The Best Director

There are still more than 9 months until June 2005... The post-editing work of "Firefly" has just started, such a long time is long enough, after all, "Fantastic Four" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" which are scheduled to be released at the same time are still in In the shooting stage, the work has always been slow and meticulous, especially for such innovative sci-fi masterpieces, no one thinks it takes too much time. The special effects production of "Firefly" has already started, and the whole film will have more than 1,800 special effects shots, more than 1,000 more than "The Ninth District".

From the Battle of Tranquility Valley, the Great Train Robbery... until the Battle of New Shanxi, and the ending. The sequence diagram of the storyline has given the image engine team a detailed description of the production sequence. The special effects shots of some scenes have been completed one after another, which is enough for people to combine the effects. It is no problem for Wang Yang and others to cut out the rough cut without the soundtrack and special effects first. This time, there are only three signed editors of "Firefly", Wang Yang, Margaret... Goodspeed, Li Yimi Smith: for the original soundtrack, Hans... Zimmer, Jann... …co-created by Kezmelik.

Inviting Hans... Zimmer to make the soundtrack really seems a little "cheesy..." Since landing in Hollywood with "Rain Man" in 1988 and receiving his first Oscar nomination, after more than ten years of accumulation and growth, this 47 The 20-year-old German now seems to be "the spokesperson for the soundtrack of Hollywood blockbusters," from "Aspirations", "Thelma \u0026 Louise", "The Lion King"..."... "Into the Island", "Gladiator", " Mission: Impossible 2, Black Hawk Down, Samurai After Pearl Harbor... In these years, he has scored 48 films and won 7 Oscar nominations for best original soundtrack..." Winning once .

If you count the information of the future film and television library, he also composed music for "Batman" series, "Pirates of the Caribbean" 2.3.4, "Kung Fu Panda" 1,2, "Inception" and other films. He is an absolute top master!

Hans... Zimmer is good at combining electronic music and traditional instrumental music, and often shows a shocking unique style that combines the brilliance of electronic music, the majesty of symphony, and the tragic sadness of traditional orchestral music. The classic, deep, majestic, or passionate vocals like "Rain Man" have all been composed into a colorful, compact, heroic and moving movement.

This is exactly what Wang Yang wanted. The soundtrack needs to add a fatal blow to the emotional setting, especially the huge tragedy pursued by "The Battle of New Shanxi". I want the audience to burn up. Hans... Zimmer level level The soundtrack is indispensable. Now that Wang Yang is the youngest Oscar director and "Firefly" is another 200 million sci-fi production, please move Hans Zimmer and let him say "This is my most important film in 2005." Plan," it is not surprising, he also knows that "Firefly" is a good opportunity to hit the Oscars.

Jen...Kezmelik and Wang Yang are old friends, and they have collaborated in "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and "The Ninth District" twice before.

If it is said that Wang Yang needs Hans...Muji to deal with the "moving" scene, he also needs to use Jann Kezmelik to deal with the "quiet" part. This 51-year-old Polish man may not be so passionate, but The tenderness revealed in his piano, strings, and children's voice, and the sadness that penetrates the soul, are also what Hans... Zimmer lacks.

It's not a huge and amazing fantasy scene, or a slow-moving literary atmosphere. Kezmelik wants to bring simplicity and innocence to "Firefly". Neverland! The unrestrained and elegant piano, the brisk and melodious string music, the lively and lively children's chorus, and even the rough brass pipes have become relaxed..." Very fairy tale world style.

Only during the continuous screening of "Finding Neverland" did film critics comment that the only shortcoming of its soundtrack is that it is too "light". It is very similar to the same melody, rhythm, strength, and the separation of instrument parts is not obvious, so it is not distinguished from the essence of music, resulting in many passages that sound natural, but the recognition of harmony and timbre is not high , did not form the spatial tension that is always unique in Hollywood soundtracks.

However, Wang Yang felt that the film critic was simply farting. What a beautiful melody "Finding Neverland" is!

Including many different forms of creation, usually too limited, or self-contradictory entanglement, or external pressure, and in his opinion, some composers are usually lost in the publicity of the form, and they like to do something different. The accumulation of elements; film composers pay more attention to music serving video content, which leads to innate inability to release, follow the rules, especially in Hollywood, which is heavily commercialized, when "experience" and "risk" trump everything else. What about emotional investment? ?

That's right, let strings and harmony, strings and piano appear in unison and harmony, this is to abandon the epic and huge texture that Hollywood soundtracks have always followed, weaken the spatial tension, and pursue a light and light expression effect.

But if you give up, you give up. Why do you have to pursue the same measured tension every time? Different movies have different scene contents..." Du Cai's way of expressing contrast, the "lightness" of "Finding Neverland" is so light, Wang Yang hopes that several important scenes of "Firefly" can also have this atmosphere.

In fact, because of the soundtrack, Jen... Kezmelik had a lot of disagreements with the producer of "Finding Neverland..." Of course, he persisted now. Maybe it was Wang Yang's private support and confidance, and As always, the enthusiasm and sincerity paid off, and Jann-Kazmelik agreed to this invitation to collaborate with Hans... Zimmer on the soundtrack, knowing that in the previous film works..." He was all independent creations.

Hans... Zimmer, Jann-Kazmelik are all master soundtrack musicians, they move and stay still. This time, the news that the two are going to join forces in "Firefly" immediately made many movie fans and movie soundtrack fans look forward to it. How would their scale symbols collide?

Of course, we have to wait until the editing team has achieved results before the soundtrack team can start. As for how it will naturally depend on whether the video content of "Firefly" can give them the passion and inspiration to create. However, it is not that the soundtrack group is not ready for work. They also need to think about how to integrate cowboy + oriental, how to perfectly add some traditional Chinese instruments such as erhu, pipa, and small gong, to show some oriental artistic conception?

They are planning to go to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China to discuss and study with native Asian musicians and film soundtrack composers, and recruit outstanding musicians to participate in the work, vowing to make "Firefly" a professional A new pinnacle of career.

In terms of editing, this is the sixth time that Margaret... Goodspeed has served as the editor of a film directed by Wang Yang. , "The Dark Knight") is the second collaboration after "The Ninth District", together with the director Wang Yang himself, constitutes the leading member of the editing team, obviously "Firefly" is not a cult movie from the beginning to the end , The editing style can't be so CULT anymore, it needs to take a grand and grand road.

Speaking of which, they are also editors..." But the tasks of the three are different. Margaret mainly edits the part of "Quiet", "Li...Smith and Wang Yang are mainly responsible for the action battle scenes, and Wang Yang is more responsible for the part of "Quiet". Keep an eye on those martial arts scenes.

Excluding the opening flame animation and ending credits, the preset film length of "Firefly" ranges from 150-180 minutes, that is, 2.5 hours to 3 hours. Wang Yang hopes to control it to around 165 minutes. This broke his single-film length record in a large number of ways. In the past, except for "Ghost Story" which was 90 minutes, the other seven films were all about 120 minutes. Now this change also means that this is a new narrative rhythm. .

"The Battle of New Shanxi" is only the biggest climax of the whole film. In theory, the Battle of Tranquility Valley at the beginning of the film is shocking. It is divided into two perspectives: Serenity and Blue Gloves.

How to grasp these climax points is left to think and decide during the fine-cutting. Now the task of Wang Yang and others is to edit a rough-cut version, and what is more urgent is to edit a 2.5-minute exciting trailer to support "Firefly". The development of multiple viral marketing programs.

"My first requirement is that it must be intense..." Burning power! "In the dimly lit editing room, several computer screens on the table displayed different scenes and shots. Wang Yang was explaining the requirements to several people involved in the editing of the trailer. However, Wang Yang has always liked to do it himself, and he has always done well. He glanced at Margaret and the others, and continued: "We will roughly tell a gripping story in these two minutes... "There are also one or two humorous lines and scenes."

The art director Kevin Tenwanav nodded, and heard him say again: "But! The relationship here must be clarified. This time we are within the framework of the predetermined soundtrack, following its rhythm and matching the appropriate exciting shots. Breakaway lines, it's like a symphony, a rock! Excitement, heart racing, anticipation! And you know, it has to have that 'spoof template' effect, so no extra narration voices, it's all up to the characters The lines are connected! Don’t be too wordy about the director and the leading actor, just show the position and name of the scene separately at intervals...""

"You have all heard Hans... Zimmer's soundtrack just now, let's start thinking about it now!" After finishing his request, Wang Yangzhen opened the script and scene number book, and Margaret and others also read it For my own part, the soundtrack just now really has the power to make people soar with adrenaline. Wang Yang looked at the script and thought about it: "Try this at the beginning, use the line of blue gloves: there is one thing you must know, she is a very dangerous character, she holds some secrets that you should not know... the camera Just use the overhead shot of Rewa hiding in the box."

Margaret thought of something, she helped the glasses frame, and said with a serious smile: "Yang, you also want to appear in the trailer?" Wang Yang looked up at the crowd, nodded and smiled: "Yes Yes, I will!,"

The viral marketing strategy of "Firefly" is not limited to "spoof trailers". One of the new tricks that frequently strikes has really made many film distributors feel ashamed. In recent days, it has made people gain some insight.

Flame Movie and the Italian game publishing company "Da Vinci Games" reached a cooperation agreement and launched "Firefly" is a board game card killing game launched in 2002. It is gradually becoming popular in the world. It just won the Origin Award this year. 2008's best reel card game of the year. It is designed with the theme of the wild west, and has four identities: sheriff, deputy sheriff, gangster and traitor. The core rule is that the gangster kills the sheriff, the deputy sheriff helps the sheriff kill the gangster and traitor, and the traitor must kill the gangster first. Kill the sheriff with the deputy sheriff, and live to the end.

In the game, Bart...Cassidy, Black...Jack, Suzy-Lafayette and other real or virtual characters are set, as well as props with different functions and effects such as guns, wild horses, and beer.

The "Firefly" version just changed the world background to a new galaxy. The four identities correspond to the Covenant, the Blue Gloves, the Predators, and the Independents: except that "Indian Invasion" was changed to "Predator Invasion", That is, all players except the initiator must discard a BANG! (Attack minus 1HP), if there is no BANG that can be discarded or is unwilling to discard, 1 point of blood will be deducted, and the "Wild Horse" will be changed to "Firefly," and the distance to all players will be reduced by 1 after being equipped: the characters will naturally change one Sample.

Captain Marr, Blue Gloves and others played poker cards. Captain Marr's character skill is to draw a card from any player's hand during the modeling stage; Blue Gloves can use any number of BANGs in one round! , Reeva can put BANG! And, Messed! (to evade attack) used interchangeably...

How many people can play the "Firefly" version of "BANG! "I don't know." But the novelty of the flame movie really grabbed the attention. A set of hand-drawn cartoons and a set of real-life actor playing cards released on the official website have attracted reports from many media such as Yahoo, and the traffic on the official website has been increasing steadily. It can be shown that this move has achieved the purpose of publicity very well. More people have a deeper impression of the characters and world background settings of "Firefly", and more people know about the game "BANG!" Win-win game with Da Vinci.

Flame Movie didn't intend to print it on a large scale as physical cards for sale, or to operate it in the store, which was written in the terms of the agreement between the two parties; Chance to win a goodie pack containing physical poker cards, shirts, and more.

Office white-collar workers, housewives and other audience groups will buy it or not, and play this BANG in the flames! The scope of consideration, which really makes geeks and nerdy fans groups, Messed! Available, lost 1HP, and many people who didn't pay much attention to "Firefly" before have a strong affection and interest in it; what makes them even more excited and feels like Christmas is that "The Big Bang Theory" "BANG coming soon! Already! ~!