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Chapter 311 Chen Xi's "Gravity" pioneering work!

This is really the first time Liu Tianwang has encountered such a scene, everyone today actually left him in the cold!
It's just that Liu Tianwang's self-cultivation is relatively good, and he can handle many things, but this situation makes him feel a little surprised.

So Liu Tianwang took another look at Chen Xi, and saw the current Chen Xi.

This guy looks really handsome, and there is a strange calmness sitting there, which is something that many young people don't have...

Indeed, despite the fact that many people say that Chen Xi is Chen Dapao or something, but according to some of the things that Andy Lau had made up for Chen Xi before, every time this guy speaks, he has a specific target, and he is not talking nonsense at all, nor is he With his mouth full of empty guns, he can basically do what he said.

So this guy really has such a unique charm in many things.

And Andy Lau was really moved by Chen Xi's "Gravity". At the beginning of this movie, he was a little hesitant, but as time went by, Andy Lau felt more and more wonderful about this movie, especially this one. There are many things that can be tasted in a movie.

There will be a thousand Hamlets among a thousand people. This "Gravity" will produce that feeling. A thousand fans will see different gravity, but everyone will think of something useful in the middle.

Believers of the theory of evolution will see a feeling of people walking from things in the water to the shore, and then become two-legged creatures, and then begin to evolve. Believers of God will see a kind of religious feeling in it. Brilliance, seeing a feeling of the existence of gods, Buddhist disciples, will see a kind of life cycle from the middle, and for ordinary people, they will also see a kind of beauty of life in it...

So, the interest in this movie for him is really strong!

It was also the first time for Andy Lau to really see Chen Xi's talent.

In this way, he also happily accepted the filming invitation of "Gravity" and became one of the most important roles in it.

At this time, someone began to ask Andy Lau: "Is there any similarity between this "Gravity" and the science fiction film "Future Police" you shot before? Which one is better?"

These reporters' questions are really malicious. After all, if Liu Tianwang answers that "Gravity" is better (in fact, most people think so), then he will be criticized by some people in the circle. After all, that It is the movie he has made, even if it is a bad movie, he will knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach. Even if it is "Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains", Liu Tianwang of later generations will not be able to say too much.

Of course, there are people who yell at the director for ruining the movie, but they themselves are not like that, but they are a minority after all, and although these people feel very good when they say it, the side effects are also obvious.

Moreover, "Future Police" is just bad for everyone, and it's not particularly bad for Wang Jing. Wang Jing is very talented and has made many talented films, but more of them are playful shit. The film is neither good nor bad.

He and Chen Kaige are two completely different types. Wang Jing doesn't care even if others say his movies are bad. Anyway, as long as he makes money and makes the audience happy, everything will be fine...

But those represented by Chen Kaige, including Lu Wei and others are different. This group of people always feel that the movies they make are quite awesome, and the audience doesn’t know how to appreciate them. Level.In this regard, Chen Kaige is the best. Other directors actually say that their films are good, and they can’t tell if they are asked a few more words, because they themselves may be a little bit upset, but Chen Kaige feels that his films are too good from the beginning to the end. Awesome, many places are classics...

When any movie is scolded in the end, Chen Kaige can justify himself with twists and turns, and some people will suddenly realize: Director Chen, we blamed you by mistake!
Moreover, Chen Kaige also has a skill, which is to put bad movies through a self-justifying theory, and finally attribute them to system problems.Well, if you just scold the audience for not knowing how to appreciate it and offend the audience after all, then change the target and attack the physique, and everyone will be happy!
...too far!Now Andy Lau is able to handle this kind of thing very well. He said with a slight smile: "I think these two movies are actually two different genres. Director Chen himself said before that this is not a real science fiction movie. There are many things that are the same as reality, and they also come from reality. I don’t think it is necessary to make a comparison between the two. As for the similarities, I don’t think there are many. The biggest similarity is that both It's a Chinese movie!"

Liu Tianwang's cold humor is not funny, everyone just laughed casually.

One interview after another, Chen Xi, Andy Lau, and Zhang Ziyi were the ones everyone paid close attention to, so the microphones were also transferred among the three.

After the opening press conference was over, Chen Xi was also a little satisfied. Anyway, now what he wanted to do has been done in this press conference. Anyway, he just wants to spread the expectation of this movie directly. This point He thought the same as he did in "Lost in Thailand".

But having said that, there are definitely things that cannot be said.

For example, the philosophical thought of the film, and some religious flavors contained in the film, which can arouse people's deep thinking, Chen Xi really does not intend to say these things.After all, there is something called killing in this world. If Chen Xi was talking about the box office, he would naturally have the confidence to surpass the previous "Source Code", but it's hard to say when it comes to word of mouth!

Sometimes the word-of-mouth of a movie collapses not because the movie is bad, but because it is far from everyone's expectations. For example, "One Step Away", the movie itself is not bad, but because everyone has a lot of expectations for it. The expectations of the movie were too strong, so in the end it became a Waterloo for Emperor Jiang Wen.

So now Chen Xi wants to go one way. He can brag about the box office and the visual effects, but he needs to be a little low-key when it comes to the specific performance of the movie. Have a magical expectation.

This is a strategy!
After the opening press conference, "Gravity" officially started filming...

The real investment of "Gravity" is about 3 million RMB. Such a large investment is really quite scary in the current Chinese movie box office market, and this is an extremely dangerous figure, even if China has already been quite successful. Some directors of commercial films, including Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, will feel that the investment of 3 million yuan is something they dare not say that they can earn back.

Chen Xi herself is more confident.

With an investment of 3 million RMB, if there is a box office of more than 5 million domestically, and some copyrights are sold abroad, then the cost can be recovered. It is very difficult to sell copyrights of other people's movies abroad, but Chen Xi is different. With the current popularity, it is really easy to sell a movie overseas.

Now Chen Xi, as long as "Gravity" is not too bad, it is relatively easy to sell a copyright of tens of millions of dollars overseas. Of course, if the movie is too bad, then Selling it means cashing out the brand, so it's just a one-shot deal.

After being tempered by "Source Code", the current Chen Xi's ability to conquer the market is really incomparable before.

Among the 3 million yuan invested, about 1 million yuan is used for publicity expenses, and such a high publicity fee is enough to create a certain impression for everyone.

In addition to the 3000 million, there are only more than [-] million that are actually used in film production, and the rest are spent on special effects!
In fact, when Chen Xi mentioned her special effects requirements, several people in the special effects company waved their hands and thought it was too difficult.

Because Chen Xi has prepared many things in the middle.

"Gravity" is a space film, and there are many technical difficulties in this film.

First of all, the biggest problem of weightlessness... After all, it is a space movie, so there is a matter of weightlessness, after all, it is an outer space where gravity does not exist.

In another time and space, until the emergence of "Gravity", the shooting of most space exploration films still relied on the mainstream method of "wire + green screen + CG post".And after that, the only thing that can surpass this film is to go to space for real shooting...

This is because "Gravity" has been explored by the director in many ways, and finally some solutions are finally worked out!
The cycle of "Gravity" filmed by Chen Xi is much shorter than that of the director. One of the biggest reasons for this is that the filming of "Gravity" that the director and the others have explored for several years before. The method, now Chen Xi knows all about it!

So he can directly use these results, of course, this is standing on the shoulders of giants.

Chen Xi used a method of visual deception to solve the problem of weightlessness first.

After all, the weightlessness on the big screen is actually the weightlessness of the screen perspective, not the real weightlessness.Therefore, the core problem that these space film creators have to solve is how to deal with the changing perspective.Chen Xi used the method used in the previous "Gravity", using the flexible and precise IRIS robotic arm to support the actor's body.

This IRIS robotic arm has a motion speed of 4 m/s, a motion radius of 3.1 m, an action accuracy of 0.04 mm, as many as 7 joint axes, and a track of more than 10 m, which is enough to complete various complex tasks. With precise and fine movements, he shoots shots from all kinds of tricky angles as he wants, so the existence of this kind of thing is convenient for directors and movie fans, but it tortures actors.

On this point, Andy Lau and Zhang Ziyi will have a lot of experience.

Chen Xi wanted Zhang Ziyi to go to the gym before. In fact, besides wanting Zhang Ziyi to have a perfect figure, he also wanted to make her adapt to such things.

However, this is not a big deal for the entire special effects company. After all, the development of CG technology has reached its peak. Everyone knows how to apply many things, and there are corresponding solutions for many things.

Now the most incredible thing for special effects companies is the production of Chen Xi's light box!
The so-called light box is a huge box, and inside this box, it has actually become a small studio.

The height of the light box is several meters, and it is composed of 180 million small light bulbs around the light box. Each light can be controlled independently, and the visual effect of the light can be changed according to the requirements of the computer program.

In fact, this light box cost Chen Xi more than 300 million yuan, which is extremely expensive!

And this money must be spent!
The appearance of this light box is to solve the problem. After all, the massive CG production of "Gravity" has brought another problem, which is how to make the real shot and the CG environment seamlessly synthesized.Actors are often lit differently than the CG environment, and if the lighting isn't right, the composite can look unnatural.This requires finding a way to match real-time lighting and CG ambient lighting.

So this light box finally appeared.

The four walls of this device are all made of LED screens, playing videos or pictures that simulate the surrounding environment, and the lens controlled by the robotic arm rotates flexibly in this space.The visual effects team is responsible for printing the pattern of the virtual scene on the LED screen to match the subjective perspective of the actors.In this way, the picture displayed on the LED screen will illuminate the actor, and put the actor in the environment, it is like space is revolving around the actor...

Of course, although such a thing is convenient for the film crew, it is quite a painful thing for the post-production: if they used a relatively simple mechanical arm to light, then it would be easy for them to key images, but now What they have to face is a light box with complex light sources... It is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to replace these things with a pitch-black universe.

In fact, the principle of keying is widely used to realize the difference in color, so the more complicated the background light source is, the more difficult it is to complete the process of keying.

I don’t know how many times the people in the special effects company scolded SHIT for this, but no matter what they say, I have to admit that some of the things Chen Xi used in "Gravity" are innovative.

Needless to say, the light box, this is definitely the first time in film history, and it is very likely that other space films will also be affected by the filming method of this film in the future.

The use of the robotic arm is also a good breakthrough in space films.

After all, it was too troublesome to solve the problem of weightlessness in the past. Even in Nolan’s "Inception", the weightlessness had to be hoisted with steel wires. The screen performance was parallel to the ground, and the actors had to be hung for a long time during filming. This is too much to ask of an actor.

The weightless scene of "Apollo NO.13" was the most real, because it was originally filmed in a weightless environment: after all, the crew was sponsored by NASA, so they directly used a space shuttle, this space shuttle With the support of some principles, 25 seconds of weightlessness can be achieved through activities in the atmosphere. The crew actually used these 25 seconds to shoot the film bit by bit...

And that kind of 25 seconds of weightlessness is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in ashes!

But now the method of "Gravity" is also a small subversion!

(End of this chapter)