Chapter 312: Marvel
The story of Jihad is about Dr. Jones in a life-and-death struggle with a group of Nazis, and they compete for the legendary Holy Grail that can be rejuvenated and brought back to life.
This story is full of magic, so it gives the heroic special effects team full room to play.
However, such a magical story is not completely fabricated out of thin air.
Lucas in the original time and space is based on the real events of a German writer named Otto Rahn, who was strongly supported by the Nazi Party and set out to find the Holy Grail.
Otto Rahn was born as a child and heard a story about the Holy Grail, in which Jesus filled the Grail with red wine, a symbol of His blood, at the Last Supper and told his faithful disciples to drink it.
He became interested in these legends, believing that the Holy Grail was deliberately hidden by the saints, and determined to get it at all costs!
The Nazis also had this idea, so they offered him a large amount of cash to fund his search for the Holy Grail, but the result was naturally in vain, and Rahn finally failed to find him, and became disgusted with the Nazis, so he climbed the snow-capped "Emperor's Mountains" near Tyrol, calmly ingested the poison, and chose to end his life by suicide.
Days later, the search team found Rahne's frozen body, claiming that the scene was "quite sacred, as pure as a hermit or a sage." (Rahn's) countenance was gentle and calm, showing no signs of pain. ”
It also casts a shadow of mystery over the search for the Holy Grail, a writer who has been obsessed with the legend of the Holy Grail since childhood, who has lost his life in pursuit of what he has pursued all his life. The Nazis' mad quest for the Holy Grail came to an abrupt end.
Yingshuai also studied this history when adapting the Holy War, and I have to feel that there is no shortage of persistent people in the world, just to see if you are working hard in the right direction, and it is more sad to work in the wrong direction than not to work hard.
So in the script, he portrayed the Nazis looking for the Holy Grail even more crazy, otherwise he can't really show that crazy era, in fact, reality is often crazier than the movie.
The same is true for the filming of the crew in Shuicheng, which can only be described as crazy, the filming in the library is okay, after all, it is a closed occasion, and the government also keeps its promise, and really gives the crew the privilege of filming in the closed museum.
But the drama of the chase in the water city is not so easy to control, and it is impossible for the government to close the entire city to toss the hero.
The city covers an area of less than 7.8 square kilometers, but it is made up of 118 small islands and 177 canals. The primitive empty film is a scene of chasing on the water, but after taking a little location, it was filmed in the open sea where there are few ships.
But Yingshuai didn't feel like it was enough, and decided to use aerial photography and close-ups to show the charm of the waterways of the water city, so that the two sides of the chase could shuttle between the waterways of the water city. This makes it much more difficult to shoot, and although many of the effects can be done through post-processing, the amount of work involved in the live shoot is still significant.
The government only allows filming from 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock every day when tourists are scarce, so the crew can only try to ensure the success rate of filming, and pursue it once.
Although I practiced more than a dozen times in advance, the real shooting still made all the staff put all their minds to the limit, and once it just means that the day is in vain.
The nervousness of everyone can be imagined, and the only wish in their hearts is to work together to throw the culprit Yingshuai into the water on the day of the end of the filming of the water city.
But the filming continues, and this wish is just a casual thought.
Buzz!
There was a vibration sound in Yingshuai's pocket, he took out his mobile phone, glanced at it and hung up, replied with a message "Filming in the movie", and put the phone back in his pocket.
Under normal circumstances, the other party will wait for a few hours to call again, and the habit of the handsome is that no one is allowed to disturb during the shooting.
Buzz! Buzz!
However, the other party didn't seem to know Yingshuai's habits, and kept calling him.
Yingshuai frowned, just after the scene was filmed.
"Click, this one, take a break. Yingshuai said.
This made the cast and crew at the scene a little confused, and looked up at the sky, it seemed that the sun did not come out of the west today.
"What's important about Robert?" It turned out to be Robert's phone call, and the handsome knew that the general manager was very measured, and if it wasn't for something important, it was impossible for him to insist on calling after he hung up.
"Ying Shao, things have changed at Marvel. Robert, a calm man, also had a hint of urgency in his tone.
"What?" Sure enough, when the hero heard his words, he was also a little discolored.
Marvel is an important part of his plans for the next ten years, and he is naturally concerned about changes.
Marvel is not as prosperous at this time as it will be in the future, and it was not the king from the beginning.
From the beginning of its establishment, it has actually been suppressed by DC, and it was not until the classic image of Captain Moldy Country was launched in World War II that it was overtaken in one fell swoop.
However, their lead was only a short two or three years, and they were suppressed by DC for the next thirty years, and it was not until the eighties that Marvel thought of making its own superhero team. So he hired Stan Lee, the soul of Marvel, as the screenwriter, and opened Marvel's own era.
It's also interesting to say that in 1984, the DC Comics empire, which was overwhelmed by Marvel, began to crumble, and DC's executives also threw an olive branch like Marvel, hoping that Marvel would buy DC. But at that time, Marvel executives thought that DC's character design had failed and rejected the acquisition without any bright spots, think about how exciting it would be if the two combined, the Justice League and the Avengers, appeared in the same film at the same time.
Okay, you look down on me, and I'm going to make you unclimbable.
DC was humiliated after this incident. A large number of excellent painters and screenwriters have been discovered, and several works that can be called masterpieces have been created. Such as the Watchmen, the Vendendtta, and the Dark Knight of Batman. Under the influence of several masterpieces, DC has successfully pulled Marvel off the throne.
However, Marvel was suppressed and couldn't hold on, and Marvel, which lacked funds, was favored by a financial predator named Ron Pereman, who successfully acquired Marvel and successfully listed Marvel with sophisticated capital operation.
But Ron wasn't interested in comics and was just a simple businessman. During this period, Marvel made a lot of money, and also borrowed heavily to buy a bunch of companies such as toys and cards. Marvel fans began to be disappointed with the impetuous Marvel, and it was also at this time that Marvel began to sell the rights to film and television adaptations of its comic book characters, such as Spider-Man sold to Columbia and X-Men sold to Fox.
Barn's vision can't see so far, and at this time, Marvel, which does not have its own movie workshop, has no plans to make a movie itself, so it is better to sell the superhero and earn some copyright fees.
But even if the heroes are sold out, they still can't stop the decline of Marvel.
The debt-ridden Marvel finally filed for bankruptcy reorganization in 1996, and DC initially felt that the time had come to show off its might and proposed a takeover plan.
However, after a few meetings, DC abandoned the decision, because most people still felt that Marvel's decline could not be stopped, and it would be unwise to buy such a mess.
It was in this situation that the handsome proposed a plan to acquire Marvel...