In the busy filming, time always flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the end of May 1991, and "Unforgiven" has been completed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the whole movie has been used for fully enclosed shooting under the protection of the Blackwater mercenaries, there is not much worth paying attention to, and eye-catching things have been exposed, but the attention received has not decreased at all, and it can be said that it is all because of Caesar.

In Higashimu's words, the cameo role is secondary, and Caesar's first shot is the key to detonating the topic.

Since Caesar's appearance in the entertainment industry as the author of "Garfield", he has exploded with amazing energy and talent in the fields of comics, animation, novels, games, music, screenwriters, directors, actors and even producers, and now he has entered the cast of "Unforgiven" as a cinematographer, although it is not an obvious crossover, but it is still seen as a challenge.

What's more, Caesar himself agrees that this is a challenge, because sitting in front of a monitor is a completely different feeling than standing behind a film camera and looking at the performance area.

The screenwriter is the first creator, whether it is an original script or an adapted script, a story that can impress producers and investors is the basis for the establishment of a film project.

Of course, some extreme cases are not within the scope of this basic framework, such as: for the script "Heaven and Earth Heroic Bear", which director Heping has written for ten years, his mentor Professor Zheng Dongtian has something to say. can be said in the vocabulary we are used to, it is a miracle that this film can be invested, it is a miracle that it can be released, and it is a miracle that Douban sauce has a score of more than six points. In Professor Cheng's words, it's a shit-like story.

Actors are secondary creators, and they recreate the screenwriter's text with character performances and dialogues.

Some vase-type actors and actresses, although their acting skills are like shit, but that is also a second creation, after all, creation is also divided into levels, and the creation of garbage can of course be said to be creation with a shy bear face.

A good cinematographer will implement his own in-camera creation according to his own understanding of the script and characters, combined with the director's understanding of the script and the overall elaboration of the director's lens.

To give two examples, one is "Sunny Days", which we have repeatedly exemplified, and this film is a typical cinematographer leading the audience along as the main narrator of the story. Another example is Perfume: A Murderer's Story, in which the filmmaker Stanley ? Kubrick, after reading the original novel, once bluntly said that this is a work that cannot be restored to its essence with film.

Because the soul of this novel is taste, but "how to use color, use the lens to express or even explain the taste?" "This has always been one of the ultimate problems in the world of photography.

However, Perfume: A Murderer's Story does it, or does it partially, because not everyone agrees with the film's expression of smell through the camera.

In fact, the artistic attainment of this film is put aside, and there is still a great controversy in the critics about the expression of the taste of the camera.

The cinematographer is arguably one of the most important people working in a film, and through the above two simple examples, it can be said that the cinematographer is much more important than the director and actors in some subjects or a separate film.

Sadly, however, photographers most of the time have no creative status, no salary status, and no legal provisions to protect their rights.

Especially in Hollywood, cinematographers don't have any say in the post-production process, especially when it comes to adjusting the overall tone of the film and cutting and editing the shots.

Many times, the cinematographer can only swallow the most personal or creative inspiration scenes that he thinks are the most personal or creative inspiration in the whole film.

Even some photographers will be stripped of their right of authorship after the protest, and there is no legal provision to defend their rights, and the subsequent retaliation is that they will not receive scripts and notices for several years.

Famous photographers may get a short-term ban, and if they are not well-known young photographers, they may have to change careers.

In Hollywood, if the director doesn't have the editing rights, then the editor, that is, the producer, is the final creative link. As a result, some directors will refuse to admit that the finished film is their work after the release of the film, thus giving birth to the director's cut version after the DVD is released.

In other words, on the Hollywood film production line, there are actually three kinds of works:

First, the cinematographer-led work, although many times the director and the producer will not recognize the huge role of the cinematographer.

Second, the producer's work, which is actually the most mainstream production method of Hollywood commercial films, that is to say, the editor is actually the final creation under the instruction or guidance of the producer or a specific producer.

Like Harvey? Weinstein, this product often works as a producer for the final processing of some director's works, and then packaging it has become a weapon for his public relations theater and Oscar judges...... I have to say that this obscene fat man's ability in this regard is unique to Hollywood.

Third, directorial works, this kind of film is not mainstream outside of Hollywood, at least it is not as good as Hollywood producers.

Take Hong Kong films as an example, most of the time, independent producers full of creative personality and assembly line productions of major studios are parallel. Putting aside the founders of Hong Kong films led by Lai Man-wai and Cheung Cheh, just saying that this relaxed creative environment gave birth to directors with high-contrast styles like Wang Jing and Wong Kar-wai, which are not comparable to ordinary countries and regions, not to mention that Johnny To, Tsui Hark, John Woo and other people sandwiched between the two make Hong Kong's style diverse and extremely full.

Having said all this, it is by no means a digression, because Caesar's first shot is significant and will become more and more important over time.

First of all, Caesar joined the crew as a cinematographer, so that the entire Hollywood photographers and would-be cinematographers focused their eyes on the Fox studio.

Caesar's photographic skills are set aside, and the photographers are concerned about what kind of rights Caesar has.

Some people may say that with Caesar's status, he has whatever rights he wants, and even has the power to appoint and dismiss anyone in the crew.

This is both true and incorrect.

That's right, because Caesar does have this power, and it can be said that in addition to the fact that the director can't be changed [because this is written on the contract], Caesar can change whoever he wants, and Dongmu will support it unconditionally.

That's not right, because Caesar wouldn't do that.

Because of the rules of the industry, Caesar joined the crew as a photographer, not a producer. Since he is not a producer, he does not have any personnel appointment and dismissal powers, and unless the producer explicitly gives this personnel authority to Caesar or the director in the contract, this rule must be followed.

Some people will say that rules are set up to break them...... To be honest, the person who can say this kind of thing is either not deeply involved in the world and accompanied by severe secondary disease, or he is drunk and talking nonsense after receiving some major stimulation.

From Xitele to tearing up the forest, from sprinkling the eldest mother to Benla lantern, from saying this to the tragic death of the person who did this thing, and the whipping corpse of the whipping corpse, none of them had a good end.

The reason why Hollywood is Hollywood and has become the strongest firepower of American cultural export is because of the overt and implicit rules that firmly stabilize this industrial chain.

The rules are not unchangeable, but they must be non-destructive, gentle and natural.

For example, the producer or casting director has unspoken rules, actresses have rules, at least the actress you choose must meet the producer's requirements for the characters, and secondly, the acting skills must meet the standards.

The script says that the female number two asks for a black woman of twenty-seven or eighteen, but a casting director chooses a white woman in her early twenties for the unspoken rules, which is a typical search for smoke.

Photographers who have at least one signed work in Hollywood are certainly not fools, so they have not taken their eyes off Caesar's position as photographer since the moment it was revealed.

Has Caesar's clipping suggestion been recognized? Or to put it bluntly, does Caesar have the right to participate in editing? How much does he get paid as a photographer?

These two questions are the ultimate questions that have been plaguing cinematographers throughout Hollywood.

You know, "Wake up earlier than the chickens, sleep later than the chickens" is a good description of Hollywood photographers, and the job of a cinematographer is first and foremost a manual labor before it is a lofty artistic job.

I don't need Baidu to open my mouth to come here with the remarkable female directors in the world film industry: Xu Anhua, Bigelow, Coppola.

What about female photographers? If you don't allow Baidu, you'll be lonely.

It's not any sexistness, it's just because the photographic equipment is too heavy, not counting the "Steadicam", a photographic stabilizer inspired by the dynamic balance of a tank, just a general film camera, depending on the model and use, the lightest is five kilograms, and this is still a portable one specially made because of the need to carry the equipment to run and shoot, etc.

Carrying five kilograms of equipment to follow the Omaha beachhead landing test can easily make a 30-year-old man in the prime of life exhausted and prostrate, not to mention the innate disadvantage of women in strength.

Maybe with the great progress of science and technology, more female photographers will emerge after the gradual ultra-lightweight of photographic equipment? But at present, it seems that many professions, including cinematographers, have innate gender discrimination, or gender screening, that are not subject to human will.

On the premise of such heavy physical labor, it is also accompanied by high-speed mental activity during filming, and the remuneration may be only a fraction of that of the actors and directors...... Caesar's camera is even more significant.

This is probably something that the management of Twentieth Century Fox and other Hollywood giants, and even Caesar himself, did not expect in advance.

It is said that crying children have milk, but the photographers cried so many times and did not get any of the results they wanted, because in the eyes of the producers, the photographer is always just a technical job that can be replaced at any time, rather than treating directors and actors as artists.

In a way, under the light of film actors and directors, the social status of cinematographers is not as good as that of those graphic photographers of photography magazines.

Before the media interviewed many cinematographers appeared in the newspapers, Caesar was also fascinated by the cognition of his previous life, and completely ignored the overall survival status of the photographer.

Because his own royal photographer Pitt, although he does not have the luxury of editing participation, his salary is absolutely the best in the world film industry.

Caesar's name of generosity to his own people can be said to be thunderous in the entertainment industry.

After the finale banquet, in the face of the media's questioning, Caesar asked a bunch of questions before he figured out what his camera meant to all the photographers.

Eschewing the relentless reporters, the first thing Caesar did when he returned to his villa in Beverly Hills was to call Pete and ask about some of the recent events in the photographers' circle.

Then, naturally, the ASC (American-Society-of-Cinematographers) organization appeared in Caesar's sight for the first time.

However, this association may seem like a union, but in reality it is an honorary association that is more important than practical, and its members only accept top photographers with at least five years of experience as a director of photography.

Moreover, this association has strict requirements for the professionalism and character of its members, and members who break out major stains or scandals will be expelled from the membership, this moral cleanliness dogma is a bit like the purpose of the Caesar Club, and I am afraid that this is one of the important reasons why Caesar pays attention.

Although ASC has also been involved in labor disputes between cinematographers and producers, it is ultimately considered to be a more prestigious organization than a profit.

And looking at the whole country, none of the other cinematographers' unions are qualified to wrestle with Hollywood's big studios.

All this eventually led to the increasingly embarrassing position of photographers, and until 2017, when Caesar was in his previous life, that is, our timeline, the status of photographers did not change in any way, but became more and more embarrassing with the rapid development of digital technology.

Originally, as the owner of Twentieth Century Fox, one of the only six remaining giants after the reshuffle, Caesar had no position to speak for the photographers, all he could do was to pay more for his own photographers represented by Pitt.

However, when he became involved in the production of the film as a photographer himself, Caesar found himself suddenly on fire.

Everything came so abruptly and naturally, it reminded him of the New Year's party when he was in elementary school in his previous life, and somehow he was "shelved" on stage and sang a song......

Although he had a fight with the one who took the lead afterwards, the fact that he couldn't help singing a song made him linger for a long time.

As a man who has lived a devil-killing demon since he was a child, the most difficult thing for Caesar to accept is to lose control.

However, the trick of "kidnapping" with the power of the masses was one of the few tricks that Caesar could only obediently obey in his previous life.

Although the photographers this time were not so intuitive to heckle and watch, but through Pitt's dictation, Caesar could still understand how many people were waiting for his feedback at the moment.

It's not a question of survival or destruction, but it's he, Caesar? The problem that Lee had to face.

However, Pete's unintentional words made Caesar keenly capture such an intriguing dark line in this matter.

Put down the phone and write "Harvey?" in Chinese on a sticky note. Weinstein", after drawing two underlines underneath, Caesar dropped his pen and sighed.

"Is it really you?" (To be continued.) )