Chapter 1,383 The man who was struck by lightning seven times
The early preparations for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" went very smoothly, and in terms of actors, Li Yi chose Pyle Bock, who had previously collaborated with "Seven Deadly Sins", for the lead role this time.
In fact, although it is said that a large amount of CG model synthesis technology will be used in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", in fact, Pyle Boll's workload will be greatly increased.
Because he not only has to star on the set, but also has to cooperate with Jinta Special Effects Company to capture expressions, etc.
As for the heroine, the famous Hollywood actress Caitlin Browne was also chosen.
The lead actor was settled, and other roles were quickly finalized.
It can be said that everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
Of course, before filming started, the script had been read several times, and everyone was already familiar with the story of this movie.
Today is the last script reading meeting before filming starts.
Pyle Bock was the first to speak: "I've always been thinking about what it would be like if I faced a large group of 85-year-old people when I was just born? But I have never been able to figure it out!"
Everyone couldn't help but smile when they heard this question.
Everyone can understand Pyle Pock's troubles.
"Of course, after all, there is no such example in the world, right?" Tara Gill, the black actress who plays Benjamin Button's adoptive mother, said with a smile.
Everyone couldn't help but look at Li Yi, and they were also very surprised by this idea.
Li Yi shrugged and said with a smile: "As a baby, you don't need to have any experience!"
This is also true. Although it is easy to think this way after watching this movie, the fact is that although Benjamin Button looked like an old man in his infancy, he was still a baby, even if he was a freak.
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The biggest difference between him at this time is not shown by the actors, but by the reactions of other people in the outside world.
"Actually, this question should be asked of everyone here, how would you react when you see a baby like that?" Li Yi said with a smile.
Everyone knows it.
Because this is indeed the case, their reaction is actually simpler in comparison. After all, people like Benjamin Button who have the "curse" of rejuvenation do not exist in reality, but people who are born with physical abnormalities are still
Not uncommon.
Then Tara Gill said with a smile: "I really like the role of Queenie. It reminds me of my children and touches me a little. It can be said that I am not acting, I am just expressing myself! Remember in the film I
There was such a conversation with Benjamin. I told him: "Most people will judge you based on your appearance and will not understand what kind of person you are."
I often say this to my own son - as an African-American mother. This is also one of my favorite parts of this story."
Everyone looked at Tarajir in surprise.
The heroine Caitlin Browne raised a question at this time: "Actually, after reading the entire script, I have a very special feeling. How can I put it? It is a sense of sadness that is difficult to describe in words, but it also says
I don’t know what it feels like. Director, what kind of theme do you want to express in this story?"
Others are also quite curious about this issue.
Li Yi pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Different people have different ideas, so the theme is actually not important.
In fact, Benjamin Button spent most of his life wandering around the world. He grew up in a nursing home and was used to seeing the comings and goings of the world. His first night was in a brothel in New Orleans.
The first time I drank alcohol was with my father, a Sazzella cocktail mixed with whiskey.
His first love was with Ross, and he fell in love with a married woman. He had private meetings in hotels every night, and sometimes opened a bottle of champagne and drank it while walking on the snowy streets. He was also extremely romantic.
He participated in World War II, fell in love, had a daughter, went to Asan, and finally died in the arms of his lover in the form of a baby.
The greatest charm of linear time lies in its irreversibility.
It can be said that everything mankind has done since ancient times, including prostrate in temples of divinity or running rapidly following technology, is all in order to surpass it.
However, being captured by time is the common fate of all living things.
Maybe I want to tell everyone that the world is so unpredictable. Some people have been struck by lightning seven times, some are covered with tattoos, some swim, some can recite Shakespeare, some are natural mothers, and some even grow against time.
Every day is younger than the day before, but each one of us is actually just as lonely, experiencing the same Four Noble Truths, the accumulation of suffering and the destruction of the path. In the face of love and death, the sky is full of nets, and none of us can escape.
However, even if an individual’s life is as light as dust, we still have to have the courage to live it abundantly.”
What Li Yi said was vague, but as he said, it is not important. It is not about what he wants everyone to see, but everyone will really think what it is. Often, the same thing, the same person
Different people, with different experiences, see the picture and think of different things.
The movie officially started shooting soon.
Some people say that "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a dark film, but Li Yi doesn't think so, because this film has more of a neither sad nor happy perspective.
Birth, old age, illness and death are nothing more than this. It's just that this time, Benjamin Button grew up against time, but in summary, he was actually the same as everyone else.
The first scene of the movie seems ordinary. In the hospital, the aging heroine Daisy, who can no longer even open her eyelids, has a conversation and interaction with her daughter while lying on the hospital bed.
For those who have not watched the entire movie, this scene and the dialogue in it may just think that this scene is just the beginning of a very ordinary flashback movie like other movies.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But in fact, if you taste this scene and the dialogue carefully, you will find that they also have profound meanings.
Daisy's daughter Caroline said: "I have a friend who said she didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to her mother. I want to tell you that I will miss you very, very much!"
This sentence seems to be just what the daughter said to her mother who is about to die, but in fact, if you look at the entire film, you will find that.
Daisy can lie in the hospital bed and say goodbye to her daughter at the last moment of her life. Her daughter will miss her very much.
But what about Benjamin Button as a father?
Doesn't he love his daughter? That is his only continuation of life in this world, but he can't even accompany her to grow up.
It was even more impossible to say goodbye to my daughter at the last moment of his life, because at that time, he was already just a baby.
Although he lay in his wife's arms and closed his eyes, he was still a stranger to his daughter.
In fact, there is another point in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", which can be said to be a very important point in the whole movie, and that is the nursing home!
A place like a nursing home is definitely not a suitable place to grow up, because here, there are too many life, death, and separation.
But Benjamin Button grew up in a nursing home. Although the journey mentioned always involves experiencing sad things and it can take you into another direction in life, such a growing environment is undoubtedly special.
"Say goodbye to one friend and say goodbye to another forever." People come, leave, and even die in the nursing home every day, but Benjamin grows new hair day by day and straightens his waist little by little.
This is a contrast, an extremely sharp contrast.
He has the same old body, but Benjamin is undoubtedly different from other elderly people in the nursing home, which also sets the tone for Benjamin's growth in the entire film.
Get used to life and death!
The filming of the movie went more smoothly than expected, but of course, there were a lot of troubles encountered during the process.
This movie is different from many of the movies Li Yi has made in the past. It involves many characters. The key is that it spans a long time.
This makes film shooting very complicated.
However, Li Yi was very satisfied with the performance of the actors during the filming of this movie, because everyone was very dedicated.
Time always flies when you are busy.
When Li Yi was working, he almost didn't hear anything going on outside the window, and of course no one would bother him.
Of course, people from the crew often come to visit. In fact, Li Yi did not rush the schedule at all during the filming of this movie, and the filming intensity of the movie was not high.
Because this kind of movie is not suitable for filming in a hurry.
The overall pace of the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is relatively slow. Even if it takes more than two hours and close to three hours to film a time span of nearly a hundred years, in fact, the pace has never been that fast.
Bright, but will give people a soothing feeling.
As time passes day by day, gradually, the scene in the nursing home is coming to an end.
Some movies can be shot by Li Yi according to the movie's timeline, but some movies are unlikely to be shot in this way. After all, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" certainly cannot be shot completely according to the movie's timeline.
Soon, we started to transition and shoot the sea part.
Of course, it is definitely impossible to actually shoot in real scenes. In many cases, it is just shooting at the dock or offshore.
The filming of the movie is progressing in an orderly manner.
On the other hand, the special effects for this movie are also in progress at the same time.
The male protagonist, Pyle Bock, had a heavy workload and facial expression capture. Although he had a set of mature templates, this time it was different from the previous ones produced by Jinta Special Effects Company. Li Yi had very high requirements.
Li Yi was not satisfied with the first few clips produced, so they had no choice but to remake them.
As the filming of the movie comes to an end, Li Yi is still not 100% satisfied with the special effects work.
Li Yi is not the kind of person who pursues perfection, but at this moment, he can understand the thoughts of some directors who pursue perfection.
Because the images of Benjamin Button of different ages created by special effects are actually pretty good, but when they are moved, Li Yi is often dissatisfied.
In fact, this is also a reason for preconceptions. Others are very shocked that technology can achieve such a level, but Li Yi always feels that there are such flaws, such as incoordination, unnaturalness, etc., etc.
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Then I kept improving, and it seemed that the effect was better than before, so could it still be better?
But in the end, Li Yi also troubled the special effects company.
Because they really tried their best. Even though Li Yi had added additional funds for the special effects, Li Yi was still driving him crazy for the golden tower special effects.
“Actually it’s pretty good!”
"Yeah, you can't tell it was made with special effects!"
"Li, you can't pursue perfection too much!"
After everyone's persuasion, Li Yi finally had no choice but to compromise. In fact, he also knew that he was a bit too much.
That is to say, Li Yi is not short of money. Otherwise, the cost of this kind of special effects alone would be enough to give people a headache. More importantly, in terms of special effects technology, it may range from 0 to 90%, and the special effects company can do it in a relatively short time.
, but every 1% increase in the future will take many times as long as before.
Not to mention, special effects are always just special effects, and naturally cannot be truly reproduced 100%.
However, because the special effects and post-production were produced at the same time, although this aspect took a long time, it overlapped with the shooting time. After finishing the filming, there was not that much work left.
The movie was completed very quickly. Of course, the time it took from the preparation to the completion of shooting and then to the completion of the movie also created a new high since Li Yi made a movie.
However, Li Yi is quite satisfied with the effect of the finished film.
Compared with the original version, the degree of restoration is very high, and because the technology is more advanced and the funds are more abundant, the texture of many pictures also exceeds the original version.
In fact, Li Yi also thought about whether it would be better if he changed some things himself?
But in the end Li Yi decided to stick to the original version.
For example, the countless buttons at the beginning formed the logo of the production company, and Li Yi liked it very much.
Another example is the cold tones and nostalgic texture of the movie, which give people a documentary feel and a sense of time. Li Yi also likes it very much.
So, in the end, he almost didn't make any changes.
Now that the movie is finished, all that's left is to finalize the release date and announce it.
Li Yi didn't have any special ideas about this, just follow the steps.
In fact, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" already has many gimmicks that can be used for publicity. For example, the publicity strategy thought up by people from the publicity department of Dean Films gave the slogan: If you could turn back time, you would be an old man in his twilight years.
, slowly become younger, grow black hair and teeth again, and finally transform into the form of a baby. Then will the world you see look different?
This is quite normal, or rather routine.
There is also an exaggeration: the biggest age difference is the year-end love!
And here’s the weird one: Can you imagine your dad as a baby?
There are also literary ones: "It's not good to meet you either too early or too late!"
There is also a spoof: "The man who was struck by lightning seven times!"
Wait, wait, it can be said that the number of gimmicks this movie can create is really extraordinary!
