hollywood melon man

It is worth mentioning that David Ellison’s sister Megan Ellison has also entered the film industry, but she is in the independent film circle.

Although Megan Ellison has not made any movies, her fame has long spread throughout Hollywood.

Rumor has it that she had a pool party with eight muscular male models and also invited the male and female leading actors of an independent film she was responsible for.

The gossip tabloids reported the incident tirelessly and even released a few blurry photos that seemed to be true to the story to prove it.

Although they are all groundless rumors, more than 80% of the rumors in Hollywood are eventually confirmed to be true.

The spectators kept eating melons and complaining about the dissolute private life of this new Hollywood star on the Internet. However, private life has never been a magic weapon to bring down Hollywood practitioners, so Megan Ellison probably doesn't care.

We can have a big party now, face is not as important as having fun and indulging...

While things were going on outside, little Gilbert was watching Chris Corbould's science experiments at Fox Studios.

Because Gilbert wanted DiCaprio and Ellen Page to appear in the scene with the explosion on the streets of Paris, Chris Corbould began experimenting with air cannons to ensure the actors' safety.

The air cannon was filled with newspapers, foam and other lightweight objects. In order to prove its safety, Chris Cobbold even served as a model himself.

During the pre-shooting, the scene was first recorded with a high-speed camera, then frame by frame, and finally special effects were added to achieve the effect Gilbert wanted.

After dozens of trials, the effect that Gilbert wanted was finally achieved. When the official shooting begins, this scene will be filmed on the streets of Paris.

Another interesting design is the Penrose Stairs. When designing it, Gilbert Jr. told the scene designer that he wanted to try to explore the concept of triangular stairs.

It’s a kind of infinite ladder that the scene designer has to think about how to do in the real world.

At the beginning, the entire design team referred to a lot of pictures and tried to make a lot of models. In the end, we found that there are many different ways to create a visual illusion.

Of course, this is all deceiving the audience's eyes. In fact, Penrose steps are impossible to create.

Therefore, during the actual construction process, the top step must be aligned with the bottom step when viewed from a certain angle.

During the design process, the artist first designed a computer model through a computer and inferred the size of the actual construction.

And in three-dimensional space, where should the camera angle be placed so that no flaws can be seen and the shooting can be completed smoothly.

This posed great difficulties to the photography crew. Fortunately, a British company developed a new jib system called MultiTitan.

This Titan can move along a trajectory pre-set by a computer program without any deviation.

As soon as the equipment arrives, the photography crew will immediately debug and pre-shoot the equipment, set up the program, and use it directly during the official shooting.

In addition, the design of the film's opening scene in an ancient Chinese restaurant is also very interesting.

Art director Selina Heffey referred to the layout and style of a large number of famous existing towers in China, such as the Yellow Crane Tower, Yueyang Tower, and Tengwang Pavilion.

Then a modern makeover was designed, adding electric lights and modern furniture, making it look quaint yet stylish.

In the film, the building will experience an earthquake due to the influence of the dreams on the upper level.

Usually when Hollywood shoots earthquake scenes, they build a platform to create shaking, and use computer special effects to achieve the earthquake effect.

But because the scene is so large, this is not feasible.

The crew studied many methods, and finally the director of photography John Schwartzman found the simplest method, which was to achieve the earthquake effect by shaking the camera handheld. And the building was bound to be destroyed in the end, so the visual effects supervisor Chris Cobbold worked with the set designers to make a lot of mechanisms for the whole scene.

When filming, the crew can press specific buttons to make the pre-installed mechanisms work and achieve the effect of earthquake collapse.

Of course, all of this is to ensure the safety of the actors, and a lot of testing must be done.

After all, no one wants a pillar falling from the ceiling to hit Leo on the head during filming.

A very shocking scene in the film is when Leo is pushed into the water in the upper dimension, which is reflected in the lower dimension's dream as a flood.

Gilbert said to Leo, "In order to make your performance more credible, we are going to film it live."

Leo made an exaggerated expression: "Wow, Gilbert, you are really crazy, but I like it.

But how exactly will it be done? "

This is a good question. The initial design idea was to use traditional water tanks to pour water, which is also a common technique used in many disaster films when shooting floods.

But after the experiment, the crew found that it might be dangerous if the actors were to do it themselves, so everyone brainstormed and quickly came up with a solution, which was to use an air cannon.

The crew installed two pressure containers around the studio, and the set in the studio was the China Restaurant. During filming, the switches can be turned on in the order of connection.

Powered by air cannons, these jets of water can shoot up to 20 feet into the air, and when they come in through the windows, they create huge waves that rush toward the camera.

Because a lot of water needs to be sprayed at once, it is not easy to shoot. So when shooting officially, you must not make mistakes, otherwise it will take a long time.

In his spare time, Tony Leung would go to the film set to see how the crew was preparing, and these foreigners didn't seem to be on guard against him, so he could enter and exit all departments at will.

Therefore, he was completely dumbfounded by the complicated and large-scale preparation work of the crew. He had heard about it before, but had never seen it in person.

After this meeting, he finally understood the real reason why Hollywood dominates the world.

You see, although Gilbert Jr. is the director and has an overview of everything on the crew, he is responsible for the general direction. These professionals in Hollywood can all contribute their wisdom on how to do it specifically.

What Tony Leung often sees is that when Gilbert Jr. proposes what effect he wants for a scene, the creative team will discuss multiple options.

Then, through computer simulation design, we select the available solutions and finally implement them.

The communication among the entire creative team was very efficient, and the solutions they came up with were all practical and feasible, showing the quality of the professional talents to the fullest.

In comparison, Hong Kong films are far inferior.

Even the most proud martial artists have begun to go downhill with the decline of Hong Kong films and the gradual decline of kung fu and action films.

At this time, Tony Leung finally understood that a genius director could not save Hong Kong movies.

The only feasible way to save Hong Kong's film industry is to build a system that continuously cultivates professional talents.

But this is really almost impossible to do. Perhaps the mainland film industry will have a chance to do it in the future!

In short, Tony Leung Ka Fai feels that he has gained a lot from participating in "Inception" this time (End of this chapter)