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Chapter 146 The Extravagant Hollywood!

The first film in the "Fringe Walker" series generally adopts a tone of initial gloom followed by climax. After David's family is destroyed, he meets Lucy and joins Mann's team.

When Chen Yuan was giving David the mission for Mann's team, he incorporated many creative ideas from the Fast & Furious movies that he was familiar with.

Most importantly, he brought the fifth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise to the city, where the team worked together seamlessly, dragging a large safe through the city.
The idea of ​​using this thing as a flail was choreographed into the later climax of "The Edge Walker".

Speaking is easy; it only takes a few words to get it done. But actually designing something is a real headache.

The filming process presented enormous challenges, including the extremely high difficulty of the photography and camera work, the need for specialized modifications to props and vehicles, and the massive workload required for post-production special effects.
Fortunately, Hollywood is really strong now, extremely strong. They're not afraid of having difficult ideas, they're afraid of having no ideas at all.

After Chen Yuan proposed this idea, it received high praise from the director team. Everyone wanted to bring this idea of ​​using a car trailer safe as a meteor hammer to the big screen.

This scene was ultimately filmed in Shibuya, Tokyo, the city's most fashionable and trendy area, with towering buildings, neon signs, and densely packed electronic advertising screens, giving it a distinctly cyberpunk feel.

Sony will help the production team with the relevant procedures and arrangements.

Of course, it can't actually cause any damage to the buildings in Shibuya Ward.
Footage of safes damaging road infrastructure and street-front shops being filmed in a capital city thousands of miles away.

They will replicate the exterior of a street building in Shibuya, Tokyo, one-to-one, and then ruthlessly destroy it.

What the audience sees is the main characters rampaging through Shibuya, Tokyo.

But in reality, one second it's the bustling city of Shibuya, and the next it cuts to close-ups of a safe crashing into a house and a steel cable snapping a pillar, all filmed in the capital.

Filming for "The Edge Walker" began in mid-July, and a month after filming started, more and more crew members went to the capital to work.

The entire Beijing Film Studio's soundstage was transformed into a massive construction site.

Han Sanpin has basically been staying here for the past two months. Damn, this American film crew is really extravagant!

For a single ten-second shot, they worked overtime for a month, spending over 800 million yuan to renovate a street full of houses, and even installed many expensive illuminated signs on them.
Two medium-sized trucks were simply twisted together with a steel cable about the thickness of a thumb, turning the area into a complete wasteland!
You don't even need to see it in a movie; just standing there in person, you can directly feel the thrill that gets your blood pumping.

Even though I knew it was all a facade, I was still shocked by the Americans' extravagance in pursuing large-scale, thrilling effects.

The cost of other sets, large and small, built in the studio also exceeded 5000 million RMB.

Many meticulously constructed sets are rendered useless after one or two scenes are filmed, and their only fate is demolition.

When will Chinese films develop to the point where they can support such large-scale productions and investments?

Suppressing his envy, Han Sanpin was left with only a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a feeling of mixed emotions, including admiration and regret). Although domestic films faced immense pressure, they were not simply lying down and taking a beating.

Renowned directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige have begun directing big-budget productions, and with prodigies like Chen Yuan, Chinese cinema is forging its own path.

Chen Yuan, in particular, gave him a huge surprise, actually getting the arrogant Hollywood to cooperate with him in making a movie!
Listening to the stories of Chen Yuan's dealings with Hollywood from the Chinese crew members who returned to China was like listening to the ramblings of a third-rate novelist.

However, considering the impressive achievements Chen Yuan's Yuan Universe has made in China, and the fact that everyone who has worked with him speaks highly of him, it's not entirely incomprehensible.

Thanks to Chen Yuan's exceptional personal abilities and charisma, the Chinese staff didn't encounter many additional difficulties in their work and studies in Hollywood. Anyone willing to learn and improve was able to gain something. Chen Yuan also encouraged everyone to keep work logs, and Han Sanpin carefully reviewed these logs, finding that Hollywood's work methods were indeed more structured and organized.

Although these experiences are somewhat ahead of their time and the domestic film industry has not yet adopted them rigidly, Han Sanpin believes that these people will bring a new vitality to Chinese cinema.

The only thing to worry about is that not only does Yuan Yuzhou have half of the qualifications for these trainees, but Chen Yuan can also easily recruit the rest.

Such an overemphasis on the metaverse is not conducive to the development of the entire film industry, and this matter must be made clear to him.

In early September, more members of the "The Edge Walker" crew arrived in China, and most of the scenes will be filmed there for the next period of time.

The crew was running around, so Chen Yuan gave everyone two days off to get familiar with the local environment, as many of the American staff were visiting China for the first time.

Many people wanted to see pandas, so Chen Yuan simply led those who wanted to travel to the Chengdu Kung Fu Panda Park for a good time.

There were about 200 people, quite a lot. They specifically chose to visit the Kung Fu Panda Park after it closed in the evening to avoid disturbing other tourists.

Chen Yuan is a major shareholder of Kung Fu Panda Park, so they can certainly grant him that privilege.

Abao is now almost 1 months old and is in the pre-adult stage.

Because he was the "treasure of the park" when the panda park was rebuilt and reopened, the panda park specially arranged a team to take care of his food, drink and entertainment.

Abao weighs over 50 kilograms and is rounder, plumper, and cuter than when he was a child.

Of course, A Bao's value is absolutely worth the effort the panda park has put into him, and every tourist who visits the panda park will come to see him at the panda enclosure.

Po's toys are also the best-selling products in the panda park. Since the park opened, the sales of its related products have exceeded 1400 million RMB.

"Scarlett, don't be afraid, Abao is a good boy!"

Chen Yuan invited Scarlett Johansson, who was eager to try but also somewhat apprehensive, to sit on the other side of A Bao.

"Come on, try putting the cookie in its hand."

Following Chen Yuan's instructions, Scarlett picked up the cookie she had just received. Abao, as if he had experienced this countless times, stretched out his dark, hairy hand directly towards Scarlett.

Scarlett was amused by the clever Po, so she gently placed the biscuit in its hand and even boldly patted Po's head.

"It's so cute, but it's hard to imagine that this is the same 'Kung Fu Panda'."

"Haha, it's just a commercial hype. Po only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun; he doesn't know kung fu at all, and he doesn't have a panda to teach him."

That's a real shame.

Upon arriving in China, Scarlett was once again amazed by Chen Yuan's influence here. He was not only a big star in China, but also ran such a unique zoo.

Since joining the film crew, she has been deeply attracted to this 'extraordinarily charming gentleman'; his experience, abilities, and way of thinking are all so unique.
His loving girlfriend took some time today to shoot an advertisement; perhaps we can talk about some interesting topics then.
(End of this chapter)