王洛宾
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:Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.
叶小青
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:故事发生在1926年的纽约,彼时,麻鸡们对魔法师的抵制达到了最高峰,由玛丽露(萨曼莎·莫顿 Samantha Morton 饰)所领导的反魔法组织活动频繁。与此同时,街头巷尾之中时时发生的种种灾难意外让魔法世界的存在离暴露仅有一线之隔,整个魔法部陷入了空前紧张的气氛之中。就在这个节骨眼上,环游世界进行着研究神奇魔法动物之行动的魔法动物学家纽特(埃迪·雷德梅恩 Eddie Redmayne 饰)抵达了纽约,他随身携带的魔法手提箱里,装着几十种他一路营救的魔法动物们,而他的一举一动,均处于隶属于魔法部的前傲罗蒂娜(凯瑟琳·沃特森 Katherine Waterston 饰)的监视之下。一场意外中,麻鸡雅各布(丹·福格勒 Dan Fogler 饰)误拿了纽特的手提箱,并且放出了藏在箱子里的魔法动物,为此,纽特、蒂娜、雅各布和蒂娜的妹妹奎妮(艾莉森·苏朵儿 Alison Sudol 饰)不得不踏上了寻找魔法动物的旅途。