Rebirth In Hollywood

After the filming of the scenes in the studio is completed, the crew will also go to many regions including Thailand, Switzerland, Tunisia, and Guilin in China to film scenes. George Lucas's eyes are also fixed on the rapidly developing film market, and even Also accepted an interview with a Chinese media.

"The choice to go to Guilin for filming is the unanimous opinion of the crew. I like Chinese landscape paintings very much, and I really want to bring the beauty of China to the screen."

When facing reporters, he said this, and even specifically mentioned the biggest actor in the crew, "Ryan deliberately borrowed many characteristics of Chinese Kung Fu when he acted, which made him show extraordinary physical fitness and flexibility, The action scenes in the film are sure to satisfy both Eastern and Western audiences.”

As long as it can bring huge benefits, Hollywood has never mind touting each other to the sky.

This situation has gradually become the norm in Hollywood. It is difficult to see Chinese villains in commercial productions, and those evil countries have gradually become the first military power in the universe or the prostitutes of Libya and Venezuela.

With the signing of bilateral agreements on film and the rapid development of the Chinese film market, and the improvement of the relationship between the two sides after 9/11, since 2002, more and more commercial blockbusters have planned to go to China to shoot scenes, and added to the film. Appropriate Chinese elements in order to please the audience, so as to obtain more box office and further opening of the market.

Although the extent of doing so is very limited, for example, some big productions will only consider the international chapter as a small supporting role, but as the opposite market becomes larger and larger, it will not take long for Chinese stars to frequently appear in Hollywood commercial productions. The case of soy sauce.

Of course, the main market for Hollywood in the future will still be North America. If Chinese actors want to play an important role in mega-productions, it will take time and the development of the Chinese market.

If the number of screens on the other side can increase to 15,000 yuan next year, Ryan will not hesitate to add Chinese-American supporting roles to Disney's films, but this is obviously impossible.

"Originally, I wanted to replace Jill Valentino in Life Crisis 2 with Ada King."

During the noon break, the most important members of the crew sat together and chatted about recent events. Ryan talked about China. "Then find a Chinese actor or an actress directly from mainland China, but..."

He shrugged. "I dismissed the idea later."

"Why?" Ewan McGregor, who was sitting across from the dining table, put down his coffee cup and asked curiously.

"Because of this type of film..." Ryan explained briefly, "it is almost impossible to pass the censorship of their relevant agencies.

"

"So, you are keeping an eye on the Japanese market?" George Lucas said of the relevant data he had read, "I heard that the Japanese box office of "Resident Evil 1" is close to 20 million US dollars? The sales of DVDs are also extremely high. high?"

"That's because of the game." Ryan naturally knew why the film was popular in Japan. "Japanese game makers also asked to share the peripheral income."

Several people laughed at the same time, because this kind of thing is absolutely impossible.

Now Hollywood would rather make some compromises on the box office than on the periphery.

Ryan didn't even plan to talk to the Japanese. Although the movie did take advantage of the game's big sales, except for the game copyright, the rest of the copyrights of "Resident Evil" are in his hands.

How important is the peripheral copyright to Hollywood, the "Star Wars" that is being filmed is the best example. From the first film to the present, putting aside the movie box office, all kinds of peripherals alone have sold more than 200 billions of dollars, and it has created George? Lucas's billion-dollar net worth.

Most of Lucasfilm's value is concentrated in this series.

Shooting is still going on. According to George? Lucas's plan, in the first round of shooting before the Oscars, all the shots in the studio will end, and after entering April, they will start to move between various locations.

"Ready, Ewan?" Ryan sorted out his clothes, glanced at the main camera position, and finally put his eyes on Ewan McGregor, "I hope you don't take too much weight, otherwise..."

"I trust you, Ryan," Ewan McGregor said quickly. "I trust you won't throw me on the ground."

"Don't worry, I will never throw you to the ground." Ryan pointed to the three prop elevators in front, "I will definitely throw you out of the elevator."

An assistant came over and reminded Ryan that they should prepare, and then the assistant director called to start.

Ewan McGregor lay on the ground, Ryan picked him up against his shoulders, and rushed towards the elevator, but he always felt as if he had forgotten something, as if he had a question that he didn't understand, and the assistant didn't explain much. Issues.

Although Ivan is also a standard sportsman, with Ryan's strength, there is absolutely no problem in carrying him in a short period of time, and soon he rushed to the prop elevator surrounded by blue curtains.

Seeing the elevator, Ryan suddenly understood that these three elevators are props, and only one of them can open the door...

Which door can be opened? He forgot to ask, and the crew seemed to forget to say it.

However, you have already rushed over, so you can't just give up, right? The odds of choosing one out of three are still very high, at least higher than the odds of choosing five out of twenty-five in the previous life.

Without thinking about it, he rushed to the elevator on the far left and pressed the door button, but the elevator door didn't move at all.

"Open Sesame..."

Ewan McGregor seemed to understand something and shouted over his shoulder.

"Okay, we can do it again." Ryan quickly threw the heavy guy to the ground and asked loudly, "Who can tell me which door can be opened?"

Such small flaws will appear from time to time during the shooting, and after re-running, the lens passes smoothly.

The most problematic one is Anthony Daniels, who plays c-3*o. This veteran actor wears a shiny robot coat and mask, and he can't see the road ahead. It often happens that he falls or collides with r2d2. In the past month or so, two r2d2 model crews have been replaced.

For this shoot, George Lucas once again used all-digital photography and vowed never to use a film camera again.

Of course, when interviewed, he also claimed that this is the last work of his directorial career.

"I plan to retire." George Lucas also revealed his plans to Ryan, "Our era is over."

"What about Lucasfilm?" Ryan glanced at Lucas's two daughters and one son nearby.

Although his children have cameo roles in the movie, their interest is obviously not in the movie. The eldest daughter, Amanda Lucas, even told many people in the crew that she wants to become a professional fighter.

"If you retire."

Listening to the tone, George Lucas really seems to have plans to retire after the complete conclusion of "Revenge of the Sith". "I plan to let Kate take over my position and become the chairman of Lucasfilm."

"It's too early to talk about this, let's finish the movie first." Kate in his mouth must be Katherine Kennedy, Ryan knows this.

The crew occupied a total of two main studios and four small studios of Fox's Sydney studio to set up and shoot. Ryan and others were still shooting the scene of the massacre of the Jedi children in Studio No. 7 at this moment, and the next scene was Back in the small studio full of blue screens, and Padmé? Amidala love.

However, from the scenes where Anakin and Padmé get along, it is enough to see that George Lucas is not good at dealing with emotional scenes, and the lines are repeated over and over.

"Honey, I want to take our child to Naboo Star." The speaker was Natalie, who was standing on the terrace in front of the blue screen, she tied a long brown wig, "We can go to the lake to hide, It's safe there and he can grow up healthy."

"You really..." This is Ryan's line, "beautiful!"

"That's because I love you so much."

As soon as Natalie finished speaking, Ryan returned almost the same sentence, "No, it's because I love you very much."

"You mean the lover is especially beautiful when he sees the lover?"

"No, that's not what I meant."

Having personally participated in the filming, Ryan also understood that this emotional scene is considered to be the most bloody and failed episode in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. It is not unreasonable. Amidala saved this emotional scene to a certain extent. With her own joining in this life, although this scene still attracted attacks, it was not as violent as in the previous life.

The most typical example is that Anakin Skywalker, who has repeatedly been a golden prune winner in his previous life, disappeared from the list of golden prunes announced in early March.

As the media said, he really didn't invest enough in this role, but it was far from a disaster.

Lucas’s shooting plan went smoothly. Although the completion of the scenes in the studio was delayed by two days due to such and other accidents during the shooting, the crew still ended the filming in Sydney before the Oscars. The cast and crew have those who attended the Oscars, can also return to North America, and the rest can enjoy a vacation.

Ryan's private jet took Lucas and other people back to North America, and the 75th Academy Awards ceremony is about to kick off in controversy.

Today, the focus of the entire North America has long been away from the traditional Oscars. Now that the war in Iraq has reignited, countless anti-war people have strongly called for the cancellation of this award ceremony and the direct announcement of the results.

But the academy will not make compromises easily. After all, this award ceremony involves all kinds of interests and will not be cancelled due to the opposition and non-participation of a group of people.

Besides, how many of the stars who called for the cancellation of the awards ceremony would not attend? How many are on show? rs

s()