hollywood melon man

Chapter 86 Details
  "McCann, I need you to make some passionate songs on the soundtrack, similar to black rap or hard-core rock songs." Little Gilbert made a request to the composer, McCann.

McCann suggested: "Little Gilbert, I think we can find a hip-hop rapper or a rock band to write some songs for the movie."

Little Gilbert's eyes lit up and he felt that this suggestion was feasible, so he asked: "Then which singer or band do you think is more suitable?"

"What about Dr. Dre? AC/DC, too," McCann suggested.

"Dr. Dre?" Little Gilbert didn't know him very well. He was not familiar with the hip-hop singers of the early 1990s. He only knew Eminem and JAY-Z, but he didn't know the others.

I have heard of AC/DC. It seems that there are a few of their songs in "Iron Man", which sound pretty exciting.

"You are responsible for communicating about this, McCann. Once the song is finalized, leave it to me. You can choose old songs or write new songs, but the content should be more positive and the lyrics should not be too violent." Little Gilbert stated his request.

McCann agreed: "Don't worry, little Gilbert, leave this matter to me."

The music and interludes were left to McCann, and little Gilbert communicated with the art director Serena Hafey: "Selena, are you wondering if you can design a cool way for the young male protagonist Max to appear?"

"What kind of way?"

"What about street dancing or mechanical dancing? I remember Ryan could dance, and he was pretty good at it," said little Gilbert.

Serena Hafey said she received: "Ok, I'll find someone to design it."

"Wait a minute," little Gilbert thought of another idea: "Based on Adam's characteristics, I think it can dance with Max.

Think about it, a robot imitating human movements and dancing mechanically, wouldn’t it be very interesting? "

Serena's eyes lit up: "What a great idea, little Gilbert. I'll design a plan right away."

After discussing these details, Gilbert Jr. rushed to Industrial Light and Magic to check the effect and condition of the robot design.

Industrial Light and Magic worked with the crew's prop masters to design various types of robots in the film, and built 26 physical models at a one-to-one scale.

At this time, these physical models are undergoing technical debugging at Industrial Light & Magic. Each physical model has hydraulic lifting equipment and hands operated by remote controls.

Of course, it is impossible for these robot models to move as flexibly as in the movies. Industrial Light and Magic must use other technologies.

In fact, in addition to the traditional method of shooting empty shots, using computers to create CGI special effects, and then adding them later, Industrial Light & Magic also used the latest optical motion capture technology.

As early as the emergence of motion capture technology, Hollywood has noticed its contribution to the technical development of the film industry.

In 1991, James Cameron's film "Terminator 2" used motion capture technology for the first time. This was the first example of motion capture technology being used in a Hollywood movie.

Industrial Light & Magic was very far-sighted and built an optical motion capture studio in 1992 for film motion capture work.

Although the technical strength is far inferior to that of a few decades later, in this era, motion capture is one of the most cutting-edge film technologies.

Therefore, James Cameron is really great. Regardless of film art, he and George Lucas jointly promoted the development of technology in the Hollywood film industry.

He is definitely a landmark figure and will be remembered in the history of film in the future and his name will go down in history.

In order to obtain motion capture data, Industrial Light and Magic engineers actually recorded the movements of the boxers' body steps in the boxing match, as well as the data of their attacks.

When these data are used for motion capture, the Simul-Cam B program developed by Industrial Light and Magic is used to convert the data into real images.

In order to achieve a more realistic motion capture effect, Industrial Light and Magic even invited two currently well-known boxing champions to participate in the motion capture shooting.

By the way, Bruce Willis, as the male protagonist, is set to be a former professional boxer, and of course he needs to receive some boxing training.

The current technical difficulty in motion capture is to achieve subtle expression changes on the face. But fortunately, the actors in the motion capture this time are all robots, and there are no changes in expressions, which makes the motion capture much easier.

However, to achieve the level of Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings", it is estimated that it will take several years of development of motion capture technology before it can be filmed. It is not possible now, and the technology does not meet the requirements.

The crew spent $45 million on motion capture and special effects production alone.

The highest-paid actors in the cast are Gilbert Jr. and Bruce Willis.

Fortunately, one-third of the film's remuneration will be settled at the first box office split, which helps the crew save financial pressure.

Moreover, except for the special effects and robot battles, the film does not have many big scenes, and the production budget of US$80 million is more than enough.

In fact, when the movie "Iron Armor" was released in its previous life, it did not do well at the box office.

The media and audiences generally commented that the film was a bit cliché, and was nothing more than a heartwarming father-son film disguised as a robot battle.

This is true. This is actually a typical Spielberg-style family film. In the previous life, this film was produced by DreamWorks and supervised by Spielberg.

But that was a previous life. In the early 1990s, this cliché routine was not yet tired of the audience.

Coupled with the robot boxing match gimmick, this is one of the reasons why Gilbert Jr. moved out of this film.

"Iron Fist" has the attributes of a commercial film to be a hit, with passionate scenes, a touching father-son relationship, and a family-friendly ending, which is enough to shock the audience in this era.

There were no big problems with the work at Industrial Light and Magic, and little Gilbert went to check on the actors again.

"Director Landrini, thank you for choosing Ryan. Our whole family is very grateful." A middle-aged woman led Ryan Gosling and kept saying words of thanks.

Little Gilbert supported the woman who kept bowing and said, "You're welcome. Ryan did a great job in the audition. I'm optimistic about his future."

Anyway, this is Ryan Gosling's first movie appearance, and it's an important role from the get-go.

This is undoubtedly a very good starting point for Ryan Gosling's future acting career.

For little Gilbert, the name is only the initial basis of trust. If the audition process is not good, little Gilbert will not look at the previous fame of these actors.

Led by Bruce Willis, actors including Naomi Watts, Charlize Theron and other actors arrived and began to read the script.

The film also has several Korean and Japanese actors, but they don't have many roles.

It's not that Gilbert doesn't want to find Chinese actors, but there are not many Chinese actors in Hollywood now.

Not many actors from Hong Kong came to Hollywood to develop, so they simply looked for other Asian actors.

However, he designed a character in the film who is indeed Chinese, so he had to find a Chinese actor.

Listening to the actors reading the script, little Gilbert sat at the top, thinking about other things.

Just the day before, Universal Pictures and CAA announced the new project "Interview with the Vampire" and announced the film lineup.

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are two handsome guys, and there is also a small actor named Kirsten Dunst.

That little actor, like Ryan Gosling, was a lucky person selected after thousands of selections.

I don’t know if Ryan Gosling will win or if Kirsten Dunst will be better.

(End of this chapter)