Amid the gripping background music, the wind chasers begin to encounter a series of bad weather conditions, with lightning, torrential rain, hail, and the shadow of a few tornadoes from time to time.

"Nothing special," Virginia sighed at Sharp Horn Manor.

The next moment, the side of the picture cuts to an asphalt road that is raining rain, a violent tornado in the distance pulls up a series of telephone poles on the side of the road, sparks and lightning and the protagonist's exclamation, a family speedboat that was swept up by the tornado roars towards the camera, the close-up of the speedboat is getting bigger and bigger, and finally directly stretches out the black edge of the trailer, at that moment, everyone who sees this shot has the illusion that the speedboat is about to fly out of the screen and smash it at themselves.

"Wow," both Virginia and Joanna screamed as they leaned back, and even Eric, who was already prepared, couldn't help but make such a backward movement.

At the same time, countless families in North America who are tuning in to the Super Bowl are making noises of surprise or admiration in the backward movements.

But the audience who saw this scene didn't even have time to think about what was going on, the next tornado shot with countless pieces 'rushing' out of the TV screen had already firmly grasped their eyeballs, and in the last forty seconds of the trailer, the visual bombardment brought by the compact but not overflowing thrilling images had completely attracted everyone, and when the title of "Tornado" was played at the end of the trailer and the eye-catching release period on June 5, a large number of "frightened" viewers had a strong intention to watch the movie.

The title of the film and the time of its release freeze for two seconds, and when everyone thought the trailer was over, the TV screen went dark. The screen flickered. A farm tractor thrown out by a tornado rolls and 'rushes' off the screen.

"Bang-"

There was a loud glass crackling. Thousands of televisions have been smashed out of countless shocking 'cracks'.

Although I know in my heart that it is impossible, the first reaction in the mind of any viewer who sees this picture is almost all that their own TV sets have been 'smashed'.

"How did you make this shot?" "I don't know, if only I could play it again." "I was scared to death, I thought the TV was really smashed." "It's so fucking cool. I have to see this movie as soon as possible. "It's handsome, but it's going to be released in four months, oh my God, it's going to be a long wait." "I don't know when the screening will be held, maybe we can get a few tickets for a sneak peek. ”

As soon as the trailer was broadcast, countless living rooms were filled with all kinds of buzz, and even many people lost interest in the next Super Bowl game.

"Eric, how the hell did this come about? After the trailer was played, Virginia, who leaned next to Eric, asked this question for many people for the first time.

"The screen ratio of the TV is 4:3. However, the standard screen ratio in movie theaters is 16:9, and when the trailer is played on the TV, two black bars are added to the top and bottom of the screen in order to maintain the cinematic camera ratio, otherwise the content of the picture will be distorted. The trailer just now makes reasonable use of the two black edges, and through the modification of the computer CG, the yacht and the tractor are beyond the black bar limit, and the depth of field of different objects in the picture is increased, creating an illusion of flying off the screen. ”

Virginia nodded knowingly: "It sounds very simple, I thought it was amazing." ”

"A lot of things work very simple, and the plane just flies up with air lift during acceleration, can you make it?" said Eric, teaseing Virginia's delicate face. Although the principle of the trailer just now can be seen by many professionals at a glance, at present, in addition to the digital field, it is basically impossible for other special effects companies to produce the same effect in the short term, after all, in the whole of Hollywood, in the case of model special effects or the mainstream of film and television special effects, no special effects company will get hundreds of millions of dollars of funds specifically for the development of computer special effects technology.

In Universal's office building, the Super Bowl final has long been forgotten, and the trailer for "Tornado" has been shown for the fifth time in a row on the projection screen in the conference room.

"Kane, can your special effects department make a similar shot?" Michael Eisner asked the head of Universal's special effects department after playing it again.

Kane Pitman hesitated for a moment before shaking his head unwillingly: "Mr. Eisner, we can do the stunt part of the shot, but when it comes to the tornado picture, although we can barely do it, we will definitely not be able to do the kind of realistic Cheng dù in this trailer." ”

Michael Eisner's face remained unchanged and he asked gently, "What are the specific difficulties, briefly explain." ”

Kane Pittman smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Eisner, computer special effects are not complicated, many principles have been proposed by relevant scientists decades ago, and the key is all kinds of software and hardware and R&D investment. For example, one of the most important tasks of computer CG special effects is the material rendering after the model is completed, which is related to the realism of the picture, and I have a friend who happens to be in the digital field, and he told me that the computing power of the rendering farm used to process post-production in the digital field has even been able to rank among the top 50 supercomputers in the world, and this alone is not within the reach of only a few graphics workstations. ”

"If I give you enough money to update the hardware facilities you need, and in addition, you can poach some people from the digital field, how long do you think it will be able to catch up with the technical level of the digital field?"

"It's hard," Kane Pittman didn't hesitate this time: "Mr. Eisner, the scene of the destruction of the barn in the field in the trailer is, in my experience, not a live action, but a fully used CG picture, which involves complex dynamics. And it requires professional software tools to deal with it. At the moment, it seems. The digital realm has developed a full suite of sophisticated tools. If we do it from scratch, it will take one to two years, and it's unlikely that we'll catch up with the digital realm, because they're always working on new technologies. ”

Michael Eisner's brows furrowed slightly, since last year's "Terminator 2" stunning liquid metal machine Qì people, Michael Eisner has been keenly aware that in the future, special effects movies will become the mainstream of Hollywood movies. Films such as "Tornado", "Jurassic Park" and "Heaven and Earth" are all indicative of this trend, which is why Michael Eisner will pay so much attention to the trailer of "Tornado" tonight.

But now it seems that even understanding the crux of the matter is a bit powerless, because they have fallen far behind in the digital realm in time.

Although the digital field does not reject special effects projects from other film companies, everyone knows that as a special effects company in the hands of Firefly, the digital field will rank Firefly's film projects in the first place in any case. Only the idle human and material resources will be used for other companies' films, and. The digital realm is likely to be an important tool for Fireflies to woo or suppress other studios.

Michael Eisner's condensed face made everyone in the room cautious, and the silence lasted for nearly a minute before Kane Pittman, who had just been asked, spoke softly, "Mr. Eisner?"

"Huh?"

Kane Pittman also knows a little about Michael Eisner's entanglement with Eric, and after hearing his response, he said: "Actually, although the technical level of Industrial Light & Magic in CG special effects is not as good as that in the digital field, he has strong technical accumulation after all, and I think it is also the only special effects company in Hollywood that can compete with the digital field." ”

Michael Eisner nodded slightly, thinking quickly in his heart, he didn't have any friendship with George Lucas, but everyone knew that George Lucas and Spielberg were good friends, and now, Spielberg still owed a contract to seven films from Universal. If the pair can be pulled to the world, it will definitely go a long way in consolidating his position in the world.

Although Spielberg had a bad relationship with him because of his cooperation with Disney, Michael Eisner had already made up his mind to ease the conflict with Spielberg before taking office, and this clause was even written into a subsidiary contract by Panasonic, who also valued Spielberg.

To reconcile with a person, blindly currying favor often does not help, and the most important thing is to do what he likes.

In the conference room, after Michael Eisner came up with a psychological idea, one of the executives quickly thought of something.

Even before Michael Eisner's appointment, Spielberg had been working around the globe for the rights to a biographical adaptation of Schindler's Ark.

Schindler's Ark, which tells the story of Schindler's rescue of a large number of Jews in concentration camps during World War II, was bought by Universal in the early eighties, and Sid Sheinberg always wanted Spielberg to direct it himself, but Spielberg postponed the project until now due to various concerns.

But recently, Steve Ross, the CEO of Warner, who has a very close relationship with Spielberg, is getting sicker and sicker, and may die at any time, Spielberg has always felt that Steve Ross is very much in line with the image of Schindler in his heart, so he plans to shoot "Schindler's Ark" to dedicate to this elder.

After piecing together the cause and effect of the incident, Michael Eisner quickly decided to reconcile with Spielberg through the incident, and then contact George Lucas through Spielberg.

"Paul, give me all the information on Schindler's Ark, which I will see tomorrow morning, and, besides, inquire about Mr. Spielberg's favorite restaurant, and reserve a best seat for tomorrow evening. ”

Watching the assistant write down his instructions in a memo, Michael Eisner gently rubbed his temples before standing up and saying to everyone: "Okay, let's stop here today, everyone can go back and rest." ”

……

"I didn't think it would have been a good idea to put 'Dark War Prequel' on June 12, with 'Tornado' in front and 'Batman' in the back," said Jeff Peters, the president of Columbia, after seeing the trailer for "Tornado" in a luxury villa in Beverly Hills.

Compared with Michael Eisner's detailed discussion of the trailer of "Tornado" at the Universal Headquarters, Peter Cooper and Jon Peters in the villa are laymen at all, and the two run the movie completely by feeling, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is nonsense.

Even worse than Peter Cooper, who also had a college degree, was a man who was once just a Hollywood star hairstylist, with a rude temper and didn't even know a word. The fact that two people can climb to the helm position of one of the seven has to be said to be one of the 'wonders' of Hollywood in recent years.

Peter Cooper shook the red wine in his hand and said, "The schedule has been announced, and it must be too late to adjust the schedule." ”

"The investment in this film has been increased by Tom Cruise to 86 million, plus the publicity, at least 150 million in North America and 300 million worldwide to ensure that all the costs are recovered. ”

"What can we do, we can't just ask Firefly or Warner to move 'Tornado' and 'Batman' schedules, right?"

Jr. Peters thought hard for a while, then suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, have you heard of the recent Woody Allen scandal?"

Peter Cooper said: "Of course, it's so lively, how could I not have heard of it. ”

"How about we say we're going to give Eric Williams the same trick?"

Peter Cooper shook his hand in red wine and paused, then quickly shook his head: "No, for Eric Williams now, this trick is not very useful, he is now the owner of the firefly, even if he doesn't make movies, he can be his own billionaire in peace, but if he knows these things we do, hum, think about the fate of Michael Eisner." (To be continued......)