my movie years

Chapter 228 The dark color of the post-production of "The Dark Knight"
Da Mi Mi and Lao Fan were playing lively on the TV, and the fans of the two parties were also noisy.

Even at the New Year's Eve party, Da Mimi was on the Blue Terrace, and Lao Fan was on the Mango Terrace. The two appeared at almost the same time for comparison.

During this period of time, it was basically an online carnival. Fans, sunspots, cross-talkers, passers-by, anti-preachers, and various identities all appeared on the stage, allowing the public to see what it means to compete among top actresses.

However, judging from the ratings announced later, the ratings of Da Mi Mi are obviously higher than that of Lao Fan.Ratings are tricky and can be faked.

Except for the time when he was bundled with Da Mimi for hype, Lao Fan pulled it out alone, and the popularity and traffic topics were not as high as Da Mimi.

When a blogger on the Internet analyzed the dispute between Yang Fan and concluded that Da Mi Mi won a complete victory, Lao Fan fans expressed dissatisfaction.

A fan of Lao Fan left a message: "Big Mi Mi wins without martial arts, she is entirely dependent on her husband to get what she is today, unlike our sister Fan, who has made it to where she is today step by step."

Fans of Da Mi Mi were of course not happy about it, and they also left a message saying: "It is her ability to find a good husband for Mi Mi, unlike Lao Fan who is 33 and still single, so no one wants it?"

Someone from below echoed: "Hot knowledge, the reason for the conflict between Da Mi Mi and Lao Fan is that Lao Fan wanted to hook up with director Zhang Hao, but failed."

Another person left a message: "Cold knowledge, Lao Fan had a relationship with Li Zhiting on the set of "Legend of Wu Mei Niang", but they broke up after the TV series aired."

Netizens are very surprised. According to previous cognition, marriage is a heavy blow to the career of actresses, especially for actresses like Da Mi Mi who have a lot of fans.

But Da Mi Mi seems to have transcended this law, and it’s okay to fall in love and get married, and the popularity has not declined but increased.Now occupying super high traffic and popularity, other actresses can only look up a little bit.

Even Ying Bao, who is gaining momentum now, or veteran top actresses like Lao Fan can't compete.

This is not what Lao Fan is most angry with. The most angry thing is that Lao Fan Mingming is only five years older than Da Mimi, but in the end he is classified as an old-fashioned actress, and Da Mimi has become a new generation.

Old and old, doesn't it mean that you are old and out of date!After finally climbing to the position of top actress, who wants to be replaced?
From this point of view, Zhang Hao is just an inducement. The real contradiction is that Da Mi Mi wants to replace him, but Lao Fan refuses to give in.

This is a dispute over the status, fame and resources of top actresses, and it is an irreconcilable contradiction.So even if there is no conflict, as long as Da Mi Mi launches an impact on this position, he will still face the competition with Lao Fan.

It's just that in this competition, Da Mimi won so quickly and easily that the battle was over before she even exerted herself.

Lao Fan wanted to launch a counterattack, but before Lao Fan could make a move, he looked back and saw Ying Bao, Tang Yan, and even a younger Shuangzi all staring at him behind him.

Lao Fan was shocked to find that she was surrounded by these Mesozoic and new generation top actresses, and she couldn't move.

The world has changed, and so have the times. After all, this world is not what Lao Fan used to be familiar with. An era called capital flow is quietly coming.

In the future, there will be more top-notch actresses appearing. Who can laugh at the situation depends on their own means and skills.

However, Zhang Hao didn't pay much attention to these disputes, as he was in a detached position now.Unless there is a movie that hits the box office three times in a row, his status as a super-first-line director is unshakable.

Competition in the entertainment industry is essentially a competition for resources, and star competition is for resources.TV drama resources, movie resources, advertising brand endorsement resources, and variety show resources, etc.

In many cases, a director like Zhang Hao is the existence of creative resources.

Everyone is here to grab resources, how could they offend a top director who can create resources?So even top stars should be polite when they see him.

Of course, Zhang Hao can't be too pretentious, face is mutual, everyone gives each other face, as long as the face is decent.

Just when the dispute between Da Mi Mi and Lao Fan came to an end, "Queen's Adventures" ranked first in the country, and when the popularity of the entire network exploded and the degree of traffic explosion officially ended its first round of TV broadcast, the time has quietly entered 2015.

In the first heavy snow of the new year, "The Dark Knight" ended the shooting of all the shots in Tokyo on a small day, and officially announced the completion.

"What do you want to do after filming is over?" Zhang Hao asked Heath Ledger.

Heath Ledger said with a smile: "Maybe I will go to China for vacation and taste Chinese food."

"Are you used to eating?"

Heath Ledger shrugged: "I have been to Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles and New York's Chinatown, and the food is not bad."

Seeing that Heath Ledger was in good spirits and had a smile on his face, Zhang Hao felt relieved.This proves that Heath Ledger was not affected by playing the Joker and maintained a stable mental state.

After eating a Japanese meal, the crew officially announced their disbandment.

The Chinese team involved in the filming was very convenient. They chartered a plane and flew directly back to China, and the actors also dispersed to go to other work.

Only Zhang Hao, he returned to a post-production studio in Burbank, Los Angeles, and officially started the post-production of "The Dark Knight".

Zhang Hao first looked at the digital field and Tiangong Yicai, as well as the joint production of CG special effects by the three Moon Palace studios.The progress is good, most of the work is almost finished, just need to be added to the finished film.

In addition, the soundtrack composer for this cooperation is still Hans Zimmer, and Zhang Hao has heard several versions of the soundtracks sent by him. One of the soundtracks called "A Watchful Guardian" is Zhang Hao's favorite.

The momentum is magnificent, like a tragic heroic song, which fits the theme of "The Dark Knight" very well.

However, Zhang Hao still invited Hans Zimmer to come to Los Angeles to personally discuss some key points and details of soundtrack production.

In addition, the tone of the film is also the focus of the entire post-production.

Long before the filming started, Zhang Hao, the entire crew and the post-production team defined the realistic style and dark tone.

The dark style, literally, is a dark and dark style.

Although this term is quite unfamiliar to the audience compared to the current mainstream movies, dark-style movies have been dormant in the movie circle for a long time.

In previous film circles, audiences liked to call similar films Expressionism, B-movies, Gothic films, or film noirs.

Zhang Hao's favorite "The Matrix" series also belongs to this type of style.

To talk about the origin of the dark style, it is actually difficult to verify.

Because from Goya’s series of black paintings, Brueghel the Elder’s Triumph of Death, Boccaccio’s story collection “Ten Days Talk” and other paintings and works, we can find evidence of the existence of the dark style.

If you look through the history of Hollywood in this style, it is not difficult to find that as early as "M is the Murderer", Carl Theodore Dreyer's "Vampire" and Murnau's "Nosferatu" there are "darkness". elements of existence of style".

Not to mention the kind of film noir that deliberately shows the mean streets, the sinister nature of human nature, and deliberately places the scenes and stories in the dark night.

Strictly speaking, many sixth-generation directors in China, as well as many Chinese-language films that hit international awards in the 90s, all belong to the dark style.

The dark style in the West originated in the sixteenth century. Unlike the imported concept of science fiction, the dark style in China is earlier, dating back to the Song Dynasty.

However, the dark style at that time did not refer to a depressive horror style, but more an aesthetic style.

In the Song Dynasty, one of the colors with the highest status was cyan and the other was black.

At that time, Taoism was very prosperous. It held that Taoism followed nature, and green was the incarnation of nature, while black was recommended for "eye-catching".

People in the Song Dynasty discovered that five colors can damage the eyes, but black is the only one that does not damage the eyesight. It turns out that black can protect eyesight. At that time, Wang Anshi chose black as the color of the screen. Su Shi also said: Tea can be used in the mouth, ink can be used in the eyes.

It can be seen that Song people love black, and even think that black represents heaven and earth.

It can be seen that, as a category of art, any style can find similarities in other art forms.

There is no doubt that Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" series in the previous life is a key figure in the entry of dark style movies into the mainstream movie market.

After "The Dark Knight", the dark style once became synonymous with high style.

During that time, from the film industry to the fashion industry, the dark aesthetic style was popular, which shows Nolan's promotion of the dark style aesthetic.

Leaving aside other fields, this unique dark style has had a huge impact on superhero movies and indirectly brought two very different styles.

One is Marvel's "Avengers" and "Iron Man", which follow the style of mainstream commercial blockbusters, which appear more joyful, popcorn-like, and even younger.

In another way, after "The Dark Knight" brought depth and style to DC movies, it caused the entire DC universe to follow a unified style and values.

So that some superhero movies that are not suitable for darkening are darkened, which leads to failure.

Of course, because "The Dark Knight" hasn't come out yet, "Superman: Man of Steel" directed by Zack Snyder is actually closer to Marvel's style.

I don't know what kind of style it will be if Zack Snyder wants to shoot "Superman vs. Batman" after the success of "The Dark Knight".

Despite his previous experience in "Beginning of War" and Nolan's original version as a reference, Zhang Hao still cannot relax in terms of post-production.

Once the filming process is complete, post-production becomes crucial.

Darkness refers to the tone of the pictures in these movies, which are artificially darkened. Even those scenes that take place in the daytime are dark and humid.

Of course, in these movies, many plots take place in the dark.

And black, it means that the theme of these movies is black, and the stories are often related to words such as dark, morbid, weird, violent, bloody, mysterious, religious, and alternative.

Although the story theme of many movies is positive, punishing evil and promoting good, in the development process of the story, the above-mentioned elements are magnified and exaggerated, thus producing a dark effect.

The production style of "The Dark Knight" undoubtedly has the characteristics of a dark style. Both Batman and the Joker have unknown pasts and pains.

This kind of shadow and trauma accompanied his maturity and eventually became part of his values, and such trauma will make him show the public with another morbid image.

For example, Batman's armor, such as the scars and costumes of the clown.

Another more important point is that Batman and the Joker, who have experienced pain, are not as simple as revenge in the pure sense.

Bruce Wayne realized from the murder of his parents that simple revenge cannot solve the crime, so he began to seek ways to contain and solve the crime, and became Batman.

The clown is different. The trauma he suffered from childhood made him experience the dark side of human nature, making him think that people are dark, selfish, greedy and cowardly.

He has the same speculative and philosophical colors as the positive characters, which makes the positive characters fall into a dilemma in many cases.

Such a swing of values ​​and thinking about justice and evil can be described as a kind of darkness in film aesthetics.

Secondly, religion and the resulting sense of ritual, mystery, cult, incompleteness, and alternative are often the characteristics of the sensory and narrative elements in these films.

In many passages and plots, the protagonist will go to the next stage after some masters give advice, or win the first place in certain ritual gatherings and activities.

It was through Henry Ducard's guidance that Bruce Wayne could become the nemesis of evil.

In "The Dark Knight", the darkness itself is more of the darkness of the whole story, and the photography and post-processing also have a strong dark color.

This dark style in visual effects implies to a certain extent the style elements of the MV, including the MV's lens language and editing techniques.

In terms of setting, color matching and overall production coordination, it fully reflects the effect of spectacle.

These elements that can be reflected in the shooting are more derived from the actors' performances and lines.

During post-production, how to successfully integrate those bright shots into the dark style is a question that director Zhang Hao should consider.

Of course, there is another issue that is not only considered by Zhang Hao, but also by the top management of Warner Pictures.

Most of the successful superhero movies in recent years have come from Marvel next door.The style is clear, it is popcorn, a movie that is easy to play.

One of the most important things about superheroes is the sense of substitution, which is very important.

If there are two choices, one becomes Iron Man and the other becomes Batman, it is estimated that many people will choose to become Iron Man.

The reason is simple, there is no shortage of cars, women, Tony Stark, the handsome Mark armor, and from time to time, he can dress up and be a hero admired by thousands of people.

This kind of life is simply what I most look forward to in my dreams.

(End of this chapter)