director of the millennium

On April 4, the opening ceremony of "Ready Player One" was held in Beijing.

On the same day, the news of the start of filming of this movie spread all over the Internet and became the number one hot search on Weibo.

Wu Yuan's new movie is still attracting a lot of attention.

More importantly, this is a science fiction special effects blockbuster.

"The Martian", which was released during last summer's movie season, has fully allowed domestic audiences to experience the charm of science fiction movies.

Superhero movies like "The Avengers" have allowed domestic audiences to experience the charm of special effects blockbusters.

How cool would a sci-fi special effects blockbuster combining these two look?
No one dared to think about it!
But because the director of this movie is Wu Yuan, domestic movie fans are still looking forward to it.

The domestic journalists who were slapped in the face by Wu Yuan in "Gravity" that year did not dare to say in front of him that Chinese directors could not make science fiction films or could not make good science fiction films, and they dared not write such things in their articles.

Perhaps they still believe that the current Chinese film market is unable to produce good science fiction films, and there are no directors who can make good science fiction films.

Especially after the release of the movie "Where Are We Going, Dad?" during this year's Spring Festival, countless film media and self-media thought that Chinese films were really going to be doomed.

But Wu Yuan is different. Strictly speaking, he is not a director from the "Chinese film circle".

It's just magical.

People in China all think that Wu Yuan is a big Hollywood director. He does not belong to, or does not only belong to, the Chinese director circle. He can be singled out from Chinese directors and counted separately.

People in the United States, on the other hand, think that Wu Yuan is not a Hollywood director. Although he is well-known in Hollywood, when introducing Wu Yuan in any public occasion abroad, he is introduced as a "Chinese director". Various statistics in Hollywood generally classify Wu Yuan as an international director and not together with American directors.

This has led to Wu Yuan also being far ahead in the field of various "international director" lists in North America, and he has been dominating the list for many years.

Among directors who are not born in the United States, there is no one as awesome as Wu Yuan, including those in Europe, especially the UK.

Those who have higher artistic achievements than Wu Yuan do not have as good box office results as him.

Anyone with better box office results than him?

Not at all.

Therefore, whether in China or in North America, Wu Yuan is singled out by the film media as an example and is not regarded as "universal".

It feels like the "BUG" that appears when the world is running.

Just like in China, media reporters are used to it, when it comes to the keyword Wu Yuan-science fiction, all they do is give it all kinds of mindless praise.

But if other Chinese directors have anything to do with the word "science fiction", they will be criticized for overestimating their abilities and will be ridiculed and looked down upon.

Facts have proved that the rise of one person cannot change the entire market.

Just like the later appearance of "The Wandering Earth" and Guo Fan, they failed to really make "Chinese science fiction movies" grow, and can only be regarded as individual examples.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan also has a film company called Light and Shadow Era, and is still working tirelessly to develop domestic science fiction films.

However, the era of light and shadow and Chinese commercial films are still too young.

During the first week of filming Ready Player One, Wu Yuan encountered difficulties and the filming became bumpy.

The technical requirements of the "Ready Player One" movie world are really too high.

After shooting some material, Wu Yuan tried to send it to the special effects company and asked them to make some samples to see the effect.

But Wu Yuan was somewhat dissatisfied with this effect. It was not an easy task to merge virtual reality with reality.

It took Spielberg three full years from preparation to completion.

The preliminary preparations took an estimated one year, but Wu Yuan only spent more than half a year, two years earlier than the original version, so the difficulties he faced would only be greater.

Post-production takes a long time, but Wu Yuan doesn't mind.

Like Spielberg's version of "Ready Player One", since the film had a lot of special effects to complete, during the post-production process, Steven Spielberg took the time to shoot "The Washington Post", which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.

Wu Yuan can also work on "Ride the Wind" during the post-production process without any delay.

But the problem is that he has to complete the pre-production and filming of Ready Player One before October 2015 so that he will have time to make Riding the Wind.

The tight schedule forced him to start the project hastily, and he suffered in the end.

shooting scene.

"Kakaka!"

“This effect won’t work!”

“Remove the green screen, put the actors in motion capture suits, and try to combine motion capture with virtual reality!”

Wu Yuan shouted impatiently through a loud speaker. This was already the 14th take of the scene.

He tried several different ways to shoot the scene, but he was never satisfied with how he shot it and couldn't achieve the desired effect.

Nowadays, when shooting special effects blockbusters, with the special effects team following the crew throughout the process, it is possible to simply watch the special effects combined with the picture.

The technology is more advanced, but it also brings many problems.

Peng Yuchang, who was filming with Wu Yuan for the first time, was completely frightened and didn't dare to breathe.

He had heard before that directors would have a very bad temper when directing on the set, and many directors were called set tyrants. Even some directors who looked very amiable at ordinary times would become completely different people once they sat in the director's chair.

In the past, Peng Yuchang just listened to it for fun, but after he truly felt the director's "strong wind" firsthand, he really couldn't stand it anymore.

The young man was caught and scolded by Wu Yuan at least a dozen times during the day. Although Wu Yuan did not use any bad words, his tone was just a little harder and more angry, but for Peng Yuchang, it was already a storm within a storm, and it scared him.

Even now, he was already worried in his heart whether Wu Yuan was planning to replace him.

Then I started to blame myself, thinking that I had failed to live up to my dream, failed to perform well, and couldn't seize such an important opportunity, which was simply shameful.

In short, Peng Yuchang is so emo that he looks like he’s about to break.

At this time, Liu Yifei, an "old senior" who was also on the set, took on the job of cleaning up Wu Yuan's mess.

It can't be considered as cleaning up the mess. What actor doesn't get scolded on the set? It's normal for Wu Yuan to scold people. It can only be said that the newcomer Peng Yuchang is indeed more fragile.

"Peng Peng, don't worry, Director Wu is not angry with you." Liu Yifei walked to Peng Yuchang and comforted him softly, "He just hasn't been making good progress in the past few days, so he's been under a lot of pressure and isn't in a good mood."

"Don't let your imagination run wild. As actors, it's normal for us to be scolded by the director on the set. We just need to correct our mistakes."

"I believe that since Director Wu chose you, it means that you are a talented actor who is most suitable for this role, so don't be discouraged, the filming has just begun!" (End of this chapter)