Rebirth In Hollywood

"In terms of technology, although "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" uses the most mature blue-green screen and CG computer technology in the industry, it is a relatively simple multi-layer picture synthesis, which is more complex than "King Kong". The same is not true. The frequently used fast and slow-motion free switching is also a technique used by MV directors. Directors in the film industry are disdainful of playing with such frivolous skills.”

With the development of the Internet, film critics will naturally not ignore the extremely important position of the Internet. This is the long film review published by Roger Albert in his Internet column.

"Many people know that the so-called green screen and blue screen means that characters perform in front of the screen during filming, and after processing, the filmed actions can be placed in front of any background. "Spartan 300 Warriors" is the blue It is the result of pushing the screen technology and computer animation technology to the extreme. Before the film was released, I watched its shooting footage, a group of shirtless rough men, fighting in a fake model in the studio, comparing the finished product with the shooting scene. Compared with the real situation, this is absolutely the greatest irony in the history of film."

"I believe that blue and green screens plus computer CG animations will occupy more and more Hollywood screens, and the historical connotations of films we will see in the future will be gradually evacuated. In fact, not only history, but also the elements of reality will be gradually evacuated, If anything is scary, it's the scariest."

"In fact, history is never just history, history is the reality that was once vivid. The reason why we shoot and watch historical films is not because we like to see dead things, but because people in the past were as excited and dull as we are. They have passed, mourned and rejoiced, because they have a blood relationship with us."

"The trend of blue and green screens plus computer CG animations, on the surface, is the unrestrained development of visual imagination, but if you think about it, these imaginations have no foundation. These imaginations are divorced from the real environment and have no resonance with the real human life. "

"That's what films like 'Spartan 300' teach us - when we seem to be seeing a kind of 'hyperreality'. We're really just seeing 'zero reality'. That is, sometimes , 'Hyperreal' and 'Zero Reality' are equivalent. With the continuous advancement of blue and green screen and computer CG animation, the film's perception of the external world will also fall into the abyss."

"Why do moviegoers always relish old black and white movies? I'm afraid it's not out of pure nostalgia, because audiences want to see more movies that are closely related to the real world, rather than this kind of bizarre and absurd not. An eye-catching sensory film with an influx approach.”

Originally, Ryan didn't pay much attention to the professional comments of Roger Albert and others. After all, their influence is getting smaller and smaller, and he also cut off half of his mouth a few years ago, and he himself suffered from cancer. Maybe only God knows whether there are those movies that have been reviewed or not.

Besides, since he and Disney took the lead in leading Hollywood to cancel some cooperation with film critics, it has directly caused the income of those old film critics to be greatly reduced.

Except for a few films that must be consistent with mainstream social views, the other side has not had any good words for the films he starred in and led in recent years.

With different positions and different interest demands, Ryan is simply invisible. The other party can see God in half of his eyes, so he can't really blatantly suppress him.

If Nicole hadn't read it to him, Ryan might not have known about this film review for a week or a month or even a long time.

"Sandy, mom is angry."

holding daughter. Ryan said to Nicole, who was sitting in front of the computer in the distance, "Okay, Nicole, why should you care about their comments."

"They just opened their mouths. When they started writing..." Nicole said with a pouted mouth, "Or a few keystrokes, and they used vicious language to reject other people's hard work for a year or two or even years."

Her voice suddenly rose a little. "This is a bunch of despicable parasites!"

"Honey, lower your voice." Ryan quickly made a gesture to shut up, "You're going to scare Sandy."

"Sunny..." Nicole said her daughter's nickname and looked at her gently, "You don't care about your mother's voice, do you?"

Even if the little guy cared, he couldn't object. He just stared at those beautiful blue eyes and turned around.

Nicole got up and walked into the dressing room next to her, changed her clothes, came to Ryan, took Sandy, and kissed her tender little hand lightly, "I'm going to feed my daughter."

She pointed to the computer over there, "When I left just now, someone seemed to be arguing against Roger Albert. Can you read it for me?"

"This..." Seeing Nicole's light blue eyes, Ryan had no choice but to walk to the computer, sit down, refresh the web page, and take a closer look, "Wow, the reviews are even better than the movie. ."

Nicole opened her clothes, freed up a hand, and made a gesture of invitation to this side.

"Why do movie audiences always talk about black and white old movies..."

Ryan quickly read the last paragraph of Roger Albert's remarks taken from the first reply, and then he repeated the replies on the Internet about Roger Albert's film reviews. In fact, he and Ni were not needed. But stand up, and online users, mainly composed of teenagers, will fight back for them.

Like he said, the reviews are better than the movies.

"Please, who said that audiences like black and white movies? Like old movies? Please don't represent all audiences, okay? There are a hundred friends and classmates I know, and more than half of them like watching movies, but I have never heard of them. I like watching black and white movies."

"Can you keep up with the development of the times? If not, please stop making some inexplicable comments."

"It's enough to watch a movie to get what you want. What I watch is the scene, which is the blood-sucking feeling. I'm relieved, then this is a good movie. You can't ask every movie to reflect real problems, right? All we want is simple entertainment."

"I don't understand what this guy thinks? I just clicked here by accident? Could it be that the person who made the comment is an old guy? Then don't just comment on a movie made for young people."

This one is more straightforward, and doesn't know who Roger Albert is at all.

"As if Roger Albert was famous?"

"I don't know, I googled the news of "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors", and then I got here."

"It doesn't matter who is making the comments, as long as you like it, it's a good movie for you."

""Three Hundred Spartans" has beautiful pictures, shocking music, and passionate story. People who watch it are full of excitement and excitement. For me, this visual blockbuster is a good movie!"

In fact, this is the epitome of the reaction of "Three Hundred Spartans".

The film market has received an excellent response. It won a box office of 71.65 million US dollars in North America on the first three days. became the No. 1 at the North American box office.

However, in the eyes of those film critics with eyes on their heads, this film is an operatic long-form MV. In addition to the connotation and special effects, they also criticize the random manipulation of history, such as pointing out Persia There can be no rhinos or elephants in the army, and the Persian king Xerxes I is actually a bearded man who has been sitting on the king's carriage to watch the battle, instead of a bald head covered with metal rings as depicted in the movie. Have fun on the battlefield.

The summer season is coming to an end, and Hollywood has recently lacked enough hot topics. In order to attract attention and the film's public relations, the newly released "Three Hundred Spartans" has become a hot spot in the entertainment media, and they are skilled and flexible in operation. Very tacitly divided into two factions.

Today, the print media under Disney has just criticized the film for not respecting history, and the online media represented by Yahoo refuted this as normal artistic processing.

The traditional media picked out the places where the film did not conform to the historical records, but the online media gave an example to show that the film respected history to a certain extent. For example, Xerxes sent a letter to the Greek defenders, saying that there were too many Persian soldiers, and they just shot them out. The arrows of a man could block the sun, and the Spartans scoffed - that would be great, let's kill in the shade - which was copied from the history books.

The hype on both sides has attracted the attention of more audiences. As a behind-the-scenes promoter, Ryan watched the box office of "Three Hundred Spartans" climb steadily. It only took ten days for the film to reach the North American box office. It exceeded $150 million.

This figure is incomparable with "Iron Man" and "Jurassic Park 3", but the investment of the film is also low, the production cost is only 65 million US dollars, even if the cost of marketing and other aspects is included, the total investment is only 110000000 Just a million dollars.

Regarding the historical issue of the film, after nearly a week, it quickly calmed down.

On the one hand, compared with images, texts are always weak; compared with legends, truth is always weak. The world originally had history, but if many people changed it, there would be no history.

In other words, history has lost its truth from the moment it happened.

Are there still few movies in Hollywood that tamper with history? Would Hollywood studios care about falsifying history?

The media hype is nothing but publicity driven by the joint public relations of Jenkins Pictures and Kidman Studios, driven by Ryan.

On the other hand, someone has finally challenged North America in terms of public opinion. Maybe the North American media will be noisy because of a trivial matter, but when a foreign enemy appears, the mainstream media will definitely turn their guns.

"Three Hundred Spartans" appeared in overseas markets one after another. When the film was released in the Arab region of the Middle East, the Iranian government once again made a tough response. (To be continued..) u ()