The gap between China and Hollywood is most obvious in the special effects.

To put it another more professional adjective, it's called film industry technology.

This time, the Film Bureau asked Wei Xun to lead the team and organize a learning activity for young directors, in fact, it is essentially to encourage young directors to use more special effects in the film industry.

The five young directors, in addition to the literary film director Lin Fan, the other four including Wei Xun, Bao Qiang, Kang Cheng, and Xiao Xiaoyang are all blockbuster directors, which is very revealing.

Especially Xiao Xiaoyang, animation industry films, almost all of them have to rely on special effects to support.

Hollywood's ability to conquer the world essentially relies on the technology of the film industry to crush the output.

If Chinese films want to go abroad, they must first be equipped with technology.

Wei Xun and the others stayed in a hotel scheduled by Hollywood to rest for one night, and the next day, the five of them came to the storm special effects with the work cards issued by the official.

"I never thought I'd be here one day. ”

Xiao Xiaoyang stood at the door of this company, looked up at the logo on it, and said with a somewhat complicated expression: "The world's most powerful special effects company, the cutting-edge leader in film industry technology, and half of Hollywood's top special effects blockbusters are from here." ”

It can be said that this 'special effects factory' is equivalent to a strong microcosm of Hollywood's industrial technology.

Wei Xun said with a smile: "I came to visit today, maybe in the future, Director Xiao will walk in here as a partner." ”

Xiao Xiaoyang sighed when he heard this, obviously not confident: "Hopefully." ”

Top special effects movies, in fact, in other words, are science fiction movies.

At present, in Chinese movies, it is always comedy, action, romance, etc., that make money, but there will never be science fiction films.

Because the investment is too large, the special effects are like burning money, asking the storm to make a movie, it is easy to start with one or two hundred million, which investor dares to spend money on Xiao Xiaoyang to shoot like this?

And as we all know, the Chinese market can't afford to raise science fiction movies.

Not only can't you afford it...... There is no director who can make it, and science fiction movies can be said to be a pain point in the hearts of Chinese fans in recent years.

"Hello Director Wei, I'm Zhang Xu, an employee of the storm special effects technical team. ”

As soon as he walked into the storm special effects, a young boy wearing glasses greeted him and said with a smile: "I will take everyone in to visit later, of course, my permission is limited to visiting the technical department." ”

This boy named Zhang Xu speaks Huaxia.

Bao Qiang said with some surprise next to him: "Are you from Huaxia?"

"It used to be, but now it's here, because it's better for my promotion in Storm. ”

Zhang Xu did not shy away from this question, and said with a smile: "Everyone, please come in, remember to hang up the work card, and don't take pictures, otherwise you may be asked out by the security guards later, and if it is serious, you will be prosecuted." ”

Wei Xun shook his head secretly beside him.

Huaxia's film technology itself is backward, and the most cutting-edge talents it has cultivated have been lost, how can it be developed?

But these are personal choices, and Wei Xun is not qualified to judge.

Following Zhang Xu, Wei Xun and the five walked into the Storm Headquarters Building, and then took the elevator to the 27th floor.

"Hey, idiot, that plane exploded with the wrong flare parameters. ”

"I hope that when this ghost-only lion jumps, he can see the wind blowing his fluff. ”

"One more explosion, guys, cheer up, Smith Meyer's harsh old thing, he's not going to pay us the balance if he's not satisfied!"

The entire 27th floor is a large and spacious office area that has been opened, and there are dozens of special effects technical staff busy in front of their computers.

The outside of the office area is a very typical American glass screen, and the large office area is very well lit.

On the physical wall at the innermost end of the office area, there is a huge high-definition screen.

A white supervisor stood in front of the screen, probably noticing Wei Xun and his party, and he smiled and joked with the technicians in the office area: "Look, look at it, guys, there are guests coming, it seems that it should be gentlemen from the East." Whether or not the Storm's face can continue to be saved depends on my next click, and if it fails again, you'll all have to eat the saliva of that old Smith Meyer later. ”

There was a burst of laughter in the large office area.

Someone else turned around curiously to look at Wei Xun and the others.

Zhang Xu, who was standing next to Wei Xun, explained: "This is to make special effects for Golden Lion's new movie "Escape from the Earth", the special effects of this earth explosion, we have been busy for three months, adjusted the parameters countless times, and now it is the final finishing stage, and Smith Mayer will personally come to accept it in the afternoon." ”

Wei Xun nodded, signaling that he understood.

In the distance, a white man standing in front of the screen subjectively presses the control button in his hand.

Everyone in the office looked up at the big screen, including Wei Xun and others, all subconsciously held their breath and looked over together.

I saw that the originally dark screen lit up.

In the vast universe, a small fireball crosses through space, and then, the picture opens.

In the twinkling stars in the sky, thousands of fireballs are crazy in the universe, the veins of those fireballs, the fire light emitted, and the distortion caused by the high surface temperature, everything can be observed in the high-definition picture, the real is amazing.

At the forefront, there is an aqua blue planet.

Humans are unaware of changes outside of space, but keen animals have been the first to spot the anomaly.

A lion jumped up from the grassland and ran wildly, and looked up at the sky.

Then, countless huge fireballs passed through the atmosphere and fell from the sky, and the entire earth was suddenly plunged into a catastrophe.

The plane sailing in the sky was affected and exploded directly.

Countless skyscrapers have collapsed, mountains, forests and grasslands have been destroyed, and all mountains, rivers, grass and trees have been destroyed.

This kind of indifference, with the indifference and realism of natural disasters, makes people feel extremely shocking.

Even Wei Xun narrowed his eyes when he saw it.

Bao Qiang, Xiao Xiaoyang and others next to him were silent.

However, after participating in this learning activity, Kang Cheng, who was slightly silent, turned to look at Zhang Xu, and asked in a difficult voice: "...... that lion just now?"

"Yes, it's also done with special effects. ”

Zhang Xu said with some pride in his expression: "That's my work, when it jumps, even the hair blown by the wind is carefully designed, which can be compared to a lion in reality." ”

Kang Cheng was obviously shocked.

He opened his mouth to say something more, but he couldn't say a word.

This is the gap in the film industry, so big that it makes several outstanding young directors present feel hopeless.

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