Chapter 700： Blown into ruins

The rolling waves gently licked against the silver-white beach, tumbling with playful splashes, the rising sun slowly crawled out of the horizon, and sprinkled a piece of golden. Against the backdrop of the rugged water, the private beach behind the manor became colorful. It is as dreamy as the fairyland Alice once set foot on, and as gorgeous as an oil painting.

Crescent Bay, one of the most beautiful beaches in Hawaii, since the day Ryan bought Lanai Island, it has not been open to the public and has completely become his private beach.

The silver-gray battery car parked in front of the beach. Ryan helped Nicole get out of the battery car, led her into the dressing room in front of the beach, helped her change her beach shoes, and then stepped onto the silver beach of Crescent Bay.

In the few days when they came to Lanai, the two would come here for a walk every day after breakfast and dinner. The beautiful scenery of the sea and the sky has gradually calmed down Nicole, who has been unstable recently.

"Am I annoying lately?"

Walking on the edge of the turning of the sea, Nicole looked back at the footprints of the two left on the beach, and firmly took Ryan's hand and asked, "Is he a bit temperamental?"

"Why?" Ryan clasped her palm tightly and looked out at the sea in the distance, "You now have all the privileges."

"I'm just a little nervous." Her beautiful blue eyes swept across Ryan's face, "still a little anxious."

"My dear." Ryan's hand gently touched Nicole's abdomen. "This will be a little guy as beautiful as a mother and as smart as a father."

"Why not be as smart as mother and as beautiful as father?" Nicole stared deliberately.

"In short, this is our angel." Ryan will naturally not argue over this kind of issue, "Our angel will have all the favors of God and the world."

The sun climbed higher and higher, and the bright sunshine gradually became stronger. Ryan took a look at the time, pulled Nicole and turned and walked back, while taking out the phone from his pocket.

"It's almost time?" Nicole asked.

"I guess Alison should have seen it."

Ryan pressed Taylor's phone number as he walked, and when he heard a familiar voice on the phone, he said, "Honey, happy birthday, did you see the present I gave?"

"God!" Taylor yelled in excitement, "This world is crazy! You...the sixteen-year-old gift you gave me turned out to be a Boeing airplane!"

"Don't you like it?" Ryan laughed.

"I like it!" Taylor's voice was high and loud, "Of course I like it!"

"But!" she said again, "It costs a lot to raise such a plane, I have to work hard to make money."

"I will be responsible for all the expenses of the plane before you are eighteen." Ryan looked to the east, which is the direction of North America, "My dear, are you sure you want to spend your sixteenth birthday with your fans?"

"Yes." Taylor said without hesitation, "I have been planning with the management team for a long time, so that it can narrow the distance between me and the fans, and it will be a great help for the upcoming new album."

"That's good, pay attention to safety."

Nicole's hand was placed in front of him at this time, and Ryan had no choice but to say, "My dear, Nicole wants to talk to you."

After finishing speaking, he put the phone in Nicole's hand.

As one of the most important birthdays in life, Taylor did not spend her sixteenth birthday with relatives and friends, but chose her fans. Regardless of her previous life or this life, she is a leader among singers in terms of managing fans.

Sixteen years old, although it is not an adult under the law, it means having more freedom and autonomy. The little girl who was crying at the Christmas Tree Farm in Pennsylvania has grown up completely.

Life in Lanai is quiet and leisurely. Apart from handling some emails every day and occasionally going to the southeast to see the filming of "Jurassic Park 3", Ryan spends most of his time with Nicole, just like he said In that way, Miss Kidman now belongs to the privileged class.

However, even far away from North America, Ryan is still paying attention to this hot Thanksgiving Christmas stall.

The "King Kong" jointly created by Peter Jackson and Universal Pictures is undoubtedly the most eye-catching super production of the moment. This super monster made for the first time using motion capture technology is the most glorious and long-lived in the history of Hollywood movies. One of the stars.

But the film’s market enthusiasm is far lower than Universal Pictures’ expectations. It may be too long for the film, or it may be that today’s film industry has created too many monsters. The audience’s enthusiasm for this remake does not seem to be particularly Big.

The film’s first week of box office of 50.13 million dollars seems to be good, but compared to the production cost of more than 200 million dollars, it is not much successful, and the last sentence of the film is not the plane that killed the monster, but the beauty. "Dead Monster" was rumored by many people as a joke, and was even described by many media as the product of Peter Jackson's swelling to an unknown reason.

Ryan also watched the movie with Nicole in a private theater. The long foreshadowing and slow pace of the movie are indeed not suitable for today's fast-paced era, and King Kong, as the absolute protagonist, played too late, which is very easy. As a result, young audiences who are accustomed to fast-paced commercial films cannot watch it.

Maybe those older audiences will have a special King Kong complex, but how many of the teenagers who are the main movie-watching group care about this complex?

Compared to "King Kong", the movie released by Disney a week later is easier to please teenagers.

Based on the adaptation of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Magic Wardrobe", the "Chronicles of Narnia" jointly created by Disney Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox was released in North America before Christmas. The North American box office of US$81.33 million in the first week of the film also proved This will be a successful film.

Although like "King Kong", "The Chronicles of Narnia" was criticized by critics in a mess, but it did not hinder the popularity of young people. The film only took ten days to get more than 160 million US dollars in the box office in North America. , For a non-sequel movie, it has been very successful.

Even two weeks after the film was released, Disney and Twentieth Century Fox announced that they would continue to work together to produce a sequel.

For a commercial movie that can sell well, it’s strange that the producer gave up the sequel.

In other respects, Disney also has good news. After several months of see-saw negotiations, after Disney raised the offer to 1.5 billion US dollars, Netflix’s shareholders and management put aside their final reservations, this online online film rental service. In the end, it became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walt Disney.

At the same time, Disney also completed negotiations with Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Sony Columbia, Paramount Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox, and obtained authorization for most of the excellent films in their library, and solved Netflix in one fell swoop. The most serious problem of insufficient content.

Online and offline go hand in hand, Disney has further improved its industrial chain.

Perhaps in this era, the benefits of this acquisition are still invisible, but within a few years, online video and film rental businesses will develop rapidly like other online industries.

After spending Christmas with Nicole, Ryan returned to Los Angeles from Hawaii. After several months of preparations from the Autobot studio, "Transformers" has officially launched, and Michael Bay only decided for the film. It took three months to shoot.

The focus of this kind of film must be post-production. As long as the shapes of Autobots and Decepticons were determined, the special effects production of Industrial Light and Magic kicked off.

Although the cost of filming in California is relatively high, the crew chose Los Angeles as the main location. According to Michael Bay’s coordination with the Pentagon, Edwards Air Force Base near the City of Angels will bear most of the U.S. military. In addition to a series of weapons and equipment, the Ministry of National Defense will also send Air Force personnel and SEALs to participate in the actual shooting of the shooting.

Even the F-22 Raptor fighter jets that have not yet been installed in the US military will appear in Hollywood movies for the first time.

In other words, the film is also advertising for the Pentagon.

Ryan is a relatively late person in the crew. As early as mid-December, Michael Bay took the people to start filming at Holloman Air Force Base with one super explosion, one after another. This military base was completely destroyed from the footage.

Those US military personnel who participated in the filming are okay. It is said that actors like Josh Duhamel, who participated in military training for more than two months, always change their underwear after each explosion scene.

As the top group of directors shooting explosive scenes in Hollywood, Michael Bay did not adopt the method of replacing the explosive background in the post-green screen shooting. All the explosive scenes were shot on the spot. The props set up the background, often in a scene. After the play, it was blown to pieces all over the floor.

This kind of shooting process is risky, but the shots produced are very visually impactful.

Of course, it’s not difficult to control the explosion scenes for a director who has filmed "Jedi Men", "Break in the Dead Island", "Peerless Catastrophe" and "Pearl Harbor", such as Bombshell, who is full of explosive scenes, and it is not difficult to control the explosion scene. After he temporarily got rid of the idea of ​​transformation, he naturally wanted to make "Transformers" into a film with his strongest style.

In the words of Michael Bay, he destroyed half of San Francisco in "Brave to Death Island", "Peerless Tribulation" destroyed an asteroid, "Pearl Harbor" destroyed the US Pacific Fleet, and "Transformers" How to destroy a few US military bases and half of Los Angeles.

Ryan’s first day into the crew was almost spent in crashes, smoke and explosions. Although there were some of his scenes, he spent most of the time running wild, although there was no line and too much preparation, and there was panic during the period. It's not completely pretended.

He is just an ordinary person who has never experienced a war. When explosions and crashes keep appearing behind him, there are occasional plastic fragments falling beside him, saying that he is not worried at all. It must be fake. R1152