"The new film "A Chinese Ghost Story" by the internationally renowned director Mr. Wang Zijun premiered at the Dashilar United Cinema in Beijing yesterday morning. Comrade Zhou XX, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture, and Comrade Li XX, Director of the Film Bureau, ...... Famous director Chen Kaige...... and so on to attend the premiere. In addition, Stephen Spielberg, an international director who has filmed "Jaws" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", also came from the United States to enjoy the film.

"A Chinese Ghost Story" is adapted from the original book "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" by the Qing Dynasty weirdo Pu Songling, which tells the ...... After the premiere, the film caused a huge sensation...... Vice Minister Zhou said that China's 5,000-year-long history and culture is a unique treasure of human civilization. Relying on the rich cultural heritage, Chinese films have a lot to offer......"

On the eve of the premiere of "A Chinese Ghost Story", more than a dozen mainland newspapers, including "Beijing Newspaper and Yangcheng Evening News", reported on the matter in the literary edition. is not only the text of the tofu block, but an entire literary edition is used to report on the incident, with stills as news pictures and a personal introduction to Wang Zijun. In these introductions, in addition to the previous cold rice, the global box office of "Titanic" is more than one billion US dollars, and Wang Zijun ranks second on the world's rich list.

Nowadays, the people of the mainland are not ashamed to talk about money, but are proud of making money, and the latter two pieces of news have really attracted the attention of countless readers. No one could have imagined that the world's richest people today are actually Yu himself and Chinese, and the third is American.

Wang Zijun suddenly became the idol of many entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in the mainland, and "A Chinese Ghost Story", which has not yet been officially released, is also highly anticipated, and theaters in some small places have taken the initiative to ask for a copy.

It's definitely hot before it is released!

Immediately afterwards, "Popular Movie" gave Wang Zijun an exclusive interview, and this issue also featured Wang Zijun as the cover character. In the interview, it can be seen that Wang Zijun has reservations about answering other questions, and often deliberately leads the topic to "A Chinese Ghost Story", which is well known to passers-by for advertising the film.

Of course, the mainland's professional film magazines were still very serious at this time, and they did not ask Wang Zijun about emotional topics like Hong Kong and Taiwan magazines.

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Citroen CX20 slowly drove into the gate of the Central Academy of Drama, and Wang Zijun was a little unhappy with this French car. The main reason is that after the introduction of Citroen CX20 by the central government two years ago, one batch was used for political axe official cars, and the other batch became Beijing taxis.

Although he withdrew from the taxi market soon after due to the high price of taxis, Wang Zijun still has the feeling of taking a taxi. Fortunately, I didn't encounter passers-by waving to stop the car halfway...... This car was bought from Beijing Youlian Taxi Company and used as Leyun's exclusive car in Beijing.

Looking at the exquisite campus of Chinese opera, Le Yun sighed: "I thought about being admitted to study before, but I didn't expect to finally come in today, and I was invited." Hehe, it's still the boss, I'm kind of stained with your light. ”

Wang Zijun said without interest: "The most annoying thing is the speech, this thing is a group of people listening to one person's nonsense." ”

Le Yun smiled: "It turns out that you are going to come here and talk nonsense." ”

"Whether it's nonsense or not, it's up to you to see what happens." Wang Zijun shut up in time, and the school's greeting team was in front of him.

A university as big as Chinese opera will naturally not do the kind of thing that organizes students to welcome them. After seeing Wang Zijun get out of the car, he smiled and walked over to shake hands with him: "Mr. Wang's visit to our school is really full of brilliance, welcome!" ”

"Wherever, it is my honor to be invited to be a guest of Chinese opera." Wang Zijun said with a smile.

When the two shook hands, several local media reporters in Beijing had already clicked the shutter.

Although there was no organization to welcome Wang Zijun, knowing that Wang Zijun was coming, there were not a few students and teachers who took the initiative to come to watch, and these people waved their hands to greet Wang Zijun from time to time.

The lecture was held in a large auditorium, and the current Department of Chinese Opera, Film and Television and Arts Management had not yet been established, so in addition to students from the Department of Dramatic Literature, Directing and Acting, even the Department of Stage Art also came to join in the fun.

Wang Zijun is talking about the use and development of film special effects today, and he also thought about it for a long time when choosing the topic.

Le Yun finished the slides, Wang Zijun coughed, his eyes swept down, and found that many celebrities in later generations were sitting down and waiting for him to speak, and said with a smile: "Thank you Dean Xu, I am very happy to be able to come to Chinese opera to give lectures to all elite students." In fact, what I'm most afraid of is giving lectures to people, and I feel like I'm misleading, and if all of you here learn badly one day, don't say that you learned from me......"

"Hahaha......"

After a very cooperative chuckle below, Wang Zijun continued: "Two days ago, Brother Chen Kai and Director Chen of Xi'an Film Factory once talked to me about a problem when we were having dinner together. He said that the special effects of "A Chinese Ghost Story" are very shocking, and science fiction movies such as "Star Wars" and "Titanic" are also known for their special effects. People are more and more fond of watching realistic special effects, and if this development continues, will it be good or bad for the movie itself? ”

"Of course it's a good thing!" Someone shouted from below.

Wang Zijun didn't blame the man for interjecting, and said with a smile: "I still read Max's writings, didn't Max say that everything has two sides of contradictions?" The same goes for movie special effects. To understand this question, let's first figure out what are movie special effects? ”

Wang Zijun gestured to Le Yun, who began to play the slides that had been prepared earlier: "The world's earliest use of film special effects was in 1902. What you are seeing right now is the world's first sci-fi film, which is 10 minutes long. The special effects techniques used by Méliès, the pioneer of cinema, are considered basic photographic techniques today, such as stoppage, overprinting, and double exposure. For example, when a shot is being filmed, he stops the camera, tells the actor to walk away, puts on a puff of smoke, and then turns the camera on, and connects the film before and after the shutdown to process it, which creates the special effect of the person suddenly disappearing. This technique is not surprising now, but at the time, it was a miraculous workmanship, and it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, although the length of the film was short, and it took the crew more than four months to shoot. ”

“…… With the development of technology, the special effects of the past have become the common filming techniques of today, and it can be said that the development of special effects technology has promoted the development of films. Now let's look at Mr. Lucas's Star Wars, which has several groundbreaking ......"

"These slides are my footage from the filming of Titanic, and you can see how the scene contrasts with the final picture. In this film, I tried my hand at using computer special effects technology for the first time...... The electronic computer is a great invention in the history of human science and technology, and with the continuous development of computer technology, computer special effects will become more and more common in film production. There is even a day when a movie does not need to be played by actors, and it may not be impossible to produce it directly with a computer......"

For more than two hours of the lecture, Wang Zijun has been talking about film special effects, from decades ago to the present, and then began to predict the future. Everyone listened to the previous content with relish, especially the students in the directing department who learned a lot of useful knowledge. But what is Wang Zijun talking about later, but no one can understand the computer special effects technology that is talked about - they don't even know what computer special effects are, and even the vast majority of people have never seen a computer at all, let alone its future application trend?

However, I have to admire some students, they actually recorded all those things they didn't understand in their notebooks, and some of them couldn't hear clearly and wanted to ask Wang Zijun for advice after the lecture.

Wang Zijun finally smiled and said: "I see that some students have already dozed off when they hear it, so let's ask questions freely." lest after the whole audience falls asleep, I don't have the face to come back next time. ”

As soon as I heard Wang Zijun say that he asked questions freely, everyone finally came to the spirit. The first student who was named and selected asked: "Director Wang, in your lecture, you said that computers will be popularized to thousands of households in the future, even more common than cars, can ordinary families of Chinese also have computers?" ”

Wang Zijun said: "Of course, first of all, scientific and technological progress has greatly reduced the production cost of computers. In addition, with the current rate of economic development on the mainland, I believe that in 10 years at most, most households in the mainland will be able to own televisions, and in 20 years, a large number of people will be able to own their own personal computers. As he spoke, Wang Zijun paused, "As you know, I have a personal computer company in the United States, and the stock price rose very quickly last year, so I am very confident in the development of computers." Of course, you can also think that I am advertising my own company. ”

After Wang Zijun's words were finished, a buzzing whisper sounded in the auditorium. It seems that Wang Zijun's good prediction of the mainland's economic development has made many students very excited. Television is still a rarity for ordinary families, and Wang Zijun predicts that most families will have televisions in the next ten years, which sounds a little unbelievable.

Another student asked: "Director Wang, when will your "Titanic" be released in the mainland?" ”

Wang Zijun said: "Maybe next year." ”

answered a few questions in a row, all of which had nothing to do with the content of Wang Zijun's lecture, perhaps because everyone didn't understand much. Until the last question, Wang Zijun specially picked a female student in a white shirt to get up and ask.

The female student was Gong Li, and she asked, "When will Director Wang come to the mainland to make a movie, and can we audition at that time?" ”

Wang Zijun said with a smile: "I don't have a plan when I will come, but a movie I have cooperated with Xi'an Film Factory is already a bit eyebrow-raising, and I think it's quite good for you to play the heroine." ”

"Wow!" There was an uproar in the auditorium, and many students of the acting department looked at Gong Li with envy, although they didn't know if Wang Zijun's words were mostly jokes, but this was enough to make them red-eyed.

(To be continued)