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Chapter 198: Campus Film

Chapter 198: Campus Film

"I'd like to hear about it too. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 "George is also interested in this topic, and any successful director is bound to point out what is good about a film and what is not good. However, Liang Xiǎo Long has hardly commented on a film in the media, and the only time he wrote a review of "Hero" was first published in China before being reprinted by the American media.

"Then let me tell you, do you want to hear the good side or the bad side?" Liang Xiǎo Long is also not polite, "Star Wars Prequel" is indeed a relatively controversial film, if you want to say it is good, it is all good; To say that it is not good, there are also many shortcomings.

"Of course it's bad." George has never been a person who is afraid of criticism, in his opinion, if there is something bad, point it out, and only in this way can he go further in his career.

"Then I'll talk about it......" Liang Xiǎo Long Grandma said, "Star Wars Prequel: Phantom Crisis" has two shortcomings on a large level, the first is time, only more than 90 minutes, and his background is so huge, the story has not been stretched out at all, giving people the feeling that there are too many edges and corners, and the plot development is not delicate enough. In Liang Xiǎolong's opinion, if you want to make this film well, you have to use at least two and a half xiǎo hours, and three xiǎo hours is not too much.

Another point is the special effects, the reason why it is not done well is because the background is too large. When the background is huge, there is so much to show; To show more things means to huā a lot of money; If there is not enough money, the special effects production can only be almost done. So, in the film, we can feel that many scenes are more like cartoons.

At this point, Liang Xiǎo Long feels that Cameron is the smartest person, look at his "Titanic", the whole story revolves around a ship, so its special effects technology can focus on this ship, which can create visual perfection in all aspects. Looking at "Avatar" in his previous life, it was also Star Wars, but he limited the story to the scope of one tribe, and he could also create perfection in details. This is not the case with "Star Wars Prequel: Phantom Crisis", which involves too many planets, species, and technologies, and if you want to be perfect in the details, Liang Xiǎo Long estimates that it will require at least $500 million in production funds.

"I'm saying that, no problem, right?" Liang Xiǎo Long glanced at everyone's Yan Sè, his words were indeed a bit heavy, and he was also a little offended.

"There's no way around it." George smiled bitterly, what Liang Xiǎo Long said was true, but it was not something he could control, because Fox only gave him $115 million in production funds, and it was already very good to be able to create such a visual effect. But I also have to admit that there is indeed a problem with the structure of the script, as Liang Xiǎo Long said, shrinking the scope of Xiǎo will make the vision more perfect.

"The lack of money is indeed the sorrow of our filmmakers." Liang Xiǎo Long is a little fortunate that the company is his own, and the funds are very abundant, so things can be carried out according to his own ideas.

When the crowd dispersed, Kayla pestered Liang Xiǎo Long again: "Uncle Xiǎo Long, you haven't said how my performance is." Liang Xiǎo Long said casually: "Very bāng, very much like Natalie." "xiǎo 丫tou really pounced, as an actor, who wants others to say who they are like? What's more, Natalie isn't a few years older than her.

In fact, Liang Xiǎo Long didn't want to evaluate the performances of the various sè characters in it at all, although the acting skills were very bāng, but there was nothing brilliant, the only thing that impressed Liang Xiǎo Long was two people, one was the captain, obviously a good person, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like a bad person, in the process of watching the movie, many people are thinking about whether the captain will suddenly collapse the NV King with one shot when the big war comes. And there's that xiǎo boy, like a xiǎo adult, very cute and cute.

"Girl, what's next?" Liang Xiǎo Long asked again, although Kayla has grown up a lot now and her acting skills have improved a lot, she is still a little immature, and if he shoots "Pirates of the Caribbean" immediately, he is afraid that it will affect the information of the film.

"You help me plan." If she continues to receive films, she may not encounter a good script, so it is better to throw the problem to Liang Xiǎo Long, who believes that Liang Xiǎo Long will help her write a satisfactory script.

"If you don't want to make a song and dance film." Liang Xiǎo Long joked, but it is really suitable to make a song and dance film under the current conditions of Xiǎo girl.

"That's an insult to my acting skills." Xiǎo girl rolled her eyes, song and dance films, especially Qingchun song and dance films, feel more like movie versions of idol dramas, and the requirements for acting skills are really not high. And xiǎo girl actually has a good plan for her star journey, not wanting to become famous for a while, but wanting to develop in Hollywood for a long time. Therefore, when you are young, it is more important to hone your acting skills and build yourself into a person with a thousand faces, who can play various roles, so that you can gain a long-term foothold in Hollywood.

"Then I'll have to think about it for a while, I'll have to go back to New Zealand tomorrow to participate in the special effects production, and I'll let you know when the script comes out." Liang Xiǎo Long said.

"I'm going to New Zealand too." Xiǎo girl immediately said: "It's been a long time since I've seen Sister Rachel, and I've missed her for a long time." ”

The next day, Liang rushed back to Wellington, threw Xiǎo girl home, and went to Weta Digital Studio to continue the special effects production. The progress of special effects production is not slow, and the production of revenge has begun, which is also a very troublesome link.

First of all, the production of the background, to restore the New York Harbor through special effects technology, and then carry out a special design on the port, each building in the simulation at the same time, but also to contain a sense of vicissitudes and dilapidation, so as to fit the environment of the City of Warcraft. Secondly, in terms of the dynamic design of Warcraft and Night Demon, during the filming process, Warcraft is completed with a model, and Night Demon is played by a real person, but such a shot is very imperfect, and it must be restored with special effects technology in order to give people a real feeling. Finally, there is the design of the collapse of the building, because this battle is designed like this: Sam the shepherd dog dies, and Robert, in order to take revenge, attracts a large number of demonic beasts and night demons to clash, and he is also involved in this hun battle.

Therefore, the large-sized monster must have super destructive power, which will inevitably cause the collapse of buildings and other situations. And this aspect of design is also the most expensive, because if you want to have a sense of realism, you have to simulate all kinds of collapse situations, so even Liang Xiǎo Long did not dare to design a large number of building collapse scenes, otherwise you would have to add tens of millions of production costs.

"It's a little rough with white spots under your feet." Liang Xiǎo is very detail-oriented, and this is the image of a mutated moose charging into the night demon, and the night demon holding down the moose's feet and sliding backwards. During the filming, the stuntman who played the Daredevil was on a skateboard, and now the skateboard is eliminated through special effects to make a scene where his feet are sliding. However, the first time the special effects designer made a picture did not perfectly hide the skateboard.

"I'll tweak it a little more." The designers are a little helpless, in fact, the picture they made is quite perfect, at least it is already a first-class picture, but when they meet such a person who is willing to burn money to pursue perfection, they can only endure Xingzi to do it. However, it is not difficult to adjust it again, and with a little processing, the picture will appear more detailed and realistic.

"This shot, howling too fast." Liang Xiǎo Long is more like a quality inspector at this time, no problem in the eyes of others, but in his eyes it is all máo disease. And this shot is the picture of Robert stabbing a mutant dog to death, and as soon as the knife was stabbed in, the mutant dog howled first, without a process of recoiling. In the Liang xiǎo dragon design, Robert's knife is very fast, so it should be poked in and howled out again.

"Head, I really want to throw this guy out." Seeing Liang Xiǎo Long walking away, a designer walked up to Peter and muttered, "I didn't see him so picky when I was filming "Million Dollar Baby". ”

"Two reasons, first of all, the special effects requirements of "Million Dollar Baby" are not as complicated as "Doomsday Legend", and secondly, this film is starring the captain himself." Peter patted the designer on the shoulder: "We have to understand the mentality of the captain, who doesn't want to make the film starring themselves more perfectly?" ”

The designer smiled, after all, the captain is a bit narcissistic and wants to present his most perfect state on the screen.

"Do a good job, "Million Dollar Baby" won us the Oscar for Best Visual, and the production cost of "Legend of Doom" is as high as 280 million US dollars, no matter what, we have to win this award again, otherwise I'm so sorry for the captain, and I'm even more sorry for myself." Peter's words filled the designers with energy, and Oscar Xiǎo Golden Man is indeed the best reward for them. And with such a high investment in this film, it is indeed the best choice to hit the Oscars.

Time passed day by day, and the domestic and overseas double-line box office of "Star Wars Prequel: Phantom Crisis" made many people jealous and speculated: "Is Hollywood's fourth film to break the billion mark at the box office to appear?" "It's no wonder that the box office market of Hollywood films has been sluggish in recent years, but occasionally there will be films with super high box office, such as "My Captain, My Group", "Million Dollar Baby" and "Titanic".

"Breaking the billion mark?" Liang Xiǎo Long smiled faintly, if you want to use one billion as the standard, he is not optimistic about this film, because his ability to strong box office in China is very crazy, but it is relatively weak overseas. Generally speaking, the overseas box office of a blockbuster like this will exceed the domestic box office by a lot, but "Star Wars Prequel: The Phantom Crisis" does not show this potential, and the overseas box office is only slightly higher than the domestic box office, so it is very difficult to break the billion mark at the box office.

"You think it's impossible?" Sophie disagrees with Liang Xiǎo Long's opinion, the film's ability to strengthen the box office is still very strong, and as long as it persists for a few more weeks, it will inevitably break through the billion mark.

"I also feel like I can break through." Jessica also agrees with Sophie's statement, first of all, the film has this potential, and secondly, the economic crisis has passed, and people are willing to huā some money to support their favorite films, with these two conditions, it will not be so difficult to break through one billion.

"Honey, I've got your back." Rachel smiled, the billion box office is actually a watershed, many films seem to have strong box office capabilities, but they often die at this juncture. And "Star Wars Prequel: Phantom Crisis" does have a relatively large criticism, and the release cycle may not be too long, and it will be even more difficult to break through one billion.

"Leave this film alone, Uncle Xiǎo Long, what about my script?" Xiǎo girl curled her mouth, thinking that Liang Xiǎo Long would help her write the script when she returned to New Zealand, who knew that this hateful guy had to work during the day and accompany his wife at night, so he didn't want to find time to write the script at all.

"Inspiration, without inspiration, what is written is rubbish." Liang Xiǎo Long hurriedly made an excuse, he was indeed too busy during this time, and he didn't have the heart to write the script at all. However, Xiǎo's words reminded him that he needs to shoot two dramas this year to have a jiāo generation with Ying Mi, so the script of the other drama must also come out early, and as soon as "Legend of Doom" completes the special effects production, it will immediately be transferred to the filming of another play, so that two films can be completed within this year.

"Fool whom." xiǎo girl is very dissatisfied, who doesn't know that this guy is a high-yielding script, as long as he wants to write, it won't take much time to complete.

"Your sister Rachel needs to conceive in October to give birth to a child, I don't need to think about it well when I write the script, don't worry, it won't take long to ensure that it will be completed." Liang Xiǎo Long also has a bit of a headache, Kayla's play is mainly to hone her acting skills, and to be fixed within the range that she can play at her age, and to ensure the quality of the film, the scope of choice has been narrowed down a lot, and he has no good choice for a while.

"A week, I'll only give you a week, or I'll nag in your ear a hundred times a day." Xiǎo girl opened her teeth and danced her claws, which made people have a headache, and I wanted to send her back to England. But if you really want to do this, I'm afraid Liang Xiǎo Long's life will be even worse, who made Rachel and Sophie spoil this girl, and Jessica and this girl are an embarrassed duo, getting together and doing bad things.

Liang Xiǎo Long didn't take the threat of Xiǎo 丫tou to heart, and he was still busy every day, but he didn't expect Xiǎo 丫tou to be a person who did what he said. On the eighth day, Liang Xiǎo Long came home from work, and as soon as he entered the ménxiǎo girl, he said, "I want a script." Liang Xiǎo Long casually coped with it, but he didn't expect Xiǎo Yatou to be entangled, and even when he went to the bathroom, he would hear Xiǎo Yatou shouting outside that I wanted a script, and I almost didn't drive Liang Xiǎo Long Bi crazy.

"You'd better hurry up and write the script, or we won't even think about Ansheng." Rachel said with a smile, she knows too well the xing of the xiǎo girl, and if the script doesn't come out for a day, she can read it to you for a day.

"The point is, it's not a good choice." It's not that Liang Xiǎo Long didn't think about the script, but the scope was too xiǎo, except for song and dance films, he couldn't think of it for a while.

"Then you can narrow it down to the school and highlight student life more profoundly." Rachel thought for a moment: "By the way, Brandon acted in a school film, "Campus Scene" directed by Robert Méngdale in '92, which depicts racial discrimination, and I think we can think about it. ”

"I've seen this film, and it's really bāng." Liang Xiǎo Long was very impressed with this film, and when he first entered Hollywood in 95 and recommended Brandon to Mark as the leading actor in "Tomb Robbery", he also re-watched the film. The story is about David, a Jewish boy who is accepted into St. Matthew's prestigious high school because of his expertise in rugby, but no one knows that he is Jewish, except for the coach and principal. In the United States at that time, racial discrimination was still very serious, and in order to get along with other classmates, David did not reveal his true identity to anyone. Soon after enrolling, David showed his talent in rugby, not only was the coach excited to find a good seedling, but the players and roommates also liked the humorous and skilled David.

At a dance party, David befriended the NV child Sally brought by his teammate Charlie, and the two fell in love at first sight. But Charlie has always liked Sally, and when he finds out that his beloved NV child has something else to love, he feels conflicted. Charlie's older brother is a well-known honor student in the school, and Charlie's family has also graduated from prestigious universities. And Charlie, whether it is his studies or ball skills, is under David, and he has a lot of pressure in his heart. By chance, Charlie learns David's secret and reveals it to his roommate. No one could believe that David, a popular football star, was Jewish, and the scene was extremely embarrassing.

Since David's identity was revealed, he has become the target of public criticism, and students have begun to mock and humiliate David in various ways. Although David was very angry in his heart, he could bear all this, the only thing that made him unacceptable was that Celle also chose to leave him, and David couldn't figure it out for a while.

During one of the final exams, Charlie chose to cheat for fear that he would not be able to pass. When the teacher found out, he asked the cheater to come forward himself, otherwise the whole class would be judged to fail. When the classmates are suspicious of each other, David approaches Charlie and hopes that he will stand up and admit it. However, at the class meeting, Charlie insisted that the cheater was David, which made him very angry. The students discussed this issue, and it was almost impossible to tell which one was lying. Due to the prejudice against Jews and the fact that David had previously concealed the truth that he was a Jew, most of the classmates thought that David must be lying, and the conclusion was inconclusive for a while.

Tired of being discriminated against, David approached the principal, told him that he was cheating, and begged the school to expel him. Surprisingly, however, Van, who had always had a strong resentment against the Jews, found the principal before David and told the truth - and he also saw Charlie cheating. The school wanted to solve the problem in a way that did not hold both parties accountable, but David refused. He knew that the school only accepted him because of his skills, and it was okay if he didn't go to such a school. So David Tingxiong left the principal's office with his head up and chose to drop out. He would not regret not being able to complete his studies at this school, nor would he bow down to anyone because he was Jewish.

"If you integrate social phenomena into the film, it should be a success." Rachel slowly guided Liang Xiǎo Long's train of thought.

"Campus life, social phenomena, film entertainment, and ...... blend with each other," Liang Xiǎo muttered softly, the music in his head had a rudimentary shape, describing what seemed to be a film about campus life, and it also involved an offensive social phenomenon......

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