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"Star Wars Episode 1: The Threat of the Phantom Man" has completed its final cut. Compared with Twain's 168-minute initial cut, George Lucas shortened the length of the film to 134 minutes, most of which were cut a lot Natalie's shot.

This made Dunn somewhat embarrassed.

However, the two had a great time working together, and George Lucas also admired the young man Twain very much.

A little selfishness, no need to worry about it.

In fact, the framework of this movie has changed a lot from Lucas' original idea. The original plan was the "story" of the planet, but the current version is the real "Star Wars".

In the last 40 minutes, the horn of the decisive battle has already sounded, and there are four parts in total——

In the queen's palace, Queen Amidala led a group of subordinates to avoid the pursuit of robots and escaped in a thrilling manner;

The battle between the indigenous Gunga people and the robot army of the trade corps on the grassland was a magnificent scene;

Anakin Skywalker drives the spaceship, destroys the robot control ship, and the interstellar explosion;

The Jedi Knights "Qui-Gon" and "Obi-Wan" fight against the dark warrior Darth Maul. This is the climax of the whole film, and it is also the scene that Tang En spends the most effort on filming. The laser sword shines on the screen, and the Jedi Knights are unmatched .

Tang En's rhythm, in the era when commercial blockbusters were just starting, was too tight and out of the mainstream. It is the experience summed up after ten or twenty years of shooting commercial blockbusters in Hollywood.

For a commercial blockbuster, especially a big production with special effects, the plot is good enough, and the most important thing is to be wonderful!

Even if Christopher Nolan, who is almost a god, joined hands with Leonardo Ricaprio to write a wonderful plot of "Inception", the final box office is quite different from the prediction.

On the other hand, movies like "Transformers" in kindergarten, relying on super-visual enjoyment, shocked the world.

Anyway, George Lucas's script was young and the plot was naive and simple, so Tang En didn't need to waste a lot of shots on the narrative of the plot. It's better to follow the route of "Transformers" and rely on visual splendor to win.

The final cut has been completed, Tang En put forward three more minor comments, and Lucas also agreed to modify them, so it's not a big problem.

What caused the two to argue was the future trend of special effects movies.

In this movie, there are many animated characters. According to George Lucas's idea, they are all animated by live-action, that is, computer-generated.

However, Tang En made a change during the shooting. Most of the shots were captured by motion.

"George, film is an art of performance after all. The movement of the human body is very complicated, and motion capture technology can make people's movements natural and smooth, with rich expressions and delicate movements. But live-action animation... even the best technicians, IMHO, It is also impossible to simulate the tiny movements of human muscles with manual adjustment."

Twain doesn't know much about special effects technology, but he has a pair of eyes that can see into the future. Motion capture is definitely the only trend in future special effects blockbusters.

Even at one time, many purely animated films used real-life motion capture instead of live-action animation in order to make the characters more full-bodied.

"I don't think it's necessary." George Lucas obviously disagreed. "Of course, as you said, motion capture will be more delicate and realistic, but can it be shown on the big screen? What is the resolution of the movie? In fact, you I have also seen that live-action animation and motion capture, the actual effect is not much different, but the cost is several times less.”

Tang Ren couldn't help but despise it in his heart. When you reprint it in 3D more than ten years later, you will know how big the gap between motion capture and live-action animation is.

"George, digital and 3D are the mainstream of the future!"

"But it's not necessary now."

"We are at the forefront of Hollywood. I think I have the responsibility and obligation to advance technological reforms, and..." Dunn paused, "Isn't there an IMAX theater now? Fans who watch movies there will definitely be able to Feel the surprise."

"IMAX theaters? How many are there? This wastes too much budgetary cost of the movie."

Tang En glanced at George Lucas and sighed deeply.

Although through his efforts, Lucas was persuaded to revise the script and accepted his own suggestion. But in Tang En's view, Lucas has become more and more like an investor rather than a filmmaker.

For comparison, look at another Jewish mogul, Steve Spielberg.

As long as it is a movie he likes, he will often spend a lot of money and strive for perfection.

This of course led to the bankruptcy of DreamWorks, but it also left a batch of classic movies.

...

Wedding Crashers is done.

Twain didn't take much part in the whole movie. He was named as a producer mainly to use his name to attract more attention.

Fortunately, Andrew O'Hare said that the movie looks good. Whether it will have a box office miracle like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is hard to say, but it should be a big box office hit.

Comedies have been the low-budget, high-grossing genre since the success of Pretty Woman, which featured Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz and Nicole Kidman for My Grand A Greek Wedding takes a twist of fate.

"Wedding Crashers" is different from those comedies that focus on women. Instead, it focuses on two men and reveals the warmth of love from a male perspective. It is unique and will definitely attract widespread attention.

Tang En naturally trusted Andrew very much, and Manola Daggis, who was in the same position as Andrew, was not idle, and she recommended another book to Tang En.

"This is Michael Cunningham's third published novel, and it's about three women. And the idea is amazing - life is a radiant halo that surrounds our consciousness from start to finish Translucent envelope."

The words of Manola Daggis made Dunn stand up immediately, "What's the title of the book?"

"The Hours."

"Okay!" Tang En clapped his hands excitedly, "Manola, you know, the company is currently short of funds and is busy acquiring Marvel, so it is unable to start filming art films. But I promise you, as soon as the funds come back, we will shoot immediately Art film!"

Nicole Kidman had already slept in his bed. Although she didn't ask for it, Dunn always felt that he should take the initiative to pave the way for her career.

This is no ordinary female companion, this is a fairy playmate!

Tang En will definitely cherish it very much.

After a while, Secretary Reese came to report, "CAA sent back news that Avi Arad and Ike Patham made another concession and agreed to sell all their shares at a price of 85 million US dollars."

Tang En thought for a while, "Tell CAA, 80 million US dollars can be sold!"

Reese was wearing a black and white professional dress, she looked like a professional secretary, she held the file folder, took a pen to record a few times, and said: "Fox Pictures sent a message, hope to meet with you, talk about "Wedding Pride" "Guest" release."

Tang En couldn't help laughing, "This Bill really doesn't want to let go of a penny, tell them, I will soon..."

"No, it's not Bill!" Reese's face showed the same confusion as Tang En, "It's Tom Rothman, the president of Twentieth Century Fox."

"It's him?"

Tang En was stunned for a moment.

On the day of the Oscars, he thought Tom Rothman was a little weird.

But I didn't expect that this guy would take the initiative to contact me to release a movie from Tang En Pictures.

In the past... wasn't there a grudge?

Tang En was a little hard to understand.