my movie years

Chapter 81 The Origin of Chinese Science Fiction Film "Little Sun"

The plane arrived at Los Angeles Airport, and under the arrangement of Warner and Universal Pictures, the troubled young directors checked into a hotel in Burbank to rest.

It was a jet lag, and the next day, someone from Warner came to take a group of people to Fox Studios to visit the filming of "Transformers 3".

In terms of popularity in China, the "Transformers" series is definitely a sci-fi movie series that is more familiar to Chinese movie fans than "Star Wars" and "Star Trek".

Similarly, this film series is also a representative of the Hollywood stereotyped industrial film, which happens to be the kind that Chinese-language film directors cannot learn for the time being.

Looking at Fox Studios, various scenes built by "Transformers 3", as well as various props produced, even director Michael Bay asked the props team to make a [-]:[-] scale model of Transformers.

The directors who came to visit were like grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, with their mouths wide enough to lay down eggs.

"Old Guo, look at the details, it's so realistic, it's almost as if it's alive." Zhang Hao and Guo Fan Da Mi Mi walked last, looking at the scale model built, they were full of admiration.

Guo Fan's unique bubbly voice was full of admiration: "This is really amazing, when can we do this."

"Old Guo, there will be. We have gaps to admit, but we will also develop." Zhang Hao's tone is full of encouragement.

Guo Fan shook his head, his expression a little desperate: "This gap is really disheartening, it's too big."

Da Mimi looked at the sentimental Zhang Hao and Guo Fan, and then looked at other directors and family members who were enthusiastic, and suddenly felt that there was an inexplicable gap.

The other directors came here with the mentality of visiting and playing. Only Zhang Hao and Guo Fan were seriously observing and learning, and seemed to be really thinking about learning the advanced technology of Hollywood.

But as Guo Fan said, the gap between the two sides is really too big.

But Zhang Hao seemed to be full of confidence. Da Mimi held Zhang Hao's arm and asked, "Zhang Zhang, I think you are not as disappointed as Lao Guo, and you seem very confident."

"Of course, I have confidence in myself and our mainland film market." Zhang Hao smiled.

"Oh? Why is that?"

"Because of me!" Zhang Hao pointed to himself.

Da Mi Mi gave Zhang Hao a blank stare: "Cut, I also said that there is Lao Guo!"

Da Mi Mi must have never imagined that her words became a prophecy. If there is no Zhang Hao, Guo Fan will be able to realize the industrialization of Chinese-language films in the future.

It's a pity that "The Wandering Earth" is left to Guo Fan, but the title of starting the industrialization of Chinese-language films is probably Zhang Hao's own.

The assistant director sent by the previous "Transformers 3" took a group of people who came to visit to visit the set, introducing the purpose of making various props, what new technologies were used, and so on.

When visiting the behind-the-scenes production of "Transformers 3", the assistant director Andy Jackson introduced: "We have done a lot of work on sound effects. sound.

The gun battle is an important part of the film. The sounds of AK47, bazooka, grenade, etc. are all recorded with real guns and live ammunition.

There is also a scene when the space shuttle is launched in the film. The sound effects team went to the military base to record the sound of the rocket launch. "

“There’s a scene in the film where the sound of an alien spaceship crashing on the moon was recorded with dry ice and metal.

Our sound design staff made a 10-meter-long hollowed-out long box out of metal. Through the resonance generated by the melting of dry ice on the metal, a very space-like sound was produced. "

As he said that, Andy Jackson also specially found a few behind-the-scenes personnel to demonstrate to the visiting Chinese directors.

Just a sound design work, let a group of people amazed.

The young directors who came to visit with China Film had never seen such a large-scale production. The large-scale and refined work made the production process of the movie "Transformers 3" look like science fiction.

In the morning, I visited the set of "Transformers 3". After lunch, the observation director group continued to visit the Hollywood special effects studio Industrial Light and Magic.

Industrial Light & Magic was originally established because of "Star Wars", and then became one of the best visual effects studios in Hollywood, participating in the visual effects production of many Hollywood blockbusters.

In 1975, the famous director George Lucas filmed "Star Wars 4: A New Hope", which has a lot of special effects.

Since the talents in this field were scattered all over the place at that time, it was difficult to guarantee the ideal effect, so George Lucas chose an old warehouse in Van Nuss, California, where Industrial Light and Magic was born.

At the beginning of the establishment of Industrial Light and Magic, almost all the talents of three religions and nine streams were gathered.Some were in architecture, some were in modeling, some were in commercials, some were in mechanical design, and almost none of them had worked in film.

However, these non-film practitioners have provided audiences with visual feasts time after time by virtue of their unrestrained imagination and execution ability.

Today, Industrial Light and Magic has become a benchmark in the film and television special effects industry.

Industrial Light & Magic has also brought the major of special effects into major film universities, such as New York University and the University of Southern California, which have established related majors to cultivate related talents.

Listening to a Chinese director of Industrial Light & Magic introducing the relevant history of the studio, Zhang Hao is fine, and Da Mi Mi, who is by Zhang Hao's side, has been completely convinced.

Although Da Mi Mi starred in Star Master's movie when he was five years old, it can be said that he has been in the film industry for almost 20 years.

But I never thought that there are so many sophisticated and professional things behind the original simple film and television shooting.

"Zhangzhang, they are so powerful. It is amazing to be able to produce such special effects in 75 years." Da Mimi praised.

Guo Fan also said: "This is not something we can compare to. They filmed "1968: A Space Odyssey" in 2001, and we haven't produced a movie that can be called science fiction."

"The process of making special effects is very sci-fi. People not only use computers to make special effects, but also make model special effects and design various props.

At first I thought that the special effects were purely computer-generated special effects, but I didn't expect there to be so many subdivisions. "Ning Hao unknowingly joined the discussion on Zhang Hao's side.

Compared with other directors who only praise but have no dreams, Ning Hao has aspirations.Looking at the gap between the two sides, Ning Hao changed from admiration and admiration at the beginning to when can we achieve this?

Zhang Hao had a different opinion and reminded Guo Fan: "In fact, we have a science fiction film, which is earlier than "2001: A Space Odyssey."

"Oh?" Da Mi Mi Guo Fan Ning Hao and the three looked at Zhang Hao together, expressing doubts.

"You forgot? "Little Sun" produced by Shanghaike Film Studio in 1963." Zhang Hao reminded.

Da Mimi expressed confusion, she had never heard of this movie, so she didn't know.

And Guo Fan and Ning Hao suddenly realized: "Which movie are you talking about? That's true, but this movie is too early, right?"

"It doesn't matter whether the science fiction film is early or not, it depends on the content it shoots. In 1963, "Little Sun" predicted the current cutting-edge technological topics such as artificial intelligence, antimatter, and unmanned flying cars." Zhang Hao said.

Guo Fan nodded in agreement: "From the perspective of the film's imagination, although it is in the category of children's films, I think this film is no less than "2001 A Space Odyssey."

"So, we have had science fiction films for a long time, and the first year was in 1963, but there is no one to inherit them from the younger generation." Zhang Hao said here, sighing.

(End of this chapter)