It was really the first time for Liu Tianwang to encounter such a scene, and today's everyone actually left him out in the cold!

It's just that Liu Tianwang's cultivation is relatively good, and he can handle a lot of things, but this situation makes him feel a little surprised.

So Liu Tianwang glanced at Chen Xi again and saw the current Chen Xi.

This guy looks really handsome, and he sits there with a strange composure that many young people don't have......

Indeed, don't look at many people saying that Chen Xi is Chen Cannon or something, but judging from some of Chen Xi's things that Liu Dehua made up for before, this guy is targeted every time he speaks, not gibberish at all, nor is he full of empty cannons, what he says can basically be done.

So this guy really has such a unique charm in many things.

And Liu Dehua is really more moved by Chen Xi's "Gravity", he was still a little hesitant at the beginning of this movie, but as time went by, Liu Dehua felt more and more the wonder of this movie, especially the fact that this movie can make people taste a lot of things.

There will be a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people, and this "Gravity" will produce that feeling, a thousand fans will see different gravity, but everyone will think of something useful in the middle.

Believers in the theory of evolution will see a feeling of people walking from something in the water to the shore, then becoming a two-legged creature, and then starting to evolve, believers in God will see a religious brilliance and a sense of the existence of gods, and Buddhist disciples will see a kind of reincarnation of life in the middle, and for ordinary people they will also see a kind of beauty of life in it......

So, the interest that this movie gave him was really strong!

Liu Dehua also really saw Chen Xi's talent for the first time.

In this way, he also happily accepted the invitation to shoot "Gravity" and became one of the most important characters in it.

At this time, someone began to ask Liu Dehua: "This "Gravity". Are there any similarities with your previous sci-fi film "Future Police"? Which of the two is better? ”

These reporters' questions are really harboring evil intentions, after all, if Liu Tianwang answers that "Gravity" is better now (in fact, most people think so), then he will also be criticized by some people in the circle, after all, it is a movie he has made, even if it is a bad movie, it will be knocked out and swallowed in the stomach, and the future Liu Tianwang will not be able to come out and say too much even if he is scolded by "Fuchun Mountain Residence".

Of course, there are people who scold the director for ruining the movie, but there are people who are not like that, but after all, they are a minority, and although these people feel very cool when they say it. But the side effects are also significant.

And "Future Police" is just bad for everyone, and it's not particularly bad for Wang Jing, Wang Jing is very talented, and he has made a lot of talented films, but more of them are some playful, pee and fart films, which are not good or bad.

He and Chen Kaige and the like are two completely different types, Wang Jing doesn't care even if others say that his movies are bad, as long as he makes money anyway. If you can make the audience happy again, everything will be OK......

But represented by Chen Kaige, including Lu Qi and others, is different, this group of people always feels that the movies they make are quite awesome. The audience doesn't know how to appreciate it, and it is the viewing level that needs to be improved, not their shooting level. Chen Kaige is the most awesome in this regard, other directors actually say that their movies are good, and they can't say it if they are asked a few more words. Because they themselves may be a little drumming in their hearts, but Chen Kaige feels that his movies are too awesome from beginning to end, and many places are classics......

Any movie is scolded at the end. Chen Kaige can justify himself through the twists and turns of the theory, and some people will really suddenly realize: Director Chen, we are wrong to blame you!

And Chen Kaige also has a ability, that is, to make bad movies through a self-justifying theory, and finally boil it down to a system problem. Well, if you only scold the audience for not knowing how to appreciate and offend the audience after all, then change the target and attack the physique, then everyone will be happy!

…… Far from it! Now Liu Dehua is very able to deal with this kind of thing, he smiled and said: "I think these two movies are actually two different types, Director Chen himself said before, this is not a real science fiction film, there are a lot of things like reality, and they are also from reality, I don't think it's necessary to make a comparison between the two, as for the similarities, I don't think there are many similarities, the biggest similarity is that both are Chinese movies!" ”

Liu Tianwang's cold humor was not funny, so everyone laughed casually.

Interviews one after another, Chen Xi, Liu Dehua, and Zhang Ziyi are all of great concern to everyone, so the microphone is also circulating between the three of them.

Waiting for the end of this kick-off press conference, Chen Xi is also a little satisfied, anyway, what he wants to do now has been done at this press conference, he wants to spread the expectations of this movie directly anyway, which he thought the same as when he was embarrassed in Thailand.

But having said that, there are some things that must not be said.

For example, what philosophical ideas are in the movie, as well as some religious flavors hidden in the movie, and can cause people to think deeply, Chen Xi really doesn't plan to say these things. After all, there is a thing called killing in this world, if Chen Xi talks about the box office, he is naturally confident that he will surpass the previous "Source Code", but when it comes to word of mouth, it's really hard to say!

Sometimes the reputation of a movie collapses not because the movie is very bad, but because it is far from everyone's expectations, for example, "One Step Away", the movie itself is not bad, but because everyone's expectations for this movie are too strong, it finally became a Waterloo for Emperor Jiang Wei.

So now Chen Xi wants to take a path that can be boasted about at the box office, as well as in visual effects, but in terms of the specific performance of the movie, it is better not to let everyone really have a kind of expectation of a god film for this movie.

It's a strategy!

After the launch conference, "Gravity" officially began filming......

The real investment in "Gravity" is about 300 million yuan, such a large investment is really quite terrifying in the current Chinese film box office market, and this is an extremely dangerous number, even some commercial film directors in China who have been quite successful, including Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, they will feel that the investment of 300 million yuan is something they dare not beat their chests and say that they can earn back.

Chen Xi is more confident.

300 million yuan of investment. If there is a box office of more than 500 million in China and some copyrights are sold abroad, then the cost can be recovered, and it is difficult for other people's films to sell copyrights abroad, but Chen Xi is different, his current popularity, it is really simple to sell a film overseas.

Now Chen Xi, as long as "Gravity" is not too bad, it is really simple to sell a copyright of tens of millions of dollars overseas, of course. If the movie is too bad, then selling it like this will carry a bit of brand cash-out, and it will just be a one-shot deal.

After the tempering of "Source Code", Chen Xi's current conquest of the market is really incomparable before.

Of the 300 million inputs, about 100 million of them are used for publicity expenses, and such high publicity costs are enough to establish a certain impression for everyone.

In addition to 300 million, there are only more than 30 million that are really used in film production, and the rest is spent on special effects!

In fact, when Chen Xi said his special effects requirements. There are several people on the special effects company's side who are waving their hands and think it's too difficult.

Because Chen Xi has prepared a lot of things in the middle.

"Gravity" is a space film, and there are a lot of technical difficulties in this movie.

First of all, there is the biggest problem of weightlessness...... After all, it's a space movie, and there's a weightlessness in it, after all, it's outer space where gravity doesn't exist.

In another plane. Until the advent of "Gravity", most of the shooting of space exploration films still relied on the mainstream method of "WIA + green screen + CG post-production". And after that, I am afraid that the only thing that can surpass this film is to go to space to shoot live......

This is because "Gravity" has been explored by the director in many ways, and finally came up with some solutions!

Chen Xi's "Gravity" cycle is much shorter than that director's filming. One of the biggest reasons for this is that the director has explored all the methods for the filming of "Gravity" after several years, but now Chen Xi knows it!

So he can apply the results directly. Of course, it's all on the shoulders of giants.

Now the first problem of weightlessness to solve, Chen Xi used a method of visual deception.

After all, the weightlessness on the big screen is actually the weightlessness of the picture perspective, not the real weightlessness. Therefore, the core problem that these space film creators have to solve is how to deal with the problem of changing perspectives. Chen Xi used the method used in the previous "Gravity", using the flexible and accurate IRIS robotic arm to support the actor's body.

This IRIS robotic arm has a movement speed of 4 meters per second, a movement radius of 3.1 meters, an accuracy of 0.04 mm, an axis of up to 7 joints, and a track of more than 10 meters, which is enough to complete a variety of complex and delicate movements, and shoot shots of various tricky angles at will, so the existence of this kind of thing is convenient for directors and fans, but tortures actors.

At this point, Liu Dehua and Zhang Ziyi will have a lot of experience.

Chen Xi wanted Zhang Ziyi to go to the gym before, in fact, in addition to wanting Zhang Ziyi's figure to be more perfect at that time, it was also to allow her to really adapt to such things.

However, this is not a big deal for the entire special effects company, after all, the development of CG technology has reached its peak, and everyone knows how to apply many things, and many things have corresponding solutions.

Now the most incredible thing for special effects companies is the production of Chen Xi's lightbox!

The so-called light box is a huge box, and in this box, it has actually become a small sound studio.

The height of the light box is several meters, and it is composed of 1.8 million small light bulbs around the light box, each of which can be controlled independently and change the visual effect of the light according to the requirements of the computer program.

In fact, this lightbox cost Chen Xi more than 3 million, which is extremely expensive!

And this money must be spent!

This lightbox was created to solve the problem, after all, the massive CG production of Gravity presented another problem, which was how to make the live action and CG environment compose seamlessly. Actors are often lit differently than CG environments, and if the lighting isn't right, the composite will look unnatural. This requires finding a way to match the live lighting with the CG ambient lighting.

So this lightbox has finally appeared.

The four walls of the installation are all made up of LED screens, which play videos and pictures that simulate the surrounding environment, and the camera controlled by the robotic arm rotates flexibly in this space. The VFX team was responsible for creating a pattern for the virtual set on the LED screen to match the actors' subjective perspectives. In this way, the image displayed on the LED screen will illuminate the actor and put the actor in the environment, as if space is revolving around the actor......

Of course, although this kind of thing is convenient for the film crew, it is quite a painful thing for the post-production: if they used a relatively simple robotic arm to shoot the light, then it would be easy for them to key the image at that time, but now they have to face a light box with a complex light source...... It's hard to replace these things with a pitch-black universe.

In fact, the principle of keying is more widely used to use different colors to achieve, so the more complex the background light source, the more difficult it is to complete the keying process.

I don't know how many SHIT sentences have been scolded by the people from the special effects company, but no matter what they say, they have to admit the innovation of some of the things Chen Xi used on "Gravity".

Needless to say, this is definitely the first time in film history, and it is likely that some other space films will also be affected by the shooting methods of this movie in the future.

And the use of the robotic arm is also a good breakthrough in space films.

After all, it was too troublesome to solve the problem of weightlessness in the past, even in Nolan's "Inception", weightlessness had to be hung with a steel wire, and the picture performance was parallel to the ground, and the actors had to be hung for half a day during filming, which was too demanding for the actors.

The weightlessness scene of "Apollo 13" is the most real, because it was originally filmed in a weightless environment: after all, the crew was sponsored by NASA, so they directly used a space shuttle, which can achieve 25 seconds of weightlessness through activities in the atmosphere under the support of some principles......

And that 25 seconds of weightlessness is hundreds of thousands of dollars in ashes!

And now the way of "Gravity" is also a small subversion! (To be continued......)