After a month and a half, the filming of "Juno" was completed, and the crew was disbanded. Bidding farewell to the quiet and beautiful town of Toronto, Nina Dubov reluctantly said goodbye to the baby, while the others returned to the United States. And Hu Yifei returned to Los Angeles with the filming results and the main creative staff of the crew.

Hu Yifei didn't let the baby go back alone this time, and stayed with him.

Scarlett's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and her parents are not used to living in the United States, so they have long since gone back. After Hu Yifei stayed at home for a few days, he went to work for the post-production of the film. At the same time, he handed Jeff his complete script for "Batman 2" and reminded him, "After review, I'm going to start work." ”

From time to time, go into the digital realm to see how well Transformers' special effects are working.

James Cameron seems to be particularly good at making classics, and his "Opposite Sex 2" is known as the best movie in the "Opposite Sex" series, with first-class feelings, thrillers, and plots. The first two parts of "The Terminator" directed by him, and the later "Terminator" series have been filmed a lot, but no one has ever surpassed them. Even action movies like "True Lies" have first-class rhythm and slow feelings.

Hu Yifei once carefully studied his films and analyzed them carefully. An important factor is derived, "Feelings, rhythm!" ”

He seems to be very sensitive to these by nature, so he can find the crux of the movie. There are many other questions, which are incomparable to ordinary people.

Now that Hu Yifei has James Cameron himself by his side, he will naturally not let go of the opportunity to ask for advice.

He took the time to write the script of "Transformers 1", which is different from the first part of the previous time and space.

Hu Yifei is actually not too satisfied with the former space-time explosion version of "Transformers 1", and the action is not hot enough. The rhythm is messed up, and the feelings only know how to show off their mouths and sexy, and it's just a bad plot that ruined the movie.

It is true that the protagonist of the movie is a huge silicon-based life, but the audience's sense of substitution still has to start with people. Otherwise, just go and watch cartoons, why bother making live-action movies.

And the battle scenes in the first part are also very narrow. is far less intense and exciting than in the later films. The appearance of various army weapons in the last section of "Transformers 2", and the special effects of high-rise buildings in "Transformers 3" constantly being crushed and broken all made the audience's blood boil.

Hu Yifei can be regarded as racking his brains to tell the story satisfactorily.

The first film in the series is a good starting point, even if he makes a popcorn movie with "explosive special effects blockbuster", he has to let the audience put their hearts and minds into it. If you want to shoot, you will shoot the best, and show the essence of the movie to the audience perfectly. As long as it wins the favor of fans, it is a good movie.

Now that the CGI model of Bumblebee has been made, Hu Yifei unfortunately clearly saw a humanoid Transformer standing on top of a huge metal pile in the huge computer group. The picture is rough and monotonous. However, the outline can be seen clearly.

"Boss, let me show you the CG synthesis special effects technology we have mastered so far." Dawn, the head of the Transformers module, introduced.

Now the picture in the CG animation is still relatively rough, and the colors are monotonous, so it is impossible for Hu Yifei to see too many things from it, and a lot of rendering is needed in the later stage.

"Boss, if we want to do rendering, I'm afraid we'll have to increase the size of the computer. Otherwise, it will take five or six months to finish. Hearing Daun's words, Hu Yifei was also shocked, you must know that the movies used in the digital field are already in the category of supercomputers, and they are so troublesome.

Under the operation of the technician, a three-dimensional virtual model composed of countless lines is displayed on the screen, without any color. The technician then orbits, walks, runs, etc., on the model.

"This is a model of our Optimus Prime, and its body is made up of more than 10,000 polygonal parts. You have to be extremely precise in coloring, and then you need to use it in the process of deformation to create as cool a look as possible,"

Technicians began to color Optimus Prime, which was made up of white lines, and Optimus Prime began to gradually appear in other colors, blue paint, red classic patterns, and heavy black logos...... Wait a minute. The model is also starting to gradually plump up, and it is no longer a bunch of lines.

This is rendering, and it's a special effects that takes a lot of time to complete.

If you don't know this line, it will definitely make you dizzy.

In short, even if Hu Yifei shoots now, it won't be released until the end of next year at the earliest.

In this way, Hu Yifei is not in a hurry. Slow work and careful work, he will wait until that day.

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And he doesn't have much time to worry about "Transformers" right now, Warner Bros. seems to be in a hurry. Hu Yifei's script was reviewed in seconds, and even a professional organization has begun to calculate the expected investment amount of the film, and when it is ready for preliminary preparations, it will start shooting on a later date.

It's just that Hu Yifei doesn't have much time to take care of "Batman 2" now, and everything will be talked about after Christmas, because "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is about to hold its world premiere.

Christmas file, a money grabbing war that is not inferior to the summer file.

The movie "Nativity", which is as taboo and hotly discussed as "The Da Vinci Code", was released, which was also to make money for believers, but unfortunately this one did not perform as well as it should, far less sensational than the release of "The Da Vinci Code".

There are also the blockbuster "Blood Diamond" directed by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly, as well as "007 Casino Royale", "Infernal Affairs", which is adapted from the classic Hong Kong movie, and the animated blockbuster "Happy Feet" and other movies were released to grab money, which made the popularity of the entire Christmas file surge.

Before that, there was also a martial arts court blockbuster from China "The City is Full of Golden Armor" held its premiere in Los Angeles, which brought together stars such as Zhou Yunfa, Gong Li, Zhou Capricorn, Liu Ye, and Lao Mouzi, which can be described as a star-studded town.

This "Zhang Yimou's third martial arts masterpiece" - "The City Full of Golden Armor" with giant breasts phalanx, eunuch choir, Naruto tightrope team, golden saint seiya group gymnastics, palette glazed pillars, and Gong pear's natural cups, etc., crossed the ocean and expeditioned to North America. The new picture company can be regarded as giving up a lot of money, hoping to become an instant hit in Los Angeles.

In a small range of 60 movie theaters, with an average of $8,000 per theater, the premiere box office of about $500,000 was grabbed. Compared with the fact that "Ambush on All Sides" earned about $400,000 in 15 theaters in North America during the same period, the first weekend revenue of "Full of Golden Armor" can be described as a significant regression.

Compared with the second episode of "Zhang Yimou's Martial Arts Trilogy" "Ambush on All Sides", which advanced to the Oscars two years ago, there is also a certain gap in the media comprehensive evaluation of "Golden Armor" B-. Although they include the A of the Chicago Tribune and the B+ of the New York Times, the sharp criticism of other authoritative media outlets, such as The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Post, Variety, Entertainment Online, and movie review websites, is very glaring. (To be continued.) )