Chapter Forty-Nine: Matrix Digital

In fact, with a different lead actor and director, it will definitely be a different movie.

This will be a "The Matrix" that belongs to Chen Tiandu, a different "The Matrix", but it will be more exciting.

The change in costume style is only a small part of it, not to mention that Chen Tiandu's temperament is different from Keanu Reeves, and his performance style is also different. Keanu Reeves plays the appearance of Neo, the trench coat is too heavy, there are too many buttons, it looks too serious, and the rain behind the trench coat in the first part is simply an eyesore. It's also very restrained when fighting, and it can't be elegant.

He wanted to add a little more lightness and humor to the film. This is also the main tone of future blockbusters. In the future, those heroes can casually say a few humorous jokes, which are rarely seen in today's movies.

Yes, Chen Tiandu decided to play Neo, a role that is a good match for him. This cape is also a reference to the outfit of a popular Japanese anime protagonist: the hem is zigzag, and it is always in the wind. Neo's undershirt was also black, and he wore a white shirt with few buttons, and there were almost no traces of buttons, because they were connected by strips of netted cloth.

Some comic fans seem to call this kind of outfit "Death Bully Costume".

Anyway, it's cool, so why not be a little more stylish?!

Chen Tiandu came up with this design, and then asked a professional fashion designer to modify it and tailor it for him, before revealing the shape of the movie with the help of Vanity Fair magazine.

Of course, no one knows yet that this is the look of his next film. And after forming the crew, find a professional costume stylist, and modify the costume according to the plot to make the final makeup version.

Compared with his own character style, he has already made up his mind that the appearance of Trinity, played by Kate, is much simpler. Because Chen Tiandu saw the poster and compact video of her future movie "Legend of the Night", there is no more suitable for Kate than that black leather coat.

Styling is one thing, and Chen Tiandu doesn't quite agree with Keanu Reeves' performance. is basically playing handsome, with an expression that has not changed for thousands of years, and a beard that is so obvious all the time. If it grows, it's a big beard. This may have something to do with Keanu Reeves' age. Although it looks very manly, it has become an obstacle that restricts him from wielding other personalities. I know from watching his next few movies, with the popularity of "The Matrix", there are still things to do, but there are not many breakthroughs in acting.

Of course, Chen Tiandu has not seen all his subsequent movies, he only has a slight impression. Maybe it has something to do with the time when the mobile phone hit his head and he was unconscious, and he seems to have experienced the future world, which is plausible. Many people know about it, but they can't say why.

Chen Tiandu is younger than him, his body and muscles are better than him, and his personality can be slightly active. The portrayal of the characters does not need to be too obvious, and a few humorous lines suddenly come to a few insignificant places, which will give the audience unexpected gains.

And the most unbearable point is Keanu Reeves's skills, "Sure enough, foreigners playing Chinese kung fu are very disobedient." ”

In the original work, the Waldros brothers' desire for uncontrollable stunts is too obvious, and the use of slow motion to highlight the "fast" is too much, but not sleek enough. It shouldn't be too fast, and it shouldn't be too slow.

Both Morpheus and Neo, although they look chic in front of the deliberately highlighted special effects, cannot hide their stiff movements. The meaning of Chinese kung fu is obviously not on the show.

To this end, Chen Tiandu deliberately spared no traffic and searched for a lot of future information. He found a movie video clip that depicts kung fu movements very well, which is also a movie made by the master Sunglasses King more than ten years later, called "The Grandmaster". Inside, the battle in the golden building, the snow practice, the fight in the rain, the duel at the station, the street melee, etc., these scenes are all beautiful.

The fight of the king of sunglasses is not so cool, but there is a self-evident artistic conception in it, and people with a discerning eye will feel the difference at a glance, that is Chinese kung fu. But such pure kung fu is not suitable for the "Matrix", Chen Tiandu has an idea, he will combine the strengths of the two, and show Chinese kung fu to the extreme in this movie.

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There is already a net worth of half a billion, which is too much for a Chinese who came to the United States from a "barbarian country". Many people speculate that he will squander this huge amount of money and never have a second movie.

But Chen Tiandu's life has not changed, and he still rents the original apartment with Kate.

The media's attention to him gradually faded, and his refusal to cooperate was one of the important reasons. Except for the interviews of some important big media, such as "Vanity Fair" and "Los Angeles Times", the rest of them can refuse.

Some factions invited them, but all of them declined.

He's an outsider with more difficulties, and he knows that the ultimate decision on a film's success doesn't depend on how many pies you attend or how many magazine covers you get on, but on the film itself.

Therefore, after the promotion of the second phase of "The Sixth Sense", he was basically not seen.

Every day is busy, most of the time with the lawyer Donnie on the road. Kate knows he's working on a new movie, but she mysteriously doesn't let her know.

There are weekends in the United States, and Chen Tiandu certainly will not be a workaholic who only knows how to work. Sometimes I also get together with good friends such as Kate and Vin Diesel, occasionally hang out together, and live a peaceful life. During this time, he joined the Directors Guild (DGA), and although the itinerary was low-key, it was published by a gossip tabloid.

Then it wasn't until three months after the release of "The Sixth Sense" that he reported it again.

The reason for the report was that he spent two million dollars to buy a special effects company on the verge of bankruptcy and renamed it "Matrix Digital". His move was regarded by some tabloids as the first step to spend money, and as soon as he made a move, it was two million, and sure enough, the money came too easily without feeling distressed.

What kind of position special effects occupy in future movies, Chen Tiandu is probably the most aware one.

Hollywood's top special effects companies, of course, are industrial light and magic, digital fields, etc. But at present, Hollywood's special effects companies are living in a strange circle. They live in dreams, but they have to face the cold reality.

The film special effects industry has always been full of elites, fierce competition, and a success, behind the box office and scenery, there is a "time of life and death".

The cost of special effects continues to rise, but the price of film companies is very low, the directors and small companies continue to go bankrupt, and large companies continue to lay off employees. These are not obvious yet, but in a few years, the number of bankrupt special effects companies will skyrocket, and even Cameron's digital field will file for bankruptcy one day.

In fact, Chen Tiandu's best choice is to move Matrix Digital out of California now, just like Peter Jackson's Weta Digital, which is preparing for the filming of "The Lord of the Rings", in New Zealand, or some other tax-exempt countries and regions.

China? He wanted to build it there, but it wasn't realistic right now.

So for the time being, I still stay in California and accept the high taxes here while developing my company.

"This is the special effects company you bought?" Kate looked around curiously.

When I got up this morning, Chen Tiandu mysteriously told her that he wanted to take her to a place, but he didn't expect it to be here.

The first time I came here with Chen Tiandu, I saw the special effects company he has been busy with recently. In fact, it is a large factory, very wide. The largest hall is even capable of storing several large trucks. Some computer labs are behind glass rooms, with plastic mannequins, robotic arms, shooting areas, and many employees busy in front of a giant machine.

"Yes."

Chen Tiandu introduced: "Its predecessor was McCann & Jett Special Effects Company, which took over the special effects work of many film and television works. It has fifty-seven employees, no newcomers, and all of them are highly skilled veterans. The skills of the employees are not bad, and the labor contracts signed with the company are very suitable for my requirements. I searched for more than a dozen special effects companies, and this was the one that best matched my intentions. ”

He thinks it's worth it, and if it is exhibited for a few more years, I'm afraid he won't be able to buy it at ten times the price.

(Brother Tiandu has taken the first step in his rise, asking for votes)

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