Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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Nowadays, piracy in Xiangjiang is really rampant, especially with the popularization of home video recorders, the videotape rental business has become booming, and more than half of the videotapes on the market are pirated goods.

Hong Kong films have a tradition of midnight screenings—many films are screened at midnight and then recut based on audience reactions.

And there is about a week's time difference between the trial screening at the midnight screening and the official release. Since the development of the video tape industry, many people have gone to the midnight screening to secretly shoot. Pirate board videotapes are already on the market.

For the stubborn psoriasis that has been banned for decades in the previous life, Xu Cun has no good way to cure it.

Fortunately——

The quality of pirated boards is generally extremely poor, and those who pursue sensual enjoyment hate it from the bottom of their hearts!

And Xu Cun's only way to deal with pirates is to improve the quality of the real ones to the point where the pirates are far out of reach, and then grab more viewers from the pirates. To put it bluntly, Xu Cun intends to promote the development of 3D movies.

3D movies can be shot more realistically and bring more visual impact to the audience, but if you want to enjoy 3D movies, you must have specific screening conditions, which are conditions that pirates do not have at all.

This is also the main reason why Xu Cun wanted to make Jurassic Park into a 3D version.

Speaking of 3D technology, many people who don't understand it will think that it is a product of the 21st century.

actually--

This is a mistake.

The earliest 3D movies can actually be traced back to the end of the nineteenth century, when movies were first invented—at that time, the British film pioneer William Frys Green invented the world's first device for showing and watching 3D movies: he simultaneously The two images are projected, and the audience obtains a three-dimensional sense through special glasses.

but--

William's device was cumbersome and complicated, and lacked practical promotion. Therefore, although he applied for a patent, no theaters adopted it.

The first commercial performance of a 3D movie was The Power of Love screened at the Theater of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on September 27, 1922. It was produced in red and green anaglyph, and also had only one audience—Harry Fairo later pitched the film to theater managers in New York, but no one wanted to buy it, and the film gradually became popular. people forget.

Later, Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid, invented polarizing film technology, which can change the way light vibrates. Edwin's original intention of inventing polarizing film was to use it to prevent car headlights from being too dazzling, but this technology later had a profound impact on the development of 3D movies.

Throughout the 1940s, due to World War II, people did not have much interest in the research and production of 3D movies, so 3D movies fell dormant until they re-emerged after the war.

After World War II, with the invention and popularization of television, the film industry encountered its first severe challenge. In order to survive and develop, the film industry began a series of innovations and explorations. Hollywood shot a large number of wide-screen epic films, trying to use big scenes to pull the audience back from the small TV. At this time, the first color 3D film The Devil of Bowana turned out.

Columbia and Warner, which saw commercial prospects during the broadcast of Bowana's Devil, launched two epoch-making 3D movies in the following year, The Man in the Dark and The Wax Museum-these two Both films were huge box office successes, especially the latter, which also used stereo sound for the first time, making the audience not only visually, but also aurally immersive.

The success of these two films made Hollywood realize overnight that 3D movies can also make money. Since then, 3D commercial movies from mainstream production companies have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Disney, Universal, and 20th Century Fox have all joined this stock. Torrent, which Disney has also brought to Disneyland, shows the promise of other applications of 3D technology in the entertainment industry.

but--

As the output of 3D movies increases, the quality of the movies begins to vary. The production cycle of some movies is only two weeks, and the effect can be imagined. In addition, the technology at that time still had a lot of deficiencies, and there were strict requirements for screens, angles, and projections. Therefore, after only one or two years, 3D movies became a thing of the past.

In 1955, with the release of Monster's Revenge, this short 3D golden period came to an end.

Until the 1970s, ring-screen movies, dome-screen movies, and IMAX giant-screen movies were born one after another, and 3D movie technology has also made great progress-the previous 3D movies required two projectors to simultaneously project images to the screens on both sides. A little bit will seriously affect the viewing effect, but with the advent of the patented stereoscopic vision technology invented by Alan Silifant and Chris Gordon, this problem has been solved. This technology can alternately print the picture seen by the left and right eyes on a set of ordinary 35mm movie film, and the projector will show it at a speed of 48 frames per second (twice the usual speed). A visor that rotates periodically, so two sets of pictures appear alternately, but the audience will not notice it due to visual delay.

The first 3D film produced using stereoscopic vision technology was a pornographic film Stewardess. The highest-grossing 3D movie in history (according to the ratio), driven by it, most of the 3D movies in the 1970s were **** and horror movies, and there were even some that combined the two .

pity--

The development of technology has not brought about the growth of content—the biggest Achilles’ heel of 3D movies for a long time is that they have technology but no plot. People watching 3D movies are like watching a circus. Movies have always existed only as an accessory to movies, never as the mainstream of the movie industry.

After entering the 1980s, the themes of 3D movies began to become more abundant. Feature films, documentaries, horror films, and action films all used 3D as their selling point. The most representative one was the 1981 western film Gunner Hart. , The scenes of drawing guns, shooting bullets, and throwing knives in the film made many viewers break out in a cold sweat.

Throughout the early and mid-1980s, a large number of 3D movies were born, such as Friday the 13th, Howl, Jaws 3D and so on.

But even so, mainstream filmmakers still hold a repelling attitude towards this form of film. On the one hand, 3D films have a lot of artistic standards that are not high enough to lower their value. On the other hand, the limitations of 3D technology are still very large. It can't meet their high-quality requirements for movies.

Therefore, after the novelty dissipated, 3D movies were left out of the audience again, so that people could only watch such movies in some amusement places for a long time.

As a foresighted person, Xu Cun naturally knows that 3D movies are an inevitable trend of movies, and it may be able to save Xiangjiang movies that have been in decline.

In addition, as a filmmaker, as a filmmaker for two lifetimes, Xu Cun is also obliged to promote the development of the film industry.

This has nothing to do with interests, it is purely a personal hobby, just like Cameron, Spielberg, Jeffrey and other Hollywood giants in the previous life, they are all fans of digital 3D movies after they become famous. Spielberg and Cameron have become the pioneers of their own actions - in the last life, Spielberg produced Jaws 3D as early as the early 1980s, and Cameron produced Jaws 3D as early as 1996. Terminator 2 made a mini 3D sequel.

Compared with Cameron, Spielberg, Jeffrey and others, Xu Cun has three major advantages in promoting the development of 3D movies:

The first big advantage, Xu Cun, who has been bombarded by 3D blockbusters for many years in his previous life, knows 3D technology too well, which is far from being comparable to Cameron and others who are still groping!

The second advantage is that Xu Cun knows that Jurassic Park is a good movie that is loved and even touted by audiences all over the world. It is absolutely beneficial to use it to promote 3D movies!

The third advantage is that Xu Cun is not short of money and has a lot of power-now, Xu Cun has theaters in most of the world's major movie market countries, and all these movie theaters and theaters can enter with one order. In the 3D era, this is something that even Cameron and other Hollywood giants at their peak cannot do together!

Therefore, Xu Cun dared to say: Promote the development of 3D movies, who else is better than me!

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