Woodwood, Bourham, UK.

In November, the UK is already cold and windy, with an average temperature of only a few degrees.

Along the way, the cold wind poured into his body, and since he left the mainland, Xu Jing had not experienced such a cold time, but fortunately, Sun Jiahui had prepared a few winter clothes in advance, so as not to shiver.

Tightening his clothes, Xu Jing walked towards the agreed place.

The purpose of Xu Jing's trip was not to play or participate in any film festival, but to visit the great director Stanley Kubrick. Although this great director was born in New York and has made many Hollywood movies, he rarely returns to the United States, most of the time only in the United Kingdom, and even some movies that need to be filmed in the United States are only willing to command shooting remotely and synthesize films remotely.

The reason Xu Jing came to him was to borrow a special lens from him.

As early as a few days ago, when watching the short film shot by Han Xiaoxin and several people in the walled city, Xu Jing found a big problem, that is, ordinary cameras can't shoot the real scene of the walled city at all, without it, the light inside is too dark, not one or two, but 98% of the entire building complex is dark.

Some people may say that there are not street lights? No matter how bad the light is, it can be solved by turning on the lights.

In fact, it is not impossible, in fact, many movies in Hong Kong were filmed from it earlier, such as Mak Dangxiong's "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", or "The One Who Came Out of the Walled City" by Basket Naicai. But the stories of those films take place more outside, even if they take place in the walled city, most of them are indoor scenes, and there are not many outdoor scenes in the walled city, and those shots are not good.

And "Borderless City" is different, its whole film is based on the theme of the walled city, and there are relatively few scenes outside the walled city, and there are too many outdoor scenes.

And this film is shot with a portable camera and a large number of sports shots to depict the appearance of the entire walled city, if it is impossible to shoot its real scene, then this film is not much ornamental and artistic, because in that environment, even if there are street lights, the shot sports footage, people who are a little farther away are invisible.

As for the lighting, if it is an indoor scene, it is better to say that the space is barely enough, but if it is an outdoor scene, where is there enough space in that kind of narrow alley to give the lighting engineer a lot of equipment?

Therefore, if you want to shoot "Borderless City" well, ordinary camera lenses can't meet Xu Jing's requirements at all. It's good that I found it in advance, otherwise I won't solve it until the start of filming, and I don't know how much it will cost.

After all, I don't play photography, and my understanding of cameras is a little insufficient, and I may have to add more knowledge of photography in the future, Xu Jing thought secretly.

"Bang bang bang. Outside a small villa in Woodwood, Xu Jing exhaled deeply and knocked on the door.

In fact, Xu Jing is also quite worried about whether this trip can achieve the goal, the person he wants to visit is Stanley Kubrick, who can also be ranked in the top ten or even the top five directors in the history of world film, perhaps because of the age Many people do not know this name, but his works will be familiar to someone, such as the future trilogy "Dr. Strangelove", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange" and the horror film "The Shining", the war film "Full Metal Jacket" and so on are all classics in film history.

His work has influenced countless filmmakers, including Hollywood superstars George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Christopher Nolan as a big fan. For Xu Jing, who loves movies, there is no reason not to be full of respect for him, especially since Xu Jing also wants to borrow those two special camera lenses from him.

"Hello, Mr. Kubrick, it's a pleasure to meet you. When the door opened, a balding fat old man, with a gray beard and a pair of round-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose, appeared in front of Xu Jing, Xu Jing greeted: "I am Xu Jing from Huaguo, and I have contacted you before." ”

"Huaguo boy, I've been waiting for you for a long time, come in. Stanley Kubrick smiled and said.

When I entered his home, I saw that it was intricate, like a labyrinth, full of studios, offices, and rooms that could be used for both life and filmmaking, and the two seemed to be inseparable.

"This is the shot you want. After finding a place to sit and make a cup of coffee for Xu Jing, Kubrick put the two small suitcases in front of Xu Jing and said.

"Uh... Xu Jinghu, who was taking a sip of coffee, trembled for a while, and the coffee became tasteless.

Why? These two lenses are so special and legendary: they are the ZEISS Planar 50mm f/0.7 lenses.

In 1960, NASA invited Carl Zeiss to create the largest aperture lens ever taken, 50mm f/0.7, in order to cooperate with the Apollo moon landing program and photograph the far side of the moon. In the end, only 10 were released, and NASA took six that were used to take pictures of the dark side of the moon, Carl Zeiss kept one himself, and sold the last three to Kubrick.

Kubrick later modified two of them and fitted them to his camera to shoot the classic movie "Gone with the Wind". Through this ultra-large aperture lens, even some scenes illuminated by candlelight still shoot images with a texture like an oil painting.

These two lenses are not measurable by money, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are national treasures.

But now, just as soon as they met, he took it out and lent it to Xu Jing, how did this make him still have the heart to taste coffee? You must know that he is not a well-known figure in the West, and his only work "Killer" at this time is only in the promotion of the United Kingdom, not to mention the artistry of "Killer", even if it is released, this type of film is only for children for Kubrick, this is Spielberg's evaluation of him.

"Xu, did you bring your Killer?" said Kubrick just when Xu Jing didn't know what to say.

"Oh, bring it, Mr. Kubrick. Xu Jing came back to his senses, took out a copy of the full version of "Killer" from his bag and handed it over.

Speaking of which, when he first contacted Kubrick, it also surprised Xu Jing, because he only reported his name, Kubrick said, 'I know you', when he said that he wanted to borrow the camera, he didn't hang up the phone as he imagined, just asked him to bring the full copy of "Hitman" to him.

But even so, Xu Jing never thought that Kubrick would easily lend him the lens, and he was even prepared to be asked by Kubrick before coming.

"Actually, if you don't come to me, I also want to find a chance to ask you for the full version of "Hitman". Kubrick said.

"I don't quite understand, Mr. Kubrick. Xu Jing was a little surprised, as far as he knew, Kubrick was already tired of playing genre films, and said: "You know, "Killer" is just a genre film full of Hollywood flavor. ”

"Yes, it's been a long time since I've seen a commercial genre film, it was Mr. Allen who recommended 'Hitman' to me, and he saw it in Toronto, and he said it was interesting. Kubrick said, "You know, I'm a big fan of Mr. Allen. ”

As soon as he heard the name 'Allen', Xu Jing's body trembled again, he knew that this name was talking about Woody Allen, another great director.

Well, that's not the point, the point is that this big director will take fruit photos of her Korean adopted daughter behind his back with his girlfriend who has lived with him for 12 years in a few years, and even broke up after being discovered, and then directly married the adopted daughter and staged a "Lolita" drama alive. In the new century, he was sued by another adopted daughter to the court~ court, accusing him of breaking into her body when she was seven years old and trembling for a while.

There have been several lawsuits, regardless of whether the matter is true or not, if you often mix with these two great directors, what if there are good things to give the three of them the title of "Love ~ Tong Iron Triangle" in the future? Thinking of this, Xu Jing almost didn't get up and left.

I forgot to mention that Kubrick was the director of the first version of "Lolita", and it was from this film that Kubrick began to be bored with genre films, and then transformed into a giant director specializing in anti-genre films.