Chatty Hollywood

? Of course, although she is not optimistic about the prospects of "The Polar Express", Charlotte still asked IMAX and Spectre Studios to support Robert Zemeckis's work as much as possible.

After all, you are the one who received the money!

What's more, for technology companies, the success or failure of such outsourcing projects is actually not important. Being able to use other people's money to improve the technical level of your company is the most important thing.

In fact, George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic previously dominated the field of film special effects, which is also related to their participation in a large number of film projects and their long-term training.

As for Charlotte herself, she doesn’t plan to make such a dash—

"If you take too long a step, it's easy to pull your balls!"

Charlotte complained in her mind.

Because of his experience in original time and space, he always felt that it was somewhat too early to start shooting 3D movies in 2002.

——Even in this time and space, because of his reasons, the development and promotion speed of certain film technologies has been faster than his original time and space.

But his thoughts remained unchanged.

"Even if we don't have to wait until 2009 like "Avatar" in the original time and space, we should at least get 2005 or 2006..."

Charlotte estimated based on IMAX's current rate of technological progress.

——This is one of the biggest benefits he got after taking control of the IMAX company.

"I'll use the relatively mature IMAX technology in "Inception" first!"

Charlotte decided to set a small goal for herself first.

Anyway, even in his original time and space, when "Inception" was released in 2010, 3D technology was not used.

This was actually very anti-trend in an era when the 3D movie craze caused by "Avatar" was surging.

However, with its excellent story and imaginative visuals, "Inception" is still a hit.

However, Charlotte also knew that this situation would occur largely because it was too late -

after all,

When "Avatar" was released, it was already the end of 2009, and "Inception" was released in 2010.

——In less than a year, even a director like Charlotte, who has various cheating methods, will have a hard time producing a movie.

For those normal directors who cannot cheat, it is simply impossible.

——It usually takes a director to make a movie between 2 and 3 years.

In other words, "Inception" was probably already filming or even completed before "Avatar" was released.

The next year or so was actually spent more on post-production and publicity preparations.

——After all, large scenes such as "Paris Rewinding" are difficult to achieve perfectly without relying on digital technology for production and correction in post-production.

——At least, that’s true without Charlotte’s spell cheating.

In this case, "Inception" also lost the opportunity to be shot into a real 3D movie.

Of course, "Inception" can also be converted into a 3D movie or a "pseudo-3D movie" through post-production conversion.

——This is the post-production 3D conversion technology that Charlotte mentioned to IMAX CEO Jerrock.

In fact, in Charlotte's original time and space, most of the 3D movies released in 2010 were this kind of "pseudo-3D movies."

——Similar to the situation encountered in "Inception", the filming of most movies released in 2010, especially those large-scale commercial productions, was often completed by the end of 2009.

They will be converted into 3D movies through post-production technology, but it is just because the movie audiences at that time were hungry for 3D movies precisely because of "Avatar", so they took the opportunity to speculate on the concept, catch up with the craze, and cheat the box office.

In this regard, the most typical example is Disney's "Alice in Wonderland"——

The quality of the movie itself is actually not outstanding, but just because the post-production 3D conversion was completed in time, it became the second full 3D movie after "Avatar".

——The second place created by this "pseudo-3D" allowed "Alice in Wonderland" to easily take in more than 900 million U.S. dollars at the global box office.

In this case, how many other Hollywood producers would turn their backs on the money?

In other words, Christopher Nolan, the director of "Inception", out of his own pride and stubbornness, coupled with the swarm of "pseudo-3D movies" that appeared at that time, made the audience somewhat tired of aesthetics, so this film was not 3D. The movie achieved exaggerated success in the era of the arrival of the 3D movie trend.

This kind of success is affected by many market and era factors. Even if Charlotte cheats with spells, it will be difficult to copy.

However, from another perspective, "Inception" is another movie that is very suitable for Charlotte.

——Especially after he moved to this world and advanced to 2002 to 2003.

First of all, as mentioned before, "Inception" is not a 3D movie due to time factors, which allows Charlotte to directly copy it in this era when 3D technology is completely immature;

Secondly, because of director Christopher Nolan's insistence, the use of digital special effects in "Inception" was very restrained.

——In the promotion of Charlotte's original time and space, it was said that most of the special effects of this movie were completed using traditional special effects technology.

In 2010, a movie like this could be said to be going against the trend;

But back in 2002, what Charlotte did was a very realistic approach——

Digital special effects technology in 2002 was not as developed as it would be seven or eight years later.

Taking into account the cost and time, it is a very reasonable approach to use digital special effects to conquer some difficult-to-process pictures and leave the other parts to traditional special effects technology.

For example, the giant ring specially built to shoot fighting scenes in a state of weightlessness amazed everyone in the crew;

In addition, it is planned to be used at the beginning of the movie. The shocking scene of the flood pouring into the Japanese palace was also shot using traditional special effects technology——

During the actual shooting, the special effects team built the interior of a huge palace in Warner's studio and stored a total of 5,000 gallons of water in 26 water tanks carefully placed at the windows of the scene.

When needed, these water tanks are opened in sequence driven by the mechanism, and the scene of "water flooding the golden mountain" is produced.

——Compared to the previous weightless fight, in this "water-filled golden mountain" scene, Charlotte didn't even use spells to cheat at all.

The same situation applies to the exaggerated train driving onto the streets of Los Angeles in Fisher’s first dream in the story——

If in a few years, digital special effects technology becomes more advanced, Charlotte can indeed use digital special effects to create trains.

However, the world today is still 2002, and technology is not that advanced. Using digital special effects means that the performance of other living actors in this scene will be greatly limited.

So Charlotte simply adopted the method used by the original "Inception" crew——

He really made a train come out!

This big thing is powered by a truck and several trailers on the inside, and has a fiberglass train shell on the outside to look like the real thing.

During the filming, everyone was really performing next to this fake train.

Of course, the digital effects team doesn’t have no work to do here—

In post-production, they still had to use computers to replace the car tires with train wheels.

However, compared to creating a train, this is much simpler...