Christmas period, this coincides with the release period of the Spartan Three Hundred Warriors predicted by Zhou Shaoming, and it can be regarded as a super blockbuster to seize the last round of box office in the American film industry, because December is the most important holiday in the West, and the whole United States will consume wildly, and watching movies is naturally the top priority.

After seeing this news, although Zhou Shaoming was very confident in himself, he still had a little sudden worry, and Zhou Shaoming still knew about the box office results of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, with a total investment of 280 million US dollars, and the box office results of the last three movies add up to a total of a little more than 2.9 billion, and the last part of the trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", has achieved a global box office of 1.1 billion, only lower than the "Titanic" released in 1997, ranking second in the box office list of world film history, this series of data is enough to show how brilliant "The Lord of the Rings" is.

For the first time in his heart, Zhou Shaoming had a very sense of crisis in his heart, and he vaguely felt that it might be difficult for him to complete such a task, but even if he postponed the time, with Star Wars, and other movies, he was not sure of winning, only closed his eyes and let himself do his best, as long as he did his best, even if he lost this war, he had no regrets.

Spartan 300 is a popcorn movie, the pursuit of using the film to make the audience willing to pay for the movie, in essence, this film is the Americans through the film to condense in the battle of Thermopylae brave, perseverance and selfless Spartan quality, praise and praise, the picture everywhere reveals the great pride in Western cultural traditions. Analyze from a deeper level. The success of the film really depends on the American audience's resonance with the spirit of Sparta.

Zhou Shaoming clearly knows that movies like "Spartan 300" are destined to be beaten by groups, especially critics who "take defending the dignity of film art as their own responsibility", which is inevitable; But he is also sure that in stark contrast, the audience who had just poured out of the IMAX theater frantically ran to IMDB to give it a perfect score with a red tide full of excitement (what movie can give it a perfect score?). ）。

Your own film company has just started and you give up the opportunity to grow for the sake of critics' opinions? Zhou Shaoming won't do this kind of thing. But he still attaches great importance to the perfection of his films.

The whole film is like a super-long MTV with erotic underwear as the core, the theme of the underwear is "Ancient Greece", but the music is rock; On the battlefield, minced meat flies sideways, and it flies very slowly. It is comparable to the films of Zhang, Chen, and Feng. The plot is low-pitched, the actors roar, the action is a video game, and the picture is highly game-oriented. ”

"Can anyone tell me where the grenades came from in 480 BC?"

"I bought a watch last year. In the movie, the hands are double knives and fat. Is the weirdo who cut off the head of a defeated general from the abomination of the Undercity in World of Warcraft? ”

"The heroine has let people do it, and she hasn't helped the male protagonist yet!"

hoho, this is the original time and space, Chinese netizens complained about "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors", although the Americans' complaints about this movie focused on the unreasonableness of the three hundred warriors against tens of thousands of invaders, but Zhou Shaoming revised most of the plot with a smile.

This is the three hundred in Director Smith Chow's understanding, not the three hundred of other people and other directors!

First, delete any event that could not have happened in history. Like the grenades, but reinforcing some of the most visually striking sequences, such as the rhinoceros smashing into battle formations and riding on a war elephant, will make the overall effect even more exciting.

Second, the reflection on the war on the battlefield has been strengthened, making the plot more full. The scenes of the actors' roars are greatly reduced, but each roar is extremely shocking and extremely necessary, and the entire 300 warriors are silent Grim Reaper, only occasionally showing their hideousness.

Third. The practice of scandalizing the Persians made Zhou Shaoming feel disgusted, if even such a mentally retarded and two-hundred-and-five army could not resist and the whole army was wiped out, this was not a plus but a minus for the Spartans. Therefore, the Persian army will not appear in those strange shapes, like beasts and ghosts, but not like personal dress, but normal, majestic ancient Persian warriors dressed up and shining swords, with the same spirit of fighting to the death, such an army can not rush through the battle formation of the three hundred Spartans, which will make the audience more recognize the heroism of the three hundred people who regard death as home.

Fourth, objectively respect history, no matter how many hundred people descend from heaven, it is impossible to resist the attack of tens of thousands of people, Zhou Shaoming arranged a large number of servant troops, but every time the battle is three hundred warriors rushing in front, giving people the illusion that three hundred are fighting against tens of thousands, but looking back, I will not feel that the number is too unreasonable.

Fifth, respecting the wishes of the Chinese people, how can it be possible for the heroine to be fooled in vain without helping? From the mentality of Zhou Shaoming Chinese, the king who fought hard and fought bloodily in front was a green hat king, which made him feel very awkward and disgusting.

Without saying a word, Zhou Shaoming waved his pen, and Queen Geguo became a heroine who struggled to slap the traitor and expose the true mask of the traitor.

There are too many revisions, Zhou Shaoming worked hard for a few days and nights to revise the script to the point where he thinks it is the most perfect, as for the music, it is natural to have the palace-level soundtrack John to do it, and the heavy metal music that makes people's blood boil is of course indispensable, but it will put on a classical coat, which makes people naturally think that this is the music that should be in the period of an ancient war.

Got on the plane and went to Greece, the shooting of the exterior was quickly completed, because most of the shots were carried out in front of the green cloth, Zhou Shaoming's framing in Greece was only used as the background of special effects, and in just one week, those shots were completed, which is a god speed.

In a week's time, all the actors have run in place, and in front of the green cloth that wants to give full play to their imagination, it is the place to really study everyone's acting skills.

Back in the United States, Zhou Shaoming just gave everyone half a day off, and then devoted himself to the intense film shooting again.

Early the next morning, Zhou Shaoming took the crew to the studio that had been built, because the content to be filmed today could only be completed with the help of the studio.

The crew was also nervously busy, and filming soon began.

"The fifth scene, the third act, the first time." On the side, the field keeper held the field note card and said loudly.

“action！” At the same time, Zhou Shaoming waved his hand, and the camera was instantly in place.

This scene is mainly a continuation of the scene filmed in Greece, where Leonidas and the queen are receiving the Persian envoys, but this scene is one of the best in the whole plot.

Zhou Shaoming stared at the monitor, meticulously paying attention to the performance of the actors in front of the camera, and when he returned to the set, the good old man Zhou Shaoming was gone, replaced by Director Smith Zhou.

At this time, after consulting with the Persian envoys, Leonidas seemed to be thinking about something, and muttered to himself.

"What do you want? Water and soil"

A gust of wind blows, Hugh? Leonida, played by Jackman, looked down slightly, as if looking at the ground beneath his feet, and then Jackman looked into the distance with a little deep gaze, as if there were magnificent mountains and lakes in Sparta.

"Very well, keep it up like this, pull the camera back and put it on the people of Sparta around you." Zhou Shaoming, who was outside the field, commanded nervously.

After glancing around, Leonidas lowered his head again and muttered to himself, "Earth and water." ”

"Okay, turn the camera, pay attention to keep up with Jackman's beat, Jackman, pay attention to your expression, don't come too deep again, be appropriately shallow!"

Jackman in the audience listened to Zhou Shaoming's words, and didn't say anything, just continued to perform, and finished reading the line.

Leonida pulled out the Spartan scimitar pinned to his waist, in order to stick to the truth, Zhou Shaoming asked for the production of pure metal scimitars, not ordinary props, but not open.

“cut!” Zhou Shaoming frowned, and then said: "Jackman, you are a king, you remember, you are a king who will not change his color in the face of 500,000 troops, in the previous scene, I need you to show your attachment to the land of Sparta, afraid that it will be destroyed in the war, but!" ”

After a pause, Zhou Shaoming stared at Jackman's eyes seriously, and saw him listening to himself with a serious face, before continuing: "But at the moment I turned around, what I needed was a warrior, a warrior who could lead his subordinates to charge into battle, you look at your performance, even the scimitar can't be held steadily, the way he wielded the knife just now is too unmanly!" ”

"Sorry, Director." Jackman said apologetically, although Jackman is also a strong man, but for cold weapons, it is difficult to control the balance without mastering certain skills, especially when this scimitar is not a prop, but a real guy.

The weight of a dozen catties in the hand is not a light thing, and it is difficult to balance it without training. Although he was helpless, Jackman was still very dedicated, so he was very serious about continuing to perform.

"Okay, let's do it again." Saying that, Zhou Shaoming continued to shoot again.

The scene is still frozen in the moment when Leonidas turns around, and after muttering the phrase "earth and water", Leonidas suddenly turns around and focuses on the Persian messenger.

Although compared to the previous time, when the scimitar was swung out, it was much more balanced, but Zhou Shaoming still felt dissatisfied, and then directly shouted to stop.

At this time, Zhou Shaoming didn't say much, but said calmly: "Do it again." ”

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