Vol 2 Chapter 906: Support Chinese students

Of course, Duke and George Lucas have no contradictions. These are all for the needs of publicity. In Hollywood's publicity and marketing strategy, a pair of mortal enemies with different wearing days may be close friends in front of the media and the public. Time can also become an enemy that does not share the same sky. ☆→,
Of course, whether it is the producer Lucasfilm or Warner Bros., they actually don't want George Lucas to actually get involved in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
The media will inevitably ask questions like George Lucas, and "creative differences" can be said to be the most appropriate excuse.
"Creative disagreement" can also be simply referred to as "disagreement." Hollywood companies will not like uninhibited employees. Directors who pursue too much personality will make the producer stand empty. In this circle, whoever pays is the boss. How can the director or actor do whatever he wants?
It is also normal for the sequel of Hollywood blockbuster films to change directors. "Creative differences" is the best excuse for the directors to be replaced. In fact, most of the directors who were replaced either quit themselves, or the directed work did not meet expectations, and One thing is that the asking price is too high.
Presumably many people have heard of many examples of actors being turned away by the film party because they are asking too much, and the director is the same.
Because a huge gold-sucking system has quickly become popular and its value has risen steadily, and "controlling costs" as one of the means of making money, the film party may also be reluctant to bear this huge salary.
After the great success of "Alien" in 1979, Twentieth Century Fox Pictures did not recall director Ridley Scott, and instead threw the olive branch to James Cameron, who was favored by "Terminator". Ridley Scott was surprised when he recalled this incident many years later. He couldn't believe that the film crew did not come to him, but he also admitted that if he took the helm of the sequel, his asking price would be high.
The direct purpose of the filmmakers to make movies is to make money. No one wants to smash the budget at the risk of losing money.
George Lucas, who is in retirement, doesn't seem to be too scrupulous. In addition to cooperating with the propaganda of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", he also frequently fires on Hollywood's traditional production model.
When he was a guest on a news program on cbs television network, when he talked about the dramatic changes that are taking place in the Hollywood industry today, he bombarded Hollywood film companies: "Hollywood now lacks creativity and imagination."
"If a movie is not good enough, most of the reason lies in the movie giants. The eight early studios have both artistic and commercial value. They continuously unearth interesting novels and stories, and then adapt them into movies, but now Hollywood is financially Capital seizes power, they don't understand the film business at all, and talented directors can't display their talents under today's Hollywood system."
George Lucas believes that the era when he created the "Star Wars" series was very lucky. At that time, a 20th century Fox producer gave him a lot of creative freedom.
"He likes my "American Style Painting", so he believes in my vision and any request I make. He will try his best to help me achieve it. He thinks that some things are my specialty, so he will not interfere with one How to deal with the scene of how a dog is flying around a spaceship! But today, it is really difficult to meet such a producer!"
George? Lucas's remarks are quite meaningful, but he alone can not change the situation in Hollywood, and only after retirement, how could George? Lucas say this.
After all, he is still a beneficiary under the Hollywood system.
This incident was inevitably brought to Duke's head by the media. Many media believe that George Lucas’s target is Duke, after all, Duke can be said to be the representative of Hollywood's industrial assembly line model.
"Duke Rosenberg's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will be another glorious one. Or will it be a black classic?"
News comments like this are circulated in the media and on the Internet, and play an excellent role as a promotional film. Only when there is controversy, there will be topics.
On the set in Iceland, the American reporters who followed here also interviewed Duke about George Lucas, and Duke seemed rather humble. These are to promote that eye-catching is one aspect. The friendship between George Lucas and the Rosenberg family is another aspect.
Duke said that his gratitude and respect for George Lucas is limitless. "He used available resources to develop digital special effects, digital editing, digital sound effects, and digital photography technology. He opened a fan for me. The door allows me to photograph what I want in my mind into a work."
Although there is no mention of George Lucas’s ability to tell stories, it is for him to create and innovate Hollywood film technology. Duke spoke highly of it, "I think everything he has contributed to the entire film industry is far more than the reward he has received. He is the Thomas Edison of the film industry. If there is no innovation of George Lucas back then, maybe There is no such thing as the "Lord of the Rings Trilogy" series or even superhero movies."
This is Duke in addition to filming, to cooperate with Lucasfilm and Warner Bros.'s publicity and marketing work.
His main task at this stage is to complete the filming as soon as possible.
The forest park in Iceland was cleared. All media reporters and unrelated persons who might have leaked the next scene in advance were invited out of the forest park by the security staff of the crew and the management here.
Next, under Duke's strong request, not only did the forest park management launch a shooting location, but most of the crew had to leave, even the starring actors like Oscar Isaac.
Those who can stay in the venue and participate in the shooting have signed strict confidentiality agreements.
There are only three actors in this scene, Lee Pace, who plays the big villain Kylo Ren, Daniel Wu, who plays the actor Finn, and Daisy Ridley, who plays the heroine Ley.
"The film crew is ready!"
"The actor is ready!"
"The lights are ready!"
"The props are ready!"
All departments have made preparations. Daniel Wu and Lee Pace walked to the camera where the "snow" was falling. After Duke gave an order, they each waved their lightsabers and started a lightsaber battle.
Filming was interrupted continuously, action director Jimmy Carter would correct the actions of Daniel Wu and Lee Pace from time to time, and during filming, although Daniel Wu held a lightsaber, the actual combat effectiveness was not high, and it was not strong at all. The opponent of the Skywalker family members of the Force.
Star Wars set the precedent for lightsaber battles. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" naturally has to face this unique challenge. The previous props lightsabers are coated with front projection materials, which are easily damaged, and when the materials leave the axis Then the light effect becomes weaker, so optical superposition is required.
This time, Duke used the in-camera processing method to obtain more important and impressive results.
These interactive live lighting effects created with lightsabers are also enough to excite Star Wars fans. It is not difficult for Duke and professionals to build them so that they emit enough light to start the battle, because they can be programmed and controlled. The amount of light and the balance of the color temperature of the scene can establish the behavior pattern of lighting, so when two lightsabers collide, they will burst out with strong light-in a dark environment, this becomes the main light source.
When replacing lightsabers with digital special effects, unlike previous movies, Duke can easily increase the brightness without changing the direction of the light.
At the end of the afternoon of shooting, after countless fragmented shots, this vital fighting scene came to the end. Daniel Wu was knocked to the ground, and the skywalker lightsaber he was holding also flew out and lay on the ground. Rey stretched out her hand...
"Cut!" Duke yelled and stopped. "That's it for today."
The crew began to clean up the set and equipment, while Duke stood up from the director's chair. The weather in Iceland is definitely not warm. It is already very close to the North Pole. In addition, the sky is a bit gloomy, and there are sometimes cold winds in the forest. After that, he unconsciously fought a cold war, who had just come from the desert of Abu Dhabi.
Tina Fei at the back brought a cup of hot tea in time, "Let’s have a warm drink."
"Thank you." Duke nodded slightly to her and was not polite. He took a sip. The temperature of the tea was just right. It rolled down his throat and his stomach. The whole body became warm. "Tina, you drink too. Point, the cold wind has been blowing for so long here."
Tina Fei screwed up the heat-preserving pot of tea and said with a smile, "I had already drank it when you were shooting."
An assistant director walked over to clean up Duke's director's workbench. Duke shook his head to free himself from the shooting state and asked, "Is there any news in North America that deserves attention lately?"
"You'd better give Scarlett a call back tonight." Tina Fei solemnly said, "She has some complaints that you didn't participate in the premiere of "Captain America 2"."
"Yeah." Duke tightened his coat tightly, "remember to remind me tonight."
"One more thing." Tina Fei continued, "Our donation to the USC Film Academy in the name of Star Wars has been replied by USC, and now Warner's media are ready to report."
Duke thought for a while and said, "You are responsible for following this up."
After that press conference, Duke set up a film foundation in the name of Star Wars, and donated a $10 million donation to the USC Film Academy to fund the USC Film Academy’s Chinese and Latino students, this is also the largest single donation for student aid in the history of USC.
Tina Fei has been staring enough for this work.
After talking with Tina Fei, Duke deliberately went to the staff who sealed the film to take a look. Although the filming of "Star Wars: Far From Awakening" went well, nothing was careless. (To be continued.)
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