Chapter 174: The filming process of "Star Wars".
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The inhabitants of the galactic empire suffer from tyranny, and Princess Leah infiltrates the empire's base and steals the core data of the Death Star, the empire's secret weapon.
Unexpectedly, the princess was captured by the emperor's right-hand black warrior Darth Vader, but fortunately, she had entered the data into the computer of the robot R2D2.
R2D2 and his partner C3Po escape to the distant planet Tatuyin and are discovered by Farm Boy Luke.
In order to rescue Princess Leia, Luke finds King Obi, the only Jedi Knight left in the Clone Wars, and embarks on a perilous journey.
Along the way, they meet the intergalactic smuggler Han Thoreau, and the group goes deep into the tiger's den to rescue Princess Leia. The rebels, who had obtained the core information of the Death Star, planned a surprise operation, and Luke Skywalker, a descendant of the Jedi, also grasped the mystery of the "Force" and destroyed the Death Star at the last moment.
This is the first Star Wars story in the original history: the plot of A New Hope, which was written by George Lucas himself.
To be honest, every time Ling Shizhe watches "Star Wars", it hurts a lot, and this story is too weird. For example, Princess Leah infiltrated the Imperial base and stole the core information of the Empire's secret weapon, the Death Star, which is really speechless.
This is like the daughter of the chairman of a group company with assets of tens of billions, who does not enjoy her rich second-generation life, but runs to steal the core information of his father's company and hand it over to her father's competitors, and the reason she steals is that she is dissatisfied with her father's ** rule over her, so she wants to kill her father's group company.
Nima, what kind of plot is this, what is the princess, her brain is rusty and funny, she actually united with outsiders to pit her own father, the whole ruined girl, how can there be such a person in reality, is this possible?
Even if Leah's brain is not open, she knows that her father's company is finished, and she herself will become worthless, and all the glory and wealth, fine clothes and food, and luxury villas will all leave her, and in the future, she can only wear beggar's clothes, eat sour leftovers discarded by others, live in rotten grass huts that leak wind and rain everywhere, and have no fashionable and beautiful clothes, and the whole body she wears is torn, dirty and smelly, and I don't know where to pick up the torn clothes that others don't want.
This is the real reality, the feathered phoenix is not as good as a chicken, such a very simple and powerful relationship, even a fool understands the truth, Lucas actually praised this funny girl as the new hope of human beings......
I hope it's a ghost! Look at the people this princess comes into contact with all day long, either hooligans or smugglers, or a bunch of mentally decadent people, just such a group of goods, they are still the hope of the future of mankind, have you ever seen the future of the country and the nation handed over to a group of hooligans, smugglers, decadents and people who are not even mentally normal?
And the farm boy Luke, who is also a wonderful, does not run his farm well, but runs around blindly and does not do his job, thinking that if he rescues the princess, he can rise to prominence and live a happy life, but he doesn't know that the daughter of the chairman of the board of directors wants to overturn his father, he thinks that the princess overturned her father, and after the princess becomes the chairman, he can enjoy the high-ranking officials and glory and wealth from the body of the dragon minister? What do you think, this is just nonsense, okay, there is no logic at all.
You see, such a ** young protagonist, who does not work in a down-to-earth manner, is a man who does his duty, but thinks about climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix all day long, and is still the hope of mankind! What the hell is this?
Look at the farm he runs, after so many years, it is still a desert with no grass, I really don't know what he has been doing for so many years? If the Chinese people were to run it, not to mention a farm, the whole planet would have already become an oasis.
The whole story is a distorted outlook on life and values from beginning to end, and it is no wonder that when the movie was released, it was criticized by the mainstream media as incomplete, which is not surprising at all.
In that case, why is "Star Wars" still popular? Its fire is not because of the story fire, it is completely due to the special effects, to put it bluntly, watching "Star Wars" is actually looking at his special effects, other than that, the whole movie is not interesting at all.
That is, in the 70s, the audience has not yet been baptized by special effects, if it is placed in the 21st century, such a film will only die ugly, isn't its sequel, the box office is worse than the other.
In fact, Lucas's decision to make this film was only improvised, and there had never been any idea of "Star Wars" before that, it was a concept that he suddenly inspired and came up with, and he didn't think maturely, so he took this idea to the film company for investment, and then it was filmed, and finally it became unexpectedly popular.
Sudden concurrent inspiration, without thinking carefully, hurriedly looking for film companies to invest, this phenomenon, speaking of which, is related to the ecological chain of films.
In the film industry of any country in the world, including Hollywood, there is such a phenomenon that directors pull investment, that is, if a director suddenly comes to inspiration and has a very good idea, he will take advantage of the fact that the inspiration has not disappeared, and hurry to find the film company and say your ideas, because only when the inspiration bursts out, the success rate of pulling investment is the highest, and after the inspiration bursting period, it is often very difficult for you to pull investment, which is a common phenomenon in the film industry, and even Hollywood can't escape this law.
Why is it that when inspiration strikes, the success rate of pulling investment is the greatest? Some scientists have done relevant research, that is, when the director is inspired, he will secrete a strange chemical substance, which makes the director's expression extremely focused.
As the saying goes, a person who focuses on doing things is the most attractive, and when he concentrates on one thing, he often infects the people around him.
It was in this state that Lucas proposed the idea of "Star Wars" to the studio, and his idea aroused great interest from the studio, so he gave him a sum of money.
This fund is a deposit for him to write the script, and after the script comes out, if the film company thinks the script is not good, it refuses to pay the rest; If the studio feels good, it will pay the balance and move on to the next step, when to shoot.
These are the two levels in the process of film creation, don't underestimate these two levels, because it often determines the life and death of a movie, and many directors, including well-known directors, often fall on these two levels, some fall at the first level, and some fall at the second level.
is different from the screenwriter, as long as the screenwriter sells the script he wrote, he will make money, as for the film company after buying the script, whether to shoot it or not, when to shoot it, it has nothing to do with him, he will end it when he gets the money.
But the script written by the director is different, the ultimate goal of writing the script is not to sell the script and finish it, but to turn the script into a movie for the audience to see, only when this goal is achieved, he can be considered successful.
Speaking of which, I have to say that George Lucas was very lucky, although the script was created in a very hasty manner, but the film company was very optimistic, and immediately invested in the substantive filming process, and finally the movie was released, the box office was a big success, and Lucas gained fame and fortune.
This is the whole process of Lucas's creation of "Star Wars" back then, probably because the previous process was too smooth, which caused all kinds of hard flaws in the movie script, so it brought a lot of difficulties to the creation of the next sequel.
Speaking of Hollywood movie scripts, it was not filmed after being carefully polished many times, but "Star Wars" is not, it is actually a project that was launched in a hurry, as for Lucas later told the media that "Star Wars" He originally planned to shoot as many episodes as he wanted, which is completely, he had no plans to make a sequel at all, only after seeing that the movie became popular, he thought of making a sequel, and then there was a whole set of sequel shooting plans.
Speaking of sequels, I have to talk about the way Hollywood sequel movies are filmed: There are generally two situations in which Hollywood makes sequels, the first is that there is no idea of making a sequel at all, and it is only after watching the movie become popular that it continues to be filmed. Like Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park, Star Wars are all in this genre.
The second is that before the film was filmed, the film company had plans for a sequel, for example, such as "Harry Potter", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Transformers", and even the superhero series of the Weyman Company.
It is precisely because of the production plan of the sequel that the movie will spend a lot of time on detailed planning at the beginning of the project, especially the script, which is the least sloppy, and must be able to connect well before and after, otherwise it will become a failure of the dog's tail sequel. The historical "Galaxy Troopers" is a typical example, "Star Troopers" has been filmed in a total of three parts, how popular is the first part, but what about his second and third parts? It's a mess, a good classic, but it was ruined by the sequel.
Ling Shizhe plagiarized Lucas's "Star Wars", and spent a lot of energy to design a huge space background for it, not just to launch comics, the movie is his ultimate goal, he wants to "Star Wars" as a brand, shoot forever, as long as the audience is not tired of it, keep shooting, and then use the world background of "Star Wars" to launch a series of various foreign stories or sister chapters, and then intercept a small part of the story and put it on the big screen.
These side chapters or sister chapters can exist separately or cross with the main line to produce new stories, such as Weiman's superheroes, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor and other superheroes, take them out separately, you can make a superhero movie, each superhero can be made into a series of movies, put them together, it becomes a group drama "The Avengers", can also become a series.
Don't worry that no one will come to see it, the "Star Wars" comic book has been launched for more than a year, and in this more than a year, it has accumulated a large number of fans, as long as "Star Wars" can bring a powerful visual shock to the audience like history, then it will instantly accumulate a huge number of hundreds of millions of fans around the world, as long as the script is not bad, "Star Wars" will become an inexhaustible gold mine, and the movies will be shot one by one, and a steady stream of huge profits will be created for him.
In order to achieve the shocking effect of the movie, even greater than the shocking effect of the previous life, Ling Shizhe has killed countless brain cells for more than a year, and has done a lot of surgery or modification to the storyline in the original "Star Wars".
This operation is not easy to do at all, the computer technology in the 70s is too backward, and the current technology can't do it at all; If the changes are small, they will leave hard wounds, leaving huge hidden dangers for the creation of later sequels.
To put it bluntly, the movie is to use the lens to tell the story, whether the story is told well or not, the script is the key, it is the foundation of the movie, whether the foundation is good or not, it determines how high the building can be built, and "Star Wars" suffers from the script.
"Star Wars - A New Hope" is the first part of the "Star Wars" series, it was released in 1977, in terms of special effects, it is the most in line with the technological environment of the 70s, for which Ling Shizhe is very hard.
The original plot was all overturned and rewritten, and the setting of what princess stole her father's secret was canceled, and it was changed to human agent Leah, who infiltrated the secret base of the Holy Clan in the capital Angela, and stole the core information of the Death Star, the secret weapon of the empire. Unexpectedly, she was captured by the Saints' leader's right-hand black warrior Darth Vader, but fortunately, she had already entered the data into the computer of the robot R2D2.
R2D2 and his partner C3po fled to the distant planet of Azeroth, where they were discovered by Rick, the Farm Boy, who was later Anakin Sith's adoptive father, and lived in the moonlit glades of the beautiful planet Azeroth with his Night Elf master Fario.
Planet Azeroth does not belong to the Milky Way, it is a planet in the Magellanic Galaxy, Planet Azeroth is very special, it is a magical planet, so humans call the McEllanic galaxy where Azeroth is located a magic galaxy, and this is used to distinguish the galaxy that belongs to the technology planet.
His mother's name was Gianna Proudmoor, a human magician, and his father was Arthas Minethir, a prince of the kingdom of Lordaeron.
Rick is actually an illegitimate child who was raised by his Night Elf master Fario since he was a child, and the arrival of R2D2 and his partner C3PO changed the course of his life......
In order to rescue Agent Leah, Rick finds the Jedi King Obi and embarks on a perilous journey...... In fact, the planet of Azeroth is the base camp of the Jedi, mages, warlocks, druids, hunters, death knights, paladins, shamans, priests, stalkers, warriors, warriors, in fact, Jedi Knights.
Along the way, they meet the interstellar traveler Pandaman Chen* Storm Spirits, and the group goes deep into the tiger's den to rescue Agent Leah.
The Holy Army, which had obtained the core information of the Death Star, planned a surprise operation, and Rick Skywalker, a descendant of the Jedi Knights, also initially grasped the mystery of the "Force" and destroyed the Death Star at the last moment.
This change is much better than the original script, and Lucas also saw the story of this issue, so he wanted to put it on the big screen.
This story can be realized with the special effects technology of the 70s, and the only question is how to realistically show the panda man Chen * Storm spirits in the movie.
However, Lucas smiled, he said: "Ling, this is not a problem at all, the special effects need not to be used, just make up directly, but the actors have to work a little harder, judging from the setting of the panda man, Ling, do you want to use Chinese to act, right?" ”
"No, I want to use Hong Kong actors, I know that there are a few Hong Kong actors who have good Chinese kung fu, and they can be shown in the movie, I believe the audience will like it." After thinking for a while, Ling Shizhe continued: "I know a Hong Kong director, he has made a few kung fu movies, I feel pretty good, I want him to be the action director of the movie as your deputy, what do you think?" ”
Ling Shizhe's request made him feel embarrassed, and the investor pointed fingers at the director, which the director didn't like, but it was not good to make a direct decision, so he asked cautiously after a while: "Can I take a look at his kung fu movies first?" ”
"Absolutely, you can rest assured that he fully meets your requirements, you must know that Star Wars is my brainchild, and I don't allow anyone to mess him up." Ling Shizhe didn't annoy him, he saw Lucas's cautious performance but appreciated it very much, only people who adhere to principles can make good movies, if Lucas agrees without thinking, Ling Shizhe will doubt whether he can be the director of "Star Wars", after all, the gap between this version of "Star Wars" and Lucas's version of "Star Wars" is too big, and he is a little worried about whether the other party can shoot it well. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow ~ point / public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! )