"CUT!" After all of this was done, Sid called a halt.

Then he walked into the room from behind the monitor, "Toby." ”

Tobey Maguire immediately walked down from the second floor, "What's wrong?" ”

"When you walked in and talked to Uncle Ben and Aunt Mei just now, your expression was a little too gloomy, or you showed the feeling of physical discomfort too obviously. Sid's words left Tobey Maguire a little confused.

"But didn't the script say that Peter Parker was about to transform at this time, and the whole person was not good?"

"Yes, physically. Sid nodded, "But you have to remember that Uncle Ben and Aunt Mei are the closest people to you, and they care about you very much. So the other way around......"

"I don't want them to worry. Although Tobey Maguire is the first time to participate in an A-grade commercial film, he still reacts quickly.

"That's good!" Sid nodded, and then began to guide Tobey Maguire's performance step by step: "So when Uncle Ben asked for the first time, you forced your body to endure the discomfort and squeeze a smile on your face. ”

"Then when you go upstairs, you will be more perfunctory in response to Aunt Mei and Uncle Ben's inquiries, because your body is more uncomfortable, and you must immediately go into your room to rest. ”

"So in this scene, whether you barely squeeze out a smile, or you perfunctory Aunt Mei and Uncle Ben later, they all come from the same motive - you don't want Aunt Mei and Uncle Ben to worry about you. It is because you love them that there is this series of changes. ”

"Uh-huh, I see, Director. Tobey Maguire nodded repeatedly.

Over the next few shoots, Tobey Maguire quickly adjusted the focus of the performance, and performed the progressive changes that Sid asked for quite well.

"Good! Sid shouted through the loudspeaker, and after a small cheer from the crowd, he immediately began to prepare for the next scene.

In the studio shooting, in addition to the normal shooting, a few finishing touches CGI special effects are the real difficulty - that is, Peter Parker's transformation.

After nearly three months of fitness training, Tobey Maguire has changed from a slender and slender boy to a muscular strong man.

Although it is not as good as Thor and the American team who later served as the muscles of the "Avengers", Tobey Maguire at this time is already a quite strong man compared to his height.

But in the film, in order to show the changes after Peter Parker was bitten by a super spider, it was necessary to show Tobey Maguire a set of muscle changes before and after the transformation in front of the camera.

"The best way for us to do this was to shoot it with a digital camera first, and then change Toby's body to a thin body frame by frame. "From Macguff's special effects supervisor during the crew adjustment, he explained in detail the special effects of "transformation".

Speaking of which, "Spider-Man" can be regarded as the first superhero movie to have a "transformation plot", which is earlier than the transformation of the Avengers American team, but "this is no problem, but don't forget the skinny version of Peter, if it is a normal teenager's slender body, don't make it too exaggerated." ”

Sid nodded, then spoke to the VFX team.

After all, Spider-Man is not as strong as Team America after transforming, and of course he is not as abnormally thin as Team America before he transforms, but within the range of normal people.

"Okay, based on the settings we already have, this effect with only one shot is not too difficult. The special effects supervisor also made it clear after the inspection.

"OK, then I'll have no problem. Sid nodded, and then assistant director Justin Lin walked over: "Boss, you can start." ”

"Okay, let's move on to the upstairs scene. Sid then said.

Next, Sid's crew was in Sony's studio, focusing on prioritizing the scenes in the studio.

In addition to Studio 29, which is Peter Parker's home, the wrestling arena where he first appeared as Spider-Man is on Stage 27, which is also the set for the "Times Square" where the Green Goblins first battle, and the dilapidated factory where Spider-Man crashes to death a robber and the fire scene of the second battle with the Green Goblins are set up in Studio 28.

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Just when Sid was leading the crew to film "Spider-Man" in full swing, another seed that had been planted years ago finally began to sprout.

Youtube, which is run by Sean Parker as president and professional managers dispatched by Shirley Sandberg, has finally launched a beta version of Youtube after nearly a year of gestation.

"Everyone!" Sean Parker shouted to the crowd with his right index finger raised.

YouTube's managers and employees also looked at the computer screen projected on the big screen by the technical director: "5, 4, 3, 2, 1——!"

Then a brand new website was logged in - a red, white and black logo appeared in the upper left corner of the website.

This is the company logo that has been specially designed by Sid and then completed by a special design company.

To the right of Youtube's logo is a search engine, and below is a series of music videos provided by Fire Lion Records, as well as some news videos from free channels.

Now it seems that this is just a humble "video site" with no content.

Oh, and by the way, video sites were a nascent term for most people in 2001, and for most people, going online meant more about logging on to Yahoo's homepage to read the news or logging on to the blog to watch the updates from celebrity bloggers.

Watching videos directly on the Internet is still a very distant thing.

After a brief celebration with employees about the official launch of the website, Sean Parker and a kind of executives arrived in the conference room, where Sid was already waiting via satellite video call.

"One of our biggest problems right now is bandwidth!" Sean said to Sid first as he sat down.

"Well, I couldn't agree more. Sid fiddled with his Dell laptop and said to the crowd on the other side of the video call: "For the development of today's website companies, enterprise positioning and content are the foundation, and the popularization of broadband is the real problem." ”

Sid looked up at the conference room on Youtube, "So the technical problem?"

Youtube's technical director immediately explained, "That's right, Boss. ”

The progress of broadband in North America is actually quite slow, on the one hand, because the original telephone dial-up Internet operators, AOL, do not want to make progress, and they not only do not actively seek technological upgrades.

Instead, he went to enter the content department, and directly worked with Time Warner to create the world's largest merger and acquisition case.