Length: 45 minutes per episode
Content introduction:
(The following introduction comes from Feitian Science Fiction Network and Tianya Zhu Xiao, please indicate the source. )
The short sci-fi drama "Master of Science Fiction" tells us six thrilling epic stories with a star-studded cast of directors and actors. These stories not only contain the characteristics of the most popular schools of science fiction, but also are closely related to the development of human society, which is thought-provoking and thought-provoking. This play is personally supervised by Professor Stephen Hawking, who is regarded as a supernova in the field of human physics in the 20th century and the author of A Brief History of Time, and is explained by Hawking. However, Hawking lost his ability to speak at 1985. Fortunately, the development of science and technology finally made him express his thoughts again with the help of computers and language synthesizers. Hawking's voice that we heard in this play was made by a language synthesizer.
The play premiered on ABC on August 4th. Based on the short story of John kessel, the winner of the Xingyun Award, it is directed by mark rydell (Golden Pond, River and Rose) and written by Sam Egan (Beyond the Limit).
In order to improve his military strength and increase his deterrence in the international position, the president of the United States ignored the concerns of nuclear weapon researchers and put a powerful nuclear explosive weapon into war, which caused the destruction of the earth within a few weeks.
The surviving Americans had to evacuate to live underground. In order to escape the sanctions, the president of the United States played a trick of playing the fool and pretending to have a strange amnesia (that is, the situation in the movie "First Love 50 Times"). )
But Diana Evans (Judy Davis), the president's personal psychologist, has cancer and can only live for more than half a month. In order to avenge his family, he spared no effort to interrogate the president for the remaining year, trying to induce him to confess in public in various ways. Finally, at the last moment of her life, she forced the president to confess, and then she shot herself tragically.
However, after her death, the president did the same thing again and still pretended to have amnesia, so the president of the United States still didn't get the punishment he deserved. A short story by Howard Fast (Spartacus, citizen Tom Paine) starring Terry O'Quinn and elisabeth rohm and adapted from the Hollywood blacklist.
During the American attack on the Middle East, a fighter plane was hit by an unknown object. Then the unknown object first made two soldiers of different nationalities who could have attacked each other suddenly understand each other's language, and then controlled their thoughts, causing them to fall into a coma, similar to the symptoms of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. The Pentagon immediately ordered the protagonist, the head of the alien research department, to start studying this object with a plump blonde, but the object was made of special materials and could not be dissected and decomposed, leaving another female staff member unconscious. These comatose people keep repeating "peace"
Soon, all countries with military power on the earth were surrounded by this unknown object, closed the nuclear warhead silo, and systematically disintegrated the earth's nuclear strike capability.
In an hour, all nuclear weapons will be completely disintegrated. At this time, the president of the United States decided to attack because he didn't want to look weak because of doing nothing. All countries represented by China choose cooperation. At the last minute, the president of the United States understood that we are all the same, and it is time to stop fearing and attacking each other.
So the world entered peace, hoping for a long time. Starring anne heche and malcolm mcdowell.
In the future world, scientists will extract human DNA fragments, create a product called Joo, and train them to do all kinds of high-risk work, such as war, nuclear test, aerial work, human test specimens and so on. This is a hard-working product, not afraid of dirty, tired and dangerous, and it is a good employee in the eyes of all bosses. So, it quickly became popular.
Just 85-year-old Xiaozi, a rich woman who likes the new and hates the old, and enjoys pleasure, took her silly 30-year-old Toy Boy to find a way out in order to soothe her vanity frustrated in the nouveau riche club. As a result, she was contemptuously humiliated by drunken scientists.
In order to be unconventional and show her value, she pushed Toy Boy and scientists, and rented a Joo clone who used to be a minesweeper. In order to possess him, she sued the slave market on the human rights of Joo clones.
Finally, the plaintiff's lawyer skillfully used the characteristics of human beings who are mercenary and afraid of death to convince the court. The rich woman won the lawsuit.
As a result, all Joo clones became free bodies, causing the American economy to fall into a trough in an instant. Based on the short story of Harlan Ellison, a famous science fiction master who won Hugo Award seven times and Xingyun Award three times, it was written by Harlan Ellison himself, directed by jonathan frakes (Star Trek) and starring Brian.Dennehy, john hurt and jamie denton.
In the United States, because of the pursuit of utility, disease, pollution, mutation and other reasons, there have been large-scale gene mutations, making these mutants look very ugly. When the disease was temporarily controlled, the president ordered these mutant people to be put into space.
Although these people hate what their compatriots have done to themselves, they are still eager to return to the earth. People often commit suicide or manslaughter.
But under the leadership of two brains, a vulgar and stern fat old man and a cynical and thin old man, these abandoned people survived.
Suddenly, one day, an emissary in a neat white suit appeared on the earth. He is also a mutant. He explained the present situation of the earth. Decades after the last crackdown, the latent gene mutation began again, and it was more tenacious. It is impossible to separate mutants from healthy people, and healthy people can only be hidden on the ground. Then a doctor said that he had found the medicine, but he needed the same formula, that is, the blood of the last generation of mutants, because the blood of the second generation of mutants could no longer secrete an enzyme.
The messenger hoped that the crew would donate blood. He said that the earth official promised to allow them to return to earth.
The fat old man with a huge hand hated the tricks on him by his compatriots and severely refused. However, as an out-of-control member killed a beautiful young black female captain with ivory on her head, the thin old man with two brains could not control his desire to be homesick, and he began to incite the crew to revolt. Most people are on the side of two thin old men with brains, including the beautiful young mistress of the fat old man with big hands, although she said earlier that she hates the earth.
In the conflict, the thin old man with two brains killed the fat old man with giant hand disease and instructed the crew to donate blood to their compatriots on the earth.
However, all this is really a scam. After the epidemic of people on earth was suppressed again, healthy people once again ordered the people on earth to be sent into space, including the neat and clean white suit messenger who came to negotiate before (this is the so-called rabbit dead dog cooking).
So the two-headed thin old man committed suicide, and the fat old man with a big hand disease ascended the throne with a beautiful young mistress and continued to lead her people wandering in the universe. In the near future, mankind has to take new measures to combat the high crime rate-they built a flying robot to stop possible murders. At first, this method seems to be very effective, but it didn't take long for people to find that the boundary between life and death is gradually blurred ... This story raises the most serious topic of our time: can people's freedom be sacrificed under the banner of security or self-defense?
Science fiction masters will exhibit the works of some of the most outstanding science fiction writers from isaac asimov, ray bradbury, Robert Heinlein and Hg Wells.
First broadcast: April 8, 2007
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