~： Four hundred and eighty - 1 surprise

Whether it is the planned "The Lord of the Rings" or "King Kong", it is not a project that will be launched in a short time, at least it will be released after the second film of "The Matrix", so in terms of funding, the temporary pressure is not enough. Going to university, and maintaining Wayne's living expenses, these funds basically don't have to worry about not being enough.

As a billionaire, Wayne's spending habits are extremely conservative. He did not invest in expansive real estate after financial freedom, nor did he drive a luxury car, yacht shows and yacht associations. Always call the manor, but always come back without success.

The luxury yachts used by the rich to show off their wealth, he has no idea about this thing at all. Because of the luxury charter flight from Warner Bros., the private jet was temporarily put to the back of his mind. It can be said that in terms of personal living expenses, he has no major expenditures at all.

Wayne knew very well in his heart that he was still at the most energetic age, and it was far from the time when he needed to lie on the gradebook and enjoy it. Those days were still far away from him.

However, Nina's reminder is also very important. He went back to the bedroom, carefully and thoughtfully reconsidered the plans for the next few years, at least to ensure that his plans after the turn of the century would not be affected by money reasons. .

The filming of "The Dark Knight" was proceeding in an orderly manner. Just a few days after December, the literary scenes in the film were successfully filmed. Next, the more tedious and annoying work will begin, filming action scenes and explosive scenes.

Due to the dark horse-like explosion of "The Matrix", it was the first time for North American audiences to see another way of fighting. Therefore, adding kung fu elements to action scenes has become a common feature in Hollywood action science fiction films this year and even in the next few years. Elements.

Before "The Matrix", Hollywood's mainstream fighting methods were all close to reality. The action scenes of you punching me and kicking also caused aesthetic fatigue to the audience.

Compared with the fashion trend in the following years, Wayne is uncharacteristically and insists that the action scenes be designed according to the power style. He didn't even consider the high-speed slow-motion and slow-speed transition shots that appeared in "The Matrix".

While shooting, he also communicated with editor Julia and the special effects team of Industrial Light & Magic. When editing and splicing shots and adding special effects in the later stage, his request was to let the audience see every action shot clearly, and to give Come up with a compelling reason for the destructive power.

Relatively speaking, action scenes look very cool on the big screen, but the opposite is true when shooting. The duration of each shot is very short. Form continuous fighting scenes and camera cuts.

"As the cost of special effects gradually decreases, one day, the effects that now require a lot of money to add will become a way for some directors to show off their skills, and may even become mainstream, who knows."

In a studio in the suburbs of New York near New Jersey, Gilmour and the action team were hosting the shoot, and Wayne sat on a prop box, staring at the filming in progress, chatting with producer Charles Rowan next to him.

"It's hard."

Charles Rowan shook his head. Movies that can add a lot of special effects are all big projects with hundreds of millions of dollars in investment. Even if the cost of this aspect is indeed decreasing year by year, the progress of computer special effects has been getting faster and faster in the past two years, but the director wants to It is still very difficult to arbitrarily use special effects that burn money.

He glanced at the young people around him, unless the director was at their level, otherwise, no production company would give the director such great rights and creative freedom, and use special effects to show off his skills? In his opinion, it is purely the successful man beside him, who does not understand the hardships of Hollywood directors at the bottom.

"Wayne, everyone knows that the special effects of big scenes attract the audience, even if the tracking rendering on the big screen will look fake, but most of the audience will eat this one. If one day, the special effects of Hollywood movies will flood you That kind of situation can only be a good thing for the production company.”

Nodding slightly, Wayne basically agrees with the other party's point of view. The audience loves to watch big scenes and beautifully produced special effects. , I feel that there are enough big scenes to be worth the price of the movie.

This is a big trend. With the development of image carriers from film, video tapes gradually became available, followed by vcd and dvd with clearer images. These carriers have become part of the income of Hollywood film channels.

However, with the rapid development of the Internet and the creation of streaming media platforms from scratch, the cost of obtaining video entertainment is getting lower and lower, and the way of obtaining it is getting simpler and simpler. When you go to the theater to watch a movie, you must have stronger reasons to support it. The irreplaceable place in China is the sensory stimulation brought by the extraordinary visual enjoyment, and the audio-visual stimulation far beyond the home equipment.

What follows, it can only be a pile of special effects. Marvel's ** is in the later stage. There are many factors of excellent special effects, because only when you walk into the theater can you better enjoy the big scenes in the movie.

And this is also the origin of Wayne's emotion when he thinks of those movies in his previous life. When the cost of special effects becomes very low, the director seems to regard adding special effects as an instinctive reaction.

"Technology is advancing rapidly, but technology, after all, is only an auxiliary means of storytelling..."

Charles Rowan heard some of his muttering, glanced at the young man beside him with some doubts, shook his head and walked away.

"Steven, the lights are getting darker!"

Wayne, who had been watching, suddenly frowned slightly and shouted at lighting supervisor Steve Wilson. Then, seeing the change of the light tube, he nodded with satisfaction.

For the action scenes that he is not good at, he did not shy away from handing over the control of the crew to the assistant director Gilmour and the action team, but this does not mean that he will relax his requirements, as long as there is something he is not satisfied with in the filming work. place, the work will be stopped immediately for adjustment. In the dialogue-based literary drama, several actors performed very steadily, especially Nicolas Cage, who played the clown. In the face of his performance, even though Wayne has maintained a deadpan work style, he is very satisfied in his heart.

But when it came to the unexpected scenes of the literary drama, several main actors showed discomfort more or less. Christian Bale is the easiest one. Those shots of driving the Batmobile, driving motorcycles and climbing up and down, in fact, he only needs to show his face, and the rest is done by the stunt team.

The smooth shooting work in the early stage has left plenty of time for now, so Wayne simply instructed Gilmour to take it slow on the premise of ensuring the quality, anyway, there is enough time left for them.

Time slowly came to mid-December. As the number of scenes in New York became less and less, the working atmosphere in the crew also began to change. It was like impetuousness was contagious. Even the once-performing Ralph- Fiennes began to make frequent low-level mistakes.

However, the imaginary scolding did not appear, and Wayne seemed to have become a good-natured, watching the camera over and over again and again, and there was no picture of calling the actor to him and talking with a cold face.

"Chris, is the boss changing?!"

When Wayne announced the end of work, Ralph Fiennes leaned over to Christian Bale and looked puzzled in the direction of the director's trailer.

"No."

Batman shook his head, but he didn't give a shit, and explained directly: "Don't you watch the news? After the White House was successfully re-elected, the first thing to do was to award the leader with the Congressional Gold Medal. Before we leave New York."

"Hey, I have inside information here."

Nicolas Cage just finished taking off his makeup, when he heard the two chatting about it, he immediately came up with gossip on his face. "Want to hear it?"

His words not only aroused the interest of the two, but Gary Oldman and Samuel Jackson also surrounded him with curious expressions. The Congressional Gold Medal is not a commonplace honor. Although this thing has no judging criteria, one thing is certain, and that is to make efforts and contributions far beyond the average person.

Seeing that he attracted everyone's attention, Nicolas Cage blinked proudly, as if he had not yet come out of the play. "I heard that the one in the White House settled the Senate and House of Representatives within two days, obtained the consent of more than two-thirds of both houses, and then quickly signed the resolution.

You may not know that in order for this honor to go smoothly to Wayne, a recommender is needed. It stands to reason that it must be a senior military general, or an honorary witness. It is said that the recommender this time was a reporter from The New York Times. He was outside the bank that day and watched the whole thing. "

Speaking of which, Nicholas Cage paused deliberately lowered his voice. "Moreover, this medal does not only need a recommender, the medal is formed by personal sponsorship. And this time, the sponsor is the former CEO of Warner Bros., and the current CEO of Time Warner Kevin Tesuhara. Look at it this way. Come on, the whole thing is interesting! There have been rumors long ago that the Grand Commander and Time Warner..."

"F**K!"

Gary Oldman exclaimed in a low voice, interrupting Nicolas Cage's speculation. "Don't tell me the following guesses, I'd rather believe that it's the chivalrous spirit of the head, the honor of the tough guy like a gentleman, he deserves this stuff, doesn't he?"

Several people nodded thoughtfully, and after reacting, they bowed their heads and got into the car silently. Compared with dirty political exchanges, they prefer to believe in others, even if this group of people can guess how. No one wants to say anything.

As the convoy began to face the cold weather and headed for the hotel, Wayne's car, as usual, was at the back.

"a surprise!"

Nina hung up the phone with her mouth covered. Taking advantage of the two of them behind the car, she raised her eyebrows and teased, "I bet you, boss, you will never guess."

Wayne glanced at her, then closed his eyes, leaning back in his seat and closing his eyes. He knows his little assistant too well, and he can guess by looking at his expression that this is not a serious business at work.

"Okay." Nina's mouth twitched twice, and she said gloatingly: "The phone call just now was from Angelina Jolie. She has already arrived at the hotel and said she wants to visit your class. You'd better pray. Nami won't fight her..."

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