and lose their charm. For example, Ye Wenjie, a very important character in "Three-body", contains some persistence in human hope in her despair and despair, which constitutes a more plump and three-dimensional character. However, in the animation of Three-body, she denies her identity as a human being and is portrayed as an evil old woman.

Lin Pin mentioned: "The biggest problem is the role of Luo Ji, who finally became a peeping hole in the secret of the dark forest. In the animation of Three-body, he was portrayed, such as going to F1 racing and having a party in the lobby of the Planetary Defense Council. This performance is completely different from that of Luo Ji who was boating on the lake under the Nordic Snow Mountain in the original work. In addition, he has some very rude and rude performances, and it is difficult for people to associate him with the identity of the professor of sociology in Tsinghua University in the original book. "

"Three-body" animation has spent a lot of space to express action scenes, but its action scenes lack imagination. There are some creepy or amazing descriptions in the original work of Three-body. In the first episode, the guzheng plan to cut the cruise ship "Judgment Day" is shown. In the original work, there is a description: "Wang Miao saw the cutting surface, which was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the flaming sunset glow in the sky without any difference." This strange beauty of the original works has a tension with depression and death, which is actually the key scene that the creator needs to grasp. The original works can really make people gasp for imagination and description, as Liu Cixin said.

In this Spring Festival, the audience will meet with you soon. Undeniably, the success of the movie has actually intensified the fans’ expectations for Three-body, and then, in addition to this series and animated version, Three-body will also launch a movie version. For the film adaptation of "Three-body", it is very important that the directors and screenwriters in the core of the main creation should not only grasp the charm and essence of the original novel, but also give full play to their talents to give the audience the possibility of shocking the audience visually and audibly. In the history of science fiction movies, literary adaptations have both successes and failures, which means a great challenge for every team. Streaming media platforms at home and abroad have successively launched the drama version of "Three-body" project, but when the trailer they released spread on the Internet, it did cause many netizens to vomit and negative comments, and everyone was not optimistic about these projects. It can be seen that the film adaptation of "Three-body" does have its unique difficulty.

Literary and artistic works reflect and lead the times. The past ten years have witnessed the greatest progress in science and technology and the fastest improvement in China’s strength. With the exploration of Mars by heaven and the landing of Chang ‘e on the moon, the universe is moving from the palace of knowledge to the leisure of Chinese people at an unprecedented speed, and many sci-fi works have emerged. As one of the best works, it can be said that the most attractive place of "Three-body" lies in its successful expression of strong aesthetic feeling and lofty feeling with the help of language and writing. I hope that the film and television adaptation works related to "Three-body" can express such sci-fi aesthetics with the help of the audio-visual language of movies.

"Three-body" not only contains the grand narrative of modern civilization, extremely open cosmic vision, but also combines many creative resources from modern science and technology, and at the same time carries the deep imprint left by China’s specific history and culture, which is an important reason why it can win the favor of many readers. I hope that the film adaptation of "Three-body" can draw lessons from the animated version of "Three-body", concentrate on studying the essence of the original, carefully restore and boldly play, and project Liu Cixin’s imaginative words onto the big screen to present the world of "Three-body" to the audience.