Chapter 962

The light gray clouds lay out layer upon layer, and the sparse sunlight vaguely outlined the golden lines between the clouds. The gentle breeze revealed a unique calm and leisure in London. It seemed that a moment of peace had been stolen between the storm and the rainstorm, so the collar of the windbreaker coat was pulled close, and the pace was put down to enjoy the leisure of a cup of coffee.

"How are you?" Lan Li is not polite and formal, holding the knife and fork in both hands, enjoying his breakfast in an orderly way.

Although the real nobles still pay attention to food and sleep, and the rest between each dish is the time for conversation, so the dining time of French cuisine is so long; But with the development of the times, this kind of bondage has been in vain. The real emphasis is on manners.

For example, careful observation shows that there is no sound between lanli's knife and fork and the porcelain plate, and everything is just right.

"Ah?" Alfonso is sorting out his ideas, thinking about how to open his mouth and how to cut into the topic. Suddenly, he didn't understand the meaning of lanli's problem.

Blue Li's eyes showed a smile, "I mean, after Friday night, no cold, or other physical discomfort?"

"No, I'm fine." Alfonso waved his hand again and again, looking embarrassed, and repeated, "I'm fine! Sorry, I mean, thank you. Up to now, I haven't formally expressed my thanks to you. "

Langley slowly swallowed the food, then responded with a smile, sending out a friendly signal, "why don't you talk about the film project in preparation? I'm ready to listen. "

Just two meetings, we can see that Alfonso is not a good social type. So, Lan Li gave up all the greetings and politeness and cut into the theme directly.

Hearing Lan Li say this, you can obviously feel that Alfonso was relieved. The burden on his shoulder seemed to be relieved in an instant. His eyes and expression showed excitement. "Well, I'm preparing a project. To be exact, I have been preparing for five years, and all the technical problems have been solved.

In an ideal situation, we need to go into space to complete the shooting of the whole work. If we have the opportunity to do so, the picture I hope to capture is the level that our film can reach. Therefore, over the years, we have been trying to solve the problem of weightlessness photography, as well as lighting, reflection, angle of view and astronomical phenomena.

Now the traditional technology is green screen plus Weiya, and finally assisted by the later computer special effects to simulate the situation in space, but the biggest disadvantage of this method is that it is not real enough. Those weightlessness effects are too cheap and fake, and the light simulated by computer special effects is far from the actual situation.

We visited NASA, we simulated the actual situation, we interviewed the astronauts, we formed the entire visual effects team, in five years time, trying to be able to shoot a real space scene.

Now, we have solved most of the technical problems and some specific implementation effects. These are small problems, but the premise is that we need actors to really integrate into them and test whether our ideas can go on the line and whether the presented effects can be recognized by NASA. So... "

A lot of special words fill the whole conversation, professional and profound, tedious and complex.

For laymen, it's like liberal arts students sitting in a pile of physics doctors, which is no different from Tianshu; For Lan Li, it's not hard to understand. Physics, chemistry and biology are the categories of knowledge he usually dabbles in. But he can understand, but it doesn't mean he can participate in the discussion - just understand, which is extremely rare.

Simple summary: it is difficult to simulate the weightlessness effect just because the body is weightless. At the same time, the influence of light, the change of celestial body position and the relationship between actors and outer space must be considered, which is even more difficult. Simply relying on computer special effects, wonderful is wonderful, but not real enough.

In the history of film, among numerous space works, only two of them have weightlessness effects that can be called classics.

One is "2001 Space Odyssey". In 1968, Stanley Kubrick came up with a wonderful way to fix a camera in a circular room, and then let the actors run. The video recorded by the camera looks like the actors are running along the roof.

This method, which was born in the sixties, makes people admire Stanley's imagination. Unfortunately, it can only express a few shots, and it can not solve the weightlessness effect of other objects except human beings.

One is Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks in 1995. Their solution is simple and clear. They pay directly to complete the shooting in NASA's training device "Vomit Comet", which can completely simulate the effect of weightlessness.

As a result, Lang extravagantly played 612 weightless flights, shooting for nearly four hours here. There's no doubt that this solution completely solves the problem, but it can't shoot weightless lens outside the cabin, and the price is too expensive.

In addition to these two works, most of the other outer space works use the combination of Weiya and computer special effects to interpret the imaginary weightlessness effect.

Undoubtedly, in the 21st century, computer special effects are very lifelike and wonderful; But the real effects of light, reflection and celestial motion are greatly reduced. In the final analysis, it is still unable to truly present the environment and effects of outer space.

The content of Alfonso's words just now is: it took them five years to solve the problem of weightlessness photography in outer space.

If this is true, it will be a further technological breakthrough in the film industry, which is comparable to motion capture technology and 3D effects. Robert zemikis spent ten years on motion capture technology, while Alfonso Caron spent five years on weightlessness photography. The world of technotaku is full of mysteries.

Perhaps, we can refer to the TV series "big bang of life" for details.

"... wait, I was stupid again, wasn't I?" Alfonso closed his eyes tightly and raised his forehead in chagrin. At this time, he finally realized his mistake

The long speeches just now were not only too professional, but also had no focus, no core, and even no theme - he didn't mention the name and content of the work at all, and just said a lot of technical problems.

But lanli didn't mind and chuckled. "To sum up, this is a project that has been prepared for five years. Before the shooting, the crew has spent countless efforts to solve the technical problems. Now, everyone is ready to start shooting. Is that so? "

It's like James Cameron's Avatar.

Alfonso slightly raised his head, supported his head with the palm of his hand and kept the appearance of chicken feet. He looked at Lan Li in surprise with an incredible look in his eyes, which made Lan Li gently jaw his head. "It seems that my understanding is correct. So, for the project itself, such as the script, such as the performance, is there anything worth introducing? Because for the moment, the project seems to have limited appeal for actors. "

"Of course! Of course Alfonso said anxiously, "the story tells of an American space station where a group of astronauts are walking in space to test the station; But all of a sudden, an abandoned satellite was destroyed. The debris scattered in the earth orbit at the speed of super bullet, and accidentally hit other satellites, causing a chain reaction. The protagonist and his party also suffered a devastating blow. Finally, only two astronauts were left, trying to survive in space. Well, that's all

"Gravity", as expected, Alfonso found lanli is the famous "gravity".

It's no surprise. In 2006, after the shooting work of "son of man", Alfonso focused all his energy on the shooting of "gravity". After completing this work, until the rebirth of Langley in 2017, Alfonso did not have another new work, because he exhausted all his energy and devoted himself to the shooting of another work.

Therefore, when Alfonso found lanli, the first and only guess was "gravity". Of course, there are also small probability events that Alfonso has been preparing for, but has not been able to come out in his last life; However, the description of Alfonso's technical otaku just now further confirmed lanli's conjecture.

There is no doubt that "gravity" released in 2013 is a successful work. The comprehensive evaluation of the media is 96%, the fresh index of rotten tomatoes is 96%, and the netizen score of IMDB is 7.8. In terms of word-of-mouth, it has completely ignited the enthusiasm of all professionals and professional audiences, and is highly sought after.

After that, it won US $270 million in North America and US $720 million in global box office.

The real big win. After being known as "Avatar", this work achieves the most perfect balance between commerce and art. After the Oscar ceremony, "gravity" won the heavyweight best director award, and six technology trophies, a total of seven little golden men, becoming the biggest winner of the night.

However, no matter the word-of-mouth or box office, people do not really realize the excellence of this work: technological innovation. A number of technology controllers, including James Cameron, George Lucas and Christopher Nolan, are full of praise for Alfonso's exploration and reform, which has established Alfonso's strong reputation among the industry.

With this "gravity" alone, Alfonso has returned with a full load. In a way, among Mexico's top three, he has the best reputation in the industry, even better than Alessandro Gonzalez inarito, the best director in two consecutive titles.

However, knowing that it was gravity, why did Langley remain indifferent last night?

Because in the last life, the protagonist of gravity was Sandra Bullock. Gender, female.