Avengers, Avatar, Transformers , Disney Animation.....the visually stunning scenes and special effects, shocking details...the movie fans are so addicted. And these movies, without exception, are all American Hollywood masterpieces. How much did it cost to make these movies? And when the flow is in charge, when will our Chinese movies rise? The writers will have a good chat with everyone today about these old-fashioned issues.
Special effects are piled up with money and technology
Transformers = Burning King Kong
In 2007, Transformers was released for the first time and won the Pirates of the Caribbean and Spiders in the box office. In the era when many IPs of Xia and Harry Potter were vying for the box office, Transformers was a veritable dark horse. In the next few years, Transformers has successively released sequels. Although it is now unfinished, it still can't stop his glory.
We can learn from the Transformers behind-the-scenes special film that the special effects costs of each Transformer account for the bulk of the production costs of the entire movie.
For example, the box office surpassed Titanic's Transformers 2 in just 12 days. The production cost of this movie is 200 million US dollars. Post-production costs account for the bulk, and it takes several days for each frame to be rendered. And one second is 24 frames. In order to get the best results, countless audio engineers, artists, and special effects artists are needed to modify and control the quality of the post. The workload in the later period can be imagined.
The hardware and software do not have a fuel-efficient lamp
The computer hardware used in video rendering is top-equipped. These hardwares have a useful life and need to be replaced in time. According to the special effects team behind the scenes,The CG rendering data of Transformers 2 is 140TB, and the rendering data of Transformers 1 is only 15TB. If you take out the basic structure of CG : triangles, these fingernail-sized triangles can be arranged from the earth to Venus.
is also a huge overhead in software. Post-production composition, motion capture, etc., use a lot of software, and these software are charged by time, and only one software can be installed on a computer.
Summary:
The special effects of Transformers are too complicated and too expensive. The director would rather blow up 200 cars and use the relationship to find the military to blow up tanks and helicopters than special effects.
Avatar-the benchmark of sci-fi movies
To say that the movie with the highest box office before the reunion 4 aired, it was the 2009 Cameron directed by the sci-fi giant. The global box office of 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in the movie can be said to be full of seats that year, even a ticket is difficult to find in China, because of the popularity of this movie, once burned out the 3D screens of many theaters. So how much did the special effects of Avatar cost? The answer is 150 million U.S. dollars. Converted into RMB, the special effects alone cost 1 billion.
Cameron, the money-burning expert
In the early filming of the Terminator series, he spent 100 million US dollars for post-production special effects. All investors were very scared. Cameron would not be crazy. But when the Terminator was successful, he believed in Cameron's ability and was willing to invest in Cameron. So after Cameron got the money, he made a classic film that has occupied the world's highest box office for 11 years: "Titanic". This film made investors earn a lot of money.
Let’s go back to Avatar,In order to shoot real Avatar and Pandora planet, Cameron first used millions of dollars to make a sample. He was very dissatisfied with the effect, and then found a company that made special effects for the Lord of the Rings to reach a cooperation. After shooting and various After the improvement, the almost perfect original film was handed over to the special effects company. The production cost of this film is 350 million, and the promotional cost is 150 million US dollars. This film with a total cost of 500 million US dollars has become the most expensive film in history and also the most successful film at the box office.
Summary:
Avatar will be re-screened again in 2021 and will dominate the list again within 48 hours. Have you watched it?
Women’s Federation 4, Marvel’s masterpiece
In April 2019, Marvel released the last film in the Avengers series-Avengers 4: Endgame. The production cost of this film is similar to that of Avatar, reaching $360 million. As a follow-up to the reunion 3, this movie was expected by countless fans, surpassing Avatar in mainland China, and shaping the history of the highest-grossing foreign language movie myth.
Looking at the thrilling plot and majestic scenes, how much did Marvel spend on the special effects of this movie? Approximately similar to the cost of Avatar. Just to talk about one detail, in order to render the 3-second animation of Doctor Strange releasing skills, Marvel used nearly a thousand computers to render it for a day.
But here the writer wants to tell everyone that although special effects are expensive, the most expensive is the actor's salary! The most expensive scene in this movie is the funeral of Iron Man, where almost all Marvel heroes gather together. The Iron Man actor, Robert Downey Jr. 's final remuneration in this film is 75 million US dollars, which is equivalent to nearly 500 million yuan. The appearance fees of other heroes are also very expensive. Marvel’s statement on this is: At the beginning, Marvel was on the verge of bankruptcy.It was Iron Man who saved us. Coupled with the wonderful performances of the heroes, this is what they deserve.
Summary:
I believe that Avengers 4 brings back many memories of you. Unfortunately, after Avengers 4, there are no Hollywood masterpieces. In addition to special effects, the current Hollywood works have a look, the plot is hip, the rhythm is slow, the superhero plot is clichéd, Hollywood can't attract us, we need excellent domestic movies " Hello Li Huanying" was a great success in the 2021 Spring Festival. As a mature commercial film, Li Huanying can be said to be qualified, but it is also unavoidable with cliché plots such as crossing and ridiculous. The next door "Tang Detective 3" won 4.5 billion yuan in box office, which is also in line with the first two years of the Tang Detective series. bedding. However, the big sales of these two movies are due to the two factors that many movies cannot be released during the epidemic situation and the people's retaliatory consumer psychology during the Spring Festival. The overall film quality of the Spring Festival in 2021 has indeed declined.
We can’t deny that the domestic film industry is slowly transforming and upgrading, such as the national comic " Nezha's Devil Child Comes Down" and the science fiction film " Wandering Earth", etc. The general environment is that the flow of movies is flying wildly, and bad money drives out good money.
Traffic stars are the pain of the times
There are no works, but they often appear on the screen. At the beginning, such artists were only in variety shows. With the favor of capital, these flow stars began to enter the film industry.
does not pay the bill for this audience,On August 9, 2019, the first sci-fi movie " Shanghai Fortress " was released, which caused countless complaints on the Internet. The acting is blunt and the plot is clichéd. Chinese netizens joked that this day is the darkest day in the history of Chinese science fiction movies. Everyone knows who the lead actor is. In order to promote the popularity, celebrities hyped at the beginning of the movie, and some theaters can sell for 900 yuan per ticket for the front row of seats. I went to watch "Shanghai Fortress" for 900 yuan, and I couldn't think of a writer who gave him the courage.
Who makes traffic stars sell at the box office? Is the audience.
The audience lacks supervision of the film industry, allowing various minotaurs to run rampant under the blessing of capital. There are no low-cost and well-made movies, " " is very good. But too many people are chasing stars and traffic, and the investment in one movie is more than one, but the quality is worse than one movie. Maybe all the people who contributed to the box office of traffic movies should reflect: I contribute to the box office for them, why do they treat us as fools?
Our material life is getting richer and richer, but our spiritual level is getting poorer and poorer. Finally, I plan to take the time to go to the cinema to replenish mental food, but you feed me bad movies. Holding the movie ticket that I bought for 40 yuan, I adjusted a comfortable lying position, the traffic star is really hypnotizing.
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