Dear guests, the legendary June 8th is coming.
Is the trumpet of the charge already ringing in your ears?
Yes, there are still two days until the release of the movie "Warcraft" in your dreams.
The influence of the Warcraft series on Chinese players is unprecedented, and I believe that for most Warcraft players, this epic story has long been cherished. But how much do you know about the specific details of the movie "Warcraft"?
Tingting, a North American correspondent of the 1905 Film Network, conducted an exclusive interview with the director and protagonist of the film in the front, and we will take a look at how the creators made this epic masterpiece.
1905 Film Network Monograph Interview, Writer / Tingting
I have to admit that this upcoming film has now completely lost its reputation, and the freshness index on Rotten Tomatoes has dropped to 19%. In American movie magazines, the big Mac IP movie created for 160 million US dollars, Wanda bought the legend's first blockbuster "Warcraft", and only got 25 million US dollars of first weekend box office predictions.
So, wowers, are you still going to see it?
Warcraft will be released on Chinese mainland June 8, two days before it was released in the United States. There is a saying circulating in wow Tieba: "The college entrance examination can be re-read again, but the premiere of the "Warcraft" movie is just one time." ”
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The story begins when the orcs leave the land of Draenor, the chiefs Ogrem and Durontan are the leaders of the tribe, and the outsiders who do not have a temporary residence permit obey the king's instructions and begin to search for the mountain, and find a clearing in the land of Azeroth to camp. In order to expand their territory, the orcs immediately clashed with the humans of the "neighbor" Stormwind City. King Ryan of Stormwind City has to face not only the invasion of the orcs, but also the devastating ravages of the demonic forces of Guldan, who summons the Little Lothar and the spell-wielding Madiven to unite with the seven nations to form the Lordaeron Alliance to fight the enemy together.
Warcraft Character Relationship Diagram
Therefore, the movie takes place before the rise of the orc leader Sal, the plot is not only a tribe vs. alliance, but also a half-beast female adulterer Garona in the middle, and her character description sounds very draggy: "Born in two worlds, isolated from the world." "On the poster, the orc tribe is red and the alliance is blue. Since ancient times, red and blue have been out of cp, but in the "Warcraft" movie version, this relationship between enemies and friends is a bit sadistic.
Some time ago I watched the on-demand screening of "Warcraft" in North America, and as a fan who has never played a game, the film gives me the feeling that:
The story is very straightforward, the relationship between the characters is not complicated, and it is completely understood; Orcs speak more than they test their hearing; Lothar, Durontan, Khadeja, Garona... The names are a bit unfamiliar; Visually, it is definitely not the "five-cent special effect" that everyone said after watching the trailer; But a two-hour movie about the survival of the race still doesn't have much narrative space to unfold on the characters.
So the question is, what are you going for when you are ready to buy a ticket or have already bought a ticket?
Brushing up on various topics of Warcraft movies over and over again on reddit and Weibo, I found that most people still want to see it, and these people can be roughly divided into four categories:
• Players, movies are good or bad, for love, all have to watch.
• Not a player, but curious if you like to play other games or like this type of movie.
• Non-gamers who don't like these movies, but still want to go see a hilarity.
• No feelings, but the boyfriend or husband wants to see it, so he accompanies it
Reddit's Warcraft discussion board
Film director Duncan Jones
I've always liked director Duncan Jones, who has a delicate grasp of the characters and the time and space he is in, the camera is full of his interpretation of the characters, and he is also very good at directing actors to interpret a special sense of loneliness of men. He has only made two feature-length films, "The Moon" and "Source Code," which detonated the unprecedented acting skills of Sam Rockwell and Jack Gyllenhaal, respectively.
Director Duncan has always dressed modestly
Warcraft proves Duncan's ability to master big scenes and complex character relationships, which is a plus. Compared with "Moon" and "Source Code", which have a strong sense of loneliness, Warcraft requires more large scenes and motion capture special effects than the depiction of characters, and the narrative is more straightforward.
In an interview, Duncan said, "I took over Warcraft to end the bad luck of the game movie," Duncan said with a smile, "I'm an online gamer, and the world of games gives me an exit from reality." His favorite role-playing game is Ice City Legends.
Duncan's life is like a line from Woody Allen's new film "Coffee Commune": "Life is a comedy, and the screenwriter is a sadistic maniac." On his wedding day, his wife's doctor informed her of breast cancer; while his career was peaking with Warcraft, His Dad David Bowie died. In June, regardless of Warcraft's record, his first child will come into this world.
Such a life really needs to escape from reality by playing games.
Duncan revealed that the biggest project of the whole film was to build large scenes, because he decided to use motion capture technology to make orcs and let hundreds of actors perform, rather than relying on computer special effects to do animation. He said the long wait was hard to endure, and every day he looked forward to seeing new synthetic videos, and that patience was due to his recently deceased father, David Bowie.
Warcraft motion capture compositing
"My dad and I love doing stop-motion animation together, and it's a hobby that we never tire of. From this, I learned how to conceive of scripts and move camera positions. He said that in the creation, courage is the first, and making movies must have the courage to go off the ordinary way. I think that after making this big Hollywood production, I'm going to go back to the independent film industry and find some projects that inspire me. ”
Duncan admitted that he plans to make a trilogy, but it also depends on the box office of the first part to decide whether to continue shooting. The core character of warcraft, Sal, can stand up to become a very good chapter, but the first part needs to let the orcs find their home.
Travis Famir as Anduin Lothar
The male protagonist, Travis Famir, is an Australian, who plays an honest decadent style and speaks casually, more abstract than Thor's English. Trevis said that three generations of ancestors like to build houses on their own land, the science is architectural engineering, but true love is sports, and later discovered by scouts, it began the road of interpretation. When he reached the age of 37, he got his first blockbuster protagonist, and he played with his molted fingers and said, "When I was young, my face was full of acne, I didn't have confidence, I was nervous about auditions, and I smelled a lot of opportunities." Moreover, I was not unspoken by the big names in the circle, which led to the late debut. (Laugh very seriously)
In a thirty-minute interview, Travis kept talking about the words "money" and "job" — how much do you guys want to make money? He said he never did free work and didn't think about acting properly, and it wasn't until he got paid for the first time that he decided it was a lucrative career.
Your circle is so big, why are you the only one so honest?
This brother who confessed that he preferred to ride horses under the blue sky and green grass also brought his serious and simple side to the screen, which made Lothar have a sense of affinity.
Travis's real-life conversation is closer to the sperm donor he played in "McGee's Plan"
Paula Barton as Garona
The heroine, Paula Barton, has an affinity of her own. When I took a picture with her, she gently asked me where I came from, saying that she had never visited the country and was looking forward to the world premiere in China and wanted to see the real China. We all know that most Hollywood actors go to China to promote it, and there is no chance to see the grounded culture, but Chinese audiences will see Paula's smile Dafa.
Paula says she knows World of Warcraft is the world's most popular multiplayer online role-playing game (mmorpg), with over 100 million registered users and heard that there are many female players. She said, "Since I took this job, I haven't been able to talk to people well. Everyone was asking me about the character, but I didn't know much about her game's image, and if I thought every day about whether the players would like my version, I would definitely be scrapped. ”
When it comes to green Garona's appearance, Paula is embarrassed. "Changing the skin to green in the post is a very temporary decision, the post-special effects are changing rapidly, when I first took over the project, I thought I was going to paint it green every day, but fortunately I didn't need to do it," Paula kept frowning, but still with a signature smile, "anyway, she and I look completely different, gamers see my screen image, there may be a sense of nostalgia." 」 ”
It seems that she does not think that her image is beautiful.
Paula Barton on set
Games vs. Movie Player vs. Star
Since The Super Mary was made in 1993, Wiki has documented 33 films based on best-selling games and have been released; this year, in addition to Warcraft, there is Angry Birds, which was released on May 20 and Assassin's Creed on December 21. Among them, "LoneLy" has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score, with a freshness of only 1%, which is almost no longer a tomato species. In the previous five years, Prince of Persia: Blade of Time had failed by 36 percent, far ahead of other game movies.
Box office and rating statistics for movies adapted from the game
In order to turn the game movie over the reputation, a Warcraft player director gathered a group of rookies outside the circle to do the cast. Many of the cast members on the set knew nothing about World of Warcraft.
Neither Travis Faimir, who plays Alashi's last bloodline, Norse Barton, nor Paula Barton, who plays the half-beast woman Garona, has played the game before, and Faimir admits that he took the film because of the "high pay". Wu Yanzu, the upper body of the main villain Guldan, cannot claim to be a player, and his wife Lisa S is the real "Master of Warcraft".
Guldan is indeed very dramatic, Duncan said: "His beautiful face makes Wu Yanzu unable to show his talent, this time he has the opportunity to play the bad guy, and also tried motion capture, he should be very happy." 」 ”
When asked if Wu Yanzu was an actor that Legendary Pictures "recruited" to cater to the Chinese market, Duncan laughed and did not answer positively, but only said that he and Wu Yanzu were friends who had known each other for several years.
In addition to the director, Rob Kasinski, who plays "Hammer of Doom" Ogrem, is the ultimate Warcraft player in the entire team. The male protagonist Travis said happily, "Robert is a living dictionary of Warcraft, he once participated in the online game tournament, and seems to have won the top ten." He's definitely that addictive type. ”
Rob Kasinski learned about the Warcraft casting on the set of Pacific Rim. He pulled out his laptop between scenes and started playing Warcraft, only to be seated next to him by Jillian Share, the producer of Warcraft. Kasinski was a little famous at the time, but he also took on supporting roles, and he worked hard for the production team for half a year, and even said that he was willing to carry the bag for the heroine Paula. This stalking spirit finally brought him the opportunity to play the key character of the Hammer of Doom. I don't know what Kasinski thinks of these fellow actors around him who are very indifferent to the game...
On the online Warcraft player website twitch, players who play while playing games every day can make money by the number of fans, 2 dollars per 1000 followers, an average of 150 dollars per player per hour, and the person with the most attention can easily collect 1200 knives in 60 minutes.
Asked what he thought of making money from playing Warcraft full-time, Duncan laughed and said, "I regret not streaming my entire directorial process while making the movie, and missing the opportunity to make a lot of money." ”
Duncan Jones said that playing games is a manifestation of a desire to control, that each player has their own World of Warcraft, that everyone has the sadness of watching the heroes fall, with the hope of revenge from the lonely, and that the story is never about kings and enemies.
While I'll never have that passion for Warcraft, players, no matter how high your expectations are, June 8 is destined to be a day of nostalgia for you.
Written by /Tingting Editor/wy, vivi