Chapter 101: The Digital Realm
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As soon as "Lucky Stars Shine" was painted, Golden Harvest couldn't wait to hold a celebration banquet for "Lucky Stars Shine" on the next floor of Lee Garden. As one of the directors and screenwriters of "Lucky Stars", Xu Cun naturally had to participate in this celebration banquet.
In addition to celebrating the brilliant achievements of "Lucky Stars", this celebration banquet also has a meaning - to celebrate Zou Wen's canteen. Zou Wenhuai has made an appointment with a few friends who are developing in Hollywood, and he will go to Hollywood in three days.
For Zou Wenhuai, who dared to go to Hollywood to fight for the Chinese people, Xu Cun was convinced from the bottom of his heart!
But Xu Cun admired Zou Wenhuai, but Zou Wenhuai was a little angry, Xu Cun stole him from the limelight - Zou Wenhuai has always been angry about Xu Cun's high-profile announcement that he would invest at least 100 million Hong Kong dollars to film "ET" in Hollywood. So much so that when he met Xu Cun for the first time, he had something to say: "Ah Cun is so courageous, he dared to go to Hollywood before he was twenty years old, and we old guys were compared to you!" ”
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the reason why Xu Cun announced in a high-profile manner that he would spend at least 100 million Hong Kong dollars to go to Hollywood to shoot "ET" is not to show off, but to promote "ET". As the helmsman of Golden Harvest, how could Zou Wenhuai not see it?
But it was precisely because he saw Xu Cun's purpose that Zou Wenhuai was angry in his heart - originally, he was also going to use this method to promote the movies made by Golden Harvest in Hollywood, but because he was a small step behind Xu Cun, he changed from a pioneer who dared to be the first to a follower who followed in Xu Cun's footsteps. How can Zou Wenhuai, who is extremely angry, be out of breath?
The old and sophisticated Xu Cun has a very thorough understanding of Zou Wenhuai's thoughts. Therefore, he pretended not to hear Zou Wenhuai's voice, and said: "I am also influenced by Uncle Huai, I heard that you are going to Hollywood to shoot a few movies, so I want to go to Hollywood to shoot "ET" to cheer you on, let's not let the beautiful G guy think that Uncle Huai is fighting alone, right?" ”
Xu Cun's words were high-sounding, so that Zou Wen had no place to be angry.
After being aggrieved for a while, Zou Wenhuai smiled and said: "Ah Cun, 100 million Hong Kong dollars is not a decimal number, do you need me to help you share part of it?" ”
After this co-production of "Lucky Star Gaozhao", Zou Wenhuai admired Xu Cun's ability to make money by making movies! Therefore, if Xu Cun is willing, Zou Wenhuai is really willing to invest money in Xu Cun to make a movie.
It's a pity that Zou Wenhuai is willing, but Xu Cun is unwilling - the reason why Xu Cun took the risk to go to Hollywood to make "ET" is to use "ET" to make a lot of money, how could he let Zou Wenhuai get involved in "ET"? Therefore, Xu Cun refused with a smile: "The spare money in my hand should be enough to shoot "ET", thank you Uncle Huai for supporting me as a junior, if there is a need, I will be the first to beg you." ”
Going to Hollywood to make a movie is no better than in Xiangjiang, where an unfamiliar environment, different cultures, and different beliefs may make a movie lose all its money.
Therefore, seeing that Xu Cun was unwilling to accept his investment, Zou Wenhuai did not insist anymore.
Xu Cun used the reason that the celebration banquet of "Lucky Star Gaozhao" was held by Jiahe, and did not bring women other than Hu Yizhong and Xixie Michiko. Therefore, this celebration banquet was a relatively relaxed experience for Xu Cun.
After the banquet, Xu Cun and Hu Yizhong and Michiko Nishikyo returned to the hotel where they lived and flew with them for half a night......
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Although he may have to face Lin Qingxia's post-autumn reckoning, Xu Cun also has to attend the awards ceremony of this year's Golden Horse Awards - DreamWorks' "Mr. Zombie", "The Wrong Car", and "Royal Sister" were all nominated for the Golden Horse Awards. In the future, DreamWorks movie stars will have to hate him to death as a boss!
This time, not only did he have to go to Taipei to receive the award, but Xu Cun was also preparing to go directly to Los Angeles from Taipei. Therefore, Xu Cunde determined the main creators of "ET" before going to Taipei.
After some thought, Xu Cun determined that the staff list of "ET" is as follows:
Producer: Xu Cun
Producers: Cui Baozhu, Tang Shuxuan
Director: Xu Cun
Assistant Director: Tang Shuxuan
Screenwriter: Xu Cun
Photography: Zhong Zhiwen, Huang Yuedai
American fingers: Zhang Shuping, Xi Zhongwen
Prop: Rivo
Soundtrack: Chen Xunqi
Lighting: Zhou Yongguang
Field note: Lin Zhengying
Special effects: Industrial Light & Magic, Stan Winston Studios, Digital Realm
This time he went to Hollywood to shoot "ET", making money is only one of Xu Cun's goals, and he also has another purpose - to lead DreamWorks out of Xiangjiang.
Xu Cun, who is familiar with the history of film, knows that Xiangjiang films were in rapid decline in the mid-90s. Therefore, Xu Cun, who didn't want to bury Xiangjiang movies, started to lay out now.
What is the future of cinema spelling?
If Xu Cun is only asked to give one answer, then Xu Cun can only answer 'special effects'.
Although Xu Cun's answer is not accurate, he can only give this answer as a reborn person, which shows how high the status of special effects will be in future movies.
Who is the best special effects team in the world?
Anyone who knows a thing or two about special effects will answer 'ILM'.
ILM was involved in the special effects production of the first Star Wars, providing visual effects services for more than 300 films. It has created many amazing CG and visual effects in many films, and it has created a new era in the film special effects industry, winning 15 Oscars for Best Visual Effects. ILM represents the top level of production in the film special effects industry, and its technical achievements are unparalleled.
When he decided to shoot "ET", Xu Cun was ready to cooperate with Industrial Light & Magic. For this reason, he asked Tang Shuxuan to help him contact Industrial Light and Magic early.
However, Xu Cun is not ready to completely hand over "ET" to industrial light and magic - after all, industrial light and magic is someone else's special effects team, can you live a lifetime by borrowing someone else's daughter-in-law?
Therefore, Xu Cun is ready to take the opportunity of filming "ET" to set up his own special effects team.
And Xu Cun's selected special effects team is Stan Winston Studios.
Stan Winston's studio is now just a little-known special effects studio. However, the digital realm that will evolve from it in the future is a special effects team that can wrestle with industrial light and magic.
As for the digital field that appears in "ET", it is not the digital field founded by Stan Winston and Cameron, but a nondescript special effects team composed of some young people who are good at makeup or have a talent for makeup recruited by Xu Cun from various universities in Xiangjiang and Taiwan, as well as Chinese computer experts and makeup experts recruited by Tang Shuxuan from various universities in the United States.
To be honest, Xu Cun is a villain in his bones, so Xu Cun, who lives the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, will never fully trust a group of foreigners.
Therefore, Xu Cun will build a digital field that belongs to the Chinese people regardless of the cost.
Of course, Xu Cun doesn't expect his digital realm to play a role in ET, and for now he just wants his digital realm to learn something from ILM and Stan Winston's studios.
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