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"I hope I can see a good movie so that I won't come here in vain."

The guests gradually filled the hall, and the lights went dark.

With the faint sound of the projector running behind the screen, as if the 10 characters of old-fashioned movie special effects appeared in the center of the screen, Nereo, the columnist of Variety Show, adjusted his sitting posture before putting many distracting thoughts behind him.

But he soon understood why the theater operators could arrange the screening of "Avatar" with such specifications, and where their confidence came from.

In fact, when the countdown mark of the giant at the beginning of the movie struck him from 3 to 1, he felt a different kind of atmosphere from other commercial masterpieces-only seeing this digital title, in many movies, many High-input special effects shots are not as shocking as this paragraph.

And the beginning of this passage seems to endorse the technology of the entire movie. At least for Nereo, watching on a giant screen like iamx is indeed a novel experience and enjoyment.The corresponding technology matches the corresponding movie.

He even thought that if Hollywood wants to vigorously promote this kind of movie viewing mode, the problem it may face is nothing more than how to continue to reduce costs. After all, whether it is for theaters or studios, this is inevitable. One of the hurdles-high cost is the biggest obstacle.

"Wow!"

The audience in the audience couldn't help being surprised and yelled in a low voice.

Actually, "Avatar" used an unreasonable fast-forwarding lens as the opening scene. Although this is not the first movie with a high-altitude flight perspective, with the addition of technology and giant screens, it seems to be processed by CG. However, it is very real when you look closely. The beauty of the overly elegant and even the fantasy of the different world landscape is like a picture scroll slowly unfolding.

Not to mention the immersive feeling that makes the heart beat faster-as if you are gliding at high speed, accelerating down, and the whole scene is oncoming, making people experience the weightlessness of the elevator, the feeling of driving, and even the appearance of part of the body instinct. Stress response.

Nereo could not tell what this feeling was, but he was really shocked, and even shouted out-although he is not an ordinary audience, he is a filmmaker who has seen the world, but in "Avatar" In front of him, he had no extra experience.

On the screen.

The camera swoops down all the way from above the tropical rainforest and flies into the depths of the jungle. With the narration of the protagonist Jack, a transition, the subsequent rainforest painting style has become a dizzying future urban style.

With advanced technology, human beings have the ability to develop interstellar space; digital appliances are extremely cheap, quite a bit of dystopian science fiction.

The protagonist, Jack, is a retired veteran with a disability on duty. He is facing no money for spinal repair surgery. He sits in a wheelchair like walking corpses every day, living his life in despair.

"From the setting point of view, the role's start is too old-fashioned, but it can be regarded as a manifestation of the fact that the technological age is still unable to achieve the benefits that all human beings can enjoy, and there is still a gap in social resources."

Nereo watched Jack's brave act in the bar, and couldn't help but habitually analyze the content, and vomited, although he was still immersed in Cameron's naked dazzling special effects, he also felt that the design of the story background was not bad. Yes, but Cameron has always paid no attention to discovering characters. This is as rough and straightforward as before. Jack's character design is almost finalized: a sense of justice.

"However, who cares about the characters when watching Cameron's movies? This kind of real and illusory CG shots is already dizzying. Only from the visual effects point of view, he has taught the world's special effects commercials a lesson. ."

Nereo felt like he wrote a sentence on the notepad, "This is a scene we have never seen on the screen. The standard is high. Let me go back to watch "2012". It is simply not eye-catching. The gap may be as wide as the Pacific Ocean."

Now the number of imax screens in the United States is less than 150. This is because after the internal trial screening of "Avatar", the theater operators have invested a part of the funds to exchange for the screening equipment, and 3D movies are actually not new, "Star Trek", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Transformers 2" have provided 3D copies, of course, they are pure post-production conversions.

However, the big screen screening of the above-mentioned films has to be fundamentally different from the small screen screening in ordinary theaters, but it has never happened. On the contrary, because of the focal length of the line of sight, watching the movie on the huge screen is so unnatural. , The comfort has not been improved much, but it has regressed. It is necessary for the audience to overcome their visual habits.

Especially when watching close-up shots of characters in converted films, it is quite unpleasant to be covered by a face on the huge screen.

As for pure CGI movies (live-action animation) such as "Polar Express" and "Beowulf", they also face the soulless horror valley effect of "Final Fantasy". The senses are so strong that they want to give up and are not affected. Mainstream recognition and acceptance.

In other words, before the appearance of "Avatar", all imax+3D screening versions had more or less problems, and "Avatar" before Cameron filmed, thought about and experimented how to use it. The audience watched comfortably, so that the giant screen was more than simply zooming in, it changed the form of the entire film——

Compared with ordinary theaters, the giant screen will make the details of the effect presented in the film clearer, and the way of mirroring is more natural. Moreover, these different degrees of magnification combined with 3D visual effects will make the audience feel very innovative. There are so many different experiences in movies, so even if the characters and plot are relatively pale, and the promotion template is quite old-fashioned, everyone's excitement has always been-

This fully explains the characteristics of Cameron's director, but clichés are not.

Whether it’s a long shot of a spacecraft flying to Pandora between the stars—the movie theater rang with neat admiration again;

Or Jack wakes up in the space capsule, the daily life of the spacecraft in the weightless state is fascinating.

The sound and picture sense of "Avatar" is enough to make people ignore many of the shallowness of modeling and are deeply fascinated by this wonder and depth of field.

Perhaps, it is precisely because everyone has watched more movies that "Avatar", a film that can make further progress in visual effects, will make people praise from the heart.

To put it a little more psychologically, the classics with strong stories, novel narrative methods, and complex structures that are too complex to understand without reading it a few times have not been experienced. Even if there is another one, in addition to applauding, the extra feeling will be very Is it deep?

will not.

But "Avatar" can give everyone a very novel excitement, because this is something that other special effects movies can't do, and it has never appeared before. It is like a peerless beauty in a glance, it is difficult to resist and want to go further The urge to explore...