Eric left the apartment of Quskoll and Christana Lorcan early in the morning, and returned to his residence on Sixth Avenue to fly to England with his two female assistants, but, presumably because he promised to go back last night but released two girl pigeons, Eric found that Caroline and Melanie actually had a cold war with him, although he did not deliberately ignore him, but when he talked to him, he looked like he was businesslike. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Melanie is okay, Caroline is really showing this state for the first time, looking at the little face that is deliberately tense but always with a little weakness, it makes Eric feel a little novel, so he also cooperates with the two girls and brings out the boss's shelf.

Private jets still take off from MacArthur Airport in the middle of Long Island, and the planes enter the clouds to begin the long journey that lasts more than a dozen hours.

Nonchalantly and Melanie flipped through the papers in the middle lounge of the plane, until after lunch, Caroline finally couldn't help but look in the direction of the front cabin, where the luxurious suite on the plane was.

"May, you say, shouldn't we snub Eric, he, he's our boss after all."

Melanie shook a script in her hand, but it was "Iron Man": "Carly, how do I feel, you are simply Pepper next to Tony Stark, staying by the boss's side without abandoning, watching him mess around, and then cleaning up the mess for him." ”

Caroline has naturally read the script of "Iron Man", and she occasionally helps Eric with lines these days. She actually felt in her heart that Eric was very similar to the guy in the script, well, could it be that the female assistant he wanted to look like Pepper in the script, but it was really embarrassing to help him send the woman after the ons.

Melanie looked at Caroline's flickering eyes, helplessly rolled up the thick script in her hand and knocked on the door of her head, and said, "Okay, go to the front cabin to see your boss, I really can't do anything about you." ”

Caroline saw Melanie's extremely disappointed look, and subconsciously shook her head: "Then, then I won't go." ”

"Go, go," Melanie waved her hand again, and then simply stood up, "Let's go, I'll be with you." ”

"But," Caroline hesitated again, "for what reason shall we pass?" ”

"I've saved up a lot of things in the past few days, where do I need a reason."

With that, Melanie pulled Caroline to the presidential suite in the front cabin.

Although the space of the presidential suite in the cabin is not large, the layout is very complete. After some searching, Melanie and Caroline found in the study that they were engrossed in a sheet of eight

Eric with something drawn on the manuscript paper.

Without immediately disturbing him, the two women carefully sat down on the sofa next to them, and found that there were already a few drawn drawings on the coffee table in front of them, and they naturally approached them curiously.

At first glance, this should be the concept art of the movie, but the style is extremely detailed, whether it is the space station or the astronauts. Even, several thin cables on the screen connect the two astronauts with the space station fragily, making the two women involuntarily worry about the two astronauts in the picture, who are obviously in danger.

After savoring the painting in front of her, Melanie glanced up at Eric, she wanted to open the top painting to see what the next few paintings were, but she was worried that the sound of the paper turning would disturb Eric.

Caroline then looked up as well, only to meet Eric's turning gaze and dodge.

"I said how I smelled the girl's scent, it turned out to be the two of you."

Listening to Eric's joke, Melanie couldn't help but roll her eyes, and said in her heart that she had just admired you a little bit more, and her true nature was revealed in a blink of an eye.

Caroline hung her head with a blushing face, pinching the corners of her clothes and wondering if she should use Melanie's perfume as well. She's not used to wearing perfume.

Seeing that the two girls did not speak, Eric put down the pencil in his hand, turned the swivel chair to face this side, and said, "Okay, I apologize first, I shouldn't have promised to go back last night, but I released your pigeons." ”

Caroline subconsciously shook her head and didn't say anything. Melanie said, "Eric, you really should apologize, Carly prepared dinner for you last night." ”

Melanie didn't say too much, but Eric could imagine Caroline's disappointed appearance, so she looked at the girl, and Eric said again sincerely: "I'm sorry, Carly, I promise not to do this again, well, I'll prepare today's dinner, which is compensation for last night." ”

"No, it's okay, Eric." Caroline shook her head again, and the wisp of gloomy light that had begun last night between her eyebrows disappeared without a trace.

Melanie next to her had a strange face, and due to some preconceived notions, she felt that the scene in front of her was like an unobtrusive father coaxing his simple silly daughter: Na, Daddy won't smoke anymore, Daddy won't drink anymore, Daddy won't go out to fool around anymore.

Melanie didn't think it was her own imagination at all, for her own father had often said these things to her before, and of course, it had never been realized.

As Eric and Caroline talked, noticing the strange look on Melanie's face, he asked curiously, "May, what's wrong with you?" ”

"It's nothing," Melanie quickly put away her thoughts, shook her head, and instead pointed to a few paintings on the coffee table in front of her: "Eric, are these the scenes from Gravity?" ”

Eric nodded, took the one he had just finished on the desk, sat down on the sofa opposite the two women, and said, "How do you feel?" ”

Melanie looked at the one Eric had just put down, it was a picture of a woman curled up in a space capsule like a baby, and Melanie could even feel the loneliness and despair of the woman in the picture.

"That's great," Melanie said, no longer scrupling, and together with Caroline, she looked at the concept drawings drawn by Eric one by one, and then exclaimed, "Eric, if you draw more, I guess you will be able to open an exhibition." ”

"Oh, thank you," Eric replied with a smile.

Melanie said, "However, Eric, do you think these pictures can really be perfectly presented on the big screen now, not to mention anything else, it is not so easy to perfectly represent the weightless scene." According to the idea in your memo, this film basically takes place entirely in space, and it is impossible to rent NASA's weightless simulator to shoot like the "Apollo 13" two years ago. ”

For ordinary audiences, after watching an excellent movie, they will basically only judge the movie from the actors' performances, movie lines and storyline, but for directors, the first thing they consider is basically, how did such an awesome movie come out?

As a person who has always wanted to become a film director, the former Eric is naturally no exception, when he first watched "Gravity", Eric was excited, and the first thing he considered was how the film director completed those tricky long shots, and how to solve the problems that weightlessness and other space movies can never avoid. In the Internet era of the information explosion in later generations, it is naturally easier to understand these questions.

Hearing Melanie's question, Eric confidently explains: "First of all, the feeling of weightlessness is roughly a feeling of floating that is completely unpulled by force, and usually, because the photographer has to shoot these shots on the ground, the only way to achieve this sense of floating is to hang the actor on Wia, or like Apollo 13, to spend a lot of money to create a real weightless environment." ”

Melanie and Caroline still looked a little dazed, obviously not understanding much, so they had to wait for Eric to continue.

Eric also thought for a moment and said: "However, people's visual perception is actually easy to deceive, and if you want to achieve that weightless floating feeling, you only need to adjust the relative displacement between the camera and the actor, giving people a feeling that they are completely untouched by gravity, so that you can simulate a realistic weightless environment." ”

Melanie and Caroline are both very smart, Melanie also raised her two hands and slowly gestured in front of her a few times, then nodded: "That's true, but Erik, do you think any photographer can carry a camera over thirty pounds to make any lens changes at will?" ”

Melanie said, raising her right hand and moving it around the angle a few times.

Eric shook his head with a smile and said, "Of course not, but I didn't say that the photographer would control the lens himself this time, by the way, have you ever seen an automotive equipment workshop?" ”

The two women shook their heads together.

Eric had to explain out of thin air: "You should have seen some sporadic news pictures or pictures, I'm talking about those automatic robotic arms used in car assembly, as far as I know, some precision robotic arms, after setting the trajectory, The final error will not even exceed 0.1 mm, so if I want to achieve the relative displacement of simulated weightlessness, I only need to find two of these precision robotic arms, set the relative displacement trajectory, one to operate the camera, the other to support the actor to perform, and then cut off these robotic arms in the later stage, with the CG scene, it is the perfect space shot. ”

Although it was still a little impossible to imagine this kind of shooting method, Caroline and Melanie did not doubt it much, after all, among the three people present, Eric was the most professional one.

However, Caroline still asked curiously: "Eric, in this case, this movie is almost all CG, right?" ”

Eric naturally knew why Caroline asked this, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, however, many CG pictures are large panoramas, in CG production, the more distant panoramas, the lower the production cost, because they don't need too fine modeling and rendering, so the cost of this movie is not too high, as long as some of the technical difficulties are solved, the production cost can be easily controlled at about 100 million US dollars." ”

100 million US dollars, although it was still a high-cost production in 1997, and there were still only a handful of Hollywood films with an annual production cost of more than 100 million US dollars, but for a top director like Eric who has produced two blockbusters with a box office of 1 billion in a row, even if he is not the boss of the Firefly Group, and now he asks for a production budget of 200 million, there will still be film companies lining up to send the money.

After staying in Hollywood for a long time, Caroline and Melanie can naturally think of many problems that need to be solved in order to make "Gravity", but through Eric's explanation just now, they are also extremely confident that Eric can solve all these problems, so they no longer mention the film, and move on to other topics.

"Eric, I've watched all the materials of several major theaters in North America with Carly in the past few days, and we feel that if it's just to promote 3D movies, Firefly is not suitable to enter the theater industry with too much fanfare."

"Well, what do you think?" Eric asked, smiling.

Melanie looked at Caroline, whose eyes were shining, in fact, many of the opinions were brought up to her by this Nizi first, but Caroline estimated that it would be difficult for Caroline to change this shy in front of Eric, so she had to say to herself: "If Firefly enters the theater industry, small theaters will definitely not be able to meet the company's appetite, the top three theaters in North America now have a total of more than 14,000 screens, and they are basically high-end theaters in the area, so Firefly can only initiate acquisitions from these three." However, once Firefly does this, it will definitely cause a strong backlash from other Hollywood studios, and they will definitely not let Firefly control the screen of thousands of lots, so whether we launch an acquisition of any of the first three, the possibility of passing the antitrust investigation is very slim under the joint opposition of other studios. ”

Eric thought for a moment and nodded, "Anything else?" ”

Melanie continued: "Also, it's about promoting 3D movies, and I don't think we need to do that just to promote 3D movies. Most of the theaters under the top three theater chains are multiplexes with more than five screens, and we can't buy them and change all the theaters to 3D screens, so I think that at least in the United States, we can take a cooperative approach, invest a sum of money in these theater chains, get some shares, and select a number of theaters in the best locations to transform them into 3D theaters, so that we can not only realize the plan to promote 3D, but also not cause antitrust problems. (To be continued.) )