hollywood draw

Whether it is the planned "The Lord of the Rings" or "King Kong", it is not a project that will be launched in a short time. At least it will have to be put after the second part of "The Matrix", so the temporary pressure on funding is not high, and there is basically no need to worry about not enough money to maintain Wayne's living expenses.

As a billionaire, Wayne's consumption habits are extremely conservative. He did not invest in expanding real estate after financial freedom, nor did he change luxury cars that he could not drive. The yacht show and yacht association always call the manor, but he always returned in vain.

He was not at all interested in the luxury yachts that the rich showed off his wealth. Because he had a luxury charter flight from Warner Bros., the private plane was temporarily thrown behind his head. It can be said that he had no bulk expenses in personal life consumption.

Wayne knew very well that he was still at the age of the most energetic, and was far from the time he needed to lie on the grade book and enjoy it. Those days were still far away from him.

However, Nina's reminder was also very important. He returned to the bedroom, carefully considered the plans for the next few years in his mind, and at least he had to make sure that it would not affect his plans after the turn of the century due to money.

The filming of "The Dark Knight" was in an orderly manner. Just a few days after December, the literary scenes in the film were successfully filmed, and more tedious work will be started soon, shooting action scenes and bursting shots.

Because of the popularity of "The Matrix" as a dark horse, North American audiences saw another fighting method for the first time, adding kung fu elements to action scenes has become a common element in Hollywood action science fiction films this year and even in the next few years.

Before "The Matrix", Hollywood's mainstream fighting styles were all close to reality. The action scenes of you punching me and kicking also caused aesthetic fatigue to the audience.

Compared with the popular trends in the following years, Wayne was out of the ordinary and tried his best to design the action scenes in accordance with the power style. He didn't consider the high-speed slow motion and fast-slow handover shots in "The Matrix".

While shooting, he also communicated with editor Julia and Industrial Light and Magic's special effects team. When post-shot editing and adding special effects, his request was to let the audience see each action shot clearly, and to give a reason for the destructive power to be fully convincing.

Relatively speaking, action scenes look very cool on the big screen, but they are completely opposite when shooting. Each shot lasts very short, so fine that it is a headache to shoot one after another. Only after post editing is made together, forming a continuous fight scene and camera switching.

"As the cost of special effects gradually decreases, one day, the effects that require a lot of money to add will become some directors' methods of showing off their skills, and may even become mainstream, who knows."

In a suburban studio near New Jersey in New York, Gilmore and the action team were hosting the filming. Wayne sat on a prop box, staring at the ongoing shooting, chatting with the producer Charles Rowan next to him.

“It’s hard.”

Charles Rowan shook his head. All movies that can add special effects in large quantities are large projects with investment of over 100 million US dollars. Even if the expenses in this regard are indeed decreasing year by year, the progress of computer special effects has been getting faster and faster in the past two years. However, it is still very difficult for the director to use special effects to show off his skills that burn money.

He glanced at the young people around him. Unless the directors reached their level, no production company would give the director such great rights and creative freedom and use special effects to show off his skills? In his opinion, it was purely the successful person around him who could not experience the hardships of the Hollywood directors.

"Wayne, everyone knows that the special effects of big scenes attract audiences. Even if the tracking and rendering on the big screen will look fake, most viewers will take this set. If one day, the special effects of Hollywood movies are flooded to the point you said, it will only be a good thing for the production company."

He nodded slightly. Wayne basically agreed with the other party's point of view. The audience all likes to watch big scenes and beautifully made special effects. This is understandable. Even after twenty years, it is still the case. In the hearts of many movie fans, they feel that there are enough big scenes to be worth the price of the movie.

This is a big trend. As the image carriers start to develop from film, they gradually have video tapes, and then the images are clearer. These carriers have become part of the Hollywood film channel revenue.

However, with the rapid development of the Internet, the streaming media platform from scratch, the cost of people to obtain video entertainment is getting lower and lower, and the way to obtain it is getting easier. When you go to the theater to watch movies, you will inevitably need stronger reasons to support it. The unsubstitutable part of the theater is the sensory stimulation brought by extraordinary visual enjoyment and the audio and video stimulation far beyond home equipment.

What follows is only a life-long pile of special effects. Marvel Dafa is always in the later stage, and there are many factors of excellent special effects, because only by entering the theater can you better enjoy the big scenes in the movie.

And this is what Wayne thought of the origin of the movies in his previous life. When the cost of special effects became very low, the director seemed to have regarded the addition of special effects as an instinctive reaction.

"Technology is progressing rapidly, but technology is only an auxiliary means of storytelling..."

Charles Rowan heard some of his murmuring, looked at the young man beside him with some confusion, shook his head and walked away.

"Steven, the lights are adjusting to dim!"

Wayne, who had been sitting by the side watching, suddenly frowned slightly and shouted at the lighting director Steve Wilson. Then, he saw the light tube change and nodded with satisfaction.

For action scenes that he was not good at, he did not shy away from giving the crew the dominance of the crew to the deputy director Gilmore and the action team, but this did not mean that he would relax his requirements. As long as there were some things he was not satisfied with during the shooting, he would immediately stop the work and make adjustments.

In the dialogue-based literary drama, several actors performed very stably, especially Nicholas Cage, who played the clown. Faced with his performance, even if Wayne kept his expressionless work style, he was very satisfied.

But when it comes to scenes other than literary drama, several major actors showed more or less discomfort. Christian Bale was the easiest one. Those scenes of driving a bat chariot, driving a motorcycle, and climbing down from a high and high, in fact, he only needs to show his face, and the rest are stunt teams to complete.

The smooth shooting work in the early stage left plenty of time for now, so Wayne instructed Gilmore to take it slowly while ensuring quality, anyway, there is enough time for them.

Time slowly came to mid-December. As the scenes in New York became less and less, the working atmosphere in the crew began to change, just like impetuousness would be contagious. Even Ralph Fiennes, who performed very well for a while, began to make frequent low-level mistakes.

However, the imaginary harshness did not appear. Wayne seemed to have become a good temper, looking at the camera over and over again, and there was no scene of calling the actor to the front and talking with a cold face.

"Chris, is this a change in the boss?!"

When Wayne announced his work, Ralph Fiennes came to Christian Bale and looked in confusion at the direction of the director's trailer.

“no.”

Batman shook his head, without leaving any cover, and explained directly: "Don't you read the news? After the re-election of Baifang successfully made a move, the first thing he did was to award the leader the Congressional Gold Medal, probably before we left New York."

"Hey, I have insider information."

Nicholas Cage had just finished taking off his makeup and heard the two talk about this, he immediately came up with a gossip on his face. "Do you want to hear it?"

His words not only aroused the interest of the two, but Gary Oldman and Samuel Jackson also surrounded him with curiosity. The Congressional Gold Medal is not a big deal. Although there is no judgment standard for this thing, one thing is certain, that is, it makes efforts and contributions far exceeding the average person.

Seeing that he attracted everyone's attention, Nicholas Cage blinked proudly, as if he had not yet escaped from the play. "I heard that the man in the White House had settled the Senate and the House of Representatives within two days, obtained more than two-thirds of the consent of the two houses, and then quickly signed the resolution.

You may not know that if this honor is sent to Wayne successfully, a referee is needed. It is logical that it must be a senior military general or a witness to honorary behavior. It is said that the referee this time was a reporter from the New York Times. He was outside the bank that day and watched the whole thing."

Speaking of this, Nicholas Cage paused and deliberately lowered his voice. "Also, this medal not only needs a referral, but the medal was formed by personal sponsorship. The sponsor this time is Kevin Teshura, the former CEO of Warner Brothers, and the current CEO of Time Warner. In this way, the whole thing is interesting! There have been rumors that the commander and Time Warner..."

“f**K!”

Gary Oldman whispered a swear word, interrupting Nicholas Cage's guess. "Don't tell me the following guess. I would rather believe that it is the honor of the boss's knight-like spirit and gentleman-like tough guy performance. He deserves this thing, right?"

The few people nodded thoughtfully. After reacting, they each lowered their heads and got into the car silently. Compared to the dirty political exchange, they were more willing to believe in other things. Even if this group of people could guess what was going on, no one was willing to say it.

As the convoy began to drive towards the hotel in the cold weather, Wayne's car walked at the end as usual.

"A surprise!"

Nina covered her mouth and hung up the phone. She took advantage of the car that they were the two of them, raised her eyebrows and joked, "I bet, boss, you will definitely not guess."

Wayne glanced at her, then closed her eyes, leaned against her seat and closed her eyes to rest. He knew his little assistant so well that he could guess that this was not a serious matter at work.

"Okay." Nina's mouth twitched twice, and she said gloatingly: "The phone call just now was called by Angelina Jolie. She has arrived at the hotel and said she wants to visit your class. You'd better pray that Nami won't fight with her..."

480-A surprise