When I returned to the United States, it was already February 2nd. I was checking the progress of the set, looking at the prints and samples, and before I knew it, it was past one o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, in the most exclusive residential area in the world in Hollywood - Beaver
Lee Hill House, Tom Sherak, Chairman of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the famous actress Anne Hathaway announced the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards together.
Amid great expectations, "Slumdog Millionaire" can be said to be a huge success, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Film Score, and Best Film Score in one fell swoop.
Best Sound Effects, Best Song (two songs), Best Sound Editing, a total of 10 nominations.
It surpassed the nine nominations of "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" and became the most nominated film at this year's Oscars.
Another film "Sherlock Holmes" produced by Summit Entertainment received two nominations for Best Film Score and Best Art Direction.
At the same time, the Academy Awards Organizing Committee also called and invited Shao Shuaijun to attend the Academy Awards ceremony and serve as the award guest for Best Original Screenplay. However, Shao Shuaijun refused outright, and after the embarrassing experience of the Golden Globe Awards,
Now he is no longer interested in presenting awards.
"Slumdog Millionaire" received ten nominations, which put Shao Shuaijun in a good mood, so filming was extremely relaxed.
"Hey, Shao, how about this scene?" The on-site screenwriter came over with a notebook. "Teddy Bear" has many American elements. Although Shao Shuaijun knows the general plot, in many places, he needs the help of an authentic American screenwriter.
Supplement the content of the movie and correct the style of the movie.
The script written by the on-site screenwriter was about a party. Teddy Bear's house was too noisy, which disturbed the Chinese family next door. Then the Chinese stabbed the wall with a knife and stabbed it over. Then near the corridor, Teddy
Bears versus ducks, Flash Gordon versus the Chinese, a big melee between the two parties, there are many funny elements.
Of course, this scene is suspected of slandering the Chinese and vilifying the Chinese. However, Shao Shuaijun did not seriously think that the on-site screenwriter was looking for trouble, because Americans have this virtue, slandering themselves, slandering Russia, slandering the UK, and slandering good people.
My friends in Canada, there is nothing they are not black about.
In the United States, this is called freedom of speech. In their movies, even the Stars and Stripes of the United States are burned, and the President of the United States is shown in black.
Although this R-rated movie was destined not to be released in the mainland, Shao Shuaijun still had to take into account the emotions of the domestic audience and did not want to leave a place that would be scolded by them, so he thought about it and said: "Change it, change it to Vietnamese, the name is
His name is Ho Chi Minh."
If you think about it, no one in the country will scold the Vietnamese anymore. Moreover, Vietnam once had a leader named Ho Chi Minh, with "Ming" in his name, which happened to be similar to the name of Flash Gordon's enemy, King Ming. The United States had another conflict with Vietnam.
War, this scene is absolutely amazing when used.
"Okay." The on-site screenwriter followed suit.
Shao Shuaijun handed him the notebook. When he looked up, he saw Scarlett's husband, Ryan Reynolds, visiting the class again and interacting sweetly with Scarlett. As soon as he rolled his eyes, Shao Shuaijun shouted: "Hi,
Scarlett, Ryan, want to play a game?”
"What?" The two people came over.
Shao Shuaijun laughed and said, "Isn't there a gay group in the movie? Ryan, do you want to make a cameo?"
"Of course." Ryan agreed immediately.
Looking through the itinerary diary, Shao Shuaijun said: "There are two scenes in total for this role. One is at Teddy Bear's party and the other is at Scarlett's wedding. They are both one scene with no lines. Oh, the only thing worth getting excited about is
You can kiss your gay friends."
"Wow, that must be fun." Scarlett laughed.
Ryan shrugged: "Although she is not a beauty, a kiss is better than no kiss, haha."
Ryan Reynolds is also a popular actor in Hollywood. Being able to come and make a cameo is also a plus, especially since he does not need to be paid. Shao Shuaijun likes this feeling of using labor for free. He stayed on the set of "Teddy Bear" for a whole day
In the afternoon and evening, Shao Shuaijun went to the set of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" again.
The progress of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is not very smooth. The problems are mainly concentrated in two aspects, one is outdoor expression motion capture, and the other is the battle of the Golden Gate Bridge.
When capturing outdoor expressions and movements, because the equipment is limited by the terrain, three-dimensional trajectories often appear biased. It is not only necessary to correct the equipment, but also to correct the three-dimensional animation trajectories. This is a time-consuming and labor-intensive project, but what is more difficult is that,
Once Andy Serkis' expressions and movements are not in place, by the time he discovers it, he has already spent a lot of effort to complete the correction. In this way, all the previous efforts are in vain.
In response to this, Weta Digital and Sony Digital urgently contacted and are rushing to produce another set of more portable and stable expression and motion capture equipment.
Another problem requires collective efforts. The Golden Gate Bridge is a landmark building in San Francisco. It connects the Golden Gate Strait and has a total length of more than 1,900 meters. The bridge is not only busy with traffic, but also has great historical value. It is a miracle of modern bridge engineering.
.Therefore, the Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge was unable to obtain permission to film on the Golden Gate Bridge.
In this regard, the crew's proposal was to build a studio in the suburbs of San Francisco and build the indoor scenery of the Golden Gate Bridge. Then they would take aerial shots of the Golden Gate Bridge and embed the two lenses together. In fact, they were not two lenses. There were also orangutans.
They are individually captured and shot. This means that this lens will focus on dozens or hundreds of small lenses, embedded together.
It's very difficult.
"If we build it now, we should be able to build the interior of the Golden Gate Bridge in a month. Half a month of shooting should be enough and it won't delay our shooting progress." Joe Lerrett said to Shao Shuaijun with the calculated conclusion.
Touching his chin, Shao Shuaijun nodded slowly: "This is the only way at the moment, I will arrange it now."
The Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge is the most exciting part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and also the most difficult. For this reason, Shao Shuaijun had to work hard and try to complete the regular scenes of "Teddy Bear" before the interior scenes were built.
Finish.
Time flies, February has passed in the blink of an eye.
This day is February 28th, and it is also the last shot of "Teddy Bear", the wedding scene.
"Turn, turn, turn, okay, perfect, stuck!" When Scarlett and Joseph kissed each other, Shao Shuaijun couldn't wait to shout out. In this way, the last set of shots ended perfectly, and "Teddy Bear" was officially finished.
After having dinner with the crew, Shao Shuaijun took all the copies and settled down safely on the set of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" to prepare for the Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge.
While he was immersed in copying, on March 1st, the American "EW" magazine named "The 50 Greatest Film Directors of Our Time", ranking directors who are still active on the front line. "EW" is "Entertainment Weekly"
》, a very influential world magazine.
In this "EW" selection, three Chinese directors were selected, with Li Eu ranked 22nd and Wong Jiawei ranked 45th.
Ranked first is the great director Steven Spielberg, whose masterpieces include "Jaws", "Jurassic Park" and "Saving Private Ryan". Ranked second is the great director James Cameron.
, representative works "Alien", "Terminator", "Titanic", "Avatar". Ranked third is the great director Peter Jackson, whose representative works "King Kong" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, ranked fourth
The first is Martin Scorsese, with his masterpiece "The Departed". The fifth one is the great director Christopher Nolan, with his masterpieces "Memento" and "The Dark Knight".
Ranked sixth is the great Chinese director Shao Shuaijun, who is also the only Asian director in the top ten. His masterpieces include "Inception", "500 Days with Summer" and "Oldboy".
As soon as this list came out, it immediately caused a lot of controversy, because this list focuses on "still active on the front line" and has a strong preference for Hollywood. The directors selected have all released works in recent years and have received great response.
Not bad. Most of them are Hollywood directors, and there are very few directors from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
As for Shao Shuaijun's ranking, the Chinese naturally think that this ranking is good, but people from other countries, such as South Korea and Japan, think that Shao Shuaijun's ranking is too high. As for the Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki, who is ranked 37th, generally thinks that
The ranking is too low.
However, "EW" magazine explained later that this director ranking focuses on commercial nature, and the directors selected are all based on the spread and influence of their films around the world. Many directors' films are excellent, but the spread rate
If it's too low, what's the point of being selected?
A list that makes people confused is not what "EW" is pursuing. What they are pursuing is a list that is easy to understand. Everyone who sees it suddenly realizes that this director and that director have seen their
What works and so on.
After looking at the list, Shao Shuaijun was a little embarrassed. His works have won too few awards. Among the top ten, they are basically the ones with the most box office, and the awards are also weak. He is the only one who won the box office.
Now, the awards are rare enough. But this list is just for Boruto, so you can throw it away after reading it.
He now has to concentrate on filming "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and also be distracted by the editing and production of "Teddy Bear". He plans to edit "Teddy Bear" into a 160-minute director's cut, and then hand it over to professional editors.
For the subsequent editing, for this kind of R-rated comedy, he had little confidence in the finished film, so it would be more appropriate to leave it to professionals.
Therefore, it can be said that in two months, he completely completed the filming of "Teddy Bear".
The indoor set of the Golden Gate Bridge has been built, and rehearsals and trial shooting have begun. Time flies, and soon March 7th comes, and the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. As "Slumdog Millionaire"
Producer, Shao Shuaijun participated with the crew. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)