my movie years

Chapter 300 A Genius Movie
As time progressed, preparations for Inception went very smoothly.

All kinds of news about "Inception" broke out on the Internet, Hua Tsai, Zhou Xun, Huang Xiaoming, Shu Chang and others joined.

Later, for the role of the tycoon, Zhang Hao approached Hou Yong.

Hou Yong also made his debut very early. "Out of the Amazon", "Daranfang", and "The Fission of the Great Qin Empire" are all his masterpieces.

Just finished his cameo in "In the Name of the People" and received Zhang Hao's play, Hou Yong didn't hesitate and joined the crew directly.

Another target for implantation, Zhang Hao is looking for a young actor, preferably a post-[-]s actor.

This role is also a very important role, and it has high requirements for acting skills, and you must have that kind of aura of wealth on your body.

As far as acting skills are concerned, most of the little fresh meat has been brushed off.

This role has also attracted competition from many actors, including Lao Hu, Wang Kai, Peng Yuyan, Li Moufeng, Zhang Han and other well-known actors.

Among many male stars, Zhang Hao chose Huang Xuan to play this role.

In addition, other roles were also decided one by one, and the entire crew was formed.

After the roles were determined, Zhang Hao called a meeting with the actors, studied the script together, and talked about his own experience of the characters.

Although "Inception" is a commercial blockbuster, it attaches great importance to the performance of the actors.

However, these actors are all excellent actors, and they can complete the work assigned by Zhang Hao very well.

In addition, action director Qian Jiale led the team to design the action scenes, gunfight scenes, and car chase scenes of "Inception".

For these professional matters, Zhang Hao proposes the effect he wants, and then Qian Jiale finds a way to realize Zhang Hao's vision.

At the beginning, he encountered many difficulties, such as the scene of fighting in the rotating hotel corridor, which troubled Qian Jiale for a long time.

Fortunately, everyone was motivated. After the construction of the hotel corridor was completed, several dragon and tiger martial artists began to practice, design and experiment in it.

It's going to end up being a great hotel fight scene, and then it's handed over to the actors.

This part of the scene, Zhang Hao can hand over to a double to complete, but Huang Xiaoming insists on doing it himself.So he can only accept training so that his physical condition can meet the requirements of the show.

In addition, it is about the setting of the plot.

Several leading actors read the script at the beginning and felt that they understood it, but after reading it after a while, they found that they had read it too early.

After watching it back and forth several times, the protagonists were already in a daze, completely unable to understand the tricks of dreams, dreams within dreams, and dreams within dreams.

In the words of the script, it is no longer possible to distinguish the difference between reality and dreams.

When the movie is released in the future, the distinction between reality and dreams will definitely arouse discussions among movie fans, which is also a core selling point of the movie.

But when filming, the protagonists can't be confused.

So Zhang Hao told Hua Tsai and other leading actors that the role of Uncle Da represented reality.For Ke Meng played by Hua Tsai, the top is not a totem to distinguish dreams, but the ring is.

The spinning top is the totem of Zhou Xun's character, but this character is dead, she is just a projection of Ke Meng's subconscious.

Of course, there are many different views in the interpretations of countless dream robbers.

I don't know whether after the film is released, it will also lead to discussions about whether the hero is dreaming or in reality.

The final ending must be an open ending, which is left to the audience's imagination.

For a well-made movie that burns money every frame, there is no such thing as redundant frames.

It is certain that many viewers' brains will be burnt out by then.

The photography style of the film also maintains Zhang Hao's consistent personality, continuing to use film and IMAX cameras.

Someone originally suggested that the film be made into a 3D movie, because 3D movies are expensive and can sell a higher box office.

But after comprehensive consideration, Zhang Hao gave up the idea of ​​making a 3D movie.

The issue of 3D movies has been analyzed, and now 3D movie audiences do not buy it.

Especially after the release of "Bourne Shadow 5", which was converted into 3D in mainland China, the audience's trust in 3D movies is not high.

Zhang Hao clearly knows that his base market is the domestic market, and the 3D effect of the movie "Inception" is not as good as "Gravity".

So in the end Zhang Hao decided to use the story to speak and use the quality of the movie to conquer the audience.

In the Qingdao studio, various scenes are being built in an orderly manner.

Zhang Hao came to a flight of stairs, walked up and turned around, and gave a thumbs up to the special effects team responsible for the construction.

The special effects team refers to the Penrose staircase described by the illusion master Escher, and actually builds a closed staircase that looks like an infinite loop from a specific angle.

Zhang Hao also looked at the train made by the props group. This is a real prop, driven by a truck and several trailers inside, and covered with a fiberglass train shell on the outside to make it look real.

After the train is produced, it will be transported to Shanghai for filming for the crew.

Some people may ask, why not let the props team make it directly in Shanghai, and save the trouble of transportation.

You are right, because Zhang Hao only wanted this scene to be filmed when it was produced.Everyone else thought that Zhang Hao had changed his mind, so they didn't dare to ask more questions.

Regarding this issue, Zhang Hao emphasized with the director team during the meeting that more attention and reminders should be paid to the work content.

After all, he is alone, with limited energy, it is impossible to take care of all aspects of the crew.

Next to the train, there are many well-made props, including the dream machine that enters the dream.

One side of the big studio has been transformed into the interior of Snow Mountain Castle.The snow mountain castle built in the snow mountain in western Sichuan is used for shooting panoramas and blasting scenes, and the scenes inside still have to be completed here.

Leaving the studio, Zhang Hao went to the actor's rehearsal hall next to him. Hua Tsai was leading Shu Chang, Hou Yong, Huang Xiaoming, Yan Biwen, Wang Xiao and others were rehearsing.

The six of them are the Inception Team. This is a group show, and everyone must form a certain tacit understanding.

So on the set, actors refer to each other by their roles.

Among them, Shu Sing created quite a surprise.She not only listened to Zhang Hao's words, took acting classes again, but also taught herself architecture.

Although Zhang Hao said that there is no need to take architecture courses, this part is not important.But in order to understand the character itself, Shu Chang still put in a lot of effort.

It is worth mentioning that her maze design ability has been greatly improved.

He often designed a maze to let Hua Tsai go, and Hua Tsai even said that he was tortured terribly.

In fact, from the perspective of film production, the Inception team itself is like making a movie.

The boss played by Hou Yong is the production company who provides funds and supervises the film production; the male number two Ruitu played by Huang Xiaoming is the producer who manages everything and ensures the operation of the team.

And the male protagonist Ke Meng directs the action and brings others into the dream, which is the director.

The college student of architecture played by Shu Chang is responsible for weaving and constructing dreams, which is the screenwriter; the pharmacist played by Wang Xiao provides medicine, which is the technical department.

Finally, the rich second generation played by Huang Xuan is the audience, and the above-mentioned people are responsible for making movies for him to watch.

It has inspired many playwrights to have a half-written play or novel lying in their drawer.

They hope to pick it up and finish it one day in the future, but very few actually do it.

If a movie like "Inception" wasn't proposed by a director with a certain reputation and status, with the style of the film company, I'm afraid they wouldn't even bother to pay attention to it.

Therefore, in entertainment novels, it is pure fantasy that a well-reviewed script can be appreciated by a film company.

Every movie you see isn't made in a flash, even if it's a bad movie.

From this point of view, Christopher Nolan in his previous life was also quite smart and a person who understood the style of the film industry.

This director insists on originality, but is not limited to originality. It is clear that the original types of ordinary directors, screenwriters and even producers are not popular in the film industry.

When he entered the mainstream film circle, his first goal was to adapt the film. Relying on the great success of the adapted film, he won the opportunity for his original production that required a large investment and large production.

During the break, Mr. Hou Yong curiously asked Zhang Hao about the creative source of this film.

In the words of teacher Hou Yong: "After reading the script of this film, I felt a huge drop in my mood, as if this matter had nothing to do with me overnight.

I am actually going to be abandoned by the mainstream to this point, the progress is too fast. "

Shu Sang said with a smile: "Teacher Hou, I think only Director Zhang can do it. I don't see any other directors who can achieve his achievements."

"That's right, so, Director Zhang, how did you come up with this story?" Teacher Hou Yong continued to ask.

It is not easy to find a reason, Zhang Hao began to talk nonsense: "Watching a movie is actually a dreaming experience.

I've always been fascinated by dreams and wanted to make a film about dreams.Because I think there's a connection between the way the imagination works on dreams and the stories you create yourself.

Watching a movie is almost like experiencing a dream, and appreciating and accepting this in a theater should be an unknown experience. "

"Dreams visually affect the creation of many directors," Huang Xiaoming also said: "I often dream, and I can get some pictures and inspirations in my dreams, and I will record them when I wake up."

"Wow!" After more than half a month of getting along, Yan Biwen is not as stiff as before.

He teased Huang Xiaoming and said, "Brother Xiaoming, you want to be a director!"

"Yes, I want to be a comedy director, and I will invite you to act in it." Huang Xiaoming shrugged, but did not deny it.

"Forget it, I can't bear to just watch Brother Chao's comedies, you'd better not harm comedies." Zhang Hao said while covering his head.

Everyone laughed out loud. As we all know, Deng Chao's comedies are not really good movies, and they are often complained by the audience.

After the rest time, Zhang Hao had to fly to Shanghai to check the location, so he didn't stay any longer.

Hua Tsai looked at the back of Zhang Hao leaving in a hurry, and sighed: "When I first read the script, I thought Director Zhang Hao wanted to set the movie as a heist movie.

A team of corporate espionage led by Ke Meng, using dreams to infiltrate the unsuspecting man and steal his ideas, is enough in itself to make a good movie.

This process is indeed very similar to the Mission Impossible IMF spy team. "

"But director Zhang Hao has a higher pursuit. He has always been interested in penetrating a person's psychology layer by layer. If he just takes something from there, it is not attractive enough." Andy continued with a tone of admiration said:

"I've had enough conversations with him that the mission he assigned to this espionage team was to put an idea in someone else's mind, an idea that they would normally resist.

But after their planning, this idea will take root and eventually make the target person act according to the needs of their employer. This is a genius innovation. "

Everyone nodded emphatically, no wonder Zhang Hao was able to make a name for himself in the world, a film director with an average brain couldn't compare.

Teacher Hou Yong concluded: "You need to place something in people's consciousness so that it can grow in a certain way.

You have to anticipate how it grows in a chaotic way, and that seems like the biggest conclusion we can get from the script. "

Exchanges and discussions will allow the actors to better understand the film.

Through the way of talking and chatting, the actors have a clear understanding of the tasks the characters undertake in the film, the logic of behavior, and the performance they should have.

This is a good thing for the filmmaking process.

(End of this chapter)