Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 714 In Xiangshan (13)

The director of "Ex Machina" is Han Yan, who volunteered for the role!
That's normal; he also participated in the filming of "The Martian" and has a passion for science fiction movies...

Furthermore, the filming equipment used in *Ex Machina* was virtual visualization production...

It's a new type of filming technology: using laser tracking technology to construct the movie footage after special effects in real time!

For example, the Martian scenes in "The Martian" were filmed in the Da Qaidam Red Cliff Martian landform scenic area, which is known as "most like Mars," but they still required CG rendering in post-production.

These all require funding.

It just takes time…

Virtual production is ushering in a new era for filmmaking: reduced costs and real-time imaging!
The Martian was shot using a relatively traditional green screen technique, which involved a lot of post-production work, including foreground, midground, and background processing, real-time rendering flashes, and the final application of filters. However, if a virtual production method had been used, a lot of post-production time and costs could have been saved.

With the advancement of VR technology and the emergence of real-time rendering engines, we can combine related technologies to condense the three stages of filmmaking—before, during, and after—into one, instantly presenting the shooting effect.

No director can resist something like this!
The price... is acceptable—compared to the time required for traditional post-processing.

The equipment was rented for three months—not only for filming "Ex Machina" but also for filming "Moon"—and the rental price was $500 million!
On average, *Ex Machina* took 40 days to film, and *Moon* took 35 days…

It can't compare to the filming equipment used in "The Wandering Earth".

The main scenes exceeded 100, and the costumes, sets, and props cost approximately 80 million. In addition, the ARRI 65 camera was used for filming. This camera could only be rented from ARRI along with technical services. Not only did they have to cover the engineers' travel and accommodation, but the rental fee for one camera was 10,000 US dollars per day. "The Wandering Earth" used three cameras. The filming period was three months, and the rental fee for the cameras alone was enough to make a movie!
By the way, virtual filming will also be used in "The Wandering Earth"...

Therefore, a budget of 4 million yuan for "The Wandering Earth" might not actually be enough...

……

The entire production cost of "Ex Machina" was 6000 million, and the actors mostly joined the film at low salaries.

You cannot share in the later profit sharing...

Not much; Dilraba gets 10%, Liu Duanduan gets 5%, and Zhang Yi gets 8%...

The projected box office revenue is 3-5 million, and after revenue sharing, the profit would only be 6000 million, which is basically in line with their market price...

Liu Duanduan aside, but he is, after all, one of the main characters.
Besides the three of them, there's another female character—a low-class mechanical maid, played by Chen Yao…

The whole play... was actually an experimental work.

How many viewers actually understand the Turing Test?

But everyone understands Dilraba's sexiness...

The entire film is essentially a cold science fiction story with many terrifying allusions…

The stickers covering the wall actually hinted that the male protagonist was not the first person to be tested; it was a trap!
—The female protagonist eventually escaped from the place that had trapped him through various means.

I saw someone ask: Did Ava in Ex Machina ever develop feelings for any male character?
From Ava's perspective, the entire film shows how she uses her knowledge of Liu Duan (the male protagonist) and his boss Zhang Yi's background, behavior patterns, and interpersonal relationships to create a complex cognitive and behavioral model. This model captivates Liu Duan, turning him into a hardware device that can be driven by vague commands, ultimately unlocking the cell from the outside and achieving her ultimate goal.

When Ava finally escaped, she locked Liu Duan in her former glass cell.

Regardless of Ava's motives, the consequences of this action are clear.

This shows that she didn't care about the male protagonist's death at all...

In a sense, the exoskeleton Ava is a silicon-based life form, while the male protagonist is a human, a carbon-based life form…

They're not even the same species, how can they talk about feelings?
It's a sci-fi movie!

Therefore, some people say that "Ex Machina" should be renamed "Ex Machina"...

That's absolutely right!
All she did was try to get away from this place…

By the way, Shen Yan told the crew he would arrive on November 16th, but in fact he arrived on the 15th and spent the whole night with Dilraba...

The next day, I felt much better!

how to say.

These things are basic physiological needs, promoting metabolism, aiding sleep, and nourishing the skin…

Oh, the next day, Shen Yan mainly stayed in Reba's RV to catch up on sleep...

As for the filming, he didn't care at all—the producer of "Ex Machina" was Guo Fan.

During the lunch break, Dilraba and her assistant brought over a lot of delicious food…

Shen Yan ate heartily for a while before asking, "Aren't you going to eat?" "I've already eaten!"

"...Did the crew's chef make these?"

"Hmm..." Dilraba nodded: "The crew of 'The Wandering Earth'!"

"... "

Shen Yan didn't speak...

The crew of "The Wandering Earth" was based in Xiangshan, so they simply hired a chef team to cook a variety of meals for the staff every day...

With "Ex Machina" filming here and Guo Fan as producer, why not let "The Wandering Earth" team do more of the work?

How was the filming process?

"I'm alright..." Dilraba thought for a moment, "Mainly because I'm playing a robot, which has no facial expressions, so the atmosphere is entirely created by lighting and cinematography..."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yan glanced at Dilraba with some surprise: "...Tsk tsk, you know this movie very well!"

Dilraba raised an eyebrow: "I've read a lot of information... things like the Three Laws of Robotics, the Turing Test..."

"Oh, so you do know how to study..."

"I need to understand this movie..."

"Oh, that's alright."

After Shen Yan finished eating, Dilraba had her assistant clear away the tableware, and then placed her feet on his thighs…

Do you have a foot fetish?

"No!"

"Then what are you doing..."

"I used to think I was a leg fetishist, then I thought I was a foot fetishist, a breast fetishist..." Shen Yan shrugged, "In the end, I realized I was just a lecher... I don't have any special fetishes!"

Dilraba: "I like men with abs and pecs..."

"Ideally, he should also be handsome and talented?"

"Yeah!"

Shen Yan nodded and said, "You're a lecher too!"

"I won't..."

As they were talking, Shen Yan gestured for her to come over. Whether she misunderstood or not, she squatted down…

……

In "Ex Machina," Shen Yan only needs to sweep the floor, and then he has no more scenes!

He wasn't another maid...

A fleeting glimpse of the scene!
Later, the boss felt that male servants were not suitable, so he created female servants!

Its tasks are to provide daily care and perform sexual services, carrying out basic commands and operating entirely according to a pre-programmed sequence…

Shen Yan discussed the release date with Guo Fan and Han Yan.

"Let's release it next summer... two weeks after 'Finding Mr. Right 2'!"

“Okay,” Guo Fan nodded, holding the movie release schedule in his hand. “It will be released on the same day as ‘Divergent 3’!”

Han Yan glanced at it, then shook his head in distress: "But Alice in Wonderland 2 is coming out on May 20th!"

Shen Yan glanced at it and then said, "It's alright, Alice in Wonderland 2 is on the 27th..."

"Captain America will be released on April 29th?"

"Can't make it..." Shen Yan waved his hand: "Our 'Finding Mr. Right 2' will be released on April 29th..."

(End of this chapter)