Coquettish Rebirth

In addition to such a train station being abandoned, there are too many facilities in this city that have been abandoned.The David Broderick Building, once the tallest 35-story office building in Detroit decades ago, is now abandoned.Many things in this building have not even been removed in time, such as the dental clinic with more than ten floors, the sinks and medical chairs inside have not been removed at all, and no one has stolen it to sell money—because the building is abandoned After that, the elevator didn’t work anymore. It’s a bit too exaggerated for someone to carry a 200-jin chair down from more than a dozen floors, and it’s still made of pig iron, so it can’t be sold for much money.Also abandoned is the United Arts Theater. Such a grand theater was established in 1928. It was abandoned in the 70s.The walls are even peeling off a bit, and the wooden floor of the previous stage is just rotten!There is also the Plaza Hotel, the most luxurious hotel in Detroit, which is also abandoned.It was full of worn-out furniture, sofas, and even small TVs that hadn't been taken away, but no one moved them.It is estimated that the main reason is that they cannot be sold at a good price after being taken away, but all kinds of copper wires have been searched.

*Top*Point* In addition to the novel, there are many other buildings that are abandoned, and these buildings are all in the city center!So the atmosphere is so weird that there is no way to say it.On the other hand, in such a satellite city north of Detroit, the headquarters of GM and the headquarters of banks near Detroit are all there, and there are even some white-collar workers working there, and the whole environment is bright.And there aren't too many abandoned houses.Those who are leaning over there, that is, a group of people employed by the GM headquarters and people from related industries and related departments, can be said to be the essence of Detroit, and now they have all moved to such a specific satellite city.The old Detroit and its glorious surrounding satellite towns basically collapsed.After all, old Detroit was able to be brilliant in the past, mainly because of the factories opened in Detroit by GM and other automobile manufacturing companies.These factories require a lot of labor, and the concentration of labor will drive the arrival of merchants.This is a bit like some old resource cities in China. Because of the abundance of resources, state-owned enterprises came, and then a large number of workers came, which drove the local economic development.And when resources are exhausted.SOEs are gone.Since a large number of workers have found a way to leave such a city, the city is suddenly half dead.Detroit used to rely on GM and other car companies to live, but now GM and other car companies don't need Detroit.

Jia Hongjian and Imahara's team stayed in Detroit for two weeks.A large amount of video data has been accumulated.At the same time they followed Diz.I have met many colleagues who "actively recycle waste".these colleagues.Different people have their own different "areas" and methods. For example, Diz usually went to the former automobile factory to get all kinds of wires and steel brackets, and some other "waste collectors" or According to their self-proclaimed "pickers".That is, the Eight Immortals crossed the sea to show their magical powers. Some people specifically found some dilapidated or even collapsed factory buildings to smash reinforced concrete, knocked out the steel bars inside and sold them for money, and some took risky methods more desperately - go directly to Steal from the junk yard!

That's right, like the copper cores stripped out by Diz and others, they were all sold to the scrap collection station, and then the scrap collection station coiled up these copper cores and so on, and even compressed them into very small copper wires" bricks".As a result, in the middle of the night, some of Diz's colleagues took the risk of being shot by the owners of these waste collection stations, turned into their purchase stations, and directly stole these copper core bricks!Steal some that you can move and throw them out of the fence, then dig them out by yourself, take them with you, and transport them to other purchase stations to sell.Then after two or three hours of effort, you can quickly start with seven or eight hundred dollars or even one thousand dollars!And such an approach is too risky, like a guy Diz knew, he was shot by the owner of the scrap yard!And it was really shot, the bullet really hit the body!As a result, the owner of the purchasing station called the police after seeing that he was injured.After the police sent him to the hospital for treatment, he was locked up in prison.After the results came out, this old man started to go back to his profession again!The reason is also very simple. This old man used to work at McDonald's, and the money he earned in a month at McDonald's is just the money he makes in one night with this method!And now you don’t have to pay taxes on the money you earn!

Through such an experience, Jia Hongjian himself has accumulated a lot of knowledge about picking up waste in the city.Although it is said that people like Diz collect waste for metal and make money, it is not like the protagonist in Jia Hongjian’s story collects waste for survival.Jia Hongjian's protagonist scavenges, perhaps a large part of it is to find all kinds of wood-you need to light a fire for cooking!And in winter, you need fuel for heating!Isn't this about searching for wood all day long?It can be said that the protagonists collect everything in order to survive in the movie.From such a perspective, the experiences of scavengers have also inspired Jia Hongjian a lot.He felt that the next thing he had to do was to find someone who knew more about mechanics or other aspects, and let the protagonists use all kinds of weird things to make some small machines or something—for example, using Is it possible to make some small transmission belts with things like rubber such as wire skins?Can it become a small machine driven by a small motor?What unexpected function might this little machine have that could give the protagonists an unexpected advantage in survival?

But how to implement such an idea, Jia Hongjian doesn't need to go all over the world to find experts, because this kind of thing is what prop masters should do!What does a prop master do?To put it simply, in addition to making various backgrounds and various guns, vehicles and other things, in the early years, that is, before the mid-80s, even most of the movies in the United States required The special effects are not done by some computer special effects company, but by a prop artist!Even after 2000, there are quite a few special effects shots made by prop masters!To put it simply, the explosions of various vehicles in Hollywood blockbusters are not made by CG at all!If even the most basic car explosion has to be made with CG, how much will it cost?No matter how rich the Americans are, they don’t burn like this!

So they come to the prop master, and the prop master can solve it very easily and cheaply-find a plastic bucket and pour some gasoline into it, and then sink a very small equivalent of explosive in the gasoline.In this way, when the explosive is detonated by remote control, it will ignite the gasoline, and the effect of gasoline deflagration is a huge fireball!It looks very powerful, but in fact the damage is basically zero!To put it simply, it’s like a scene in a Hollywood movie where a bomb is installed on a car site or in the engine compartment, and then a good guy gets in the car and starts the car, and the whole car explodes with a huge fireball. In fact, it’s all made of gasoline. from.Such a scene looks super powerful on the screen, but in fact, after such an "explosion" on the set, the car can be said to be "unscathed"!Except that the window may have exploded, and the interior may have been partially burnt, the structure and power of the entire vehicle have not been affected at all!So as long as you don't dislike the burnt smell inside the interior, you can refuel and then insert the key to start the car and leave!

For example, this kind of special effect is made by the prop master, and there are many special effects that are made by the prop master.For example, in "Starship Troopers" filmed in 1997, those alien monsters were actually made by a combination of electronics and machinery, and they were not made by CG at all!Even in "Transformers 1", in the scene where a huge scorpion appeared in the desert to attack the US troops, then a scorpion was actually made by a prop master!From these points, it can be seen that even though Hollywood's computer special effects are already very invincible, Hollywood producers and directors don't just rely on cg, they also rely on very traditional prop master special effects production!Even Jia Hongjian knew that in "Jurassic Park" in 1993, many close-up scenes of dinosaurs attacking people were actually not made by CG, but by "dinosaur suits" made by prop masters. Play dinosaurs with actors wearing "dinosaur suits"!It’s just that this kind of special effects reproduction is very realistic, and even dinosaurs can make things that shake their heads when they walk or run, so it looks very real!

So Jia Hongjian and the others are actually very easy to find a few good prop masters, and then let the prop masters figure out how to get some small machines, and they still make them out of these spare parts that can be picked up. Isn't that the end of the little machine?Although this does not seem to specify the direction, it will take more time for the prop master to think about it.But who said you have to specify the direction?Even if it's not suitable for the protagonist, it can be used by other characters, right?So soon, after Jia Hongjian and the others found a prop master, the preparations for the entire film began in an orderly manner.At such a time, the next thing Jia Hongjian should be concerned about is—Where is the best place to shoot this f*cking movie? (To be continued..)