my movie years

Chapter 303 Shocking Old Wang for a Whole Year
What's the scariest situation for a movie?It's not about losing money, or being scolded for being a bad movie, but about lack of attention.

"Grand Trail" belongs to such a film. From the film level, this film is not even a complete film.

It's bad, but it doesn't have the angry badness that "Fortress Shang Hai" brought to the audience.

How to say this is bad, it means that the audience thinks that your movie should be at such a level, and they don't want to discuss this matter anymore.

Guo Xiaosi, the director of "Grand Trail", was surprised to find that no matter how much he hypes up, buys popular searches, engages in public opinion, and cooperates with Lao Fan to play monsters, the audience's discussion is still not high.

"Grand Trail" is like being forgotten in a corner. If you think of it, you can mention it, but if you can't remember it, you will pull it down.

In this era, traffic is king.

Don't be afraid of death, as long as there is traffic, there will be salvation.But if there is no enthusiasm for discussion, it is completely hopeless.

Another forgotten movie is "Ace Plays Ace" directed by Wang Jing, starring Andy Lau and Huang Xiaoming.

The quality of this vulgar comedy is average, and the degree of discussion is also not high. It attracted attention because the two also filmed Zhang Hao's "Inception" at the same time.

It was somewhat problematic to cooperate again after a bad movie.

But who made the director Zhang Hao? The audience has far more confidence in Zhang Hao than they worry about the actor.

Many senior audiences who know something about the film industry also know that whether a film is good or not depends largely on the director, screenwriter and behind-the-scenes work.

Actors are part of a movie, the whole that makes up it.

Therefore, although Lu Xiaohan has a pot in "Shanghai Fortress", he is not the biggest pot. The biggest pot should be the director, screenwriter and investors.

Back to "Inception", the biggest focus of Zhang Hao's crew will always be Zhang Hao himself.

On the posters of the movie theater, Zhang Hao's name is the biggest, followed by the leading role.The six words of director Zhang Hao's work are golden signs, attracting batch after batch of movie fans into the cinema.

Many people are curious about the magic power of Zhang Hao's movies that attracts the audience.

Taking the opportunity of visiting Hua Tsai, Wang Jing took the opportunity to visit the set of "Inception" and saw the jaw-dropping filming method of "Inception".

"You guys are playing so big? It's really awesome!" Wang Jing couldn't help but gave a thumbs up.

Hua Tsai acted like you have never seen the world: "Where is this? There will be more exaggerated in the afternoon."

Wang Jing was a little unconvinced: "This rotating big steel frame is exaggerated enough, what else is crazier than this?"

But it turns out that Wang Jing still thinks simply.

The safety consultant of the production crew is checking the installation and equipment problems with the props and setting crew. Half of the studio has been transformed into a Chinese-style palace.

Of course it's a Chinese palace, and Ken Watanabe doesn't appear in the film.

In this scene, Ke Meng, played by Hua Tsai, is pushed into the water in the bathtub in the upper space, and the reflection in the dream of the lower level is that the palace is flooded by the flood.

This is a time to show the audience the dream layering effect, and it is also the highlight of the film.

According to the general treatment, it is estimated that most directors choose the green screen method to present.But Zhang Hao wanted to make real shots and present this scene truly.

Outside this huge Chinese-style palace, the crew installed high-pressure water guns and stored a total of 20000 water in 26 water tanks carefully arranged at each window of the scene.

Driven by the mechanism, these water tanks are opened in sequence, and the scene of flooding Jinshan is produced.

In fact, according to the prediction of the special effects engineer, if the green screen CG method can be used to present this scene, it is estimated that this scene can save a lot of money.

But Zhang Hao finally maintained his character design and adopted the method of real shooting.

And in the later publicity, this is also a selling point.

If others do this, everyone will say that they are playing tricks.But if Zhang Hao does this, everyone will say that director Zhang is awesome, and he actually filmed crazy monsters.

This scene completely fooled Wang Jing.

When 20000 liters of water poured down, everything between heaven and earth was unimportant.

This part of the scene is destined to be very eye-catching.In the behind-the-scenes footage, how the crew completes these tasks will be introduced.

Some people say that the behind-the-scenes footage of Zhang Hao's movie is more interesting than the movie, and there is some truth to this statement.

Because in the process of creation, it is a very attractive place, especially for films of the type "Inception".

The audience wants to know how the crew presents these dream worlds.

In addition, many shooting props also made Wang Jing very interested.

The first is the Penrose ladder.

Anyone who has done a little research on illusions should know the famous paradox of perspective, the Penrose staircase.

As a hypothetical infinite loop ladder, it can only be established in two dimensions, and once tested in three-dimensional space, it becomes a self-contradictory structure.

The special effects team refers to the Penrose staircase described by the illusion master Escher, and actually built a closed staircase that looks like an infinite loop of ascending and descending from a specific angle in the studio in Qingdao where the film was shot.

Of course, from any other angle, this set will be broken in an instant, because it is not closed at all.

It is also by using this point that Huang Xiaoming's Ruitu can clearly explain the dream maze phenomenon to Shu Chang's dream builder and the audience.

There is another one, which is Ke Meng's memory elevator played by Hua Tsai.

Ke Meng created an elevator in his dream that could lead to the thirteenth floor to store his memory.

This memory elevator is an independent set during filming, and they are all real props made by the crew.

For example, on the beach on the top floor, the crew found a beach in Qingdao, dug a big hole and built it.

After visiting Zhang Hao's crew for two days, Wang Jing felt that all the years of working experience in the past were for nothing.

After the class visit, Wang Jing returned to Hong Kong Island to be interviewed by the media, and mentioned the feelings of the class visit.

"That's a lunatic, only a lunatic would do such a crazy thing, it's simply too exaggerated." Wang Jing said.

But at the same time, Wang Jing also expressed her admiration for Zhang Hao: "Maybe only a lunatic can make a Chinese-language movie that the whole world likes."

Wang Jing also said that if he was 20 years younger, he would be willing to work in Zhang Hao's crew, even if it was just doing odd jobs.

When the reporter asked why, Wang Jing said bluntly: "Working with such a director can achieve a great career."

Indeed, because of the relationship with his alma mater, Tianmi Film and Television Production Company accepts outstanding students from Nortel for internships every year.

The most popular among them is to join Zhang Hao's crew, regardless of salary, being in Zhang Hao's crew can make these fledgling students grow up quickly.

Moreover, Zhang Hao's treatment for the film crew has always been the best in the country, even if they are interns, they are not treated badly, at least there are a lot of chicken legs.

After the internship period, many interns wanted to stay in Tianmi Film and Television Production Company, Zhang Hao's crew.

But not many people can stay, because Zhang Hao's crew only absorbs the best talents to join the team.

Many interns came to Zhang Hao's crew for the first time, and they were in other crews when they officially worked.

Their opinion is that Zhang Hao's crew is very professional, while the other crews are more or less grass-roots.

(End of this chapter)