而作为他首部自编自导的作品，《超级8》要求艾伯拉姆斯自主创造自己的“神秘盒”——并将其打开。

Super 8, his first feature as writer-director, required that he build his own box - and open it.

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有着魔术师般娴熟技巧的艾伯拉姆斯表示，“我对于任何能吊起观众胃口并增强影片故事性的元素都乐此不疲。”

With a conjurer's practiced blandness, Abrams simply says, "I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective."

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艾伯拉姆斯新作让人联想到2008年他参与制片的外星人入侵类电影《科洛夫档案》，在那部影片中，也是一群年轻人聚在一起面对可怖的怪兽。

Abrams adepts will recall a similar story, of young people banding together to face a ravenous monster, from Cloverfield, the 2008 alien-invasion film he produced.

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