Chapter 950： "Avatar" (Part 1)

"I hope to see a good movie, so that it won't be a waste of time."

The guests gradually filled the hall, and the lights went dark.

With the faint sound of the projector running behind the screen, the 10-character words like special effects in an old-fashioned movie appeared in the center of the screen. The "Variety" columnist Nereo adjusted his sitting position before putting many distracting thoughts behind him.

But he soon understood why the theater operators were able to arrange the screening of "Avatar" with such specifications, and where their confidence came from.

In fact, when the giant's countdown sign hit him from 3 to 1 at the beginning of the movie, he felt a different kind of atmosphere from other commercial masterpieces - only seeing this digital title, in many movies, many The high-investment special effects shots are not as shocking as this paragraph.

And the beginning of this paragraph also seems to endorse the technology of the entire movie. At least for Nereo, watching it on a giant screen like iamx is indeed a novel experience and enjoyment. The corresponding technology is matched to the corresponding movie.

He is even thinking that if Hollywood wants to vigorously promote this movie viewing mode, the problem it may face is how to continue to reduce costs. After all, whether it is for theaters or studios, this is unavoidable. A hurdle - the high cost is the biggest obstacle.

"Wow!"

The audience couldn't help but shouted in surprise.

It's really "Avatar" that uses an unreasonable and fast-forwarding shot as the opening. Although this is not the first film to use a high-altitude flight perspective, with the addition of technology and giant screens, it seems that it has been processed by CG. But if you look closely, it is very real. The beautiful, overly elegant and even fantastical landscape of another world unfolds like a picture scroll.

Not to mention the immersion that makes people's heart beat faster - it's as if they are sliding at high speed, speeding down, and the whole scene is oncoming, making people experience the weightlessness of the elevator, the feeling of driving fast, and even a part of the body's instinct appears. stress response.

Nereo couldn't say what this feeling was, but he was really shocked, and even shouted out-although he was not an ordinary audience, he was a filmmaker who had seen the world, but in "Avatar" In front of him, he didn't have the slightest excess experience.

on the screen.

The camera swoops down from the sky above the tropical rainforest and flies into the depths of the jungle, accompanied by the narration of the protagonist Jack, a transition, and the subsequent rainforest painting style has become a dizzying future urban style.

With advanced technology, human beings have the ability to develop interstellar space; digital appliances are extremely cheap, and they are quite dystopian science fiction.

The protagonist Jack is a retired veteran who is disabled due to work. He is facing no money for spinal repair surgery.

"In terms of setting, the character's start is too old-fashioned, but it can be regarded as a manifestation of the technological era still unable to achieve the well-being that all human beings should enjoy, and there is still a gap in social resources."

Nereo watched the scene where Jack was brave in the bar. He couldn't help but habitually analyze the content and complained. Although he was still immersed in Cameron's naked dazzling special effects, he also felt that the design of the story background was not bad. It's true, but Cameron's never paid attention to discovering characters is still as rude and straightforward as ever. As soon as he came up, Jack's character design was almost fixed: a sense of justice.

"However, who cares about the characters when watching Cameron's films? This kind of CG shots that are both real and illusory are already dizzying. From the point of view of visual effects alone, he has taught the world's special effects commercial films a lesson. ."

Nereo wrote down a sentence on the notepad, "This is a scene we have never seen on the screen, the level is high, and if I go back to watch "2012", it is simply unattractive, and I have to say that they are one of them. The gap between them may have been as wide as the Pacific Ocean."

Now the number of imax screens in the United States is less than 150. This is because after the internal preview of "Avatar", the theater operators invested a part of the money to replace the projection equipment, and 3D movies are actually not new. "Star Trek", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Transformers 2" have provided 3D copies. Of course, they are all pure post-production transformations.

The large-screen screening of the above-mentioned films must be said to be fundamentally different from the small-screen screening in ordinary cinemas. , the comfort has not been improved much, but has regressed, requiring the audience to overcome their own viewing habits——

Especially watching a close-up of a character in a remastered film, being covered in a face on a giant screen is quite unpleasant.

As for pure CGI movies (live-action animation) like "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf", they also face the soulless uncanny valley effect like "Final Fantasy", which gives people a strong sense of being so strong that they want to give up. Mainstream recognition and acceptance.

In other words, before "Avatar" appeared, all imax+3D screening versions had more or less problems, and "Avatar" was thought out before Cameron was filmed. And he has experimented how to make the audience feel comfortable, so that the giant screen is not just simply enlarged, he has changed the form of the entire film——

Compared with ordinary theaters, the giant screen will make the effect of the film more clear, and the way of moving the mirror is more natural. Moreover, these different levels of magnification combined with 3D visual effects will make the audience feel very innovative. There are so many different experiences in movies, so even if the characters and plots are relatively pale, and the template of advancement is quite old-fashioned, everyone's excitement has always been there——

This fully illustrates the characteristics of Cameron's director, cliché but not "cliché".

Whether it's the long shot of the spaceship flying to Pandora between the stars - there is a neat chorus of admiration in the cinema;

Whether Jack wakes up in the space capsule, the daily life of the spacecraft in weightlessness is fascinating.

The sound and picture sense of "Avatar" is enough to make people ignore many of the whiteness in the shaping, and be deeply fascinated by this spectacle.

Perhaps, it is precisely because everyone has watched too many movies that a movie like "Avatar" that can make further progress in visual effects will be praised from the heart.

To put it a little more psychologically, it is not that you have never experienced a classic with a strong story, novel narrative method, and complex structure that you can't understand without reading it several times. deep?

Will not.

But "Avatar" can give everyone a very novel stimulation, because this is something that other special effects movies can't do, and it has never appeared before. The urge to explore...

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