Chapter 283: Savior

Ex told Steve the news that Lin Mingyang was "ready" to agree to star in "Terminator 4", and the excited Warner president even suggested on the phone that the two could have a toast for this, Ex chatted with him for a few words, and just put down the phone, the assistant Cod hurriedly broke into the office without even knocking on the door.

"I'm sorry, sir," Cord swallowed hard, explaining before Ex got angry, "This happened so suddenly, I felt compelled to tell you right away... Mr. Stan Winston died at home half an hour ago"

Ex's face turned frighteningly white, and he stood up, leaned forward, and stared at his assistant with a blank look, "Is your news true?" ”

Cord nodded vigorously: "It's true, his family has sent out an obituary through the media." ”

Ex, who had been silent for a long time, sat back in his seat with a heavy and regretful expression, and waved his hand: "You will immediately send a letter of condolences to Mr. Winston's family in my name and mine, and then send a letter in the name of MGM... If we could, I would like to send this old friend off."

After Cord left, Ex grabbed the phone on his desk again......

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found that Lin Mingyang looked preoccupied after hanging up the phone, Julie did not continue to be "naughty", she very meekly pillowed her head on Lin Mingyang's chest, and the powerful heartbeat in her chest made her feel unprecedentedly steady. And Lin Mingyang reached out to caress Julie's bun, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed in his heart.

It's a pity that this warm and affectionate nap between the two was soon interrupted by Eks's call again, Lin Mingyang frowned, Julie pouted at him dissatisfied, and both of them were a little depressed by Eks's "uninterestingness".

After the mobile phone rang for a long time, Lin Mingyang still reluctantly connected the phone. This time the call was very short, Julie sat on the edge of the bed and just put on her bra and bottoms, and the dress had not had time to put on her body, and when she turned around, Lin Mingyang held the mobile phone in her hand, sat on the bed in a daze, and said nothing.

"Your agent has repented again?" Even though Ex is now MGM's president and has publicly announced that he is no longer Lin's agent, Angelina Jolie likes to call him that.

"It's even worse than this," Lin Mingyang hugged his head in some pain, "Stan Winston has died"

"You're talking about the special effects master?" Front-of-house actors like Jolie Xiang can't tell the names of many filmmakers behind the scenes, and in fact most people never pay attention to names that only appear in the credits after the movie ends. Stan Winston is a well-known figure in the field of film and television special effects, so Julie finally has some impressions of him.

Winston is a leading figure in Hollywood cinema and has helped shape some of the most groundbreaking roles in modern Hollywood cinema. These include the Alien Queen in Alien, the killer robot in Terminator and Terminator 2, the dinosaur in Jurassic Park, and more. Before his death, Winston's latest work was MGM's "Iron Man", in which Lin Mingyang wore a cool suit of armor written by Stan Winston.

In the field of makeup, Winston co-created "Edward Scissorhands" with Tim Burton, Johnny Depp's withdrawn and weird Scissorhands left a deep impression, and the image of the obedient penguin starring Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns" is also unforgettable.

"I feel very sorry for Mr. Winston's departure, but..." Julie saw Lin Mingyang's depressed mood at this time, and she couldn't help but have some doubts in her heart.

Lin Mingyang sighed faintly: "To be precise, I have worked with Winston a few times, but we don't know each other very well, it's just that his departure made me think of something." ”

Of course, for Stan Winston, what Lin Mingyang values most is that he makes the traditional model special effects never go out of style. In an era when computer special effects are all over the screen and dominate everything, his departure is even heavier.

Coming to open the floor-to-ceiling curtains of the room and looking at the gloomy sky in the distance, Lin Mingyang let out a long breath of turbidity.

"I shouldn't know him well, though, but I should send him off."

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With a half-white beard and a muscular figure, he was dressed in a gray suit and a silk tie, and the outfit was the same as usual, except that Stan Winston had closed his eyes forever and was lying quietly in the coffin. After 8 years of stubborn struggle against the disease, the Hollywood special effects master finally gave up.

In the evening, the St. Candon Cemetery in South Los Angeles welcomed many mourners dressed in black, including Spielberg, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Farwewo and many other celebrities in the film industry attended the low-key and solemn funeral, and Lin Mingyang and Ex also arrived from MGM headquarters to bid farewell to the body of the former collaborator.

"Everything he does carries our dreams and condenses the imagination of each of us. He fulfilled this dream from pencil and clay, until the advent of the computer age, he dedicated his life to our ideals, so his life was wonderful. ”

The mournful eulogy was read out of Spielberg's mouth, filling the entire funeral scene with a solemn and mournful atmosphere. Everyone present stepped forward in turn to lay flowers to the body. After the burial, James Cameron and Spielberg, who were busy with everything, left in a hurry, and Lin Mingyang, Ex and his party, who were walking behind them, were blocked by reporters waiting on the periphery. Fortunately, Jon, the director of "Iron Man", walked with them, and under his "cover", Lin Mingyang and Exx successfully avoided reporters.

"Whether it's out of politeness or practical necessity, you should have mentioned "Terminator 4" to Schwarzenegger at the funeral just now, and the governor of California should show his face in this kind of influential film, maybe as soon as the fans are happy, he will win a lot of political votes for himself." After getting into the car, Ex complained.

Lin Mingyang clasped his hands and leaned his head back on the comfortable leather seat, and began to close his eyes to recuperate. After Ex finished chattering, he replied slowly: "According to you, it's a pity that I don't run for president of the United States." ”

"Okay, out of respect for the deceased, I take back what I just said" Hearing the faint irony in Lin Mingyang's tone, Exx also felt that he was a little too anxious, and it seemed that it should be Warner President Steve who wanted to contact Schwarzenegger in a hurry now.

"Weinstein's death touched me so much, do you know why?" Lin Mingyang then came up with a sentence.

"I know that he is an outstanding behind-the-scenes filmmaker, and he has created many classic screen images..."Ex said a lot as if he was reciting lines, Lin Mingyang raised his head helplessly, opened his eyes and glared at him. It was as if someone had suddenly choked his neck, and the words that had been gushing just now came to an abrupt end.

"It was Winston who created the image of the Terminator T-800 on the screen, and most of the special effects shooting in "Terminator 1" was based on models. Even in "Terminator 2", the liquid robot, which can be called a milestone in CG special effects technology, still uses a large number of physical models in the filming. But by the time "Terminator 3" happens, CG technology has completely replaced the model, the actor only needs to hold a humanoid prop, and the real person can be copied through computer conversion, and the prop makeup technology is gradually declining, and Winston's departure can be regarded as a complete announcement of the end of that era" Lin Mingyang looked at Ex with burning eyes, "This is what I really regret"

"So you're going to replace Schwarzenegger with computer special effects and 'copy' his face directly into the film?" Ex finally understood the deep meaning of Lin Mingyang's words.

Lin Mingyang nodded, and the corners of his mouth raised an expression that seemed to be smiling: "If our Mr. Governor agrees, and you are reluctant to give up this terminator complex, the current computer CG technology can fully support this idea." ”

"In your plot concept, will the Terminator T-850 appear?" Ex finally asked the most crucial question.

"Terminator 4: Savior takes place in the year after the Final Judgment, the year John Connor was killed by robots, and the robot T-800 played by Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 is still in development. In this world, Skynet captures humans and uses them as 'guinea pigs' to study how to destroy humanity's will to resist... Do you remember the last episode, when John Connor jumped into the space-time rift in the crater, and when he traveled to that space-time dimension, it happened to be the moment when he was killed by a robot in this plane? And 14 years later, John Connor's girlfriend Kate sent the T-800 with the changed chip to a space-time dimension in the past through time travel, and his mission is to bring the savior back to this space-time dimension. ”

Lin Mingyang opened and closed his mouth to the concept of the space-time dimension, and Ex listened to it like a cloud, and finally only understood a general meaning.

Ex's puzzled expression was directly ignored by Lin Mingyang, who was talking, regardless of the protest in the other party's eyes, Lin Mingyang continued to talk eloquently: "John Connor from the past was teleported into a ruin by the space-time rift, and in the process of looking for a way out, he met several humans who were being chased by robots, and he exploded the pursuing robots crookedly and saved these survivors. ”

"During the conversation, he learned about the current living conditions of mankind, after the final judgment broke out, Skynet attacked the entire human race with a nuclear bomb, and the survivors took up arms to form a resistance army, and in order to eliminate these resistance forces, Skynet created countless robots, and the two sides launched a fierce battle on the earth, human beings have achieved a phased victory under the leadership of the leader of the resistance John Connor, and Skynet is still strong, and it is developing more powerful robots to completely eliminate the will of human resistance."

"Hearing others describe 'himself' like this, John Connor couldn't turn around for a while, and it can be seen that humans have an almost blind trust in 'themselves' who are the leaders of the Resistance Army, while John Connor is having a headache for another thing, according to the previous T-850's statement, the 'self' in this space-time dimension has been killed by robots, and from the actual situation he has learned, the 'self' in this space-time dimension It was as if he was still alive, and what would happen to the same person from different plane-time dimensions when they met made John Connor unimaginable. ”

He didn't know that in fact, he was dead in this space-time dimension, but the Resistance Army strictly sealed the news in order to stabilize people's hearts. John Connor followed the survivors to a human settlement under the protection of the Resistance. In order to prevent bots from infiltrating, each human colony has a high-security checkpoint on the perimeter of the perimeter, guarded by Resistance fighters. ”

"While passing through the checkpoint, one of the upper echelons of the Resistance spotted John Connor, who couldn't believe his eyes, because he knew John Connor was dead, but another living John Connor appeared in front of him, and looked younger than before. After making sure he didn't recognize the wrong person, he quickly reported the news to the Resistance's temporary headquarters, which was headed by John Connor's girlfriend Kate. ”

"Kate also felt very strange when she learned that her boyfriend, who had witnessed the cremation process, came back to life, and she led the Resistance high-ranking to the human settlement, and under the leadership of the reporting officer, found John Connor."

Everyone was stunned when they saw John Connor, and it was hard for everyone to accept that their close comrade-in-arms and leader, who had died in battle, actually appeared alive in front of them. People with high vigilance have begun to speculate whether the John Connor in front of him is an impostor copied by Skynet through cloning technology. ”

And John Connor saw his beloved girlfriend again, and the other party became much more mature, although John Connor knew that the Kate in front of him was no longer the Kate he was familiar with, but the deep feelings in his heart still made him overlap the identities of the two Kates. Kate appeared and couldn't help but kiss each other. ”

At the very beginning, Kate also 'misidentified' John Connor for her boyfriend, but after being kissed by the other party, she suddenly realized that the guy in front of her who looked exactly like her boyfriend but whose origin was unknown was definitely not her boyfriend. She easily subdued John Connor with the most common martial arts in the army, and John Connor's vulnerability made her more and more convinced that she was encountering an impostor. ”

John Connor learned that the 'self' in this space-time dimension had been killed in battle, and he laboriously explained the whole thing to everyone. He tells Kate that in 14 years, she will use time travel technology to send a T-850 robot to some dimension of time and space in the past, and then bring herself here. He appeared here to complete the unfinished mission of the dead John Connor and lead humanity to defeat Skynet once and for all. ”

At first, everyone couldn't accept that John Connor was from the past, but it was indeed John Connor, who was a decade younger, standing in front of them, and Kate was very sure of that. John Connor could not find any evidence to support his claims, and the Resistance could not find any flaws in John Connor. In the end, at Kate's insistence, everyone decided to believe John Connor, because the Human Resistance really needs an influential leader right now. ”

"In order to make John Connor truly carry on the mission of savior, the Resistance began to conduct devilish special training for this new 'leader', John Connor suffered enough in it, and under the double oppression of the distrust of the people around him and the high-intensity and high-risk training, John Connor suddenly lost confidence in the future, and the whole person became depressed."

"Kate and some of the Resistance high-ranking Resistance who had high hopes for him were disappointed by his performance, and just as they were about to abandon their training program for John Connor, the robots launched a wave of attacks on humans, and during the war, John Connor witnessed his companions being killed by the robots, and the fierce battle made him grow up quickly, and he decided to take up his mission without hesitation."

After this battle, John Connor began to be slowly accepted by the people around him, and he gained more trust through his hard training, and everyone began to feel that the same John Connor who had led them in battle was back to him. At the same time, the affection between John Connor and Kate also quietly grows, and the two people who should have been lovers finally come together again. ”

At this time, the robot T-800 secretly developed by Skynet finally succeeded, and John Connor met again with the robot who had saved himself in childhood and even made up for the lack of father's love to a certain extent. Because he couldn't break the nostalgia of the past, John Connor couldn't hurt the T-800 in front of him, and the strength of the killer was also beyond everyone's expectations, in this encounter, John Connor himself was almost killed by the T-800, and because of his hesitation, his comrades were all killed in order to cover his evacuation. ”

Encouraged by his girlfriend Kate, John Connor finally fell under the guns of the Resistance under his elaborate design, and Skynet's secret production base for the T-800 was successfully blown up by the Resistance. Eventually, the Resistance repaired the T-800 and replaced the chips in it, and John Connor decided to mothball him, and if he didn't manage to witness the final victory in the battle with Skynet, then send the T-800 back to the past dimension of time and space to find a new savior for humanity."

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Combined with the previous plot, the plot of "Terminator 4" was made up by the frog himself, and I always felt that there should be a break between the savior John Connor and the governor T-800 in the Terminator series, but the scene where Schwarzenegger appeared in the original drama was too disappointing, so I made one myself

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