Chapter 462: Subversion of Imagination
If you want to say that gravity is actually a movie with very few actors. Apart from Fu Luo and Nicholas Cage, there are probably only two small supporting roles who appear and show off their faces and soon die. This interpersonal relationship is quite simple.
Then, under the introduction of Alfonsokaron, Fu Luo continued to know Amanuelnubezki and David Heiman.
The former is a photographer who is currently nominated for the Best Photography Award for four times. In the future, he will win the Best Photography Award for the Oscar for three consecutive years with gravity, Birdman and Wild Revenant. He is an absolute master-level figure, and seems to be a fellow Mexican fellow of Alfonso Cuaron.
David Heyman, the latter, is one of the producers sent by Warner Bros. The very famous Harry Born series of movies, is this producer.
As we all know, the crew in Hollywood is a producer-centered system, which is completely different from the director-centered system in China.
Just like when Zhang Yi was filming the Great Wall in the future, because it was a Hollywood production model, it also adopted the producer-centered system. Therefore, the film materials that Lao Mouzi had filmed every day were sent to the United States for review by the producers. If they passed, they continued to shoot, and if they did not pass, they would be reshooted.
I believe that Zhang Yi, who is used to taking big bags, still feels more or less restrained when shooting the Great Wall.
To be honest, there is probably no director who likes that he still has a group of producers squatting on his head, but there is no way, unless he can get into the position of Spielberg, Cameron and others, he can only squat obediently.
When the preparations were first made, Sandun had decided to invest $50 million in the gravity project.
Later, First Pictures also joined in and invested $30 million. The remaining $70 million will be won by Warner Bros., with a total investment of $1.5 billion, which is definitely the standard for top blockbusters.
Therefore, Sand Dune and First Pictures also sent producers to come. In addition to Jiang Xiaoyu, Adam West, the head of Sand Dune's American Office, also became one of the producers.
As for First Pictures, it is a middle-aged man named Wang Shuiyang, who is about thirty years old. He is also the head of First Pictures' production department.
Then we are not only producers, but also in some important positions, there are also staff from the dune. Anyway, they are fully involved in the production of this movie, which means both supervision and learning.
After all, Sandun and First Pictures have invested 80 million US dollars. According to the current exchange rate, there are more than 500 million yuan. This is not a decimal, so it is not an exaggeration to be careful.
In addition, it is not necessary to mention that Fu Luo received an unprecedented $20 million plus 15 in the movie "Georgeous" movie, and directly squeezed into the world's top actors.
By the way, the heroine Sandra Bullock, who remembers the gravity, also had a dividend pay of $20 million plus 15, and eventually earned $70 million.
If the situation in the future remains unchanged, that is to say, Fu Luo is likely to get a return of US$70 million with a single piece, which is considered to have created a new record in Asia.
If you have such a high pay, the 500-day chasing and killing him in 2012, he will definitely make a contribution to the criminal relationship.
Because the accumulated box office of these four movies has reached 2.6 billion US dollars, every dollar of his salary can bring nearly 70 US dollars in return, which naturally puts his commercial value to the sky.
As soon as he talked about the two movies: Quick Chase and Fenren, Fu Luo suddenly thought of Quick Chase 2 and Quick Chase 5. This summer, these two movies will be officially released.
The former, after Paramount bought the complete copyright in his hands, he immediately started the production of the second part. By chance, the male protagonist actually found Keinu Reeves, the miserable Hollywood star. Historical inertia overlapped again, and I don’t know how the screenwriter would write the story.
As for why Lao Ji is a miserable person, I am a drug dealer, and I am a stripper. My daughter died when she was born. My girlfriend also had a car accident two years later. Her sister, who has been dependent on each other since childhood, also suffered from leukemia. This kind of life falls on a Hollywood star, so you can imagine it.
Maybe Lao Ji has seen through this world, so his daily life is like a homeless man, unkempt and has no image of a big star.
For some reason, Fu Luo really hopes that the movie "Quick Chase 2" which has nothing to do with him can achieve a good result.
The latter is already completely different. The Fast 5 will be officially released on April 28th, so he is particularly curious about what the movie will look like.
No matter what, after Fu Luo and many people had a simple understanding, Alfonso Karon took him to the set.
Then a strange building, about several meters tall, and a huge mechanical device that was built in a car factory, attracted his attention and attention in an instant.
After a closer explanation from Alfonso Karon, Fu Luo understood what the strange building was. It was called the ightox light box anyway, about six meters high and about three meters wide, which looked like a hollow box inside.
Of course, the most special thing is that the inner wall of the light box is composed of 196 panels, with a size of 0,606 meters. There are 4,096 lamps above such a small area. If you want to make a metaphor, it is probably a huge rectangular kaleidoscope.
The purpose of this thing is to use a computer to control the light and darkness and color changes of the lamp, and then assist the camera in lighting. The importance of light to a movie is naturally self-evident.
In addition, these panels can also display pictures like space and space flight, so that when actors perform in the light box, they no longer need to imagine out of thin air on the green screen, and they will definitely feel more immersive.
Anyway, this light box is Fu Luo's main battlefield next. Many scenes will be shot in such a box, which is completely different from the shooting situation in the similar way. Apart from the actor's face, such a movie with all effects is really a bit subverting the tradition of using green screen to shoot science fiction films.
Of course, there are still some lenses that still use green screens, and they are not discarded if they are really.
After explaining the light box, Alfonso Karon continued to explain to Fu Luo the purpose of the huge mechanical device. In fact, this thing is an auxiliary device of the dynamic photography equipment otamp;olly system.
To put it simply, this thing is used to grab the camera, and the actors will be fixed on a shelf, and then the system controls the lens from various angles from the computer, causing the illusion that the actors will keep rolling in space.
Did you feel the subversion again? You didn't guess that the scenes in space were actually shot like this. The actor only needed to make some subtle expressions and reactions. All the rolls and collisions were all moving by the camera itself. When Fu Luo listened to the explanation, he felt very magical.
Originally, he thought the movie would be filmed in a space specifically for weightless simulation, or in a large water tank, but the result was that the actors lie there and don’t have to move at all. I don’t know if this was a $20 million profit?
In addition to these two devices, there is actually a "puppet device". The crew specially invited staff who had used puppet remote control for the famous British drama War Horse to assist the movie in producing the zero-gravity scene.
I believe everyone knows the puppet show. It will probably tie a rope to the actors like operating a puppet, thereby controlling the weightlessness of floating in the air.
In addition to these three devices, Fu Luo also saw a lot of partial sets of spacecraft, which were quite rough. Without the later special effects processing, it could be seen at all. Here, he really wanted to sigh at the charm brought by technology.
After visiting the crew, naturally, the filming will not start immediately, because the last round of equipment adjustments will be carried out today. After all, they are all high-tech things and must be repeatedly verified.
Fu Luo did not leave the crew, but instead communicated with director Alfonso Caron and Nicholas Cage to the movie gravity.
Chapter completed!