Chapter 187: Starlight City

The next day, Luo Yang and Angel made an appointment to visit the famous film and television shooting gathering place Starlight City.

Although I am worried about being discovered by reporters, but after all, Luo Yang is my friend, and when she comes to country M, Angel takes it for granted that she should fulfill the friendship of the landlord, since Luo Yang is interested in movies, then the City of Stars is naturally the most haode place to visit.

After driving for about an hour, the car finally came to the famous City of Stars, except for Anna, who accompanied them, Luo Yang and Angel wrapped themselves tightly so as not to be recognized, so they got out of the car and set foot on this famous place.

Although the name of the Starlight City is very dazzling, but it is actually not very spectacular, standing on the road leading to the Starlight City, Luo Yang can clearly see the rows of buildings in front of him that are not very tall, under the light of the early morning sun, it looks relatively old, compared with the bustling city that has just left, it is like a slum, the world is different, but Luo Yang does not dare to have the slightest underestimate, because this is the birthplace of Blue Star movies, the filming location of countless classic or forgotten film books, It is the holy place in the hearts of all filmmakers in Lanxing, and with this layer of aura, the old buildings in front of you seem to be covered with a layer of dazzling light.

Seeing Luo Yang looking at the building in front of him with great interest, Angel, as the landlord, naturally began to help Luo Yang explain the origin of the City of Starlight: "Luo Yang, do you know that although the City of Starlight is the holy land of the modern film industry, its earliest discoverer has nothing to do with movies"!

Listening to Angel's words, Luo Yang was a little surprised: "Oh, what's going on", Luo Yang came to this shijie not long ago, although he had heard that this city of stars was the pinnacle of the film industry like Hollywood on the earth, but he really didn't know much about its origin.

Seeing that Luo Yang was interested, Angel explained with a smile: "More than a hundred years ago, this was just a quiet valley, the scenery was pleasant, few people know, there were two photographers in order to be able to take photos of the scenery of haode, accidentally found this place, I liked it very much, took a lot of photos here, and named this place the land of stars, because the scenery here is good, there is no pollution from industrial smoke, the sky is bright at night, and the stars in the sky are shining, which is the earliest origin of the name City of Stars."

"Photography enthusiasts discovered this place, and naturally spread it, attracting many photography enthusiasts to come and take pictures of the scenery here, and for a time it became a paradise for photography lovers, if nothing else, it will become a tourist attraction instead of the mecca of the film industry, the city of stars."

"It wasn't until more than ten years later that Griffiths, the inventor of modern cinema, knew about this place in other people's photographs, so he brought his wife to travel here, Griffith's wife liked this place very much, so she begged Griffith to settle here, Griffith loved his wife very much, so he agreed, spent money to buy a place here as his own residence, and continued to study the earliest silent films here."

After several years of research, Griffith finally developed the first projection photography machine on shijie, and used this machine to shoot the first film on shijie, the scenery of the land of stars, which caused a great sensation, many people praised this is the arrival of a new era, and many discerning businessmen also saw the business opportunities contained in it, after all, after the first film interview on shijie, everyone's great enthusiasm caused their shock, Although the picture is nothing more than the natural scenery and the pictures of animals running and birds flying that everyone can see, they think that if everyone likes and is curious so much, wouldn't it be more popular if the content in it was changed to people and told stories between people"?

"Thinking of it, I had to do it, Shijie's first official film shooting was born with the support of these far-sighted businessmen, who bought Griffith's patented projection and photography machine, and began to shoot Shijie's first silent film "The Magician", the main content of the movie is a magician performing magic tricks, although the plot is simple, but officially laid the foundation for the invention of modern cinema."

"However, at that time, the camera projection machine had just been released, and there were still many problems that often needed to be repaired, so the filming location of the film was set in the land of stars, near Griffith's house, and if there was a problem, you could find Griffith nearby to solve it."

"The advent of this movie, compared with the first movie, the scenery of the land of stars caused a greater sensation, because the protagonist is a person, and the performance is a magic show that everyone likes to watch, not the running of animals and the flight of birds, setting a record of 10,000 empty alleys, watching this movie, so that the businessman who dared to be the first to eat crabs made a lot of money, driven by such huge profits, more businessmen invested in this industry, the film content is getting richer and longer, and the time is getting longer, However, the common feature of everyone is that they unanimously chose this place as the shooting location to avoid problems with the camera, and they had to ask Griffith to solve it from afar."

"Time passed little by little, and in this way, it became a gathering place for the film industry, a famous city of stars."

Angel's explanation was full of emotion, Luo Yang smiled and listened to Angel's explanation, and finally had a preliminary understanding of this holy place of the film industry: "It turns out that there are so many stories here, Angel thank you for explaining to me."

Angel smiled and said: "Actually, I won't tell you these things, you can know later, there is a monument not far in front of you, and these things are clearly engraved on it, I just repeat it."

Luo Yang shook his head with a smile and said, "Looking at the text description yourself, how can you listen to other people's explanations to be vivid, it is different."

After listening to Angel's explanation, the three of them walked towards the city of stars, where tourists are not prohibited from entering, but they just need to buy tickets, buy three tickets, and the three of them will enter this small city under the permission of the people who maintain order.

As soon as he entered here, Luo Yang immediately felt like he was walking into a history museum or a time and space tunnel, the buildings on both sides of the road walked a distance in the style of an era, almost including the famous stage in history, and even Luo Yang found a street that is the ancient street of Huaguo, where there are the most tourists, and it seems that foreign tourists are also very interested in the culture of Huaguo.

Watching Luo Yang carefully observe these streets, Angel explained with a smile: "These streets, characteristic buildings, are specially built, for example, if you want to shoot a movie of an era, then come to the City of Stars, you can definitely find your ideal filming location, the facilities here are very perfect."

Listening to Angel's words, Luo Yang nodded, the name of Starlight City is not for nothing, it seems that it is indeed worthy of its fame.

After visiting the City of Starlight, Luo Yang and Angel Anna and others went to visit the crew that was filming in the City of Starlight, and these crews did not refuse tourists to watch, but just used straps to stop tourists from outside, so as not to let tourists disturb the actors' performances.

Standing outside the yellow belt, Luo Yang carefully watched the actors' performances and the director's on-site scheduling, and felt that he had benefited a lot.

After visiting the City of Stars and several crews, the time was almost noon, and several people came to the City of Stars to have lunch, and continued to visit the famous Avenue of Stars in the afternoon.

This famous Avenue of Fame is not far from the City of Stars, a large monument carved with the inventor of the film industry, Griffiths, and the first photographic projector on the shijie he studied, and in front of the monument is a long red avenue, this avenue is not for tourists to walk, but to commemorate the pioneers of the film industry who made great contributions to the film industry, after the death of every famous filmmaker, after the certification of the Shijie Film Industry Association, confirmed that he is qualified, It is worth remembering for all filmmakers, and a gold star will be cast, on which the head of this person and his deeds are carved, and then inlaid on this avenue of stars, implying that on the road of the development of the human film industry, the contributions made by these people are like stars in the sky, immortal.

Although this Avenue of Stars cannot be walked, there are two auxiliary roads on both sides, everyone can walk on the auxiliary roads, watch the deeds of these predecessors, and send flowers and souvenirs to thank them for their contributions, Luo Yang Angel and the three of them also walked quietly on this road, each holding a bouquet of flowers in their hands, placed on the red avenue, to express their respect for these pioneers of the film industry.

After laying the flowers, Luo Yang carefully looked at the Venus on this road, although the film industry has a history of 100 years, but the deeds of the head can be carved with Venus, and there are only about 20 film pioneers embedded in this avenue, representing the 20 great pioneers in the history of the film industry.

While looking at their life experiences and achievements, Luo Yang sighed in his heart, it has been a hundred years since the development of the film industry, movie stars, directors and producers are like Hengsha, uncountable, but only so few people can climb this avenue and make people remember, I don't know if I have the opportunity to leave a gold star of my own on this avenue in the future, so this kind of life is worthwhile.

But after sighing for a while, Luo Yang suddenly laughed again, he is still so young, he has just entered the film industry, and he doesn't even know how to shoot movies, so he thinks so far away, it's really inexplicable, it's better to put his heart on learning how to shoot movies, these things can't be compared to his own eight poles.