When I returned to the United States, it was already February 2nd, and before the crew checked the progress of the inspection, looked at the copies and samples, it was more than one o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, in the world's most exclusive residential area in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was chaired by Tom Brown. Sherak, as well as the famous actress Anne. Hathaway, together read out the list of nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards.

In the midst of all the anticipation, "Slumdog Millionaire" can be said to be a big victory, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Film Score, Best Sound Effects, Best Song (two), Best Sound Editing, a total of 10 nominations.

surpassed the 9 nominations of "Avatar" and "Bomb Disposal Unit" to become the film with the most Oscar nominations this year.

Another production, "Sherlock Holmes", produced by Summit Entertainment, won two nominations for Best Film Score and Best Art Direction.

At the same time, the Academy Awards Organizing Committee also called and invited Shao Shuaijun to attend the Academy Awards ceremony and serve as the guest of honor for the best original screenplay. However, Shao Shuaijun refused, and with the embarrassing encounter of the Golden Globe Awards, he is no longer interested in presenting guests at all.

The ten nominations for "Slumdog Millionaire" made Shao Shuaijun feel good, so he was very relaxed when filming.

"Hey, Shao, how is this bridge?" The on-site screenwriter came over with a notebook. "Teddy Bear" has a lot of American elements, although Shao Shuaijun knows a general plot, but there are many places. Authentic American screenwriters are needed to help him supplement the content of the film and correct the style of the film.

This paragraph written by the on-site screenwriter is that at a party, the teddy bear's house was too noisy, and it was noisy to the Chinese family next door. Then the Chinese took a knife and stabbed through the wall, stabbing it over. Then near the corridor, teddy bear vs. duck, flying man Gordon vs. Chinese, the two sides of the big scuffle, there are many funny elements.

Of course. This section is suspected of being black Chinese. Scandalize the Chinese. However, Shao Shuaijun didn't really think that the on-site screenwriter was finding fault, because Americans are just about this virtue, black themselves, black Russia, black Britain, and black good friend Canada, there is nothing they don't black.

In the old beauty. This is called speech ~ freedom. in their films. Even the Stars and Stripes of the United States were burned, and the President of the United States was blackened.

Although this R-rated movie is destined to not be released in the mainland, Shao Shuaijun still has to take into account the emotions of domestic audiences. I didn't want to leave a place to be scolded by them, so I thought about it and said, "Change it, change it to Vietnamese, and the name will be Ho Chi Minh." ”

There should be no one to scold the Vietnamese anymore, and there was once a leader in Vietnam named Ho Chi Minh, with a "Ming" in his name, which happened to be similar to the enemy of Flying Man Gordon, the Ming Demon King. The United States has been at war with Vietnam again, and this bridge is absolutely amazing.

"Okay." The on-site screenwriter is as good as a stream.

Shao Shuaijun handed him the notebook, looked up, and saw Scarlett's husband Ryan. Reynolds, visiting the class again, and interacting sweetly with Scarlett. With a roll of his eyes, Shao Shuaijun shouted: "Hey, Scarlett, Ryan, do you want to play a game?" ”

"What?" The two walked over.

Shao Shuaijun laughed and said: "Isn't there a gay group in the movie, Ryan, do you want to make a cameo?" ”

"Absolutely." Ryan agreed.

flipped through the itinerary log, Shao Shuaijun said: "There are two scenes in this role, one is at the teddy bear's party, and the other is at Scarlett's wedding, both of which have no lines. Oh, and the only thing to be excited about is that you can kiss with your gay friends. ”

"Wow, that must be interesting." Scarlett laughed.

Ryan shrugged: "It's not a beauty, but a kiss is better than nothing, haha." ”

Ryan. Reynolds is also a popular student in Hollywood, and if he can come over and make a cameo, the size is also a buying point, especially if he doesn't need to be paid, Shao Shuaijun likes the feeling of using labor for free. stayed in the crew of "Teddy Bear" for an afternoon, and in the evening, Shao Shuaijun went to the crew of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

The progress of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is not very smooth, and the problems are mainly concentrated in two aspects, one is outdoor expression motion capture, and the other is the Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge.

The capture of outdoor facial expressions, because the equipment is limited by the terrain, often appears three-dimensional trajectory bias, not only need to correct the equipment, but also to correct the three-dimensional animation trajectory, which is a time-consuming and labor-intensive project, but more difficult, Andy. Once Serkis's expressions and movements are not in place, by the time he finds out, he has already spent a lot of effort to complete the revision, which means that the previous efforts are in vain.

In response, Weta Digital and Sony Digital have urgently contacted and are working on another more portable and stable facial expression capture device.

Another problem is a collective effort. The Golden Gate Bridge is a landmark building in San Francisco, connecting the Golden Gate Strait, with a total length of more than 1,900 meters, the bridge is not only busy with traffic, but also has great historical value, and is a miracle of modern bridge engineering. Therefore, the Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge, it was not possible to obtain permission to shoot on the Golden Gate Bridge.

In this regard, the crew's proposal was to build a sound stage in the suburbs of San Francisco and build the interior set of the Golden Gate Bridge. Then the aerial shot of the Golden Gate Bridge, the two shots were embedded together, in fact, it was not two shots, and the orangutans were captured separately. This means that this lens will concentrate dozens or hundreds of small lenses and mosaic them together.

It's difficult.

"Build now, and after a month, we should be able to build the interior scene of the Golden Gate Bridge, and half a month of shooting should be enough, and it will not delay our shooting progress." Joe. Lyrett took the calculated conclusion and said to Shao Shuaijun.

Touching his chin, Shao Shuaijun nodded slowly: "At present, there is only this way, I will arrange it." ”

The Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge is the most brilliant part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", and the most difficult, for this reason, Shao Shuaijun had to work hard to end the regular scenes of "Teddy Bear" before the interior scenery was built.

Time flies, and February has passed in a blink of an eye.

This day is February 28th, and it is also the last set of shots of "Teddy Bear", the wedding scene.

"Go around, okay, perfect, card!" When Scarlett and Joseph kissed together, Shao Shuaijun couldn't wait to shout out the card, so that the last set of shots ended perfectly, and "Teddy Bear" was officially completed. After eating with the crew, Shao Shuaijun took all the copies and settled in the crew of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" to prepare for the Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Just as he was immersed in copying, on March 1, the American magazine "EW" selected the "50 greatest film directors of our time", ranking the directors who are still active in the front line. EW is Entertainment Weekly, a very influential worldwide magazine.

In the selection of "EW", three Chinese directors were selected, Li Yu won the 22nd ranking, and Wong Jiawei won the 45th ranking.

The first in the list is the great director Steven. Spielberg, masterpieces "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "Saving Private Ryan". In second place is the great director James. Cameron, representative works "Alien", "Terminator", "Titanic", "Avatar". In third place is the great director Peter. Jackson, the masterpiece "King Kong" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, ranked fourth is Martin. Scorsese, masterpiece "The Departed". In fifth place is the great director Christopher. Nolan, masterpiece "Memory Fragments", "Batman: The Dark Knight".

In sixth place is the Chinese director Shao Shuaijun, who is also the only Asian director in the top 10, with masterpieces "Inception", "500 Days with Shamo", and "Old Boy".

As soon as this list came out, it immediately caused a lot of controversy, because this list focuses on "still active on the front line" and has a great Hollywood preference, and the selected directors are all works that have come out in recent years and have received good responses. Most of them are Hollywood directors, and there are very few directors in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

For Shao Shuaijun's ranking, Chinese naturally think that this ranking is good, but people from other countries, such as South Korea and Japan, feel that Shao Shuaijun's ranking is high. As for Japanese directors, Hayao Miyazaki, who is ranked 37th, generally believes that the ranking is too low.

However, "EW" magazine explained later that this director ranking focuses on commercial nature, and the directors selected are all interested in the dissemination and influence rate of their films around the world. Many directors' films are very good, but the spread rate is too low, so what's the point of selection.

A list that gives people a look and is confused, not the pursuit of "EW", what they pursue is an easy-to-understand list, everyone who has seen it, suddenly realized, this director, that director, what works have they seen, and so on.

After reading the list, Shao Shuaijun was also a little embarrassed, his works have won too few awards, among the top ten, they are basically hot at the box office, and the awards are also soft, only he has won the box office, but the awards are rare enough. However, this list is also Boruto, and you can throw it away after reading it.

He now has to concentrate on filming "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and also editing and producing "Teddy Bear". He is going to edit "Teddy Bear" out of the director's cut of 160 minutes, and then hand it over to a professional editor for the next editing.

Therefore, it can be said that in two months, he completely ended the filming of "Teddy Bear".

The interior set of the Golden Gate Bridge has been built, and we are beginning to try rehearsals and experimental shooting. Time flies, and soon on March 7th, the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. (To be continued......)