Chapter 330

A hundred-meter-tall wave was right before them, ready to tear them apart at any moment!

Shen Yue quickly sent the TARS robot to rescue Dr. Brand.

In the original Nolan version, a plot-kill was arranged here,

Doyle stupidly stood in place not knowing to run, and by the time he ran, he was swept away by the giant wave.

Xu Can did not write him surviving,

After all, this character serves no purpose in the subsequent plot,

The character's sole reason for existing in the script is to highlight the cruelty of the water planet,

Cruelty means writing him to death.

Xu Can could only make the whole process a bit more reasonable,

At the sight of the giant wave, Dr. Brand insisted on going to look for the wreckage,

Former NASA astronaut Doyle was scared out of his wits and fled back in panic.

It turned out the ground beneath the water planet was not flat, but had sand and soil of varying depths.

He stepped into the mud, couldn't pull his foot out, and fell,

Meanwhile, the robot rescued Dr. Brand back.

"Quick, save him!"

Xu Can, however, ignored the plea and shut the hatch without mercy.

If the door wasn't shut, everyone would die!

The two argued for a while, and Anne Hathaway, with the acting skills Xu Can had coached out of her, perfectly portrayed an aerospace scientist's despair.

"All these years, why was the spacecraft wreckage still there before?"

"Because of relativity, time slowed down. Dr. Miller might have landed an hour ago, and met her end just one minute ago…"

The ruthlessness of time was expressed by Xu Can to the fullest.

Every audience member was on edge.

Draining the water from the craft took over an hour, and combined with what had just happened,

By the time they returned to the space station, more than 20 years had passed on Earth.

The space station hatch opened, and the physicist Romilly, played by Zhang Songwen, was already quite aged.

He hunched over, looking at the two with trembling.

After spending over 20 years alone in the space station, he looked as if a layer of skin had been peeled off him.

"I've waited 23 years, 4 months, and 8 days…"

Despair—despair filled the eyes of the male and female leads.

When Shen Yue went to watch the video messages sent from Earth, a great many had already accumulated.

This was 23 years!

He didn't even dare imagine what had happened to his children on Earth.

With a anxious heart, Shen Yue opened the video.

In Xu Can's ultimate performance, the male lead Shen Yue witnessed nearly half of his children's lives.

"I met a girl, I think I'll marry her."

"Dad, you're going to be a grandfather. I originally wanted to name the baby after you, but my wife said next time."

"Sorry, Dad, I've been busy lately and haven't messaged… Grandpa passed away, Shen Mofei came to the funeral…"

"Sometimes, I even feel like you're already gone, unable to hear what I'm saying."

"Maybe I should let go, just consider you already… This might be my last video message."

Graduation, romance, marriage and childbirth, the child's passing, the father-in-law's passing…

The messages sent by son Shen Cheng received no reply for a long time, and in the end he couldn't hold on and chose to give up.

The ruthlessness of fleeting years utterly tore Shen Yue's heart apart.

Xu Can's acting exploded at this moment, delivering a crying scene no inferior to, and even surpassing, Mark McConaughey's.

The moment he smiled through his tears touched the hearts of every audience member as well.

The live audience couldn't help but weep along with him.

Even film critic Roger Ebert couldn't help but take off his glasses and wipe his tears.

"I feel like at the next Oscars for Best Actor, Xu Can might end up competing against himself."

The perfect performance in "Dying to Survive" versus the god-tier acting in "Interstellar."

This video clip is worthy of being used on the spot as teaching material by performing arts schools, played over and over.

"However, the entire video is the son Shen Cheng speaking; the daughter, resentful of her father for leaving, spitefully never appeared.

The son in the video also gradually shifts from the teenage Zhang Xincheng to the adult Lei Jiayin.

The two male actors gave their utmost effort—so-so—performing fairly in-character in the video.

After all, the character of Shen Cheng is inherently a simple, honest man, without great emotional swings.

Only when the video finished playing did daughter Shen Mofei's face appear on screen.

She was no longer the naive girl of her youth, but had now become a mature 30-year-old woman, the same age as Shen Yue.

Though Shen Yue had never seen her grown-up appearance, he recognized his daughter at first glance!

This was a wondrous crossing of time and space!

As for Gao Yuanyuan's acting, originally only 70 points, under Xu Can's Shoubashou Sect-style guidance it was forcibly raised to 90 points,

managing to hold up the following few scenes.

"You said that once I reached your age, you'd be able to come back."

"Today, I'm the same age as you, it's time for you to come back…"

Setting down the video, setting down the entire universe, father and daughter wept and played together.

The entire theater was moved to tears, tears streaming down their faces!

"Interstellar" Act Two ends, the final act is about to begin!.