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484. Chapter 484 Scene 484 Technical Difficulties

After the complete emotional collapse after this scene, in the most difficult emotional burst scene, Matthew seemed to have changed his body, and his performance gave people a sense of transformation, and each expression became more emotional, because this change made everyone clearly feel that the texture of the story during the entire shooting had been greatly improved.

As an insurance manager with 23 years of experience, Miller also admires Li Xiaole's ability. Although he is not a professional personnel, when he sees Matthew's changes, he also realizes that the filming in New York this time has greatly improved the film. However, even though he admires it, he still thinks Li Xiaole is ridiculous.

This young director has two tricks in filming, but he can't tell the key points at all. Now the crew budget is destined to overspending. After filming this scene, the director may have to ask himself to increase his budget. At that time, according to the contract and insurance formula, he will win the dividends of his producers...

Although this movie is definitely not as Li Xiaole said that the box office is 100 million, but after all, it has an investment specification of 30 million yuan. It should be no problem to recover a box office of 10 million yuan. Including the share of DVD and TV history, his producers will have at least millions of dollars in dividends... Could it be that he met a dedicated director who does not care about the quality of the movie...

But just when Miller secretly admired Li Xiaole's behavior, the Chinese director seemed to have reacted. Before filming those future scenes, Li Xiaole did not ask Miller for additional funds as expected, but did something that stunned everyone...

He actually started drawing some design drawings of technology electrical products on his computer with the designer of the Chinese Black Pearl Formula, as if he was planning to make those machinery by himself...

Watching the young director draw drawings every day and describe parts of various cutting-edge technologies, the rest of the crew felt that he must have been driven crazy... These future technologies in Hollywood movies are not something that can be imagined out of thin air. You should know that this is not other places, but North America gathered by elite artists and scientists!!

If there are some model machinery in the movie that does not conform to the principles of mechanics and industrial design, then those rigorous film critics and fans who like technology will scold the movie to the point of being terrified, and every director will try to avoid these plots in the movie.

Even if you have to design and make these machines yourself, you have to invite professional industrial designers one or two years in advance to carefully design the finished products. This cost is also extremely high.

If you change to an ordinary domestic director, you will definitely think about why you have to be so stupid and redesign yourself. Just use the future machinery designed by others in "Star Wars" and it will be convenient to do it according to others~

This view is extremely ridiculous because in a country like the United States that protects intellectual property rights, every scientific design will apply for its patent. For example, more than 300 spacecraft, robot, and even Aurora Saber appear in the "Star Wars" series. Each model has its registered film knowledge patents. These things are derivative products of the movie and have extremely huge profits in the later stages. For example, the laser sword in Star Wars and the mechanical police model in "Mechanical Police" have become best-selling products when it was released.

As long as other films have similar designs to these products, they will definitely receive sued by the original film company, resulting in huge compensation.

There have been similar cases in the United States before, with a maximum compensation of more than 8 million US dollars. Therefore, when designing future machinery in their own movies, directors not only cannot copy other science fiction movie items, but also deliberately avoid similar designs, otherwise they will be cut off during the film company's post-review.

Li Xiaole actually designed the products that appeared in the film in just over a week, including mobile phones, electronic tables and chairs, humanoid therapy devices, etc.... This is simply a fantasy~!?

When Miller reported this situation to Sony, Sony's senior executives called directly to denounce the project's head, MGM's CEO Fodi for a full half hour.

"What project is this? How did you choose the producer and director!? You have to take responsibility for the tens of millions of dollars invested in this movie!"

Fudi, who was scolded, felt that he was inexplicably wronged, hung up the phone and couldn't help but curse "fuck!" at the wall.

This idiot Chinese boy!! It's so stupid. How could he approve such a ridiculous project at the beginning! An investment of 30 million US dollars! This Chinese boy still comes to their third-rate production method of Hong Kong movies!

Fody was so angry that she immediately called Miller and asked in a suppressed anger: "Miller~! Tell me, what is the current design progress of that Chinese boy, and can we send people from the MGM design department to make up for it."

"I'm afraid there is no need, time is not enough... He has only designed a mobile phone drawing... My suggestion is to use computer animation to make it directly in the later stage." Miller said helplessly on the other end of the phone. He had thought Li Xiaole was a noble artist who ignored his personal interests for the quality of the movie. Unexpectedly, this Chinese director was actually a snob who ruined the movie in order to save his dividends...

"This bastard...what is he doing!?" Forddy almost roared at the phone microphone. He took over MGM and started one of the two projects and was about to completely rot! Cut corners at the place where he should spend money! This is undoubtedly a suicide act, and he dare not imagine what kind of bad reviews will be after the release of this "Remote Control of Life"!

The most fatal thing now is that Li Xiaole is also the chairman of Lianmei, and he is not subject to any restrictions. As long as Li Xiaole can shoot the movie as scheduled, Sony must be released within the specified time according to the contract.

After hanging up the phone, Ford walked back and forth in the room, and even kicked the wall a few times like venting anger. After venting for more than ten minutes, he finally calmed down and collapsed on the chair.

He gritted his teeth, and his fat face was shaking involuntarily because of anger. He really wanted to rush to Tom Cruise's office and slap him twice. It was because of Cruise's support that he took over the inexplicable "Life Remote Control" project of United States!

But he couldn't do this... He can only hope to "The Lion's Leaves in the Mouth" by Tom Cruise. If this movie can get 100 million US dollars... then he will tie this time... If this standard is not met, then his fate may be much miserable than expected. Without Cork destroying MGM, he will be dismissed by Sony at the end of the year...

Just when the outside world thought that Li Xiaole was going to mess up everything, Li Xiaole was busy day and night with his CG designer Wu Wei, leading Heifan Studio and the Black Pearl Company prop group led by Xu Zhen.

During this period, Xu Zhen and Wu Wei were almost driven crazy by Li Xiaole. The director didn't know where the inspiration came from, so he drew a design draft of a future mobile phone and insisted that they make the phone come out as required.

In fact, this was not difficult at first, but the difficulty was that there was a series of internal structure parts on Li Xiaole's drawing, which were arranged very accurately. Although Xu Zhen had a certain understanding of machinery, he could not understand the size and structural logic of those parts.

In the end, there was no choice but to let Heifan Studio use computer three-dimensional animation to create a = model, design all the parts in the computer, and then use program calculation combination to make a precise concept diagram of the mobile phone. Then, Xu Zhen made a physical model based on Li Xiaole's various abnormal requirements...

What made Xu Zhen speechless during this process was that Li Xiaole couldn't say what metal material was what he wanted. He just looked through the feel and eyes and kept making modifications: "It should be more neat to touch." "It should be like a beautiful old Lycra camera." "There are fine slits at the corners, and the slits should be integrated."

Xu Zhen has been making movie props for more than 10 years. He once made the robot model in "Terminator" within a week, but he never expected that it would be so difficult to make a mobile phone model. Li Xiaole's requirements were not movie-level at all, but abnormal industrial-level at all!

Xu Zhen completely didn't understand why Li Xiaole did this. This was just a movie after all. Even though he knew that Li Xiaole had always been a perfect habit of nitpicking, this was too much...

During this period, the prop group made models, adjusted again and again, and on the last day of the production period, the finished product that had been modified thirty-four times was finally produced.

In Li Xiaole's office, everyone gathered together to look at the beautiful mobile phone with white body, metal frame, and an apple icon on the back. Xu Zhen himself was amazed by it, and he felt like he couldn't let go of it when holding it in his hand.

"This... this appearance design is amazing...everything...everything...everything details are almost impeccable. Director Li said it really...really, if you change your career to do industrial design, I think it is also superb..."

"Really?" Wu Wei took the white phone but didn't feel that Xu Zhen described it as exaggerated. He frowned and said, "I think it's very ordinary. Where can I have a phone with only one button? How should I control it in the future? Do you need to add a stylus?"
Chapter completed!
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