Chapter 125: Disaster Special Effects Blockbuster

The listing of ICQ is the first round of Cang Yaozu's listing circle money plan, and Cang Yaozu has begun to lay out the second round of this circle money plan. That's Penguin.com.

With the vigorous investment of Cang Yaozu, Cao Guowei has now organized a large team of editors and reporters, and the website design of Penguin has already been completed, and the launch is just around the corner.

Now the three major portals in Huaxia have not yet been officially opened, and the top spot of this portal, Penguin.com, is settled. Cang Yaozu even changed the name of the Chinese version of icq to QQ for this day, and launched a new brand image, which is the chubby little penguin.

Of course, QQ's user system and icq are still unified, after Cang Yaozu got the operation rights of the Chinese version of icq, the action has not been large, and now after this name change and revision, the operation rights of QQ are completely handed over to Penguin.com.

At the same time, QQ software will pop up a mini news window every time the user starts up and logs in, and the source of the news is Penguin.com, and Cang Yaozu began to use his advantages in instant messaging to incubate news portals.

It is believed that the combination of this instant messaging and the first news portal will bring greater difficulty to the newcomers. Of course, this is not something that Cang Yaozu needs to consider.

QQ will not leave any chance for the opponent, if you want to compete with Penguin.com, then show your skills.

Now Penguin is neither short of money nor lack of operational means, through a variety of linkages can stick users to the penguin ecosystem, although the current ecosystem only has one instant messaging, a news portal, a free e-mail, and a QQ post bar that is still under development. But this ecology is actually not small.

As for the profit model, what is it? Can you eat it? Naturally, there is no, at this stage, Cang Yaozu doesn't care whether he makes money or not, he thinks about how to spend money, how to expand the number of users, and only when he completely occupies the head of Internet portals and instant messaging, will he consider others.

Well, obscene development can't be wasted, burning money is also a technical job, Cang Yaozu's plan for Cao Guowei is to occupy the Internet café market, occupy the user's computer, there are not so many user entrances at this stage, and QQ is the largest user entrance, there is an email and news portal and QQ post bar at the initial stage, it is terrible, especially if there is no shortage of money.

After dealing with the things at work, Cang Yaozu went to sleep and returned to China, in this winter, there was not even a warm bed, sad, so sad. Achu hasn't taken it yet, who to sleep with for a long night, comrades still need to work hard.

Early the next morning, Huang Bo ran over with Ning Hao, they wanted to see Cang Yaozu's new script, otherwise the soy milk fritters would not be fragrant. Just when Ning Hao was reading the script of "Crazy Stone", Leslie and Zhao Wei, Kong Wei, and Tang Wei, the three Wei combinations, also ran over.

So, Cang Yaozu pulled them into a screening room, this is a side room, the window is densely covered, a projector and a small screen are installed in the room, the conditions are quite simple, but for the time being, it can only be like this, and when Cang Yaozu's Houhai No. 1 Courtyard is renovated, there will be a special screening hall.

Ning Hao and Huang Bo, Sanwei and Leslie and Mrs. Chen, who came in a hurry, plus Brother Xun, who didn't leave last night, watched this "Two Big Smoking Guns" together. This film is not to mention Chinese dubbing, there are no Chinese subtitles, only English subtitles, or you have to go to college to make a movie, language is really important, of course, strange like Guy Ritchie is not among them, he dropped out of school at the age of 15, fortunately, English is his native language.

"Two Big Smoking Guns" is a bit suspenseful in China, but it is still okay to observe it in the industry as a teaching film, not only watching, but Cang Yaozu also explained to them what is multilinear structure, what is black humor, what is comedy, what is tragedy, and what is rational absurdity.

Not only did he talk about it, but Cang Yaozu also told them how to deconstruct the film, how to draw the lines of the movie through mind maps, and also talked about the rhythm of the movie. Watching a movie and drawing a mind map is also drunk.

Mixed with the experience of the previous life and the exchange between him and Guy Ritchie in this life, after this lecture, everyone who listened to the lecture felt that he was more professor than Yan Ying's professor, worthy of being Yan Ying's vice principal, Zhao Wei wanted to tell Principal Gu that she asked Cang Yaozu to go back to give a lecture.

It is true that Cang Yaozu is not a director, nor is he a performer, but his current experience, his viewing volume, especially the observation and edification of those films in his previous life, have brought him a high vision, and some creative ideas and analysis methods combined with computers have made him even more unique.

Next, Cang Yaozu began to analyze the tributes and breakthroughs to "Two Big Smoking Guns" in the script of "Crazy Stone", how to reflect the cultural core of China, the setting of language style, the image shaping of characters, and so on.

The last is the encouragement to Ning Hao, speaking of encouragement, Cang Yao's ancestor told the inspirational story of Guy Ritchie, Guy Ritchie suffers from dyslexia, did not learn to read and write until he was 13 years old, high Chinese, has never received any professional training as a director, all talents are learned directly in the work, but also from the shooting of commercials and MV began to enter the film circle, and later began to make movies, now he has become a big screenwriter, big director, although not yet popular, but already has his own film style.

Cang Yaozu also talked about how the film "Two Big Smoking Guns" attracted investment, and how the film was yellow before filming started, how to choose new actors, how to reduce production costs, how the film was treated coldly after filming, there was no distribution channel, and how Cang Yaozu bought the distribution right, the current situation of major film festivals, and the trend of world film development, etc.

The core of the two films "Crazy Stone" and "Two Big Smoking Guns" is the same, the difference is only the shell, the various forces in the movie are fighting their own battles, with the blessing of extremely confident personalities, under the seemingly correct choice, the original simple and parallel multi-line reality has been disrupted and complicated, and a series of events have been triggered one by one like dominoes, which makes people laugh and cry.

The development of the film as a whole also did not meet the expectations of either side. It is these unexpected turns that give the audience the greatest pleasure from God's perspective.

This is the absurdity of reason, rather than simply using the stupidity of the characters in the play to create jokes, which is detached from low-level comedy and more advanced.

Ning Hao was very excited, as if Guy Ritchie was another him, this person had succeeded, so what about himself, he had to catch up, they were all the same waste wood, and they were all the same geniuses, and they couldn't let this guy be beautiful.

Yes, I also take this film of the same type as my debut, let's have a good ride, although the script Ah Yao borrowed from your story structure, you can master Yi's long skills to control Yi, and I must shoot my taste in this film.

After watching the movie and chatting, everyone walked out of the wing room, breathed a few breaths of dry and cold air under the warm winter sun, and was inexplicably excited. Even Leslie, who was often depressed, felt refreshed, and Cang Yaozu looked at his expression, it seemed that changing the environment of his life would be good for him.

What kind of depression, most of it is because there is no goal, it is too comfortable. Well, let's get a piece of ice and snow for Leslie to challenge. Strange and intense external stimuli are definitely more effective for his depression.

Which film to choose, this is a question, or make "The Day After Tomorrow"? But this film is more about special effects, do you really need to shoot it in the ice and snow? Whatever, it's just this film, well, it's better to find director Roland Emmerich to shoot, and the special effects of "The Day After Tomorrow" are still left to the digital field.

Although this special effects disaster blockbuster was filmed several years ahead of schedule, it shouldn't be a big problem. Cang Yaozu can spend money, recruit people, and even transfer low-end production capacity to Huaxia, it's still okay to do some basic picture rendering here, it's not a problem, you can pile it up with money and time.

Greg Strauss, the special effects director of the original version of "The Day After Tomorrow", is now working on iceberg special effects for "Titanic" in the digital field, although this kid is young, only in his 20s, but his level is not low. The special effects of many Marvel superhero films in later generations were the work of the Strauss brothers, well, they have a future and must be focused on cultivating.

"Ah Yao, what are you thinking, so distracted?" Huang Bo asked when he saw Cang Yaozu's divine object and saw him come back to his senses.

"Oh, I'm thinking about a disaster movie, the film is called "The Day After Tomorrow", although it is a little difficult to make it now, but by the time Leslie finishes filming "Yandu Meets Seattle", it will basically be 98 years, and when this "The Day After Tomorrow" is finished, it is estimated that it will be 99 years, and the gap in special effects technology should not be very big at that time, just prepare in advance. ”

"Ah Yao, what "The Day After Tomorrow", a disaster movie?"

"Yes, disaster movies, hurricanes, hailstorms, tsunamis, snow disasters, and severe cold, you can't direct this film, Leslie, the scene is a bit big, and there are a lot of special effects shots, but you can act, you play the male lead, it is a climatist, the father of a high school student, who bravely goes against the grain to save his son in the face of disaster. The focus of this film is on special effects, but the plot is not weak, friendship, family, and love have been perfectly interpreted, and there is a lot of room for performance in the face of disaster.

After you finish filming "Yandu Meets Seattle", start preparing for this film, you will go to the assistant director, and then you and the director will learn more. Leslie, then you need to run on both sides of Yandu and Los Angeles, I guess you won't have time to go back to Xiangjiang. ”

"Very good, I always felt that I had no goal, a little empty, but now, again, as a director, to go to Hollywood, I am full of fighting spirit again! Thank you, Ah Yao. ”

"No thanks, I grew up watching your films, Ning Caichen, Song Zijie, and A Zhan all left a deep impression on Cang Yaozu, well, I owe you a lot of movie tickets, don't worry, I will give you enough support, most of the difficulties can be solved with money, people and time, we have all of these."

In a few days, I will give you the script of "The Day After Tomorrow", and the director will find Roland Emmerich, the director of "Independence Day", and I will also give him the script, the investment in this film must be more than 100 million US dollars, Leslie, how prepared you are. ”

"No problem, Yao. I really didn't expect that there would be such a situation now. When Xiangjiang films were at their most prosperous, the production cost was also very low. ”

"The advent of the era of special effects blockbusters is inevitable, and if the movie wants to snatch the audience back from the hands of TV and VCRs, it can only rely on special effects, which is also inevitable, and there will be 3D movies later. ”