"Lone Moon", creating a universe for romance

The emotions of the audience watching are at the beginning.

"The horns are full of people, but that's the screening! Still at 6:30 pm in the working day in the small county seat, this scene is really not seen for a long time." The cinema in the small county is also lively.

The Chinese film market has a long -lost atmosphere of "New Year." Before the official release, the pre -sale of "Lone Moon" broke 100 million, and 97.17 million box office in the 28th was released on the 28th. As of the release of poisonous eyes, the cumulative box office had reached 479 million.

Such achievements seem to be reasonable. Gathering a lot of comedy such as Shen Teng and Ma Li, produced by happy twist, sci -fi+comedy types, etc., so that "Lone Moon" has a good selling phase, and Douban opened the reputation of 7.3, providing it provided it with it provided it with Capital that continues to heat up in the public opinion field.

But there are many unexpected. In addition to being surprised by the breakthrough of domestic films, in addition to the excitement, many people watched some strange "director Zhang Eating Fish" in the middle of starring Shen Teng and Ma Li. Why suddenly guide such a large -volume science fiction movie?

The middleman is the first -level proposition of "Lone Moon". At the beginning of the movie, the protagonist of Shen Teng Duguyue gave an annotation to his life. You do n’t want to take the lead in everything, you will not work hard, but you will not be the bottom. I do n’t want to get too well and do less application questions.

In the dialogue of the poisonous eyes (ID: domottumou), the food is defined with "middleman". And this seems to be outside the play, eating fish and the happy twist behind him are experiencing. A screenwriter, the director of the first independent director, a film company with a stage drama and a strong "comedy" label, has made a "science fiction" comedy blockbuster with a special effect of 95%.

Later, Duguyue made a shining "C male god" for the beloved person. "Lonely Lunar" also stood in the Chinese film market and the C -bit of the summer. Just yesterday, the movie market, which was silent for half a year, brought back to the lively situation of over 200 million box office in a single day -because of the appearance of "Lone Moon", it was a downturn for two months, and finally had hope.

This time, the spotlight of the industry was hit on the "middleman".

Before the film was released, we talked to several core main main creators. From the perspective of poisonous eyes, no matter what number of the final box office fixing, from the perspective of the film industry, this is a new milestone in domestic films. After 4 years and five months, "Lone Moon" is the epitome of China's film industrialization and domestic types of film exploration.

(Tip: This is the first part of the "Lone Moon" report, more first -hand stories and materials, still on the road)

romantic

At the beginning of 2018, Zhang Yiyu met with "Lone Moon".

After reading the original comics in one breath, the temperament of the turmoil and comedy instantly attracted him. He ate fish to know that this was the next story he was going to shoot. After contacting the copyright company, he expressed his impulse to the company with this idea.

"Lone Moon" comics

Such types and stories also hit Twist. Liu Hongtao, president of Happy Twist Films, told Poisonous Eyes (ID: DOMOREDUMOUMOU) that he was soon moved. And many years of understanding and cooperation made him believe that eating fish is the best candidate in this project.

Zhang Yuyu is a senior anime fan. When reposting the birthday wishes of the film officer, he said: "Since the one -round two -way foil becomes two -dimensional, my age seems to be still." Until now, until now, it is now. He still reads comics for a while before going to bed, and the study is full of anime -related objects. "I need to immerse themselves in that space, and they can keep stimulating me."

After opening the bow, Liu Hongtao had never shaken.

From novel writers, to signing Happy Twist to become a screenwriter and director. Twist and Zhang Yuyu have known each other for more than ten years, knowing his efforts and talents. As a director, Zhang Naiyu is good at comedy creation and is good at editing stories. He also shows group books and has cultural heritage.

Although it is obviously not an easy decision to carry the road with determination. When deciding to start the project, "Wandering Earth" has not yet been born, and the domestic film industry lacks experience in the production of science fiction movies, let alone a compound comedy type.

"Lone Moon" is almost five years old. During this period, Zhang Yi and his core team almost did this.

"We still have to rely on our ourselves"

In February 2018, Zhang Yuyu led the screenwriter team to start the script creation, from the outline of the story to the detailed story, to the sub -outline of everyone's satisfaction, it was December 2019. The main creation team started in about three months. Throughout 2020, the script is preparing and repeatedly modified. This process has span the epidemic and the film market stopping. Virtual shooting work (the full script simulation special effects of the actor's participation) is also completed in this year.

At the end of 2020, "Lone Moon" announced in Dongfangying.

When the poisonous eyes were asked how they had the courage to take over a complicated science fiction film, Zhang Yuyu bluntly said, "I didn't think so much." For him, he just encountered the "feeling" story he had always wanted to shoot. "I haven't done it. I don't know how much effort I need to pay, I just think this story is very interesting. When I really contact, I know that this job is so complicated and complicated, but I still like it for me. The whole process is very enjoyable. . "This kind of unreasonable optimism, self -confidence and enjoyment runs through the creation of Zhang Eating Fish. The special effects shooting that has never been touched before is a novel experience for Zhang eating fish. "I think the green cloth is infinitely possible. If it is a real shooting background, it will be basically fixed after shooting, and it will be slightly fixed at most, but on the green cloth, even if I have more ideas behind me, it can be completely in Implement it above. "

The kangaroo, who adventure with Duguyue in the moon, is the second male lead of the film. But for the film and television special effects industry, making a realistic animal is not much easier to build a moon.

But Zhang Yuyu is full of confidence in shaping animals. "I especially like animals since I was a child. I have raised cats and dogs now. I know all their details in my weekdays. I still have a blind confidence, I can definitely shape it. "

In this way, the director who has never directed the long film independently directed a "science fiction" film. Among the staff of various types of workers at the scene, most of them were more experienced than him, but the newcomers were not afraid of eating fish. He described the scene in a sentence in Quentin: "Everyone present may understand movie production than me. But I know the script better than them. "

Until April 2021, "Lone Moon" filmed for a total of 142 days. During this period, Dongfang Shadow had a crew of "Lone Moon". Since then, the long later work has continued for nearly a year, and it was not officially ended until soon before it was released.

This year's epidemic has also become one of the reasons for this film "late". At the beginning, about 200 people in the special effect company MORE VFX entered the project, but in April and May of this year, according to the Beijing epidemic isolation regulations, the company where the park is located can only be on the same day, and the large effects of the project are limited to restricted the amount of special effects. After the office, the staff can only implement the rotation system.

Hurry up and hurry up, and then caught up with "Lone Moon" and walked into the summer season.

Group soul

"I am blind and confident."

Zhang Yuyu always wrote his determination when he wrote his "Lone Moon", as if it was just a kind of "newborn calf is not afraid of tigers". But Liu Hongtao shared the other side of the confidence with his eyes.

In nearly 5 months of shooting, eating fish to sleep for two or three hours a day, but the height and weight of one meter eight fell to 10 pounds. "Every department will rest, but the director cannot rest. From the early to late period, you must want to understand how to shoot. Where is the perspective of the actor, where is the point of view ... you want to understand. You. "

Before the official startup, Zhang Yuyu silently made a full preview of the film, putting all his aesthetic design and shooting ideas in it. And this approach also made the team feel that although the newcomer director has not yet directed long films, he has done the ability and courage to control the project for "Lone Moon".

At the scene of the show, several starring actors also mentioned the experience of mobilizing emotions based on the director's animation. Due to the plot design, the film is divided into the set on the two clear heads of the earth and the moon, but most of the actors on the "earth" need to "react" by the performance of Shen Teng on the "moon". During actual shooting, the "Live Live" that actors watched together were actually the animation made by the director.

Since happy Twist has been involved in the film field, Twist has heard too much questioning to the newcomer, but he rarely shakes it. "From the first movie" Charlotte's Trouble ", each one came here, and it was a newcomer director. I never afraid of anything."

However, such a large project such as "Lone Moon" is unprecedented for the entire happy twist. Everyone participating in the project is all over the river.

Zhang Li, the producer of "The Lunar Moon", talked about a trivial matter when she was making production. When she first started production, she found that some crews would put the rice in a large bucket. During the rice, she scooped out with a big spoon to everyone. As a part of the crew, she felt that she was not respected. It may be cold, hard. "Why didn't we even do this little thing?" So, in "Lone Moon", the crew will put the rice in the insulation steaming box. No matter when the director puts the rice, the rice is hot.

Those who are familiar with Liu Hongtao are used to the light and light clouds of most things. For more than ten years, they have little insomnia in the face of big pressure, but during the "Lone Moon", he also insomnia.

During the epidemic in 2020, the offline performances of happy twist were stagnant. The cash flow of twist was interrupted, and the company and the industry were trapped in a difficult situation. Generally speaking, happy twist projects are lacking in investment, but they are used to introducing industry capital in the later stage of the project instead of the premium of the film share. And this time, in order to make "Lone Moon" not to step on the brakes, you must also change your habits.

As soon as most people heard the subject of science fiction, Liu Hongtao chose not to continue to speak. At the hard time, he found Zhongying and Ali Pictures. "They all have the courage to be conscious. After reading it, they will be a word, do it!" With the support of industry partners, the urgency of "Lone Moon" was solved.

Domestic "science fiction blockbusters", this seemingly out of reach, fell on everyone of the crew, was solved from a small inconspicuous and not so important trivial matter.

Perhaps this kind of heavy trust has given Zhang Yuyu's "blind and confident" capital.

Most of the actors in "Lone Moon" come from Happy Twist, making Shen Teng the idea of ​​Dugu Moon, and it is also what Zhang Naiyu thought about the story at the beginning of the story.

Shen Teng was very picky about the story of the script. Zhang Yuyu chose a step -by -step method to finalize his intention. At first, Zhang Yuyu only told Shen Teng that a very good story is very suitable for him, but he does not tell him what the specific story is; then he posted a small video of the story, which aroused Shen Teng's interest; finally the script finally took the script Send it, and wait for Shen Teng to talk about it.

At the shooting stage, Shen Teng also gave Zhang Yu's confidence.

"Teng Ge's creative ability and comedy performance experience is much richer than me. In the aspiring performance, he must be top, so every time I arrive at the scene, I just need to give Tengge." For example, the door of the door was just "a gun" and "the clothes flew". The remaining design was created by Shen Teng himself.

Ma Li saw Zhang Yuyu's sometimes "not allowed to eat". The phrase "fool" in the film allows Zhang Yuyu to perform the degree of not performing well at the shooting site, but Mali gave all the perhaps the right performance to Zhang Yuyu. "Actor acting requires emotions, and she has to perform different emotions. She performed up to 5 emotions at most." In this way, what Zhang Eating Fish needs to do it in the later stage to slowly figure out which emotion is more appropriate in the later stage. Essence

"She gave me a lot of space, even tolerance."

Hao Han, who plays the role of kangaroo, is also a signing actor of the happy twist. After receiving the invitation of Zhang Yuyu, he moved his home to the Beijing Wild Zoo, soaked in the zoo to watch kangaroos every day, and watched it for 4 months. After that, he followed the action director to conduct systematic training. Because of hanging Wei, Hao Han's legs hurt very seriously, but he said nothing. After the movie was released, many audiences did not know that behind the cute kangaroo, there was also an actor named Hao Han, for this reason.

Hao Han plays the kangaroo

In the post -screening exchanges that had been visited by the poisonous eyes, Shen Teng and Ma Li were introducing his role, and he always needed to introduce Hao Han's difficulty in a lot of space. After a screening on July 24, the "kangaroo" behind the scenes was played on the scene, and Ma Li wiped her tears after watching it. Hao Han also choked: "My mother's first sentence after reading it is that efforts are rewarded. But I also want to say that this effort is a inheritance, because there are examples of my brothers and sisters This is naturally achieved. "

Not only that, this step of Hao Han has also accumulated experience for "action capture actors" such a field that is not familiar with Chinese films.

"Twist's group soul is to hold each other and help each other, that is, he is willing to give for the other party." Zhang Yu said. The essence of this group soul is not complicated: everyone wants to tell the audience to the audience.

iceberg

After watching the early screening field, many practitioners told the poisonous eyes that after watching the movie, they would even forget that this was a science fiction film. The scenes on the moon are so real, real like a happy twist to move the stage of the Northeast Comedy to the moon, without trace.

But if you think about it carefully, you will realize: "How much work is this? How could it be hard science fiction? It may be too natural, forget this."

This kind of no trace was described as the tip of the iceberg by Liu Hongtao. "When we do science fiction, we must imagine all aspects of the future world. Even if the movie performs only a small part of it. This is like the audience sees a part of the iceberg on the sea level, but in fact creators want to want to want to think about Understand the complete iceberg. "

Li Miao, the art director of the film, is also the art director of "Detective of Chinatown 2" and "Assassination Novelist". Liu Hongtao is described as "a very magical person". When introducing the props he made, he is full of pride: "Movie The Gatlin, which was Shen Teng, was really a 3D printing. It was not a fake. He took us to the props workshop and told me how many printers were hit out at the same time. "

The interior scene of the moon base that the audience saw in the movie, all presentation, logo, and rolling information on the internal display screen, even at the scene, are in real time and synchronize with the plot. Li Miao believes that this is the atmosphere. To fit the story, there is no completely different thing. "When shooting, you took this one, what wheel is rolling. When you shoot again, you have to be that rhythm, you can't mess up."

For these behind -the -scenes workers, they not only work for "completion", but also for "perfect".

Cui Wenliang, the art scene, has previously participated in "Chinatown Detective 2", and has accumulated a lot of experience before. This time, he designed two moon cars for the film, of which the astronauts could remove the helmet in the cockpit. The design of the moon car is extremely complicated. What materials should be used, what kind of color and texture should be presented, how to use it, etc. All problems must be considered. In Qingdao Oriental Film, Cui Wenliang showed the total 4 -ton lunar car and said, "You have to give me another chance, I can let this car move."

Liu Hongtao was impressed by this sentence. "It is not acceptable to lose. It is better to do better than once. Everyone feels amazing. I am still dissatisfied. I want to do a better thing for you."

Behind all kinds of attempts, there are huge icebergs built by the travelers. Science fiction, heavy -duty production, virtual shooting, motion capture facial technology, etc., both "Wandering Earth" and "Assassination of Novelists" once spent a lot of time exploration, trial and error, and verification before gradually sophisticated. The smoothness and relaxation of "Lone Moon" is more like the results of the continuous progress of domestic films in the industrial technology field.

The 99 % of the "Lunar Moon" was completed in the sheds of Oriental Film Capital in Qingdao.

At that time, because of the epidemic, everyone was closed in a park, and only the film was filmed throughout the park. After all, the special effects team I used inherited them, and these teams also gave me experience. "

Zhang Eating Fish understands the industrialization of movies like this: disassemble a complex problem into multiple reasonable, scientific and executable details. The behind -the -scenes team and the director created the icebergs of "Lone Moon", and "Wandering Earth" and "Assassination of Novelist" paved the way for the birth of "Lone Moon". This may be the best "industrialization" often mentioned by the industry Example.

The birth of "Lone Moon" is not only a solid step of "industrialization", but also provides a question of understanding of commercial films.

As a sci -fi comedy type film that has been highly hoped, "Lone Moon" seems a bit light weightlifting: in the production of special effects, it is indeed a large number of types, and a strong sense of comedy has dispelled some of the grand and serious sense of seriousness. In the intensive laugh, the audience was moved, leaving tears and praise.

"This is the best way to solve the problem of the dilemma of the Chinese film market."

Some practitioners said to poisonous eyes that when industry habits analyze the market and study audience preferences, the emergence of "Lone Moon" proves the simplest logic: funny, sincere and moving movies, which is the answer to the question. And this is also repeatedly mentioned by poisonous eyes many times when the industry has fallen into trouble: the supply of superior business types with excellent content and emotional emotion is the most needed by the current market and audiences.

新人导演张吃鱼并没有把背负功成名就、拯救市场和大盘的使命挂在嘴边，而恰恰也因为这一点，他可以从容冷静地，将所有困难拆解成一个又一个让《独行月球》变With a good opportunity, and with the joint efforts of the happy twist and the creators, they realized the little wish of the initial "just want to tell this story".

Zhang Yiyu is also very firm in his goal: becoming an excellent commercial film director.

The best benchmark for his purpose is Spielberg and Cameron, and the favorite comics are "One Piece".

Between these three, there is a delicate common. "They are so old and can maintain such creative power and imagination. I think they must understand the law of more essential stories in order to achieve this level."

"Become an excellent commercial film director", this is not the goal that all directors are willing to reveal. More often, the directors are more willing to talk about the author's expression, technical details, and industry mission. But when he was eating fish, it seemed a bit different. He just wanted to shoot a story full of romantic temperament.

In the world of "One Piece", One Piece is seen by many people as the supreme treasure. Finding this treasure is also the reason why most pirates want to become "One Piece". But for Luffy, it is to be One Piece because "One Piece is the most free person in the world."

"Light the future of the future"

In the movie, Duguyue saved the earth and brought the light to the earth, and humans also gave back the light to Dugu Moon; in reality, "Lone Moon" is also a bunch of light in the film market this summer. At the moment when it was beaten, it took four years and strength to eat fish and twist.

We may not have to take the industrialization of Chinese film, type films, and the big expectations of the market to the "Lone Moon" and the people behind it, because for each of them, they are still looking for treasures, and they will always be looking for finding On the road of the ultimate treasure.

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