readx;??? One of the most things Hollywood has done in the past two decades is to upgrade virtual technology into a powerful tool to restore the real world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, it is rare to use extreme special effects and logical structures to fully present the picture of consciousness in the human brain.

"Inception" wants to show a four-layer effect in a limited space, relying heavily on post-editing, and the narrative order of this film is not according to common sense, just like people can't sort out their dreams after waking up.

In order to be able to show the situation in different levels of dreams at the same time at the same time, and to explain the special time difference of different levels of dreams clearly, Duke once again "cross-edited" and put forward higher requirements.

He asked the lighter to give a completely different feel to each different location and dream, thus effectively avoiding the confusion that cross-editing can bring.

"Moving from one place to another, we wanted to have a little bit of a change in tone," said Duke to the dimmer and Mike? "There's a barren and cold feel to Calgary, with warm corridors and neutral vans. Even if we cut to a very small scene, even if we cut to something isolated out of the background, the audience can immediately know where the character is. ”

This is a way to facilitate storytelling, and it is also to enhance the friendliness of the film to the audience, so that the audience can watch and understand the whole film.

"We're going to rely heavily on cross-splicing,"

Before all the work began, Duke made a point of explaining to Mike? Dawson, "You can be very relaxed when editing if different scenes look very different, but I don't want to do too much artificiality with the footage. Instead, we want to find the natural tones of each place. In the script, I wanted the different action threads to happen in places that were inherently different in design and feel. I ask everyone to be observant, including the art and sound departments. ”

In "Inception", the editing between dreams can be said to be time and space, especially the last four-story dream, Duke wants to make the cross-editing of the four time and space create a tense atmosphere, especially in the final part of preparing to wake up. The people left behind in the four layers of dreams find a way to fall in their respective layers, constantly intersecting, and at the same time, they go deep into the time difference caused by different dreams, and use cross-cut close-ups of the characters to cut out the characters waking up layer by layer at the moment of waking up.

The tension created by cross-editing. It can also mobilize the emotions of the audience very well.

Probably a relationship that has been more idle lately, Sophia? Occasionally, Coppola would come to Warner Studios to exchange views on filmmaking with Duke. Dawson's rough cut of dailies, even though most of the special effects were not added. She still has some feelings.

As she sat down at the lounge table over coffee, Sophia said to Duke, "You've profoundly changed mainstream Hollywood cinema." ”

"I'm just a part of how mainstream Hollywood cinema is changing in the 21st century."

Picking up his coffee, Duke took a sip and said, "Essentially, those people aren't wrong to say I'm just a superficial director and producer, and that all I do is to give the audience a thrill." ”

Sophia disagreed with Duke's words, gently turning the coffee cup with her right hand, talking about the comprehensive influence on contemporary Hollywood films. Can you be at least in the top three of directors in the last two decades, maybe only James? Cameron and Quentin? Tastino is on par with you. ”

Seeing what Duke wanted to say, Sophia, who knew him well, preemptively said, "Don't talk about my father, George, and Steven and Martin, they are too old after all, they belong to the previous era." I'm referring to the impact on such a specific object as Hollywood films, and I'm not judging by box office. ”

Duke put down his coffee cup and smiled. "I'm an improver at best, not an innovator or a disruptor."

"I agree with that." Sophia nodded before drinking her coffee.

Mainstream Hollywood commercial cinema also doesn't welcome subversion, it just embraces improvement. For filmmaking, though. Improvement is not something that needs to be touted.

There are many good directors and good movies that are not improved, and there are also many creators who have made improvements but the final work has an average response.

In fact, Sophia is very aware of what some old men of the academy think of Duke.

They see his films as a kind of vulgar and popular modernism, like a copycat version of some of the techniques that have long been used in serious art, so as to entertain more people.

In Sophia's opinion, through Duke's film. Ordinary audiences can also comfortably understand and enjoy some of the originally very avant-garde artistic concepts, but Duke's commercial positioning of the films determines that they have always lacked that kind of thinking and fascinating connotation and philosophical depth, they are too much like building blocks with only one solution, precise, stable, so mechanical and patterned.

Can only say Sophia? Coppola's philosophy is very different from Duke's, which is an important reason why Duke has not used her in any commercial works.

However, Sophia also acknowledged Duke's achievements in reinventing Hollywood films, "For example, in superhero movies, you bring completely different superhero movies, and you introduce some real political and social issues into superhero movies. In the past, these were not discussed. ”

"Since Superman has such great abilities, what's the point of catching robbers and thieves every day? He can completely change the laws of the world and truly benefit mankind. ”

After saying this, Duke spread his hands, "Hollywood won't shoot like that, because superhero movies are essentially fairy tales." Some of the conflicts involved in "" can indeed be found in real life, but they are still fairy tales. ”

Asking Batman to deal with some real social issues, rather than those pseudo-problems faced by Superman, does seem profound, but it is still a commercial method, choosing a lot of hot public issues and throwing them into the narrative of the film, and the audience will naturally find out what they care about and increase their attention to the film.

Just when Duke was busy with the post-production of "Inception", something happened in Hollywood that shook the whole world - "Titanic" was a 12-year-old box office record. Cameron himself refreshed.

No film can be in it all the time, not even "Avatar", which does not conform to the laws of the normal film market, and since the incredible reversal of the fifth weekend, the film's North American box office has finally shown a normal downward trend, but the decline rate is unusually slow every weekend.

It is true that "Avatar" has not exploded more than $100 million at the box office in North America in a single weekend, but the most frightening thing about it is that the trend is terrifying, and now it has been released for more than 11 weeks, and the weekend box office is still as much as $13.65 million!

This cannot but be frightening.

And in just eleven weeks, the film grossed more than $700 million in North America, a whopping $720.6 million.

This set a new North American box office record!

Not only in North America, but also in the global market, the trend of this film is also stable and terrifying, and the global box office has easily crossed the threshold of "Titanic", with a score of 2.418885 billion US dollars, setting a new global box office record.

More importantly, "Avatar" also brought about a revolution in the film market, completely pushing the 3D and IMAX boom caused by "Metamorphosis" to a peak, and cinema companies around the world not only set off a boom in opening IMAX theaters, but even the 3D eyes that have always been unpopular have become a hot commodity.

On the other hand, the success of "Avatar" has also aroused the market's desire for 3D films, even "Alice in Wonderland", a pseudo-3D film that has been transformed into a post-production, has achieved crazy sales with the help of "Avatar".

Similarly, Duke, who had been prepared for this for a long time, became one of the winners of this wave.

The 3D version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy landed in more than 1,000 theaters in North America and more than 60 markets overseas in a three-part series, earning more than $70 million at the North American box office and nearly $250 million worldwide in less than a month.

This not only brought in considerable profits, but also played a certain warm-up publicity role for the upcoming "The Hobbit" trilogy.

The 3D wave has also penetrated into all aspects of the mainstream Hollywood film industry, and major production companies have made plans to shoot 3D films, even if they have already started shooting, they are ready to be converted into 3D movies through post-production.

"Fast & Furious 5 is definitely going to be a 3D movie!"

In the office of Universal Studios, David, who finalized the cooperation after long negotiations? , Universal Pictures executives, and Fan? Diesel gathered, David? Ellison stood up and deliberately emphasized, "Fast and Furious 5 must also be a 3D movie!" ”

"I have no opinion!" Fan? Diesel endorses David? Ellison's statement.

Of course, people in Universal Pictures will not have an opinion, and now everyone can see that the 3D of the film will inevitably bring more box office revenue.

"Justin? Lin has agreed to continue as the director of Fast and Furious 5. A Universal Pictures executive said, "The main actors of the first part have basically agreed to return to ......."

He paused, right? Ellison and Van ? "But we didn't find Jessica? Alba. ”

Jessica? Alba has completely disappeared from Hollywood since she was released from prison, and in fact she will not be able to continue to establish herself in Hollywood.

Fan? Diesel thought for a moment and said, "Get rid of her." ”

This short meeting is over, Fan? Diesel and David? Ellison walked out of the office together, and when he entered the elevator room, David? Ellison suddenly lowered his voice and said, "My people found Jessica?" Alba. (To be continued.) )

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