my movie years

Chapter 311 Video Game Like Movie
Two opposing rooms in a hotel in Paris, where the crew of "Inception" is filming.

The two cameras crossed obliquely without interfering with each other, aiming at Hua Tsai and Zhou Xun in front of two opposite windows, and the microphone used for live recording also slowly descended from above to the upper edge of the window.

Ke Meng, played by Hua Tsai, walked to the window and saw Xue Jun, played by Zhou Xun, who was sitting on the opposite window sill, and asked very surprised, "Honey, what are you doing?"

"Come together." Xue Jun shook her feet from time to time.

"You go back to the house first," Ke Meng said while making a persuasive gesture, "OK? Go back to the house, hurry up!"

"No!" Xue Jun refused without hesitation. As the lighting team adjusted the light on the scene, her face was gradually covered in shadows: "I'm going to dance, I want you to dance with me!"

"No, I don't know how to jump." Ke Meng shook his head slightly, and said again, "My wife, now listen to me, if you jump down now, you won't wake up, understand? You will die instead! So go back to the house go, will you?"

"Please!" he went on, "you go back to the house and we can talk again."

"We've talked enough!"

As she said that, Xue Jun kicked off a high-heeled shoe, and the shoe fell quickly, landing on the green mat under the window.

"Xue Jun!" Ke Meng widened his eyes and shouted.

"You step out quickly, or I will jump right now..."

"CUT..." Zhang Hao stopped the filming, and asked Hua Tsai's question: "Ke Meng, why are you learning stare acting from AB now?"

Hua Tsai scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "I'm sorry, director, my..."

Huang Xiaoming was filming in the crew, and AB also came to visit the set.Compared with the two who had divorced in the previous life, the relationship between the couple is still very good at this time.

It's just that AB's staring method didn't even learn the essence of Huang Xiaoming's [-]-[-] split.

After the stylist retouched the makeup, Andy paid a lot of attention to the next shoot, and successfully completed the shooting of this scene.

In addition to filming, the publicity work of "Inception" is also planned.

Compared with the original release time of "Inception", there is an advantage now, that is, the development of Internet media, which gives "Inception" a lot of opportunities for publicity.

In this regard, as an Internet company, Penguin is undoubtedly the best of the best.

In fact, if Zhang Hao didn't allow it, Penguin would have adapted some of Zhang Hao's classic works into mobile games.

I don't know how to make it, but there will definitely be a six-yuan gift pack for the first charge anyway.

For Zhang Hao, such behavior undoubtedly hurt the value of his movie IP, so he rejected Penguin's boring redevelopment proposal.

Unless it is said that their game production team can show sincerity.

But the characteristics of the horse suit, as long as you are a game player, you can understand it.

And "Inception" is not intended to be adapted into a game, but to make the audience feel that this is a movie like a video game.

That is to say, it is very easy for audiences who have experienced the baptism of online virtual society and role-playing video games to intervene in the film story as a participant, allowing them to participate in the production of film meaning.

Specific to the film, it is shown that after the release, the fans are enthusiastically interpreting the plot of the film based on me.

Compared with the dream philosophy and connotation, this is the real killer feature of "Inception".

And to let the audience participate, it must not be too elegant, but also not too simple and rude, just like designing a maze, it must be just right.

In this regard, Christopher Nolan in his previous life has already made a perfect demonstration.

In a sense, "Inception" can be said to be a dream version of "The Matrix".

Kemeng, like Neo, is trapped in the matrix empire. Once he enters the realm of dreams and virtual reality, it will always be an endless loop.
Call it what you want, and the film turns into a dark party of faux-reality and inaction.

Just because it is a dream, you can do whatever you want, which also provides an excellent opportunity for "Inception" to create a visual spectacle.

Nowadays, the popularity of video games has given the film a higher acceptance.

If some viewers say that this is a video game-like movie, it means that "Inception" has succeeded.

Another ingenious feature of the film lies in the simultaneous setting of dreams and the process of solving puzzles. The setting of dreams within dreams is not surprising, but it is the first time to connect dreams.

The audience can see the fall of the minibus, the hotel corridor and elevator battle in the lower space, the snow mountain castle battle in the third space, and Ke Meng facing his dead wife in the innermost space.

Then come back layer by layer to complete the process of falling simultaneously. At the same time, whether the bomb exploded or not, whether the rich second generation played by Huang Xuan opened the safe has become the most concerned issue for the audience.

A wonderful dream synchronous puzzle solving game, combined with the hot action gun battle scene, it has the effect of one plus one greater than two.

It would be a bit boring to take it out alone, not everyone is willing to burn their brains, and there are enough gunfight action scenes in Hong Kong movies.

All I can say is, this idea is brilliant.

As for the little trick of the spinning top played at the end of the film, it is just a standard routine played by standard commercial blockbusters.

How does the main character wake up on the plane when the film ends, is he dead or alive?Or was he the one who had been implanted?All these questions must be left to the viewer.

And Zhang Hao can't stand up and say that this is the correct answer. If we really want to go back to the source, the question of what is real becomes an unsolvable philosophical question.

Heidegger once said: "The being for which this being exists is always my being."

According to this theory, the world is real as long as it is perceptually real.

If Neo of "The Matrix" hadn't woken up from the breeding barn, for him, the virtual world was the real world.

As long as the perception system does not call the police, the pursuit of authenticity becomes meaningless.

But for the audience, the significance of these questions is that they can still pursue the truth of the film tirelessly after watching the film.

Then the audience will think of using their own truth to convince others. In order to find more evidence, they will watch the movie several times so that they can find evidence to prove that their own truth is the truth.

This is beneficial to "Inception". In fact, such an original film is completely unable to attract a large number of audiences into the cinema.

If you want to get a high box office, it is extremely important for loyal movie fans to do it twice, three times or even four times and five times.

In this respect, Zhang Hao's work is similar to that of Christopher Nolan.But what makes him better than Nolan is that he shoots action scenes better than Nolan.

Whether it's the Batman series or "Inception", Zhang Hao's biggest change to the film is the action scenes.

Although Nolan loves real shots, I have to say that his action scenes are really a mess.

The Batman directed by Zhang Hao has withstood various criticisms, but the action scenes are well received.

The series of films is even hailed as having revolutionized the Hollywood action production model, and also allowed Hong Kong Island action directors to find jobs in Hollywood again.

It can be seen that in terms of action scenes, Zhang Hao is much better than Nolan.

This is thanks to Qian Jiale and his team. Without the support of these professionals, Zhang Hao would not be able to play with these things.

After finishing the scenes in Paris, the crew all returned to China and completed the final scenes in the Qingdao studio.

After the crew came back, one of the studios had been remodeled according to the scheduled plan, and the scene of opening the safe in Snow Mountain Castle was filmed here.

As an actor who made his debut in a literary film, Huang Xuan's acting skills are still worthy of recognition. Seeing the old father lying on the bed, the touching and complicated emotions are well performed.

Whether an actor's acting skills are good or not depends not only on himself, but also on factors such as the director, opponent actors, script and so on.

Andy Lau and Huang Xiaoming's poor performances in the last "Ace of the Kings" are still vivid in my memory, but in "Inception", the two immediately displayed their strengths as actor.

This principle also applies to other actors.

Of course, if the actor's foundation is not good, such as Lu Xiaohan, Zhang Hao can't save Zhang Hao even if he has superpowers.

Like the previous shooting, although the setting of the whole film is absurd, Zhang Hao still pays attention to the realism of photography.

Although the film as a whole is based on the absurdity of dreams, Zhang Hao has very high requirements for photography pictures and textures.

"In the final analysis, when we dream, we feel that the dream is real. This is also a line in the film."

During the shooting break, Zhang Hao said to Guo Fan who came to visit the set, "This is very important for photography and every aspect of this film.

We didn't want the dream sequences to be overly surreal, I wanted them to be as solid as the real world, so our approach was to make the dreams feel real. "

Guo Fan has read the script of "Inception" and agrees with Zhang Hao's philosophy very much.

Zhang Hao is not only his friend, but also his guide and teacher on the film journey.Although Guo Fan is a few years older than Zhang Hao, the one who is the best comes first.

It is nothing to be ashamed to admit that Zhang Hao brought him in.

"I think many people are using digital technology now, but we are still sticking to traditional film cameras." Guo Fan laughed.

"Although digital photography technology is advanced, the picture lacks texture and the graininess of film. It can't be seen on TV, but the difference is very obvious in movie theaters." Zhang Hao said the reason why he insisted on film.

In fact, in order to express the difference between dreams and reality, even if film cameras are used throughout, they are cameras in different formats.

Although digital photography technology is constantly innovating today, it will take a long time to surpass film in terms of texture experience.

In fact, a photography company under China Film Group is developing a brand new digital photography system. Zhang Hao went to see it, and the effect is not bad.

Overall, it can reach 80.00% of the performance of film images, and the texture is not bad.

At the same time, Marvel special effects blockbusters were generally produced with digital cameras. There is only one reason, and that is that film is too expensive.

So when watching a Marvel movie, I found that the color of the movie is very strong, and it feels like an oil painting.

This is the shortcoming of digital cameras, and this is done to cover up the shortcomings of digital cameras' lack of expressiveness in the picture.

However, new technologies will replace old technologies sooner or later, just like color sound films will replace black and white silent films, this is an inevitable trend.

Zhang Hao will not stick to the rules, and when the time is right, he will also turn to digital photography technology in an all-round way.

　100 million words, I feel tired...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)