Levy said that he was going to Disney to find someone to help, which made the special effects crew all high: everyone knows Disney's status in the circle, and their working group can play a great role in helping the movie, and the special effects team is still looking forward to it.

Having a good boss is really good for the special effects company, and Levy's promise made many people here talk about it with satisfaction.

These people don't attach much importance to Levy's directorial identity - in fact, special effects companies don't like to participate in the production of movies very much, if they want to make money, if they want to make money, they still make some commercials, or TV series: these things are low-demand, simple to make, easy to do well, and don't have to worry about not passing. The production of the film is more troublesome, the requirements of the film director will be relatively high, and sometimes the production cannot satisfy the director and has to be reworked. Moreover, when the film is being filmed, the director may suddenly have an extra idea and ask for special effects - these things make the special effects staff scold the street, so they have no good impression of the film director.

However, for investors, they have a good impression: if special effects companies want to develop and become bigger, one of the biggest needs is to engage in research and development and make their own software. And in the process of making software, the more things need to be considered, the more professionals will be brought in, and the more financial resources will be spent. The technical team needs a large amount of capital investment to maintain the investment in R&D expenses, and if there is no financial support behind it, it is easy to break the capital chain. And if something goes wrong, it's certain death.

It's not new for Hollywood's special effects workers to often close down companies in three days. If a software development fails, maybe all the belongings of the special effects company will be lost. In this case, it is of great significance to have a big boss behind him who is willing to pay for it.

on this. They're still grateful to Levy: the special effects staff have the lowest status of all the people in Hollywood, they don't even have their own union, no one wants to secure their rights, and they often face all kinds of harsh criticism. And this time, they were not able to complete Levy's plan, and they thought that Levi would still blame them, but Levi did not criticize them and found a way to help them, which also made them very grateful.

More than proud. They are also introducing other techniques to Levy, "Actually, we still have a lot of new technologies, and we have used our own "light and dark models" for making scenes, color changes, shadows, lighting, stains, humidity. Dust will all take into account that in terms of virtual shooting, we can do our best......"

The technicians are still introducing that not being able to develop a "facial expression capturer" from the "motion capture" is their failure. However, they have also made good progress in other technologies. As for facial expression capture - motion capture has just appeared, where is it so easy to want facial expression capture to appear immediately?

"You know more about these than I do. How to do it better, you see, what I need is the effect of the movie. Disney's side, I'll get in touch. You don't have to worry, we must do a good job in this movie, and these aspects must not go wrong. ”

Levi listened to their introductions, and there was no sign of impatience: he knew that advances in technology would help the film industry a lot.

While the technical staff were talking about their special effects production, a figure rushed in through the door, and when he saw Levy, he also breathed a sigh of relief, "Nick, you're here - come with me, I have something to say to you." ”

"Bob, what's going on?"

Seeing the comer, Levy stopped the tech guy from talking again, and he greeted him, while Bob pulled him out of the room.

"It's not a script-making thing yet...... Are you supposed to be in charge of director Nolan? He has more ideas than Stan Lee, and the discussion of the script is not over yet! ”

Bob grumbled, making Levy smile wryly. It was he who asked Bob to follow the Nolan brothers to discuss the script with Stan Lee: neither Stanley nor Nolan were familiar with stage performances, and they were inferior to Bob in terms of line setting and live performance. However, Levy didn't expect that Bob, who was originally sent by him to participate in the script negotiations, would also hold back his anger.

"The Nolan brothers wanted to make a big change, and Stan Lee wanted to follow the original book as much as possible. It's really incomprehensible, what is there to write about the script of a commercial movie? It's such an old three-stage thing, I really don't know what's so difficult. Bob shook his head as he spoke, quite dissatisfied with the script's rippling.

"I think it's a good thing that they're doing it, and it's not a bad thing to be serious." In response to Bob's complaints, Levy seemed relatively peaceful.

"What is this kind of movie serious? Isn't it just that in the first half of the superhero, all kinds of mental struggles, and then a woman is caught by the villain, and then ends the mental struggle to save people, and after being rescued, she suddenly realizes how beautiful life is? ”

Bob's tone was a little dissatisfied, which also made Levy laugh: Indeed, the production of scripts for commercial films is relatively simple, and even some people have summarized these into rules, whether in his past life or in this life, Levy has read some so-called screenwriters' books, guide books used to write scripts. It stands to reason that it's not difficult to write a script with these things in mind, and Bob has this in mind. However, Levy is very clear: the reason why Nolan is a great director, not a mediocre talent, is because he does not follow these routines.

Whether it is this kind of guide book or the so-called routine rhythm in the book, it is actually a summary of the experience of some successful movies of predecessors. No matter how you write these kinds of books, they are just some routines for writing a script - in fact, if you look closely at these kinds of books, you will find that such books summarize nothing more than 'how to write a play that sells money' rather than 'how to write a good script'. Those routines are not for the sake of making a good movie, but for not losing money.

Indeed, any film has its successful experience, and learning from experience can motivate people to improve. However, one can make something similar based on someone else's successful film, but it is impossible to write something higher by imitation. Film art is known as the seventh art, a good director, a good story must have their own ideas, have their own things to show, in order to be able to make a good movie. How can you make a good movie by blindly imitating others?

These routines, first of all, cannot explain the production of literary films, and secondly, because they blindly follow their predecessors, and they have no innovation and development of their own. It's okay to use it to make a commercial film with an unexpected small investment, but it is impossible to expect to write a classic literary film according to this set, and it is unrealistic to expect it to write a commercial blockbuster with a high box office -- no matter how good other people's routines are, they are just routines, and good films can't produce their own characteristics, so how can they be satisfactory just by following other people's routines?

It is said that superhero movies are easy to shoot, but which of several successful movies does not have its own innovation? Spider-Man spends a lot of time writing about Peter. Parker's hard life, the Batman prequels raise the meaning of the supporting roles, and Iron Man begins to make the protagonist less passionate about saving the world - which of these movies doesn't have something of its own? Optics knows a rhythm and wants to write a script? That's too underestimating script making.

In this world, the most difficult thing is not to summarize other people's successful routines, not to blindly follow others to learn, but to have your own thoughts. For mediocre talents, it is a way to summarize the routines and follow the old path of predecessors, but for geniuses, talent is in their own minds, not in other people's books.

Nolan still satisfied Levy in this regard: although he was a rookie director and faced a big name like Stan Lee, he dared to fight Stan Lee for the idea of his own film. This is the insistence of filmmakers, filmmakers who have their own ideas and are willing to put them into practice, can make progress in films.

"The X-Men can be regarded as a comic book, but it can also be regarded as a more popular soft sci-fi work. If this kind of work wants to be shot into a routine movie, it is not difficult to cheat some money to spend, but it is not easy to shoot it into a classic movie, and it is not easy to achieve a box office harvest in the real sense. Wait and see, I don't think it's a bad thing to wait a lot. ”

Still not satisfied, Levy just smiled and slapped him on the shoulder, "Don't worry, let's go, come with me to a nice place - the fashion designer from New York asked me to meet, and he brought the model to show us the outfits made for the film." ”

The film industry and the fashion industry can be said to be inextricably linked, and the Matrix, which has just been released, has made tight leather jackets, sunglasses and other outfits become a trend for a while, and this has also made many people see that the influence of the film industry on the fashion industry is still very large. As a big-budget movie, the X-Men naturally invited people from the fashion industry to design costumes in this regard.

"Do you want to see the clothes, or do you want to see the models? Neither Charlize nor Winona are in Los Angeles? Bob looked at Levy, and he was still very clear about his friend.

"Charlize was filming in Maine, Winona was going to New York to do a play, and they weren't here." Levi replied, "But I need to rest now—martial arts, special effects, costumes, costumes, scripts, and soundtracks, soundtracks, cinematography, locations—and I'm dying of exhaustion to prepare everything for the film, let's go, let's relax and enjoy life." (To be continued......)