From a distance, it looks like a branch. Up close, a lot of soft bugs get together. What bugs are they?

Behind the scenes production:

1933 version of King Kong has a high popularity among fans. Because it not only represents a simple film work, it even drives a trend of film art and has been remake many times. 1976, John Gilles used the most advanced film stunt "King Kong" at that time, which was dismissed by the audience as a "pure fantasy film". Most filmmakers who indulge in special effects will put the cart before the horse, regard CG as the protagonist and turn real people into props. CG in Peter Jackson's "King Kong" is indeed the protagonist, but other characters have not become a foil, especially the emotional exchange between King Kong and the heroine has reached the height of "beauty and beast". Even in the picture without CG animals, Jackson's unrestrained imagination still makes the picture change endlessly, expanding the tension of the drama, but not stealing the play. This is the highest level of special effects movies.

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Alpha Man's First "Man": If you take it for granted that the "man" here refers to the first hero King Kong in the film, I'm sorry, you are only half right. In the original work of 1933, this super-large orangutan is actually "played" by several puppets of different sizes that can be manipulated at will, and then synthesized by using stop-motion animation technology; 1976 version is a bit inhumane, because Rico Baker, the hero behind the scenes, almost suffocated in a thick almost airtight gorilla costume. As for the 24-foot-tall beast created by Peter Jackson, it definitely represents the wisdom of film technology. First, Jackson used an adult male gorilla who could not walk upright in real life and was about six feet tall as a model, and then used the latest film technology "motion capture technology". So, we will see andy serkis in the studio, wearing a "catching suit" full of inductive contacts, simulating the jumping movements and expressions of gorillas (by the way, Serkis did the same thing to the hairless Gollum in the The Lord of the Rings series). Moreover, Szerkisz plays a lost chef in the film. Who else is the "first person"?

Bug bug: Don't get goose bumps yet. You know, Peter Jackson is a perfectionist who either does nothing or does his best, so when the bug gets into his hands, we will certainly try our best to exert its disgusting effect. First of all, our blonde Ann Law Hero was killed by a pair of giant centipede-like polypods on a rotten piece of wood on Skull Island. Secondly, when the dinosaur and King Kong were playing happily, the camera swept to the sailors who were going to rescue the heroes of Ann Law. All of them were put into a deep pit by King Kong, which happened to be the gathering place of six-legged spiders, crustaceans, locusts and other aggressive creatures-it must be noted that "Skull Island" has good mountains, good water and good nutrition, so the insects here are at least ten times larger than normal. Weta is a kind of grasshopper, native to New Zealand, with a long beard and no wings. This is a miniature version of the insect caught by Adrian Brody in the movie ... Weta Workshop Ltd, which became famous with Peter Jackson because of the The Lord of the Rings series, was named after this New Zealand "specialty", which is not only creative but also "patriotic".

Curtiss Helldivers biplane bomber: 1933 The fighter style used in the original version, "King Kong fights biplane fighter on the Empire State Building" is one of the core scenes that Peter Jackson must keep, but the problem is that this old model named "Curtiss hell divers", which was very popular during World War I, has long been nowhere to be found. But the elite team of Vita studio is not free. They just built two full-size biplanes from a few sketches-except that they couldn't fly into the sky, the scenes of fierce fighting in the air and being hit by King Kong were all CGI synthesis. Here, Peter Jackson specially gave the pilot several facial features, one of which was Rico Baker, the guy who almost suffocated as mentioned earlier; There are also behind-the-scenes producers who have followed Jackson for a long time. Just like the The Lord of the Rings series, Jackson seemingly inadvertently brought them into the "foreground".

Director's Cut Director's Edited Edition: The old rules left over from the The Lord of the Rings series make people look forward to the extended DVD version released one year after the film was released. Although the publisher has changed from a new line to a versatile one this time, it is a fool to have money but not make money. It depends on whether Peter Jackson has enough materials to fill this expanded DVD. Although the theatrical version of "King Kong" is 187 minutes long, it is not "extravagant" for Peter Jackson at all. According to reliable sources, due to the time limit of the theatrical version, more than 300 CGI shots have been deleted-they will all be the best materials for the extended DVD.

Among them, the known ones include:

1. When directors Carl and Ann Law Hero just landed on Skull Island, they filmed a group of scenes where they were sitting on the rocks screaming.

2. When King Kong was bombarded by guns all over new york, the soldiers of the army once "rescued" Ann from the beast, but Ann ran back to King Kong. ...

Young Howard: There is nothing in common between Ann Law Hero and June Havoc except that they are jugglers. One of them lives in the fictional movie world and the other in the real world. However, the screenwriters Filipa Boynes and Francis Welsh borrowed a lot of June Havoc's performance characteristics and personality characteristics in order to make the heroes of Ann Law more vivid. There is also a joke-like detail in the film: the romantic and funny stage play created by playwright Jack, played by Adrian Brody, is called Crying Haworth. "King Kong" was set in the Great Depression in 1930s, so June Havoc, who was in his early twenties at that time, was still a little actor who couldn't even fill his stomach.

Fayri Fei You: Although Fei You, a Canadian actress, has performed more than 50 female roles in her life, and also appeared in The Wedding March by the famous director erich von SteRaaheim, her most striking and unforgettable role is Ann, the screaming queen in the original 1933 King Kong. Peter Jackson wanted Fei You to make a guest appearance in the new version of King Kong, and the last line of the film was hers ... However, Fei Xiaotong died in August 2004 at the age of 96-the film had not yet started shooting, so this line finally became.

Green screen green screen technology: "Green screen technology" is nothing new in Hollywood now, but films like King Kong, which are all shot in front of the "green screen", are rare. The artists of Vita Studio created two places that did not exist at all: new york and Skull Island during the Great Depression. The actors finished all the shooting work in the studio with a green knitted curtain in the background. This all-green environment will be filled with CGI in post-production to complete the geographical environment at that time. Similarly, there is "blue screen technology", but because its edge with characters is very rough, it is often only used as an alternative. For naomi watts, who plays the hero of Ann Law, the most difficult part is Skull Island. Take the scene where she saw bugs in the rotting trunk. Peter Jackson only told her where there were bugs. As for size and shape, Watts can only perform by imagination. ...

Tribute: From King Kong, you can see the shadows of many other classic old films. This is Peter Jackson's tribute to those early Hollywood sci-fi directors. In this way, Jackson's most far-reaching influence is Steven Allan Spielberg's Dinosaur; In addition, he stole two tricks from James Cameron's Alien series and Titanic. Finally, Jackson merged into the classic scenes in Disney's Bambi, which glided on the frozen water of the pond-but these scenes were not as good as the original King Kong, which was carved in the same mold from the story background to the dialogue to King Kong vs. dinosaurs.

I am on top of the world: a song from Al Jolson's album released in the 1920s was used by Peter Jackson at the beginning of King Kong. He used a cheerful melody to show the world the desperate life in Manhattan during the Great Depression. The song enters the lyrical part, subtly predicting that King Kong, who sits on the Empire State Building at the top of the world, is doomed to fall.

Vaudeville: A trick used by the heroes of Ann Law to appease the irascible King Kong. Because naomi watts is not from a circus, there is nothing in her prosthetic hand-CGI technicians will synthesize pebbles later.

Kong's Kingkang Family: In King Kong's lair, there are several huge white bones strewn at random-the remains of other members of the King Kong family. What Peter Jackson wants to express is the memory of the living for the dead: There are other giant orangutans on Skull Island, which may be King Kong's parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters ... But now, King Kong is the last blood of this once huge family.

Laser Surgery: In early 2004, Peter Jackson just won the Oscar for Best Director for The Lord of the Rings III: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. As a reward, he went to the hospital for eye laser surgery and officially bid farewell to myopia. In addition, during the filming of King Kong, Jackson also lost 70 pounds of fat.

Carnivorous mollusk: The name comes from the nickname of a painter in Vita Studio ... but its disgusting appearance is completely imaginary. There is no such creature in the real world: soft, sticky liquid, slow-moving, once attacked the chef on board in a deep pit. In addition, artists have given this creature more disgusting physiological functions: no eyes, no face, and the outer skin of the head can shrink to reveal a mouth full of teeth.

Aborigines: In the original "King Kong", the aborigines on Skull Island are ridiculous. At first glance, they are imitating an indigenous tribe in Africa. In the new edition, Peter Jackson described them as savages with primitive savage temperament and red eyes, combined with the pronunciation characteristics of African, Asian, Maori and Polynesian languages, and then sprayed their skin with an evil alternative color-black, thus bringing out the modern aborigines of Skull Island. Jackson's original intention is simple. He didn't want to cause some unnecessary ethnic disputes because of the appearance of these aborigines. In addition, Jackson continued other descriptions of aborigines in the original book: sacrificial ceremonies requiring human sacrifice, specific dance movements, costumes and impressive max steiner music.

Orson welles orson welles: He once made a radio drama "War of the World" in 1938, which caused great panic among the audience. He was also confused and even lost in Hollywood because of 194 1 year's "Citizen Kane"-but what does he have to do with King Kong? In fact, Wilson is Carl, the film director in Jack Black. It is not that Blake borrowed some of Wilson's habitual language actions, but that he captured Wilson's soul as a director: reckless and reckless, and he could tell a big lie in order to attract sponsorship and investment.

Fashion: The round bell-shaped soft hat worn by Ann Law Hero at the beginning of the film was popular in new york in 1930s. Almost every young woman would have at least one hat, which showed the unique feminine flavor during the Great Depression.

Quasimodo hunchback of Notre Dame: King Kong's face should be ugly and dignified. The artists who created Skull Island endowed King Kong with "dignity" with big and small eyes, big nose and crooked mouth according to Charles Laughton's role as hunchback quasimodo of Notre Dame in 1939. King Kong climbed the Empire State Building to seek refuge, which coincided with quasimodo's taking Notre Dame Bell Tower as his own comfort zone.

Rat and Monkey: When you see a cage with the words "Sumatran Rat and Monkey" hanging in the cargo hold of SS Adventure in King Kong, it feels like an Englishman Huo (the captain of SS Adventure) walked into another film directed by Peter Jackson ... Sumatran Rat and Monkey was once kept in the New Zealand Zoo in Jackson's "The Dead".

Howard Shore Shore: howard shore Shore, who won an Oscar for his excellent soundtrack of the The Lord of the Rings series, finally quit the cast two months before the film was released, because he and Peter Jackson had irretrievable differences in the style and music of King Kong. He was replaced by James Newton Howard, who won six Oscar nominations ... However, Howard Shore agreed to keep his image as a guest conductor in King Kong.

Time to go to the toilet: It is common to prepare a large can of Coca-Cola when watching a movie, so you may often encounter embarrassing things that you really want to go to the toilet, but you are afraid to miss the highlights ... And a movie like King Kong, which lasts for more than three hours, is testing the capacity and endurance of your bladder. So there is an accurate "toilet time", you can jump up and rush to the bathroom to solve your personal problems, because missing it will not affect your mood of watching movies.

35 minutes: Ann and Jack start to discuss the script and flirt with each other ... You have ten minutes before you arrive at Skull Island.

10 1 min: The big bug on Skull Island makes its debut ... then you can get ready to leave, because there will be a boring conversation time, about two minutes.

1 14 minutes: besieged by all kinds of bugs ... for four minutes, I rushed into the toilet this time, probably not because of internal urgency, but because of nausea.

139 minutes: Jack is engrossed in his own stage play ... but you have to hurry, because in two minutes, the prelude to King Kong's battle in Manhattan will begin.

Universal Pictures Universal Pictures: You must have noticed that when the background in the film turned to Times Square, a huge neon sign "Universal Pictures" appeared. You may laugh and think that Universal Pictures advertised in its own films, but it is not like this. According to Joe Letteri, a special effects artist, at 1933, this should have been the advertising space of Columbia Company, but Columbia Company did not allow them to use their own logo unless they paid for it ... so he had to fill in "universal pictures" with CGI instead.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Tyrannosaurus Rex Upgrade Tyrannosaurus Rex: The evolution of life on Skull Island is endless, so the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the 1933 version of King Kong upgraded Peter Jackson into a bigger and scarier beast-Universal Pictures gave it a new name "V. Rex". However, no one told Jackson and Vita's work partners, so they were behind the scenes.

Telegraph deadline: It was not until the autumn of 2005 that Universal Pictures decided to show King Kong in the cinema for three hours-40 minutes more than originally planned. This made the post-production of the film very busy. The special effects team of Vita Studio worked around the clock, and some even brought sleeping bags into the office. When the last two CGI shots were finished, the calendar had turned to165438+1October 28th ... There were only two days left before the media screening of the film.

Christmas lights Christmas lights: Central Park is decorated with flashing holiday lights, accompanying King Kong and Ann Law Hero to play on the frozen pond ... After filming this scene, naomi watts has finished all the filming, and she has packed her bags and is ready to go home. But King Kong's "real" andy serkis suddenly had a brainwave and persuaded Peter Jackson to remake a series of scenes of King Kong running on the streets of new york, because Serkis felt that running on the streets covered with a layer of Bo Xue should be like struggling on the slippery ice.

Yeah, that's right. It doesn't explain why a monster like King Kong didn't crush the thin ice in the pond. The moment Ann Law Hero saw King Kong, she was wearing only a sleeveless low-cut white dress in sub-zero weather. Why didn't her frozen lips turn purple and she didn't breathe white? 1933 in the original, was King Kong really dragged back to new york by that seemingly weak cargo ship (the remake didn't explain how King Kong was brought back to new york)? For this, Peter Jackson insisted on the correctness of the original. He and his staff have done experiments and think that this will not make him feel any discomfort for King Kong's thick skin.

Ze Mikis, Robert Robert Zemeckis: He is the producer of Peter Jackson's 1996 comedy The Scarer. This failed work almost destroyed Jackson's newly established Vita studio. When the studio had no funds to run, Ze Mikis hired him to make the computer special effects part of 1997 Contact-without Ze Mikis's timely help, Vita Studio would only face the fate of dissolution, and naturally there would be no birth of The Lord of the Rings series and King Kong. Long live Ze Mikis!