Chapter 803 is Breathtaking (Page 1/1)

"It's just so realistic, it's breathtaking." It took a long time for Li Zhi to come back to his senses, and then his beautiful eyes flashed with great admiration.

Qiao Feng nodded in agreement, it was indeed too breathtaking.

In the entire history of cinema, whether in Europe, America, Asia, or other regions, few sequel films can surpass their predecessors.

But the Terminator is definitely an exception.

Terminator 1 is a powerful beginning, but Terminator 2 does not have a dog's tail and a mink, but it is rare to surpass Terminator 1 comprehensively in terms of story and artistic value.

The entire Terminator series, as far as Qiao Feng has seen a few films, is very good, but if you want to say the peak, you have to say that it is this second part.

When Cameron was filming Terminator 1, he didn't have a lot of fame, he didn't have a lot of investment, and he couldn't say that he had a lot of experience.

But that's no longer the case.

After 1984's "The Terminator", Cameron received a lot of attention from the film industry and got the opportunity to direct the sci-fi film "Alien 2".

You must know that the first "Alien" was directed by Hollywood director Ridley Scott, and it was very good both in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, and no one thought that anyone else could surpass it.

But Cameron once again proved his talent in this area, and his self-written and directed "Alien 2" is not inferior to the first episode in all aspects, and it also bears a distinct Cameron brand.

After "Alien 2", Cameron still did not make a sequel to "Terminator", but made a sci-fi film with personal significance "The Abyss", in this slightly dull film that explores the communication between humans and extraterrestrial life, Cameron uses a lot of computer-generated images, which is a very cutting-edge technology, and "The Abyss" has also set a milestone for the development of film special effects.

There is a scene in the film about aliens transforming into a water column and running into a human submarine to contact humans, and the effect of the liquid transforming into a human face is amazing.

Although Cameron has never been ready to shoot Terminator 2, it does not mean that he is still the same Cameron as he was at the beginning.

Whether it's Alien 2, which has a good reputation at the box office, or the abyss where the word of mouth is better than the box office, this is a proper special effects blockbuster.

The special effects used in it are all the most cutting-edge, top-notch, and cutting-edge special effects technology.

It can be said that although Cameron has made three or two films in the past few years, he has played all the best and latest special effects technology.

Now filming Terminator 2, Cameron's experience accumulated over the years is all used.

This film is expected to invest 60 million US dollars, and the actual investment may soar to 100 million US dollars according to Cameron's urine for a super big production, which is definitely a Hollywood film investment record.

And why Terminator 2 is the pinnacle of the Terminator series is because Schwarzenegger is in his prime in terms of appearance, body shape and acting skills, and secondly, the most important thing is that the special effects and super large brain holes.

One-third of the huge investment is expected to be smashed into special effects, which is much more than the investment of those movies in later generations that are given to the actors, and the remaining three or four percent are much more expensive to the production costs.

One-third is on special effects, another third is other production expenses, and the remaining one-third is the salaries and salaries of the cast and crew.

And the starring Schwarzenegger accounts for the majority of the salary, but it is only a salary of 10 million US dollars.

Of course, this salary is absolutely sky-high at this time, and only a few superstars can get it.

This is also one of the reasons why sequel film investment will generally be much larger, that is, because of the success of the previous work, the actors' salaries have increased to a great extent.

But this is still an extremely reasonable investment share ratio.

The result of an incomparably reasonable share ratio is inevitably a well-made production that gives the audience unparalleled audio-visual enjoyment.

Schwarzenegger's performance in "Terminator 2" is more mature, in addition to continuing to shuttle through the rain of bullets, the father-son relationship between him and Conner has moved many fans.

Schwarzenegger's weaponry in this episode is fully upgraded, and in addition to pistols and shotguns, more powerful weapons such as grenade launchers, grenades, and machine guns are also used.

But even cooler than the T-800 played by Schwarzenegger is the villain Terminator in the film, the T-1000, who is a liquid metal robot that is more advanced than the T-800.

The production of the T-800 in Terminator 2 has already made considerable progress from the Terminator 1 of that year.

The T-800 in Terminator 2 is no longer a simple model, it has been endowed with more scientific and technological content.

Because what appeared in front of Qiao Feng and Li Zhi was not the immovable model of the year at all, but could be regarded as a real robot.

If you don't look closer, it's not easy to see that it's fake just by looking at your face.

Industrial Light & Magic's chief special effects master, Stan Winston, led his men to create a full-scale model of Schwarzenegger's head.

The head is then filled with 90% realistic artificial skin, and the muscles are filled with special materials.

That's not all, the head of the model covered with artificial skin has reached 80% similarity, but ILM still has the best artists to make up the model.

The makeup skills of later generations can make ugly monsters into big beauties and handsome guys.

At this time, the makeup technique is not bad at all, after the fine makeup of the artist, the similarity of the mold head can reach 99%.

Just like those wax figures made by celebrities in later generations, people who are not professional in making them will never be able to tell the difference between truth and falsehood.

"If this movie is successful, the special effects will definitely account for 50 percent." Watching the special effects artists and artists meticulously play with every point little by little, Li Zhi couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, yes." Qiao Feng nodded in agreement.

The most powerful special effects in Terminator 2 are definitely not the T-800, but the T-1000.

The T-1000 can be arbitrarily deformed (but not into a complex machine or something larger or smaller than him), and the body can be restored if it is pierced or broken to pieces.

Making such a character was definitely a challenge for Stan Winston and ILM, unlike the T-800 that could be modeled, this time the T-1000 simply couldn't be done with the model and makeup in the way of the first part.

ILM's VFX team came up with computer-generated graphics (CGI) and computer-generated compositing technology that wasn't used much at this time, and was used in Cameron's "The Abyss".

The alien in the abyss transforms into a water column and runs into a human submarine to make contact with humans, and the effect of the liquid transforming into a human face is amazing, in a sense, it is actually a preview of the liquid metal robot in "Terminator 2".

But that amount of footage and "Terminator 2"-1000 is an epoch-making achievement in the history of film special effects.

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