Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

Nicolas Cage, with the help of Wia, made a swimming motion, constantly swinging his arms, as if dodging invisible bullets.

This face made Jackie Chan on the side look confused.

The movies shot by Jackie Chan, at least so far, do not involve any computer special effects, everything is real shooting.

Simply put, it's playing with your life.

The scene in front of him made him look very funny.

Tsui Hark on the side, touching his beard, looked at this scene thoughtfully.

As a director, he can see that what he is filming now is the scene played by Nicolas Cage, dodging bullets.

In other words, the next step is to add the special effect of bullets to the movie.

But judging from the special effects he knows, this effect is absolutely impossible for Hong Kong to accomplish.

This made him sigh in his heart about the power of the special effects of Hollywood movies.

At the same time, countless thoughts arose in my mind.

In particular, bringing the story of his dreams to reality, even the special effects of bullets can be completed, and it seems that the effect he imagined is not very difficult.

But the big question is whether Steve Kevin can support him in making a movie like that.

At the same time, whether Americans can accept the concept of fairy tales is a question.

Of course, even if Steve Kevin doesn't support it, he will definitely shoot it, but that's what happened after he returned to Hong Kong.

After asking Cage to repeat this action many times, Kevin called the hired special effects team over.

"Did you see all the scenes just now?"

Several people nodded.

Kevin then continued to talk about his needs.

"My request is that the trajectory of the bullet is clearly visible in the air, and Cage dodges the bullets one by one through his own movements, mind you, this is a slow motion shot."

Several people nodded, roughly understood Kevin's needs, and took away some of the shots, ready to make a sample first, so that Kevin was sure that it was correct, and then make a complete special effects shot.

Tsui Hark on the side couldn't help but ask:

"Use bullets as a time standard?" Is this bullet time?

Kevin couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

"Well said, this shot will be called bullet time in the future, which means that bullet time is used as the standard slow-motion shot."

Following Tsui Hark's words, Kevin directly defined this shot.

The Matrix, if you don't discuss ideas, is actually a typical technical movie.

In the same genre, there is also director Cameron.

The release of such films often means the innovation of film technology.

For example, after the release of The Matrix, bullet time surprised the world, and since then, bullet time has been widely used in various movies.

This is the result of a revolution in film technology.

In the future, Kevin's name can be hung with another father of bullet time.

Just as soon as he heard Kevin's description, Tsui Hark immediately knew that this would be a major achievement in film technology.

His eyes couldn't help but show admiration.

Then some shots were taken, and after work, he took Tsui Hark and Jackie Chan to a high-end restaurant.

............

There is more Chinese food, plus the two Chinese to be entertained are Jackie Chan and Tsui Hark, Kevin chose Spanish food this time.

After ordering a few signature delicacies and serving some red wine, Kevin asked directly to

Tsui Hark: "Director Tsui Hark, do you have any ideas for the new movie?" You can mention it boldly.

Tsui Hark faced Kevin's question, groaned, and then said:

"I don't know if Director Kevin knows about China's fairy culture?"

A smile appeared on Kevin's face, does this need to be said, when it comes to fairy culture, Tsui Hark may not know more than him.

After all, the fairy tales of this era, in fact, are still martial arts to some extent, and have not completely entered the field of immortals.

"I have a deep understanding of Taoist culture."

Tsui Hark knew as soon as he heard that Kevin knew this.

The word immortal originated from Taoism, and Kevin does not talk about immortals, but on the Tao, it shows that he has a very deep understanding of immortals.

Since that's the case, that's good to say.

Tsui Hark directly took out a vernacular version of the legend of the Shushan Swordsman.

Holding up the book, he said,

"I had an idea to adapt the story of this book into a movie."

When Kevin saw it, his face suddenly burst into laughter.

Sure enough, Old Monster Xu has long had the idea of putting the legend of the Shushan Swordsman on the movie.

However, due to the Hong Kong film market, it is difficult to find suitable investors.

To put it simply, the investment is small, and the effect of the fairy can not be filmed.

With a large investment, with the size of the Hong Kong market, it is difficult to recover the cost.

Tsui Hark may not be able to guess that he will lose money in the future, but in order to realize his dream of directing, sometimes the profession of director does not care about the consequences.

"The legend of the Shushan Swordsman, I know, and I know the story very well."

"However, if you want to shoot, I don't recommend using this story, of course the background can be appropriated."

Tsui Hark frowned.

"Why?"

Kevin took a bite of food and said casually:

"The truth is very simple, not popular enough."

Without waiting for Tsui Hark's rebuttal, he continued:

"Even in China, the legend of the Shushan Swordsman should not be considered a public reading, right?"

"The public reading of this theme, as far as I know, is only Journey to the West."

Tsui Hark suddenly said that Kevin, an American, actually knew more about Chinese culture than he did.

"So how do you change that?"

Tsui Hark asked directly.

"First of all, there is no doubt that the hero and heroine must use Americans."

It is a very simple truth that if you do not use Americans as the heroes and heroes, there will be no audience in the United States.

Then with the fifty million dollars that Kevin is prepared to invest, there is a high probability of a loss, and at the same time, it will not attract the attention of Americans.

In this case, it is almost impossible to promote fairy tale culture to Hollywood.

The first step in promotion, the film must be a big seller.

Only if it sells big, other things later are possible.

For example, using Chinese as protagonists, or other situations.

Tsui Hark was obviously not a fool, and Kevin's words, he knew in an instant what he meant.

Although unwilling, in order to let this culture break into Hollywood, he can endure this.

Tsui Hark nodded and accepted the opinion while continuing to listen to Kevin's other comments.

Seeing that Tsui Hark agreed with his opinion, Kevin continued:

"The second step is to take the real scene."

"If you really shoot, I hope you will take the photography team to the famous mountains on the mainland to shoot."

Taking the mainland of this era as far as the continent is concerned, Kevin pulled such a photography team to the mainland to shoot, the cost can be said to be too low to believe.

It's much cheaper than doing special effects directly.