Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

Even in later generations, except for those sci-fi horror blockbusters with special effects, general horror themes are used to make a big difference—so, in the early 70s, such a horror movie with an investment of over ten million The Exorcist is what makes it so prominent.

And it is the same as "Artificial Intelligence", and the publisher is Warner.

However, they are also famous directors. William Friedkin, the director of "The Exorcist", has just been double-nominated in 72 and both won the Oscar and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. A work "A Clockwork Orange" failed at the box office.Therefore, according to Warner's consistent operation, there is a gap in this investment.

What's more, the film "Artificial Intelligence" was produced by Su Yun "paying off the teacher's debt", so the funds left for the filming were already small enough.

And thanks to Kubrick's hard work, it's barely enough.

Of course, most of the most expensive post-production special effects were produced by Su Yun herself. Otherwise, with the post-production fee added, the budget of this movie would simply be astronomical, and no one would dare to risk investment.

Therefore, Friedkin, who holds a large amount of filming funds, does not have the tight buttons when they were filming. In order to do this "spider walking" shot, he offered Su Yun a high price of 5 US dollars.

With this salary, I can make a small-budget movie when I go back to Xiangjiang Province - so Su Yun hurriedly packed the package, was taken by Kubrick and Jane Fonda, and sent to the small black room for post-production .

The producer of "The Exorcist" had asked Jane Fonda to play the role of the heroine Chris. Although she did not agree at that time, she had heard a little bit about Friedkin's character: He has a bad temper and is a tyrant at work. It is said that when an actor can't cry, he will go up and slap the actor until he cries.

Compared with Kubrick, who was usually gentle and loved Su Yun when the tyrant was working, Jane Fonda was very worried that Friedkin would "abuse" Su Yun, a child laborer, when the work progress was not satisfactory.

After all, this is not a place for Su Yun to make her own decisions, and she has to cooperate with the people in their crew to do things.

After thanking the two who cared about her, Su Yun hurriedly started her new job.

It is also limited by the times. When computers start to enter the eyes of the world in a few years, she will not have to squat in a small dark room to pretend to do the post-production. This amount of work can be done in half a day at most for Su Yun who has a super computer like the system. , but because of the current technical progress and not being fooled by acquaintances, Su Yun had to dawdle for a week before calling it a day.

Friedkin was very satisfied with her work speed, and there was no "abuse" incident that others worried about. When he came to receive the goods, because Su Yun's work was really good, he chatted with Su Yun for a while: "Actually At that time, I also contacted Kubrick and other big-name directors for this script, but they refused to accept it, and the script writer liked me, so I became the director of this movie."

"I've always wondered how you persuaded Kubrick and Jane Fonda to do that shitty-sounding co-production with you - like when The Exorcist sent an invitation. , Kubrick's answer was that he only wanted to shoot his own subjects; while Jane Fonda gave me a note directly at the time, which said,'Why did I agree to participate in a film full of capitalist copper stink? Trash movie'?" Without waiting for Su Yun to reply, Friedkin had already continued on his own, "Until I saw "Artificial Intelligence" and learned that you were the main force behind the post-production special effects——I Only then did I understand."

"I have to say, you are really a little genius - I rarely praise people like this." Friedkin looked proud, and Su Yun happily accepted and thanked him for his evaluation.

As for the regret in Friedkin's eyes, she had no right to see it—obviously, it was another person who regretted her racial problems.

Either disgusting discrimination, or feeling sorry for her after seeing her achievements-some people always think so.

In the area of ​​white supremacy, people of color seem to be destined to suffer more hardships and it is obviously more difficult to achieve the same results as white people despite the same efforts.

A place called "free" has never been free.

No wonder Kubrick didn't want to go back once he was gone.

And chasing the freedom to break boundaries is exactly the dream and future goal of Master Lu Shaolong and her.

After thinking about these complicated thoughts, Su Yun calmly leaned against the car window, her eyes glanced at the huge poster of the movie theater on the side of the road.

"Artificial Intelligence" is now in theaters.

After the internal transmission and word-of-mouth fermentation of the college students, this movie, which was extremely cool in their eyes, quickly spread to all colleges and universities in the few days after it was screened.

"New humans" are the ones who are most likely to accept and pursue new things. Once someone in the school discovers something "cool", it will immediately become popular in the entire school and even the entire region.

Sure enough, as soon as the screening started, the box office of "Artificial Intelligence" began to skyrocket like the box office dark horse "American Graffiti" released in August. The first week's box office even broke 8 in the eyes of everyone's disbelief. Ten thousand!

Moreover, the word-of-mouth and topics of the movie are still heating up, and the growth rate is extremely good. It can be seen that people from all walks of life with relevant interests have different thoughts.

Compared with "Tiger Fighting the Dragon", this first week's box office figure is definitely better than blue.However, considering that although this film has two Chinese characters who play a big role, it is still strictly a co-production film, so some people also think that this achievement is mainly due to the momentum of Kubrick and Jane Fonda. .

Anyway, the tone is very sour...

Compared with the various positive and negative reviews with a strong personal touch, a more fair analysis is "Kubrick showed his ability in commercial films with this "Artificial Intelligence"" and "Jane Fonda showed box office appeal with "Artificial Intelligence" force" these two points.

Although one is a famous big-name director and the other is a famous actress who is a famous actress, they all think that the two of them "turned over from salty fish" with this film-you know, capitalists are the people who are most good at chasing profits.No matter how many awards you have won, how famous you are, how good the evaluation is, if you can’t make money, it’s box office poison.

As long as you have skipped a few films in a row, it will be very difficult to start over again in the future.

As for the sci-fi film "Artificial Intelligence", with the rise in box office and word-of-mouth, some people have begun to analyze how it will change the film structure in the future.

Compared with the convenience of later generations who want to look up something and go online directly, even the United States, which seems to have a modern atmosphere, seems to be very backward in this era.

Telephones, telegrams, newspapers and magazines, as well as people's mouth and ears, are the channels of information transmission that most people can access at present.

Sitting on the sofa in the wooden house, Su Yun and Vivian were surrounded by hills of recent issues of newspapers and magazines.

As of the second week, the box office of "Artificial Intelligence" has exceeded 2500 million, and many people are waiting to see if it can pull down "American Graffiti", which has the highest box office record so far this year, from the first place.

In the storm of overt and covert attention, Su Yun, the person involved, is the calmest: "American Graffiti" was staged in the summer season, which is not valued so far, so it has an inherent advantage in grabbing the box office; even if "Artificial Intelligence" can rely on surpassing The era's black-tech special effects and timing created momentum to deceive tickets, and the box office that surpassed it was accumulated at this time, and its rate of return was also a bit worse.

Because the investment of "Artificial Intelligence" is a full 500 million US dollars, and due to various factors, people are just waiting to see if its expected box office can break through 75 million; while "American Graffiti" only has an investment of 1.15 US dollars, but it is crazy. Grossed $[-] million at the box office!

Not only that, but in the Christmas file in December, the most profitable "Liar" and "The Exorcist" in 12 will be launched together to fight for life and death.Even if "Artificial Intelligence" can take the lead temporarily, when Christmas comes, it will definitely be caught up by "Cheat" and "The Exorcist"...

It’s all a tacit and well-known unspoken rule: if there is an all-white lineup, “Artificial Intelligence” may still have hope to fight; now that she and Zhuang Long are added, as long as the box office can guarantee four Competing for three, Su Yun is already satisfied.

You can’t even think about eating into a fat man. After all, there are so many amazing works in the golden age, and the black technology that surpasses the times is just beginning to bubble up.

The box office can still see a number here. As for the awards, Su Yun, who is not familiar with the rules of this era, is really a little confused.

But no matter how blind you are, you know that at her age and identity, it is impossible for her to win any well-known performance awards. Even if she is a female supporting role, it may not be easy to get a nomination.

Even so, when her age and talent were too outstanding, someone had thought out the answer to this question for her: the visual effects award-"Best Visual Effects".

Kubrick also won this award.

And the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" that allowed Kubrick to win this award not only has the title of "a milestone in modern science fiction film technology", but also directly created the front projection visual effects technology, and prompted this technology to start widespread use. application.

Now, in the new era, new movies, and new technologies, is Kubrick planning to set off another round of innovation in film visual effects technology?

The special effects technology in "Artificial Intelligence" obviously surpasses all previous special effects technologies. If Kubrick and this Mary Su from Hong Kong use this to compete for the Best Visual Effects Award...

Refer to the record of the Chinese photographer who has been nominated multiple times and won two Best Cinematography Awards in the history of Oscars; is it true that next year's 46th Academy Awards will be nominated for a technical award with the oldest age Even a gainer?