Zhang Ke made Xu Wangqiu's defense a public defense, mainly because after reading Xu Wangqiu's thesis, he felt that it was very reasonable. He didn't know about computer graphics technology, but after discussing it with the defense team, he felt that what Xu Wangqiu wrote in his thesis was very meaningful, and it was likely to be the trend of future development as he said. They thought that since it was the future development trend, they should let Nortel's students know about it, so they made the defense a public defense, and the defense time was increased from the normal 15 minutes to 40 minutes.

Since it was an open defense, in addition to Nortel students, many students from the College of Agriculture came to join in the fun. Especially the 80-level students, they all know Xu Wangqiu's name and have heard of Xu Wangqiu's demeanor, but Xu Wangqiu has been busy with movies outside and rarely appears in school, they have never seen it at all, and they all want to see Xu Wangqiu's demeanor.

After Xu Wangqiu walked out of the defense venue, he was stunned when he saw the black crowd at the scene, and picked up the camera and took a picture: "I didn't expect there to be so many people, it seems that you are quite popular." ”

Xu Wangqiu said proudly: "I am now a well-known director in the country, young and golden, I don't know how many young men worship me, I don't know how many big girls have a crush on me, what is this person." ”

Su Bai threw him a health ball: "Boom!"

Xu Wangqiu saw Liu Lin and the others waving at him, so he walked over and found a place to sit down. Su Bai didn't follow, and took a camera to shoot around. Xu Wangqiu and Liu Lin didn't talk a few words, and Brother Chen Kai in the front row suddenly turned his head: "After the defense, you will officially graduate?"

Xu Wangqiu nodded and said, "Yes, after the defense, I will officially graduate when I get the graduation certificate." How are you? Shoot a short film next semester, with whom are you grouping, and how is the script going?"

When Chen Kaige heard Xu Wangqiu ask him about the preparation of the short film, he said confidently: "I am going to adapt Ye Zhizhen's "We Are Young" into a movie, describing the love story of three young workers and a girl in a large steel factory. I think this story is very interesting and very critical, and it is critical of the concept of chastity and the sense of male power. It subtly counters and critiques trite ethical concepts through a male perspective of arbitrariness, and uses the handsome and tall looks of the two male protagonists to imply implicit irony. ”

Xu Wangqiu thought to himself that Brother Kaizi was still the Brother Kaizi in his memory, and he couldn't forget his thoughts when making movies, this guy might really be more suitable to be a writer than a film director, and nodded slightly: "Sounds pretty good." ”

Brother Chen Kai originally talked to Xu Wangqiu about his ideas, but seeing that his reaction was so flat, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said, "Although you have already made two movies, and you have done well, I will not lose to you!"

Xu Wangqiu chuckled and said: "If you don't lose your sour and rotten literati, think about this and that all day long, put yourself above the work, and want to catch up with me, you will have no fun in this life!"

Brother Chen Kai felt his temples jump suddenly, and he almost wanted to punch Xu Wangqiu's grinning face, this bastard was really too faceless, he glared at Xu Wangqiu fiercely, gritted his teeth and said: "You watch, I will catch up with you! I will make better movies, I will achieve better achievements, I will let the world know that I am better than you!" After speaking, he turned around abruptly and ignored Xu Wangqiu again.

Xu Wangqiu shrugged his shoulders, although this was not good, it was the truth. It's right that movies have thoughts and thoughts, any director who has a pursuit has his own thinking in the movie, but the problem is that Chen Kaige is too keen to think in the movie, this kind of thinking is often at the expense of the rationality of the plot, if you make a pure art film, this problem is not too serious, because art films do not pursue storytelling, and do not pursue logical rigor, but once they turn to commercial films, this point will undoubtedly become the fatal flaw of the film.

It was soon half past two in the afternoon, and the expert in charge of the defense arrived. The current president of Nortel, the famous director Cheng Yin, is the leader of the defense team and should be in charge of directing issues; the other is Zhou Chuanji, a film expert, who has been in charge of translating film materials for many years and knows Hollywood very well, but at the same time he is a staunch opponent of Hollywood; and the remaining Xu Wangqiu, who he does not know, should be a computer expert invited by the school from outside.

After taking their seats behind the long table in front, the three experts placed their arguments on the table. Cheng Yin raised his eyes and swept the scene, and asked, "Is Xu Wangqiu here?"

Xu Wangqiu walked quickly to the front: "Dean, I'm here!"

Cheng Yin nodded slightly and said, "Now start the defense, you can start talking." ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled and said calmly: "Teachers, good afternoon." I am Xu Wangqiu from the 78th grade of the directing department. The information of my graduation thesis is authentic and reliable, and I completed it independently under the guidance of Mr. Situ Zhaodun. There I would like to express my deep gratitude to Mr. Situ and all the teachers for participating in my dissertation defense. ”

After introducing himself, Xu Wangqiu directly began to state: "First of all, I would like to introduce to you the main content of this graduation thesis, which is mainly composed of three parts: the first part of the research topic and significance, the second part of the development of graphics technology at home and abroad, and the third part of the research content and aspects. Next, I will spend 15 to 20 minutes briefly discussing my article.

We all know that one of the functions of movies is to create dreams, in the gods and demons Nezha has three heads and six arms, in science fiction, we take an interplanetary trip in a light-speed vehicle and see the stars explode, and in sleep, we can fly away and do anything. These scenes are very realistic with ordinary technology, but now we have computer graphics technology. This kind of technology will completely liberate the imagination of filmmakers, only you can't think of it, there is no scene that can't be done. In the future, computer graphics technology will become a magic wand in the hands of filmmakers, and you ......"

Xu Wangqiu talked endlessly for fifteen minutes, and there was almost no pause in the whole process, but he talked about it in one go.

Nortel students have long been accustomed to Xu Wangqiu's awesomeness, and they are not surprised by this; the students of the Agricultural College are completely stunned, although they can't understand what Xu Wangqiu is saying, but they can talk like this for more than ten minutes without stopping, which is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to do.

Su Bai held the camera and kept taking pictures of Xu Wangqiu, his eyes shining. She came to report that Xu Wangqiu was actually an excuse, just to see Xu Wangqiu's demeanor in calmly answering various questions from the teacher. At the beginning, she missed the scene where Xu Wangqiu fought against the crowd and refuted many experts speechless, and she naturally did not want to miss this thesis defense.

Among the three defense teachers, Cheng Yin and Zhou Chuanji understood the film part and did not know much about computer graphics technology, while the computer expert understood the computer part and listened to the movie part a little confused. However, Xu Wangqiu's entire exposition was very smooth and logical, and the three teachers still nodded their heads, and they all felt that Xu Wangqiu's exposition made sense.

In the end, Xu Wangqiu concluded: "Although I tried my best to collect materials and use what I learned to write and analyze, there were still shortcomings in the paper. Therefore, please give your valuable suggestions so that I can do better in my future studies and work. After my statement, I would like to ask all teachers to criticize and correct. Thank you!"

Cheng Yin nodded with satisfaction: "Very wonderful statement." Do you need to take a break, or do you want to go straight to the defense. ”

In the dissertation defense, the most important level is the defense. If you pass, you can graduate smoothly, and if you can't pass, you may postpone your graduation. The rules of the defense are very simple, that is, the teacher asks questions and the students answer, generally in the form of asking questions and answering, and the questions raised by the teacher are generally closely related to the topic of the paper.

Xu Wangqiu knew that when defending, the teacher generally would not deliberately choose tricky questions to ask, and there was no need to worry that the questions were too difficult, but even if the teacher present asked tricky questions, Xu Wangqiu was not afraid: "Let's start directly." ”

The first question was asked by Zhou Chuanji: "Bazin defines cinema as an art of photorealism, while Krakauer calls the nature of cinema a restoration of material reality. According to you, everything in the future film can be made by graphics technology, so can this kind of film made by graphics technology still be called a movie?"

Xu Wangqiu knew that Zhou Chuanji was a staunch supporter of film ontology, and even two thousand years later, he was still fighting online with Shen Yubing of Peking University and Yin Hong of Tsinghua University over this issue. The question he is asking now is about the film itself, and this question is very big and difficult to answer.

However, this is still difficult Xu Wangqiu: "In 1829, the famous Belgian physicist Joseph Prado discovered that when an object disappears in front of a person's eyes, the image of the object will remain on the human retina for a period of time, which is called the principle of visual retention. Based on this principle, Prado invented the trickster in 1832. The "trick plate" can make the pictures drawn on the zigzag cardboard plate move due to movement, and can make the visually generated moving pictures decompose into various images. In 1834, the American Horner successfully experimented with a movable optic disk, and in 1853, General von Uchotios of Austria used a slide show to show the original cartoon on the basis of the above invention. And the advent of these technologies eventually gave birth to films.

Before the advent of cinema, animated images were drawn by hand and moved by artificiality. After the birth of film, this technology was no longer mainstream, but it did not disappear, and it was preserved and filmed on the basis of fusion film technology, which is animated film. For this reason, animation is known as the illegitimate child of cinema.

We know that film and animation are different, animation is made in a way that is closer to painting, while film is photography, and we strive to eliminate any artificial traces of the production process and convince the audience that everything in the film is real. However, it is important to note that it is the technology of filmmaking that obscures all the evidence that makes them non-existent. For example, in the movie "Falcon", there is a scene where a bazooka shoots down a helicopter. The helicopter crash was filmed in a studio, while the background behind it was live-action. We cut out the helicopter crash part through keying technology, and combined it with the background of the actual shooting, so that we can have the amazing helicopter crash scene in the movie. This part is actually also hand-processed, which can be seen as a kind of animation technique.

The same is true for computer graphics technology, which can be seen as an extension of animation technology, which is a more advanced animation technology. Cinema was born from animation, but after the birth of cinema, animation was gradually marginalized, but now more advanced animation techniques have emerged. The technology that used to be an occasional addition to the film will become the standard technology in the future, and what was once on the fringes will become mainstream. Computer graphics technology will give back to the world what was previously suppressed in film, and film will be redefined. ”