firefly/serenity/宁静号

创建于2008-07-01     组长： Metaphox

Firefly is an American science fiction television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, under his Mutant Enemy Productions. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an atypical backdrop for the science fiction narrative. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear.

Firefly premiered in the United States and Canada on the FOX network on September 20, 2002. It was canceled after only eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired. This may be because FOX aired the episodes out of Whedon's intended order. Despite the series' relatively short life span, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD, and has impressive fan support campaigns.[1][2] It won an Emmy in 2003 for "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series". The post-airing success of the show led Whedon and Universal Pictures to produce a film based on the series, titled Serenity after the fictional Firefly-class spaceship featured in the show.[3]

The series is set in the year 2517, after humans have arrived at a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a Firefly-class spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things".[4]

The show explores the lives of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and now make a living on the outskirts of the society, as well as the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In addition, it is a future where the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures as well. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today."[5]


《萤火虫》（Firefly）是一部美国科幻电视剧，2002年9月20日于美国和加拿大首播，以传统西部电影为原型，自然主义为设定，剧中大量使用中文，呈献出一部与众不同的科幻戏剧。此剧由乔斯·温登自制自编自导，他与提姆·米尼尔（Tim Minear）共同担任执行制片，他的制作公司「Mutant Enemy」也曾制作过电视剧《捉鬼者巴菲》和《天使》（Angel）。
《萤火虫》最初在福斯频道播映，播到第11集就遭停播，当时已录制14集节目。此剧尽管短命，后座力却着实惊人，不仅DVD销售量开出长红，还激起影迷庞大的支持运动。[1][2]因此促成温登与环球影业合作，将电视剧拍成电影，标题以剧中太空船为名，称为《冲出宁静号》[1]。此剧首播集与电影同名，曾获2003年艾美奖「影集类最佳视觉特效」的殊荣[3]。
此剧时空背景设定于2517年，人类已探索远行到新的星系。此剧讲述一群异议分子驾驶一艘「萤火虫级」太空船「宁静号」在宇宙中冒险的故事。「宁静号」上的角色一共九位，温登形容此剧是「深入黑暗太空的九个人，寻找九件不同的东西。」[4]，并探讨内战战败派的人事变迁，以及星系边缘的拓荒文化。这个未来世界，只剩美国和中国两个超级强权，两国共组中央联邦政府，文化相互融合，称为「星际联盟」。温登表示，未来跟现代一样，什么都没变：有更多的人口和更先进的科技，但是相同的政治问题与道德争议也依然存在[5]。


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