eurekapd Chapter 230 The Benchmark of Commercial Movies
Chapter 230 The Benchmark of Commercial Movies
In the original version of "The Day After Tomorrow", the male protagonist rushed from Washington to New York for rescue with three people.But in Jed's version, Jed doesn't intend to let the male lead pass so easily, not to mention that the male lead has recruited a team of nearly ten people this time, and the equipment is much more advanced.
The blizzard created by Jed using computer technology has become an insurmountable moat for the hero. Jed never believes that Americans will obey the traffic order when fleeing from big cities.Jed hadn't seen the chaos during the evacuation in Miami. All the lanes were blocked, where would half of the lanes be left?The scenes in American movies where people evacuate only halfway are actually a kind of propaganda by the United States, implying that the United States is an orderly and civilized society.But since it is a disaster movie, Jed no longer abides by these unspoken rules of Hollywood production.
It was already very difficult for the hero to find a smooth road to New York, and finally had to give up the Land Rover he was riding and got a snowmobile.Ordinary movie fans are naturally full of praise for the heroic and fearless performance of the hero, but professional film critics analyze the difficulty of making these shots.You must know that it was already spring when Jed made this movie. No city in the continental United States has such heavy snow, which means that all the shots were shot in the studio.
Some analysts began to calculate the production cost of these shots, and suddenly felt that the production budget announced by Galaxy Pictures was underestimated?But Jed did not tell them that all the shots except close-up shots and close-ups were realized with props and makeup, and the rest of the shots were all triumphs of computer CG technology.
Within Galaxy Pictures and Galaxy Animation, Pixar Studios, Blue Sky Studios and Digital Domain Special Effects Studio actually share a brand, which is Galaxy Computer Special Effects Laboratory.This laboratory has registered a large number of patents in the past five years, almost all of which are patent walls that cannot be bypassed for future computer special effects.
These shots in "The Day After Tomorrow" are just a small test of the Galaxy Computer Special Effects Laboratory, but Jed knows that this is a laboratory with the most cutting-edge technology and is already trying to shoot live-action movies without actors.In other words, the future Galaxy movies only need actors to authorize their images to be used, and let the computer complete the production of a movie for the rest.
Originally, according to the protagonist's plan, after everyone set off from the White House, they could only get to New York in four hours by taking Route 95 directly.However, the heavy traffic jam on Route 95 forced everyone to switch to Route 276, which greatly consumed our material reserves.After all, the hero is just a climatologist rather than a professional polar explorer. The supplies we have stored are only enough for normal people to last for three days in the fairly normal cold winter weather. In fact, the supplies can last for 24 hours, which is considered God's mercy.
As the road conditions got worse, everyone had to change the northbound route again, so they changed from Route 276 to Route 476 going north, and finally changed to Route 78 going east.Although the road to the north was much smoother at this time, some people had already begun to fall asleep in the car and never woke up again.Everyone is not in the mood to sympathize with those who have passed away, and continue to think about the snow-covered New York City.This group of New York rescue volunteers who planned to go to the ice-sealed city soon encountered attrition. The snowmobiles could no longer be used due to the low temperature, so everyone had to walk to New York City.Fortunately, the compass can still play a role, and everyone is not in the direction of the secret room.
But what the audience didn't expect was that an avalanche actually occurred in Newark, which was originally a metropolis.Newark is the necessary city for this group of volunteers to enter New York City from Route 78 to Route 95. They even plan to replenish some supplies in this city.But the originally quiet and peaceful city of Newark has lost all its vitality in the blizzard. Apart from the lifeless white, this beautiful city has no other colors.The male protagonist sees a fallen mother holding a child tightly in her arms at the entrance of a supermarket.But when the hero tried to rescue the child, he found that he was also dead.The mother tried to save her child's hope with her own life, but the cruel climate did not leave her with any hope.According to the setting of Hollywood's undead children, Jed's shot is already a bit out of line.But such a real and cruel scene made many women who watched the movie red-eyed, and they couldn't help cursing inwardly, why!Mom has already worked so hard, at least there is some hope left!
But what made everyone even more desperate was that just when everyone thought they could replenish supplies to survive the cold winter, an adjacent house seemed to be unable to withstand the winter cold and collapsed, and everyone was buried inside.Fortunately, there were still two people staying outside. With their rescue, the male protagonist survived in the end, but the other people couldn't even find the body.The male protagonist originally insisted on at least taking the other people's bodies back, but found that they had no other way, so the three men had no choice but to leave this place ruthlessly.Under all kinds of difficulties and dangers, the three finally came to New York, but according to the last weather forecast they received, the extremely cold air will arrive in New York in the next three hours and is expected to last for about four hours.The hero checks his watch once, and they have less than half an hour to find their son, or find a place to take refuge while praying that his son will make it through.
The hero's son was also in deep trouble at this time, because his goddess was actually injured when rescuing another mother and daughter during the heavy rain, and contracted sepsis without medicine.In fact, when Jed discussed this scene with the doctor, he thought it was too nonsense. In an extremely cold climate, germs can't last longer than humans.What's more, sepsis and tetanus are also infectious diseases that are under strong control in the United States, so the chances of a goddess classmate are almost the same as the chances of contracting AIDS through kissing.
However, after discussing for a long time, I found that only this nonsense disease can promote the development of the plot.The librarian diagnosed the goddess student with sepsis through medical books, and said that strong antibiotics such as penicillin or cephradine are needed to save the goddess student.Jed naturally designed a heroic rescue plot for the hero’s son. After evading the attack of wolves (why didn’t they freeze to death?), they found penicillin on the tanker that sailed into New York, and then gave it to the goddess classmate Injected (didn't kill the goddess classmate without a skin test?)... At the same time, the hero's son also escaped the extreme cold weather.When the extreme weather passed, everyone who hid in the library survived, and the goddess classmate was also moved by the hero's son, so she decided to be together.
Just when the hero's son and the goddess got to know each other and decided to stay together for a lifetime, the rescue team was reduced again.The hero's friend unfortunately fell into a supermarket under glass. According to the custom of mountaineering, the hero's friend decided to kill himself so as not to hurt his friend.But the hero doesn't want to give up his friend anymore, but the friend kills himself after a gentle "good luck".Another friend also injured his foot because he walked on the glass (why didn't he get sepsis?), the male protagonist had to wrap his friend and turned over into a kitchen, and then lit all the gas stoves (the gas pipes were not frozen live?), the two rely on each other's body temperature to keep warm.When he woke up the next day, his friend only felt back pain, but the male lead smiled knowingly.In the end, the male protagonist finds his son who is snuggling with the goddess for warmth in the library. The President of the United States announces that Americans cannot die from the cold, and the story ends.
In fact, Jed is very aware that Roland's version has many flaws, but he found that there is no way to modify these flaws, so he had to hold back the mood of complaining and film the whole plot.Fortunately, the audience didn't care about these slots, but felt that this was conducive to the ups and downs of the story.After the U.S. President finally sent a helicopter to take the survivors in New York to refugee settlements such as Miami, the movie lost focus and the audience applauded.
Iku Kuramoto wrote in this week's "Los Angeles City Weekly", "This is the benchmark of a commercial film. Director Jed Sherman has shown us the ultimate in commercial films. The extremely grand sci-fi design Realistic and terrible disaster scenes, touching adventure stories... You can say that this is a commercial 'vulgarity', but this is the audience's favorite movie. Artists and ordinary people are always two groups of people, your movie Who you belong to is your choice. But in my opinion, Mr. Sherman definitely chose the larger public, and he brought them the best appetizers of this summer movie feast!"
Although the artistry of "The Day After Tomorrow" is almost non-existent, the breakthrough in technology has allowed many film critics to give this film an above-average evaluation.And the evaluation of this movie on social media is quite high. Male audiences love the sci-fi scenes, while female audiences prefer the adventure stories. Strong burst.Although it only beat "Shrek 7300" by only $2 million, it still climbed to the top of the weekend box office.It is precisely because Acquired film technology has left a deep impression on many audiences that many Harry Potter fans have high expectations for the third film "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" .Originally, Jed had put a lot of effort into the authenticity and appreciation of the magic, so with better technical support, the whole magic lens looked even more gorgeous.
"By the way, Sony Computer Entertainment Group wants to talk to us about the authorized game adaptation of "Harry Potter." A staff member came in and reminded, "This is the plan they left behind, I hope Mr. Sherman can find some time take a look."
Since the joint acquisition of MGM with the Sony Group, the relationship between Jed and Sony has heated up sharply, and it is not at all seen that they were once in the same situation.Jed had no objection to Sony Computer Entertainment Group's plan.He knew that Sony Computer Entertainment Group would adapt this novel into an adventure-themed computer game. The sales volume was mediocre, and the fans only earned money.Jed thought about it, and then agreed, after all, "Harry Potter" is really not suitable to be adapted into an online game.In addition to Sony Computer Entertainment Group, Jed also received emails from Stork Medical Consultants, expressing great interest in Jed's search for a surrogate mother.They said all transactions would be done double-blind, so that no one but the system would know who the child's biological mother was.Jed and John only need to provide sperm with sufficient vitality, and then choose a mother they expect.