As soon as the trailer for "Future Apocalypse" was released, it immediately detonated the entire Internet. Fly, Facebook, youtube, domestic Weibo, Tianya gossip, gossip coming, and many post bars were discussing this movie. Countless movie fans were stirred up by the trailer of the movie, and they all said that they were stunned by "Future Apocalypse". The trailer was really exciting.

"This trailer is so cool, it's a real military hard science fiction movie! I saw the Tiger helicopters in Europe, the Ukrainian bison hovercraft, the US military's m2 armored vehicles, and four-round tilt-wing transport aircraft similar to the V-44. Of course, they are all improved. As for where the power mecha comes from, I can't tell it!" - New York movie fan Irving.

"This exoskeleton armor feels a bit like a Warhammer 40k, and a bit like a firefall. Finally, I saw a movie with the core elements of "Star Paratroopers"!" - Los Angeles movie fan Mishik.

"The mecha battle scene is so exciting! The war scene is so exciting! The scene of Robert De Niro killing people is so exciting! I feel like I'm crazy. I watched a trailer fifty times!" - London movie fan Gerald.

"Oh my God, why did you release the trailer so early? It will be released in one and a half years! Zhang Ran is so hateful! He is deliberately tortureting people! After watching the trailer, I have insomnia. It's really tormenting people!" - French movie fan Sailer.

"The scene is so spectacular, it's satisfying to watch. Explosion Bei and Zhang Ran are simply a scumbag!" - Peking movie fan Wu Wenbo.

In just 24 hours, the number of views of "Future Apocalypse" on YouTube exceeded 20 million, of which the number of people topped out was as high as 470,000, and only 7754 people stepped on it; the total number of viewers of fly, Facebook and youtube exceeded 50 million; the total number of views of China, Weibo, and major video websites also exceeded 50 million.

While the movie fans were talking a lot, Zhang Ran still discussed with the special effects team at the headquarters of Industrial Light and Magic to exchange opinions on the special effects issues. After the movie special effects are synthesized, they will be given to the director to watch them one by one, and then modify them again and again until the director is satisfied.

That afternoon, Zhang Ran was discussing the special effects issue with the special effects director at Industrial Light and Magic. George Lucas came, and he came for Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran shook hands with Lucas and said with a smile: "I'm glad to see you, Mr. Lucas."

Lucas looked at Zhang Ran with a big belly and smiled: "Last week I watched your "One Man's Lights and Decoration", which is a real multi-part montage movie. It's an incredible movie. After watching it, I called Coppola, but he said, "Hasn't that kid's new film been finished? You should go and see what new things he tried! I'm here to see!"

When Zhang Ran heard that Lucas was watching "The Apocalypse of the Future", he naturally welcomed him. Although Lucas was only a second-rate director, his vision was not comparable to ordinary people. Zhang Ran also wanted to hear his opinion, so he brought the Lucasdao industrial light film screening room to watch with him.

Most of the shots of "The Apocalypse" have just been synthesized, and there are quite a few green screens. However, when the horizontal tug-of-war and ultra-low aerial long shots appear one by one in front of you, Lucas was completely stunned and stunned. He didn't know how to describe this movie. The whole movie was simply a combination of the Soviet version of "War and Peace" and "Save Private Ryan"!

This movie is very different from the military science fiction film Lucas imagined. It has exoskeleton armor and various models of robots, but the whole movie gives people a very realistic feeling, and everything feels like it is real.

After the movie was played, Lucas felt extremely emotional. Every movie was trying different movie techniques, and every movie would have new things coming out. He was really a peerless genius! He looked at Zhang Ran and said sincerely: "This is a movie that Coppola longed for all his life but could not make it!"

Zhang Ran said modestly: "Put up your opinions, what's wrong with it? What needs improvement!"

Lucas did not make any comments. After praising "The Future Apocalypse", he looked at Zhang Ran and said, "The director who has always insisted on exploring the language of film, besides Godard, there is also you. Godard's goal in exploring the language of film is to destroy bourgeois films and create a new movie. What is your goal?" Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that Zhang Ran was Chinese, and China was a socialist country, and his eyes suddenly widened: "You won't want to destroy bourgeois films and create a new movie like Godard, right?"

Godard was a supporter of the *****. He believed that the bourgeoisie had invented various film art techniques to effectively impress the audience emotionally; bourgeois films have been playing with the fear and the audience's deep hearts, destroying the audience's critical reason. Therefore, he believed that to resist bourgeois films, it is necessary to smash the traditional language of the film.

In Godard's decades of film creation, he has always regarded the complete destruction of the old film language as his goal, and has constantly explored and thought about the film language. Godard's exploration of the film language broke the traditional film rules, changed the shooting mode of the film, and set off a new wave of storm around the world. However, Godard's goal of destroying bourgeois films has never been achieved. Not only was Hollywood movies not weakened, but they became stronger and stronger, sweeping the entire world.

Zhang Ran shrugged and said disrespectfully: "I haven't thought about this before, but in the past two years I have started thinking about where the future of movies is. I do have this idea. Unlike Godard, I don't think that movies are bourgeois, nor do I want to destroy existing movies. I just want to create a new movie that is more in line with future trends."

Lucas didn't expect Zhang Ran to think so. Looking at Zhang Ran's eyes seemed to be looking at a madman: "This cannot be successful!"

Zhang Ran suddenly laughed: "No, it is possible to succeed, at least I have seen the dawn of success!"

Lucas was startled and asked immediately: "How is that possible? What is that?"

Zhang Ran looked at Lucas and joked with him: "I can't tell you, because you are now from Disney!"

When I heard Zhang Ran say that he was Disney, Lucas jumped up like a cat with a trampled tail: "I just sold the company to Disney, but I didn't sell myself to Disney. I thought it would be a good idea to sell Lucas Pictures to Disney, and I could take good care of Star Wars. At the same time, I invested in Disney in this way and earned a pension; but now I know that my movies were sold to human traffickers. They didn't love movies at all, and they only had money in their eyes. They didn't respect me at all, and I didn't respect my ideas about Star Wars. I can no longer control Star Wars. All I can do is leave, so I told Disney, ok, I'm leaving."

Zhang Ran knew that "Star Wars" was Lucas's lifelong hard work. He hoped that each of "Star Wars" would be different and wanted to make a breakthrough in the plot, but Disney wanted to pay tribute to the past and make money by playing emotional cards. Lucas was naturally extremely disappointed. However, there was nothing he could do about this. The ultimate ownership of an independent film company could only be a big company. He comforted: "You are an artist, and Disney is a businessman. The contradiction between artists and businessmen is always irreconcilable."

Although Lucas is also a businessman and is not a real artist, he was very happy to hear Zhang Ran say that he is an artist and smiled and said, "If you don't mention the damn Disney, can you tell me now, what is the new movie you are talking about?"

Zhang Ran smiled and lowered his voice and said, "VR movie!"

As the founder of Industrial Light and Magic, Lucas certainly knew VR technology, which is not new. However, as a director, he believed that this technology could not be used to make movies. He shook his head and said, "VR technology emphasizes interactivity, and is good for making games, but it cannot be used to make movies. Because it cannot pull the camera at will, and cannot edit it. All existing movie languages ​​are invalid in VR. If you cannot edit and use the existing movie language, how can you use it to make movies? Maybe you can make a video, but this cannot be called a movie."

Zhang Ran knew that the language of movies in VR was invalid and editing could not be used, but he was still optimistic about this technology: "When the movie was just born, it could only be filmed on the spot. Almost everyone was pessimistic about the future of the movie. Until Edwin Bautt invented the editing, the movie had the possibility of telling stories. Then, Griffith studied and developed a complete set of film narrative grammars on this basis, laying a solid foundation for the development of the movie. The editing failed and the existing film language failed, so why can't we create a new film language?"

Lucas couldn't help saying, "Can it still be called a movie?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "What is the name important? In my opinion, it is a movie, but it is just a new form of movie, an immersion film. Immersive drama has been very popular in the past two years, because it can bring the audience a stronger emotional experience; a stronger sense of substitution and a stronger emotional experience. This is what movies have always pursued, so I believe that VR movies are the future of movies."

Lucas stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds and suddenly laughed: "Ten years ago, in 2000, after the high-definition digital camera f900 came out, I used this machine to shoot "The Attack of the Clones". At that time, the whole Hollywood opposed me. They united to hold a conference and criticized me, saying that I was a demon, saying that I would destroy the entire film industry and the work of many people. If they knew what you were doing, they would probably think that you were the real demon!"

Hearing Lucas call himself the devil of the movie destruction, Zhang Ran laughed and said, "Movies will not be destroyed. I am a movie, how can I destroy movies? Photography destroys paintings? Movies destroys photography? 3D movies destroys 2D movies? No, neither. Movies are art, and real art will not be destroyed by technology. I believe that the pattern of movies in the future is like this. On one side is traditional movies, the current 2D and 3D movies; on the other side is VR movies, both coexist. How interesting it is to create a brand new movie and create a new art!"

Lucas looked at Zhang Ran's face full of infinite enthusiasm, and his body shook. If he was 40 years old now, he would definitely say to Zhang Ran, let's do it together and create a brand new art. But he is now sixty-six years old and has no courage to toss. Now he can only sigh deeply: "It would be great if I was only 40 years old!"

Zhang Ran didn't know why Lucas said that. Just as he was about to speak, his cell phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Bai Yunfei's, so he quickly spoke to Lucas, walked aside and answered the phone: "Xiaobai, what's the matter?"

Bai Yunfei laughed and said, "It's nothing, I just remind you that fly will be launched next week, so don't forget it!"

Zhang Ran was relieved when he heard that he had nothing to do and said, "How could he forget such a big thing? I will definitely do it!"
Chapter completed!