Chapter 72: I Think It's Funny (2/5)

It's also true...

And he has a nose and eyes: in the summer of 1985, he and his classmate Chen Kaige filmed the tribute movie "The Great Military Parade" together, the movie Lao Chen is the director, A is the photographer, one night, the crew came to Hubei Yingshan Military Airport, drove a 212 jeep, to pick up the shooting equipment transported from Beijing.

It was almost dawn when I returned, and everything was shrouded in pre-dawn silence. When he returned to the crew's station, producer Chen Liguo got out of the car first and opened the big iron door, but he didn't take two steps and hurriedly ran back and said, "Yi, there is a flying saucer!"

??

Why are there so many people in the car, but the producer specifically calls Zhang Yi's name?

At least there was still director Lao Chen at that time, isn't it good to be a director?

Character has been problematic since then?

Back to the story, after hearing the shout, everyone jumped out of the car and looked in the direction pointed by Chen Liguo. Although the sun has not yet risen, the sky is clear, and a flying saucer that looks like a large basin of white iron is shining at an angle of 45 degrees. But the people of the 80s are really too simple, and in the face of this once-in-a-lifetime moment, everyone in the crew is moving things, watching flying saucers, and discussing, and no one wants to take a photo at all.

Only Zhang Yi stared at this erratic luminous body, gradually losing consciousness and leaving his soul.

After a few minutes of being out of his body, he came back to his senses and found that everyone was already busy moving equipment.

That's a few minutes, that's enough!

It's like 99 years... Forget it, I won't mention it in 99 ...

Anyway, the rivers and lakes began to spread the story of Ah Mou being possessed by aliens...

Shen Mengxi sneered: ", Zhang Yi's photography skills have been laid before he Jingbeidian!"

A Mou is really talented, during his work in Shaanxi Cotton No. 8 Factory, he copied more than a dozen photography notes to teach himself photography, and in order to buy a camera, he even did not hesitate to sell blood for five months in a row.

Soon, Ah Mou was transferred out of the workshop because of his talent in photography, and began to make blackboard newspapers, take photos and other literary and artistic work.

In addition to photography, Ah Mou also has strong art and old-fashioning skills, he painted a portrait of Qin Shi Huang, roasted the paper with fire, and then burned the edges to blacken.

This distressed texture is so realistic that it can be mistaken for being dug up from an ancient tomb...

"He used to shoot landscapes by the Wei River, and at that time, he deliberately placed the horizon very high, and the people and cattle were very small, and more than 80% of the pictures were ploughed into arc-shaped ridges - later "Yellow Earth" basically used this kind of photography... It's a human skill!"

“... We're talking about having fun..."

"Shall I clarify, then?"

"What is there to clarify? Anyone knows this thing is!"

Shen Mengxi is also concerned about chaos - he is really a reborn!

Ji Huifu...

I remember you!

......

Liu Yifei is promoting "Mechanical Ji" here...

After all, it was the first Hollywood movie she starred in.

"Wolverine", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", and "Mission Impossible 4" can sell well, more because of the IP itself;

"Inception" can be a big seller because of Leonardo + Nolan.

Even though "Carol" sold $120 million worldwide, Cate Blanchett and the movie theme have been touched a lot;

"Mechanical Queen", a niche theme, the investment is not high.

Liu Yifei didn't want to advertise it in the first place - this thing doesn't feel like there's much market.

North America has not been able to sell well, why is it selling well in China?

But the film was a batch — and it was bought out by her own company for $1.5 million.

Whether it sells well or not directly affects the company's efficiency!

Therefore, I participated in several promotional activities, mainly variety interviews...

"Lu Yu has an appointment", "Super Interview" and, of course, "Potato Playing Big Names"...

What is recorded now is "Potato Playing Big Names".

first talked to Dou Wentao about her situation in North America: "I probably belong to the second- and third-tier actors in Hollywood..."

"Second and third lines? What is the criterion?"

"It's just to see if there is a screenwriter who will write a script based on you... Asian-American actors and characters have long been marginalized and embarrassed in Hollywood movies, and even if there are Asian-American characters in the movie script, they are still mostly played by white actors, saying that it is for the sake of the box office, and they are afraid that white audiences will not like to see Asian actors as protagonists. I can't get too many good roles, and if it weren't for my good relationship with Emma, Interstellar wouldn't have been my turn at all!"

"Hollywood also relies on relationships?"

“... Of course, the starting point of a relationship is very different from that of a relationship, large crews will generally outsource the casting rights to agencies such as CAA, if you are a contracted actor of CAA, then the role is yours!"

"If you don't have a relationship and you still want to play a mainstream role, you often don't even have the opportunity to audition. ”

"What about Ex Machina?"

Liu Yifei explained: "This script is very special, it is about artificial intelligence, so there is no difference between white and yellow artificial intelligence..."

"Artificial Intelligence?"

"Yes, the character I play is called Ava, and the whole movie is seriously discussing artificial intelligence: what kind of artificial intelligence is truly human intelligence, and around this proposition, the Turing test was done... The film was very simple, it was shot in a house, but during the shooting, I had to wear the kind of special clothes that the other actor and I had to wear, the kind of knee pads that contained five highly accurate motion captures on the legs, and we had Wi-Fi in the house in advance to track the movements of the actors' thighs and calves. ”

"Because of the small budget, the special effects team had to come up with a lot of needs to take into account both shooting effects and visual effects during the filming process, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort. ”

"Is it troublesome?"

"Fortunately, we only finished filming for two weeks, mainly due to post-production special effects..."

Dou Wentao smiled, and then asked, "Is it convenient to reveal your current salary?"

“... This," the young lady was a little embarrassed, looked at the assistant standing on the back of the camera, the latter nodded slightly, she understood, and then said: "It's not inconvenient, the main thing is that my salary is not fixed, "Mission Impossible 4", including "Interstellar", which is about to start filming, is a big production that is not short of money, then I can charge more, "Mission Impossible 4" seems to be 5 million US dollars, "Interstellar" should be 10 million US dollars... But for filming "Ex Machina", I only received $500,000, and I can be regarded as an investor in this scene!"

"What about domestic?"

"Domestic remuneration + sharing. After a pause, she added: "Actually, there are a lot of scripts looking for me, if the script is good, but the role is not suitable, I will invest in it myself..."

Dou Wentao was about to continue chatting along the topic, when the director's voice sounded in his ears, 'Ask Shen Mengxi if he is a reborn'...

He was stunned for a moment, what is there to ask about this Nima?

But he still introduced the topic along the director's meaning: "Did Mengxi teach you the trick of investing in films?"

"No, he said that the most important thing in making a movie is whether the emotion can move you, and if there are points that move you, you can vote!"

"Many people on the Internet say that Shen Mengxi is a reborn, what do you think?"

Liu Yifei smiled and waved his hand: "I think it's ridiculous, some people used to say that I was a shemale!"