Many films that have been officially started have to be postponed because they can't be released or can't guarantee box office results. However, many film projects originally included in the shooting plan have to be suspended in the face of the cruel industry reality, and those film projects that have finally found a lineup from a bunch of Hollywood A-list stars have to face the re-weighing of film companies. Even Disney, as the "new brother" of Hollywood, had to announce large-scale layoffs.
However, under the difficult situation, the streaming media film and television works represented by Netflix have sprung up suddenly, gradually surpassing the traditional cinema films and becoming an important force that cannot be ignored in the film industry.
Many people can't help thinking, since you can watch movies at home, what is the significance of the existence of cinemas? If you just spend two or three hours in a closed and dark environment for interpersonal communication, is the cinema really worth people's consumption?
Faced with these doubts, Christopher Nolan, a great director who regards film production as artistic creation, expressed his support for the traditional film industry, especially cinemas.
Although many film companies urged some films they had planned to show in cinemas to meet the audience online, Nolan resisted pressure from all sides and insisted that his latest masterpiece Tenet meet the audience in cinemas.
And continue to communicate with Warner Bros., and strive to ensure that their works are released in theaters before landing on the streaming media platform. Perhaps Nolan's persistence seems somewhat divorced from reality in the face of the cruel reality of the global epidemic, but his artistic pursuit and personality charm can also be seen from this.
With a number of epoch-making Hollywood commercial films, such as The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, using computer art on a large scale and finally achieving unprecedented commercial success, computer special effects have gradually become more and more important in the production process of commercial films, even occupying a dominant position.
In view of this, Christopher Nolan tries to avoid the existence of special effects in his works. As long as it is a scene that can be filmed, he will not consider using special effects, even if the latter can save tens of millions of dollars for the production of the whole movie. Of course, it is precisely because of Nolan's old school and stubbornness that tens of millions of global audiences and fans can see those jaw-dropping real-life shooting scenes in Nolan's many works.
In Batman: The Mystery of the blur, Nolan boldly subverts the grotesque Gothic style set by tim burton for Batman movies, and tells the audience the origin story of the hero from a realistic perspective. The audience sitting in front of the screen today may find it hard to imagine the scene of chasing the roof in The Mystery of the blur, the scene of jumping off a building, hospital explosion and thousands of people gathering in The Dark Knight, the air crash and tanker explosion in The Rise of the Dark Knight and so on. They are all real shots, and the use of late special effects is only to remove the prestige and prospects of the actors.
After the success of Batman: The Mystery of the blur, Nolan and Warner created the most successful superhero movie series in the history of DC movies, and won the first Oscar trophy of superhero movies with the sequel "The Dark Knight".
After The Dark Knight trilogy of Batman caused a sensation among movie fans all over the world, the famous Christopher did not choose to continue to shoot the sequel of this series of movies, but returned to his movie dream, gathered a number of Hollywood big names, and spent several years to build a screen classic Inception that is still unmatched by others at a cost of $6,543.8+600 million.
Although there are many scenes that can be called visual wonders in this film, Nolan still does not use pure computer special effects to shoot and produce, but makes the whole production team spend a lot of time and money to build and produce the shooting scenes.
For example, Xiao Lizi entered the dream and saw the visual spectacle that the Japanese Imperial Palace was gradually submerged in the raging flood, which was the result of the live shooting after the crew carefully built the scenes and organs. There is also the scene of fragments flying all over the sky after the explosion of the street pub in Paris, which is also a behind-the-scenes miracle created by the crew's skillful use of air pressure guns.
The most classic film is the scene of fighting in the corridor of a revolving hotel under weightlessness, which almost perfectly pays tribute to and reproduces 200 1 A Space Odyssey.
I believe that fans who are familiar with the history of sci-fi movies will never forget Kubrick's perfect application of the real life model in A Space Odyssey 200 1, and Christopher Nolan's film achievements decades later are no less than Kubrick's in movie master.
With the release of Interstellar, a global discussion on astrophysics and the future development of mankind began. With this film, Nolan deeply influenced and changed the world and won the respect of countless fans and filmmakers.
And when we go behind the scenes of film production and the hard work behind the shocking picture effect of the film, we will be impressed by Nolan's persistence and perseverance.
Before filming Interstellar, Christopher Nolan consulted the famous astrophysicist Kip Thorne. Nolan even asked the latter to systematically introduce and teach him a lot of physical knowledge about black holes in order to clearly and accurately present the appearance of black holes on the screen.
Compared with Nolan's previous films, Interstellar used a lot of special effects and post-production. Because the story involves a large number of scenes in outer space, which is obviously beyond the reach of the existing real-life shooting technology, Nolan asked the production team to build a large number of scenes for film production.
First of all, I have to mention that in order to make a film, the behind-the-scenes team planted 500 acres of corn in northern Canada. After the film was finished, the 500 mu of corn was even sold, which added an unexpected income to the film.
Although the crew can't shoot grand scenes in the outer space environment, it is possible to build spaceships and robots that appear in the film.
In order to shoot this film, the production team spent a lot of time building a number of large-scale ships and making a robot that can move freely under the control of the actors.
Finally, as one of the important locations of the film, Iceland, with extremely cold climate and beautiful natural scenery, is perfectly transformed into a desolate frozen planet in the film under Nolan's lens, bringing unprecedented viewing experience to the audience.
Although "Dunkirk" was compared with "Wolf Warriors 2" by many domestic media from the beginning, these two films with completely different styles and types are actually completely incomparable. "Wolf Warriors 2" shows that the lonely hero goes deep into danger, which is actually closer to "The First Blood" starring Stallone.
Gossip aside, compared with Nolan's previous works, the story of Dunkirk is undoubtedly more concise and clear, but this does not mean that this war-themed masterpiece, which tries to restore and describe real historical events, is not worth mentioning in narrative. The film continues Nolan's consistent multi-line narrative style, and at the same time, a large number of real-life shooting has greatly enhanced the realism and shock of the film.
Thousands of people gathered at the seaside to retreat, the air combat scenes filmed in real life, the scenes of dozens of ships leaving the country ... If it weren't for the behind-the-scenes stills released by the production team, many viewers might not believe that a large part of them were filmed in real life.