The pickup truck winds its way up the mountain road and ends up in an open parking space.

Pushing the door and getting out of the car, Kraven shook his gaze and surveyed his surroundings.

At the foot and on the opposite side are bare red-brown hills, revealing some broken rocky mountains, which look desolate and ordinary, and almost unbeautiful.

But if you press your eyes down and focus your eyes on the two mountains, you will suddenly have many sighs.

The Colorado River, which originates in the Rocky Mountains and flows all the way to the southwest, eventually merges into the Gulf of California in Mexico.

What is even more amazing is the transformation of manpower, but the surging water of the river, which was blocked by an arc-shaped dam 82 years ago, has since become a long, slender lake with shimmering water, quiet and tamed, nourishing tens of millions of people in several surrounding states and counties.

Although he had seen this scene a long time ago, Craven's heart was still unbearable excitement, after all, what appeared at his feet was a behemoth more than two hundred meters high and more than three hundred meters long, and it was difficult to hide his excitement.

"Bang!" the sound of the door slamming in his ears, followed by the sound of footsteps interrupting his reverie.

Picking up the key to lock the car door, Kraven turned his head to look at his girlfriend Aretha, smiled and stretched out his left hand: "Honey, let's go!"

After paying a ticket to enter the dam area, a small couple walked hand in hand towards the viewing platform.

The dam is known as the Hoover Dam, which was once the world's largest man-made lake, Lake Mead. Although the record was long lost and now falls into the hands of the 8,500-square-kilometer Voltalake in Ghana, West Africa, without damaging the status of Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam in the American mind.

In the twenties and thirties of the last century, the Americans speculated in the stock market to create an economic crisis, and in order to stimulate investment and promote employment, the two presidents Hoover and Roosevelt carried out many large-scale infrastructure projects, and the Hoover Dam was built at that time. The dam's name is also derived from President Hoover, and later became its permanent name in 1947.

Thousands of dam builders gathered, naturally creating a demand for the service industry, the Nevada state government pushed the boat, specially approved Las Vegas to develop the gaming industry, and the completed dam provided a large amount of electricity and domestic water for the surrounding area, which is now the city of Las Vegas.

For some, damming the desert to generate electricity is "out of the ordinary," and then it's natural to associate the Hoover Dam with Area 51, which is also in the Nevada Desert, and that the Hoover power station is actually used to power the station for the study of aliens.

In the "Transformers" movie released in 2007, there is a plot in which the U.S. military captures the alien mechanical life Megatron and freezes it inside the Hoover Dam. In addition, the Hoover Dam has also appeared in film and television dramas such as "Day of Destruction (10.5 magnitude earthquake)" and "2012", and was destroyed by Hollywood in every possible way, and the situation is only surpassed by the "Statue of Liberty", the symbol of America.

In a way, this is also a spirit of "**************", with the Hoover Dam damming and storing water to benefit the farmland and people of several surrounding states, including Los Angeles and Hollywood in California next door. Far from harming the dam, this kind of "cheap behavior" has made it famous at home and abroad, attracting tourists from all over the world, and creating huge economic benefits.

The two of them have been here several times before, and the reason why they revisited this time is also related to these movies.

Putting the glasses and headphones on their heads, they, along with other tourists, were arranged by the staff to walk to a viewing platform with a double railing at the top of the dam, and hang the safety rope around their waists on the railing as required.

Reaching out and pulling the safety rope, Aretha said casually, "I didn't have this last time I came, I should have made it recently." ”

Kraven was looking around, and then he continued: "Of course, there were no live-action movies before. This thing should be exclusive to live-action movies, in case someone gets excited and falls, if they fall from the dam, they will definitely die. ”

The former blinked, "Isn't it? Isn't it just an AR video, it's really that scary?"

Kraven shrugged, "I don't know, maybe it's just just in case, like 'shampoo is not edible.'" ”

As soon as Kraven's words fell, a convoy of cars roared towards the crowd, causing a wave of screams.

These cars are naturally fake, and if you look closely, you will see that they are not physical, they have a faint sense of transparency, and they are actually illusions brought by the glasses on their faces. It feels dangerous and terrifying, mainly due to the stereo sound. Unable to explain this, Kraven reached out to hug his girlfriend, held her in his arms, and opened his eyes wide to feel this immersive "live-action film".

It is indeed a film, not far in front of them, cars and trucks have transformed into tall and powerful metal giants, and then launched an attack on the American troops guarding the dam, with bullets raining down and explosions rumbling, and the powerful attacks made the American troops, who are the firepower winners, unable to parry, and had to retreat and retreat from defense. At this moment, another wave of familiar cars rushed into the dam area, quickly transformed into Autobots, and launched an attack on the Decepticons, bringing the battle into a new dynasty.

This plot and the characters are obviously from the "Transformers" movie, but the specific details are slightly different, which is "Transformers: Battle of the Dam", a "live-action film" commissioned by Bee Mirage, Paramount Pictures, and Hoover Dam and commissioned by Eclips Special Effects.

According to the plot of the movie, the boss of the Decepticons, Megatron, is imprisoned by the U.S. military in a huge factory at the bottom of the dam, and they attack the dam to save their boss. Caught between the front and back, the Decepticons still attacked the power plant and other key locations with fierce ferocity, but the U.S. military and the Autobots were killed by them because they couldn't use the big kill weapon because of the rat trap, so they had to catch up in a hurry.

Seeing the Transformers and the U.S. military disappear from their sights, the tourists let out puzzled voices and look left and right.

"Everyone, everyone!" the staff reappeared, high-fived and shouted to attract everyone's attention.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he spoke again: "There are three stages in the battle of the dam, and the one that has just ended is the first one. Now please open the safety rope and take the elevator with me to the bottom of the dam, where we will see the second section, the factory fight!"

Seeing Zhengshuang actually cut off halfway, someone suddenly booed in disappointment, but he still unbuckled and followed.

Holding his girlfriend's hand, Kraven thought as he walked, and soon thought of the cause and effect.

The film combines events that happened in different times and places through editing and splicing to form a unique montage art. The selling point of "holographic live-action movie" is the real scene, so naturally you can't play any time and space transfer with the help of editing, so you can only let the audience walk through it by themselves.

This has the added benefit of keeping the viewer immobilized, which can reduce the amount of work that used to be built and rendered. Those safety ropes to prevent falling are also fixed ropes that limit the movement of spectators.

As soon as the crowd left, a new group of spectators walked into the viewing platform, hung themselves on the railing, and began a new round of shouting.

On the tower next to him, Pan Yao looked at those audiences, and the pride and pride on his face were completely undisguised.

With the Hoover Dam taken and the popularity of tourists, she certainly had reason to be proud and excited.

Whether it is Dreamwalker VR or Bee glasses series AR holographic products, the high cost is an important obstacle to restricting them from entering ordinary people's homes and opening up a huge market. Especially the latter, the excessively high cost and selling price simply killed the C-end consumer market.

In view of this, after taking office and officially taking charge of Bee Mirage, she began to advocate the 2B (Tobiness, enterprise-oriented) strategy, made great efforts to expand the B-end enterprise market, supported the use of high-end Dream Walker's VR experience centers and private photo bars, rented VR/AR glasses to museums, film and television bases, and scenic spots, and jointly created "holographic live performances" with target enterprises, and jointly made the cake bigger, which achieved good results.

Only the U.S. market made her suffer a loss, and she lingered on it for a long time, and it was only recently that she was out of this bad breath.

Landmark buildings such as the Hoover Dam, the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building have always been the "darlings" of Hollywood. As Hollywood movies have conquered cities around the world, these buildings have also gained a lot of international fame and doubled in value.

Then, Pan Yao took a fancy to them as a matter of course, and took the initiative to contact the building manager and the relevant film company, planning to produce a film version of the live performance, or a live movie.

The first thing they found was the dam beneath their feet. After all, this is a good thing to help make a name for yourself and increase tourism income, and the dam will naturally not refuse. Paramount Pictures, the copyright holder of the "Transformers" movie, was also very interested, and expressed its willingness to help Mirage bring the plot of the movie to life through IP licensing and official materials.

Of course, Paramount needs to reciprocate for this, and it also puts forward very harsh terms of cooperation. Coupled with the requirements of the bee illusion and the dam, the three parties have their own needs, and it is not easy to reconcile the distribution of benefits. In order to create influence and put pressure on its own side, Paramount poked the news of the tripartite cooperation to the media, only to make a mess of things.

What was originally a simple business cooperation has become complicated by the participation of more forces.

In addition to the social achievements of desert city creation and dryland into fertile land, the Hoover Dam, like other large-scale water conservancy projects, has many environmental and ecological problems. The dam cut off the river, blocked the spawning of marine fish, changed the surrounding microclimate with tens of billions of cubic meters of water in the reservoir, and intercepted the cement and sand of the river in the reservoir, so that the downstream Colorado Delta lost its supply and turned into a desert in the water, pitting the Mexicans downstream, as well as the animals and plants downstream.

According to the 1944 Colorado water rights allocation agreement between the United States and Mexico, Mexicans only receive 10% of the annual water, which must also be blocked by reservoirs for daily irrigation and use, and naturally do not care about wildlife.

Thanks to the efforts of environmental groups, the two sides re-signed the agreement a few years ago, and the United States "tearfully ceded a larger share of water rights" so that Mexicans would have excess water to support wildlife in the downstream delta.

Even so, in the eyes of some extreme environmental groups, only a solid wood dam built by otters is reasonable and legal, and the best destination for the Hoover Dam is to blow it up, and it is indispensable to jump out and bring rhythm. Also jumping out are boring politicians, saying that "there are also holographic technology companies in the United States, and Bee Mirage needs to be censored with impure intentions".

Pure business behavior was caused by various interpretations of public opinion, which once made Atletico want to give up treatment, anyway, away from Hujiaba, there are also Parthenon, the Roman Colosseum, and the hot springs Guangu battlefield These projects can be done, there is no need to hang yourself from a tree.

However, Pan Yao is a stubborn character, Spartan Red Pants to do, Spanish bullfighters to get it, Hoover Dam can't give up, relying on her gritted teeth and hard top and desperate persistence, this project finally came to fruition, so that the previous hard work was not in vain.

Paramount is filming its fifth "Transformers" movie, so it is hoped that the panoramic short film will be subordinated to the former in terms of content and schedule, so as to serve as a warm-up for publicity. But this infringes on the interests of the bee illusion and the dam, and the differences between the three parties are also based on this.

And Pan Yao's way to break the game is to jump out of the chess game and pull a spoiler from the outside into the game. Finally, the other party was forced to give in and had to give up the previous strong attitude and sign a cooperation agreement that was fair and beneficial to all three parties.

The investment in special effects blockbusters is getting higher and higher, and Hollywood's love for sequels is getting deeper and deeper, not only is Paramount going to give a sequel to "Transformers", Warner Bros. is also not lagging behind, and plans to launch the latest sequel to the American monster "King Kong". The latter also understands the importance of publicity, and after Bee Mirage took the initiative to send out an invitation, they responded decisively and went to the Empire State Building together to shoot a holographic short film of "watching King Kong fight the plane up close".

Seeing this scene, Paramount finally got anxious. There are still many teams that have mastered holographic display and photography technology, but it is difficult to find someone as proficient as Bee Mirage, and the production of panoramic holographic special effects lenses takes longer than ordinary CG lenses, although it is a few minutes of short films, it also needs to be prepared months in advance, if you don't sign a contract, the hot pizza will become a cold cake.

Looking at the crowd below, Pan Yao sighed with some regret.

The time is still too tight, in order to make an official appearance when the movie promotion is launched, they have to concentrate on the production of the "Transformers" project, and the other dam movies have been delayed and the progress has not had time to be launched together, which is a bit monotonous at this time.

Well, this is actually the hypocrisy of the winners.