Before it was over, a few people talked about special effects.

"As far as I know, the special effects of this film are all in charge of the Chinese team?"

"No, we asked Framestore to help with the production..."

"Why don't you look for ILM?"

“… Because the top special effects artists of Industrial Light & Magic are all doing Marvel... We can only give us some second-rate or non-second-rate special effects artists!"

This is conventional...

Many domestic movies, even if they use Hollywood special effects, are very fake, the main reason is that on the one hand, the run-in is not enough, on the other hand, the team sent by others is not exquisite, so just find a second-rate product to pass it away...

Not so with Gravity, Framestore itself is not particularly well-known in the world, it's a British VFX company...

They also want to open up their visibility in China!

Almost all of them were dispatched, plus Lubezki was there the whole time, and Lu Xiaoran was not the master who lacked money and time.

Smash it out!

You must know that the production cost of the original "Gravity" was 90 million US dollars, and Lu Xiaoran spent 150 million!

And it is also on the basis of almost zero investment in the cost of actors!

It's all used to smash special effects!

After all, it was propaganda, and the last 20 minutes were given to the media at the scene.

A reporter from the Los Angeles Times asked, "Chinese films are currently trying to do more international cooperation, what do you think?"

"I think the most important factor is the direction and the trend. Hollywood can perhaps be seen as something of... A lot of money is pooled here, so there's an opportunity to make those exciting big movies. From the past to the present, Hollywood has also been absorbing excellent filmmakers and film elements from all over the world, such as Chinese action movies. What is happening now is more of a convergence of different cultures, and films from other countries are also absorbing the Hollywood film experience, because it proves to be able to reach a wider international audience. ”

"I'm very optimistic and interested in the current international cooperation and co-production, but this is also a problem, because globalization is bound to circumvent the customs of various parts of the world, so there are many more restrictions..."

"What do you think about the massive flow of Chinese money into Hollywood?"

"I don't think much of it, and I don't have much interest in buying a studio..."

"Why?"

"Independent studios are inherently lacking, and it is difficult to grow and develop!"

"Then what do you think of the string of big hits made by oranges?"

"It's not a big hit, we're making R-rated horror films... The North American film market needs R-rated films, compared with the saturation of commercial films in North America, R-rated films have a large number of uncultivated people, of course, we have always insisted on R-rated, which also shows that we don't want to make big oranges, just a group of people want to make movies..."

"Variety" magazine simply asked: "How do you think Chinese capital will change Hollywood?"

"Hollywood itself is a global film production center, and I don't think capital can change Hollywood, so why don't you care where Sony's money comes from? I don't think the audience cares much about the producer behind this movie, they only care about whether the movie will be good!"

……

Trips to Southern California, including trips to the United States, are all warm-ups for "Gravity".

First of all, this is a science fiction movie, and domestic film critics have long said that 'Chinese can't make science fiction films', 'China doesn't even have good movies, how can there be good science fiction films!', 'There is no executable script, and there is no way to talk about executable film projects. ’

"Gravity", many people are not optimistic!

The trailer came out, and a bunch of people commented: 'Flying Sky Drama Version!'

'Filming sci-fi in China?Lu Xiaoran is brain-dead, right?'

Or, 'I didn't expect Lu Xiaoran, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, to surrender to the political axe?'

Shake the wit, shake the wit, spit the spit...

There are few optimistic about it!

It's like before "The Wandering Earth", a bunch of people said 'This movie is "Wolf Warrior 3"...

So what to do?

Lu Xiaoran chose to release it in North America first.

Conquer the North American audience first, shut up these Douban film critics, and then release it domestically!

The North American release time is October 21st, and the mainland release time is October 24th, which will be released on the same day as "Super Body"...

After the screening in Southern California, the live video was immediately sent to the Orange Propaganda Department, and a group of people quickly reduced the clips spoken by Cameron, Lucas, and Spielberg and posted them on Weibo...

Spielberg specially posted a post on Twitter in support of "Gravity", which was also screenshotted and uploaded to Weibo...

The gang shut up...

Do you understand movies or do you understand movies?

He said this is the best space movie ever, what kind of do you guys?

……

On October 20th, Lu Xiaoran ended the promotion of "Jimmy's Tonight Show" and returned to the hotel.

He wondered if he had said the wrong thing...

Probably not.

I spit on the double standards of the American media, and said: 'The problem of media interviews in the past few days is always a few words of 'censorship' and 'funding', I am very uncomfortable, I always feel that the media on your side is full of arrogance towards the Chinese, we have censorship, but Hollywood does not have it? I myself have a North American film production company, and I have also joined the North American Producers Association, and every time I start making a movie, there are two hundred pages of agreements, and there are more than forty politically correct things, is there any difference?'

'Every country, every nation has its own culture and customs, if you want to do business and sell things to China, you have to respect our rules, on the contrary, my company in the United States develops the way in the United States, which is something that every adult understands!'

'Why do you keep holding on?'

Nodding his head, he felt that he had answered very politically correct...

Hehe, you think you answered correctly, and they cut it all for you!

It didn't air at all!

Of course, these are not something that Lu Xiaoran can control, thought about it, and posted a Weibo: "Why did I do "Gravity""

"It was a challenge for me to make this film!"

"Didn't I know that making entertainment-oriented movies was more profitable?"

"But, no, we can't just stay at the stage of winning with stories, since the release of "Source Code" in 10 years, I have been thinking about how to broaden the film genre, how should film industrialization and industrialization go?"

"The answer is science fiction!"

"Science fiction movies are the most intensive special effects, the highest requirements for film industrialization, I have money, energy, time, and most importantly, I am not afraid of failure, just build a process of industrialization! No matter how bad it is, we can also cultivate one or two thousand science fiction film talents, we have hired almost all the special effects artists in China this time..."

"At that time, I chose two projects, one is "The Wandering Earth", and the other is "Gravity", why did I do "Gravity" first, the main project has a single scene, and it should be to lay a good foundation for "The Wandering Earth"..."

"The movie is about to be released, many people are not optimistic, and a certain big director even said something 'one billion to make a movie, three billion to return to the original, and find guilt for yourself?', I can only answer, I am just looking for guilt for myself, people live not only to make money and enjoy, but to pursue a little. It's the same with the director, I'm only 31 years old, and I have endless possibilities..."

"Hopefully, Gravity will satisfy most of the audience... By the way, be sure to choose the IMAX+3D version, a $150 million production, we used the world's most advanced atmos sound system to try to immerse the audience in the scene..."

"Okay, I'm waiting for good news from North America tomorrow..."