The Birth of the Best Director

Chapter 90 You were so cool and sexy when you were filming!
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10 pm.

Lu Zhiyuan returned to his room.

He sat in front of the computer, staring at the screen with lifeless eyes.

I feel very tired.

However, his mind was very active and he found it difficult to fall asleep.

Because he discovered a problem!
The action director designed the moves for the fateful showdown between Tom Hiddleston and Keanu, and although they took into account both aesthetics and practicality, they somehow lacked a certain feeling.

Originally, when he was chatting about this topic with the action director online, he thought it was pretty good.

However, when I saw it on site, I always felt that something was missing.

Damn it!
If he can't find this feeling, he will definitely not be able to sleep tonight.

The biggest problem is that he has to finish filming this scene tomorrow, but he still can't find the feeling he wants.

Ruined.

I am possessed by Wong Kar-wai!

"What's the feeling of missing?"

Although there is a vague concept in my mind, this concept just cannot emerge.

Lu Zhiyuan knew very well that he lacked the talent in this area.

I have no talent, it's just like this, everything I do feels tiring, and I get half the result with twice the effort.

When designing the robots fighting, he simply couldn't imagine a suitable scene.

If he were asked to design a violent ritualistic fight for Quentin, he could come up with several in minutes.

But unfortunately, this scene cannot use the kind of yuppie atmosphere of Quentin.

It must be cold, lonely, and full of a sense of fate.

From a certain perspective...

The strongest AI cyborg of the old generation and the AI ​​cyborg of the new generation have a fateful showdown.

This is actually the psychology in ancient Greek mythology - the Oedipus complex, also known as the [patricide complex]!
This little trick is used in many movies to enhance the emotional complexity of the entire movie and raise the philosophical depth of the movie to a higher level.

This is a very practical technique.

It's an obvious technique and very simple, so why not use it?
He must integrate this [patricide complex] into it.

But dialogue alone is not enough to guide the audience's imagination in this direction. Visual effects and details must be used to hint at it.

"What should I do?"

Lu Zhiyuan was thinking hard.

"Ayuan, did you miss me?"

At this time, he received a call from Jing Tian.

Let's pause for a moment.

Empty your mind for a moment.

He looked at the time on the computer and it was past 10 o'clock in the evening. Lu Zhiyuan instantly converted it in his mind and felt a little tender in his heart.

"Tiantian, why are you calling me at this time? It should be around four or five in the morning in China, right?"

Jing Tian suddenly chuckled: "I calculated the time difference and thought that you should be off work at this time, so I set the alarm and woke up early to call you. Otherwise, I was afraid of disturbing you at work."

Actually, I am disturbing you now.

Of course, Lu Zhiyuan wouldn't be so tactless. He smiled and said, "That's really unfair to you, a lazy little bug."

"Humph, I'm not a lazy bum."

Jing Tian knew that Lu Zhiyuan was complaining about his inability to do housework.

Isn't he the same?
In fact, all only children are similar.

Their generation are the treasures of their parents, the little princesses and princes of the family. How could they be allowed to suffer in life?

When you finally meet someone you like, you should try to accommodate each other.

"Ayuan, during the day, I went to see the house in Dongshan Villa. I looked around and saw a housekeeping company, a restaurant, a laundry room, and everything in between..."

What Jing Tian meant was that he had lived in that old neighborhood for a few days last time and felt too uncomfortable, so he decided to move to a new house.

By then, they will not have friction because of this little problem in life.

"Tiantian, we are both lazy. We look so glamorous outside, but when we come home, we are a mess and don't want to do anything. Do you want to hire a nanny?"

Not throwing away garbage and not knowing how to clear the kitchen drain are minor problems.

Lu Zhiyuan was just a little awkward at first, but after throwing away garbage a few times, he didn't think it was a big deal and went downstairs for a walk.

The strange thing is that he always happens to run into Zhang Tianai and Reba taking out the trash together.

“Don’t get a babysitter!”

Jing Tian quickly shook her head and objected directly: "My family hired a nanny before, specifically to take care of my grandfather. Later, my grandfather said that the nanny was not reliable, so he fired her."

Lu Zhiyuan suddenly understood something in his heart.

In Jingtian's family situation, they are most afraid of outsiders knowing some secrets and telling others about them, which will have a great impact on them.

Those big shots pay the most attention to privacy in their lives.

"Ayuan, I know you're impatient to deal with the trivialities of life. Don't worry, I will help you take care of it."

"Hehe, I wanted to give you a surprise, but I couldn't help it. I bought a housekeeping company. From now on, I've arranged for the garbage removal, sweeping, mopping, dishwashing, and so on at home. The company's hourly workers will come to take care of it."

"Every evening around 7pm, we finish our meal and go out for a walk. The hourly workers come to take care of the situation and try not to run into us."

"You don't have to worry about the hourly workers rummaging through things. We can install surveillance cameras at home. We won't turn them on during normal times, but we'll turn them on when we go out."

"Don't you think the way I handled it was perfect?"

Jing Tian's solution was to find the housekeeping company outside Dongshan Villa and directly ask the boss, "How much does your company cost? Name your price, and I'll take it!"
Even though you have money, are you still worried about not being able to find someone to serve you?
Something that doesn't exist at all.

It is impossible to find a nanny.

Impossible in this life.

In their case, firstly, they are afraid that the nanny will talk nonsense outside, and secondly, they are both very busy at work and may spend less than half of the year at home.

Hiring a nanny at home doesn’t mean that the nanny can live in a mansion for free and get paid, right?

"You are such a clever little kid!"

Lu Zhiyuan had also thought about Jing Tian’s way of handling the situation, but before he could implement it, Jing Tian had already taken care of everything.

Really strong mobility.

After receiving Lu Zhiyuan's praise, Jing Tian chuckled: "Ayuan, am I super gentle and super sensible? A super good wife? Do you like me a little more?"

“I like you so much!”

Lu Zhiyuan smiled and nodded, then said seriously, "I really want to buy a plane ticket right now, fly across half the world, and sleep with you!"

Haha!

I knew it!

Gentleness is like a knife, no man can resist it.

Doesn’t Lu Zhiyuan like the gentle and considerate type of Liu Shishi?
I can do it too!
"Then I'll get up now and put on your favorite gorgeous makeup in front of the mirror... I'll be waiting for you!"

Jing Tian was just joking with Lu Zhiyuan. But when Lu Zhiyuan heard the word "mirror," he froze and murmured, "That makes sense. Using a mirror, wouldn't it be possible to imply that both parties share the same origin, yet must kill each other?"

"Tiantian, go to sleep. I'm working!"

Inspiration suddenly came to his mind like a spring. Lu Zhiyuan stopped chatting with Jing Tian, ​​hung up the phone and started working.

"What a workaholic."

"But this is fine...it's better than fooling around with actresses!"

The filming in Bulgaria will take a maximum of three days. After that, Lu Zhiyuan and his team will fly to New York to shoot Reba's battle scene.

Jing Tian thought about it and really wanted to get a plane ticket to New York.

But I'm afraid not.

Next, she will join the crew to film her "My Beautiful Boss", a boring idol urban drama.

She also wants to take pictures of robots!

However, her scenes will be filmed last.

……

The next morning.

Lu Zhiyuan came to find Xin Yukun refreshed.

"You are the most beautiful gypsy girl I have ever seen. There are stars in your eyes..."

Xin Yukun was eating breakfast in the restaurant, holding a fried egg on his knife and fork, and flirting with the waitress not far away.

After all, it is a big hotel, and the quality of the waiters is not bad.

This is Bulgaria.

In the gypsy community in the suburbs, there is also a [Bride Market] where the price is only a few thousand euros. If you like a gypsy girl, you can place an order and buy her directly.

"Brother Kun, stop trying to pick up girls for now."

Lu Zhiyuan interrupted Brother Kun's leisure time.

"Brother Kun, have the props arrange a few broken mirrors and place them in the fighting environment. When filming, use the reflections in the mirrors to film the confrontation between the two people."

"Besides that, let Ah Hu redesign the fighting moves."

"Keanu, aside from the first move where you were successfully sneak-attacked by Tom Hiddleston's reverse joint lock...for the second round of battle between the two of you, your opening moves should be designed to be exactly the same, like a mirror image."

"For the next dozen or so moves, don't just punch hard. Instead, you need to demonstrate the AI ​​chip's high sensitivity and terrifying algorithms, allowing Keanu to make various advance predictions when facing attacks."

"During the fight, for the first dozen or so rounds, Tom Hiddleston would attack quickly, but every time halfway through, Keanu would anticipate his attack and start switching tactics... We had to create the visual effect that no matter Tom Hiddleston's attack, Keanu's AI chip had already predicted it."

"Once Keanu's AI chip gradually becomes familiar with the rhythm of this fight, the algorithm will begin to simulate and evolve. From this moment on, no matter how hard Tom Hiddleston tries, he'll always be predicted and suppressed by the algorithm!"

The battles between AI robots are certainly not the same as those in ordinary action movies.

Otherwise, how to present the mechanical feeling of AI?
Prediction, simulated learning, continuous evolution...this is the essence of AI!
In addition, after Lu Zhiyuan's design, this battle, from a visual perspective, is full of a sense of fate.

After all, the essence of a sense of fate is to make the audience feel the shock that "all efforts are in vain"!

The [Patricide Complex] is achieved through the imitation and evolution of [ai Keanu] to [ai Tom Hiddleston], and finally surpassing him... From the visual perspective, the audience can accept it subtly.

"Brother, I understand!"

Xin Yukun stuffed the fried egg into his mouth, took a gulp of orange juice, and hugged Lu Zhiyuan's shoulders with a somewhat excited expression.

At this moment, the beautiful gypsy girl is nothing.

"Brother, that's what it feels like, right?"

"That refreshing feeling is like opening up all eight of the extraordinary meridians, becoming a martial arts master overnight, standing tall among the crowd!"

"It's super cool! Even better than ordering a dozen princesses!"

As Xin Yukun spoke, Lu Zhiyuan thought about it and felt that this was roughly the feeling.

But what Brother Kun said was too vulgar.

You always call me a princess. Can't you say something elegant?

"Just listening to you, I have that image in my mind. That lonely hue, that sense of fate in the flow of light and shadow."

“The audience can understand these images without any lines.”

"Let's go, no more eating, let's go to the set and start work right away!"

It feels so good.

Although Lu Zhiyuan overturned some of yesterday's ideas, it must be said that today's design is better than yesterday's design.

Full of that artistic atmosphere.

The flow of light and shadow, although only for a moment, this scene will become a classic in film history, forever remaining in time and recorded in history.

Moreover, this was not taken by a foreigner!

From then on, when audiences think of robot movies, it is no longer exclusive to foreigners!

Both of them have also made contributions to the history of robot movies.

"Brother, I've also thought of a shot. Can you help me analyze it and see what I think?"

Xin Yukun hooked his arm around Lu Zhiyuan's shoulder and boasted, "I've come up with a scene where we use hard light to divide the battlefield. Keanu and Tom Hiddleston are always at the intersection of light and dark, creating a confrontation between good and evil. What do you think?"

Xin Yukun felt that he had been following Lu Zhiyuan for a long time and had learned some artistic skills.

I can't help but want to show off at this moment.

"I don't think it's good."

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhiyuan didn't give him any face and said calmly, "This scene is inappropriate. Because when they fight, in order to show their oppressive power and aura, the camera should be shot from above, making them look high above, different from ordinary humans."

"These lenses can't capture the separation of light and shadow on the ground at all."

"In this kind of scene, the key detail that the camera should capture is the flow of particles in the air under the sunlight."

"Dust particles flow slowly, creating a sense of forced stillness in this combat scene. It gives the impression of a battle brewing, a war about to break out, the calm before the storm."

“The more silent it is, the more anticipation there is, and the more it feels like a spring compressed to the limit.”

"Brother Kun, don't you agree?"

Depend on!
You bastard, will you kill me if I pretend for once?
Xin Yukun secretly complained about Lu Zhiyuan, saying that he didn't understand his feelings at all.

But I have to say that Lu Zhiyuan's understanding and design of the pictures are indeed better than his.

From a visual perspective, the painter's filmmaking style is indeed unique.

He just needs to assist Lu Zhiyuan, find someone to write a decent script, and incorporate some cool-sounding concepts... and make a sci-fi blockbuster. He feels that they will be invincible!

But...James should be having a headache, right?
To achieve the special effects that Lu Zhiyuan wants, 1000 million US dollars is probably not enough!

At least 3000 million US dollars will be burned!
of course.

As long as James is not a fool, he will definitely be willing to burn it!
"Brother, I kind of regret dropping out of high school. Otherwise, if I had studied hard in college, maybe I could be as cool and confident as you, speak so confidently, be so cool and coquettish, and become an artistic male god."

Shaking his head, Xin Yukun followed Lu Zhiyuan to the set.

He knew that he would never become an artistic male god in his lifetime.

it's fine.

When you become successful, you can become a literary goddess.

(End of this chapter)