You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 198 Not Just "Inception" (1, guarantee)
King Quan told Dorothy, "The name of the movie will be Inception."

This is a story about the Dream Bandit. Many scenes in the story are taken from his picture book, that is, the dreams he once had.

But the point is not Inception.

Next, Wang Quan took Dorothy to a movie theater, received two sets of glasses at the door, and then watched the animated movie "Four-Eyed Chicken".

This was a special session he paid for, and it was just the two of them.

Dorothy, "I've seen this movie, it's an old movie from two years ago."

"Did you watch it at the cinema?"

"Yeah, but it's just an ordinary 2D format. I watched the 3D version of "Jaws 3" when I was a child. It looked very dizzy and not very interesting. After that, I didn't have much interest in 3D." Dorothy said while watching .

"What about Disney's Four-Eyed Chicken?"

"It looks fine, no dizziness." Dorothy said.

Wang Quan pointed to the back, "Technology is innovating. Starting from this movie, new projection technology equipment has been applied to the market, effectively reducing the dizziness of some audiences."

"It does look good, it feels like the chick is bouncing in front of my eyes." She stretched out her hand.

Then he said, "But this movie doesn't seem to be that profitable, because it is a 3D movie, and the cost is as high as 1.5 million knives, but the global box office is only [-] million." Dorothy said, obviously a [-] million-level movie can no longer satisfy her Appetite is gone.

Wang Quan narrowed his eyes, "You know so clearly, you came prepared."

Dorothy, "I know what you want to say since you often whisper "Avatar" in my ear."

"Yes, I want to make this "Inception" into a 3D movie, and I plan to shoot it with IMAX cameras!"

The first real IMAX 3D feature film was "The Polar Express" by the great director Robert Zemeckis in 04, the director of "Forrest Gump", but the box office reputation can only be regarded as mediocre. The new technology didn't make much waves back then.

Dorothy also first thought of this movie by an old USC senior, "The Polar Express."

"Yeah, now the technology is more mature and the effect is more outstanding. I can hire its team when "Avatar" is finished shooting, and there were very few 3D IMAX screens at that time. There were only 75 in the United States, but these 75 3D IMAX screens, Contributed 30.00% of the total box office, as high as 7700 million dollars! And now there are more than 100 IMAX in the United States, and there will be more in two years!"

"Two years later?"

"Yes, I plan to finish this movie in two years!" Wang Quan has always been known as a quick shooter, two or three movies a year is no problem at all, but now he actually has to shoot one movie in two years!
But why is it two years~
Because "Avatar" is two and a half years.

So royal hope is two years!

"Are you so optimistic about IMAX and 3D?" Dorothy didn't even know King Quan. Is this the mercenary director Wang she knew? Two years is enough time for him to create a "Twilight" series again!

Wang Quan asked her, "Do you know when 3D movies were born?"

This is not a problem for Dorothy, "As early as the 20s, there were stereoscopic movies, but they were quite rough, and the sources of the films at that time were long gone. It is generally believed that the first 3D stereoscopic movie feature film was "African Adventures" in 52, three-dimensional films had a period of prosperity in the 50s."

"Yes, at that time even the great director Hitchcock filmed the 3D version of "Phone Murder". It can be seen that it was indeed popular for a while, but why was it so popular?"

Before Dorothy could answer, Wang Quan gave the answer himself, "In order to bring the audience back to the cinema."

Dorothy suddenly realized, yes, that was the time when televisions were popularized in the United States, and it was also the trough period of the film industry.

Directors and businessmen who make movies try their best to bring the audience back to the cinema, and 3D stereoscopic movies are one of the measures for TV sets.

However, limited by technical conditions, three-dimensional movies failed to become popular after all. Later, in the 70s, directors of the generation of Spielberg and George Lucas relied on blockbuster special effects to rejuvenate the screen and revive the film industry in the trough period. .

Wang Quan said, "I think it's time to bring the lost audience back to the cinema through innovative technology. In fact, big directors like Lao Si, Cameron, and Zemeckis are also aware of the crisis. The total box office in North America has been stable in [-], but don’t forget that ticket prices are not stable, and the increase in ticket prices far exceeds the growth of the box office. .”

Dorothy sighed, "You're right, the temptation of the Internet is too great now, there are so many fun things that can make people forget to watch movies, and more than half of the people in the United States who love movies so much a year Won't go to the cinema once."

Wang Quan, "And online piracy is also very rampant. The speed of piracy circulation is shocking. Let's say "Twilight Saga". On the second day after it was released in the mainland, there were screen recording piracy on the Internet, and 3D movies can effectively prevent piracy. .”

Although Wang Quan knows from the "film and television library" that 3D movies are just a fad, there are many problems with 3D movies. By 2025, except for Cameron who is still insisting, many directors will basically no longer play 3D, but the trend of 3D Appearance is very important to the mainland film ecology.

Many viewers who are keen to watch pirated copies and have no cinema consumption habits are forced into cinemas by 3D. In just a few years, the box office and the number of movie viewers have achieved several jumps, and it has become the second box office that can challenge the world's largest market in North America.

Therefore, 3D must be done, and it cannot be done without it!
At this time, the movie was coming to an end, and Dorothy pointed to the screen, "If it's just made like this, I'm afraid it won't be as sensational as you said."

Yes, 3D movies have been made by people all the time, and if it is done well, "Avatar" will become the savior of the theater and lead the trend of the moment.

Maybe it’s not going to work, or if there’s nothing going on, that’s "Journey to the Center of the Earth". In addition to forcing cinemas to update their 3D projection equipment and paving the way for "Avatar" later, it’s just a small profit, and it won’t leave a name in film history. .

Wang Quan said, "My script hasn't been completely finished yet. After I finish writing it, you can evaluate whether it is worth investing in, or I can pull investment from the outside, and the dragon will only do distribution."

"It is definitely necessary to attract investment from the outside. The cost of production and publicity is more than 2 million yuan. The dragon will certainly not be able to afford it, but we can still afford the big one." Dorothy put her arm around Wang Quan's shoulder, "Even if you make a mistake in your judgment, I would also like to go crazy with you!"

"Sure enough, he is a good brother!" Wang Quan embraced Dorothy emotionally.

After returning, Wang Quan continued to polish the script.

In order to shoot "Inception 3DIMAX", the script had to undergo major surgery.

The original script is already very good. Although it sounds very brain-inducing, as long as you don't get distracted and listen to all the key settings, it is actually very easy to understand.

It's pretty standard commercial scriptwriting template, very Hollywood.

At the beginning, I did a small task, leading to the basic setting of Inception through a second-floor dream.

Then the task failed, and he was forced to work for him by the big devil, and started a team of coders from all over the world. There was a little loli here, and a rough guy there.

Finally, the team is completed, start to brush the copy, and finally succeed, get rewards.

This routine was used in previous movies such as Ocean's Eleven, and it will be used in the future Fast Fury and Avengers. It's not new.

What is new is the concept of Inception, which is perfect, self-consistent, self-contained, and very memorable.

And King Power has to do a lot of changes.

First, to create scenes and special effects that are conducive to the display of 3D effects, you don’t want to be as shocking as Pandora, but you must make the audience realize that it is too bad to watch such movies in ordinary 2D.

The special effects scene is not something that can be changed at will, it must be closely related to the plot, and special effects cannot be used for special effects.

In order to show more 3D special effects, Wang Quan even changed some settings.

Second, the important role of energy tycoon Saito, the royal power is going to be replaced by a Chinese character, and the name has been thought out, called Mr. Zhuang.

Not only has his identity changed, but some scenes related to him will also be filmed in Xiangjiang and the mainland, and his plot will become fuller, which is very different from the original version. This is definitely a good cake for Chinese superstars, that is, Who to choose became a big problem.

Third, the difficulty of understanding the plot should be reduced. Although Wang Quan thinks that the plot of Inception is not difficult to understand, our audience, from seventy to eighty, can’t read all the characters. If we want to gain the broadest audience base, we have to tell a story Simple and popular story.

Why "Avatar" can sweep the global box office market, yes, the story is indeed very vulgar, vulgar scum, just like an alien version of "Dances with Wolves", but it is simple enough and does not pick the audience.

And "Inception" is obviously to pick the audience, otherwise it would not be the premise that Nolan's "The Dark Knight" was a big success and North America raked in 5.3 million dollars. The star lineup of the new work "Inception" is stronger, but Not even 3 million.

At this stage, Wang Quan's movies are made to be seen by a wide audience and to gain more box office, so the threshold for viewing movies must be lowered, not for elementary school students to understand, at least junior high school students must be able to understand.

the last point……

I haven't thought about the last point, but first of all, the two sequels of "Twilight" will be filmed for three to four months. He will use this time to perfect the script and start to make hand-painted storyboards for "Inception".

For this reason, he specially found a strong executive director to share the work for him. The director's name is Catherine Hardwicke. At this time, she is still unknown in the industry. After all, her famous work "Twilight " is already royal.

Because she was not well-known, she readily accepted the job under the premise that the price was right and she was interested in the subject matter. This was already a pretty good resume for her.

Wang Quan will hand over some less important scenes to her. When Director Wang leads the team to film in Italy, Catherine will start filming the campus part in Vancouver at the same time. Wang Quan hopes to finish the two films in three months.

His passion for "Twilight" has obviously been absorbed too much by "Inception", and now his mind is full of how to build a wonderful dream world.

When "Twilight" was about to reach 2 million at the box office, Wang Quan took the leading actors and actresses of "Twilight [-]", the supporting actress Ashley Greene, and Anna and other actors to fly to Italy for filming. This time Anna will play a new vampire.

At the same time, the "2007 Forbes Global [-] Celebrities List" was published on "Forbes" magazine, and this is the first time King Quan has been on this list.

The list was released in June, probably because it captured the results of last year and the beginning of this year, and this time period was the period when Wang Quan scored crazy with the three movies, so the ranking is not too low.

Generally, this kind of list is difficult to attract attention in the country. They are people who are not well known to ordinary people. What's the use of caring about this.

But because there is a Chinese man, Wang Quan, on the list this year, the attention has been extremely high, and the list was reprinted by several portals such as Sina on the day it was released.

Yang Mi is visiting Teacher Acheng's house at this time. This old man is really interesting. He is an old urchin who knows a little bit about everything. From what he said, he seems to have delivered food when he went to the United States. He is really talented.

Yang Mi came here to let Teacher Acheng observe and create a heroine character design based on her own characteristics. In the words of Wang Quan, "This way you can act better."

It's so sweet, isn't this just lying down and winning? No, I won without lying down in front of Brother Quan. Concubine Liu Yi, what are you fighting with me for?

While chatting, Teacher Acheng's grandson looked at the computer and shouted, "Grandpa, a friend from America sent you an email."

Ah Cheng, "Oh, let me see."

He checked it in the past, and found that it was the Forbes list, the global version, and his friend especially asked him to pay attention to a Chinese friend.

After clicking on it, he smiled, and asked Yang Mi and Yang Tianzhen to take a look.

"what?"

Ah Cheng laughed, "Come and see Xiao Wang."

Wang Quan had already been on the Huaxia list before, ranking second behind Yao Ming.

On this global list, King Power has dropped again.

Yang Mi has no problem reading English, "Is this the Forbes Celebrity [-] list? Global?!"

"Correct."

"My brother Quan is on the list!"

"It's not surprising~"

Yang Mi immediately pushed the little grandson away, and looked up from the bottom, Ah Cheng smiled wryly, "Look faster from above."

Yang Mi obeyed. From the looks of it, No.1 is the host Oprah with an income of 2.6 million dollars, and No.2 is Tiger Woods who plays golf with an income of [-] million dollars.

No.3 is Madonna, a singer.

When it comes to No.5 Brad Pitt, he finally has a movie star.

No.10, Steven Spielberg, the first director appeared.

The 12th place is a TV series "Grey's Anatomy", which is all right, which opened Yang Mi's horizons.

Finally, Yang Mi found Brother Quan at the 19th place.

It is only one rank higher than the 20th Golden Retriever Trump~
　(Today is mainly to revisit "Inception", watch the commentary, watch the documentary of Inception, study the history and shooting of 3D stereoscopic movies, it is late again, sorry, these tasks have to continue)
　　
　
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