Chapter 674 Difficulties

On April 8, the filming of "Ready Player One" was held in Beijing.

On the same day, the news of the filming started spread all over the Internet and became the first hot search on Weibo.

Wu Yuan's new film is still attracting a lot of attention.

More importantly, it is a science fiction special effects blockbuster.

"The Martian", which was released in the summer of last year, has fully made domestic audiences feel the charm of science fiction movies.

And superhero movies such as "The Avengers" have made domestic audiences experience the charm of special effects blockbusters.

How cool would a science fiction special effects blockbuster that combines these two look?

No one dares to think about it!

But because the director of this movie is Wu Yuan, domestic movie fans still have high expectations.

And the domestic reporters who were slapped in the face by Wu Yuan in "Gravity" that year did not dare to shout in front of him that Chinese directors can't make science fiction movies or can't make good science fiction movies, and they dared not write such words in the article.

Perhaps they still believe that the current Chinese film market can't produce good science fiction movies at all, and no director can make good science fiction movies.

Especially after the release of the movie "Where Are We Going, Dad?" during the Spring Festival this year, I don't know how many film media and self-media thought that Chinese films were really going to be finished.

But Wu Yuan is different. Strictly speaking, he is not a director in the "Chinese film circle."

It's amazing.

People in China think that Wu Yuan is a big Hollywood director. He does not belong to, or not only belongs to, the Chinese director circle. He can be singled out from Chinese directors and counted separately.

People in the United States think that Wu Yuan is not a Hollywood director. Although he is well-known in Hollywood, when introducing Wu Yuan in any public occasion abroad, he is introduced as a "Chinese director". Various statistics in Hollywood generally classify Wu Yuan as an international director, and will not be counted together with American local directors.

This has led to Wu Yuan also being the leader in various "international director" lists in North America, and he has been dominating the list for many years.

Among non-American directors, there is no director as awesome as Wu Yuan, including those from Europe, especially the UK.

Those with higher artistic achievements than Wu Yuan, have lower box office results than him.

Those with higher box office results than him?

There is no one at all.

So whether in China or in North America, Wu Yuan is singled out by the film media as an example, and he is not regarded as "universal".

It has the flavor of the "bug" that appears when the world is running.

Just like in China, media reporters are used to it. When it comes to the keyword Wu Yuan-science fiction, all kinds of mindless praise are enough.

But if other Chinese directors are related to the word "science fiction", they will be scolded for overestimating their abilities and be ridiculed and looked down upon.

Facts have proved that the rise of one person still cannot change the entire market.

Just like the appearance of "The Wandering Earth" and Guo Fan later, they were not able to really make "Chinese science fiction movies" grow up, and can only be used as individual cases.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan also has a film company called Light and Shadow Times, which is still working tirelessly to develop domestic science fiction films.

However, Light and Shadow Times and Chinese commercial films are still too young.

In the first week of the start of "Ready Player One", Wu Yuan encountered difficulties and the filming was bumpy.

The film world of "Ready Player One" really has too high requirements for technology.

After shooting some materials, Wu Yuan tried to send them to the special effects company and asked them to make some samples to see the effect.

But this effect made Wu Yuan a little dissatisfied.

It is not an easy thing to integrate virtual reality and reality.

It took Spielberg three years from preparation to completion.

It is estimated that the early preparation took a year, but Wu Yuan only spent more than half a year, and he prepared two years earlier than the original version, so the difficulties he faced would only be greater.

Post-production takes a long time, but Wu Yuan doesn't mind.

Like the Spielberg version of Ready Player One, since the film had a lot of special effects to be completed, during the post-production process, Steven Spielberg took time to shoot The Post, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.

Wu Yuan could also do his Riding the Wind during the post-production process without delaying things.

But the problem is that he must complete the pre-production and shooting of Ready Player One before October 2015 before he can have time to do Riding the Wind.

This tight schedule made him start the filming in a hurry, and he suffered in the end.

Shooting site.

"Ka-ka-ka!"

"This effect is not good!"

"Remove the green screen, put the actors in motion capture suits, try to use motion capture, and shoot with virtual reality!"

Wu Yuan shouted impatiently with a loud speaker. This was the 14th shot of this scene.

He tried several ways to shoot this scene, but he was not satisfied with it no matter how he shot it, and he could not achieve the expected effect.

Now when shooting special effects blockbusters, with the special effects team following the crew throughout the process, it is possible to simply see the special effects combined with the picture.

The technology is more advanced, but it also brings many problems.

Peng Yuchang was completely frightened when he filmed with Wu Yuan for the first time, and he didn't dare to breathe.

He had heard before that directors would be very irritable when directing on the set. Many directors were called tyrants on the set. Even some directors who looked very amiable would become completely different once they sat in the director's chair.

In the past, Peng Yuchang just listened to it for fun, but when he really felt the director's "strong wind" in person, he really couldn't stand it.

The young man was caught and scolded by Wu Yuan at least a dozen times during the day. Although Wu Yuan didn't curse, his tone was just a little harder and more angry, but for Peng Yuchang, it was already a storm in the storm, which scared him.

Even now, he was worried in his heart whether Wu Yuan would plan to replace him.

Then he complained to himself, thinking that he had failed his dream and failed to perform well. He couldn't grasp such an important opportunity, which was simply embarrassing.

In short, Peng Yuchang was so emo that he felt like he was about to break.

At this time, Liu Yifei, an "old senior" who was also on the set, took on the job of cleaning up Wu Yuan's mess.

It's not really cleaning up his mess, which actor doesn't get scolded on the set? It's normal for Wu Yuan to scold people, but it can only be said that Peng Yuchang, the newcomer, is indeed more fragile.

"Peng Peng, don't worry, Director Wu is not angry with you." Liu Yifei walked to Peng Yuchang and comforted him softly, "He just has a little pressure and is not in a good mood because the crew has not made smooth progress in the past few days."

"Don't think too much. It's normal for us actors to be scolded by the director on the set. Just correct it if you make a mistake."

"I believe that since Director Wu chose you, it means that you are a talented actor who is most suitable for this role, so don't be discouraged, the filming has just begun!" (End of this chapter)