The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 353 The Baby of the Aerospace Department

Picking up "The New Mummy", the cheap "Matrix" lived up to Chen Jingxing's expectations and started a big hit. The box office in the first week was only 800 million US dollars. With a box office of 3500 million, the third week reported 7300 million, and the cumulative total in three weeks was close to 4900 million.

The word-of-mouth has also remained strong. Even after the large-scale release, imdb's score remained below 9 points. Relatively professional evaluation sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and MTC also maintained very high scores, even surpassing "Center of the Earth". gravitational".

"Gravity" is indeed too much of a "main theme" in the eyes of many Americans, including some elites.

The main reason is that Huaguo's two space stations appeared in the movie, and the never-give-up spirit of Huaguo's development of the aerospace industry revealed in the movie is not obscure.

These alone have made some people very uncomfortable, and some people even criticized that this is Huaguo's official space development promotional video, even though it is a space disaster story.

This is a very subtle emotion. I can show your things in my movies, and even praise your things, but you can’t praise yourself nakedly in your movies, but also export them to me. This is Ideological propaganda, my propaganda is universal value, your propaganda is to promote the superstate.

And "Matrix" is completely a dystopian sci-fi movie, which happens to be a very popular and popular theme among young people in Europe and America. This is why "Matrix" is so loved by many young people. Among the movies "Matrix" is definitely the ceiling level.

Therefore, it is difficult for people who wear colored glasses to pick out ideological things, so although some media still struggle with Hua Guo using movies to output unwarranted thoughts and the like, most people don’t think so. Concerned about this, did not cause any public opinion topic.

Of course, the box office of "Matrix" is still affected by the small-scale opening, otherwise it is very likely to become a blockbuster film that breaks through 2 million US dollars again after "Gravity" by DreamWorks.

However, "Gravity" needs to split the box office account with Universal, while "Matrix" is DreamWorks' exclusive box office share. Although the agreement with several major theaters has made some concessions, it is also DreamWorks' most profitable in North America. It's a movie.

Moreover, the peripheral income of "Matrix" must exceed that of "Gravity", especially the income from dvd, TV and Internet copyrights. If "Gravity" is an out-and-out cinema movie, then "Matrix" has visual wonders , but you can also get most of the viewing experience on a TV or computer.

However, Chen Jingxing didn't put his energy on "Matrix" all the time. After the National Day, he finally called up the crew of "The Martian" and started filming plots other than Martian scenes.

The remaining scenes of "The Martian" are basically easier to shoot. The scenes in the Mars spacecraft were shot in the studio. With the experience of participating in the production of "Gravity", and the filming of "Matrix", the scenes in the spacecraft There is no difficulty for either the crew or Mo's special effects team.

The weightless scene was filmed with the Wia specially used to shoot the weightless environment in the filming of "Gravity". Only two telescopic guns were used. In fact, the entire Chinese film industry currently has no more than 10 telescopic guns in total. , Many of them were rented from abroad. It can be seen that although "Gravity" has a high investment, a large part of it also fills up the technical strength and equipment reserves of DreamWorks, which is quite cost-effective.

After filming the green screen scene in the greenhouse, the last thing is to shoot the scene of the command and control center.

And it's a real command and control center-the launch control center and the newly completed command and control hall of the space station's payload operation and control center with a rather sci-fi interior decoration have also opened their doors to "The Martian" as an exception.

Although these scenes can be built by ourselves or realized with green screen technology, it is of course better if the aerospace department is willing to open the door for convenience.

And with the idea of ​​not using it for nothing, Chen Jingxing even asked the aerospace staff in the control center to get over the addiction of extras.

The leaders and other main supporting roles on the ground in "The Martian" are naturally played by actors, and the other staff who appear in the camera are genuine staff, of course, all of which have been approved by the aerospace department and individuals in writing.

In the hall, the huge electronic display screen was covered with a layer of green cloth, and there was a loud cheer from the seats. The staff in the control center took off their hats, and their excited faces were reflected in each other's eyes. Hugging each other, everyone's joyful movements and expressions made the scene seem like a party.

"Cut!" After shouting cut, Chen Jingxing clapped his hands and gave a thumbs up, feeling relieved, and the "group performers" in the hall also ended their smiles that were about to stiffen their faces, feeling relieved.

The result of shooting with the staff of the control center is like this. A simple scene can be shot more than ten times, which is a torture for both parties.

Chen Jingxing turned around and faced the two old men who were standing behind him with smiles. They didn't feel bothered at all and apologized repeatedly: "Director Hu, Director Ren, I'm really sorry for delaying everyone's work."

Director Ren, who had dealt with Chen Jingxing a lot, smiled all over his face: "No delay, no delay, who says this is not work? Filmmaking is also work."

Director Hu of the control center also said with an easy-going face: "Old Ren is right, Director Xiao Chen, your good movie is the greatest support for us, we should thank you..."

In the end, Chen Jingxing was still disrespectful to the series of rainbow farts of the two big bosses, and the initiative of the aerospace department was indeed somewhat beyond his expectation.

If it is said that the official help for the announcement of "Gravity" was advocated by Director Ren, then "The Martian" is really regarded as a treasure by the aerospace department.

The main reason is that "Gravity" has indeed brought Huaguo's aerospace industry an unimaginable exposure.

The large Tiangong space station at the beginning of the movie, not to mention the Xuntian space telescope, and the Tiangong-[-] experimental space station that returned to Earth with the heroine at the end and turned into a daytime meteor, are all a large-scale advertisement of Huaguo Aerospace.

Especially the movie "Gravity" was released a few days ago, and the Tiangong-11 experimental space station was successfully launched immediately, and when "Matrix" was showing, the two astronauts of Shenzhou [-] also stationed in Tiangong-[-]. Number.

Not only did the domestic people pay unprecedented attention, but overseas, even the European and American media also reported a lot on Huaguo's Tiangong No. [-] because of "Gravity".

Previously, serious mainstream media in Europe and the United States would conduct small-scale reports on Huaguo's space achievements, and some private goods would also be mixed in.

But this time, because "Gravity" is a popular movie in most countries around the world, many non-serious media, even entertainment, social, financial and other media, especially online media, use ""Ground The launch of Tiangong-[-], which helped the heroine safely fall back to Earth in "Gravity", "Do you want to see what Dr. Ye's escape cabin looks like in "Gravity"?" and other angles were widely reported.

And the photos taken by the astronauts with their mobile phones looking out of the porthole of Tiangong-[-] have also appeared in hot searches and reports at home and abroad, because this photo is a tribute to the heroine in "Gravity" looking at the earth outside the window of Tiangong-[-]. lens.

The strong and close interaction between movies and reality makes "Gravity" the strongest promotional film in the history of Huaguo's aerospace industry, especially the space station program.

Not only many domestic people know about Huaguo’s future space station plan, but even many foreign netizens have learned from the media that Huaguo will build a real space station 20 years ago, and by then it may be the only space station in orbit in the world Already, if the International Space Station is not extended.

So much so that even the official concept drawings and videos of the real Tiangong large-scale space station in the future use clips from "Gravity".

It's no wonder that some foreign media exclaimed that they should be alert to Huaguo's use of new propaganda methods to export ideology, show achievements, and attack Western soft power and values.

In addition, there is also a very important reason that the leaders of the basic aerospace department have read the script of "The Martian". After all, the aerospace department is also the review department of this movie, and the film bureau has to be in the back row.

And "The Martian" has a more main theme than "Gravity". "Gravity" is the space version of Robinson Crusoe. The essence is disaster and survival, while "The Martian" is directly a science fiction promotional film of the aerospace department.

Whether it's being the first to land on Mars, establishing a research base on Mars, or rescuing a surviving astronaut who landed on Mars at all costs, there is nothing more thematic than this.

In Chen Jingxing's previous life, some people actually called "The Martian" the Martian version of "Saving Private Ryan".

Unlike "Saving Private Ryan", there is no need to design an enemy, an opponent, and it has nothing to do with wars between humans.

It is the difficulties encountered by human beings in the exploration of space, and how to overcome them with unity. The atmosphere of the whole movie, the spirit it wants to express, and the spirit of revolutionary optimism that Huaguo has always advocated are also quite consistent.

It can be said that for the aerospace department, "The Martian" is a film project that they attach more importance to than "The Mekong" for the Ministry of Public Security. Dropped pie.

After filming the scenes in the control center, although "The Martian" still has some scenes that have not been filmed, the whole movie is almost finished. Chen Jingxing, who was relaxed, sent a photo of him with the crew and the staff of the space station control center to the on weibo.

""The Martian" is almost finished, thanks to the leaders and teachers of the flight control center, see you on the big screen!"

This news also aroused the expectations of movie fans. After all, "The Martian" is rumored to be the sequel to "Gravity", and it is also the second part of the space trilogy that Chen Jingxing is rumored to shoot, including movie fans and aerospace enthusiasts. Netizens inside have been looking forward to it for a long time, but there has been little news about this movie since "Matrix" was announced.

[Jingshen finally posted on Weibo again! 】

【Have you finally recovered your account?I remember that the last time Director Chen posted on Weibo was the last time...]

[Come on! Is "The Martian" almost done?When will it be released?Is it a sequel to Gravity? 】

【Spring Festival file!Spring Festival stalls! 】

[Upstairs wants to eat farts, how long did the post-production special effects of "Gravity" last? The number of special effects shots of "The Martian" is estimated to be not much different from that of "Gravity", how could it be on the Spring Festival】

[Should the filming of "The Martian" be completed and the second part of "The Matrix" be filmed? ? ?Go make "The Matrix"! 】

【Haha, upstairs, you treat Director Chen as the donkey of the production team...】

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