Chapter 2041 2043 [Inception]
In April, "Taken" officially started filming.
The film will be shot in the United States and France, with a total investment of 50 million US dollars.
The reason why the investment is so small is mainly because pure action movies are hard to sell now.
Special effects blockbusters are now the mainstream of action movies. Because of the blessing of special effects, you can create visual wonders at will.
Before Jackie Chan jumped on the roof of the building in "Red Fan District", spanning a distance of more than eight meters, which surprised the American audience.
But now with special effects technology, let alone jumping eight meters, jumping eight hundred meters is easy.
Therefore, action actors are no match for computers.
No matter how beautifully they play kung fu, and no matter how dedicated they are to risk their lives, they can't compare with the special effects made by computers.
It's like the players of chess, chess, and go all fell under the computer one after another. No matter how good their chess skills are, they are not as fast as the brains of computers.
Of course, pure action movies will not die.
After all, no matter how realistic and detailed the computer special effects are, it is difficult to achieve the kind of pure action movies that hit the flesh, and the knife hits the bone, allowing the audience to watch the pleasure of hormone explosion.
Because the audience will know that it is a counterfeit as soon as they see the special effects, so it is naturally difficult to substitute. Therefore, pure action movies will still have a group of fixed fans, and with the proliferation of special effects technology in the future, pure action movies will usher in a period of recovery.
It's just that manpower is sometimes poor. There are limits to human physical strength, speed, and reaction. Compared to a computer, the performance is almost endless.
With the advancement of technology, they will create more realistic and detailed pictures. By then, the profession of action actors will basically cease to exist. Without qualified action actors, there will naturally be no pure action scenes.
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After the filming of "Taken" started, the progress went very smoothly.
For Xiang Nan, shooting action movies has long been familiar.
And he and Cong Shan have been married for many years, so they naturally have a tacit understanding when filming.
The only troublesome thing is Zhou Dongyu, her acting skills are not bad, she can express all the expressions she needs, but her English is really not up to standard.
Because she just graduated from high school, and her grades in cultural subjects are average, and English is not her strong point. But she played a Chinese girl who grew up in the United States.
If Xiang Nan and Cong Shan's English is not good, it can be forgiven. After all, many immigrant generations are not good at English, have a strong accent, and like to combine local and foreign. But the English of the second generation of immigrants is no different from that of the locals.
So Zhou Dongyu still needs to improve her English, at least she needs standard pronunciation for those lines, so that it can't make people feel like a play.
Zhou Dongyu also knew this, so he specially hired an English teacher to help him make up for it, but the meal needs to be eaten bite by bite, and it is impossible to achieve the goal of accurate pronunciation and fluent conversation in a short time.
So Xiang Nan had no choice but to skip her scenes first and choose to shoot other scenes so that she would have more time to hone her accent.
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This movie tells the story of a magical team of dreamers who sneak into other people's dreams, steal the most core secrets from his subconscious, and modify the stories of other people's subconscious.
In fact, the story of "Tomb Raider Space" is very easy to understand. It is the story of a group of people passing through layers of checkpoints and finally successfully completing the task.
From the context, this is no different from "Dungeons and Dragons", where adventurers form a team, go through adventures again and again, and finally win the treasure.
The biggest charm of this movie is that it fictionalizes such a dreamer profession, which can actually enter people's subconscious through people's dreams.
Dreams are changeable and omnipotent. Anything, anything, will not be surprising if it appears in a dream. Any laws, rules, morals, and logic are completely invalid here.
So the director can be unconstrained, weave any story he wants, any shot he wants, without bothering about anything. The audience can naturally see more unimaginable, wonderful and stunning pictures.
This is the biggest charm of this movie. The director has always been known as a "dream maker". The movies he made allow the audience to enjoy two hours of wonderful dreams. And Nolan really became a dreamer this time.
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After "Inception" was released, the box office response was very good.
On the one hand, Nolan has become one of the most outstanding directors in Hollywood by virtue of the big sales of "Batman Begins" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", and has cultivated a large number of loyal fans, so the film is naturally sought after ;
On the one hand, Leonardo has made good-looking movies in recent years, "The Aviator", "Blood Diamond", "The Departed", "Revolutionary Road", "Shutter Island"... all of them are box office, Word of mouth is a win-win situation, and it has gained more and more support from fans and recognition in the industry.
Therefore, their cooperation already represents the box office appeal. What's more, the script was written by Xiang Nan himself. The so-called alliance between strong and powerful is naturally very attractive to the audience.
So in the end, the North American box office was 290 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was 890 million U.S. dollars. Compared with the cost of 160 million US dollars, this result is quite good.
The birth of this movie also made mainland filmmakers feel downhearted.
Last year's hit of "Avatar" has made mainland filmmakers realize how far behind Hollywood's technology is. Now this "Inception" let them know how far they are from Hollywood screenwriters.
From hardware to software, none can compare, so they naturally lose confidence.
However, Xiang Nan knows that mainland films actually have great potential, but mainland filmmakers now only know how to blindly follow the pace of Hollywood.
Hollywood makes Kung Fu movies, and he also makes Kung Fu movies; Hollywood makes blockbuster special effects movies, and he also makes blockbuster special effects movies; Hollywood makes IMAX3D, and the mainland is rushing to launch 3D movies...
They have never considered the advantages, strengths, and characteristics that mainland films have compared to Hollywood films, so they are naturally lagging behind and beaten to the ground.
In 2010, five of the top ten box office hits in the country were Hollywood blockbusters. Moreover, if there is no domestic film protection month and there are quota restrictions on the introduction of foreign films, the gap will be more obvious.
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In June, the movie released is "Captain America", which tells the birth process of Captain America Steve Rogers.
The story of this movie is actually very routine. The kind-hearted poor boy, under the circumstances that he was not favored, succeeded in passing the test instead.
There are really too many stories like this, and there are many folk stories in China, so it is not uncommon in Hollywood.
It’s just that although the story is clichéd, the rhythm is smooth, and the special effects are also very good. Therefore, after the release, the box office in North America was 170 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was 370 million U.S. dollars, which is not bad.
(end of this chapter)