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Speaking of him, most people have no impression. After all, there are only four film and television works directed by him by 2022, one of which is still the episode.

But to talk about the movies he participated, it is well -known -the new film [Men] just released; directed [Announced] [Mechanical Ji]; screenwriter [Beach] [28 days of shock] [Don't let me go away ] [Special Police Judges] ...

He said that his movies were mostly driven by thoughts. He wandered out of the mainstream, and he "engaged" the story as a variety of identities.

He is -Alex Galan.

Novelist breaks into the studio

Speaking of Galan, a single occupation can no longer cover all his jobs.

In addition to being a film director and screenwriter, he is also a producer, a novelist;

He also wrote the plot of the game "Slave: Slave: Odyssey Westward Journey", and it is also the story director of the game "DMC: Devil May Cry".

There are many identities.

These occupations have a commonality -related to the story.

The reason is that the cultural atmosphere of Jialan's native family has affected him.

Galan was born in London, England in 1970. His mother is a psychologist and his father is a well -known British political cartoonist Nicholas Galan.

Father has participated in the artistic creation of the 2012 London Olympics

The works are exhibited in the Greater British Museum, London Museum and other places

Those sci -fi novelists who have affected Gagan, like Ray Brederburi (the influence of mother), John Windem (the introduction of father), all read under the recommendation of their parents, leaving a deep impression.

The famous "Three -pointed Tree Age" is a science fiction novel that has a great influence on him

The picture shows an adaptation movie in 1963 [Three -pointed Tree Age]

Thanks to the identity of the father cartoonist, because of the booming development of the cultural industry at that time, Galan was able to expose art and cultural works more widely, like Mobis's comics;

Like "Heavy Metal" and "Howling Metal"; like Alan Moore's works ("Overwatch" and "Marsh Monster");

Like the "2000.A.D." series of comics that affect him (also the original [Special Police Crippier] original) ...

Regardless of the mainstream or edge, Galan is crazy about knowing knowledge.

At one point, with the cultural environment of his father, Galan hoped to become a cartoonist one day.

He painted, wrote stories, and changed his manuscript.

But in his twenties, he found that his painting ability was not enough to support him to become a cartoonist.

Therefore, the novel has become another choice for him.

The experience of painting and competent comics laid a foreshadowing for his filmmakers in the future.

(His creation has a movie storyboard, the meaning of dividing the lens)

Of course, this cannot be mentioned that Galan's novel "Beach" published at the age of 26.

The novel was later moved to the screen by Danny Boyer, starring "Little Plum", and Tilda Svaton participated.

After the age of 17, Galan began a backpack trip and shuttled back and forth in the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia. During the Philippines, he wrote the story of the experimental utopian community that happened in Thailand's harbor.

The screenwriter of this novel was called "Fly King", the screenwriter of [Brooklyn] [Suicide Four Group], and the famous British contemporary writer Nick Hornebi, which is called "Fly King" of Generation (Generally referring to people born in 65 to 80 years).

Jialan himself does not like to compare these two books together

He feels that such behavior will misunderstand these two books

The Washington Post states: "This is a very intelligent debut novel."

"Publisher Weekly" is called "Galan is a good master of writing stories."

In short, the praise of Galan's "Beach" has more praise than criticism, and even the continuous fermentation of word of mouth has eventually become a cultural trend. The novel has been translated into 25 languages ​​and published. Nearly 700,000 copies were sold in early 1999.

But Danny Boyer's [Beach] was not so good.

The film affects the relationship between Boyel and the old partner Ivan McGraig.

At that time, Li Ao Nado, who was still handsome, was still in the limelight of the post -[Titanic] period, but with [Beach], he received the nomination of the 21st Golden Plum Awards.

This is not a rowing accident during the filming process; the local environment of Thailand was destroyed during the shooting, and it was involved in environmental protection lawsuits ...

Many years later, when talking about [Beach], director Danny Boyer felt that when he directed this movie, he "didn't like any character".

Of course, this film is by no means nothing. The film has invested 50 million, and the world has harvested $ 144 million.

At that time, Galan, who had just hanged the title of the screenwriter, already had a little future director Galan.

Like the mainstream, when "Beach" succeeds, he feels uncomfortable with the great reputation brought by success:

"I am scared of some of the praises I get, I should not have this treatment."

"Beach" also contains his thoughts and people's thinking:

"When will you do bad things for a good reason and become a bad person."

"The slight changes in the environment will always change people greatly."

"Whenever I hear some people express their views, I will always be vigilant and try to stay away, even if I agree with their views academically."

However, for the screenwriter, Galan, he had just entered the door of the movie, and he still needed to break into the movie world with the director of [Beach] Danny Boyer.

Tell stories in a change

Garland later collaborated with Danny Boyer in 2002, respectively, and the famous [28 days] and the unpopular science fiction movie in 2007 [Suncred]. These two are small cost British zombies (budget is only 5 million pounds), and one is a small and medium -sized science fantasy film with international cooperation.

For Galan, the two films are both learning and showing their fists.

When it comes to [28 days of shock], you will not ignore a master -George A. Romelo.

Romero's classic movie [Night of Living Dead] (1968) [Live Dead Liming] (1978) affects Galan's creation.

The "Biochemical Crisis" game also affects this movie.

Galan liked Robero’s [Live Dead Dawn] when he was a kid, but gradually forgotten it every time

The game reminds him how much zombie film type movie type

Boyle thinks that the classic science fiction "Three -pointed Tree Age" is also one of the sources of inspiration for Galan.

The cooperation between the two in Kalan sees [28 days] with some subversion and provocation (like hand -held photography style).

In DVD highlights, the two called [28 days] as "post -end horror movie".

Although it is not linked to the "Zombie Film" (Boyle has always denied [28 days] is a zombie film, Galan thinks it), but [28 days] did revive this type of horror film.

In 2004, the highly praised Zach Schneid version [Live Dead Dawn] was influenced by [28 days], and even 14 years later, [Busan Xing] can also see its shadow.

During the new crown period, reality was cleverly coincided with the movie again, and the streets of British empty were too similar to the movie.

The two main creators may not expect that the film has now become a popular culture that is closely connected to reality.

After [28 days of shock], Galan still participated in the production of the game adaptation movie [Make] as a screenwriter, but this project was finally dismissed.

At the same time, Boyer's film on fire protection also stopped due to protests. Suigulan handed over the script of [Suncred], and the three cooperation of the two began.

When Galan was thinking about [Suncred], he referred to the universe hot hypothesis.

Inspiration also comes from this article entitled "A Familiar Foresee Forecast of Humans", which blurred the boundaries of science and divineness.

At the same time, he also thought about if the sun death had on human beings, and was interested in the "if the survival of the entire planet fell to a person's shoulder" would affect his physical and mental impact ".

At that time, Boyer also hoped to directed a science fiction movie with space as the background. The enthusiastic two people quickly put them into work as soon as they shot it. Only in order to polish the script, it took more than a year to release the 35th version of the draft.

The film was made after more than three years. After that, the director Boyel admitted that he would not shoot science fiction themes again, and the film made this movie exhausted.

During the cooperation with Danny Boyer, Galand gradually learned to become a filmmaker from a novelist who broke into the studio.

In addition to learning from Boyle, another person is indispensable. He is the movie producer Andrew McDonald.

Since Boyer's film debut [shallow grave], McDonald is the producer. He has penetrated the front line of the crew and knows the work of everyone on the set.

He taught Galan how to make movies.

"‘ I do n’t understand, I do n’t understand ’. He will explain.”

Galan has also had an identity to engage in a story -producer.

Boyl, McDonald, and Galan's co -organized movies were [28 weeks of shocks] in 2007.

Talking about the production of [28 weeks], McDonald said:

"We were surprised by the great success of the first part, especially the United States.

We saw the opportunity to make a sequel. This series already has a fixed audience, and we have good ideas to continue to satisfy them. "

Although the director was changed, [28 weeks] still received good benefits.

And Galan participated in the adjustment of some scripts again, continuing to create stories in the dual identity of the screenwriter/producer.

In 2010, Galan also partnered with McDonald, produced and screenwriter, and adapted his friend Shihei Yixiong's novel on the screen.

It is starring Andrew Cofeld, Kerry Morgen, and Kalar Knightlie [Don't let me go].

In the morning, Jialan was fond of this novel. Before reading the novel, he asked an old friend to ask for the novel copyright.

Even before the novel was published, it was written early 96 pages, and the script divided into several chapters lay the foundation for the adaptation of the movie.

Shihei Yixiong recalled that Galan wrote a outline for a long time and sought his opinion as soon as possible.

Shihe is very satisfied with Galan's script, and it has not been modified from the outline to the final version to the film.

Director Mark Romanic said when the movie said:

"Since I finished reading this novel, shooting it has become my dream. The idea of ​​Shihei Yixiong is so bold, Galan's adaptation is sensitive and precise, the actor is perfect, and the staff is great."

Garland's screenwriter work is familiar with the work, and through the tempering of the previous work, he is more calmly adapted to the work of the producer.

"I am a movie producer, and I did not work like a writer. He (Shihei Yixiong) is that writer."

As a small -cost literary film [Don't let me go], he finally received a lot of positive evaluations, but at this time, Galan had already rubbed his palm and prepared another movie- [Special Police Crime]. [Special Police Judge] comes from the serial comic "2000.A.D." that Garland has seen in the early years.

A version was released in 1995 and starred by Silvist Starone.

This "new" work is not released in 2012, but the actual operation time is quite long.

The film was announced in 2008, but Galan was already writing a script in 2006.

At the end of 2010, director Pitt Tel Avis was in place and was still produced by Galan and his familiar old friends.

The initial script is still more fans direction

Galan re -sorted out the daily stories of a short and powerful judge

[Special Police Judge] After the film was filmed, insiders said that because of the creative differences between high -level, the director was dried aside during the later production and editing.

Galan participated in this work, and the content he did was enough to support him to seek the title of a joint director (although he did not ask for it in the end).

Many years later, the film starring Karl Ebin talked about this past in an interview. He said:

"The success of [Special Police Crippier] is due to Grandland. Many people have not realized that Galan actually directed this movie ...

I just hope that when people think of Jialan's movies, don't forget the [Special Police Crippy], which is the director of the director he directed before [Mechanical Ji]. "

During the development of [Special Police Judges], Galan Lingguang appeared, which prompted the "real" director debut of the "real" director of his reputation- [Mechanical Ji].

Shoot the story by yourself

Alex Galan's imagination of [Mechanical Ji] has a long history. Don't forget the science fiction classics he watched when he was a kid.

At the age of eleven or two, he used a computer code and experiments. The sensitivity of the teenager always made him feel that the machine had his own ideas.

Later, he discussed with a friend who studied neuroscience for many years. The friend insisted that:

The machine will never have perception.

In order to find the answer, Galan started many years of research.

During the [Special Police Crippy], Murry Shaanhan (he later became a scientific adviser to the film with Adam Lurodford) about "consciousness and incarnation".

[Mechanical Ji] The story is beginning.

Through Turing test, "Chinese room", "knowledge demonstration" and other experiments, as well as movies such as [2001: Space Roaming] [Soul Search],

There is also the supplement of Ludwig Vitgustein and others, and the story of [Mechanical Ji] becomes clearer.

In the past, the experience of developing film projects allowed Galan to treat [Mechanical Ji] more carefully. He cut off the traditional action scene to control the film's budget, so as to get complete creative freedom during development.

The entire movie is shot in real -world, without using a green screen or action capture.

Eva's robot body consists of a tight -fitting body of a polyurethane as a material.

There are about 800 visual effects lenses in the later production, of which 350 belong to the "robot".

[Mechanical Ji] Realizing Galan's thinking and reflection of reality. After the movie was released, rotten tomato's comment believes that:

Movies are more creative rather than effective, but it is still well visually presenting, and it is a very charming science fiction film.

Oscar recognized Galan's play ability, and he nominated the 88th Oscar Best Original Script Award.

It can be said that the director Garland won his own popularity and filmed the story he wanted.

Soon the second movie he directed came from stopping.

[Mechanical Ji] The executive producer Scott Luding hired Jialan to the director and screenwriter of the film adaptation of the film "The Southern Realm". This is the film [annihilation].

In the treatment of [annihilation], Galan was only adapted based on the first part.

"When I created [annihilation], I only had the first manuscript, although I knew the author planned to go out of the trilogy.

But I haven't thought about the trilogy. "

Galan also did not adapt according to the first novel. With the permission of the author Jeff Wan Demir, Galan captured the dream -like characteristics of the novel and adjusted the script in his direction.

The visual effects of the film continues some configurations of [Mechanical Girl], such as the director of visual effects, chief special effects company, and so on.

During the internal review, the producer of the sky dance felt that [annihilation] was too rational, too complicated,

Requires to modify, like the character of the protagonist Natalie Portman, the ending of the movie, so that more audiences can accept it.

But Scott Ruudin, who has the final editing right, stood on the side of Galan, and he didn't want to change the movie.

Of course, the box office was as lost as the producer worried.

However, this may be what the "engaged" story of Garland's "engagement" story. His movies are not pure commercial films, even if [annihilation] is the same as Natali Potman.

He said:

"To some extent, I hope the movie really brings the audience."

Galan hopes that the audience is a participant in the film narrative. The audience wants the audience to be open. They are willing to participate in the experience of the movie instead of just entertaining through the movie for two hours.

"The audience and I each accounted for 50 %. I only provided half of the narrative, and the remaining half was determined by the audience in a sense.

What he thinks of this story depends on his subjective judgment and his worldview.It is important to let the audience participate."

In the subsequent episodes [Developer], Galan is still "engaged" story, niche, science fiction, and thought -provoking, just like those movies.

This may be the biggest difference between him and those mainstream filmmakers.

He is loyal to his own story, whether as a novelist, a screenwriter or a producer or director, he uses his own techniques to create small and fine works.

The thriller terrorist theme of 2022 [Men], we know that Galan played again this time.

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