CRI听力:"Jupiter Ascending" to Land on the Chinese Mainland on March 6th

As Jupiter, the name of a planet, becomes the name of a person, a measly human may turn to be a key to the universe.

That's basically the story from Jupiter Ascending, the latest movie from the Wachowskis, writer-director-producers Andy and Lana, whose Matrix trilogy was a landmark in its period of between 1999 and 2003.

Famous for her role in Black Swan, a 2010 American psychological thriller, American actress Mila Kunis acts Jupiter Jones in this big spacey fairy tale.

"She's not a superhero. She doesn't know how to work a gun. She's just your everyday girl who kind of circumstantially gets put into this environment and figures it out. Her destiny becomes the decision of what you do, and who do you save. It won't be about anything she's faced with to save your mom and your uncle, or do you save earth."

Jupiter Jones is the center of Wachowskis' new space opera film. She was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things.

Now grown up, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job with her mom, working as a cleaner in other people's houses. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.

With Channing Tatum acting as Caine Wise in the film, the Wachowskis have made the film a sci-fi spectacle in a way that they created super visual effects by taking two leading characters to their designated danger.

Lana and Andy Wachowski explain their thinking process when it comes to the technicalities of the movie.

"We want it be real, so we were flying real stunt people and we took Mila and Channing over there and we shot with real-life humans because we think there's just something that you react to as an audience, when you see a live human sort of in the jeopardy of hanging from a helicopter that you'll never ever achieve with CG.."
"There's a physics to the human body that we don't feel like you can achieve, like this chase scene is made by the fact that we have two people hanging by this helicopter. You can feel the weight and the way their bodies react and break apart and you know, catch."

Anyone who believes in conspiracies, or wonders how the world got started will find evidence in Jupiter Ascending that suggests the Wachowskis have been thinking about all that, too. Have they been thinking longer, and better? You will get the chance to draw your own conclusion when you see it.

For Studio Plus, I'm Xu Fei.