Nowadays, a simple and popular commercial movie can be truly popular. "Inception" is far from being able to sell well by quality and quantity. In addition to Duke's consistently good RP accumulation and the market appeal of actors such as Leonardo, the cultural transformation caused by the rise of Internet and electronic game culture is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

This is also the focus of Duke's promotional suggestions mentioned to Warner Bros., using Internet terminals to formulate some clever publicity methods to induce the audience's attitude towards the film and the direction of the participants.

In other words, to allow viewers who are generally baptized by the virtual society and role-playing electronic games to easily intervene as participants in the film's story, allowing them to participate in the production of the film's meaning specifically to "Inception", which is manifested as the movie fans' passionate interpretation of the plot of the film after its release, and the gathering of fellow enthusiasts and fanciful cultures has made the momentum of "Inception" higher than that of the wave.

Compared to the connotation or decryption, this is the real killer weapon of "Inception" that allows the audience to participate. It cannot be too difficult and elegant, nor too simple or too rough. Just like the scene in which Cobb asked Ariadne to design the maze in the film, the addition and decrease must be just right.

As for electronic games, this is better understood. If you see it for two hours and some viewers say "This is an electronic game", the film will basically be a great success∷▼Long∷▼Wind∷▼.

Duke also pays great attention to this aspect in shooting and post-production.

In some ways, Cobb, like Neo, has fallen into the matrix empire. Once he enters fields such as dreams and virtual reality, it will always be a dead cycle. No matter what, the film becomes a black party full of fake and real things.

It is precisely because it is a dream. You can do whatever you want, which also provides an excellent opportunity for Duke to create visual wonders.

To a certain extent, "Inception" can be said to be the Inception version of "The Matrix". The popularity of electronic games now allows movie fans to accept the story of "Inception" more interestingly.

After finishing the filming in Paris, Duke led the crew away from Europe and came to the Whitler Mountain Ski Resort in Canada to film the scene of the bunker attack.

To be honest, the second half of the film is the key to the success of Inception.

The biggest highlight of "Inception" is the solution to the dream in the second half of the four levels of the dream. Christopher Nolan sets up the difference in the sense of time between different dream levels, allowing the audience to hold their breath while witnessing a minibus falling from the bridge. The innermost part is Cobb going to the edge of the dream to meet his deceased wife, then the snow-capped gun battle, then the fighting in the building of weightlessness, and again the minibus falling from the bridge. Each level must complete the time travel at the same time.

So, whether the bomb will explode at the last moment has become the most concerned issue for the audience. The seemingly boring dream game was transformed into an action blockbuster by Nolan, which is the focus of the success of "Inception".

As for the "last-minute trick" where the gyro is still spinning, this is just the standard routine in Hollywood.

Moreover, if you play too much in your dream, it doesn't need to be explained clearly in the end. Why did Cobb wake up in the cabin? Is he still in a dream? Is his deceased wife's theory of indistinguishable reality and dreams correct? When the film ends, these question marks must be brought with them.

If we really want to trace the root of the source, "What is reality" is an eternal philosophical dilemma. Heidegger once said: "The existence that this existence exists for is always mine."

According to this phenomenological philosophy and theory path with a very self-awareness, as long as it is perceptually real, it is true that if Neo never wakes up in the feeding container, the virtual world is real to him, just like Neo's world. As long as the perceptual system does not call the alarm, it is meaningless to ask about the authenticity of the world.

However, for the audience, the greatest significance of these questions is that they will tirelessly pursue the truth after watching the video, and then use their own truth to convince others. They will watch the movie over and over again to find evidence to prove that their truth is the truth!

This is the biggest use of setting these question marks.

Whether the person who sets it is Duke or Christopher Nolan, this aspect must be the same.

The scenes of the ski resort are one of the most modified places in Duke. Almost everyone knows that action scenes are Christopher Nolan's weakness. Duke lets the professional team led by Jimmy Carter redesign the entire action scene, and in the shooting of these popular scenes, it is more like his style.

In fact, just like shooting "The Dark Knight", all the action scenes in "Inception" were overthrown by Duke. These are the things he is best at. Even though the action scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio and James Franco are a bit bad, there are corresponding stunt stand-in to use.

The shooting at the ski resort continued until mid-January, when Charlize Theron's scenes ended at the earliest, and she didn't have many shots.

Before leaving the Whitler Mountain Ski Resort, Charlize Theron found Duke specifically.

“Will there be time?”

Knocking into Duke's room, Charlize Theron looked at Scarlett who was studying the script and said to Duke, "Can you go out for a walk?"

Duke nodded to Scarlett, took down the cold-proof clothes from the hanger, put on a cotton-lined hat, and then walked out of the room with Charlize Theron and left the hotel where he checked in.

The weather outside was a little gloomy, and there were a few snowflakes falling from time to time. Because the weather was a little cold and the air pressure was a little low, the two of them did not walk far away, but just walked slowly towards the small square in front of the hotel toward the place with few people.

Thick leather boots fell on the bluestone floor and crushed the falling snowflakes. Charlize Theron picked up his pockets with both hands and said, "I just got the news that I have won the Oscar for Best Actress."

"Congratulations." Duke also received the news.

Charlize Theron stopped and turned to look at Duke, "How can I thank you if I want me?"

Of course Duke would not misunderstand the meaning of this sentence, thought for a while, and said, "If you have time to attend the opening ceremony of my team's first game at the start of the NFL season next time."

The Oakland Raiders he bought have moved to Los Angeles this season and are officially renamed to the Los Angeles Raiders. It is now January 2010 and the Super Bowl is about to be held. However, after the Los Angeles Raiders won the contracts of Tom Brady, Marshawn Lynch and others, the season is still in the running-in stage and has not entered the playoffs.

In the words of the team leader he hired, the team's poor record is also related to Duke, because after he bought the team, he never went to watch the ball on the spot.

Therefore, Duke is preparing to pay more attention to his team next season, after all, the profitability of the NFL team is also quite considerable.

Without any hesitation, Charlize Theron agreed, "I will definitely have time."

As she said that, the two continued to move forward, and the topic of discussion also turned to this Oscar. Duke could also hear from Charlize Theron's words that she knew very well that she would win the nomination, and that the possibility of winning the Best Actress Little Golden Man with the role of Ferosa is infinitely low.

Apart from Best Actress, "Raging Road" did not receive a heavyweight Oscar nomination, and the rest were technical awards such as best photography, best editing, best makeup and best art directing.

Obviously, except for Charlize Theron who contributed a great performance, the Academy did not want to give other affirmations to "The Road of Furious".

But among the various selections of the media and audience, "The Road of Furious" was the biggest winner of the film released last year.

Among the top 10 films of the 2015 year selected by the National Film Association, The Hollywood Reporter, Empire Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and other media, "Rampant Road" is not only on the list, but also ranked first!

Among the various votes targeting the public on the Internet, "Rampage Road" has also taken away almost all the titles of the year's best film.

With these, it is not important to Duke at all whether there is a college or an Oscar.

Besides, this is also a good thing. If he uses up all his character this year, it will inevitably affect his plan.

The time for this plan is very tight because it must be considered next year's Oscar, Duke has asked Nancy Josephson to submit the first draft of the registered script and the general plan to the Warner Bros. After "Inception" is released, it will be fully transferred to the work of that project.

There is only one motionless scene left in the filming of Scarlett. She is studying the script of that project.

Duke knew very well that time was tight, but after last year's Cannes Film Festival, he had some plans.

Moreover, he didn't want to invest too much time in an Oscar movie. The compressed months were just used to prepare and produce the importance of "Avengers" that far surpassed the Oscar Little Golden Man.

Duke and Charlize Theron gradually walked to the edge of the small square, and the topic turned from Oscars to the movie itself.

"By the way..." Charlize seemed to remember something, "The latest Hollywood script blacklist is out. Are you interested?"

"No." Duke shook his head directly, "I have no interest in the scripts and projects on the list."

At the moment when Hollywood is full of sequels, remakes and restarts, excellent original scripts are indeed guaranteed to a certain extent. The blacklist may not be a ‘best’ list, and the scripts do have a certain quality.

Most of the scripts on the blacklist are not large-scale films, but scripts that focus on the inner emotions of the characters, in other words, they are basically scripts with small costs, small investments, and small productions.
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