De Niro has a lot of confidence in Levy, but Levi himself, now when he is filming movies, feels a lot of pressure.

"It's hard enough......"

Watching the actors in the crew show the scenes of the movie scene by scene, Levy, as the director, felt happy on the one hand, and a little nervous on the other. Although during the filming process of the film, Levy also felt more and more that the cross-montages and parallel montages in this movie were difficult to use, and in terms of rhythm, how to slow down the already fast rhythm has also become a major test for him.

Movies are a big test for actors, and for Levy, it's no different. The movies that Levy shot before have a movie that has been formed in his mind and can be roughly imitated, but the one he is shooting now has two movies in his head, and these two movies have their own shortcomings and flaws. If Levy wants to make a good movie, he can't just learn it blindly, he has to make some changes himself.

But these changes are not so easy. Compared to simply changing the Eavesdropping Storm to the English version, moving the Angel Amelie to New York, and changing the rhythm of Truman's world, this movie needs to change a lot.

Levy's film is different from the American version in memory, because it has to show the four characters of the police station and the gang in two lines, so the number of intersecting and parallel montages in the movie is also extremely amazing. How can these shots be reasonably edited together, so that the audience does not feel abrupt and uncomfortable. It's a big challenge. At the same time, how to control the pace, how to shoot some close-ups, how to frame people in such a way that they don't look obtrusive, how to use various shooting techniques, these are all things that Levy needs to consider now.

Compared to before, these things now, the pressure of shooting seems to be a little greater. For Levy, though. It's also an acceptable challenge. After all. Since his debut, every time he shoots a movie, he is thinking about how to shoot the movie in his memory better and improve again and again. Change after change. It had already given him the courage to make such an attempt.

It's just that. Such an attempt inevitably slows down the process of filmmaking a little. Because you have to think. How to shoot movies can be done better, so the shooting schedule will inevitably slow down.

When the shots need to be carefully crafted one by one, it is naturally impossible for the movie to shoot fast. In this way, compared to Levy's original plan, the filming will be slower, which is also beyond Levy's expectations.

"This place, let the camera follow Andy, and then let Tony appear on the screen, and after Tony appears, put the focus on him, let the camera follow him, and achieve this transition...... The shooting process must be smooth enough, understand? ”

Levy kept talking to the photographers about his thoughts on the film. This film is a major challenge for him, and this is definitely not nonsense.

However, as a filmmaker, of course, you should constantly accept challenges and keep trying your own new challenges, which is how it should be.

As for the fact that this kind of shooting might make the film a little slower, Levy doesn't think it's a big deal. Taking your time and working slowly is not necessarily a bad thing.

This idea comes from the current Mystery, Inc. movie: when March comes, Mystery's X-Men have also been officially released.

At the beginning of March, the first prime time in North America arrived. Although everyone knows that a blockbuster like the X-Men will have a higher box office if it is released on the prime time in June, FOX doesn't want to fight with other companies for the movie of Mystery Company, and they are also suspicious of the box office of superhero movies, so they still decided to release it on this schedule.

The mystery company doesn't have much opinion on this: the film is not released after production, and the company's funding is also a problem, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to release it earlier. And this movie is a real commercial film, and when FOX contacted theaters, it also contacted 3,300 screens in one go - although it is still a little worse than some big production 4,000 screens, but this number is staggering enough.

Before the movie was released, the media had already estimated the box office of the movie: although there is a precedent for the success of the Blade Warrior, but the Blade Warrior is a low-budget movie after all, and the box office of 50 million can be regarded as a success, and the larger the scale of the filming, the box office will definitely be affected. Moreover, considering that the financial turmoil has just passed, the box office figures of 98 and 99 for two consecutive years are not very ideal, and the media also believes that this movie can have a North American box office of 150 million, which is not bad - the film investment is 70 million, and if the global box office revenue is more than 200 million, the film will definitely not lose money.

However, to everyone's surprise, the box office of this film is extremely amazing. In the first week of its release, it has firmly occupied the top spot in the box office charts, and it is a big gap with other films. Just by the end of the first weekend, the box office figure of the movie has exceeded 50 million.

Brilliant character styling, brilliant plot setups, dazzling special effects, suffocating scenes and fights - these are all the things that attract people to the cinema. Coupled with the fact that the X-Men themselves are an extremely popular comic book from Marvel, the box office exploded immediately in the first week of the movie, and in the second week, the box office popularity did not decrease at all, and it was being screened one after another everywhere, and its popularity made all the media jaw-dropping.

"The new film made by Enigma, which led the way at the box office, made it impossible for other films to catch up. If nothing else, this movie can almost lock in the box office champion of the whole year, and it is really hard to imagine that a superhero movie can be shot so well. ”

Just a few years ago, the movie Batman just gave people a glimpse of what it means to be both human and financial. That failed movie has made George Clooney and Schwarzenegger breathe down until now. And in comparison, the X-Men have achieved such terrible box office figures, which is really amazing.

50 million a week, so in six weeks, how can it exceed 200 million. The box office of 200 million is almost the box office champion for the relatively sluggish market last year and the year before - except for the unscientific bug of the Star Wars prequel, other movies are almost all this box office number.

This number also exceeded Levy's expectations, but it did not make Levy feel strange: first of all, the special effects of this movie are much better than the movies in Levy's memory. Secondly, whether it is the artistic style or the martial arts style of this movie, it is supervised and operated by Levy himself, which is much more careful than in the original work. Again, it's the director of the film, after all, Nolan: although after the movie aired, not many people mentioned his name, and not even a few people thought it was his credit, but Levy was clear: Nolan's editing technique maximized the suspenseful doubts, giving the film a very unique structure, and it was also one of the important reasons for its commercial success.

Levy influenced the film in all aspects, so that the film, which set off the first step in the wave of superhero movies in memory, directly had all the elements that a mature superhero movie would have ten years later, and this reform made the film a success.

Hero movies with good special effects and plots can make money, which is the trend of development, and Levy is ahead of the trend.

For a commercial film, the North American box office figures and overseas box office figures should be roughly the same, so that is to say, the total box office of this movie can reach 400 million or even 500 million. Although compared to the Spider-Man in memory, such a box office is still far behind, but this is also an absolute high-grossing movie.

It was definitely a big success – although Levy knew that the box office wasn't all the money the film made. However, if the box office of the movie is not good, then it is simply nonsense to expect other revenues to be good. The box office reflects the popularity of the movie, which is the most intuitive way to see whether the movie is popular or not.

For a commercial film, what is there to be dissatisfied with being able to get such a high box office? After all, this is a commercial film, and the theme of superheroes has determined that he has no authenticity to act, and word of mouth will definitely not be good, with a high box office, that is, there is everything.

And all this is also something that gives Levy confidence: as a producer, he participated in the production of the X-Men throughout the process, and he knows very well that this movie is much better than the box office in his memory.

And just when the X-Men box office exploded, Levy also received another news: Truman's world also received a number of nominations at this year's Oscars. Among those nominations, the most important for Levy was Best Picture and Best Director, both of which he received - for the third consecutive year that he was nominated for an Oscar, and this time, Truman's World was also the favorite film to be nominated.

Commercial films have won the box office, and literary films have gained word of mouth - and the reason behind this is because of Levy's serious carving of these films. The meticulous craftsmanship of literary films can make the reputation of the movie better, and the meticulous craftsmanship of commercial films can make the box office of the movie better. Why not make the movie you are shooting now and make it even better?

The movie would be good, and it would be worth the effort to put in it. (To be continued......)