Chapter 81 The Origin of Chinese Science Fiction Film 'Little Sun'
Chapter 81 The Origin of Chinese Science Fiction Movie "Little Sun"
Author: Box and Orange
Chapter 81 The Origin of Chinese Science Fiction Movie "Little Sun"
After the plane arrived at the Los Angeles Airport, the beleaguered young director team, arranged by Warner and Universal Pictures, checked into a hotel in Burbank to rest.
After a jet lag, the next day, someone from Warner took a group of people to Fox Studios to visit the filming of "Transformers 3".
In terms of popularity in China, the "Transformers" series is definitely a science fiction movie series that is more familiar to Chinese fans than "Star Wars" and "Star Trek."
Likewise, this film series is also a representative of Hollywood's modeled industrial films, which happens to be the type that Chinese film directors cannot learn for the time being.
Looking at the various scenes built in "Transformers 3" at Fox Studios, as well as the various props produced, the director Michael Bay even asked the prop team to make a one-to-ten scale model of Transformers.
The directors who came to visit were like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, with their mouths wide enough to put down eggs.
"Lao Guo, look at the details. It's so lifelike, it's like a real thing." Zhang Hao and Guo Fan walked at the end, looking at the scale model they had built, and were filled with admiration.
Guo Fan's unique bubbly voice was full of admiration: "This is really amazing. When will we be able to do this?"
"Lao Guo, there will be. We have gaps to admit, but we will also develop." Zhang Hao's tone was full of encouragement.
Guo Fan shook his head, his expression a little desperate: "This gap is really frustrating, it's too big."
Da Mi Mi looked at the sentimental Zhang Hao and Guo Fan, and then looked at the other enthusiastic directors and their families, and suddenly felt that there was an inexplicable gap.
The other directors came with the mentality of visiting and having fun. Only Zhang Hao and Guo Fan were observing and studying seriously, and seemed to really consider learning the advanced techniques of Hollywood.
But as Guo Fan said, the gap between the two sides is really too big.
However, Zhang Hao seemed to be full of confidence. Da Mi Mi took Zhang Hao's arm and asked, "Zhang Zhang, I think you are not as disappointed as Lao Guo. You look very confident."
"Of course, I have confidence in myself and our mainland film market." Zhang Hao said with a smile.
"Oh? Why is that?"
"Because of me!" Zhang Hao pointed to himself.
Da Mi Mi gave Zhang Hao a roll of his eyes: "Tsk, I also said there was Lao Guo!"
Da Mimi would have never imagined that what she said was a prophecy. Without Zhang Hao, it would be Guo Fan who could realize the industrialization of Chinese-language films in the future.
It's a pity that "The Wandering Earth" was left to Guo Fan, but the credit for starting the industrialization process of Chinese-language films is probably Zhang Hao himself.
The assistant director sent by the previous "Transformers 3" took a group of people who came to visit the studio and introduced the uses of various props, what new technologies were used, etc.
When visiting the behind-the-scenes production of "Transformers 3", deputy director Andy Jackson said: "We have done a lot of work on sound effects. In order to obtain the most realistic sound effects for the film, the sound effects team tried their best to collect real-life sound effects. sound.
Gunfights are an important part of the film. The sounds of AK47, rocket launchers, grenades, etc. were all recorded with real guns and live ammunition.
There is also a space shuttle launch scene in the film, and the sound effects team went to the military base to record the sound of the rocket launch."
"There is a scene in the film where the sound of an alien spacecraft crashing on the moon was recorded using dry ice and metal.
Our sound design staff made a 10-meter long hollow box out of metal, and the resonance generated by the melting of dry ice on the metal produced a very space-like sound."
Having said that, Andy Jackson also specially found a few behind-the-scenes staff to demonstrate to the visiting Chinese directors.
Just the design work on sound effects made the whole group amazed.
The young directors who came with China Film to visit had never seen such a scale of production. The large-scale and refined work made the production process of "Transformers 3" look like science fiction.
In the morning, we visited the set of "Transformers 3". After lunch, we continued to visit Industrial Light & Magic, a special effects studio in Hollywood.
Industrial Light and Magic was originally established for "Star Wars" and then became one of the best visual effects studios in Hollywood, participating in the visual effects production of many Hollywood blockbusters.
In 1975, the famous director George Lucas shot "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope", which included a large number of special effects.
Since the talents in this field were scattered all over the place at that time, it was difficult to ensure the production of ideal effects, so George Lucas chose an old warehouse in Van Nuys, California, where Industrial Light and Magic was born.
When Industrial Light & Magic was founded, it gathered talents from almost all walks of life. Some were engaged in architecture, some were model makers, some were in advertising, and some were in mechanical design. Almost no one had ever worked in movies.
However, these non-film professionals have presented the audience with visual feasts again and again by virtue of their unconventional and unconstrained imagination and execution.
Today, Industrial Light and Magic has become a benchmark in the film and television special effects industry.
Industrial Light and Magic has also brought the special effects major to major film universities, such as New York University and the University of Southern California, which have related majors to cultivate relevant talents.
Listening to a Chinese director from Industrial Light & Magic introducing the history of the studio, Zhang Hao was okay. Da Mi Mi who was following Zhang Hao was completely impressed.
Although Da Mi Mi appeared in Xingye's movie when he was five years old, it can be said that he has been in the movie industry for almost 20 years.
But I never thought that there are so many sophisticated and professional things behind the simple film and television shooting.
"Zhang Zhang, they are so amazing. They were able to produce such special effects in 75 years. It's amazing." Da Mi Mi praised in admiration.
Guo Fan also said: "This is not something we can compare to. They filmed "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968, but we have not yet produced a movie that can be said to be science fiction."
"The process of making special effects is very sci-fi. People not only use computers to do special effects, but they can also do model special effects and design various props.
Originally, I thought special effects were simply computer-generated special effects, but I didn’t expect there to be so many subdivisions.” Ning Hao unknowingly joined Zhang Hao’s discussion.
Compared with other directors who only praise but have no dreams, Ning Hao has something to pursue. Looking at the gap between the two parties, Ning Hao changed from admiration and admiration at the beginning to When can we achieve this?
Zhang Hao had different opinions and reminded Guo Fan: "Actually, we have a science fiction film that is earlier than "2001: A Space Odyssey"."
"Oh?" Big Power Guo Fan, Ninghao and the other three all looked at Zhang Hao, expressing doubts.
"Have you forgotten? "Little Sun" produced by Shanghaike Film Studio in 1963," Zhang Hao reminded.
Da Mi Mi looked confused. She had never heard of this movie, so she didn’t know.
Guo Fan and Ning Hao suddenly realized: "Which film are you talking about? That's true, but this film is too early, right?"
"It doesn't matter whether you watch a science fiction movie early or not, it depends on what it is about. In 1963, "Little Sun" predicted current cutting-edge technological topics such as artificial intelligence, antimatter, and driverless flying cars," Zhang Hao said.
Guo Fan nodded in agreement: "From the perspective of the film's imagination, although it is a children's film, I think this film is no less than "2001: A Space Odyssey"."
"So, we have had science fiction films for a long time. The first year was in 1963, but there was no one to inherit it." Zhang Hao said this, sighing.