This star is going to the moon

Chapter 189 The reason why "The Wandering Earth 2" was filmed as a "costume film", liberal arts student Guo Fan
"I see you're in good health and sleep well, unlike us who rely on coffee to survive, and now's not the time for the temperature to rise and fall suddenly."

Guo Fan looked at Lu Yun who sneezed in surprise: "Why, is someone scolding you behind your back?"

Lu Yun touched his nose and said, "I'm such a kind person, so handsome, and I can act and build rockets. Why would someone scold me?"

Upon hearing this, Guo Fan looked at Gong Ge'er and immediately burst into laughter.

Others wanted to laugh but felt it was inappropriate, so they held it back with twitching mouth corners.

Lu Yun: “…”

In fact, Guo Fan and the others also knew that it was because Lu Yun was too powerful that people scolded him.

It’s hard to say about the situation in the aerospace field in China, but some of my foreign colleagues are definitely criticizing it harshly.

As for acting, there is a lot to say, and I guess I was criticized quite harshly by some people.

Even Guo Fan and others were being scolded.

Because the nearly 65 billion box office of "The Wandering Earth" did hurt a lot of people.

Like Lu Yun, Guo Fan did not follow a formal career path in film and television, but was a latecomer.

His thoughts and world view are different from the traditional ways of the film and television industry, and he is working hard to industrialize the film and television industry.

This kind of project is beneficial to the development of the domestic film and television industry, but it affects the interests of many people, who are naturally unhappy.

However, when it comes to the director who was criticized the most and even not accepted by the film and television industry, it was actually Jiaozi.

His "Nezha" has torn off the fig leaf of more film and television circles.

When it comes to "film and television industrialization", animated films are the most industrialized.

After all, "The Wandering Earth" used a lot of celebrity actors, as well as photographers, lighting, styling designers and others from the film and television industry, and those people were also involved in a lot of "feudal guilds in the film and television industry."

But "Nezha" does not use these things at all. It uses technical personnel from the animation special effects industry.

Technical personnel do not receive star salaries of millions or tens of millions, but are paid hourly wages based on their working hours.

This is also why some people in the industry congratulated "The Wandering Earth" after its super success, but few people in the industry congratulated "Nezha" after its super success.

The only influential people are Wu Jing, Guo Fan and a few others.

Of course, the main reason is that they are not traditional film and television industry insiders.

As for Lu Yun, he is even more different. He directly went to dub in "Nezha".

And now, they are discussing "The Wandering Earth 2".

Unlike the rather "meager" preparations for the first film, the current crew can be said to have very strong funds, enough to elevate the quality of the entire film by several levels.

So Guo Fan became more and more bold, and wanted to shoot more and more things!
"...Let's make a space elevator with this design. It's a pretty good combination of science fiction and the aerospace industry."

"As for the added rocket boost for the visual impact of the film, I can accept it. After all, film is a visual art form."

"And just like a fully recoverable space shuttle, it just consumes some cheap fuel and doesn't 'jet the shell', so it's still okay."

Lu Yun looked at the design drawings of the space elevator and said, "When the planning team for the TV series 'The Three-Body Problem' was reviewing the design drawings, they imagined the space elevator to be a 'railway connecting to space,' and built a section of high-speed rail cars running on it."

"And there's also the 'spiral wire' decoration, which is simply unbearable to look at. Is the stress situation correct for use??"

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Guo Fan and the others just laughed it off, because TV dramas aren't on the same level as movies. According to their knowledge, the budget for the TV series "The Three-Body Problem" was approximately 3.6 million yuan, which sounds about the same as the cost of "The Wandering Earth."

However, "The Wandering Earth" only has a plot of more than 40 minutes, and the special effects are also made according to this time, but the TV series "The Three-Body Problem" has dozens of episodes, and each episode is minutes.

So TV series definitely can’t be made as detailed as movies.

This is also one of the reasons why movies and movie actors are more prestigious than TV dramas and TV drama actors.

Looking back at The Wandering Earth now, Guo Fan and his team also feel that many parts are too rough, mainly because of too little funding and experience.

Now that they are working on "The Wandering Earth 2", they have experience and sufficient funds, so they plan to do it on a big scale!
The "Investiture of the Gods Trilogy" is said to have cost 30 billion yuan to shoot the epic trilogy of gods and demons, equivalent to 10 billion per film.

Then "The Wandering Earth 2" can also spend 10 billion to make a science fiction epic!

“So the texture of the props this time needs to be strong, very strong!”

Guo Fan explained: "If you imagine The Wandering Earth as a real world, then everything in it is an industrial product."

"So we have to introduce real-world industrial design logic and industrialized production processes into the production of props for The Wandering Earth 2. We want the audience to feel that they are industrial products, not movie props. Do you understand what I mean?"

"In our first film, a lot of things had that 'movie prop feel', which made a lot of scenes look fake and the audience was instantly distracted."

As he spoke, Guo Fan changed the photo.

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"Why does it look more realistic than the transporter in the first film? Because it's an industrially manufactured vehicle. All its parts are useful. It's not just a prop designer adding a few frames wherever he thinks they need to be..."

Guo Fan’s requirements are very specific, so they are easy to understand, but they are more difficult to implement.

Fortunately, "The Wandering Earth 2" has sufficient funding, so they can directly go to similar companies to find industrial designers for help and design science fiction movie props together with science fiction designers.

There are also many scenes with powered exoskeletons in the second part, because they are indispensable for large-scale construction.

The powered exoskeleton props for the previous film were designed and manufactured by Lu Yun, and the audience was very satisfied with it. Guo Fan then decided to not bother two people with the same task, and asked Lu Yun to design and manufacture the larger-scale powered exoskeleton props for the second film.

"The powered exoskeleton prop assistance system you designed for your last film was excellent. It helped the actors immensely, saving them from having to drag dozens of kilograms of props around during filming."

"However, the requirements for the second film have changed. The powered exoskeleton props in the second film need to be more industrialized, like the ones produced by large-scale machinery in factories, rather than being assembled from parts after industrial decline like in the first film."

Hearing this request, Lu Yun did not nod directly, but said: "There is nothing wrong with using other things as props. After all, they are things used in science fiction movies."

"Even the powered exoskeleton from the first film could be used as a prop. After all, you guys already did the artistic design for the exoskeleton and even filmed some footage in the early stages. I can't change the design, so I can only make props based on the artistic design."

"But the exoskeleton for the second film hasn't even been developed yet, so why are they still making it into a prop? Can't they just use it directly?"

Guo Fan was stunned when he heard this: "Really? Is it true now?"

"..."

Lu Yun knew why netizens in the previous life called "The Wandering Earth 2" a "documentary" and also called for "if there is no third part, it will become a costume film."

Yes, Director Guo is the most successful science fiction blockbuster director in China, but this cannot escape the fact that he is a liberal arts student.

I majored in law in college, and because I was interested in movies, I applied to a film academy for graduate school. Later, I became the vice president of the American Society of Film Directors. In fact, I was still in the film and television industry from the beginning to the end.

The "industrialization" he promoted was just "film and television industrialization." In fact, he had only a superficial understanding of the country's industrial scale and technological development.

Lu Yun patted Guo Fan on the shoulder: "Old Guo, please take a few days off and I'll show you around..."

(End of this chapter)