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Edward Norton, editor of "Los Angeles Economic Journal" magazine, directly used "Life Remote Control" as a foreshadowing to promote this movie:

"The 'Charming Man' Captain Jack has undoubtedly become one of the few classic screen images under the trend of "new century neutral aesthetics", while Orlando Bloom, the "Elf Prince" who turned blacksmith, and Keira Knightley, who was born as "Queen Amidala's double", have all shown the unique beauty of medieval European style.

Like comparatively, the so-called 'Oriental Art Style' movies that were hyped up before because of "Life Remote Control" are really not worth one, "Pirates of the Caribbean" will tell all Shijie what is Hollywood's boutique and what culture is the mainstream of Shijie~~

I'm very disgusted with fan movies that have been affected by the boom in the tech industry, but fortunately, American audiences are sensible, and the freshness brought by cross-border people like Li Xiaole has gradually faded, and everyone has finally returned to the mainstream of movie aesthetics! ”

This extremely tendentious article has been sought after by the industry, and fans have also compared "medieval European style" with "Oriental art style", and the result is, of course, a one-sided fiasco of "Life Remote Control".

The website of the good thing copied this post to Li Xiaole's Facebook message reply, and many people expressed their approval of it, and Ha Zhiyuan, who was far away in China, was also angry after seeing this message, and couldn't help but fight back against this jump message on Li Xiaole's Facebook:

"Fiasco~~You stupid melons~How can a movie with a cost of 30 million be compared with a cost of 200 million~! If Li Xiaole has a cost of 200 million US dollars, he will definitely be able to make a more Haode movie than "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Soon, someone below replied, "Come on, buddy...... It is impossible for United States to shoot a movie of 200 million in a lifetime. ”

"I think there is still hope for Li Xiaole to invest 100 million in the movie, just like "Mission Impossible 2" back then, as long as Tom Cruise joins ......"

"This is unrealistic, now Tom is not what it used to be, I bet that unless Apple spends 100 million on product placement to shoot science fiction films, Luen Mei will never be able to have a big production of more than 100 million."

In the midst of another singing and declining, iPhone sales are getting better and better, Li Xiaole's photos appear more and more frequently in IT magazines, and everyone's evaluation of him is gradually tending to him as the successor of Jobs, rather than a film and television director.

At this time, Li Xiaole has completed the preparation of the crew of "The Walking Dead", and the actors are fully assembled and have begun to officially receive pre-training.

Li Xiaole and Andrew Lincoln, Wu Yan, Steven Yuan, Norman Reedus, these powerful people in the "Rick Squad" first talked about the exchange of role analysis, and then accompanied them to a month of classes, including horseback riding, crossbow, shooting, physical fitness, and wilderness survival training.

It's not difficult, but it's necessary. This way, on the one hand, can consume their body fat and make them look thinner, you must know that people who are chased by zombies around in the last days have no reason to be fat, on the other hand, because they all have hand-to-hand combat with zombies, they use crossbows and daggers for a long time, and the feeling of pretending to be is very far from that of real professionals.

Frankly speaking, the standards of these American actors are very high, and Li Xiaole can understand it with a little bit of dialing, and the crew will quickly become synthetic.

At the same time, the crew of "The Walking Dead" spends money like water, and the budget has begun to run out, although there is an investment of 12 million per episode, but the consumption of 1,03000 extras to play zombies makes the already stretched situation even worse.

"Is it possible to reduce the number of extras and make up for it with a multi-camera approach? The price offered by the union is too high. Mina asked Li Xiaole at a loss, everyone wants to make good works, but the investment is limited.

"Mina, you have to use your brain to be a director." Li Xiaole smiled and pointed to his head: "Who said that extras have to find the extras union?" Can we find a free one? ”

"Where's the free?" Mina is confused, who will come to work day jobs these days?

"You go and continue to organize the work of the special effects makeup department, and leave this to me." Li Xiaole said softly, Mina walked out of the door, and after thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't figure out how to find free extras.

In fact, Li Xiaole's method is very simple, in order to find an actor to play a zombie, he organized a public audition event with great fanfare. He sent out an invitation on Facebook at the same time as Jobs, hoping that people who like to play zombies will make a cameo appearance in the series, which will not only save the cost of extras, but also invite real fans of the original comics, and even his own fans as a promotional selling point.

You must know that in the original book, all the zombies who come to guest appear are not extras but ordinary people, because in a country like the United States, where the social welfare mechanism is quite sound, there are quite a few idlers who want to have fun every day, if they can make up as zombies, it is a very cool thing for them, just like going to a party, not to mention that they can also show their faces on TV.

What's more, these volunteers will brag to their friends and relatives because of this special experience, so inviting a zombie fan to make a cameo is equivalent to winning at least two or three families of audiences, which is a second trick for the original "The Walking Dead" promotion.

After Facebook sent out the invitation, it received a great response within three days, not only in New York, but also in the United States, and the three major "zombie research associations" in the West Coast all pinned Li Xiaole's Weibo message on their websites, and in two weeks, a total of more than 21,000 people signed up for this volunteer work by email.

So Li Xiaole conducted an unprecedented audition, in a format that really looked like "American Idol", and he recorded their zombie walking and biting movements, and finally selected a shortlist of 5,120 people.

It didn't cost a penny to gather thousands of extras who could be called up at any time, and this result made many producers in the station amazed, and they all sighed and thought, why didn't I think of this solution? The extras fee is saved, and people can do word-of-mouth publicity for free! Kill two birds with one stone~

"Our boss really has such an idea, is he single?" Nicole, the reception lady on the first floor of the company, looked at the endless stream of people who would sign up tomorrow, and admired Li Xiaole, the new boss, and kept recommending herself to Mina: "Mina...... You see if the boss still needs an assistant, you have a chance to recommend me~~"

"No, he doesn't need an assistant...... Mina hurriedly shook her head, she didn't know that Weishenme was going to lie to Nicole, in fact, she also felt that the atmosphere of the company had changed in the past few days, such a big investment, such a clever strategy, so that the dull air in the company became energetic, and now everyone in the pirate TV company has hope written on their faces, and their work is a lot more active, which is completely unprecedented in the era when Watt was in power.

Mina knew that all this was because of the arrival of Li Xiaole, he brought not only investment, but more importantly, gradually injected a temperament into the company, a vigorous Xiangshang temperament, the people of the company are like a pirate ready to go, and they are eager to follow Li Xiaole, the captain, to go to sea to show their skills.

However, not everyone likes Li Xiaole, after learning the news, the special effects makeup team invited by Mina complained internally, and the 52-person special effects makeup team led by special effects master Glenn Hertrek felt incredible after knowing that they had to transform at least hundreds of different zombies every day.

"I really don't know what this director is thinking? weishenme wants to invite so many extras, we can use the same actor to wear different makeup to play different zombies~!? Didn't he know that we needed a different size of wrap for each actor? ”

Gran touched the small amount of long hair on the top of his head, and the goatee on his chin trembled with anger, if it weren't for a special invitation from the union, he wouldn't have come to take on this kind of crappy TV show job, he had never met such a pompous director in "The X-Files", "Deadly Magic", "The Second Coming of Christ", "Heroes", and "Crime Scene Investigation".

"Uncle Gran, please~~ Our boss is also begging for kindness, you can help more, this is my first directorial work." Mina could only plead bitterly in the face of this situation, Gran was her mother's best friend, and she watched her grow up, and this time she begged this Uncle Gran to help.

"I don't know what kind of Ecstasy he poured on you...... You still treat this kind of tattered zombie movie as a baby. Gran frowned and shook his head, helplessly, in fact, he could only scold in private, since the work contract had been signed, any director requested, their team had to complete it.

In the end, Gran still made a compromise and let this huge special effects makeup team make 50 sets of zombie makeup, and on the first day of filming, the special effects makeup team finished the makeup of the extras, watching the 50 zombies walk around, several of them were excited and started dancing, and the atmosphere of the crew seemed terrifying and joyful.

Li Xiaole frowned and looked at these triumphant makeup artists, he was really unhappy, he had told them before, to be realistic, to be realistic, not to be terrifying, these people are still desperately painting makeup so terrifying...... And the effect seems to be much worse than he imagined? The color, the texture, and the feeling of the blood are all a little fake, what's going on.

"Gran, come here." Li Xiaole beckoned to Gran with a calm face.