[US Entertainment] Best Director

On the eve of filming, screenwriter Christopher sent Pryreth the final version of the script.

At Pryreth's request, Christopher deleted Green Lantern's entire heroic origin, making the entire movie a lot faster.

In order to shape the entire character of Green Lantern and make up for the weakness caused by deleting the origin of the hero, Christopher deliberately added a lot of details about Green Lantern, and deliberately magnified his chatty attributes, making him cute.

Green Lantern isn't perfect, but he's definitely lovable. He talks a lot and even babbles with the villainous boss during the showdown, but once he fights he's quick and precise.

Cute and talkative, he never thinks he can take on the role of Green Lantern, and even wants to run away with the goddess every time there is a fight, but at every critical moment, he will stand up to save this "fucking world" ", This is Prairis's positioning of Green Lantern, and it is also the overall conception and shaping of "Green Lantern" by screenwriter Christopher.

Prairius nodded after reading the entire revised script.Although it was a bit different from what she had imagined, but if the first version of the script had scored 6 points, then this one is already excellent, at least it will get a good response when it is put on the market.

With a good script, coupled with her later changes and the modeling under the camera, she is confident that she will score more than 9 points for this book.

After sending the script to the actors, Prairius went to Lawrence's house again.

Lawrence has completed the overall 3D modeling of "Green Lantern". The overall design of cyberpunk style gives people a surreal futuristic feeling, but the final color has not yet been determined. Lawrence is between silver and blue. indecision.

Pryreth looked at Lawrence's modeling in silver, blue, and purple.

In fact, she does not recommend using too obvious colors as the overall light source of urban architecture.

"Green Lantern" originated from the big event "Darkest Night" in the DC 09 comics. In addition to the purple and white lights that symbolize death and life, the Nine Lanterns also have the Green Lantern Corps, which symbolizes bravery, and the Red Lantern Corps, which symbolizes anger. The Orange Lantern Corps symbolizes greed, the Yellow Lantern Corps symbolizes fear, the Blue Lantern Corps symbolizes hope, the Blue Lantern Corps symbolizes friendship, and the Purple Lantern Corps symbolizes love and hate (Wonder Woman has the power of purple lanterns).

DC first took out the green light from the Legion of the Nine Lanterns to shoot first, and used a high investment of 2.6 million yuan. It must also be thinking about making the "Legion of the Nine Lanterns" into a series, just like the Marvel Universe to make a coherent world model , So from this point of view, the best way to start "Green Lantern" as the first part of the Nine Lanterns series is to use the green screen to give people a preconceived sense of the series.

But it is undeniable that the feeling of green is too strange, and the whole world turning green may make people's eyes tired.

After thinking for a moment, Prairis looked at Lawrence.

"Why don't we use black and white as the main tone."

"Black and white?" Lawrence was a little surprised.

Black and white are too common, and the overall structure of these two colors is not as strong as other colors, and even any sci-fi movie will deliberately avoid these two colors in the color selection.

And Prairis actually named these two?

"Are you sure?" Lawrence frowned and asked again.

"Sure," Prairie said.

Although Lawrence had doubts, he still replaced the 3D modeling of the entire city with white and black as requested by Prairis.

The moment the adjustment was over, Lawrence frowned.

Mediocre, so mediocre.

The black background and the white light may be eye-catching at first glance, but this picture does not stand up to scrutiny.

The interweaving of black and white makes the whole picture lonely and surly, as if the idea of ​​"Green Lantern" is missing.

But Prairis seemed to be very satisfied with this picture, and she even started exporting and wanted to send a copy to the art designer.

"Are you sure you want this?" Lawrence asked.

"Sure." Prairie replied.

Lawrence looked at Prairie with concern.

Prairis exported the data to the USB flash drive.

Glanced at Lawrence.

"Hey, Lawrence, don't worry, you'll see what I mean when the time comes."

**

On the day of the start, Lawrence came to the shooting scene.

After a month of furnishing and redecorating, this abandoned factory in suburban New York has taken on a new look.

Look around the post-modern high-rise buildings, and this slightly dirty cyberpunk factory is located among them.

Lawrence looked at this "surreal" building with satisfaction, and a sense of pride welled up.

Stepping over the gate, Lawrence entered the factory.

Prairie has already arrived at the venue, talking about these things with the cameraman Johnny.

This time "Green Lantern" used a large sum of money to deal with technical problems, Dolby Atmos, IMAX-3D.

The sound engineer this time is an old sound engineer who was brought out from the Dolby sound effect studio by Prairis. He has already had three movie shooting qualifications in Dolby sound effect. 3D movies, but the 3D movies he has shot are all low-level polarized 3D and liquid crystal shutter 3D that use simple and crude visual retention methods to form 3D effects. For IMAX-3D, this is Johnny’s first attempt.

Different from polarized light 3D and liquid crystal shutter 3D, IMAX-3D is really screened by dual projectors, which also means that the requirements for early-stage shooting are higher. detail.

For the best visual effects, Preris specially spent an extra 200 million to hire Richard Simmons, a director of photography and vision. He was also the photographer of the movie "The Hobbit", creating 48 frames per second. +3D (48fps) first of its kind.

"If you insist on using 48 frames per second + 3D (48fps), I can only say that the cost may double." Richard said.

"Of course I do. For the best visuals, 48 ​​frames per second has to be achieved," Prairis said.

After saying that, Prairis signed his name on the funding application form. From this moment on, the funding for visual arts increased from the original 500 million to 1900 million.

"If I didn't know that you are a literary film director, I'd probably really think you're some kind of visual madman." Watching the photographer Johnny accept the order, Richard jokingly said.

Prairie shrugged incredulously.

Like all directors, she is also an out-and-out technology enthusiast, but due to the limitations of the literary and artistic attributes of the previous films, she could not fully express her obsession with film technology until this "Green Lantern".

Since taking over the film, she has already thought about investing all possible money in the use of new technology, which is why she insisted on using Shailene Woodquay, she is better than Brad The profit is 40w dollars cheaper.

Richard began to explain to Johnny how to use each machine.

The first scene to be filmed is Green Lantern's first confrontation with the villain.

Unlike Martin Campbell, the previous Green Lantern director who only focused on literature and drama, Prairius believes that "martial arts" is the focus that Hollywood blockbusters should have. Sgaard devised a set of actions each.

Pryris glanced at Cooper who was communicating with Nelson, and turned to start the final check with the lighting engineer.

In order to highlight the "Green Lantern", Preris specially made the entire scene very dark, relying on the lighting engineer to light it.

"At that time, Cooper's face should be filled with light, preferably yellowish."

The gaffer nodded.

Lawrence walked to Prairis' side and asked.

"Have you ordered everything?"

"Almost." Prairis replied.

"Looking forward to your finished product," Lawrence said.

Soon, the filming of the first act began.

There are three axes in this shooting, and 16 cameras are shooting simultaneously.

Prairis sits in front of the monitor watching the footage being shot.

Although the photographer Johnny doesn't know much about IMAX-3D, he still understands which shots to shoot and which scenes to take. With the addition of Richard, the director of photography, he finally shot very well, which can almost cover everything.

At the end of the pass, Prairis did not call cut, but continued to look at the shot just now.

After 5 minutes, she stood up and walked to the lighting engineer.

Pick up a piece of light green filter paper, put it on the light, and then turn on the switch.

The yellow light through the light green filter paper turns into a very dark khaki.

Prairis returned the light to the lighting engineer, walked around Cooper with the reflector, walked around a few times before finding a satisfactory seat, returned the reflector to the lighting assistant, and signaled him to stand here .

"What is she doing? Does this make any difference in the final presentation?" the lighting engineer asked Lawrence who was watching in a low voice.

"I don't know either." Lawrence looked at the effect of Prairie's addition of filter paper.

In fact, the final effect formed after adding filter paper is not significantly different from the previous one without filter paper.

Lawrence looked at Cooper repeatedly, hoping to see from the deep yellow light on Cooper's face why Pryreth was doing this, but he couldn't find anything special until Pryreth started re-shooting.

Could it be that she really just felt that the light just now was not very good-looking?

Lawrence frowned puzzled.

Pryreth has always maintained a harsh attitude towards the film. Even though Cooper and Peter performed well, she still took it seven times.

The first act scene finally ended after five hours of work.

The Hollywood acting union has clear regulations on the working hours of the crew. The working hours of the cast and crew should not exceed 8 hours a day. Union lawsuits.

Today's shooting time is only three hours, and the shooting plan of her original three scenes is more than half.

During the break, Prairis went over the storyboard and the shooting plan by himself while everyone was resting.

At the end of the lunch break, the crew returned to the shooting location sparsely.

Lawrence walked over to Prairie's side.

"How does it feel?"

Prairis put down the pen in his hand and rubbed his sore shoulder.

"It's not bad. It's just a bit fast-paced, which is completely different from making literary films."

She almost always shoots one scene a day, sometimes even three scenes a day, and has never had three scenes a day like this one.

Lawrence smiled knowingly.

Prairis imported the material shot in the morning to the computer.

Lawrence looked on.

"Why did you deliberately add a piece of light green filter paper to the light in the morning? Does it have something to do with your choice of white and black for 3D modeling?"

"You'll find out at a later date," Prairis said. "I'll give the whole staff a look at the imaging results tonight."

Lawrence raised an eyebrow.

"I am looking forward."

**

Due to the fact that this film needs to use a variety of the latest technologies, Prairis brought three special effects artists with the team. Of course, these three are specially provided by DC. Lyris pays them extra wages.

The special effects of a scene often require a group of special effects artists to work for several days, but since this is not related to the final imaging effect, Prairis only needs to make a rough effect.

Six hours later, Prairis encrypted the less than 1-minute video and sent it to the work mailboxes of each employee.

Lawrence opened the video.

Almost from the very first shot, Lawrence raises an eyebrow.

He couldn't describe exactly what kind of aesthetic expression this was.

The deep yellow light shows a profound charm in the overall cyberpunk framework of black and white.

very unique.

In at least 60 years of his practice, he has never seen anyone express this unique beauty in this way.

Combination of various elements.

The retro of dark yellow light, the punk of black and white sharp light, and the decadent sense of ruins of surrealism...

Collision of color blocks, visual stimulation, and a momentary ear-catching feeling......

Lawrence stared at the screen without saying a word.

The show will be over soon.

Turn off the computer and walk to the floor-to-ceiling glass window.

He looks out the window.

Starry, as usual.

Unconsciously, he narrowed his eyes and whispered softly.

"Hey, Ridley, those old things you left behind . . . seem to have been inherited."

The evening wind blew, carrying the white-haired old man's whispers to the galaxy in the sky.

What no one knows is that an era called "cyberpunk" starts from here and is quietly coming.