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But for Robert Remy, it was the quality of the three short films that really shook him. As the reporters just said, it's incredible that the styles are different but all of them are of a high standard. And this director is actually only 17 years old, underage!?

Robert Remy didn't know what to say for a while. A few days ago, the Venice Film Festival award for Best Short Film was said to have been awarded to Tann to Tann, and Sid Leon's past three short films, although they were quite popular in media circles, still lost to Emile Kusturica. ”

Robert Remy smiled slightly, "Oh, it seems that the people in Europe are still just as pretentious." ”

The chairman of the film festival still looked pampered and not surprised, and said with a faint smile: "I don't know those people in Europe, but I heard that the New York Film Festival has been very noisy in the past few days." A group of New York film critics criticized the short film of a newly popular West Coast kid as useless. Especially the one that imitates British black humor, the standard is clumsy. ”

"Oh, is it?" said Robert Remy, who put down the coffee cup noncommittally, but the festival president was keenly aware that his fingers were pinching the coffee cup, faintly white.

Looking at the actions of his old friend, the chairman of the film festival suddenly said: "Actually, it is Sid Leon's short films that were released too late, otherwise, I will watch the Cannes Film Festival and the British Academy Awards in the first half of the year, and there is still a relatively good chance that Sid's short films will be awarded." ”

After that, the two chatted a few more words, and then said goodbye to each other and separated.

After the two separated, the chairman of the film festival took out his mobile phone, made a call, and a hurried voice on the other side asked, "How is the situation?" Listening to the voice, it was actually Ali Emmanuel.

The chairman of the film festival smiled slightly: "I have said everything that should be said, as for the result, it depends on the meaning of God and his old man." ”

After the separation, Robert Remy silently recalled the words of his old friend just now, of course he knew that someone had given him public relations, so he would put on such a big show in front of him. Although Oscar has never been against public relations, strength is the most important iron rule.

Otherwise, even if you spend money on the moon, you won't be able to get an Oscar nomination, after all, this is not a Golden Globe, you can buy it with money.

Do these short films of Sid Leon have the strength?

There is no doubt that the quality is quite amazing, especially when you refer to the age of the director, it is simply incredible. Robert Remy's mind suddenly popped into a bold idea, and the idea in his mind came to mind. He couldn't help but make a phone call.

"Hey, you go and get a copy of Sid Leon's short film on display in Toronto and send it back to HQ for our committee. ”

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Although the filming content on location accounted for the majority, with the unremitting efforts of Sid and others, all the location shooting was completed near the beginning of September. I moved on to the indoor studio, which needed special effects for green screen shooting, that is, the "love and love" of the hero and heroine in his big, outrageous Boeing plane.

In this era, green screen studios are far from being as common as in later generations, and the high cost of software and hardware equipment has also made only a few institutions have the capital and ability to build them.

Industrial Light & Magic, the originator of special effects, must have this ability, but at this stage, even Industrial Light & Magic only has a ready-made green screen studio near their headquarters in San Francisco.

After thinking about it for a while, Sid decided to build a special effects studio directly in Vancouver. After all, it will be a Hollywood location in the future, and with the increasing official incentives in Canada, the cost of labor, taxes and other costs in California is becoming more and more expensive.

More and more crews will flee California, and the studio that is now being built can also be rented to other crews to earn extra money, which is also a good idea.

But it wasn't a free dinner, and in order to set up a special effects studio, Sid also asked Henry and Goffman to negotiate directly with the Vancouver government to obtain a loan and tax rebate on the investment to offset the temporary increase in costs. After all, if the cost of the film continues to pile up like this, it would be good not to mention making money when the time comes.

And the cost is out of control, which is the reason why many excellent movies (almost) capsize. For example, the famous romance film "101 First Loves" is like this.

Overall, the green screen shots in "Warm Corpses" are still relatively rare and simple, and they are all long-range shots that include the shell of an airplane. The interior of the aircraft is directly rebuilt from the discarded cabin provided by Boeing and then reused. For example, the aircraft shell can be moved to give the camera more room to move.

"Let's go!" Sid ordered, and Orlando Bloom and Reese Witherspoon began to perform.

Zombie R staggered towards Julie, while the girl was trembling with fear with a knife, R took a blanket from the cargo box and covered Julie stiffly.

Then he actually ran to the side and picked up a vinyl record and stuffed it into the gramophone in the strange eyes of the heroine, and then in "Endurance" with guns and roses, he lay down in the flying chair opposite the heroine Julie.

Reese Witherspoon, who plays the heroine, has a "slumped" expression on her face, what kind of zombie is this!? Will you enjoy life more than humans? You must know that at this time, human beings, in order to avoid zombie attacks and doomsday crises, are not as good as dogs. This zombie is so numb.

"What-Are-You?" asked the heroine Julie in a soft, speechless voice.

After the initial distrustful contact, as the plot unfolds, the relationship between the heroine Julie and the protagonist R begins to rapprove. To pass the time, they play games in the cabin of this paradise. Ahem, don't think crooked, it's a game of thugs.

During the filming process, Sid found that it was indeed the perfect fit to find Orlando Bloom to play the lead role R. As a famous "male vase" in Hollywood, Orlando Blossom has never been outstanding in acting, and the zombie R who has been paralyzed in this film just fits his image.

can maximize his handsome characteristics by promoting his strengths and avoiding weaknesses, and looking at the protagonist is to look at the appearance. In facial paralysis, some of the comedic effects achieved by using the plot are more interesting under his facial paralysis.

For example, when the heroine changes clothes, Orlando's look of wanting to see but not daring to look at it fits just right with his shy personality now. Sid, who was watching, couldn't help but cover his mouth and snicker.

In this kind of advancement, the shooting progress in the green screen studio is also quite fast. After all, "Warm Corpse" is still an idol comedy, and although Orlando Bloom and Reese Witherspoon are both rookie actors, they haven't NG too many times. The only ones that have a lot of NG are those skeletons that need to be added with late CGI.

Because this requires actors to perform in front of the air, and in ten years, there are more and more movies that perform in this way, such as superheroes and sci-fi adventure films. But now the concept of special effects is still at the level of adding light and shadow in post-production, so it is not only a challenge for Orlando and Reese Witherspoon, two novices, but also for a few veteran supporting actors.

Rob Cowdrey, who plays the second male supporting M, has a lot of scenes, and he has to confront or fight monsters in the air, which also makes a lot of jokes.

"Cut!" Sid took off his headphones, put down his walkie-talkie, and walked out of the tent to the zombies in the battle.

"You guys need to pay attention to each other when you're fighting, Rob, when you kick and punch, you have to move a little bit slower, have a feeling of charging, not too fast, like this. Sid stood in front of the zombie actors and demonstrated how to fight.

"Remember, each of you is fighting a skeleton, so everyone should pay attention to the sense of power in their movements, skeletons are more advanced monsters than you, and they are not so easy to deal with. Sid demonstrated the moves, and the extras nodded their heads.

"And Rob, you kick first, then turn around and knock over the other skeleton with one punch, and then after the human army finishes speaking, turn around and throw a skeleton corpse in front of them, OK?" Sid demonstrated all the moves, and Rob Cowdray nodded immediately.

"A kick, a punch, a spin and a throw, I see, director. ”

"OK, the cinematographer resets, the lights are ready, all the actors come back to their places, do it all over again. Sid wrapped his arms around and motioned for everyone to do it all over again.

The shooting is in this kind of run-in, the interior shooting near the end, and the last shots are actually such interior shots.

And with the passage of time, it came to the end of September.

The originally unknown Fire Lion TV station dominated the North American ratings list with its signature program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", and the champion of non-drama programs reached 2 months.

But as "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" comes to an end at the end of September, several other major TV networks have come to life, especially the original big brother NBC.

The fifth season of "Friends", which is scheduled to be resurrected on Thursday, September 24, has already made them hold back a breath of fire, and they want to snatch back the king of the North American ratings list.