On May 9, the 54th Cannes Film Festival opened.

Earlier, nearly a month ago, this year's Cannes Film Festival announced the list of shortlisted films in each unit.

This time, a total of 23 feature films were shortlisted for the main competition, of which only two Chinese-language films were shortlisted, and both were from Wanwan.

respectively from Hou Hsiao-hsien's "The Name of the Rose", and Cai Mingming's "What Time Is It Over There".

Neither Hong Kong nor the mainland made it to the competition this time, and Guan Jinpeng's "Lan Yu", which was previously optimistic, also unfortunately missed the shortlist.

Compared with the scenery of Chinese films last year, Yang Dechang's "Yiyi", Jiang Wen's "The Devil is Coming", and Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" three Chinese films were shortlisted for the main competition unit, which will indeed make people unmotivated this year.

Therefore, many domestic media have made negative sounds, and the atmosphere is like missing the top three in a certain ace event in the Olympic Games.

But fortunately, there are still mainland filmmakers in the short film unit.

There are 12 shortlisted films in this short film unit.

One of them is from Lu Ping'an, who just won the Silver Bear Award for short film in Berlin a few months ago.

This time, Lu Ping'an was shortlisted for Cannes again with the short film "Black Hole", and was nominated for the Palme d'Or, and will compete for the Palme d'Or for short films in the future, so Lu Ping'an was once again in the newspaper.

Of course, there is another mainland filmmaker shortlisted for the short film, his name is Yang Chao, and the work he brings is called "To Be Killed", but he signed up for the film cornerstone unit, which is not very high compared with the short film unit of one of the official competitions, plus Lu Ping'an is already famous, so few people will report him.

Lu Ping'an's short film was shortlisted again, and many reporters approached the school to interview him.

Lu Ping'an directly pushed the interview to Hu Qingquan on the grounds that the post-production of the big movie "Tuner" was very busy.

So the media soon learned that the short film called "Black Hole" was only more than two minutes long!

And then all sorts of discussions came out.

There are positives, which account for the majority, and at the same time there are negatives.

On the positive side, it is short and concise, and it must be wonderful.

On the negative side, the duration is too short, and it is almost impossible to win the grand prize.

Some people even say that Lu Ping'an doesn't take Cannes too seriously.

Two minutes, this is the shortest Cannes short film, right?

With the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, such discussions are heating up.

The six princesses also joined the report, first reporting the two Chinese movies in the introduction, then reporting Lu Ping'an, and finally saying that there are Yang Dechang and Li An in this review, and then wishing Lu Ping'an to win another award.

As a result, Lu Ping'an's name has also become the top of the film industry to a certain extent.

In fact, such a situation is also helpless.

Who let Cannes not have a mainland film this time.

It's good that there is no such thing, there is only one road safe, who is he talking about if he doesn't talk about it?

In this regard, Lu Ping'an himself does not care.

He's now concentrating on the post-production of the film, waiting until a few days before the awards ceremony to come back and see.

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The post-production of "The Tuner" went more smoothly than expected.

On the one hand, Zhang Yifan and Lu Ping'an have already cooperated once, so the tacit understanding is much higher this time when they cooperate again.

On the other hand, it is the credit of the "X" special effects software given by Goldfinger.

One-stop special effects generation software from the year 2050, it's really advanced!

After the movie was finished, Lu Ping'an spent two days researching this thing.

Goldfinger is very powerful, and after Lu Ping'an receives the reward, all the information about "X" comes into his mind, which means that he can now become proficient in using the software.

However, if you want to use it in reality, you need relevant hardware facilities.

It's going to cost a lot of money.

After all, it is 2001, and the computing power of a smartphone in 20 years can be compared to the computing power of an ordinary computer now.

So if you want to run "X" smoothly, you have to spend a lot of money.

Lu Ping'an went to find out.

At present, the mainstream computer on the market uses a 64M processor, AMD's processor, the video memory is only a pitiful 4M, and the hard disk is only 6.4G. The hard disk is full with a few software.

But how much does such a computer sell now? 18000！

The hardware performance is too far behind.

Fortunately, the software given by Goldfinger has multiple grades to choose from, and low-level ones can be used, so the hardware requirements are reduced a lot.

Lu Ping'an directly rented a new office building of more than 200 square meters, and then registered a special effects company, named "X (Ex) Special Effects Technology Co., Ltd.", and then spent more than 200,000 yuan to buy equipment, filling the entire office, so there is only one person in the special effects company headquarters to get it, if those mining people see it in the future, they will definitely feel that Lu Ping'an is a fellow practitioner.

After the equipment was built, Lu Ping'an entered the source code into it through the golden finger, and then the world's most advanced and blackest special effects software "X" appeared on his computer screen.

And there is no need to worry about being stolen, because the "X" is bound with you.

As long as Lu Ping'an feels unsafe, he can take it back at any time, and the computer will be formatted without leaving any traces.

Of course, Lu Ping'an can also learn programming by himself or recruit relevant personnel, split "X" into various software, such as Nuke, PS, 3Dmax, etc., which are already available in the world, and then compete with them.

But Lu Ping'an didn't think about this for the time being, it's too troublesome, let's talk about it later.

More than 200,000 dollars were spent, which can support "X" to run.

Its efficiency is no better than that of a computer host with more than 10,000 in 20 years.

It's pathetic, but it's enough.

There aren't many special effects needed in the big movie "The Tuner", it's just a rabbit, which is less than a minute in total, and there is no need to shoot separately.

But this lifelike rabbit, judging from the current level of domestic special effects, is basically impossible to do.

Fortunately, Lu Ping'an now has "X", and such a simple special effect only needs to be pulled out of the material library in the software to adjust.

Of course, the "X" software is not a panacea, and footage involving real people still needs some external props and equipment to assist.

Although Lu Ping'an can't use these advanced special effects for the time being, he already has the idea of forming a complete special effects team, after all, he has to prepare for future blockbusters, but he is not in a hurry now, the timing and funds are not sufficient, so it's better to take your time.

Pull out the library, enter the required instructions, and after a day of tinkering, the effects are officially slowly generated.

Lu Ping'an expects that at most, he will be able to complete all the special effects shots of the big movie in a week.

This greatly speeds up the post-production process.

Finally, on May 16, the "Tuner" movie completed all the special effects shots.

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"Who are you doing this special effect for?"

On the 17th, after Han Sanpin watched the lifelike rabbit in the editing room several times and could hardly tell that it was a special effect, he finally asked the question in his heart.

Lu Ping'an replied very calmly: "Of course it's Lao Mei, how can I make it in China now." ”

Han Sanpin asked again: "How much did it cost?" ”

Lu Ping'an continued to calm down: "I didn't spend much this time, I was looking for a friend of my father's past, he met in Laomei who did special effects, and the other party also wanted to open up the market, so he gave a friendship price, 60,000 US dollars, which is 500,000 yuan." ”

This time, "The Tuner" has a total budget of 4 million, and it has been used until now, because the scene is relatively simple, so it is very economical, only 3.47 million is used in addition to special effects, which means that there are more than 500,000 left for special effects.

And Lu Ping'an only used more than 200,000 yuan to purchase equipment, which means that he earned about 300,000 yuan for this vote.

And this is not a one-ticket business, and you can still make money with special effects in the future, only some electricity and maintenance costs.

As for 500,000 for special effects, is it expensive?

The special effects also depend on the quality, the Wumao special effects and the current special effects of "The Tuner" are naturally incomparable, and it is still 2001, this kind of special effects is the top in the world, so of course it is not expensive, and it is even worth it, Han Sanpin thinks so.

"This level of special effects is top-notch in Hollywood, it's almost impossible to see that it's special effects, and it's worth $200,000!"

Han Sanpin was a little surprised, he originally wanted to introduce Lu Ping'an to the special effects company, but he didn't expect that people were much wilder than him in this regard.

Lu Ping'an shook his head and said: "It's worth it, but I think there should be few people in China who will use it." ”

Han Sanpin also agreed: "Indeed, the domestic film market is still too small. ”

Zhang Yifan said with some sadness: "Without that soil, naturally you can't grow top-level things, and Lao Mei is still powerful." ”

"Isn't it?"

The three of them sighed in their hearts, and then stopped discussing special effects.

Then Han Sanpin asked again: "You're going to Cannes tomorrow, right?" ”

"Yes, a ticket for the evening."

"Then I wish you another prize."

"Haha, thank you, Mr. Han."

After finishing the work, Lu Ping'an first went to pick up Yan Danchen.

This time, Yan Danchen will also go with him when he goes to Cannes.

Therefore, for Lu Ping'an, whether to win the award or not is actually secondary, and playing France with Yan Danchen is the most important.

On May 18, local time, Lu Ping'an, Ning Hao, Zhang Songwen and Yan Danchen landed in France.

Ning Hao came over this time to lay a foundation for the future, he already has plans to start filming the next movie, but it is not "Incense", Lu Ping'an said that he is looking forward to it.

It was Hu Qingquan who came to pick him up, who had been here as early as a week before the opening of the film festival on May 9.

So this time he can still play the role of a part-time tour guide.

After picking up the plane and getting into the car, Hu Qingquan drove everyone to the hotel.

"France, the country of hair (four voices), this romantic capital is different."

The car didn't leave the airport range, and Ning Hao, who was in the back seat, began to sigh at the white girl outside the window.

"It's different, I think that's it, you look over there, it's all rubbish."

Lu Ping'an pointed to a black plastic bag piled up in a corner and complained.

"I didn't see it, I didn't know, I didn't admit it."

Ning Hao pouted his head and continued to look at the white chick on the street.

On the way, Hu Qingquan informed everyone of the itinerary.

"Peace, after we settle down in the hotel in a while, we will meet with Director Jiang Wen first, if we have time to do it again, do you want to go to the venue to watch a movie or what?"

Lu Ping'an said with a smile: "Of course, I will eat French food first, so that my stomach can get used to it." ”

This proposal was well received.

Then we started to talk about whether French food really had to be eaten for a few hours.

What have you eaten in the past few hours?

After discussing all the way, everyone arrived at the hotel.