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Published at 3rd of January 2022 12:34:30 PM


Chapter 422

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Cameron has been working hard to promote the upgrading of the cinema line. He is very smart. If there are not enough cinemas, no matter how good his films are.

When Cameron first decided to surpass Lucas, he had only $20000 and a special effects studio built in a bedroom behind his home in Orange County. This time, money was no longer a problem. Special effects were produced by vita and hundreds of industrial light and magic artists. These alone were not enough. Lucas had 30 years to expand the field of Star Wars, Its franchise has become very large, and a mature system for registering and tracking its distant roles, planets, societies and disputes has been established. If you want to make avatar more refined, Cameron must find experts to help.

He hired linguistics experts from the University of Southern California to develop a new language for na'americans.

Cameron hired the chairman of the Department of Botany and plant science of the University of California Riverside to write detailed scientific descriptions of dozens of plants in the film. He recruited more people and hired an astrophysicist, a music professor and an archaeologist. These people need to calculate the atmospheric density of Pandora and determine the triple structure of alien music.

As early as the final production of Titanic was about to be completed, Cameron announced that his next new film would be avatar. The film cost about US $100 million and will use a lot of computer special effects. Some characters will use "synthesis" technology or be completely generated by computers. He even claimed that the six leading stars of the film "will appear in the film in a form that does not exist physically".

In 1997, Cameron thought that the shooting of avatar could be started at the end of the summer at the latest. At that time, he cooperated with the special effect production company "digital field" of "true lies" and "Titanic", and has also agreed to produce computer special effects for the film. Unfortunately, Avatar was forced to run aground shortly after, "Avatar" The ambition was too big, and the technology at that time could not complete it. "After rigorous calculation, if Avatar was filmed and the special effects reached Cameron's expectation, the cost would not be as simple as US $100 million, but US $400 million. All big companies with normal thinking were scared away by this figure.

"Lord of the rings 2" premiered in New York. Cameron, as the premiere guest, like everyone, was speechless by the full CG character "Gulu". At that time, he saw the possibility of realizing "Avatar".

In June 2005, Cameron announced that he would make preparations for two new films at the same time. One is gun dream adapted from Japanese comics, and the other is tentatively named "plan 880". This plan 880 is Avatar, which has officially entered the preparatory state.

Because Cameron watched "King Kong" at the end of last year, Vita digital's high fidelity computer special effects once again shocked him. He decided to give up "gun dream" and make "plan 880" first. However, due to the difficulty of production, "plan 880" may have to be delayed until 2008. The film "King Kong" made him realize that the time for shooting the film was completely ripe.

Because the draft script of Avatar has been circulating on the Internet for many years, almost all the original materials have disappeared from the Internet since Cameron announced that he would start shooting avatar. This is the 20th Century Fox creating confidentiality conditions for them. From January to April, Cameron mainly polished the script with linguist Paul Frommer, The latter created the Nami culture and language in the film.

In August last year, he announced that digital tower and Stan Winston had signed a contract with avatar to work as digital production and makeup effects respectively. He also announced that avatar would be made into a 3D film and used the "real camera system" jointly developed by him and Vince pace, a photography technology consultant who has worked with Titanic and the ghost of the abyss, Also known as digital 3D camera system, this is a camera with two lenses, which can make the picture reach a deep visual perception.

December. Cameron revealed that he will use motion capture technology to produce CG characters in the film, and the fidelity will reach the photo level. "The audience will not imagine what they will see!" therefore, the post production of the film will last for 18 months. At the same time, he claimed that avatar tells an "old-fashioned jungle adventure story full of moral and conscience entanglement".

Like all directors, James Cameron is a low-key man and a high-profile man.

At this time, he learned from the newspaper about the cinema transformation plan of MM group, which is definitely a great good news for him.

As a fanatic of technical effects, he is addicted to imxa. He has seen all imxa films on the market, including Mark's Batman's moment of war and this year's blockbuster Poseidon. Imxa can show the ultimate experience in every director's dream. Hateful, its cost and maintenance cost are too high and it is very difficult to promote, Beimi only has more than 50 giant screens. Make a hair!

Mark's imxa version of the moment of war was in short supply day and night, and the market was full. Finally, it won the best first week (5.2 million) and the highest score of imxa, 26 million, accounting for 10% of the total box office of beimi, and a staggering achievement of $50000 per Museum.

MM's two blockbusters of the year "Spider Man 3" and "Transformers" also provide imxa versions.

Mark decided to upgrade all his cinemas, which can play 2D and 3D movies. These more than 30 giant screens are the highlight, which means that by the end of 2009, beimi will have 100 giant screens. Mm has more than many countries. They will become the world's largest imxa commercial operator.

According to the data released by IMAX Canada, by the end of last year, IMAX cinema network had 303 IMAX screens in 44 countries and regions around the world, of which 180 were used for commercial screenings and 123 for public welfare screenings such as science and technology museums. MM's order is the largest order of the company so far, They plan to open a branch in Williams center to better serve mm.

Cameron visited mark in this case. He asked his assistant to make an appointment with Mark's office according to the standard process. Of course, mark arranged to meet at the first time.

The super director, known as the king of the world, has great popularity and influence. At the beginning, he shouted wildly on the Oscar stage: "I am the king of the world!" many people criticized him for his arrogance, but no one criticized him for not being qualified.

When he made Titanic, the whole plan exceeded the initial budget of US $100 million by more than US $100 million, which was the most expensive film in history. The major investor 20th Century Fox put pressure on Cameron to control the overspending.

As one of the performance of fulfilling his promise, Cameron agreed to give up all the directing fees and the profit sharing of the film. When the Titanic missed its release on July 4 (Independence Day), it seemed that the whole film was in big trouble.

"At that time, I realized that I had made a $200 million women's film, and all the people in it were dead. What did I think?" he confided to a friend at that time: "I will lose everything and start all over again."

The Hollywood trade journal variety called it "the biggest gamble in film history" and questioned whether fox could not lose money

However, it achieved great success unexpectedly. The 20th Century Fox leadership knew that it was best to make the uncrowned king of the world happy if they wanted to get the most benefits. They decided to ignore Cameron and give up Titanic The fact that the film is divided into two parts. After winning many Oscar Awards historically, fox management wrote Cameron a check for millions of dollars. (it is reported that Cameron made more than 75 million dollars for Titanic) he won't have to work in his life.

However, he earned almost as much as mark earned in iron man, and most of it was used to pay for divorce. He didn't make a big career quickly after making a lot of money like mark. After nearly ten years of unemployment, many people almost forgot the prestige of super director in those years.

Cameron made an appointment with mark to mainly talk about the shooting and production of imxa films. Mark has made the most popular imxa live action film so far, and has accumulated very rich experience. As the "largest 3D and imxa cinema operator in the future", his new film can not be separated from Mark's support.

One Titanic, one Avatar The top two best sellers in film history are all his masterpieces. As a director, he is at the peak. At present, there are no former comers, and it is absolutely possible whether there will be no future comers. For this epoch-making influence and visual impact on the senses of viewers, it is completely beyond any other films of the same era, and even difficult to have in the next few years Similar films can match, which can not be achieved by any director now.

His greatest contribution to the film industry is to give the audience a reason to re-enter the cinema. With the popularity of various high-definition projection equipment, there is little difference between sitting at home and watching in the cinema. The loss of audience means a sharp decline in box office revenue, and the whole film industry is in danger.

The film industry also needs to eat. If there is no box office revenue, it means that the industry is shrinking, a large number of companies and personnel are unemployed, and the unparalleled audio-visual charm of special effect visual blockbusters makes the audience enter the cinema again. Only in this way can there be the prosperity of today's film industry. Without these popular special effect films sweeping the world, they have made a lot of art films like Europe. The problem is , who can see? Without financial support, the industry will eventually shrink. In the end, there will be no food to eat. What else are you going to make?

Of course, this special effect film has today. Cameron certainly didn't do it alone, but he did it in the first place.




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