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Chapter 707 "The Story of Your Life"

Lin Han was thinking about it and couldn't find any inspiration. He simply logged in to the Hanlin Academy forum with a small account. He wanted to see what his fans were doing.

"The latest global box office tracking report of the Matrix, the Japanese market has been very happy. It mobilized 910,000 viewers in three days on the weekend, and the box office revenue was 1.72 billion yen, about 14 million US dollars, and it strongly assisted the Matrix to exceed 1 billion US dollars in global box office! Scatter flowers to celebrate!"

"I guess the content of Teacher Lin's next work without integrity. If you support it, please like it!"

"Review of the plot of "Haiberian" and the plot of "Haiberian's Fall"!"

"Did you really understand the most shocking film review in history?"

"What do you think is the Golden Globe nomination? Is there any chance for Teacher Lin to win the award?"

"The opening and opening of the market, the Oscar nomination has not been announced yet. How many nominations do you think "The Matrix" can be shortlisted for?"

"If I said "The Matrix" was the most awesome science fiction film, would you object?"

"[Muyu complains] The whole world is speaking Chinese, the whole universe is speaking British, and the words of the earthlings make the universe obedient!"

Lin Han was not interested in those news or something. He also knew that "The Matrix" had achieved a good box office in Japan, and Galaxy Pictures was also preparing for a celebration banquet worth over 1 billion.

This is the top priority in the Chinese film industry today. The box office of 1 billion US dollars is almost 6.8 billion RMB. This box office simply makes the subsequent movies desperate!

At the same time, it also makes more film companies understand that the overseas market has great potential and the box office potential is very broad!

After all, the box office of "The Matrix" in the mainland was only 1.7 billion yuan. Originally, everyone thought that this result was already very strong, but compared with the global 6.8 billion yuan, it was nothing!

It is of course a good thing to be able to make US dollars, euros, pounds, and Australian dollars!

That box office post can be said to be the largest number of replies in the past few hours. After it exceeds $1 billion, the media should take the initiative to report it, and maybe it can still earn tens of millions or hundreds of millions in the mainland.

Lin Han thought happily, but his hand controlled the mouse to click and entered the post Mu Yu complained. He wanted to see what these netizens were complaining about.

"After reading so many science fiction movies and science fiction novels, I always feel it is amazing. It seems that the whole world is speaking Chinese, and the whole world can speak English, without any language barriers. What's more terrifying is that even aliens can communicate in English, and only occasionally a few movies will be explained directly. The suppression of lower civilizations by higher civilizations can help you know how to speak by simply touching brain waves!"

There are a lot of voices of approval in this post, and everyone thinks it’s about the point!

"This is basically a common problem in science fiction blockbusters, the same world, the same bug!"

"Aliens can speak English, so what's so strange about this? It's already considered polite if they don't speak Korean. After all, even the Milky Way belongs to Korean sticks."

"Actually, the author probably didn't watch enough movies. I remember that there were several movies where aliens could not speak Earthly words, either they just didn't speak or they were just birds singing!"

"Hahahaha, this is the default setting, do you understand?"

"I just posted a movie review a few days ago and complained about another movie, and the whole world revolved around the United States."

"Are you stupid? If you can't communicate, how can you become the finale!"

"I have strong learning ability~ This is the most likely answer I can come up with."

"It is also possible that they deciphered our language when they were in outer space. After all, the initial equipment is higher than that of the earth, and the ending is basically impossible to beat the earthlings!"

Nowadays, many movies that play the Star Movie 7 have created aliens so simple that they are outrageously simple.

There are no exceptions for many popular science fiction films. Perhaps they are limited in imagination, or they are thinking that popcorn movies can handle it casually. In addition to skin color, facial shape and humans, the main aliens in these movies have different differences in their thinking patterns and physical functions, and their thinking patterns and physical functions are not different from humans!

This has also led to an ultimate question: All aliens speak English in the world?

In fact, this complaint is no longer a new meme. Every time a science fiction blockbuster is released, it will be dragged out and whipped!

For other science fiction writers who are keen on describing the interaction between Earthlings and aliens, the language necessary for communication between smart creatures should have been a problem that must be solved.

But it is obvious that most writers avoid this problem. In their stories, language barriers are always mentioned: they let Earth scientists appear in front of aliens with automatic translators, or simply do not have this process!

Describing the communication between two intelligent creatures from a linguistic perspective is a great challenge to the writers' imagination.

Lin Han knew that in the more than 100 years of science fiction history, a genius writer has achieved remarkable achievements in this regard!

Ted Jiang is one of the best Chinese science fiction writers in the United States. He has released his debut in 1990 and has only 8 short stories.

However, these 8 novels have given him a high reputation in the global science fiction industry, because these novels have won him back all the science fiction awards including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Campbell Award!

Ted Jiang's representative work "The Story of Your Life" is an extremely rare science fiction novel with linguistics as its core.

Judging from the title of this novel, it seems that it is not related to science fiction, but it tells a science fiction story with a very strong core, expressing the charm of linguistics to the extreme!

"The Story of Your Life" tells the communication between humans and aliens, which means that the core element of the whole story is to communicate between humans and aliens using language.

In the writings of this genius writer, the language of aliens seems to be a living creature with life.

The heroine is a linguist and was called by the government to communicate with the alien's seven-limb barrel. After many twists and turns, she studied the alien's language, but found that this language itself hides a very special ability!

This novel has always been highly praised. What made it spread more widely was the science fiction movie adapted from 2016. The movie changed the name "The Story of Your Life" to "Arrival" and was released on a large scale worldwide.

As a literary and artistic science fiction movie, "Arrival" does not seem to have excellent box office. North America just exceeded 100 million, and overseas only 100 million US dollars. Together, the global box office is only 200 million!

But this is already very good for art films. "Arrival" has been praised by film critics. It is not only the opening film and main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival, but also won 8 nominations in the Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Film, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Its reputation is so good!

Of course, these are all things that happened in Lin Han's original world. There is no "Story of Your Life" in the world today, so Lin Han finally made up his mind.

This unique science fiction novel with linguistics as the core has become his new work. It is about to take on the heavy responsibility of opening an annual issue of Fantasy Times magazine, and its quality is fully affordable!
Chapter completed!
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