"It's coming!

Seeing the blue and white Blue Bird plane landing lightly on the runway, the crowd waiting on the tarmac suddenly became active.

Many people wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but they were held back by the security guards, so they could only stand there and stretch their necks, carefully examining the details of the plane.

Propelled by the tail engines, the plane slowly turned and taxied towards the crowd.

The fire trucks parked on both sides suddenly sprayed water into the air, and the two white water columns crossed and dispersed in the air, forming a "figure-eight" shaped water mist arch, and the water droplets sprinkled on the fuselage to catch the wind and wash the dust, which was the high-level etiquette "water gate" in the aviation industry.

Seeing that the Blue Bird passed through the water gate safely and finally stopped at the designated position, two tall and strong male employees hurriedly stepped forward and rolled out the red carpet all the way to the nose of the plane, just in front of the cabin door.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Lingling, who was holding the elbow on the side, showed a relieved smile on her face, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart: "It's done, the old lady is finally going to be free! Hmm, it seems to be a little hungry!"

She flew over with Atletico early in the morning, and then she has been busy until now, not bothering to eat lunch, really tired and hungry.

Although the work is done by others, she only needs to move her mouth, and then check and accept, but this has just been built not long ago, and it is just a small general airport that does not pass civil aviation, and many things have to be purchased outside.

"Crossing the water gate" is usually used for commemorative events such as maiden flights and retirements, and the protagonists are naturally the aircraft bathed in mist and the captain on it, but occasionally fire trucks and firefighters steal the limelight.

Airport fire trucks usually carry water, dry powder and foam fire extinguishing agent at the same time, switch the use according to the specific situation, electrical appliances fire spray dry powder, forced landing oil leakage foam, other small situations will spray water, if the firefighter hand slip press wrong, it may cause oolong incidents. Firefighters from Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom did just that last year, spraying Virgin Atlantic's "Beauty Queen" into the repair garage, giving guests in Atlanta an impressive maiden ceremony.

Aircraft engines are usually not very afraid of water, because modern aviation engines need to go through water swallowing tests before they can be approved for production, and qualified engines can cope with general aerial rain and runway water, which is also the reason why "water gate" is quite popular. However, dry powder and foam are not good, they will cause residues in the engine and affect the normal operation, and need to be disassembled and sprayed with water for cleaning.

Zhu Lingling's plan is only to pull banners and send flowers, and the "water gate" is not on it, which is completely the result of the airport's efforts. This general airport is intended for the private jets of celebrities, and this Gulfstream G650 is also at the right time, new planes, new airports, it is simply not too good.

In the future, I will often pass by here, and Atletico Madrid is not easy to refuse the kindness of others, so I asked Zhu Lingling to cooperate. The latter was left here by him to pick up people, so he reluctantly accepted the task, but fortunately the whole event did not go wrong.

The plane door slowly opened, stretched out the gangway to the ground, and then a short-haired man wearing black-rimmed glasses appeared there, immediately causing a new round of cheers from the crowd, this person is the author of "The Wandering Earth" Da Liu. Behind him were a few middle-aged and elderly men and women who walked down the gangway one after another, but they received much less cheers, because they were the editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World magazine, and only a very small number of hardcore science fiction fans could match the names on the pages with real images.

Seeing everyone coming down, Zhu Lingling hurriedly walked forward with a lady of etiquette holding a tray in her hand to send flowers to these gods to welcome, and at the same time she did not forget to convey her boss's apology, saying that the latter could not greet her in person for some reason, and was waiting for everyone over there.

Then there is the routine of the guests and hosts speaking and praising each other, praising the movie and praising the bees and then posing, successfully completing the set task, and the group boarded the Toyota Coaster who came to pick up people, and galloped towards the Yikuai headquarters next to the film and television city.

In order to expand the influence of the film among science fiction fans and book fans, and to show that the bees have lived up to the efforts of domestic science fiction people, Atletico Madrid specially sent a private jet to invite them to come over to view the half-finished film.

Two hours later, the big scene of 150,000 people singing "My Sun" was staged again, which shocked Zhu Lingling, who saw this scene for the first time, and also made Da Liu and their mouths open wide. As the original authors and the original review editors, they had imagined this scene in their minds in the past, but when this scene was really presented on the screen, everyone was still shocked.

As a result, the topic of discussion in the small screening room was inevitably skewed.

"If I remember correctly, the number of people mentioned in the chapter on the mutiny is more than 100,000, and you actually did it! This should be the biggest scene in the history of cinema, right?" The editor-in-chief of the science fiction world Yao, exclaimed, and at the end he added: "I mean the number of participants." ”

"Not the most," Atletico continued, "The scene of Gandhi's funeral in Gandhi's biography, released in 1982, used a total of 100,000 extras and 200,000 onlookers. ”

"There were also a lot of people in the ******** Armageddon series back then," President Yang, who has retired, lifted his glasses and said with some emotion: "These three films mobilized more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians to participate. I thought I would never see this kind of big scene again in my life. ”

Mohandas Gandhi was the founding father of the nation who influenced modern India and is revered as "Mahatma Gandhi". On January 30, 1948, while attending a prayer meeting, he was pistol-stabbed to death by Nathulam Goldson, a fanatical Hindu hiding in the crowd, and the news of his death shook the whole of India, and it was said that a million people attended his funeral.

As for the "Armageddon" series, everyone here has seen it, and this is a classic of the year.

Wang Luobin nodded, "Yes, this kind of big scene involving the military or extras is really difficult to replicate. Even if the current crew has the intention to do this, the government department will not approve it. And even if they really agree, the crew may not be able to afford the salaries of millions or tens of millions of extras a day. ”

In order to draw on the large-scale modern war scenes in the film, he and the special effects team have analyzed many war movies that are known for their large number of people, including the "Armageddon" series. Even though the rebel wars in "The Wandering Earth" are very different from the wars in these movies, there are still commonalities that can be referenced.

"Didn't you make it?" said Editor-in-Chief Yao with a smile, "These should all be virtual actors, right?"

"It's indeed a virtual actor, and it's also a passerby actor system developed by Yikuai itself," Wang Luobin nodded, "but the cost of virtual actors is also not low, unless it is directly copied and stacked without quality like some TV dramas." I've always wondered what's the point of coming up with hundreds or thousands of identical-looking, perfectly synchronized creeps, trying to induce dense phobia in the audience?"

Dense fears are usually caused by things like hornet's nests and pegboards, and do not include large crowds, as evidenced by overcrowded famous attractions and subway stations. However, if you simply copy and paste, and pile up a large number of dull and blunt characters, it is inevitable that the audience will laugh.

Wang Luobin is worthy of being a film director, and what he said was so graphic that everyone laughed.

"It is true that virtual actors based on CGI computer graphics technology can solve the organizational problem of large-scale group performances to a certain extent, but it has not yet reached the point where there are as many 'people' as you want. In order for a virtual actor to be realistic, they need to be equipped with unique shapes and movements, and then carefully render the body lighting to look like a real person. It's just that this will also cause the side effect of rapid burning of funds, let's not talk about special effects, let's go directly to Bollywood and Hengdian to hire people!"

After laughing at everyone again, Lao Wang finally began to pull the topic to the movie, "The reason why we were able to achieve such a big scene in "The Wandering Earth" is completely the result of the right time, place, and people at the same time, but it is also not replicable. ”

"The so-called people, of course, are the passerby system of Yikuai. Mr. Cheng and they have contributed tens of thousands of 'virtual extras' to various movies, and this time they are completely familiar with helping us," Wang Luobin looked at Cheng Bin and said.

"We are also stained with the light of day," Cheng Bin said modestly, "In addition to the computing resources of the bee cloud and the bee colony, we have also received strong support from the Taihu Supercomputing Center." Everyone should know that this supercomputer uses a relatively rare domestic processor architecture, and there are still relatively few related applications, and there is still a lot of surplus computing power, and then we took the lead. Isn't it shocking to make a picture with the world's best supercomputer?"

A young editor had a big brain, and answered with a smile: "I have an idea, how about adding a sentence 'Thanks to the U.S. Department of Commerce' in the end credits?"

Due to the USDOC's ban on Intel's export of the latest "KnightsLanding" XeonPhi high-performance many-core computing cards to China, the "Pearl River Supercomputer", which has been the "No. 1 Supercomputer" for several consecutive years, was unable to further improve its performance, and then was overtaken by the "Taihu Supercomputer", which received more support, and stepped on the second place.

"Isn't this good? It's too ridiculous," Wang Luobin said with a smile, "This movie is already very hateful, and I'm afraid it will be frank if it continues to be pulled!"

Thanks to the strong penetration rate of World of Warcraft, even though most of the audience is middle-aged and elderly, this game term is easily understood by everyone.

"I'm not saying this because I'm an American, but that's the actual effect," Wang Luobin pointed to the screen that was fixed in the scene of "150,000 people stunned" and explained: "Just now I said that the time and place are favorable, and the scene that Mr. Liu originally conceived is the greatest geographical advantage. ”

The plot takes place on a cold seashore at minus 100 degrees Celsius, where the rebels push the last Earth faction onto the frozen sea and freeze it into ice sculptures, and then join hundreds of thousands of supporters in singing to the sun and celebrating "victory".

"First of all, the seaside scene is open enough, and there are no complicated mountains and buildings, so you don't have to think about the repeated refraction they bring. Secondly, everyone is wearing isolation sealing suits, although there are differences between large and small sizes and military and civilian versions, but the overall style is less, and the shape is relatively close, which reduces the trouble of modeling. Again, there is no too intense action in this scene, most of the people are just walking onlookers, and there are relatively few small movements, and the amount of computation in motion simulation and lighting rendering is much smaller. ”

"It is precisely with these favorable conditions that we have the opportunity to make such a grand scene. But the irony of this scene is too strong, mortals are saved by heroes, but they are killed because of suspicion, and then they are slapped in the face on the spot during celebration, such a plot is really unpleasant," Wang Luobin looked at Da Liu, who had not spoken and was contemplative.

"See what I'm doing?" the latter pointed to the screen, "Isn't there a second ending?" ”

While waiting for the playback to continue, Da Liu said: "Those people objected because they didn't see the final picture. If you can get the Italians, you should be able to get the Americans too. ”

The ending chorus "My Sun" is a Neapolitan song published in 1898, describing the lover as the sun and expressing love by singing the praises of the sun, which has been highly sung in the past hundred years, and there are countless covers of it.

The song was sung all over the world, but composer Eduardodi Capua and lyricist Giovanni Capurro did not make much money, and died in 1917 and 1920 respectively. The Berne Convention stipulates that copyright protection for works is the lifetime of the author plus at least 50 years after his death (70 years in the European Union), and the song became public property in 1990, attracting numerous covers.

The film chose this song, not only to restore the original plot, but also to borrow this well-known IP, and at the same time, this plot can also show the bee technology well. They used artificial intelligence technology to simulate the process of anthropological singing, output hundreds of plausible singing tracks, and then after some technical processing, synthesized the effect of a chorus of 150,000 people.

The audio demonstration of the performance was posted online early on, and then it provoked protests from Italians, saying that it was discrediting the masterpiece. Their opposition fell completely on the expectation of the bee release, and it can even be said that they deliberately fished it out, and after the full version of the song and the concept CG picture were released one after another, the opposition became significantly smaller, after all, people also have an appreciation for art.

Although the matter basically subsided, Liu Hei also had another reason to attack Da Liu. He also remembered this matter because of this, and it was time to talk about it.

(End of chapter)