msmithbooks Chapter 223 officially begins filming.
Chapter 223 officially begins filming.
Inception has been a complete box office smash in theaters worldwide!
For the past two weeks, the online debate about whether Cobb ultimately returned to reality has never stopped!
Netizens argued heatedly, neither able to convince the other.
The names Nolan and Gu Heng have been both praised and criticized by movie fans.
Riding this wave of popularity, Yang Lin, played by Little Fox, gained a huge following worldwide.
What made Gu Heng both laugh and cry was that the book "Zhuangzi" had actually become one of the best-selling books in Europe and America!
Countless foreigners were brainwashed by the pretentious "Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly" line from Yang Mi's movie and insisted on buying the original book to explore Eastern mysticism.
When the book arrived, everyone was dumbfounded.
can not understand!
What kind of language is Classical Chinese?
It wasn't until a large group of Chinese students went online and posted easy-to-understand plain language translations that these foreigners realized what was going on.
Shit!
More than two thousand years ago, the Chinese were already discussing reality and dreams?
Foreigners found Chinese culture absolutely wonderful, and then went to the cinema to watch it a second or third time.
This wave of reverse cultural export even garnered praise from official Chinese media outlets.
Amidst this online frenzy, "Edge of Tomorrow" officially began filming.
The launch press conference was held at the largest international hotel in Beijing, and its scale was absolutely unique in the Chinese entertainment industry in recent years.
Su Qing, the domineering and powerful head steward, has now completely let loose.
She invited every well-known domestic media outlet to the event.
If it weren't for the limited space, Gu Heng seriously suspected that she could have brought in paparazzi from all sorts of gossip tabloids to make up the numbers.
In her words, "How can such a big film not be made grand?"
Furthermore, Warner also arranged for many foreign media outlets to come.
This is clearly an attempt to capitalize on the lingering popularity of "Inception" to pave the way for "Edge of Tomorrow" in overseas markets.
At the press conference, Gu Heng, as the film's director, was naturally the focus of attention for the media.
"Director Gu! Director Gu, look this way!"
A long-haired guy wearing a Youku employee badge struggled to hand over a recording pen. "Director Gu, what are your expectations for your new film? For example, in terms of box office performance..."
Gu Heng replied with a smile, "As for box office revenue, of course I hope it's as high as possible!"
"After all, the bosses from China Film Group and Warner Bros. are all sitting in the audience. I can't let them lose money, can I?"
Everyone in the audience burst into laughter.
Han Sanping and the Warner representative sat in the front row, their faces beaming.
"Director Gu, do you think this film can surpass the box office performance of 'Source Code'?"
"Director Gu..."
"Director Gu..."
The reporters bombarded him with questions, one after another, without stopping.
At the end of the opening ceremony, Gu Heng, witnessed by countless cameras, ripped off the red cloth covering the cameras.
A loud announcement: "Edge of Tomorrow, filming has officially begun!"
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Before filming began, Gu Heng could still use the excuse of scriptwriting to slack off and tease the little fox.
Once filming began, he completely transformed into a ruthless tyrant on set, never having a moment to rest.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the movie is a global blockbuster with Hollywood roots.
However, aside from the final scenes in Xiaoming's "The Original Code" timeline and the need to film on location in France, there were other scenes.
The rest of the scenes were all moved by Gu Heng to a film studio in China.
Even the ruins of the Normandy landings were built on a piece of coastal wasteland in China, on a one-to-one scale!
The first scene that Gu Heng arranged was a dialogue scene.
The male lead's cowardly start was used to set the release date.
After briefly explaining the requirements, Gu Heng picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Action!"
The male lead, played by Liu Ye, was originally a major who worked in public relations and publicity, and he made a name for himself in the rear by using his silver tongue.
Suddenly, the general informed him that he was to be sent to the front lines to fight alien monsters to the death.
Liu Ye perfectly captured the feeling of "being afraid of death but pretending to be calm".
After failing to negotiate, he lost his mind and resorted to threatening the general.
The general then ordered Liu Ye to be arrested, and Liu Ye could only flee in panic.
The next second, the crisp sound of a stun gun rang out.
Liu Ye collapsed to the ground, convulsing, her eyes rolling back as she fainted.
"Click! Absolutely perfect!" Gu Heng looked at the playback on the monitor and nodded in satisfaction.
This dialogue scene officially establishes the male protagonist's "starter village".
That is, the Heathrow frontline barracks in London where he would be trapped countless times.
From here, the protagonist reaches a "save point" in his life.
The subsequent filming schedule almost turned into Liu Ye's personal ordeal.
Gu Heng doesn't need to film anything else; he just needs to film how he dies in different ways.
Gu Heng was completely familiar with this set of operations.
He was run over by a military vehicle, bitten to death by an alien monster, and shot in the head by Yang Mi...
After he died, the scene shifts, and Liu Ye suddenly wakes up from his backpack in the military camp.
Panting heavily, they then begin the next cycle of death.
Every time he woke up, he was yelled at by an officer as "useless".
The filming of this movie left Liu Ye physically and mentally exhausted. Every day, he was crawling and rolling around in mud and mechs, and he was almost in tears.
What he didn't know was that behind the director's monitor, there had been an onlooker carrying a small stool and wearing sunglasses for the past few days.
Holding a water glass, Huang Xiaoming looked at Liu Ye's miserable state on set and stood up excitedly, shouting.
"Yes, yes, yes! That's the expression! Despair mixed with confusion, and that confusion tinged with an urge to curse!"
Huang Xiaoming stared intently at the monitor, unable to suppress the smirk on his face.
"That's it! Director Gu, I think Liu Ye's performance in this scene was so powerful, I'm truly ashamed of myself!"
Gu Heng glanced at the guy sideways and sighed speechlessly.
Brother Xiaoming has definitely come here to find some psychological balance!
When filming "The Original Code," Huang Xiaoming was almost driven to a mental breakdown by Gu Heng.
Seeing others in the same predicament as himself, Xiaoming felt refreshed and invigorated; even the plain water in his hand tasted sweeter.