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Chapter 475 Technological Miracles and Miracles (Earth)

"Battle of Jinling" had a box office of 1.78 million yuan on its first day in mainland China. For ordinary movies, it is worth popping champagne, but for this movie with an investment of nearly 40 billion yuan, it seems disappointing.

Relevant practitioners believe that the outflow of the DVD of "Jinling" has led to the unsatisfactory box office of the movie, but the subsequent good reputation will help the box office curve to rise, and the insufficient number of domestic Mini LEDs will limit its growth curve. In short, it is expected to be a hot seller, but a big hit Not likely.

The first day in North America was 3700 million U.S. dollars, and the first day in Europe was 3300 million U.S. dollars, a total of 7000 million U.S. dollars. This result is much worse than "Battle of the Eagles", but it still won the first day box office championship, and the first week box office championship is also expected. Needless to say, after all, Truman has a large number of loyal fans in North America and Europe. The release of DVD affected part of the box office, but the remaining part was enough to achieve this dazzling result.

But according to this global box office curve, if you want to get a box office of 20 billion US dollars, you still have to touch the "miracle" side.

But miracles do happen gradually.

Let’s talk about the mainland first.

"The Battle of Jinling" premiered on July 7. Until the beginning of August, it was still hard to get a ticket for exclusive MiniLED viewing halls in all theaters with MiniLED screens. The lowest viewing price for 20 MiniLED screens was more than 8 yuan. This allowed the mainland box office of "The Battle of Jinling" to exceed 300 billion yuan on August 100.

In half a month, it exceeded 30 billion, and the growth trend continues unabated. The market response is still hot. Many viewers even come from surrounding cities to the provincial capital city just to watch "The Battle of Jinling" in the MiniLED cinema. Obviously, This is already an epoch-making film that has great appeal to audiences.

Watching it has become a trend.

In North America and Europe, by the beginning of August, after holding the title for two consecutive weeks, "Doctor Strange 8" was squeezed out of the top spot. According to convention, this was the beginning of a downward trend in the box office curve, but "Doctor Strange 4" "The vitality is extremely tenacious. In the third week of August, it miraculously regained the championship title, pushing "Doctor Strange 8" behind it.

Relevant industry insiders believe that it is the 100 Mini LED screens in North America that support the strong box office of "The Battle of Jinling". After all, in North America, the ticket price for the same Mini LED screen is four times more expensive than in China, about 4-50 US dollars each. Movie tickets, even so, are in short supply, and prime locations on weekends are still booked early.

By mid-August, the global box office of "The Battle of Jinling" struggled but steadily exceeded US$8 billion, heading towards the end of the US$13 billion return. By this time, the media's view had changed.

Seeing that "The Battle of Jinling" is as tenacious as an "immortal warrior" on the box office rankings in North America, Europe, and mainland China, devouring the living space of other movies, they began to admit that "The Battle of Jinling" may indeed be a movie that changes the history of film. A masterpiece.

Its plot is not perfect, and it has also encountered a fatal piracy crisis. Now it has regained its glory step by step. This is all because the technology that constitutes it is revolutionary enough.

If the movie itself is good enough, but is mistakenly abandoned by the market, it will shine in the disc rental stores like "The Shawshank Redemption". If the technology has a breakthrough and can revolutionize human viewing horizons, it will be like "Blood Wars" "Jinling" is also "The Return of the King" in theaters.

Regarding what kind of filming technology Truman used.

By mid-August, the media had figured it out.

The "broken screen" effect does use new technology. In addition to higher resolution, Truman genius-like used a "multiple nesting" shooting technique when filming the movie.

To put it simply, it is naked-eye 3D. However, the cost of naked-eye 3D is too high to be used in one movie. Therefore, Truman actually shot two "Battle of Jinling" and combined them into one in the later stage. The movie itself is presented, and one is responsible for the screen effect. The actual operation is of course more complicated, but the simple explanation is this.

This can indeed explain the long filming cycle and complicated script content of "Blood Battle in Jinling", but for ordinary directors, this shooting method is as complicated as pricking windows on a CD with a needle.That requires the director to have a kind of "super sensory vision", because the final effect cannot be seen during shooting, and the director needs to imagine in his mind how to overlap the "body" and "light and shadow" of the film to create a "broken screen" effect. Of course, that What is needed is not only a director, but also photography and art. It requires the tacit cooperation of all crew members to perfectly present the "super sensory vision" that only exists in the director's mind.

This is technology, it is also a miracle, it can even be said to be a miracle.

After cracking the secret of the filming of "The Battle of Jinling", countless laurels floated to Truman. Some people think that Truman is "the well-deserved god of the modern film industry" and "single-handedly presented the shape of movies 30 years later." , and more audiences are flocking to this film, because it is a miracle that cannot be repeated by other directors in the short term.

Of course, if Truman makes another film, the miracle will definitely be repeated.

In the face of these praises, Truman still did not respond, and the box office of the movie "The Battle of Jinling" continued to rise and rise in his silence. It was screened in mainland China until the end of September, and the key was continuously extended. Online, there are still many viewers who want to see the beauty of this cross-era movie.

……

10 month.

Venice Film Festival.

When Truman arrived, Guillermo del Toro, chairman of the Venice Film Festival Organizing Committee (a Mexican independent film producer who has directed films such as "Pacific Rim" and "The Shape of Water") personally went to the airport to greet him. , just because Truman gave me too much face.

As a world-renowned director who "revolutionized the film industry in the movie-going era", Truman has not attended any film festivals for nearly three years. Although the Venice Film Festival nominated "The Battle of Jinling", it did not expect Truman to really able to attend.

But Truman actually came.

A large number of media filmed Guillermo del Toro shaking hands with Truman. Truman, who had not appeared in media cameras and public view for several months, appeared cordial and friendly. The two talked cordially, although the sound was not available at the scene. But their conversation can still be discerned based on their mouth shapes afterwards - European media are particularly good at this.

“‘The Legend’ is great,” Guillermo del Toro told Truman.

"Then give me a golden lion." Truman said, "I only have a future lion now, and it looks a bit lonely."

"It depends on the jury, but I think you should get it," Guillermo del Toro said.

Although it was polite, it also seemed like a prophecy.

Seven days later, "Battlefield" won the best picture honor at the Venice Film Festival, and Truman won the best director. A young actor who played a supporting role in the film was nominated for the best supporting actor as expected, but he was only nominated, but did not win the award. .

(End of this chapter)