[American Entertainment] Bright life

Sunny, laid-back French streets.

On a coffee table in an open-air street cafe, a striking couple of men and women are sitting.

The man's golden-brown hair was combed back, and he was wearing a casual suit. Even though he looked a little sloppy for some reason, he couldn't hide his charm as a mature man.The lady sitting next to him looked radiant, just like the color of her hair, like a little sun that would warm people's hearts.The two of them were talking about something completely lost in themselves: "When we are awake, we only use a small part of our conscious potential. When we are asleep, our consciousness can develop a little bit."

The girl who seemed to be still in college raised her eyebrows curiously: "For example?"

"Imagine you are designing a building. You consciously design every detail. Sometimes you feel that the building is built in one go, understand?" the man said.

"It's like constantly discovering—"

"Find real inspiration, right? In dreams, our consciousness is constantly active, creating and recognizing our spiritual world. The process is so smooth that people don't know it, so we have the opportunity to invade." The man said Said that while taking out a piece of paper, draw something on the paper, so that the girl can better understand, just like a senior.

If this scene is placed in reality, it is indeed very rare. After all, Leonardo is usually crushed by Grace in other aspects except for acting.In other words, the two of them are filming a movie now. In the movie, the man’s name is Cobb, who is the leading actor in "Inception". As for the girl played by Grace who looks like a college student, it is Adrian. .The two of them are indeed filming on the streets of France now. Cobb, played by Leonardo, and Arthur, played by Joseph, moved to France after returning from Japan. They have a base in France. The crew of "Inception" also went to Paris, France to film and shoot on the spot.

It is worth mentioning that in this scene, Grace and Leonardo played against each other before, that is, that time they discovered Leonardo's "accumulated habits" in acting. By the way, Grace had a talk with him, and later Grace Also played 'Rimbaud', the one that sparked a series of accidents.Now when we come to shoot again, Leonardo’s expression under the camera is much more natural than before. As for Grace, she is now completely the Adrian she set up.

In addition, the current plot is that Cobb took Adrian into the dream, and they talked in the dream. After Adrian realized this, the dream space began to collapse.The fruit stalls on the street, the horse oil road, the books in the bookstore, the cafe behind them, the windows of the surrounding buildings... It seems like popcorn exploded, this description seems wrong, like fireworks exploded.

This scene looks different under the lens, but it is not so easy to shoot.In fact, most of the explosions here are real effects, and because they were filmed on the streets of Paris, it is impossible for the blasting team to create such a profitable explosion. Instead, they have to face various restrictions: According to the needs of the script, Subconscious explosions cannot produce any real smoke and flames; relevant departments also require that the sound of explosions must be lower than 104 decibels.The special effects team prepared a large number of lightweight simulation props, from fake fruit to rubber glass, and fired them out with air pressure cannons and high-pressure nitrogen.

Of course, the flight trajectory of the explosives has been carefully calculated, and there is no security threat at all even in the midst of an explosion.

This one passed without a hitch.

"Babe, what were you thinking when you exploded? Your eyes changed at that moment." Leonardo was extremely sharp when he was acting, of course it wasn't like Toby said that he only acted in front of Grace. The advantage, but he is an excellent actor, and sometimes he is very sensitive to emotional changes.As he spoke, he noticed that Grace frowned, and immediately became nervous. He took Grace's hand, as if he wanted to check her whole body, "Grace, are you okay? Are you injured? "

Others followed suit.

"Don't."

"Ok?"

"I mean I'm not hurt." Grace lowered her eyes halfway, telling Leonardo to stop his worrying and chaotic behavior with a very menacing look.After Leonardo stood up reflexively, Grace crossed her arms and said again: "Answer your question, I'm calculating the trajectory of the explosive."

Leonardo thought for a while, and felt that Grace's performance was like a personality switch. When one of the weak personalities was threatened with life, her own personality would come out.When he was about to analyze this idea to Grace excitedly, Grace said again: "In case you are forgetful, I can tell you responsibly, my name is Grace, or you can call me if you want. I am Dr. Green, Mister DiCaprio."

Leonardo, who "upgraded" from Leo to Mr. DiCaprio, didn't realize it at first. He also recalled how he "provoked" Grace. When he reacted, it was because he called Grace just now. "Babe", this intimate name.He widened his eyes, leaned closer to Grace, and said with a firm and conniving tone with a smile: "Are we, Dr. Green, shy?"

Grace's bright eyes fell on Leonardo's face so undisguisedly, she smiled instead of anger: "About the question you asked me about hypnosis last time, my answer is yes, I mean I can hypnotize you , to make you do anything, like make you think you're a dog, or make you think you're a woman, so—”

Leonardo doesn't doubt it, okay?He surrendered, not only one meter away from Grace, but also with a serious expression, but there was still a smile in his eyes, because in his opinion, Grace threatened him so completely because what he said hit her mind. .

This obviously couldn't be hidden from Grace, and Grace let out a sticky hum from her nose, which sounded ironic but a little annoyingly cute.

The rest of the crew looked at each other. To be honest, this kind of atmosphere covered by pink bubbles seemed weird and unbearable to them.Besides, they couldn't protest anything, after all, when the two of them were officially filming, their performance was completely impeccable.So it's understandable for the two of them to do some things that couples should do outside the play - in fact, they're not that clingy, at least they don't kiss in broad daylight or anything - it's understandable... right.

Fortunately, the shooting schedule is still very tight, and there is not much spare time.The next scene to be filmed is also very technical. Cobb and Adrian are on the streets of Paris, and the buildings are curling up. Uh, this can’t be a live action shot. It’s actually shot in a studio. Yes, in front of a green screen.

This scene was shot like this. The employees of the company responsible for digital special effects for "Inception" took a T-sized photo material in Paris, from the external structure of the building to the internal rooms, accurate to every detail, these The high-precision photos are finally pasted on the [-]D model as a "baked texture", the purpose is to make the entire virtual scene realistic and believable.A peculiar device is also used here, which is like a rotatable cube frame, on which a camera is fixed and can be rotated, surrounded by green screens, so that Leonardo and Grace walk around in this device, from One side of the cube, walking to the other side, imagining the surrounding environment, and speaking lines in the mouth, it is not so wonderful to complete this visually impactful scene shooting.

In fact, when I was shooting the whole scene of "Curly Paris", when I walked on the street and the buildings began to curl, it was not very beautiful, not as wonderful as it was seen in front of the big screen.It all needs to be imagined, and when shooting on the street, Director Nolan was holding a computer beside him, while playing the dynamic story version made by the special effects personnel in advance, just like the renderings of comic strips, while telling Lai What happens to Leonardo and Grace in the virtual scene now, let Leonardo and Grace facing the normal street make corresponding performances.

There are not many scenes like this that require special effects blessings in "Inception", which makes the shooting cycle of "Inception" longer, and may also explain why the budget of "Inception" is so high up.

Having said that, about Leonardo Love Fool DiCaprio, on the bright side, he showed 120% professionalism in "Inception", which is the same as Grace's Performance doesn't matter.In short, the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew rarely have a look of embarrassment. As for what happened in private, they didn't see it anyway, did they?

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After "Inception" finished filming in Paris, it moved to Los Angeles in mid-July to continue filming.At this time, the plot has progressed to Cobb and his group, bringing their target character Fitch II into the dream space specially designed for him.

At this time, "Julie and Julia", which Grace filmed with Meryl last year, has entered the promotion period.In fact, the first trailer was released in June, and some stills have been released one after another since then, and "Julie and Julia" will be released in North America on August [-]th. The premiere of "Julie and Julia" was prepared at the end of July. However, considering the current situation, it is impossible for Grace to spare time to promote "Julie and Julia" in person.

Well, Grace had a special way of promoting it, remember?