On March 10, "Alita: Battle Angel" was launched, and after the launch press conference, it officially entered the filming.

The biggest winning point of this kind of comic-style movie is the shaping of the world, giving an attractive movie picture, and the so-called mechanical synthetic man, which seems to be the best choice between humans and robots, with both human autonomy and mechanical sense of technology.

The result is a new experience that may bring great visual impact to the audience.

It's a pity that the first part can't show the grand world view in the original comics, in order to make up for this shortcoming, He Fang added two background introductions on the basis of the original story, that is, the development history of human solar system colonization, and showed the background in the form of a picture, trying to make the story look grand.

On the first day of filming, I first filmed some leftover scenes, such as filming the scrap iron town, the scene of scrap iron garbage thrown from the world, and filming Dr. Wang De coming to Taobao, he found a good mechanical arm and a good eyeball from the garbage thrown from the Kunlun ruins in the sky just now......

Of course, there is a classic scene in this scene, that is, when Wang De lifts Alita's head, he matches the original picture of the comics, and comes to a very cyberpunk shot: mountains of electronic and mechanical garbage are piled up on both sides, and in the distance of the garbage mountain are towering buildings, and the sky is oppressed by Kunlun Ruins.

But under the oppression of the garbage mountain, the oppression of the tall buildings in the distance, and the oppression of the Kunlun ruins overhead, Wang De stood in the garbage heap with his head in his hand, and all the 'oppression' of the sunset conflict in the distance shone on Wang De's body.

In the shot, a backlit silhouette of Wang De raising his head is given, such a shot is simply suffocating, and it has a high sense of lens art.

In order to shoot this scene well, He Fang even asked Li Xuejian to pose a pose, a pilgrimage and a form of 'holding hope and surprise', which is like the silhouette of the Red Army looking at the red flag in a movie in the sixties and seventies.

It's very ceremonial and shocking.

Such a shot may seem a bit 'fake and empty' in the eyes of literary film directors, but I have to admit that this is very beautiful and powerful, without a thousand words, only one shape can give people a sense of power.

Moreover, it is quite a stage theatrical style.

"Wow, director, this shot is beautiful, Li Xue is handsome when she sees the teacher's appearance, so imposing." The crowd praised in front of the monitors.

"Hehe, Li Xuejian has so many years of stage drama experience, this is all pediatrics for him." He Fang echoed and said.

At this time, He Fang picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Okay, it's over, the next scene." ”

After He Fang finished speaking, the whole crew came to another place where the studio was separated, that is, Dr. Wang De's infirmary, Dr. Wang De carefully placed a body on the operating table, faced Alita's head, and began the operation.

At this point, it is time to show something truly sci-fi, namely the Merge Man technology.

Many of the tools have actually been made a long time ago, yes, it's a piece of glass, and as for the sci-fi image data on the glass and other things, they are all made later.

And the various instruments He Fang originally wanted to change to holographic mode, instead of the button style, but after thinking about it, he would change it in many ways, and finally he gave up.

This key wind is not unacceptable.

……

"Alita: Battle Angel" is slowly entering the official track, and the entire crew is slowly immersed in the atmosphere of filming.

He can still learn fighting skills with Alita every once in a while, sure enough, it is a petite Jiangnan girl, you look at the weakness of the waist that can break your waist when the wind blows, but the toughness is very strong.

Outside of the movie, several things planned by He Fang were not very smooth.

For example, in the case of film awards, the implementation of judges from various countries and the video platforms that negotiated several major cooperation, as well as the production companies that launched the registration for the awards, were not very active in this form.

The root cause is that other countries do not have a high level of trust in some China-led activities or awards, and even if they are led by whomever they do, they seem to have a very distrustful feeling.

It seems that this film award is not something that can be done, it needs a process, a process that needs to be trusted by others, or they need to see that participating in this award is indeed profitable, rather than just relying on the organizing committee to draw cakes now.

The main thing is that the operation of the film award requires a professional film award team, and many of the doorways in this are beyond the understanding of laymen.

I had planned to do the award last year, but there are still a lot of problems this year, so there is a high probability that it will not be done in 2014.

So in addition to filming, He Fang held a meeting with a few people who were preparing, and he could only continue to cheer and encourage.

"Don't be discouraged, in fact, it is normal to have some obstacles in the promotion, if the film awards are really so easy to run, I believe that there will be only these awards in the world that will last for a long time, because there will be many people who come up with good ideas and design good models.

In short, what we did before the Tuanhuo culture was too smooth, thinking that everything we did would come naturally, but in fact it was not. Such a setback is not a bad thing, it can make us sober that our energy is not infinite.

Even if I have achieved some success in the world, this is not a reason for others to support me unconditionally. Therefore, we have to calm down and focus on analyzing what are the real difficulties we encountered in holding this film award.

Just get to the root cause and then find a solution to the problem, and we have a little patience and take a little time to solve it. Instead of having a problem, we lose the motivation to continue.

Always believe that if things don't go wrong, they will only appear to you, proving that you haven't done enough. For example, if we ask some judges to participate, why don't they come? Obviously, the interests are not in place. But if the benefit we give is greater than the benefit of his present, he will participate.

Either the immediate benefits we give are large, but the long-term interests are unstable, in short, we have to find the root cause and then solve the problem. This is a loop, without a large number of quality judges, there can be no films to participate in the competition, they will not feel the authority of the film awards.

Without a large number of films to participate in the competition, the video platform will not open the registration and participation track according to our requirements. This creates a vicious circle. ”

He can only cheer everyone up now, and he can't just give up halfway about what he started, right? This will reduce the level of worship of the 'right leadership' of whom.

If there are a few more such blows, everyone will feel that what he said is 'not so correct', and how many people under him will carry out what he says in the future?

Once the absolute authority of the party disappears, then there will be loosening within the company, such as brain drain, such as internal work atmosphere and corruption, such as some leaders with ideas begin to question, then the company is not far from falling apart.

So, this thing has to be done, and he has to continue to lead everyone to success so that he can maintain his absolute authority.

"Director He, how can we take action in this situation?" Zhang Qian asked.

"We have to do this, but we have to prepare the plan with two hands, and the other is to continue to implement the previous strategy. The second preparation is to downsize, and our advantage is in China, in the Chinese-speaking world, and even in East and Southeast Asia.

Since people in the rest of the world don't believe in us, let's make it smaller and let others see what's in it. Is it as we promised? We can start with a Chinese Film of the Year Award, or an Asian Film of the Year Award.

When this small scale is successful, we will slowly expand, and the ultimate goal is to make the Global Film Annual Award. To make it clear to everyone where our strengths lie, the Oscars are just the Oscars of the Americans.

The scope of the Oscars is only awards in the United States or English-speaking regions, and their internationalization is not strong, and their internationalization is only an additional award such as the best foreign language film. It's just that the American Oscars have a lot of influence around the world, but it's not an international award.

And the three major film festivals, or fifteen A-category film festivals, are actually unfair and have no scale. We need a truly international award, one that is judged by film professionals and audiences from all over the world.

Therefore, the advantage of our film award is here, fairness, justice, openness, and internationalization, which is our advantage. We don't do regional awards, we don't do coterie awards, we want to do global awards. This must be properly publicized.

On the other hand, if it really doesn't work, we will build our own video website, which is specially used for film registration and awards, and then divert the resources of this registered film to other commercial video platforms.

The advantage of specializing in a video website is that the registration is unified, the judges' real names are open, the voting after the award can be checked, and then the income is unified and checkable. Truly fair, just, open and international. ”

He Fang actually has a set of ideas in his mind, how to solve the current difficulties, maybe this award is not able to pry the Oscars, nor can it pry the three major film festivals, but it can be cultivated slowly.

The Oscar is not the hottest film award in the world at the beginning, but it has also grown slowly through slow publicity, and the most important thing is that the United States is leading the world in terms of national strength, so as to attract global attention.

In fact, the new film awards that are going to be held, and how far the final influence can go, also depend on the support of China's national strength.

The stronger China's national strength, the higher the authority of this award.

If it can't be held on January 31, 2015, then the first one must be held on January 31, 2016, even if it is Asian or Chinese.

With a clearer plan, everyone involved regained their confidence, and they felt that the plan was clearer, gave them more confidence, and had more time.

The previous plan was indeed too difficult to achieve on a global scale, and the pace was too hasty.

This is indeed where the great achievements carried away, the whole company is also carried away by the great achievements, and now the new way is right, feasible, and step-by-step.

After solving the matter of the film awards, there is another thing that is not so easy, and that is the matter of cat's eye.

Alima even went to Changsha to discuss the development of Maoyan ticket purchase with He Fang.

He Fang also had to take out a night to have a good get-together with Alima, and learned from Alima's mouth that the biggest problem of Maoyan at the moment is that it is not smooth to enter the market of other countries.

There are two main reasons for the unsmoothness, one is that other countries are unwilling to share data with Maoyan, and the other is that other countries have disagreements on the payment of Maoyan tickets.

"Mr. Ma, I'm afraid this is not just a problem of Maoyan, but also a problem of Ali, right? Chinese websites such as Alibaba, Taobao, Tencent QQ and WeChat don't seem to be doing well abroad. ”

After He Fang finished speaking, Alima smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Yes, this is a real problem. ”

"In fact, this is the United States engaged in Internet hegemony, do you see that in addition to the American Internet companies, how many other countries have made real Internet companies? Needless to say, there is basically no Internet industry in Europe, and it is still engaged in industry. Not to mention Japan and South Korea, they all use American Internet products such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

In other words, the United States has no monopoly on Internet products except for China, and they are almost monopolized in the world, and they have also collapsed the Internet industry in other countries. So, we have to thank the country, at least to keep our industry, or ......"

He Fang said and looked up at Alima, Alima was stunned for a moment, he felt that He Fang seemed to be pointing.

Could it be that he has recently criticized too hard, which has caused some people's dissatisfaction, and where can he use to beat himself? People at their level will certainly not ask where it is specifically whether it is someone else's intention.

"Well, Director He is right, it is true, without the protection of the state, I am afraid that we would have been defeated by American Internet companies long ago." Alima nodded in obedience.

"Therefore, American Internet companies will definitely try their best to suppress non-American Internet products going global, and the quiet development I said before has this consideration, but I didn't expect it to be discovered by them." He Fang shook his head regretfully.

"Yes, we have only achieved the coverage of mainstream cinemas in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and the data cannot be real-time, so we can only sell tickets. Then, tickets can only be sold using each country's own online banking method. When we were about to move into Europe, Britain was the first to jump out and oppose it, which caused opposition from the whole European Union. ”

Ali explained.

He Fang nodded, he could imagine this situation. Don't look at the decline of Britain, but its intelligence system and analytical capabilities are still there. And it's very xenophobic, and it's very sensitive to anything foreign.

This is a typical thing under the guise of liberalism to do things where others are not free when they enter their own homes, and they want to be free when they enter other homes.

"Mr. Ma, I believe you must have a solution when you come to me? What kind of solution can't be explained on the phone and you have to make a personal trip? He Fang asked curiously.

Alima glanced at He Fang unexpectedly, and he was really smart, and nothing could escape his eyes.

"That's it......"

(End of chapter)