It is said that after reading the original work of "Farewell My Concubine", Lu Wei said that "Farewell My Concubine" is a second-rate, nothing more than love between men and women, and the pattern is not big.

Lao Chen said that Lu Wei's evaluation was too high, and in his opinion, it was nothing more than a third-rate.

Lu Wei didn't know how strong Lao Chen was, and was stopped by his words.

It happened that Lao Chen's "Singing While Walking" was released at that time, and Lu Wei and Li Bihua also became audiences.

At the end of the film screening, the scene was applauded.

Lu Wei said to Li Bihua in private: "I was thinking about it while watching, thinking about what he was going to say, but I didn't understand it after reading it." ”

Li Bihua snickered and said, "I'm sleeping while watching." ”

After watching this movie, Lu Wei made a conclusion: Lao Chen can be a director, but he must not be allowed to touch the script.

Then, Lu Wei found Lao Chen and said that if you ask him to adapt the script, you can give your opinions, and if you have any questions, you can discuss and revise it, but you are not allowed to touch a word of the script.

Lao Chen readily agreed, saying, "That's great, I won't be able to save trouble." ”

"Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, and after the film won the award, Lu Wei asked Lao Chen to discuss the shortcomings in the movie, and Lao Chen said that it must be. But more than 20 years have passed, and the reeds have not yet achieved their wishes.

Compared with Lao Mouzi, "The Red Lantern Hangs High" won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.

After that, Lao Mouzi grabbed the reed and spent the night in the hotel discussing the film's mistakes. The two summed up more than 30 shortcomings and said that they could do better.

After success, he can still count the length and short, Lu Wei felt that Lao Mouzi had a bright future, and later the two collaborated on "Alive"...

After "Farewell My Concubine", Lao Chen invited Lu Wei to be the screenwriter of the movie "Fengyue".

Lu Wei checked the information and found that the story only originated from a few words in the market, and there was no real historical basis. He said that stories without a sense of reality would not be exciting, Lao Chen didn't believe it, and the two parted unhappily. From here, Lao Chen's preferences have gradually moved towards the theme of magic.

In 1999, Lao Chen did not contact Lu Wei when he wrote "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin". But Lu Wei likes this theme, so he came to it and said that if you don't worry about the script, I'll help you write it, and we'll work together. Lao Chen replied: "I'm relieved, I wrote it myself." ”

Lu Wei bluntly said that after "Farewell My Concubine", Lao Chen began to be complacent: "His creative state is like two people before and after this." At that time, he was very passionate and judgmental, and then he was more careful and conceited, and the aura of character was far away from him. ”

- "The Secret of a Screenwriter"

It's not that I'm blind and copying the marketing account!

Therefore, how could the conceited and complacent Lao Chen use means to obstruct him because Lu Xiaoran did not hand over the adaptation rights to him?

They are two worlds in their own right.

……

In the studio, Lu Xiaoran and a group of people are discussing with Steven Querrey how to shoot 3D movies.

Steven Querrey is a VFX artist on Avatar, and he knows a thing or two about 3D shooting.

The main thing is inconvenience.

The equipment and hardware are extraordinarily large!

The 3D bracket and the camera are very large and heavy, and it takes four to six people to lift it, and it is very difficult to modify and change the lens every time, and it is necessary to readjust the focus and IO.

After each shot, the camera was re-calibrated, and it took 45 minutes to more than an hour to adjust the 3D system each time, and the machine was too big for the general mobile car to lift, so we used an iron pipe to lift the camera to the shelf to start shooting from one point to another.

3D shooting is not only as simple as adjusting the camera with a stand, but also includes the movement of the lens, the grasp of the depth of field, the setting of the composition, and the theory of a lens with a length of eight seconds, etc., in fact, there are many skills that need to be learned.

Not only Lu Xiaoran has to learn, but the whole team has to learn!

Because it is the photographer who controls the machine, not Lu Xiaoran!

According to the standard equipment: a camera group has a handheld, a focuser, a camera team head, four small workers are responsible for playing the clapper board, blocking reflections, etc.; another department is called the 3D group, they are responsible for setting up cameras, gimbals, wiring, etc., also need 4 people; there are also mobile groups, tube cannons, mobile cars and other camera moving equipment, 8 to 12 people. Not counting the lights, there are more than 20 people. There are also more than 30 people in the lighting team, and there are 70 or 80 people in the two departments combined!

These people make up the first batch of 3D photography teams for Source Code and even in China!

Why do you need so many people in the lighting group?

Steven Querrey said that the foreground and background should be clear, and there are one-third more lights at once, and 3D shooting has to add one stop of aperture than 2D shooting, because when two cameras shoot at the same time, the glass in the middle should be reduced by 1 stop of aperture, so the light has to play a little more light, so the manpower of the on-site lighting team has to be increased.

This is also the biggest difficulty of 3D movies at this stage - the color is too high, not suitable for night scenes, and can only be graded in the later stage...

The photographer's name is Yang Zhenyu, a native of Xi'an...

Du Jie is busy filming "The Great Gold Robbery";

"You have to be careful, you can't use fast cuts!"

“… OK！”

3D is relatively stable, to use movement to produce effects, 3D editing to use seven or eight seconds to make a shot length, if the time is very short, the audience at the same time to receive 2 screens, the amount of information is too large The audience will be very tired, so each shot should be very clear, this shot is shaken down from the face, punched out, to raise the camera to 48 frames, so that the audience can see clearly.

But 2D only takes 2 seconds for a shot, which can be very fast.

Therefore, many action movies are actually not suitable for 3D.

Steven Querrey has been in the United States for more than a month, and he has to go back to the United States for a while, and then he will come back when "Source Code" officially starts filming...

Served as the VFX Supervisor for Source Code...

Before leaving, the Yankee said: "The 3D effect is essentially that the characters look three-dimensional, in fact, the screen effect is a special effect..."

"I know..."

"If you want to save costs, you can shoot normally first, and then convert to 3D!"

“… No, I still want to experience it!"

"Good luck!"

Seeing Steven Querrey away, Yang Zhenyu asked, "Director, when are we going to start?"

"Don't worry, wait for the special effects team on the orange side to do the modeling, and then we can officially start!"

Xiao Luzi named incompetent, merged three companies that did special effects, and then named it 'Orange Special Effects'...

Are apples and bananas lower than oranges?

"How long will it take?"

“… Are you in a hurry?"

"I want to try my hand!"

"It's simple," Lu Xiaoran thought for a while and said, "Let's shoot a short film first!"

"What short film?"

“… It's the first paragraph of "Source Code", I'll call you the actor tomorrow!"

"Okay!"

After finishing speaking, Lu Xiaoran vetoed it himself: "Not tomorrow..."

"Got an itinerary?"

"Well, there's a party, I have to go to that charity dinner..."

"Harper's Bazaar?"

"Yes, yes, that's the name!"

I took out my phone and looked at it: "I have to leave quickly... Have a party in the evening!"