Entertainment: Start with Succubus and play Hollywood

When Janice walked out of the cinema with Franco Close's arm around her, both of them had red eyes.

Along the way, many people asked them how the movie was.

This time, Franco Close didn't say anything.

Janice said excitedly: "It's great, great, you must watch the 3D version, it won't let you down."

When a movie can conquer the hearts of an audience who once didn't care about it, then it is doomed to be a big hit at the box office.

In the first three days of the weekend, the box office of this movie was 33.63 million US dollars, 46.72 million US dollars, and 34.28 million US dollars, respectively, with a total box office of 114 million.

Although it did not break the record, this number is daunting, especially for peers whose movies are about to be released at the same time.

At the same time, the roadshow promotion of "Gravity" also began.

Leonardo was a guest star, and he had nothing to do with the roadshow, but Martin gave him a big red envelope after the box office came out in the first weekend. Well, a big red envelope.

So he volunteered to participate in the roadshow promotion.

Even Martin himself went on several shows with the main creative team.

"... In order to shoot the weightlessness in space under normal gravity, I, 860, and the props team members tried almost all traditional shooting methods - including shooting in deep water, hanging with wires, and using "vomit comets" (a cabin-like device that rises and falls and causes instant weightlessness)... But each one made me feel something was missing."

"I have to admit that I was a little naive at the time, because I thought it would be much easier to make something like this than I thought. It was not until we started trying to use traditional technology that I realized that in order to achieve what I wanted, I had to use traditional technology. We need to create something new to achieve the desired effect. "

"Well, after continuous experiments, my team of experts and I finally designed a unique 12-wire device, which connects 12 electromagnetic wires with 12 electromagnetic points on the protagonists. We also invited the world's top puppet masters, yes, puppet masters, to operate this device and turn the protagonists into puppets. Finally, we achieved the feat of using 12 wires to form a magnetic mesh to float Jessica and Leonardo in the air..."

Martin talked about the many difficulties encountered during the filming.

There are some true and some false.

Martin knows that people love to hear these stories. Such stories of overcoming many difficulties and achieving success can move people more.

Jessica continued Martin's words: "It was really an unprecedented experience. You had to completely abandon your original ideas and methods. It was like reading from a script. You were mechanically told how every little finger and part of your body had to behave, but your head, your brain, your heart and your emotions were blank. So, my body had to perform mechanically. They would ask me if I wanted water, and then I would slowly reach out to take it without even thinking. You have to be forced to get used to the body first,The state of emotion is the second state. "Leonardo said: "In order to play this role well, I practiced yoga for a long time. Oh, I vomited during the weightlessness training in Houston. Jessica performed better than me. But later I also found a way to listen to classical music, yes, classical music, which can relax my body shape, combined with the body control brought by yoga, which can make me reach the best state. "Martin then talked about 3D: "With the popularization of 3D technology, more and more 3D movies have appeared in the film market, although for some movies, you would rather watch the 2D version. "Gravity" is also a 3D movie, but I didn't set the movie to 3D mode just to let things fly on the audience's face... We tried to make the audience feel subtly that they are also in this journey. "In fact, all technologies serve the movie itself. I think so. For actors and filmmakers, the most important thing is the inner world of the characters. For example, the female astronaut played by Jessica contains most of my metaphors.

"There is a constant visual angle in the film - that is, the earth is such a beautiful place suitable for human habitation, and floating above is a woman who has been cut off from any connection with the earth. We want to explore the deep meaning of the heroine who is suspended in the void, harmed by inertia and far away from the earth on which humans depend for survival, and strives to survive in space."

"In addition to the state of 'weightlessness', how to express 'cosmic light' is also one of the key issues we have to challenge during the shooting process. Although 60% of "Gravity" uses CG (computer special effects) to produce the background, there are still many shots that are real scenes. Therefore, how to shoot a universe that can be seamlessly connected with the computer special effects scene requires very high light requirements.

"Finally, my team members and I invented a unique lighting device - a light box that is 6.7 meters high and 3.3 meters wide. The interior of the light box is made up of 196 panels, each about 70 cm long, equipped with 4096 LED bulbs, which can project any desired light or color. The magic of this light box is that it can simulate the natural process of sunrise and sunset, day and night, and the light of different environments, even the northern lights over the North Pole. "

"In order to be able to shoot freely in this light box, my team and I also developed a robot that can shoot from any angle. Moreover, the camera installed on the robot can also be synchronized with the computer and the light on the tilting device platform, which allows us to move the universe around the actors at any time, thus creating the visual effect of the protagonist moving in the universe. "

"For example, when shooting the shot of Jessica descending to the space station, she can see the space station getting closer and closer to her in the light box. I might ask her to look at something on a screen or ask her to reach for a door handle. Although there is no such door handle on the set, at least the actor can see it on the screen.. "

"Of course, the image displayed on the inner wall of the light box is still relatively rough. I can see the fusion of the actors and the space background on the monitor. When the film is in post-production, all the backgrounds will be rendered through post-CG, and the audience will look more real, more like being in space or in a space capsule."

When asked about the Chinese elements that appear many times in the film, Martin answered like this:

"I am not purely to please the Chinese audience, but because now only the United States, Russia, and China have or have had their own space stations. Although the effect of the film's setting is unexpected ("Gravity" has a very high box office in China), it is also a reasonable story. "

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