Millennium director

"Finally I can rest for a few days without caring about anything."

“At least I can have a successful Spring Festival!”

Lying on the big bed in the master bedroom on the flat floor of his home, Wu Yuan showed a satisfied smile, feeling relaxed all over his body.

Although, "Ready Player One" and "Ride the Wind" still have post-production work to do.

But he has decided to give himself a holiday!

The filming work of these two movies has finally been completed. Such an intensive shooting schedule has definitely made Wu Yuan busier than ever before.

Not only him, but in the whole of China, he should be second only to director Zhang Yimou, who was filming "The City of Golden Armor" while also preparing for the Olympics.

You know, Wu Yuan was preparing for "Ready Player One" while writing the script for "Riding the Wind", and then immediately started filming "Ready Player One" after finishing the script. After finishing the filming, he focused on post-production while preparing for "Riding the Wind", and then Take another photo of Chengfeng.

This can no longer be considered a seamless connection, but two movies made together.

For most Chinese directors, it takes 1-2 years to make a movie, and a big project like that takes at least 2-3 years from preparation to shooting.

Wu Yuan completed the preparation and shooting of two movies in less than a year and a half, which is already very extreme.

Because of this, he has a strong sense of admiration for director Zhang Yimou.

The 30-year-old feels exhausted and stressed even after being so busy. I really don’t know how the 60-year-old director Zhang Yimou does it.

No wonder there is only one Zhang Yimou in China.

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan thought of "The Great Wall" again.

Because he was busy filming "Riding the Wind", he didn't care about the follow-up of "The Great Wall". Now that he was finally on vacation, Wu Yuan took out his mobile phone and called Li Xiaoping.

"What's going on over there at "The Great Wall"? Is everything going well?"

"Oh, it's strange. Director Wu, our director, can still care about the company's affairs during his vacation?"

"You're right, I care even when I'm not on vacation!"

"Well, "The Great Wall" is going quite smoothly. Although it is the first time for director Zhang Yimou to make a special effects film, he has made very full preparations in advance and is now fully involved in the post-production of the film's special effects. There are no difficulties so far. Condition."

"Director Zhang Yimou seems to be dissatisfied with the special effects in some places, but the special effects company has gone to the limit. This is a problem of technical upper limit. There is no way to solve it, and director Zhang Yimou has accepted it."

"Oh? Special effects that even director Zhang Yimou is not satisfied with?"

"I heard that it is a gluttonous image. Director Zhang Yimou feels that it is not realistic enough and looks a bit fake. However, this is already the best result of special effects at present, and it is not bad even when compared with "Jurassic Park"."

"understood."

Wu Yuan laughed bitterly. Director Zhang Yimou really admired the current film special effects technology. He actually wanted to make fantasy creatures that could compare with real creatures. This is crazy.

Even though the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" look very real, in fact, if you hold up a photo of a real animal for comparison while watching the movie, you can immediately tell that the dinosaurs in the movie are How fake are the dinosaurs?

The colors are not realistic enough, and the details are not realistic enough. There is nothing we can do about it.

For example, some special effects movies use the slogans of "incomparably real" and "beyond reality", but they are almost all scams.

The more something exists in reality, the less likely it is to be made very real by relying on special effects alone. After all, computer special effects are ultimately virtual images made by computers.

Things like humans, animals and plants cannot be compared with reality by relying solely on computers.

Therefore, most of the aliens that appear in science fiction movies were shot by human actors wearing special effects costumes, instead of actually using computers to create an alien image and then cutting it into the movie.

Not even using motion capture technology.

For example, the monkey captured by Huang Bo in the movie "Crazy Alien", no matter how real it is, the luster and color of its skin are fake at first glance.

Although the Avatar star in "Avatar" also uses motion capture technology, it is a combination of real people and computer special effects. Only by adding special effects on the basis of real people can it appear real.

Zhang Yimou's pursuit of an "incomparably real" Taotie is indeed too difficult for others.

"I see."

"By the way, "War of the Demon Tide" will be released soon."

"The announcement of this movie has been really crazy recently. Whether you are online or going out, you can see posters and trailers of this movie everywhere."

"It seems that the company is very ambitious this time. The goal is to break the mainland box office record?"

Wu Yuan said on the phone again.

"War of the Demons" is the own "Avengers" movie in the era of light and shadow.

Everyone in the company undoubtedly has high hopes for this movie and is full of confidence.

I was so confident that I put this movie into the Spring Festival season, and I felt that this movie could be a hit and even break the mainland box office record.

Wu Yuan could understand and completely accept the mood of the company. He even thought it was funny.

Because this year’s Spring Festival stall is known as the most crowded Spring Festival stall in history, but the quality is really average.

The movies currently scheduled for the 2015 Spring Festival include Dad's Holiday, Where Are We Going, Dad 2, Triumph in the Skies, The Great Wall, Wolf Totem, Zhong Kui: Snow Demon and the Devil Spirit, and The Man from Macau 2.

These movies were released simultaneously on February 19, 2015, the first day of the Chinese New Year, forming the most crowded Spring Festival period in history.

But to say that there are any masterpieces among these movies is really a joke.

Among these movies, the best-received one is Wolf Totem, which earned 699 million yuan at the box office.

But Wolf Totem, which has the best reputation, actually did not leave any traces in the history of Chinese movies. No one remembered this movie the next year. It can be said that it was still a failure.

As for The Man from Macau 2, which won the first place in the Spring Festival box office with a box office of 971 million yuan, although this movie ranked first at the box office, it is indeed another bad movie by Wu Jing!

Jackie Chan's "The Great Wall" ranked second with a box office of 739 million yuan, but this movie is also a small transparent work among Jackie Chan's movies, and the historical background is changed, there are many complaints, and it is also very insignificant, and it was forgotten the next year.

The reason why these movies can achieve such good box office is purely because everyone is very bad during the Spring Festival, but domestic movie fans are already accustomed to going to the cinema with their families during the Spring Festival. The box office of about 3 billion is still here, so even though these movies are not very good, they still share this box office.

If "War of the Demon Tide" enters this year's Spring Festival strongly, in this case where other movies are competing for the worst, "War of the Demon Tide" is completely likely to produce a siphon effect, just like "The Wandering Earth 1", directly occupying the entire Spring Festival and sucking away the box office of other movies!

Wu Yuan is also full of confidence in this! (End of this chapter)