After thinking about it, the production cost of "Inception" is 160 million US dollars, and it is 160 million for Lao Tzu, so the filming may not be worse than him!

Thinking like this, Zhang Junsheng finally felt a little more comfortable...

However, the biggest advantage of Nolan's movies should be that there are fewer logical flaws, and all kinds of plot twists and changes can basically give full foreshadowing and explanation, and it is almost not difficult to understand.

Whether it's "Time to Go to War", "Deadly Magic" or "The Dark Knight", it's all easy to understand!

Very typical commercial film!

After all, it's all over 100 million dollars invested!

It's impossible for the investor to let the director turn this kind of big investment into an author's film...

Since entering the commercial film industry, Nolan himself has not made any mysteries in the movie, but too many brainless fans have to overinterpret it, which makes Nolan's movies in their eyes obscure and difficult to understand.

As a commercial film director, Christopher Nolan will not target the high and low in any case, so the films he makes are still close to the people in the final analysis - that is, easy to understand.

There is a famous saying in Hollywood: overly complex and obscure plots and philosophical speculations, as well as deliberately added depth and thinking, are all weapons that kill commercial films!

So, "Cloud Atlas" hit the streets!

I don't understand why many fans find "Inception" and "Interstellar" difficult to understand...

Are you sure we're watching a movie?

"Interstellar", this film is dressed in the coat of science fiction, and has done enough work on scientific theories and technical details, but its core is just to promote "love", which has long been a vulgar theme in Hollywood.

"Inception" is also a film that is completely built according to the classic Hollywood narrative structure: motivational events, progress entanglements, crises, climaxes, endings...

Cobb accepts Uncle Ming's mission, and Cobb has no way back from then on, but to complete the task in order to fulfill his wish to return home;

After that, Cobb gathers assistants, plans and implements tasks for the progress of the story, during which he experiences the crisis of Uncle Ming's injury;

And the subsequent crisis forced Cobb to go to the fourth layer of dreams, thus encountering Mel, and the climax of the story is also here, Cobb unravels the knot, bids farewell to Mel, and goes to Chaos to save Uncle Ming;

The mission was successful, everyone woke up on the plane, Uncle Ming kept his promise, and Cobb returned to the United States safely, which is the end of the story.

Is it hard to understand?

……

At the end of filming, Zhang Junsheng, the nominal producer, finally had a chance to chat with Nolan.

"Nolan, Cameron's Avatar, you know?"

"Know a little. ”

"The 3D movie, the trailer is said to have received 600 million views!"

The promotion of "Avatar" has been in full swing, and the Venice Film Festival has released a trailer for the film, which immediately attracted global attention...

The charm of the world of 3D cinema...

Nolan shook his head: "However, 3D technology is simply not enough to provide a high-quality picture, because it will produce ghosting, darkening, dizzying, and will directly affect the expressiveness of details." ”

"And I think 3D is misleading, because what you shoot on film is inherently 3D. Photography itself is a three-dimensional technique. ”

"Rather, the 3D effect is more about shrinking the big screen, making the viewer feel like they are in a very compact and small space, and feel like everything is coming to them. This sense of crampedness is not in tune with science fiction and space themes, but 2D allows the audience to feel the grand scale of celestial bodies. ”

Zhang Junsheng nodded, and replied along his thoughts...

Director Nolan is the most staunch film enthusiast, and apart from his soft spot for IMAX, he is not interested in 3D or digital. Sticking to his pure cinematic interest and passion, he is a little biased against 3D technology.

"But as technology advances, I still believe that 3D will be used in more films!"

However, 3D movies are the general trend of the future, Ang Lee is right, let's not rush to deny or affirm, let's calm down and study first, and see what kind of changes will be brought in the future...

The technology itself is innocent, the key depends on who is in control of the technology!

Technocracy is not right, for movies, content is king!

"When "Inception" is released in the mainland next year, when the time comes, I hope to come to China. ”

"Definitely!"

Nolan didn't ask Zhang Junsheng why he was sure that "Inception" could be released in the mainland...

He chose to cooperate with Zhang Junsheng, and he had already estimated Zhang Junsheng's ability in advance.

……

The shock of the studio not only made Zhang Junsheng experience the distance of Chinese films, but also Song Xiaofei and Rao Xiaozhi, who were with him, also had some palpitations...

The revolving corridor is set to realistically build an enclosed staircase that looks like an infinite cycle of ascending and lowering from a certain angle...

I can't even think of this!

"A big investment of $160 million..."

"Junsheng, are you so convinced that Inception will pay for itself?"

"Of course!"

Zhang Junsheng didn't think about it: "Every investment I make is in the direction of profit!"

If the memory is correct, the global box office of "Inception" has exceeded 800 million...

Not to mention the periphery, just the various authorizations of the periphery in North America and Europe, it seems that it has obtained 200 million US dollars...

Of course, all of this is based on the box office success of Inception.

It can be said that without the box office, there would never be these amazing peripheral incomes.

Commercial movies are not only box office, there must be something wrong with the head.

Song Xiaofei looked out the window and changed the topic: "Junsheng, do you think Xu Yongan will agree to cooperate with us?"

Xu Yongan is the boss of Hengdian Film and Television City...

“… It's hard to say, but the current situation is already obvious, our film and television city has the most concentrated post-production organization in the country, and Hengdian has 60% of the country's crews settled in every year, which is beneficial for both parties!"

Hengdian Film and Television City has an incomparable advantage of many domestic film and television cities, and they have a very complete industrial chain, and all the elements of film and television production can be found in Hengdian, such as props, costumes, power generation vehicles, transport vehicles, fireworks, makeup, extras, special actors, etc.

Su * Zhou Film and Television City can not be compared with it in this regard, but these two places are very close, Zhang Junsheng discussed with Zhang's father, and moved the headquarters of his special effects company to Su * Zhou Film and Television City, with the blessing of Yuehua special effects, and the surrounding supporting companies were soon established, Xie Ning said that the three special effects companies of Base FX, Digital Domain, and Tiangong Colorful entered Suzhou * Zhou Film and Television City...

To do special effects, hardware, software, etc. can be purchased, and the most important thing is the labor cost!

The first two, software and hardware can be rented in Suzhou *zhou Film and Television City!

The last item is also the most important reason for special effects companies to settle in Suzhou *zhou Film and Television City: there are many links in the film special effects process, complicated software debugging, and long production, which requires thousands of people to spend several years to complete together.

Take "Tangshan Earthquake" as an example, a film is divided into four companies, and that's it, it still needs an eight-month cycle!

Therefore, the gathering of special effects companies is the general trend!

Suzhou Zhou Film and Television City has strong post-production capabilities, which Hengdian does not have!

Film and television post-production is a knowledge-intensive and creative-intensive industry, which requires a large number of high-tech talents, while Hengdian is a small town located in the middle of the Zhijiang River, not a talent highland, resulting in a small number of film and television post-production companies and a shortage of talents.

"China's film and television resources will inevitably be integrated in the future, and two centers will be formed, one will be centered in Beijing, and the other will appear in the Yangtze River Delta region, which will be more commercial and become a new Oriental Hollywood. ”

"I think Hengdian, Xiangshan, Suzhou, and Shanghai Film and Television Parks, including Tongli Film and Television Base, can form a Pan-Yangtze River Delta Film and Television Alliance, communicate with each other internally, and boycott other film and television cities externally, such as Wanda or something..."