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The blond young man who is also a director, producer and screenwriter glanced at the smiling Josie, and there seemed to be a hint of helplessness in his usually calm and reserved eyes.

"During the filming, I sincerely advise you not to laugh like that." Ernest paused, and said with his obvious PR accent: "—Dr. Susan Kevin."

The heroine of "I, Robot" Susan Kevin is a cold personality with a high IQ genius. In contrast, the hero Dale Spooner dares to challenge authority and is a brave enough and stubborn police detective.

"I will try my best to consider your suggestion, sir." Josie adjusted her tone, and instantly put on an indifferent face. If there was a mirror here, Ernest would find that her expression was surprisingly similar to his own.

"Very good." Ernest commented, "This is the state."

Then, he folded his fingers in front of his eyes, forming a solid pyramid shape, appearing to be thinking hard.

"In fact, I want a unique robot with human emotions, and Dr. Susan Kevin who studies robots and is more like a robot." Ernest said seriously, "I don't want "Metropolis" or The appearance of the robot in "Artificial Intelligence" should be an absolute industrial aesthetic creation, with a cool-colored metal shell, clear mechanical bones, no overly anthropomorphic facial features and soft skin, it is a 'machine' rather than a 'bionic' people'."

Richard L. Johnson, the art designer of the crew, who worked on the project of "Artificial Intelligence", asked at this time: "Is the face also made of all-metal mechanical structure? Are you going to use live action or motion capture?"

"motion capture."

Hollywood's technology is changing with each passing day, and the problems that once plagued "Star Wars" have long been overcome. There is no need to find special actors to get into the set to perform robots. The amazing shipwreck effect of "Titanic" is the best example.

The era of special effects blockbusters has come a long time ago.

With that said, Ernest distributed the printed manuscripts, "I have seen everyone's conceptual design drawings, and I have also talked with the person in charge of Weta Digital. This plan is what we think is reasonable and in line with expectations. What do you think?"

Josie took the blueprint and looked at it.

I saw that the surface of the human-sized robot was covered with a layer of off-white protective modules, and the bottom was a network of black lines, just like human muscle bundles and blood vessel networks.

And the face design is divided into several different schemes, some are covered by LCD screens, there are skull-style ones with cameras installed at the position of the eyes, and even the anthropomorphic one that Ernest mentioned that he doesn’t like very much. species are also impressively listed.

Apparently, even the director himself was not sure what he wanted.

Everyone began to discuss heatedly.

In general, the body design of this robot has been unanimously approved, but there have been some differences in the facial expression, mainly about how to achieve the humanization of the robot while maintaining the same style.

"How can there be a humanized expression without facial features?"

"The LCD screen is not good, it's too dull and too digital."

"What about this kind? We can change it into different-colored pupils, and express Sonny's certain emotions through pupil color changes."

"Looks a bit... like a traffic light?"

"Come on, I'm serious."

"No, not too much color, I don't want the color to spoil the cold texture of the robot that has nothing to do with flesh and blood."

"So, what shall we do?"

"Often, post-production voice actors and body language can do it."

"Perhaps, a very standard international greeting gesture?"

"Sounds awful, but also kind of bloody vivid, oh man, you're insane!"

Everyone chatted for a long time, but they couldn't really come to a result. In the end, Ernest, who thought he was too perfect and difficult to make a decision, handed over the decision to Josie.

Josie looked up and asked, "Aren't you worried that I'll choose randomly?"

Originally, this kind of thing should be checked by the director, because the director is the soul of the crew, and his aesthetics represent the style of the final film. The film itself is an artistic expression of the director.

"I've never doubted your professionalism." Ernest said without thinking, "What's more, your aesthetics are very advanced and advanced. I think this is very helpful for the film."

The perfect blond and blue-eyed boy tilted his head slightly while talking, and scanned the audience with absolutely repressive eyes. Those hair strands that seemed to have a soft light hung over his pair of azure blue eyes, showing his The hair and eye color are beautiful.

As if sensing Josie's gaze, Ernest subconsciously frowned slightly, raised his eyes and gave her a puzzled look.

Josie shook her head nonchalantly.

Then, she pointed to one of the drawings.

This robot has a human-like but not human-like facial structure. The face is made of a layer of off-white material, with a cool-toned luster between porcelain and shiny metal, and its facial features have an extremely distinctive Nordic style. , a square and long chin with a sharp jaw line, deep sunken eye sockets below the towering browbones, and a pair of long and narrow eye sockets equipped with infrared cameras.

The point is, its skull is extraordinarily beautifully designed, a masterpiece that Ernest would definitely be happy with.

The metal fixture on the upper end extends from the forehead to the sides, covering the sides of the cheeks, the bottom of the jaw and the jawline, just like another high-tech Iron Man mask that doesn't fully cover.

Josie said: "I think this is already very good, but it looks expensive and cannot be mass-produced."

Ernest felt the same way.

This was one of the plans he had taken a fancy to at first glance, but considering that Sonny in the script was a new generation of robots that could be mass-produced, this plan was temporarily shelved.

"Maybe—" Ernest thought about it, and said, "We can make some subtractions on this plan. It doesn't need to be too precise, and that will increase the difficulty of Weta Digital's design modeling. Richard, you What do you think?"

"Try it." Richard L. Johnson agreed.

"This one is also good." Josie chose another one, which has a more mechanical feel. "Although it looks a bit like a gas mask, it is more in line with the concept of 'machine'. The facial features are only two circles that glow at the eyes. The red color represents normal work, and the red represents the attack status, which is clear at a glance."

Don't expect too much from the aesthetic taste of ordinary moviegoers.

For the vast majority of people, the entertainment of a movie determines its popularity. Just like the golden rule that Disney loves to use, the movie must be easy to understand, add some tears and family fun, so that it will really sell well .

Artistic expression is important, but popcorn movies have always occupied the mainstream market. This is probably the key to why David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" failed in theaters, even after it entered the home entertainment market. It is regarded as an unsurpassed classic by movie fans.

Back to the topic.

After Josie picked out two plans, the final choice became much easier. Ernest didn't think about it for too long, and chose the first plan.

Then, he simply found out the design drawings of the heroine Susan Kevin, and asked Josie to choose the type she liked more. There should be at least two sets of work clothes, two sets of everyday casual clothes and one set of home clothes.

In fact, if Josie, as the heroine, likes a certain look very much, the main creative team will try to meet her requirements as much as possible on the basis of conforming to the personality.

Who made Josie the biggest star in the crew?

In this case, as long as she is a little more approachable, it will be easy to win everyone's favor. After all, no one wants to work with a difficult person.

What's more, she is not difficult to deal with at all.

——The premise is that everyone shows enough professionalism and seriousness.

Soon this problem was also solved. Josie was about 20 years ahead of everyone present in terms of fashion and futuristic sense.

Afterwards, these people chatted about the plot in the script. Ernest occasionally participated in the topic. During the period, he wrote a few lines belonging to the heroine, and even wrote them quite wonderfully, without the slightest perfunctory feel.

The atmosphere is nice.

Therefore, Josie tried to read one of the paragraphs on the spot. After reading it, she felt very good, so she turned to Ernest who was sitting beside her, "Ernie, how did you come up with this paragraph?"

She points to a handwritten line on it.

"Assuming it was me, that would be my reaction." Ernest was too frank, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with taking the heroine's perspective.

Josie thought about it carefully, and suddenly felt that the "human being more like a robot" in the script was actually somewhat strangely similar to Ernest himself from a certain point of view.

This discovery is quite interesting.

She couldn't help but glanced at Ernest a few more times. The latter was obviously not used to this kind of gaze, with two long and sharp eyebrows twisted, and he couldn't even start the lines he was writing.

Fortunately, it didn't take too long. After Universal's executive producer arrived, the topic came to the casting work. Josie also looked away and looked down at the actor's resume.

This is one of the few A-level production projects in Hollywood that is willing to use third-tier actors or even newcomers, so the competition is extremely fierce, but on the contrary, the selection criteria for the leading actor is surprisingly simple.

That is, 22-35 years old, tall and handsome, with a sense of justice, preferably with experience in action movies.

Although the shooting time is tentatively scheduled for next year, the actor audition has already gone through two rounds, and most candidates who do not meet the requirements have been screened out.

And the actor's resume that Josie got now also included simple ratings from the directors and others in the previous two rounds of casting.

Aaron Eckhart, the male lead of "Never Compromise", 34 years old. (Face full of sense of justice+; firm jaw+; outstanding acting skills+.)

Daniel Craig, actor of "Tomb Raider", 34 years old. (Action film shooting experience+; outstanding acting skills+; charming temperament+; British-; not six feet-.)

Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor of "Death Illusion", 22 years old. (The acting is good+; the eyes are beautiful+; looks too young-.)

Josh Hartnett, the second male lead in "Pearl Harbor" and the first male lead in "Black Hawk Down", 23 years old. (Action film shooting experience +; outstanding appearance +; firm jaw +; popular niche +.)

Joshua Jackson, starring in "Age of Love", 22 years old. (Huge popularity among teenagers +; good old temperament -. ps he looks too much like PTA, 0 points. byE.Dowson)

James Marsden, Cyclops, X-Men, 28. (Action movie shooting experience +; not enough six feet -.)

Paul Walker, the actor of "Beauty Agent" and "Fast and Furious", 28 years old. (Action film shooting experience +; outstanding appearance +; firm jaw +; popular niche +; played a policeman +; worked with Qiao Xi -.)