At five o'clock in the afternoon on June 23, 2027, the sun on the horizon was blood-red and dazzling, like a bamboo stick, in the crowd in front of the Lin'an Century Movie Capital. Movie fans and journalists from all over the world are boiling like boiling water.

After more than ten years of hard work, Lin'an Fantasy Film has become one of the most influential film festivals in the world, and is known as the world's three major film festivals along with the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival. During the film festival, producers from all over the world rushed to Lin'an to publicize. During the film festival, the world's most popular media gathered in Lin'an to track and report on popular films.

However, in this afternoon, almost all the media in Lin'an rushed to the front of the movie palace, even if many media did not have admission tickets and invitations, they still came;

This is the most lively day in the history of the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival, tens of thousands of people gathered in front of the movie palace, because today is the day of the premiere of the movie "No Way Home", and it is the day when Zhang Ran brings a new work to meet you after ten years. For reporters and fans, even if they can't go to the cinema to watch the premiere, it's good to be able to see Zhang Ran on the spot.

In the past ten years, Zhang Ran has not come out with feature films, but his status has not weakened at all, but has become higher and higher. After Zhang Ran's students and fans grew up, he can be said to have become a god in the film industry.

In August 2022, "Sight and Sound" organized 976 film critics and scholars around the world, as well as 394 directors, to select the top 10 films in their hearts. After the votes are summarized, the top 50 films in film history are obtained. This is the largest voting in the history of "Sight and Sound", including film critics in the Chinese-speaking film industry, who were also invited to participate in the voting. In the film ranking, Zhang Ran's "One Man Lights Up" ranked 10th, and in the director ranking, Zhang Ran surpassed his idol Akira Kurosawa, ranking 13th behind Coppola and Bergman.

In the latest TSPDT rankings, "One Man Shines the Light" surpassed Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" to rank seventh behind "The Godfather", while in the director rankings, Zhang Ran surpassed Coppola to rank sixth.

In the past ten years, Godard is gone, Coppola is gone, and Scorsese is gone, and no one can match him in today's film industry. When Zhang Ran returned with a new film, it was naturally a sensation all over the world, and the media and fans rushed to tell each other. On the Internet, the ticket for the premiere of "No Way Back" was speculated for 10,000 yuan.

As a movie that has attracted worldwide attention, the stardom of the red carpet of the premiere of "No Way Home" is naturally outstanding. In addition to veteran stars such as Leonardo and Scarlett Johansson, popular stars such as Tom Holland, Peng Yuchang, and Zhang Zifeng also appeared.

Among the stars and directors present, Zhang Ran's apprentices and grandchildren accounted for a considerable proportion. In the circle of domestic directors, half of the first-line directors were brought out by Zhang Ran and Yaying. The circle of actors is even more exaggerated, and the domestic first-line stars are basically Zhang Ran's apprentices. Since Zhang Ran brought out the two classes of students in the 01 and 05 grades, Nortel, Chinese Opera and Shangju have all been influenced by Zhang Ran and have begun to teach Zhang Ran things. Now the first-line stars in China have basically learned Zhang Ran's things, and they can all be regarded as Zhang Ran's disciples.

After Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu stepped into the movie palace, the stars and directors stood up, and they danced with their hands, like waving drumsticks, so that the crackling sound spread all over the audience. Their eyes were blazing with feverish fire, and they shouted excitedly: "Teacher Zhang!

As an expert in Zhang Ran's research, Podwell is very familiar with Zhang Ran, and knows that in the past ten years, in addition to completing the acting monograph "Zhang Ran on Performance", his real mind is on the experiment and exploration of VR films. In the past decade, Zhang Ran has burned billions of dollars and made more than 200 VR short films. In this process, Zhang Ran discovered a lot of VR movie shooting skills and created a lot of VR movie language. All this that Zhang Ran did reminded Podwell of Griffith.

In the summer of 1907, an unemployed Griffith found a job as a supporting actor at the Bevergrave Film Company. In 1908, Biver Graff director Mike Cochon retired and Griffith took over, directing his first film, The Adventures of Torie. The screening was a success. Griffiths drew from the works he had read of Maupassant, Tolstoy and others to make films, making an average of two films a week. From 1908 to 1912, Griffith produced more than 400 films, experimenting with a large number of cinematic techniques.

After five years of accumulation, Griffith embarked on his ambitious plan to make an epoch-making film, filming The Birth of a Nation. Completed in 1915, the film was 12 copies, could be shown for about three hours, consisted of 1,500 shots, cost more than $100,000, and was the first high-budget film to be released by Hollywood. The film was a huge success, earning more than $1 million in one year after its release, and after 15 years of continuous release, some estimate that the film achieved a net profit of nearly $20 million. Film theorist Georges Sadur said, "The day 'The Birth of a Nation' was released in the United States in February 1915 was the beginning of Hollywood's domination of the world. ”

Baldwell knew that Zhang Ran wanted him to create a cinematic language in VR like Griffith, and to create a new kind of cinematic art. Bordwell didn't know if Zhang Ran could succeed, but he believed that if there was one person in this world who could succeed, that person would be Zhang Ran.

The host walked on stage and reminded everyone to put on VR glasses and headphones, and the movie was about to start. Guests, reporters and audiences put on VR glasses and headphones and waited for the official start of the movie.

Soon the movie began, Xia Xuejiao played by Jing Tian who first appeared in front of him, and the black cat Aksha, and the subtitles reminded the audience that they must choose a perspective to watch the whole movie, either Xia Xuejiao or Black Cat.

After Baldwell knew that Zhang Ran was going to make this movie, he specially watched "No Way Homecoming", and knew that Xia Xuejiao was the protagonist, so he chose Xia Xuejiao without hesitation. After the click was confirmed, the picture suddenly went black, and then he heard a knock on the door. The knock on the door was still ringing, and the picture was still black. Baldwell wondered, is it like "One Man Puts on the Lights" to build the world with sound?

A muffled knock sounded in his ears, and then a cute voice shouted, "Xuejiao, someone knocked on the door." ”

Podwell knew that it was the black cat Aksha talking to Xia Xuejiao.

The sound of turning over, and then, only listening to the sound of Jing Tian's urn, he said angrily: "Got it!"

Aksya spoke again, and his voice was very loud, as if shouting in his ear: "There are ~ people ~ knocking ~ door ~ summer ~ snow ~ jiao ~~"

"I TMD knows!" The screen lit up as Jing Tian shouted this. The picture is blurry at the moment it lights up, but it is clear immediately. The VR glasses that Podwell wears have a resolution of 16K, which looks almost exactly like the real world, and it is impossible to distinguish the real from the fake.

Xia Xuejiao grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on, and walked to the door with pieces of paper and garbage on the ground. Through the door mirror, Podwell saw Chen Daomin wearing a suit and a haggard face outside the door, and he knew that this was Cheng Liang.

The opening part of "No Way Home" is of a very high standard, and if it was filmed by other directors, it would definitely be blown into the sky. But this is Zhang Ran's work, and it is Zhang Ran's work that has been precipitated for ten years, and Baldwell is a little disappointed in his heart, there is not much new in this beginning. Baldwell thought to himself, Zhang Ran is only fifty years old, is it just the end of Jiang Lang?

The movie continues, after Cheng Liang, played by Chen Daomin, leaves, Xia Xuejiao tracks down Cheng Liang's information through the Internet. Like everyone else, Baldwell's eyes were attracted by Cheng Liang's information on the computer screen, and he looked at Cheng Liang's information carefully. Podwell hadn't finished reading it when he suddenly heard Xia Xuejiao say, "We have to move immediately." ”

Hearing this, Bordwell couldn't help but raise his head and look away from the computer. At this moment, Baldwell's entire portrait was immobilized, and he was completely stunned. He was surprised to find that just when his eyes were attracted by Cheng Liang's information on the computer, Xia Xuejiao's room had been changed, which meant that she had completed the move.

Bordwell trembled with excitement, the biggest problem with VR movies is that they can't cut the shots, and if they can't cut the shots, they can't edit, which has always been considered the biggest obstacle to VR movies, but now the cameras are switching unconsciously. Zhang Ran attracted the audience's attention through computer materials, allowing the audience to focus on Cheng Liang's information, and at this moment, he switched scenes and let Xia Xuejiao complete the move. Since the viewer's attention is on the computer, no scene switching is noticed. By the time everyone noticed this, the scene had been switched, and everyone looked at the surrounding scenes, and they didn't feel abrupt.

Zhang Ran solved the biggest problem of VR movies and realized lens switching in VR!

Not only Bordwell, but also directors such as Ang Lee, Ning Hao, and Wu Erqi, but anyone who knows anything about VR movies was shocked by this shot, and they were all dumbfounded by this seemingly simple shot. They know what that means, just as a hundred years ago Edwin Powter made the editing of "The Life of an American Firefighter" and gave the film a future from then on, this shot means that VR movies have the possibility of editing, and this shot makes VR movies really have a future!

The movie continues, and Zhang Ran is also presenting different VR film shooting techniques. These unique techniques, these creative techniques, these stunned techniques, no matter how impactful Baldwell's heart is, makes him exclaim in his heart, it turns out that it can still be like this, it turns out that the VR lens can be handled like this!

"No Way Home" lasts for two and a half hours, but Bordwell feels the passage of time completely unnoticed. When the film officially ended, Bordwell excitedly ripped off his VR glasses and excitedly shouted, "A new cinematic language is born, a new cinematic film is born!"

As he spoke, Bordwell clapped his hands frantically and clapped them blood-red, and the other guests and the audience quickly followed suit, clapping wildly with him, and the surging applause was like the mighty Yellow River, stirring in the screening room.

Media reporters, guests and all audiences know that "No Way Home" is an epoch-making film, just like "The Birth of a Nation" a hundred years ago, "No Way Home" will open a new era of VR movies.

With a wave of applause, Zhang Ran, Jing Tian, Bai Ling and other leading actors took the stage and bowed to the audience to thank them. When the audience saw Zhang Ran on stage, they immediately burst into applause and cheers: "Teacher Zhang!

"Thank you, thank you. Zhang Ran's hand pressed down, and when the applause stopped, he continued, "This movie started filming before the start of "Angel of Justice", and it took ten years to shoot, and some of the scenes were filmed several times. Add the latter two years, and that's twelve years. When this drama was first filmed, Jing Tian and Bai Ling were still little girls, and now they are both mothers! For this movie, the crew and staff have spent great effort, and now hearing your applause, I believe that everyone's efforts have not been in vain, and it is all worth it. Thank you all for your support!"

The dense applause was like a torrential rain, falling all over the entire screening hall, and Zhang Ran also led all the crew members to bow to the audience again to thank them.

Looking at the high-spirited Zhang Ran on stage, Baldwell felt a lot of emotion in his heart, Zhang Ran is really a genius, he really did it! He created a new film language and won the future for VR movies!

At this moment, a young director of more than 20 years next to Podwell applauded and said to his companion full of admiration: "Teacher Zhang is really amazing! He is worthy of being our teacher!"

Bordwell was slightly stunned, and then a smile bloomed on his face, yes, Zhang Ran will be the teacher of all filmmakers, just like Griffith!

A hundred years ago, Griffith laid the foundations of the language of cinema and is known as the father of cinema. Chaplin commented on Griffith, saying that he was a teacher to all of us. One hundred years later, Zhang Ran laid the foundation for the language of VR films, and the new generation of filmmakers say that Zhang Ran is a teacher for all of us!