Hollywood Domination Chapter 384: The press conference struck a thunderbolt

"This should be one of the most existential movies this summer." For the filmmakers in the main hall, it is also a courtesy to sit until the subtitles run out and the movie is completely over-if they don't Respect these actors and crew, so what is the role of these actors and crew subtitles? However, this does not prevent them from discussing their feelings, "—Of course, not many people should be surprised now, but I still want to say that Jennifer is really good at making movies, although the expectations have been adjusted That's pretty high, but it's still another surprise for me, Steve, what do you think?"

Steven Spielberg, who is also an old friend of James Cameron, nodded a little reservedly. Unlike Cameron, he didn't have much friendship with Jennifer, and he didn't want to go too far in public. Enthusiastically praised Jennifer, "This is a very standard-and very talented popcorn movie. For 3D movies, its significance is even comparable to "Avatar."

"The technical progress of "Avatar" is more reflected in the special effects," Cameron was not unhappy because "Avatar" was compared with "Code Shero", but said happily, "But in 3D technology , especially in terms of screen appearance, it is indeed slightly inferior to "Code Shero"-Jose's talent in this area is amazing, considering that he has never made a 3D movie before."

"Indeed." Spielberg nodded, "If 3D is really a major trend, then this iteration will undoubtedly eliminate a large number of mediocre directors. Who can learn to shoot well first? A 3D movie, whoever will be the winner in the next big commercial production field.”

As important directors, their focus is naturally different - unlike ordinary people who care about the movie's box office and word-of-mouth, what they value is the obvious advantage of the movie in 3D shooting: this is A real 3D movie shot with a 3D camera instead of post-conversion. Specifically, in the movie, the audience can see the depth of field almost all the time and feel the 3D feeling of the movie, not like Alice in post-conversion 3D Similarly, many scenes can be viewed without glasses, only the subtitles are doubled. And this has high requirements for budget control, post-production, and the director's composition ability. How to smoothly cut the off-screen effect into the finished product, and how to shoot without chaos... For the audience, it may be just a simple 2D transformation. 3D, but it’s absolutely not the case for directors, mirroring, lighting, and storyboarding... If it’s really that simple, why did Ang Lee have to be a student for a while before filming "Life of Pi"? Therefore, although "Code Shero" does not have too deep connotation, as Spielberg said, it is a standard popcorn movie, but the two directors did not mean to underestimate it, on the contrary they know best, to How difficult it is to make a good popcorn movie.

"Who do you think played the most important role?" Cameron began to gossip, "This film should be a typical example of a strong producer and a weak director. It feels like Jennifer learned from "Avatar" All the essence of "Codename Shero" has been injected."

Although this may accuse Jennifer of "stealing a teacher", judging from his smiling expression, Cameron not only does not mean to blame, but appreciates Jennifer's learning ability very much.

"It's hard to say, you know, I haven't seen much of Joss's work before," Spielberg hesitated, "But what is certain is that Marvel would definitely want him to direct "The Avengers" now." Alliance"—have you heard about their big plans?"

"Of course, Jennifer told me that she was very optimistic." Cameron replied without thinking-seeing Spielberg's expression, he laughed, "Dude, don't look at me like that, you really You should talk to Jennifer, don't believe in intuition, this girl really has two hands, of course, her intuition and courage are indeed terrifyingly accurate, if DreamWorks can cooperate with her, your project will definitely There will be no loss..."

Because of the brainwashing "teaching" before and after "Avatar", Cameron has become an excellent downline. This time he brought his old friends to join him, in fact, it is also for those who are in trouble For the sake of DreamWorks, I hope to bring together Big Dream and DreamWorks to cooperate on one or two projects—but in this regard, DreamWorks, which does not have many excellent IP series, is indeed not so proactive. Whether it can cooperate or not depends on Jennifer between thoughts.

"The ending of the movie still feels a little... how should I put it, the charm is not so full. Although philosophical thinking is a bit vulgar, it is a part of a superhero movie after all. If it is completely skipped, Kelly's heroic temperament will suddenly disappear. Not so much."

"But maybe that's what Kelly is, she's a very down-to-earth scientist character, and I think that's in line with the style of the movie. Those reverse playbacks, interludes, including comic dialogue—"

"Yes, although some of the techniques may be very over the top elsewhere, even embarrassing, but surprisingly, it integrates very well with this movie-"

"Yes, yes, I think so too. This movie has a heavy comic style in its narrative. This should be the benefit of finding a geek like Joss to shoot it. It has nothing to do with young audiences. **** joint.”

"But in some places, I think it has been handled a little too far, and I can still smell a certain childishness."

"Using an entire movie to film the birth of a superhero feels like imitating Nolan's "Batman: Beginning of War"..."

The focus of film critics is completely different from that of directors. They are more interested in discussing the quality of film products, the strengths and weaknesses of "Code Shero", character creation, plot, and rhythm. , and although there are disputes in some details, the evaluation of the overall quality of the film is surprisingly consistent.

"This should be the most 3D movie this year."

"You can see every penny spent - this should be a big trend in the future, actor pay is no longer the biggest expense, I mean, you can really see the budget burning, from those fine details Looking at the details of the special effects, to some extent, this is actually an animated movie..."

"A very good commercial work, "Agent Sauter" is completely inferior in quality."

"Hey—"Agent Sauter", don't compare these two movies—the point is, Dameng really made a very good female hero movie, and no one knew this before. How a movie should do to be successful, from this point of view, its significance is greater than the possible box office.”

"Yes, but this has high demands on the actors themselves——"

"Are you talking about Jennifer's martial arts? The one that jumped from the ground?"

"Haha, yes, the action director team is very commendable, but what I'm talking about is Jennifer's acting skills. Although this is not the focus of the movie, it determines the level of the movie itself. What do you think? You can imagine Chris Evans to prop up a superhero solo movie, but let Jessica Alba star in "Code Shero"—"

"Yes, although this is not an acting skill, Jennifer has indeed proved her strength once again. This is a completely different role, and her technical movements have not changed, and they are not even the same as her previous self— — especially Kelly doesn’t have a lot of facial expressions, but you can still accurately capture her meaning instead of being confused, which is really not simple.”

"It should be the first time for her to act in a movie with such a funny element? I have to say, I didn't expect her smile to be so good..."

"I really want to reveal the spoiler in advance-but I know that a PR will come to remind me later-her self-deprecating spirit really makes people feel good, you have to admit that the marketing is so not offensive There is only her..."

The area of ​​film critics has already formed a big party. For this kind of quality crushing, almost 100% positive film, they have nothing to argue about, and most of them are discussing some topics that have spread out because of this—film critics, although I like to make thoughtful and profound art films, but it is impossible to dislike high-quality commercial films, and they have ideas about this kind, and they perfectly fit the fixed structure of commercial films, allowing audiences to experience very good films It's even more favorable. After all, considering the number of bad movies they have to watch in a year, good movies deserve this treatment.

In the press area, people were discussing the press conference later, "The sequel is definitely going to be filmed, and the Easter eggs have come out-you have to ask the box office, right? This has to be in the first question, It's all agreed, no matter who is the first to be clicked later, you must ask."

"The second one is Josh?"

"I'm afraid the questions related to Josh may not be answered—the news can't be released anyway, don't think about it, PR is already saying hello, this is a surprise news for the official opening day."

"Okay, okay, but you can ask some side questions, her relationship with her husband, the first child——"

For journalists, they must be most concerned about the issue of selling newspapers and earning clicks. As for other issues related to movies, they will not discuss them with their peers. .

Next to them, there is a corner that is unusually quiet - there are not many people sitting here, but a dozen or so, occupying three or four rows in front and back, and they are quite silent during the entire viewing process , the current mood is far from being too excited, and even some people's expressions are still a bit mixed...

"The ambition of wanting to change the manga is completely coming." It can be said that he came here specially to support him, or he came here specially for Joss Whedon, the future helm of "The Avengers". Kevin Feige, who scored the score, was thinking a little bit uncomfortably, and the reason for his displeasure was not because of the quality comparison between the two movies, "Iron Man 2" and "Code Shero", which were two months apart. "It took more than an hour to tell the story before becoming a hero. This is to establish a world view-this is simply leaving an interface for the comics everywhere. The story of Kelly and Parvati from going to college to before entering the laboratory will be It is a very good prequel, and there are such obvious sidekick jokes. This whole world view has been established through a movie. Others are content-oriented. Novels and comics develop IP, but "Code Shero" has to be driven by film and television Comics and novels..."

Given the pitiful comparison between movie box office and comic sales, Dameng's approach may seem a little ridiculous, but no one knows better than Kevin the driving effect of movies on comics—and most importantly, peripherals, animated DVDs and other profit items , and what made him feel even more uneasy was the practice of Dameng: To be honest, the current status of Marvel and DC in the film and television industry is completely supported by their huge number of heroes. After ten years of accumulation in the film and television industry, IP is their only bargaining chip. If you want to develop a superhero movie, then you have to look at the faces of Marvel or DC. And seeing Dameng being so arrogant and unreasonable, entering the game directly from the movie to create his own ip industry chain, how could he not feel uneasy?

"I don't know who they plan to let do the comic work..." He pondered, "I have to have a good talk with Bob, they are both subsidiaries of Disney, we must avoid meaningless internal friction, maybe, Marvel could take Kylie in and make it part of the Marvel universe...we could even have Kylie appear in The Avengers?"

Although the two iron laws of the Marvel Universe "one person, one role" and "cannot act in the same type of movie at the same time" are basically unshakable, for those who are good enough, or sufficiently threatening, the exception is for them created by.

After a short ten-minute cast and crew list time, with the brief thank you from director Joss and producer Jennifer, the premiere part officially ended, and then the crew went to the prepared press conference venue, and the main hall Most of the staff in the hotel also moved to the afterparty held in a nearby hotel, and continued to receive hospitality: these are friends who came to support the scene, and it must be served with delicious food and drink.

Producer and heroine Jennifer Jefferson, director Joss Whedon, first supporting actor Zachary Quinto, and the actor who has lost weight, Parvati, has a plump body Mindy Kaling, Cesare Vigeri as the representative of the distribution company, and Carey Oriente from Warner Bros. The important characters in the crew of "Code Shero" are really simple. These are the six people, as far as the lineup is concerned. Said that it was indeed not as star-studded as "Avatar", but the reporters did not feel dissatisfied at all. They almost sat down and the host signaled for the question to start, and people rushed to press the answering machine in their hands: This is also the crew's ingenuity. It's time, they completely abandoned the traditional point-and-answer method, and adopted such a rush-to-question mechanism, which also made the reporters more enthusiastic, not just the reporters from the big publications who had the desire to raise their hands.

"Excuse me, Jennifer," but there are always surprises in new technology—or maybe it's not an accident: With the quickness of a young man, it's a cheeky intern who grabs the first question , he looks definitely not more than 20 years old, and he doesn't even know the rule that he should briefly introduce himself before asking a question, but blushes and pokes all the thunder points excitedly, "Josh Branch in the easter egg Was it you who invited me?——Does your husband really have any objections to working with him again? You know, since you got married, you have been getting together less often, and there have been rumors that your marriage is in crisis—— — Excuse me, is this true?"