1855 United States Tycoon

"Stop, stop! Vera! Don't be so exaggerated!" Edmundo said angrily, "How many times have you said it to you, this is different from on stage, different! On stage, action Small, the audience can't see clearly, but this is a movie, we are here to give a close-up shot, you can shake your eyebrows and the audience can see clearly, without exaggerated movements, that will make the performance look unreal. do you understand?"

Vera stopped and replied very aggrievedly in a low voice: "But Mr. Edmundo, I have been acting on stage for several years, and I have become a habit. Even you keep asking me even if I'm not on the stage. At that time, you have to speak and act in the same way as a stage play. Now you..."

"God to hell! Really to go to hell!" Edmundo waved his arm abruptly, as if to throw away the depression in his heart, "Damn it! Vera, you're only thirteen years old, and you have been acting on stage for several years. How many years? Is it two years or two and a half years? Nicole has been acting in stage plays for almost ten years, but her performance is obviously better than you!"

"But Nicole Big sis she..." Vera seemed to want to defend herself.

"There is no excuse, as I said earlier, in terms of work, forever, forever, without any excuses! Do you understand, Vera? All we can do is hard work, hard work, and continuous hard work!" Edmund Du Waving his hands indiscriminately, exaggerating loudly.

"Mr. Edmundo, your language and actions are more staged than Vera." At this time, another actor Nicole interjected with a grin.

Nicole was the pillar of the troupe. Seeing that Vera was about to cry because of Edmundo's lesson, she hurried out to interrupt.

"Damn it!" Edmundo said. Then he stopped and turned around twice, seeming to be adjusting his own emotions, then he raised his head again and said to Vera:

"Vera, do you know? Mr. McDonald, I mean Mr. McDonald, he has great expectations for our film. If it succeeds, you will become the whole United States and even the whole world. There are famous big stars, do you know?" Edmundo said.

"And you, head, you will also make a fortune, won't you?" Nicole said with a smile.

"Yes. This is a rare opportunity for all of us. Nicole, although you are not the protagonist in this play, but if this play is successful, there will be more sound films in the future, in those plays , There are opportunities for you to be the protagonist." Edmundo said. He turned his head again and said to Vera: "Vera, you have to know that the price of film is not cheap. We also have to spend money on renting this space, um, so in order to save money, it is best to have our lens once. Over. Understand?"

...

"Dad, is it worth your effort to put so much energy into such a movie? And, can the market be so big?" Grey Stone asked Scrooge in confusion. Because no one has seen what real film art looks like except Scrooge. In the era when the movie was just born, everything was still very primitive. So much so that in order to shoot the effect that Scrooge had simplified and simplified in his heart, Scrooge had to act in person. For example, in the movies at that time, there was no technology for moving the camera or zooming in and out. Generally, the camera is directly fixed there and motionless, just like an audience sitting under the stage in a stage play, motionless. Of course, there are no changes in the angle of view, no lens to follow, or anything.

It’s easy to make the camera move. It’s just a matter of inventing the corresponding moving track, but to achieve other effects required by Scrooge, such as zooming in and out of the camera, and fading in and out of characters, it needs some more. The support of complex technology, the former requires a zoom lens, and the latter requires a stepless aperture, which requires more technological means. Of course, these problems have been resolved before then. Scrooge put forward the idea, and then threw it to the big laboratory. Then, the big laboratory came up with things that met Scrooge's requirements-except for a slightly larger size: in order to ensure that the zooming process did not occur. There are various problems such as loss of focus, sudden brightness and darkness, and reduced resolution of the zoom lens. The guys in the big laboratory have applied a series of technologies originally used on astronomical telescopes to their new cameras. The result is naturally, Scrooge got an ultra-high resolution, performance that was almost heaven-defying at the time, but also as big as a camera with a large astronomical telescope. Fortunately, there are already easy-to-use motors, otherwise just moving these cameras would be very troublesome. Of course, in the development process, the large laboratory has obtained a series of patents, and these patents will definitely be used.

If it's just a technology problem, it's nothing more than Scrooge's idea, and then throw it to the guys in the big laboratory, let them worry about it. However, the successful films of later generations had a series of shooting and editing skills in addition to technology issues. These things are the same right now, even there is no shadow. Of course, Scrooge didn't know much about these. But somehow he could be considered to have seen it. Therefore, in order to make this film achieve a shocking effect, Scrooge also had to frequently run to the shooting scene, to personally direct or discuss with Edmundo and others. This of course takes up a lot of time and energy.

"Ah, Grey Stone. Do you think the input and output of this transaction are out of proportion?" Scrooge laughed.

Indeed, just to solve those related technology problems, the money burned in the big laboratory can no longer be earned back by this movie. Had it not been persuaded to persuade the Boer government in exile to spend money on this, the movie would almost certainly be at a loss.

"Dad, it is true." Grey Stone replied."Indeed, just focusing on this movie is definitely a loss." Scrooge smiled and said, "Even if all the investment in technology research is not counted. But you have to keep your eyes on the long-term. Some. In the future, movies will usher in a big development, especially when the economic environment is bad."

Of course, Scrooge from later generations knew how big and profitable the film and its related market was in later generations, it was simply a kind of money printing machine. Moreover, the film market has a strange characteristic, that is, when the depression comes and all walks of life are mourning, the film market tends to perform well. This is probably because the harder the times, the more people need movies. The comfort of it. For example, in the original history, when the greatest economic depression in human history, the Great Depression in the late 1920s, arrived, the GDP of United States dropped by more than 50% within a few years. Most of the factories went bankrupt, and most of the farms were turned into wasteland. But in such a depression, the film industry in United States is thriving, developing rapidly, making much more money than before, and even they can give a dancing girl with curly hair, close to one million. It’s in dollars. Even now, the million-dollar remuneration is not low, (of course, Hollywood’s popular stars must be more than that), but you must know that the dollar at that time can be directly exchanged for gold dollars. Such remuneration is simply astronomical. . From here, you can see that in that era, the film industry was brilliant.

"Really?" Gray Stone whispered. But he didn't doubt Own's father's vision, because for so many years, Scrooge had never missed the big goal.

"Furthermore, Grey Stone, you have to think that this movie was shot in the limelight of "Anne Diary". It is part of the publicity plan to shoot it. So, every time we invest in it A penny was originally part of the propaganda plan. As long as it can slow down the pace of the British to resolve the Boer War, each additional day will bring us more benefits. And if the film itself performs well, then New markets will also be opened by us. The benefits from this are just like..." Scrooge thought about it again, but then replied, "It's like the development of Heroin back then."

"It's just that the British seem to have made up their minds and continue to implement the concentration camp policy regardless of their consideration." Griston said, "but now the governments of United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Austria have united to make demands on the British government. It means sending observers to their concentration camps. We are contributing to this. I think once it succeeds, the British will converge a little bit. But it may take a while, because the British have also discovered our United States actions. They I am also trying my best to exert my own influence. Dad, can your sound film be completed in two months? If it can, that would be great."

The time required to shoot a movie can be long or short. For example, the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai spent two years filming the movie "Evil East and West Poison." So the director Wang Jing used the original cast of "Evil East and West Poison" and spent less than two weeks filming "Easy and West Poison", and then made money from the loss of "Evil West Poison". When I came back, I made another big profit. Considering that there is actually no complicated late stage production for this movie, the length is also very limited, less than two hours. In addition, the current shooting progress is pretty good, so after thinking about it, Scrooge replied: "The shooting should be completed within a month. As for the follow-up, I will leave it to you."

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