Millennium director

What is the difference between the three directors Zhang Yimou, Wu Yuan and Wang Jiawei?

This question did ask Gong Li.

Gong Li should be the only mainland actress who has worked with all three major directors.

How do you feel? Gong Li muttered, and said slowly: Director Zhang is quite serious on the set, and he is a little too serious. His face is straight, which looks very scary. No one dares to talk to him. Look at each other.”

Director Wang, his way of directing is very special. He is a very unconstrained person. Many times we have to guess his thoughts. Making his movies is like guessing riddles. When he acts, he is very nervous. .”

Director Wu is the easiest to get along with. Although he will get angry when the shooting does not go well, he is very kind most of the time and communicates very clearly. He always talks about what to shoot and how to shoot. It was very clear, and we had it in mind when we were filming.”

The three directors have completely different directing styles. To say who is good and who is bad, there is definitely no standard, but I do prefer working with Director Wu and Director Zhang.

To be honest, any actor who has worked with Mo Jiawang once will not be able to stand the shooting techniques of Sunglasses King. He plays riddles on the set every day, and sometimes there is even no script, just letting you watch the performance. It is really too painful to shoot. tired.

Gong Li also has lingering fears about cooperating with the King of Sunglasses. After filming 2042, she has no plans to make another movie with the King of Sunglasses, and she speaks more directly.

Your Emperor Gong is infinitely arrogant.

I just don’t like working with the King of Sunglasses, so what?

Zhao Zhiyang, who thought he could hear a warm tone from Gong Li's mouth and praised the three directors' remarks, did not expect that Gong Li would answer so truthfully.

The smile on her face grew even brighter, I see, it sounds like the three directors' personal styles are very distinctive.

Teacher Wang Xueqi, how did it feel to work with Director Wu for the first time? She then targeted Wang Xueqi, who had been watching silently.

It was finally my turn.

Wang Xueqi, who was at the bottom among the three in terms of fame and awards, coughed lightly and straightened his back: Of course I am very happy and honored.

Director Wu is the pride of our Chinese directors, and Mr. Gong Li is also the international representative of our Chinese actors. Being able to work with these two outstanding directors and actors is the most honored thing I have ever done in the industry.

You may not think that I am old, but I started my career relatively late and have acted in relatively few film and television works. This time in Gravity, I learned a lot.

Especially the way of shooting special effects blockbusters is a completely new experience for me. It is the first time I have seen and used a large number of green screens and motion capture suits.

“I really gained so much knowledge.”

Nowadays, there are relatively few domestic movies that use a lot of special effects.

Generally, even movies made with special effects are all post-production special effects. They only need to pull up a green screen as the background, and then cut out the images and synthesize them later.

For example, movies such as Painted Skin, The Promise and earlier Kung Fu and Shaolin Soccer are like this.

However, there are very few such movies, only one or two per year on average. At least Wang Xueqi has never acted in them.

Not to mention the motion capture suits and facial motion capture technology that have never been seen before in the mainland film industry.

This stuff has always been something only Hollywood has access to.

Needless to say, motion capture technology has been developed and matured in Hollywood in the 1990s, and is used in a large number of science fiction and fantasy movies.

In contrast, facial motion capture technology is more novel and advanced, and it is the latest technology that only began to mature after 2000.

For example, The Lord of the Rings in 2001 was an early film that used facial capture technology on a large scale. The orcs and dwarf goblins in the movie were all created using facial motion capture technology and special effects.

The faces are all those of real actors, but the bodies are all synthesized with special effects.

Later The Matrix series, as well as the elves in Harry Potter, also used more mature face capture technology.

Of course, the real success of this technology will be next year's Avatar, in which the Pandora people were shot entirely with motion capture equipment and face capture equipment.

Wu Yuan was only exposed to these two devices during the filming of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

In the first film, when the cursed Barbossa and his crew turned into undead creatures, they had to wear motion capture suits to facilitate the synthesis of the skeletal body in post-production.

In the second part, the captain of the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones, and his crew are all half-human, half-sea creature monsters. Not only do they need to use motion capture equipment, but they also have to wear facial capture equipment to do it for them. Various facial modeling and expression processing.

For example, Davy Jones’ octopus face.

It was also because of the cooperation on Pirates of the Caribbean that Wu Yuan was able to come into contact with this kind of motion capture and facial capture team that specializes in the film industry. He was able to ask them to help during the filming of Gravity.

In the current mainland film industry, there is no such high-tech technical team.

For Wang Xueqi, who has never been in Hollywood and is not young himself, this kind of technology that is not available in China is too new.

The filming of Gravity will be something he will remember for a lifetime.

It's really amazing. He was still full of praise and exclaimed: Director Wu has introduced Hollywood's most cutting-edge film shooting technology into the country. Gravity used a lot of Hollywood's most cutting-edge film shooting technology. They are all state-of-the-art special effects technology.”

No other director in the country can do this.

I believe that just relying on these advanced shooting technologies in the movie, our movie will bring an unparalleled visual enjoyment to audiences around the world.

The movie Gravity is not only a movie in my mind, but also an epoch-making work that can lead the innovation of Chinese film technology!

I'm confident about that.

Maybe as a borderline male protagonist, saying this is a bit much.

But looking at Wang Xueqi's expression, he is really excited and happy that China can produce such an advanced science fiction blockbuster as Gravity.

Wu Yuan also looked at him with soft eyes, nodded slightly to him, and said nothing.

Comrade Wang Xueqi is a good comrade. What he said is so pertinent.

Wu Yuan really didn't do Gravity just to make money.

Who wants to make money by making a science fiction blockbuster? Isn’t it better to make a comedy that can sell billions at the box office with an investment of tens of millions?

The reason why he insists on making a science fiction blockbuster is that in addition to using blockbusters to snipe Wu Baige, the most important thing is to shock domestic audiences with film technology.

Nowadays, Hollywood movies are rapidly entering the 3D era. Next year, Avatar will sweep the world and be an era ahead of its time.

But the mainland's film industry is still stuck at the level of the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

Yes, not even the 1990s.

In the 1990s, people were able to produce special effects blockbusters such as Star Wars and The Mummy, but China was far behind in catching up.

If we don’t give domestic movie fans and industry practitioners a dose of strong medicine now, is it possible that after watching “Red Cliff” being criticized miserably, everyone will fully transform into small and medium-cost comedies, and completely abandon the blockbuster strategy from top to bottom?

It's not that comedies are bad, but like China, after 囧囧, the top spot in the film market for nearly ten years has been occupied by comedy films, and it has been hard to find a second one all over the world.

Which major film country relies on comedies to support its appearance?

A single flower is not beautiful, but a hundred flowers blooming is spring!

Before the era of comedic dominance of Chinese films comes, we must first shock movie fans with some sci-fi blockbusters and let them know that China can also produce super blockbusters that are both popular and well-received!

It’s really too late to start the first year of science fiction films in 2020.

Wu Yuan can't wait!

'Gravity' is the first Chinese science fiction blockbuster, but I believe it will not be the last.

He looked firmly at the camera: This movie is just my first step in science fiction. I will continue to make more science fiction movies in the future.

If the engine is the flower of modern industry, then science fiction movies are the flower of modern film art!

We Chinese people should also make our own voice in the global science fiction film market!

Start with Gravity! (End of this chapter)