Made in Hollywood

Today is the era when simple and popular commercial films can be truly popular. Inception is far from being as simple as being able to sell at high quality and quantity, except for Duke’s consistent performance in rp accumulation and Leonardo’s and other actors’ In addition to the appeal of the market, the cultural transformation caused by the rise of the Internet and video game culture is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

This is also the focus of Duke's publicity recommendations mentioned by Warner Bros., using the Internet terminal to develop some clever publicity methods to induce the audience's attitude towards the film to the direction of the participants.

In other words, it is easy for viewers who have generally experienced the baptism of online virtual society and role-playing video games to intervene in the film story as a participant, and let them participate in the production of the film’s meaning. "Dream Space" showed that after its release, fans were enthusiastically interpreting the plot of the film based on me. Together with the gathering of the community and fan culture, the momentum of "Inception" was higher A wave.

Compared to the connotation or decryption, this is where the real killer of "Inception" allows the audience to participate. It can neither be too difficult or elegant, nor too simple or crude, just like Cobb asked Aria in the film. Like the scene in which Degne designed the maze, the addition and reduction must be just right.

As for video games, this is better understood. If you watch for two hours and some viewers say "this is a video game", then the film will basically be a big success ∷▼ long ∷▼ wind ∷▼ text∷▼ .

In shooting and post-production, Duke also paid great attention to this aspect.

In some ways, Cobb and Neo have fallen into the matrix empire. Once you enter the realm of dreams and virtual reality, it will always be an endless loop. Anyway, the film becomes full of fakes. A black party with real time and inaction.

Just because it is a dream. You can do whatever you want, which also provides an excellent opportunity for Duke to create a visual wonder.

"Inception" can be said to be a version of "The Matrix" to a certain extent. Now the popularity of video games can make movie fans more interesting to accept the story of "Inception."

After filming in Paris, Duke led the crew to leave Europe and came to the Whitler Mountain Ski Resort in Canada. Filming the scene of the bunker attack.

Frankly speaking, the second half of the film is the key to the success of Inception.

The biggest highlight of "Inception" is the problem-solving of dreams in the second half of the four layers of dreams. The former Christopher Nolan set up the difference in the sense of time between different levels of dreams, allowing the audience to witness a CMB falling bridge In the process, staring at the innermost part is Kebu going to the edge of his dream to see his dead wife, then the snow mountain shootout, then the fight in the weightless mansion, and again it is the CMB falling bridge. Each level must be crossed at the same time.

Therefore, whether the bomb will explode at the last minute has become the audience's biggest concern. The seemingly boring dream game was transformed into an action blockbuster by Nolan. This is the focus of the success of Inception.

As for the "last-minute trick" with the spinning top still spinning, this is just a standard Hollywood routine.

Moreover, there are too many dreams in the dream. In the end, it is impossible to explain it to a large extent. Why did Cobb wake up in the cabin? Is he still in a dream? Is his dead wife's theory that reality and dreams cannot be distinguished correct? When the film is over, these question marks must be taken with them.

To go back to the root, "What is real" is an eternal philosophical dilemma. Heidegger once said: "The existence for which this existence exists. It is always my existence."

According to this kind of solipsistic phenomenological philosophy, as long as the perception is completely real. That's the real. If Neo never wakes up in the terrarium, the virtual world is real to him, just like Neo's world. As long as the perceptual system does not alarm, there is no point in asking the authenticity of the world. .

But for the audience, these questions are of the greatest significance. It is that they will tirelessly pursue the truth after watching the film, and then want to use their truth to convince others, they will watch the movie over and over again to find evidence that their truth is the truth!

This is the biggest use of setting these question marks.

No matter if the person is Duke or Christopher Nolan. This must be the same.

The ski resort scene is one of Duke’s major changes. Almost everyone knows that the action scene is Christopher Nolan’s weakness. Duke asked the professional team headed by Jimmy Carter to redesign the entire action scene. In the shooting of these popular scenes, it is more like his style.

In fact, just like shooting "The Dark Knight", all the action scenes in "Inception" were overthrown by Duke. These are what he is best at, even Leonardo DiCaprio The action scenes with James Franco and others are a bit bad, but there are corresponding stunt doubles that can be used.

Filming in the ski resort continued until mid-January, when Charlize Theron's scene ended first, and her shots were not many.

Before leaving the Whitler Mountain Ski Resort, Charlize Theron specifically found Duke.

"There will be time?"

Knocking on the door and entering Duke's room, Charlize Theron glanced at Scarlett who was studying the script, and said to Duke, "Can you go out for a walk?"

Duke nodded to Scarlett, took the down winter jacket from the hanger, and put on a cotton hat after putting it on. Then he walked out of the room with Charlize Theron and left the hotel where he was staying.

The weather outside was a bit gloomy, and a few snowflakes would fall from time to time. Because the weather was a bit cold and the air pressure was a bit low, the two did not go far, but in the small square in front of the hotel, walking slowly towards a place with few people.

The thick leather boots fell on the bluestone ground, and the pieces of falling snowflakes were crushed. Charlize Theron took his pockets with both hands and said, "I just got the news that I have already received the Oscar nomination for best actress."

"Congratulations." Duke also got the news.

Charlize Theron stopped and turned to look at Duke, "How do you want me to thank you?"

Duke certainly didn't understand the meaning of this sentence. After thinking about it, he said, "If you have time when the NFL next season starts, you can attend the opening ceremony of my team's first game."

The Oakland Raiders he bought have moved to Los Angeles this season and officially changed its name to the Los Angeles Raiders. It is now January 2010. The Super Bowl is about to be held, but the Los Angeles Raiders are getting Tom Brady, After Marshaun Lynch and others contract, this season is still in the running-in phase, and has not reached the playoffs.

In the words of the person in charge of the team hired, the poor record of the team is also related to Duke, because he has never been to the scene after he bought the team.

Therefore, Duke is going to pay more attention to his team next season. After all, the profitability of the NFL team is also considerable.

Without any hesitation, Charlize Theron responded, "I will definitely have time."

With that, the two of them continued to move forward, and their conversation turned to this year’s Oscars. Duke could also hear from Charlize Theron’s words. She knew very well that her nomination was a victory. With the role of Ferrosa, the possibility of winning the best actress, the Golden Man, is infinitely low.

Except for the best actress, Fury Road did not get a heavyweight Oscar nomination. The rest are technical awards such as best photography, best editing, best makeup, and best art direction.

Obviously, except for Charlize Theron, who has contributed outstanding performances, the academy does not want to affirm other aspects of Fury Road.

However, in various selections by the media and audiences, Fury Road was the biggest winner of the film released last year.

Among the top ten films of 2015 selected by the National Film Association, "Hollywood Reporter", "Empire" magazine, "Vanity Fair", "New York Times" and many other media, "Furious Road" is not only on the list, but also the top !

In various polls against the public on the Internet, Fury Road almost took away all the titles of the best film of the year.

With these, in fact, whether there is academy and Oscar affirmation is not important to Duke.

Besides, this is also a good thing. If you run out of character this year, it will definitely affect his plans.

This plan is very tight, because it must take into account next year’s Oscars. Duke has asked Nancy Josephson to submit the first draft and general plan of the script to the Warner Bros. review committee. After the release of Inception, Will be fully transferred to the work of that project.

In this filming, there is only one scene of Scarlett's scene left, and what she is studying is also the script of that project.

Duke knows very well that time is tight, but after last year's Cannes Film Festival, he has certain plans.

And he didn't want to invest too much time on an Oscar film. The compressed months were just used to prepare and produce "Avengers" that is far more important to him than the Oscars.

Duke and Charlize Theron gradually walked to the edge of the small square, and the topic turned from Oscar back to the movie itself.

"That's right..." Charlize seemed to think of something. "The latest blacklist of Hollywood scripts is out. Are you interested in it?"

"No." Duke shook his head directly, "I have no interest in the scripts and projects on the list."

In the current Hollywood sequels, remakes, and restarts, excellent original scripts are, to some extent, a guarantee of masterpieces. The blacklist may not be a ‘best’ list. The scripts do have a certain quality.

Blacklisted scripts are mostly not regulated films, but scripts that focus on the inner feelings of the characters. In other words, they are basically scripts with small costs, small investments, and small productions.

This simply does not meet Duke's needs. (To be continued.)