Chapter 430 Who Wins the Prize?

To be honest, James Cameron is also one of the "old men" in his own words.

James Cameron, born in 1954, is 56 years old this year, over half a century old.

But he is indeed a pioneer who can accept new technologies and even actively explore new technologies and reform the film industry.

In Wu Yuan's cognition, there are only two top directors in North America who dare to try new technologies and explore new tricks, and there is only one in China.

The North American ones are naturally Cameron and Spielberg, and the Chinese one is Zhang Yimou.

Although Spielberg's later "Ready Player One" did not make any technical innovations, it also tried a new theme again in terms of subject matter. It is based on the virtual game world. Almost the entire story takes place in the virtual world. The completely game-like world is indeed novel.

Zhang Yimou is also a man who is old at heart. He took the initiative to explore commercial blockbusters in the 2000s, and later took the initiative to explore the IMAX 3D fantasy and magic film "The Great Wall". Before Wu Yuan woke up from his dream, he heard that he was going to make a League of Legends e-sports game TV series.

These two are top directors who dare to try new things.

In addition to them, domestic directors such as Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, and Wang Jiawei, as well as foreign directors such as Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, and George Lucas, are very conservative.

Even in 2020, many people still stubbornly hold on to film and do not even accept digital cameras, let alone 3D movies.

(To shoot a 3D movie, if it is a native version, you must use a digital 3D camera to shoot it. You can only shoot IMAX 2D movies with a film camera, and then convert 2D to 3D, the effect is not as good as native 3D.)

Like Quentin and Nolan, they don’t like special effects technology, and they hate 3D movies even more. They only make movies shot with 2D film.

There is no distinction between the innovators who actively embrace new things and the conservatives who are conservative and seek stability. It can only be said that the ideas and positions are different.

But as a post-80s director, Wu Yuan certainly prefers new technologies and new things, and is also very happy to promote the innovation of filmmaking methods.

Therefore, the meeting between him and James Cameron was very harmonious.

Both of them highly respect IMAX 3D technology, and both believe that this technology will become the mainstream of science fiction and fantasy movies in the future, and are willing to promote the vigorous development of this technology.

Although they were at the Oscars, the two of them didn't care about other people at all. They talked a lot together and shared their views on the development of film technology in the next five or ten years.

After talking more, Wu Yuan really felt what a top director is.

Without future memories and knowing the future development, James Cameron almost deduced the development of the film industry in the next ten years.

Not only did he think that China's film industry would enter a period of explosive development, but he also understood that the emergence of IMAX 3D movies would bring a wave of favorable development to old superhero science fiction film production companies such as Marvel and DC.

He could even predict that in the next ten years, at least in the field of 3D special effects blockbusters, Marvel and DC would definitely become the rulers.

This can be seen from the huge sales of special effects movies such as "Iron Man" and "Transformers" in the past two years.

These things are nothing strange to Wu Yuan, because he has experienced them and has the memory of later generations as a foundation.

But at the crossroads of the world's film industry in 2009-2010, not many people can see this truth clearly.

It is not surprising to see that the Chinese film market will usher in a big explosion. Since the 2008 Olympics, anyone with a discerning eye can see that China is going to take off in an all-round way.

But it is amazing to see that the next ten or twenty years will be the era of superhero special effects films such as Marvel and DC.

At least most of the elites of the six major Hollywood studios have not seen it yet.

Marvel is also facing bankruptcy and will be acquired by bankruptcy.

DC has been defeated in succession. Except for Nolan's version of "Batman", there have been no other successful superhero movies in more than ten years.

"Green Lantern", which Wu Yuan had previously asked to take over, also flopped.

In this case, Cameron can still predict that these two companies will take off, which is really amazing.

Wu Yuan gave Cameron a thumbs up with admiration: "James, I think so too."

"Haha." Perhaps it was really rare for someone to agree with this view. James was very happy with Wu Yuan's exclamation and patted his shoulder happily: "Daniel, the future belongs to you young directors."

"Although I brought IMAX 3D to world cinema, I am just a pioneer. I alone cannot promote this type of film."

"I sincerely hope that your new movie can sell well all over the world, "Interstellar", right? I will definitely go to the cinema to enjoy it!"

"Thank you." Wu Yuan smiled reservedly. He was also very confident in himself.

"Okay, the award ceremony is about to begin. Let's take our seats first." Looking at the staff in the distance who were signaling that the ceremony was about to begin, James finally nodded to Wu Yuan and led the creators of "Avatar" to their seats.

Speaking of which, the glory of "Avatar" belongs only to Cameron. All the actors who starred in this movie did not get anything from "Avatar".

Sam Worthington, the male protagonist, is much worse than Depp.

After all, you can't expect the audience to be interested in a blue-skinned alien.

However, the "Avatar" series is expected to be made into five films, and Sam Worthington can be regarded as getting a stable job. Anyway, Wu Yuan has not seen the subsequent sequels before waking up from his dream.

It is estimated that James Cameron will be busy with this series for the rest of his life.

"Let's go, we will also take a seat." Wu Yuan took Liu Yifei's hand and said to Gong Li and Wang Xueqi.

Compared with Wu Yuan's success at the Oscars ceremony, Gong Li is also famous in North America, but among all the invited guests, she is relatively neglected, and few people talk to her.

Wang Xueqi is even worse, and has completely become a spectator.

Even the two of them are not as popular as Liu Yifei. After all, Liu Yifei is Wu Yuan's official girlfriend. In addition, their music and movies have made them famous in North America, so they are quite popular.

However, Wang Xueqi and Gong Li are already satisfied. It is good enough to be able to attend the Oscars.

After all, the Oscars have gradually become a bit deified in China in recent years.

"I don't know who will win the award tonight and enjoy the glory, and who will leave with regret and loneliness." Sitting in the seat of "Gravity", Wu Yuan looked around at the other invited crews around him and sighed.

"Brother, the awards ceremony has begun!" Liu Yifei pulled his sleeve.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the hosts of this year's Oscars, have already appeared on the stage.

Amid cheers and applause, the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony officially began. (End of this chapter)