As soon as the trailer of "Future Apocalypse" came out, it immediately detonated the entire network. Fly, Facebook, YouTube, Weibo in China, Tianya Gossip, Gossip is coming, and many post bars are discussing this movie. Countless fans were thrilled by the trailer of the movie, and they said that they were dumbfounded by "Future Apocalypse", and the trailer was really exciting.

"This trailer is so cool, it's a real military hard sci-fi movie! I saw the European Tiger helicopter, the Ukrainian Bison hovercraft, the U.S. military's M2 armored car, and the four-engine tiltrotor transport plane similar to the V-44, of course, all of which are improved, and I can't see where the power mech comes from!" -- New York movie fan Owen.

"This exoskeleton armor feels a bit like Warhammer 40K, and it's a bit like firefall, and it's finally time to see a movie with the core elements of Star Paratroopers!" - Los Angeles movie fan Mihik.

"The mecha battle scenes are cool! The war scenes are cool! The scenes of Robert De Niro slashing people are so cool! I think I'm crazy, I've watched a trailer fifty times!" -- Gerrard, a London movie fan.

"Oh my God, why did you release the trailer so early? It's still a year and a half before it is released! Zhang Ran is so hateful! He deliberately tortures people! After watching the trailer, I lost sleep directly, it's really torturous!" -- French movie fan Thaler.

"The scene is so spectacular, it's enjoyable to watch, Exploding Bei is simply scum compared to Zhang Ran!" --Wu Wenbo, a fan of Peking Cinema.

In just 24 hours, "Future Apocalypse" has exceeded 20 million views on YouTube, of which the number of top users is as high as 470,000, and the number of people who have stepped on it is only 7,754; the total number of views on Fly, Facebook and YouTube has exceeded 50 million; in China, the total number of views on Weibo and major video websites has also exceeded 50 million.

While fans were talking, Zhang Ran was still at the headquarters of ILM, discussing with the special effects team and exchanging views on special effects. After the special effects of the movie are composited, they will be shown to the director to watch round by round, and revised over and over again until the director is satisfied.

That afternoon, Zhang Ran was discussing special effects with the special effects director of Industrial Light & Magic, and George Lucas came, and he came for Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran shook Lucas's hand and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Lucas." ”

Lucas held his big belly, looked at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "I watched your "One Man Lights Up Last Week", which is a real multi-voice montage movie, really an incredible movie. After watching it, I called Coppola, and he said, "Isn't that kid's new film finished?" You should go and see what new things he trys!

Hearing that Lucas came to see "Future Apocalypse", Zhang Ran naturally welcomed it. Although Lucas is only a second-rate director as a director, his vision is not comparable to ordinary people, Zhang Ran also wanted to hear his opinion, so he took Lucas Road Industrial Light Film Screening Room to watch it with him.

Most of the footage of Future Apocalypse has only just been composited, and quite a few places are still green screens. However, when the transverse saw-saw long lens and ultra-low-altitude aerial long lens appeared in front of him one after another, Lucas was completely dumbfounded, and the whole person was dumbfounded. He didn't know how to describe the movie, the whole movie was simply a combination of the Soviet version of "War and Peace" and "Saving Private Ryan"!

This movie is very different from the military science fiction film that Lucas imagined, with exoskeleton armor and various models of robots, but the whole movie feels very realistic, and everything feels like reality.

After the movie ended, Lucas was extremely emotional, this guy is trying different film techniques in every movie, and there will be something new coming out in every movie, he is really a peerless genius! He looked at Zhang Ran and said sincerely: "This is a movie that Coppola has longed for all his life, but he has not been able to make!"

Zhang Ran said modestly: "Give advice, what's wrong, what needs to be improved!"

Lucas didn't make any comments, and after praising "Future Apocalypse", he looked at Zhang Ran and said: "The director who has always insisted on exploring the language of cinema in the whole world, in addition to Godard, there is you." Godard's goal in exploring the language of cinema is to destroy bourgeois cinema and create a new cinema, what is your goal?" Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that Zhang Ran was Chinese, and China was a socialist country, and his eyes suddenly widened: "You won't want to destroy bourgeois cinema and create a new cinema like Godard, right?"

Godard, a supporter of communism, believed that the bourgeoisie had invented various cinematic techniques in order to effectively move the audience emotionally, and that bourgeois cinema had always played with the audience's deepest fears and desires and undermined the audience's critical reason, so he believed that in order to resist bourgeois cinema, it was necessary to smash the traditional language of cinema.

In Godard's decades of filmmaking, he has always regarded the complete destruction of the old cinematic language as his goal, and has constantly explored and pondered the cinematic language. Godard's exploration of the language of cinema broke with the traditional laws of cinema, changed the way films were filmed, and set off a storm of new waves around the world. But Godard's goal of destroying bourgeois cinema was never achieved, and Hollywood cinema was not weakened, but became more powerful and swept the whole world.

Zhang Ran shrugged his shoulders and said disapprehantly: "I haven't thought about this problem before, but in the last two years, I have begun to think about where the future of movies is, and I do have this idea." Unlike Godard, I don't think cinema is bourgeois, I don't want to destroy existing cinema, I just want to create a new cinema that is more in line with the trends of the future. ”

Lucas didn't expect Zhang Ran to really think like this, looking at Zhang Ran's gaze was like looking at a madman: "This can't be successful!"

Zhang Ran suddenly laughed: "No, it is possible to succeed, at least I see the dawn of success!"

Lucas was taken aback and immediately asked, "How is that possible, what is that?"

Zhang Ran looked at Lucas and joked with him: "I can't tell you, because now you are from Disney!"

Hearing Zhang Ran say that he was a Disney person, Lucas jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: "I just sold the company to Disney, but I didn't sell myself to Disney." I thought it would be a good idea to sell Lucasfilm to Disney to take care of Star Wars, and at the same time, I was investing in Disney this way to earn a pension, but now I know that I sold my film to human traffickers, who don't love movies at all, they only have money in their eyes. They didn't respect me at all, I didn't respect what I thought about Star Wars, I couldn't control Star Wars anymore, all I could do was leave it alone, so I told Disney, OK, I'm leaving. ”

Zhang Ran knew that "Star Wars" was Lucas's life's work, he hoped that each part of "Star Wars" would be different, and wanted to make a breakthrough in the plot, but what Disney wanted was to pay tribute to the past and circle money by playing the emotional card, Lucas was naturally extremely disappointed. But there is no way to do it, the ultimate ownership of independent film companies can only be large companies. He comforted: "You are an artist, and Disney is a businessman, and the contradiction between the artist and the businessman is always difficult to reconcile. ”

Although Lucas is also a businessman and is not a real artist, he was still very happy to hear Zhang Ran say that he was an artist, and said with a smile: "Don't mention damn Disney, can you tell me now, what is the new movie you are talking about?"

Zhang Ran smiled and lowered his voice: "VR movie!"

As the founder of ILM, as a technology controller, Lucas certainly knows about VR technology, which is nothing new, but as a director, he thinks that this technology cannot be used to make movies, and shook his head: "VR technology emphasizes interactivity, and it is good to use it to make games, but it can't be used to make movies." Because it can't pull the camera at will, and it can't edit it, the existing cinematic language is all ineffective in VR. You can't edit, you can't use the existing language of cinema, how can you make a movie? You can make a video, but it's far from being a movie. ”

Zhang Ran knew that the language of cinema was ineffective in VR, and editing could not be used, but he was still very optimistic about this technology: "When movies were first born, they could only be shot in situ, and almost everyone was pessimistic about the future of cinema, until Edwin Powter invented editing, and since then cinema has the possibility of storytelling, and then Griffiths researched and developed a set of film narrative grammar on this basis, laying a solid foundation for the development of cinema." The editing has failed, the existing cinematic language has failed, so why can't we create a new cinematic language?"

Lucas couldn't help but say, "Can that still be called a movie?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Does it matter what it's called? In my opinion, it's just a movie, but a new form of film, an immersive movie." In the past two years, immersion drama has not been particularly popular, because it can bring the audience a stronger enhanced emotional experience, a stronger sense of substitution, and a stronger emotional experience, which is what the film has been pursuing, so I believe that VR movies are the future of movies. ”

Lucas stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds, and suddenly laughed: "Ten years ago, that is, in 2000, after the high-definition digital camera F900 came out, I used this machine to shoot "Attack of the Clones", and at that time the whole Hollywood was against me, and they united to hold a conference to criticize me, saying that I was a demon, saying that I would destroy the entire film industry and the work of many people. If they knew what you were doing, they would think you were the real demon!"

Hearing Lucas call himself a demon who destroys movies, Zhang Ran laughed and said: "Movies won't be destroyed, I make movies, how can I destroy movies." Did photography destroy painting? Did cinema destroy photography?Did 3D cinema destroy 2D cinema? No, no. Cinema is art, and true art cannot be destroyed by technology. I believe that in the future, the film landscape will be like this, on the one hand, traditional films, which are now 2D and 3D films, and on the other hand, VR movies, the two will coexist. How interesting it is to create a new kind of film, to create a new kind of art!"

Lucas looked at Zhang Ran's face full of infinite enthusiasm, and his body was shocked, if he was 40 years old now, he would definitely say to Zhang Ran, let's do it together and create a new art. But he is now sixty-six years old, and he no longer has the courage to toss. Now he could only sigh deeply: "If only I were forty years old, how good it would be!"

Zhang Ran didn't know why Lucas said this, just about to speak, the mobile phone suddenly rang, he picked it up and saw that it was Bai Yunfei, so he quickly said to Lucas, walked to the side and connected the phone: "Xiaobai, what's the matter?"

Bai Yunfei laughed and said: "It's nothing, it's just to remind you, Fly will be listed next week, don't forget it!"

Zhang Ran breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there was nothing to do, and said, "How can I forget such a big thing?" I will definitely arrive!" y7

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