The best director ever

Chapter 310 The Most Powerful Parasite
At the end of July, the crew settled down in Hengdian and started filming "Inception".

Hengdian Film and Television City was established in the last century. It was originally used to film the Opium War. For this reason, the first film and television shooting base-Guangzhou Street Scenic Area was established.

Later, there were more and more film and television bases, Qinwang Palace, Xiangjiang Street, Qingming Riverside Scene, etc. also appeared one after another.

From ancient times to the present, Hengdian has included too many historical miniatures.Perhaps walking from one side of Hengdian to the other, the history of thousands of years will appear in front of your eyes one by one like the clouds and smoke of the past.

The vicissitudes of life are flowing under your feet, and you will find out how thick the history of China is, and it is so heavy that you can't breathe.

The person in charge of Hengdian Film and Television City had already discussed with Han Qiu. They felt a great honor that Han Qiu chose this location for the first filming, and they gave Han Qiu the crew the greatest convenience in the film and television city.

Including food and living, the highest standard was given, and the price was much reduced. Basically, he didn't earn much money from Han Qiu.

In fact, Hengdian implemented the "free" policy many years ago.In other words, there is no venue fee for the crew to come here to film.Hengdian is playing around, and the money is charged for food, accommodation and transportation.

These are much more expensive than charging venue fees.

It's just that Hengdian didn't want to make money from Han Qiu. They wanted to build a good relationship with Han Qiu and use his sign to help Hengdian improve its international reputation.

Big-name stars like Little Li and Annie are moving gold nuggets that can attract a lot of attention wherever they go. Hengdian doesn't want to let go of such an international big name.

As for Han Qiu, he didn't care about these things.He will leave soon after staying here, and he doesn't want to make people spend so much trouble.But it's hard for Han Qiu to refuse such a face.

After thinking about it, Han Qiu felt at ease because of mutual benefit anyway.

At the beginning of August, the crew finished the set of the shooting location, and the shooting officially started.

This scene takes place in a Chinese medieval building, almost in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.At this point in China, the construction technology has reached the peak level before industrial civilization, and it is famous all over the world.

But in Han Qiu's crew, the people living in this building are modern people, and there are modern decorations and lamps inside.

When they heard about Han Qiu's transformation plan before, Xiao Zhang and the set designer thought it was so weird.But when I thought that this was "dreaming", I suddenly realized.

Because Han Qiu told them: "In dreams, people's creativity is endless, so don't be surprised if anything weird happens."

At this moment, Xiao Lizi, Liu Dehua, Annie and Joseph (actors of the outpost) are all preparing, either putting on makeup or reciting lines.

There are not many characters in the first scene, only these are the leading actors, and the others are just a sideshow.It is about the protagonist and the outposts "stealing dreams" from Andy Lau, but they failed in the end.

This is the beginning of the story.

"Is the pressure water tank ready?" Han Qiu asked Xiao Zhang and others at the entrance of the building.

"Ready." Xiao Zhang gave an OK gesture, but there was still doubt on his face, "Director Han, we can use CG special effects to create the scene where the flood floods into the hall? There is no need to be so troublesome of."

"There are no special effects here." Han Qiu shook his head calmly, "Don't you know that no matter how realistic the special effects are, there will be an unreal feeling?"

Xiao Zhang muttered: "It's just a little unreal, and with the current special effects technology, the audience can't tell the real from the fake at all."

Xiao Zhang also couldn't figure it out, obviously a lot of special effects were used in The Matrix, why would Director Han not want to do that when he was filming Inception now?
"What you said is not important." Han Qiu sighed, "I just want to make the dream as similar as possible to the real world."

Moreover, compared to that ghost, I am nothing at all.

The latter words were said by Han Qiu in his heart, and that ghost is naturally Christopher Nolan!

When Nolan filmed Inception in his previous life, people used film.In the era when digital movies have long been flooded, people still insist on these, which has to be said to be amazing.

Nolan was obsessed with film by nature. Even the later "Interstellar" was shot on film, and it was the last commercial film released in the 70mm IMAX film format in his previous life.

It is said that the total length of Interstellar film is as long as 18376 meters, which is enough to wrap a movie theater tightly.

Han Qiu has always been in awe of Nolan, not only that all his movies are classics, but also his attitude towards movies.This can be seen from the fact that he has always used film to shoot, even though film films have not kept up with the development of the times.

Han Qiu will not stick to the position of film like Nolan, because the speed at which he completes a film cannot afford Nolan's rhythm of a few years.

Huaxian and Han Qiu's development to the present level is also related to the high speed of their film production.

Therefore, without using film, Han Qiu can only work hard on shooting, presenting a real dream world to the audience as much as possible.

When he came back to his senses, Han Qiu put down a sentence: "For this movie, if you can't use special effects unless you have to, try not to use special effects as much as possible.

Xiao Zhang opened his mouth wide and stared blankly at the back of Han Qiuli, but felt as if he had knocked over a five-flavored bottle in his heart, which was very unpleasant.

"Let's rely on Director Han, you don't need it if you say you don't need it, but I'm the one who forced it. Is it easy for me to get so many props?"

After a while, the shooting officially started. The most complicated shot here is the scene of the earthquake and the flood pouring in through the window.

In the flood scene, Han Qiu used several pressurized water tanks and used air cannons to spray water out instead of pouring it out.

The props group and the special effects group built the huge interior scene of the palace, and stored a total of 5000 gallons of water in 26 water tanks carefully arranged at each window of the scene.These water tanks are opened sequentially under the drive of the mechanism, and the scene of "water flooding the golden mountain" is produced.

Second, there are earthquakes.

Typically, when you build an earthquake scene, it's covered in some sort of support that shakes to create those moving effects.But Han Qiu's scene is too big, and this method will not work at all.

Just like what Archimedes said, hold me as a fulcrum, and I will move the earth.It sounds very passionate, but the key is to have such a fulcrum.

After that, Han Qiu discussed with Andy to solve this problem from the perspective of photography.

Then, Andy told Han Qiu that earthquakes can be photographed by shaking the camera.

Andy explained: "Movement is relative. If one doesn't work, you can show it through the other. Shaking the camera and shaking the house, Director Han, do you think that is easier?"

Han Qiu smiled and said, "It must be shaking the camera."

Therefore, in this shot, Han Qiu planned to use the old-school method of shaking the camera to complete all the shaking and vibration effects of the earthquake.

A moment later, in a private room in the house.

At the dining table, Xiao Lizi said with a confident smile, "What is the most powerful parasite? Bacteria? Viruses? Or intestinal worms?"

"It's an idea!"

"It's tenacious and contagious! Once an idea forms in your head, it's almost impossible to get rid of. As long as the idea is complete and fully understood, it stays in your mind!"

While Xiao Lizi was narrating, Han Qiu stood outside the camera, quietly watching the good show unfold.

This is the beginning of Inception and the principle of Inception, and it is also the essence of this movie.

Next to him, Xiao Zhang asked puzzledly: "Why do you say that an idea is the most powerful parasite?"

Han Qiu said lightly: "Because there is no cure for it, no knife to kill it. It lives in your mind, hidden in your subconscious. Sometimes, you may not even be aware of its existence."

Xiao Zhang shook his head blankly: "I don't understand..."

Hearing this, Han Qiu was not in a hurry, and slowly explained to him: "Let's use a metaphor. It's like a man seeing a woman with a hot figure and a sweet appearance, and wants to conquer her in his heart."

Han Qiu pointed to his head, "At this time, the idea has already appeared in his mind. No matter whether the man intends to realize it or give up afterwards, this idea has been rooted in his mind, and he can't get rid of it no matter what."

"Because thinking and doing are still two different things, and not all ideas need to be practiced."

"It's like watching porn and having the idea of ​​sex or masturbation. Even if you don't put it into practice, you can't get rid of this idea. Maybe as time goes by, this idea will become more and more serious. Light, but no matter how light it is, it will not disappear completely.".
Xiao Zhang stared blankly at Han Qiu, damn it. This metaphor is really vivid.

"Director Han, I'm convinced. According to what you say, thoughts are really the most powerful parasites. Once they are born, they can't be erased."

Han Qiu nodded: "That's right, because the brain is a hard disk without the function of deleting, and the files that are not commonly used are garbage, which will only become smaller and smaller, a few KB, or even a few B. Sometimes I want to find out and use it on a whim. Use, these few KB will gradually become several MB, several G."

"Forget? It doesn't exist. The file is corrupted and has been dusty for too long. You can't find where it is in your mind."

Xiao Zhang nodded approvingly, "So, Stealing Dream is?"

Han Qiu raised his chin slightly, signaling Xiao Zhang to look at the scene.

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"And people like you are here to steal it?" Liu Dehua said while eating snacks.

"Yes." Joseph (the outpost) explained, "In dreams, your consciousness will let down your vigilance, so that your thoughts are extremely vulnerable to being stolen."

"This is called Stealing Dreams!"

Outside the camera, Xiao Zhang exclaimed in a low voice: "This is Inception."

Han Qiu agreed: "To put it bluntly, dream stealers sneak into other people's brains to steal ideas, a bit like hackers sneak into other people's hard drives to steal files."

"Another point is that some computers are equipped with anti-virus software and have firewalls. Similarly, some people can install an "anti-virus software" on their brains after training to prevent their ideas from being stolen."

"Mr. Liu Teng!" Xiao Lizi laughed, "We can train your subconscious mind to defend yourself, even the best Dream Stealer can't do anything about it."

"Why are you so sure?" Liu Dehua asked back.

Xiao Lizi said slowly: "Because I am the best Dream Stealer!"

"Cut!" Han Qiu raised the horn, stopped shouting, and then said to Xiao Zhang: "See, this is Stealing Dream!"

"Understood." Xiao Zhang nodded, pondered for a moment and asked another question, "The anti-virus software, I mean trained people, how do they protect their ideas from being stolen?"

Han Qiu smiled mysteriously: "Hehe, I'll show you when I get to Los Angeles."

"Before that, you just make the props I want."

"no problem!"

(End of this chapter)