Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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Nowadays, hacking is rampant in Hong Kong, especially with the popularity of home video recorders, the video tape rental business has become prosperous, and more than half of the video tapes on the market are stolen goods. fastest update

Hong Kong films have a tradition of midnight screenings. Many films are screened at midnight and then re-cut according to the audience's reaction.

There is about a week of time lag from the midnight preview to the official release. Since the development of the videotape industry, many people have gone to sneak shots at midnight, resulting in a lot of time when the movie has not been officially released in the cinema, and roadside stalls On the pirate board videotape has been listed.

For the stubborn psoriasis that had been banned for decades in the last life, Xu Cun also had no good way to cure it.

Fortunately

The quality of pirate boards is generally very poor, which is hated from the bottom of the heart by those who pursue sensual enjoyment!

And Xu Cun's only way to deal with pirate boards is to improve the quality of the front boards to the point where pirate boards are far out of reach, and then grab more audiences from pirate boards. To put it bluntly, Xu Cun intends to promote the development of 3D movies.

3D movies can be shot more realistically and bring more visual impact to the audience. If you want to enjoy 3D movies, you must have specific screening conditions, which are conditions that Pirates simply do not have.

This is also the main reason why Xu Cun made "Jurassic Park" into a 3D version.

Speaking of 3D technology, many people who don't know it will think that it is a product of the 21st century.

actually

This is a mistake.

The earliest 3D movie can be traced back to the beginning of the invention of the film at the end of the 19th century. At that time, the British film pioneer William Frysgreen invented the world's first set of equipment for showing and watching 3D movies: he projected two pictures on the screen at the same time. , the audience obtains a three-dimensional effect by viewing through special glasses.

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William's device was cumbersome and complex and lacked practical promotion, so although he applied for a patent, it was not used in theaters.

The first commercial performance of the 3D film was "The Power of Love" which was screened on September 27, 1922 at the Cinema of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by filmmaker Halifairo and cameraman Robert Aird. The production, using a red-green three-dimensional film mode, also had only one viewer, Halifairo, who later pitched the film to theater managers in New York, but no one wanted to buy it, and the film was gradually forgotten.

Later, Polaroid founder Edwin Rand invented polarizing film technology, which can change the way light vibrates. Edwin's original intention for inventing polarizing film was to use it to avoid the glare of car headlights, but this technology later had a profound impact on the development of 3D movies.

Throughout the 1940s, because of World War II, people did not invest much in the research and production of 3D movies, and 3D movies were dormant until after the war.

After World War II, with the invention and popularization of television, the film industry encountered its first serious challenge. In order to survive and develop, the film industry began a series of innovations and explorations. Hollywood shot a large number of wide-screen epic films, trying to use large scenes to pull the audience back from the small TV, and it was at this time that the first color 3D film was made The Devil of Bowana was born.

Columbia and Warner Bros., which saw commercial prospects during the broadcast of "Devil of Bowana", launched two epoch-making 3D films the following year, "Man in the Dark" and "Wax Museum". Both achieved great box office success, especially the latter, which also used stereo sound for the first time, making the audience not only visually, but also audibly immersive.

The success of these two films awakened Hollywood overnight. It turns out that 3D movies can also make money. Since then, 3D commercial movies from mainstream production companies have sprung up, and Disney, Universal, and 20th Century Fox have all joined the stock. Torrent, Disney also brought this kind of film to Disneyland, showing other application prospects of 3D technology in the entertainment industry.

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With the increase in the production of 3D films, the quality of the films has begun to vary, and the production cycle of some films is only two weeks, and the effect can be imagined. In addition, there were still a lot of shortcomings in the technology at that time, and there were strict requirements on the screen, angle, and projection. Therefore, after only one or two years, 3D movies have become a thing of the past.

In 1955, with the release of "Monster's Revenge", this short "3d golden period" came to an end.

Until the 1970s, ring-screen movies, dome-screen movies, and imax giant-screen movies were born one after another, and 3D movie technology also developed by leaps and bounds. Previously, 3D movies required two projectors to simultaneously project the picture onto the screens on both sides. Seriously affects viewing, but with the advent of the patented "stereoscopic" technology invented by Alan Silyphant and Chris Gordon, this problem has been solved. This technology can alternately print the pictures seen by the left and right eyes on a set of ordinary 35mm film film. The projector projects at a speed of 48 frames per second (twice the usual speed) and adds A shading plate that rotates periodically, so the two sets of pictures appear alternately, but the audience will not notice it due to the visual delay.

The first 3D film made with "stereoscopic vision" technology was a pornographic film "The Stewardess", which earned more than $27 million at the box office at a cost of $100,000, making it an amazing movie The highest-grossing 3D movie in history (according to the ratio), driven by it, most of the 3D movies in the 1970s were adult movies and horror movies, and even a combination of the two.

pity

The development of technology has not brought about progress in content. For a long time, the biggest fatal weakness of 3D movies is that they have technology but no plot. People watching 3D movies is like watching a circus. It only exists as a movie accessory, never as the mainstream of the movie industry.

After entering the 1980s, the subject matter of 3D movies began to become rich, and feature films, documentaries, horror films, and action films all used 3D as a selling point. One of the more representative ones was the 1981 western film "Gunman Hart". , The scenes of drawing guns, shooting bullets, and flying knives in the film made many viewers break out in a cold sweat.

Throughout the early and mid-1980s, a large number of 3D movies were born, such as "Friday the 13th", "Ghosts", "Jaws 3D" and so on.

But even so, mainstream filmmakers still have a repulsive attitude towards this form of film. to their high-quality requirements for films.

Therefore, after the novelty dissipated, 3D movies were once again swept away by the audience~www.wuxiamtl.com~ so that people could only see such movies in some amusement places for a long time.

As a foresighted person, Xu Cun naturally knows that 3D movies are the inevitable trend of movies, and it may be able to save the already declining Hong Kong movies.

In addition, as a filmmaker, as a filmmaker for two lifetimes, Xu Cun is also obliged to promote the development of the film industry.

This has nothing to do with interests, it is purely a personal hobby. Just like several Hollywood giants such as Cameron, Spielberg, Jeffrey in the last life, they are all fans of digital 3D movies after they became famous. Spielberg and Cameron have become the forerunners of the previous life. Spielberg produced "Jaws 3D" as early as the early 1980s, and Cameron worked for "Terminator" as early as 1996. 2" produced a mini 3D movie sequel.

Compared with Cameron, Spielberg, Jeffrey and others, Xu Cun has three major advantages in promoting the development of 3D movies:

The first major advantage is that Xu Cun, who was bombarded by 3D blockbusters for many years in his last life, knows too much about 3D technology.

The second biggest advantage, Xu Cun knows that "Jurassic Park" is a good movie that is loved and even touted by audiences all over the world, and it is absolutely unprofitable to use it to promote 3D movies!

The third major advantage is that Xu Cun is not bad at money and has great power. Now, Xu Cun has a cinema chain in most of the world's major movie markets. With an order, all these cinemas and theaters can enter 3D Times, this is something that even the Hollywood giants such as Cameron at their peak could not do together!

Therefore, Xu Cun dared to say: "Promote the development of 3D movies, whoever I am!"

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(To be continued..) rw