Although Wu Yuan was a little addicted to surfing the domestic Internet after returning to the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean", his own work did not fall behind.

Most of the film's exterior locations have already been filmed on the Caribbean side.

After Wu Yuan returned from China, the crew had already transferred to Los Angeles.

Here in Los Angeles, Disney has prepared a total of four indoor sound stages for the film, and a semi-enclosed studio in the harbor!

The plot filmed in these studios mainly revolves around the Barbossa Treasure Cave later in the film, where a pile of gold and silver jewels is kept, as well as a large box of cursed gold coins, and several naval battles.

The hardest part to shoot is the several sea battles, because according to the plot of the movie, Barbossa and the pirates he leads are cursed to gain the ability to be immortal, and they will also turn into skeletons in the moonlight.

It's 2003, not 2023, and even in Hollywood, this special effect of dozens of people turning into skeletons is not easy to do.

The special effects for the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" are the famous Industrial Light & Magic!

In order to make these skeleton images, ILM not only sent a team to follow the team throughout the process, and input the scan data of the actors' bodies into the computer, so that each skeleton image conforms to the appearance and action characteristics of the characters.

And there's a team behind the scenes, which has been working on the graphic design.

When the actors were filming, they also had to dress as little green men and wear a bunch of motion capture equipment to facilitate the post-production of skeleton special effects.

So when it was actually filmed, the live effect was not good-looking, and even a little boring.

Most special effects films are like this, when the audience watches all kinds of cool explosions, the protagonists fly away, and all kinds of fantasy creatures and fantasy creatures are handsome and stylish.

On the set, Wu Yuan saw either green curtains or blue curtains, and the actors couldn't even see their faces one by one, and they were dressed the same as the men in black in Conan, but the color changed from black to green.

As far as the director is concerned, Wu Yuan doesn't need to consider that the actors' performances are not in place, anyway, he can't see his facial expressions, and he can pass by the actions in place.

Wu Yuan, who has filmed a lot of "Internet University" in his memory, is so familiar with this set of special effects shooting methods that he can't be more familiar, and the crew's shooting progress is called fast!

Of course, in addition to Depp, who also needs to become a skeleton in a scene among the leading actors, Kayla and Orlando don't need to do this.

So when filming on the spot, Wu Yuan only focused on the performances of these three or four actors.

"Kayla! Nervous, give me a more nervous expression! ”

"Your expression is too calm, you were hijacked by pirates, not having afternoon tea!"

"Orlando, bend a little more when you swing your sword, idiot! You'll stab yourself with a swing of your sword like that! ”

"Depp! The expression is a little more disdainful! You are the most bohemian liar in the Caribbean! You believe in freedom, and no one is afraid, you know? ”

Almost every day, Wu Yuan can be heard in the studio angrily scolding several actors.

Whether it is Orlando or Kayla, or Depp, who loves to play big names after becoming a first-line superstar in the future, in front of Wu Yuan, it is not good, Wu Yuan is what he says, he apologizes immediately when he is scolded, and he doesn't dare to say a word.

What are you kidding, now Jerry has to listen to Wu Yuan on the set, Disney has to coax Wu Yuan, how many actors dare to do it against Wu Yuan?

Believe it or not, if you put a mouth on the front foot, Jerry on the back foot will be blacklisted!

You ask why Jerry and Disney are so supportive of Wu Yuan?

That's thanks to Director Yimou!

The box office of "Hero" in mainland China has reached 250 million yuan!

And the news spread to Haolaiwu on the other side of the ocean as soon as possible.

The Huaxia Film Market, which has been ignored by Hollywood, has once again entered their sight.

Although, in the past, Hollywood also had movies that were sold well in mainland China, such as "Titanic", which sold 360 million at the box office in the mainland.

But this is not the norm.

Not to mention the mainland, I can't find a second movie in North America that performs better than "Titanic"!

In the past two years, since Huaxia's accession to the WTO, Hollywood has produced 20 films entering the mainland market every year.

Those with poor results can only achieve a box office of more than 10 million yuan, and the best results are only 40 or 50 million.

This amount of money, converted into US dollars, is not enough to pay Wu Yuan's directorial fee.

But now it's different, Zhang Yimou, a Chinese director, with a group of Chinese actors, made a movie with a Chinese box office of 250 million yuan.

What does this mean?

It shows that the film market in China has begun to recover again!

The Chinese film market can actually support the scale of a single film with a box office of more than 200 million!

Of course, it's not this money that Hollywood values.

After all, now that Hollywood movies have entered the mainland market, they can only get 13% of the box office, and the box office of 100 million can only get 13 million.

What is more important to Hollywood is that there are more people watching movies in the mainland of China!

Then the good dock blockbuster should expand its influence in China!

To put it bluntly, the cultural invasion of Hollywood movies in China needs to be accelerated!

Hollywood has always had the ambition to conquer the global film market.

Because the film market in North America is basically saturated, it is difficult to have explosive growth.

Unless the population of North America doubles immediately!

Although the current film market in Huaxia is still inconspicuous, Huaxia is a large country with a large population, and after entering the 21st century, the growth rate of GDP is also frightening.

With the economic growth that Huaxia is showing now, more and more people will definitely get used to watching movies in the future!

The top film companies in Hollywood, that is, the six major film companies in Hollywood, have been keenly aware that eighty percent of the box office growth points in the next ten or even twenty years will be in China.

What they want is the future!

And grasping Wu Yuan, to a certain extent, is equivalent to grasping the future.

Because Wu Yuan is a director!

As a director, his career will be very long!

Ten years later, twenty years later, he will still be active as a director.

Even ten or twenty years later, he may have just reached the peak of his career, he is too young.

As long as a good cooperative relationship can be maintained with Wu Yuan, Disney can rely on Wu Yuan to open the Chinese film market in the future!

A Hollywood blockbuster directed by a Chinese person is definitely more acceptable and popular for Chinese audiences.

And Disney doesn't really have a choice now...

Wu Baige's "Wind Whisperer" was released in June last year, and the box office was bloody!

The cost of $115 million only got $77 million at the box office.

The blood loss of this movie not only opened the fate of Nicolas Cage's "box office poison", but also became the last straw that overwhelmed MGM.

Now the Huaxia director who is mixed in Hollywood, only Wu Yuan is left...

Oh, it can't be said that there is still a "Memory Rift" after Wu Baige, and it can survive for a while.

In short, now Disney is more afraid of his failure than Wu Yuan himself, and I wish Wu Yuan could develop better in Hollywood, "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the sequel will be a big hit...

If Wu Yuan fails, Hollywood or Disney will also lose a director who can help them break into the Chinese film market more easily.

Reasonable, public and private, whether it is for the future or money, Disney must support Wu Yuan!

So there is the current scene.

Because of the dazzling performance of the Chinese mainland film market, Wu Yuan, a director who worked hard in Haolaiwu, immediately rose in status and influence.

In just a few months, in the eyes of Disney, he has gone from a tool man director who can be thrown away when he runs out to a partner who must maintain a good relationship for a long time!

He now not only represents himself, but also represents the Chinese mainland film market.

Reflecting the crew, Jerry is becoming more and more johnistic.

As long as Wu Yuan doesn't want to change the script and storyboard, no matter what he says in the crew, Jerry will support it and actively help communicate and solve it.

For this, Wu Yuan brought more than 20 Huaxia crew members from China, and they felt more deeply.

Wu Yuan is really majestic in the crew!

Hundreds of blonde and blue-eyed foreigners in the entire crew, even the well-known Elf Prince and Edward Scissorhands, were all obedient in front of Wu Yuan!

Director Wu asked them to go south, and they would not dare to go north!

Whatever Director Wu says, they will do it, focusing on a sensible and obedient person!

Seeing Wu Yuan, who stood up and angrily scolded the props group because a few props were not set up properly, and several Huaxia team members who got together to observe and study, it was called a sigh.

"Director Wu is a real cow, training this group of gringos is the same as training a grandson!"

"Depp was just scolded yesterday, right?"

"That's not it, the big companies in Hollywood are begging Director Wu to make a movie for them, and these little minions dare to bare their teeth in front of Director Wu?"

"Hey, if Director Huaxia can do this, only Director Wu is the only one!"

"It's a pity that the domestic audience still doesn't know how powerful Director Wu is in Haolaiwu."

"When will Director Wu return to China to make a blockbuster!"