Rebirth in America

For the first time, Alex's abilities failed.

To be precise, the ability to copy the soul has failed. This ability is the most complex and the most prone to problems.

He had encountered similar problems before, unable to copy other people's soul information, but that was before he mastered the ability to copy puppets.

Ever since he figured out the rules for copying abilities, he has never encountered such a problem again.

But judging from today's encounter, it seems that there is still any way to stop Alex from stealing soul information. At least Director Hoover did not allow him to successfully copy it.

"Did Director Hoover have plastic surgery?"

Alex thought to himself, but it felt unlikely. Even if it was plastic surgery, if the target himself was used to the appearance after plastic surgery and changed his inner self-image to the appearance after plastic surgery, then there would be no problem.

In addition to the speculation of plastic surgery, Alex also thought of another answer, that is "witchcraft"!

Yes, since Alex received the knowledge of witchcraft from the witchcraft master, he has understood that there are many mysterious skills in this world, which can have a great impact on the human soul. Witchcraft is just one of them.

Once it comes to things that can affect the soul, Alex's clone ability will be greatly interfered with. After all, his ability is not a brute force attack, but like checking a USB connection to a computer slot, various things can easily happen that affect the transmission of computer data.

Alex suspected that if he met someone with a strong will and consciously sealed off his mental fluctuations, his copying ability would probably be ineffective.

Maybe Director Hoover himself is such a person. Not only does he have a strong aura, he is also able to block his own mental fluctuations through his will, just like Occlumency.

No matter what, after he thought about it clearly, he no longer worried about it. Now it was useless to regret and regret.

"I hope the other party doesn't notice my little move!" Alex was still a little worried about his ability being exposed. In this way, many people will be wary of him, at least people like Rockefeller and Hughes will easily appear in front of him.

After throwing this matter aside, Alex stopped paying attention. He had already planned to withdraw from the struggle of the top bosses and did not want to get involved. When he saw Director Hoover take out Tesla's manuscript, his heart kept beating, and he realized that he was once again involuntarily involved in it.

The clever Alex immediately thought of a way to evade, and started talking nonsense about artists and the soul of their works. In fact, it wasn't nonsense, but if he wanted to deceive Hoover, he couldn't just find an obvious reason.

With Alex's memory. He had of course written down the contents of that manuscript. After coming back, he also studied the contents of the manuscript carefully. As for what passwords the other party wants to find. Alex didn't find it, nor was he very interested.

He was interested in Tesla's thinking content and logical method. The things in the manuscript only revealed a small part, which was somewhat helpful to Alex. If the complete manuscript information is available. There might be a big discovery, Alex thought.

Putting this episode aside, Alex concentrated on filming "Planet of the Apes". The employees of DreamWorks are very efficient. They quickly built the ape city needed for filming. The location is located in southern Nevada, USA.

This is a desolate desert hinterland, sparsely populated, and it is difficult to see animals and plants. It is very suitable for shooting doomsday science fiction movies. In order to be able to use the land here at will, DreamWorks purchased it from the owner of the land.

"What? You want to buy this land?" DreamWorks' financial director couldn't understand this. He considered the land worthless.

This place is really too desolate, with no mineral resources and no crops to grow. Whoever buys it is a fool!

Not only the treasurer thought so, but also the owner of the land thought so. When DreamWorks contacted the landowner. He was actually suspected by the other party of being a liar or playing a prank.

"Are you sure you want this land? You're not lying to me, are you?" After the landowner repeatedly confirmed on the phone, he happily prepared all the land documents and then rushed to talk to the people from DreamWorks. Complete the procedures.

In the end, without spending much money, DreamWorks obtained the ownership of a large piece of land. Although the land was large, it was located in a remote location and had no valuable output, so the deal was definitely a loss. Almost everyone thought so, but Alex soon let them know that they were wrong.

There is a reason why DreamWorks chose to build the set facilities here. There is a national highway nearby and the transportation is very convenient. In Alex's vision, many people will come here for vacation and tourism in the future, so urban architecture is measured by practicality. From the appearance, you can see the style of the ape city, and it feels like you have traveled to a civilization on another planet.

After acquiring the land, DreamWorks immediately began recruiting people to build the ape city. These buildings were built according to the drawing style designed by Alex. During the initial shooting, many scenes were not needed, so the construction of the ape city did not affect the progress of the shooting work.

The city is fine, but the special effects makeup artists are a bit difficult to handle, because there are too many special effects makeup artists needed, and the level requirements are too high. Almost all the special effects makeup artists in Hollywood have been recruited by DreamWorks, but they still haven't been able to reach the level. The number required by the crew.

"What should we do? We are too busy!"

The special effects person in charge of the crew asked with a headache. He has tried his best, but failed to complete the task on time. Now the bonus may be a bit on the line.

Alex looked at the other party and then at Morris. He didn't have any good ideas in mind, but he still insisted on his request: "I don't care what method you use, anyway, you can't delay the shooting time, nor can you reduce the special effects I have set. Makeup effects!”

This is the advantage of being a boss. No matter what kind of problem, as long as it is not a problem of money, you can leave it to the people below to solve it. He didn't care how difficult it was or how many people would lose sleep because of it.

In the end, Morris and the person in charge of special effects went aside to think of a solution. They tried their best and finally managed to meet the requirements of the filming work.

During that year, almost all special effects makeup artists in Hollywood were concentrated at DreamWorks. When other film companies shoot films, they always need to borrow some special effects makeup artists from DreamWorks, otherwise their films will not be filmed.

Alex's work can already begin. The first thing he shot was the scene where the spaceship was lost in space.

Naturally, this scene could not be filmed in Nevada, but came to the company. At his request, the company built a physical model of a spaceship, which was completely based on Alex's design and had a very futuristic technological style.

The spaceship was built to actual scale and made of solid materials, and it was used in several movies. In the end, this spaceship became the treasure of DreamWorks. Deposited in the Museum of Motion Picture History.

besides. Another thing is that he requisitioned the company's rocket launch control center, and he wanted to shoot scenes here. After arranging this place as the center of the space station, this part of the content can be filmed quickly.

After the release of this film, it not only attracted the curiosity of ordinary viewers about the rocket launch headquarters. The Soviet Union also asked the Soviet Union to organize a group of people from the space agency to observe and learn from it.

The film "Planet of the Apes" cost a lot of money and created many firsts.

It is the most expensive science fiction film, and it is also the film with the most realistic and magnificent shooting scenes, and the film that uses the most makeup and special effects.

In Alex's script, all the astronauts are very young. This setting is more in line with people's views: "Astronauts must be young and strong enough to be competent."

Because in this film, Alex wears many hats, not only the director, screenwriter, but also the leading actor. In order to make the shooting go smoothly. He asked Morris to help as assistant director. The person who is now in the director's position is Morris, the boss of DreamWorks.

"Everyone in your place!"

After Morris gave the order, Alex was seen wearing a white space suit, and the protagonist Taylor played stood in front of the camera. His costume looked just like the real thing, and even real astronauts looked at it with enthusiasm after wearing it.

"Hey! Sir. When can we wear space suits like this too?"

There were not only DreamWorks crew members at the filming site, but also people from the company, as well as astronauts in training from NASA who were invited. After all, Alex is the boss of the company. He and Hughes have as much control over NASA. Now all Americans know that NASA has been managed by the company.

Under the company's dispatch, the development level of U.S. aerospace technology has been continuously improved, and many satellites have been launched into the sky for the government and military. In the field of rockets and satellites, the United States and the Soviet Union were chasing each other, causing great progress in related technologies.

Alex's influence in the development of rockets and satellites is no less than that of von Bryan and Korolev. His every move was closely watched.

When he proposed to shoot space scenes and needed some professional assistance, NASA and the government immediately realized that this was a good opportunity for external publicity. So they half-forced and half-tempted to use their own people, especially after they learned about Alex's ambitions and the effect the film wanted to achieve, their request became even stronger.

"Our young men are the most professional astronauts, not your actors!" NASA officials promoted hard.

"But……"

Alex was a little hesitant. He also knew that what the other party said was good, but he always felt that if this continued, the film would become a NASA propaganda film.

"No need, no matter how many people are needed, we at NASA can provide help!"

"All right!"

In the end, Alex decided to replace those extras. In the movie, they only appeared as scenery. Giving these actors to NASA people to play could also build a good relationship between the two parties. The key is that you can also save a fee.

Inside the space station, staff come and go.

Looking out from the transparent window, there is the bright Milky Way, dots of stars in the dark universe. Tyler, played by Alex, and a black astronaut played by Chuck, as well as another white astronaut, a man and a woman, appeared successively.

"Commander! We received a signal from a UFO! The specific location is in the Alpha area. From the analysis of the obtained signal, the object is flying at a medium speed!" shouted the staff of the space station.

"Launch the detector and prepare the spacecraft at the same time!" the commander replied.

Then came a dizzying series of instructions and sirens blaring from inside the space station.

They are all staff members from NASA. I quickly mastered this seemingly powerful and professional set of lines, and acted very naturally and smoothly as soon as the filming started, without any awkwardness.

In this clip, there were a few shots that needed to be put in post-production, but they didn’t affect the atmosphere of the shooting scene.

The actors perfectly performed the opening story background according to the requirements of the script.

In the end, they discovered in the movie that the flying object was actually a super-large nuclear warhead launched by the Soviet Union into space. It turned out that this was a new type of weapon invented and manufactured to attack space stations staying in the universe.

Maybe it's for demonstration, maybe it's to verify the effect. The Soviets launched nuclear warheads where they could be observed by the U.S. space station. A huge explosion occurs in the universe. It emits light and heat a thousand times brighter than the sun.

"Nuclear bomb! This is a Soviet nuclear bomb!"

"Enter red alert! Everyone is on red alert!"

"Oh no!"

Facing the Soviet Union's new weapons. The entire space station staff became panicked. Even the commander could not sit calmly and stood up to stare at the scene on the screen. At the same time, various data detected by the space station poured in like a tide. The rising and falling voices of the staff made people even more nervous.

Not only the actors, but all the crew present and the crowd watching outside the camera also felt this tension.

Although the Cuban missile crisis had not yet occurred at this time, the impact of the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony was gradually increasing, and people were very uneasy about the future direction. Some people are already promoting the so-called "doomsday theory", and even scientists have joined in the fun and created a "countdown to doomsday"!

In this script, Alex introduces a similar era background from the beginning. In the future, the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States would become increasingly tense. Nuclear missile experiments continued one after another, not only on Earth but also taking this competition into outer space.

In other words, no matter where you hide, even people flying into space cannot feel safe.

"Commander! We discovered that there were radio wave signals coming from the center of the explosion of the Soviet nuclear missile. According to analysis, these radio waves did not come from the earth!" The actor playing the space station staff continued to speak his lines.

"What?"

Not only the commander was surprised, but others were also surprised. Soon, the commander got in touch with the U.S. government on the ground, and finally, at the request of the government, sent a group of four-person spacecraft to explore the area.

"You must find out what the Soviets are doing and get their weapons and come back secretly!"

When Taylor came to this area with three partners, they quickly discovered various anomalies, such as the confusion of time and space, and the appearance of a white circular hole in the center of the explosion, from which the radio signal came. Word came out of that place.

Of course, many special lenses will be used here, which are special effects that have never been seen in movies in this era. It's impossible to shoot it now, so we need to go back and let the special effects team come up with it.

"Ark! Please come closer and explore the white hole to see what new discoveries you will make!"

The commander gave them instructions. At the same time, scientists on the earth were analyzing and discussing the white hole in the universe that appeared after the explosion. Someone soon proposed that this hole is actually a so-called wormhole, which can travel to other spaces in the universe.

As for why a nuclear bomb exploding in the universe can produce such a thing, scientists have different opinions and cannot reach a unified consensus. In order to further explore this strange phenomenon, they need Taylor and others to continue to get closer to the entrance of the cave. If possible, it would be good to travel through the past to have a look.

Under the command of the commander, Taylor and others drove the "Ark" spacecraft near the wormhole. Unexpectedly, they were accidentally sucked into the wormhole, and the spacecraft could not escape the pull of this force.

The four Taylors quickly sent a distress signal to the space station and took various emergency measures to avoid accidents.

After trying various methods, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net everyone watched helplessly as the Ark was sucked into the wormhole. In the end, the signal disappeared, and there was no longer any sign that they still existed in this space.

"Stuck!" Alex yelled to stop the shooting after the last shot was taken perfectly.

He didn't have many opportunities to appear in this scene. In the last few clips, Alex had already taken over the director's duties from Morris.

Just like filming "The Sound of Music", he found an assistant director to take his place. However, he still decided to hold the director's power tightly in his hands and perfectly present the movie in his mind. Even if it is a small detail, he has to confirm it again and again before it can be approved.

"Very good! Thank you for your hard work!" Alex felt very satisfied after seeing the footage taken by the photographer, so this time the footage was considered passed and there was no need to reshoot.

After receiving Alex's approval, everyone on the crew relaxed and packed up the filming equipment and props. The filming of the space station and spacecraft has been completely completed, and the remaining scenes will basically be shot in Nevada.