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Chapter 926 Shocking

Ridley Scott noticed that "The Future Apocalypse" has been performed for more than twenty minutes, and the soundtrack has appeared several times, but it is all classical music, which is unprecedented in Zhang Ran's movies.

Nowadays, most science fiction movie soundtracks use electronic music, which will make the film's technological and futuristic sense stronger. It is not impossible for science fiction movies to adopt classical music on a large scale. For example, "2001 Space Odyssey" uses a large amount of classical music, the most famous of which is the use of "Zaratustra" and "Blue Danube". The use of "Blue Danube" is similar to Zhang Ran's use of "Vltava".

Ridley Scott felt that if Zhang Ran used "Blue Danube", the effect would be better. The blue earth under the background of the blue Danube would look more spectacular and desirable. However, he thought about it and thought that he could even think of "Blue Danube". Zhang Ran could not have imagined that Zhang Ran insisted on using "Vltava", and there must be some reason.

After the cast and crew list, the beautiful melody of "Vltava" gradually faded away, and the camera slowly pushed towards the earth.

After passing through the clouds, what appears in the camera are drones strangling together, as well as humans and AI troops fighting wildly in the fields. The artillery fire and gunpowder have shrouded the entire battlefield in flames and fog.

The camera stops in the air and becomes a direct shot. This is also called the God shot, just like God standing in the air looking down at the world. War films often use God shots. After the battle, many directors often use God shots to finish off, shooting the tragic situation of corpses everywhere, thereby reflecting the cruelty of war.

After seeing Zhang Ran's God shot, Ridley Scott gently patted his thigh. The God shot in "The Future Apocalypse" is different from the God shot in ordinary movies. It is in a relatively high position. The people, tanks, and various weapons in the picture look very small. From a high altitude, it looks like a group of ants fighting on the ground. The whole shot gives people a feeling of being extremely shocking, but at the same time it makes people feel compassionate. For humans and robots, they are both struggling to survive and fighting for survival. But from the perspective of God, it seems humble and ridiculous as we usually watch ants fight!

The camera switches, the panoramic shot of the ground, the entire battlefield is filled with smoke and the sound of gunfire is overwhelming. The camera first aims at Ai's position, and then moves horizontally from right to left. In the camera, the robot soldiers launched an orderly attack under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles. During their attack, tanks and armored vehicles are constantly blown up, black smoke is rolling, and flames are soaring into the sky; soldiers are constantly torn into pieces by bombs, parts are flying around, and debris are sprinkled.

At the same time, the drones in the air threw rockets and blew flames like rain, smashing heavily into the crowd, hitting tanks and armored vehicles, making a shocking explosion, and huge smoke columns rose up on the battlefield. The entire battlefield was like giant meat grinders emitting a pungent bloody smell.

It is difficult to use horizontally-shifting lenses in such large scenes. There are many actors and the scheduling is complex, but Zhang Ran's shot is extremely well handled, and the composition of the movie, the scheduling of the actors, the color of light and shadow, etc. are all impeccable. Cameron is extremely impressed by this, "This shot is so beautiful, but unfortunately it is useless for 3D. If it is 3D, the audio-visual effect will definitely be better!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Cameron was stunned. The camera slowly moved back to the right. He immediately exclaimed: "The long shot with a tug-of-saw-moving horizontal line!"

Many other directors present exclaimed: "Bondalchuk's tug-of-saw-like long shot!", "Wow, it's really a tug-of-saw-like long shot!", "It's awesome! The tug-of-saw-like long shots are all coming out!"

Ridley Scott also widened his eyes. Unexpectedly, Zhang Ran would use a tug-of-saw-moving long shot. As a director of the epic film "Gladiator" and "Dynasty of Heaven", he knew the difficulty of this shot better than anyone else. He was extremely impressed by Zhang Ran's shot. In this shot, Zhang Ran exposed the backlight of the overly straight-striking shot through the cold color tone, presenting a crazy bloody battlefield. What's more powerful is Zhang Ran's dispatch of the camera, thousands of robots, tanks, and drones, twisted together in the sky and underground, but the picture is not messy at all. Where the soldiers fell down and where the tanks were blown up, they always maintained the integrity of the composition.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Ridley Scott had to admit it in his heart that in terms of dispatching, he was not as good as Zhang Ran!

In the corner of the screening room, Russian director Fedor Bondarchuk was stunned and looked at the big screen in a daze and couldn't speak. His father was Sergey Bondarchuk, the director of "War and Peace". This time he brought the movie "Stalingrad" to the film festival.

Little Bondalchuk didn't expect to see a long tug-of-hand-moving shot on the big screen. It felt like he was dreaming and murmured: "I thought I would never see it on the screen again in my life, but I didn't expect to see it today!"

The audience did not know what the tug-of-hand-moving long shot was, but many people remembered the scrolls at the opening ceremony of the Peking Olympics, and felt like watching Chinese paintings like "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Many Chinese paintings like "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" are particularly long and cannot be seen at a glance. They have to move left and right to see the whole picture; and this lens gives people this feeling.

Although the audience had different ideas, one feeling was the same, that was shocking, and was shocked by the magnificent scenes presented by the movie. I thought it was worthy of being a blockbuster with an investment of 350 million yuan. This scene was so spectacular!

The camera cuts to the AI ​​position. After the camera cuts several times in a row, the AI ​​commander gave the order, under the cover of the AI ​​tank group, the robot soldiers attacked the First Cavalry Division again.

While the robot soldiers attacked, the camera pulled into the air four or five meters high and slowly pushed towards the position of the First Cavalry Division. As the camera pushed forward, the battle became more and more intense, with bombs constantly exploding, tanks constantly being blown up, the ground shaking, and dust flying all over the sky.

With a loud "boom", a bomb exploded not far from the camera, and the gray and black dust soared into the sky and rushed straight into the air.

The audience in front of the screen clearly saw that the blown-off soil fell from the camera like raindrops. The dirt blocks were very close to the camera lens. Through the imax large screen, the shape of the dirt blocks could even be clearly seen. The explosion distance was so close that many viewers' hearts were hanging.

With a loud "boom" sound, a tank was blown up, and black clouds soared into the air, mixed with scarlet flames, like an evil dragon rushing out of the water, pounced straight towards the camera.

The audience felt the fire from the explosion of the tank hit the face, and many people couldn't help but lean back. At the same time, many female audiences made unstoppable screams.

After a while, the entire shot was swallowed by black smoke.

The screen was pitch black and there was nothing to see, as if I had fallen into hell. The audience's screams made the atmosphere even more tense, and even the air solidified.

Almost two seconds later, the camera finally passed through the rolling black smoke and the screen lit up again.

Almost everyone at the scene breathed a sigh of relief and began to wipe the cold sweat from their foreheads, feeling like they were walking in hell.

The camera continued to push forward, the battle became more and more intense, the tanks were constantly blown up, the dust was everywhere, and the black smoke rolled; the robot soldiers were constantly torn apart by bullets and heavy guns, and fragments flew around. However, this could not stop the robot soldiers from walking. With Rossini's "William's Overture", he stepped on firm steps and rushed to the position of the First Cavalry Division without fear!

The strong rhythm of "William Trell Overture" is accompanied by the huge explosions one after another, making the entire theater look like an earthquake, and the ground and the seats are shaking; the strong sound effects even make the audience feel that their internal organs are shaking.

The strong visual impact, the exciting music, and the unparalleled sense of presence have made the audience lose their language skills. Everyone has a sentence in their hearts. It’s so shocking, so shocking!

As the camera crossed the Ai troops, passed through the position of the 1st Cavalry Division, and pushed towards the command center, the audience saw Adams standing outside the command car, and he calmly watched the movements on the battlefield.

The camera slowly pushed towards Adams, pushing from the large panoramic view to the medium scene, pushing into the close-up scene, and finally pushing into the large close-up. Through the epaulette, the audience found that Adams had been promoted from lieutenant to major.

Adams' appearance did not change much from before, but his temperament was completely different. Adams was a passionate young man before, with a bright smile on his face, as warm as the sun; but now he has a calm face and a cold expression, like a sharp sword, which may be unsheathed at any time.

Lana Wachowski said to his younger brother next to him in a daze: "Zhang Ran has achieved a perfect fusion of classical war films and modern war films. No director has ever been able to do this. Ridley Scott is not good, Spielberg is not good, even Kurosawa Akira may not be able to do it even if he is alive!"

Andy Wachowski nodded and said, "Only only can I imagine like a genius and a madman-like persistence! Of course, you must also have money. You must spend money on making such a movie. Don't even think about it if you don't have money!"

Cameron always thought it would be a pity that "The Apocalypse" would not be filmed in 3D, but after watching this shot, he realized that it was right not to use 3D. The 3D photography system was too bulky to complete such an ultra-low-altitude cruise: "Just with this shot, "The Apocalypse" is enough to leave a famous film history!"

Ridley Scott smiled bitterly and shook his head, thinking that China has the best epic director, so why do others need to film "Qin Shihuang"? I'll do it for the sequel to "Alien Prequel"!

The person who was most excited among the directors present was undoubtedly the little Bondalchuk. He could not control his emotions at all and was already in tears.

Back then, when Bondalcuk filmed "War and Peace", he especially hoped to use ultra-low-altitude cruise cameras to show the cruelty of the battlefield, but due to technical limitations, he failed to realize his idea. In the third part of "War and Peace", there was an ultra-low-altitude cruise camera that simulated the trajectory of the shells, pushed the shot from the French position to the Russian position, and finally the shells fell to the Russian position, but the entire shot was not high enough, and it was only a few dozen meters away, so it failed to achieve the ideal effect.

Bondarchuk was very regretful about this and described his true ideas to his son Bondarchuk. The entire camera first explained the French commander, and then pulled the camera into the air and pushed it towards the Russian position. The entire camera spanned the entire battlefield and pushed it to the Russian commander, ending with a close-up of the Russian commander.

When filming "Stalingrad", Little Bondalchuk thought about realizing his father's idea in the movie, but he didn't allow it, so he finally gave up. Unexpectedly, he really saw a long shot of ultra-low-altitude cruise on the screen today.

Little Bondalchuk wiped his tears and said softly: "Father, have you seen it? Someone really took the long shot of your dream ultra-low-altitude cruise!"

The audience was very quiet and immersed in extreme shock. Almost everyone was shocked. At this moment, they were extremely shocked! In addition to being shocked, they were shocked!
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