Made in Hollywood

This year's Los Angeles is extremely hot. The blazing sun seems to be able to scorch every inch of land. Because of the heat wave, the San Gabriel Mountain, which is backed by Los Angeles, burst into a forest fire. The billowing smoke went straight into the sky, causing dozens of nearby The area of ​​the mile became hotter, as if in a big stove being baked.

The bad weather and blazing forest fires have caused a lot of troubles to work and life in the Los Angeles area. Some companies near San Gabriel Mountains simply took a vacation.

However, none of this affected Duke's preparations. After Warner Bros.'s initial funding of $60 million was received, the entire preparations proceeded smoothly.

Duke first led Hannah Serena and John Schwarzman to spend more than ten days to investigate several countries such as Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan. After finalizing suitable locations, he hurried back to Los Angeles. , To review the studio built here.

Just like Duke thought on the day of the press conference, this film will have a large number of location scenes and will span several countries and regions, but the ratio is not particularly high. The main scene of the film is still in the studio. Set up green screen shooting in China, relying on cgi to generate.

Of course, Duke will not use film to shoot, but is mainly produced by digital technology, and the film will inevitably be a 3D film in addition to shooting with an imax camera.

The high price of 3d movies is something that Duke will never ignore. "Avatar" is about to be released. The market will be full of 3d movies in the next year or even the next two or three years, especially after "Avatar" detonates. During the period of time, the audience's enthusiasm for 3d movies can only be described as incredible, which directly contributed to the big sales of a converted 3d movie like "Alice in Wonderland" produced by Disney.

Although Duke also owns some shares of "Alice in Wonderland" after acquiring the investment in some movies by the Theory of Relativity, he will not let this movie enjoy the 3D feast brought by "Avatar" alone, and has already cooperated with Warner The brothers have negotiated and will release several 3d remastered movies like "Alice in Wonderland" in due course.

Duke’s plan is to transform the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy into a 3D movie, and make a fortune with "Avatar". Even if this series is just a DVD, it has already released 3 different versions, but the capital will not be right with the profit.

The plan to transform the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy into a 3d movie will be officially implemented next month, and will be re-released in January this year, once again embarking on the journey of earning money.

In the huge studio of Warner Studios. Duke walked past the green screens that were erected one by one, thinking about whether the green screen met his needs, and from time to time he would call the relevant person in charge to his side and make some appropriate changes.

Passing through the green-screened studio, he came to the real-scene construction area. In today's Hollywood, even if the "Transformers" and "Avatar" that rely heavily on cgi, they still use some real-life scenes.

Duke first came to a section of the stairs, walked up and turned around, and raised his thumb to the special effects team responsible for the construction. The special effects team referred to the Penrose ladder described by the illusion master Asher, and built a real look from a specific angle. Closed stairs with endless loops.

In order to film the weightless scene in the hotel, Duke also asked the special effects team to set up the entire corridor set on a giant ‘Vientiane Ring’ installation.

After going around the whole cloth area, Duke walked to a model train, which was a real prop. The interior is driven by trucks and several trailers, and the exterior is covered with a glass fiber train shell to make it fake.

There are many models that have been made or are being made nearby, such as miniatures used to shoot snow bunker...

Leaving the studio, Duke entered the actor rehearsal hall next to him, where Leonardo DiCaprio was headed, including Joseph Gordon Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Ken Watanabe, James Franco, and Mark Crufa Luo and others are rehearsing some scenes that need cooperation.

Before each film is shot, the actors will rehearse to a certain extent, especially for this group show. They, the Pirate Dream team, must cooperate with each other.

It's not just rehearsal. Even during the break, the six people headed by Leonardo DiCaprio call their characters by their names in order to find the feeling as soon as possible.

In Duke's eyes. With these six people's play and their goals, it was like making a movie.

From another perspective, Saito is a film production company and insists on supervising the production of movies; Arthur must manage everything and know that everything is running smoothly, which is the producer; Cobb directs actions and brings others into his dreams. In the plan, it is the director; Adrian is responsible for building the dreamland. It is the screenwriter; Ames knows how to transform and is an actor; Yousef is the technical department who provides tranquilizers; and Fisher is the audience...

Many, many playwrights have a half-written tome lying in their drawers. They hope that "one day they can pick it up and finish it", but in fact few people actually do it.

Especially for "Inception", if it is not proposed by a director with a certain identity and status, in the style of a Hollywood film company, I am afraid that it will not be reasonable. From this aspect, the former Christopher Nolan is also quite smart and People who know Hollywood style.

The director insists on'original', but does not stick to'original'. He is very clear that the'original' type of ordinary directors, screenwriters and even producers is not popular in Hollywood. His first goal in entering the mainstream film circle is to adapt movies. The huge success of the film adaptation has won the opportunity for the “original” that he needs to invest heavily in production.

"Cinema is a very dream-like experience for me."

During the break, the actors gathered around Duke to discuss the film and the characters with him. When Joseph Gordon Levitt asked about the source of the film’s creativity, Duke could only say something, "I have always been dreamed of. Attracting, I want to make a movie about dreams. Because I think there is a connection between the way imagination works on dreams and your own stories. Watching a movie is similar to experiencing a dream, but watching it in a theater And accept this, it should be an unknown experience."

"Dream also visually influences the creation of many directors."

James Franco, who is called a geek in Hollywood, echoed Duke's words, saying, "In my dreams, I often get some wonderful pictures, or some small elements, and I will write them down immediately after waking up. "

"Oh, oh, oh...". Joseph Gordon Levitt deliberately teased him, "It turns out that James also has the dream of becoming a director."

James Franco shrugged, but did not deny, "I really want to be a comedy director, Joseph, then we can work together."

Everyone laughed. Joseph Gordon Levitt's current style is more literary, and it seems unlikely that he will appear in a comedy.

"I admit that my dreams have very little enlightenment on story elements," James Franco said again, "but I believe that the human brain can also solve problems in sleep."

Duke has a deep understanding of this point and nodded slightly, "I always think about things before going to bed. With that state of consciousness, I can often get a glimpse before I really fall asleep. If you want the script to think about Hit the wall and tell yourself before going to bed:'Okay, don't think about it, it's time to sleep.' And then you really don't think about it anymore-but this often liberates another part of your brain, which happens to give you the answer ."

"Dream is indeed a very magical thing." Scarlett Johansson handed a glass of water to Duke. "I have always had the same dream since ten years ago..."

Leonardo DiCaprio winked at Scarlett, "Honey, has your dream come true?"

"Of course!" Scarlett looked at Duke, with a nice arc at the corner of her mouth, "When the dream comes true, it will be extraordinarily beautiful and sweet."

Headed by James Franco, there was a roaring sound around.

Perhaps because the main actors in the crew are basically men, and the most important female is the relationship between the director’s girlfriend, Duke, the inner atmosphere of the crew is much more harmonious than when the filming of "Furious Road", even if the actors have their own thoughts and ideas. Planning, but not like Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron, almost writing "I don't like you" on their faces.

The topic gradually returned to the movie and the script. Duke and Scarlett left because they had to. Looking at his back, Leonardo DiCaprio said, "When I first read the script, I thought Duke wanted Setting the movie as a thief, a team of commercial espionage led by Cobb, through dreams to invade unsuspecting people and steal his ideas, on its own, is enough to make a good movie ."

He shrugged and said in a slightly playful tone, "But Duke obviously has a higher pursuit. He has always been interested in penetrating someone's psychology. If he just takes something from there, it is really Not attractive enough."

"I have had enough exchanges with Duke. He has created a bigger goal for himself. The mission he gave to these thief experts is..."

Leonardo has a bit of admiration on his face, "Put an idea in the mind of others, an idea that should be resisted under normal circumstances, but after their plan, this idea will take root and eventually make the goal. Characters act according to the needs of their employers. This is a genius innovation!"

James Franco nodded solemnly, and then Leonardo said, "You need to place something in human consciousness and let it grow in a certain way. You must predict how it will be chaotic. Way of growth-this seems to be the biggest conclusion we can get from the script." (To be continued.)

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