Roland emmerich's personal experience.

Emmerich is good at making special effects movies. In addition to the blockbuster Godzilla, the most familiar one is believed to be Independence Day starring will smith. Independence Day tells the story of aliens invading the earth, and will smith leads a team to defend the earth. The content of the story was shocking, and a large number of new stunts were used at that time, which became the most eye-catching movie in the world that year. The scene of the destruction of the White House still makes fans talk about it.

After entering the 1990s, he moved to Hollywood and directed the sci-fi action film Star Raiders from 65438 to 0994, which attracted much attention. Two years later, he directed Independence Day starring the famous black actor will smith, which was a great success and became the box office champion of that year. 1998 He wrote and directed the sci-fi horror film Godzilla, and won the Best Director Award in the European Film Awards. In 2000, The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger, also won numerous praises.

In 2004, the classic disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" was released, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, emmy rossum and Sierra Ward, in which the scene of human society on the verge of collapse was very thought-provoking. In 2008, he directed the new sci-fi epic film "Ten Thousand Years of Prehistory". The blockbuster "20 12" directed by him, which was released at the end of 2009, once again shocked the world.

In 20 13, the disaster action blockbuster "The Fall of the White House" starring Oscar-winning actress Jamie Foxx and popular action movie star channing tatum was released. In the early 1990s, emmerich became fascinated with making movies about future science fiction and interstellar legends. For example, Moon 44 in 1990 tells the story of the depletion of mineral resources on the earth in 2038. In order to compete for the only remaining resources of other planets in the universe, robots and humans launched a star war. Two years later, he filmed "Universal Warrior" (also known as "Devil's Order") starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, telling the story that the US government took the dead Vietnam veterans as new experiments, frozen them and conducted special training, thinking that they had erased all their memories. At that time, Jean-Claude Van Damme, an increasingly popular action star, played Luke, a veteran who was frozen and domesticated as a robot. After a little memory recovery, he and another experiment evolved into two sides of good and evil, and finally launched a semi-robot war. Through the stargate of 1994, emmerich once again raised his imagination and set the beginning of the story in ancient Egypt. When a mysterious device named "Stargate" was discovered, a door between the earth and a galaxy millions of light years away was opened. The army captain played by Kurt Russell was sent to explore the unknown universe through the "Stargate", but when he got there,

At 1996, emmerich declared his peak moment with Independence Day. At that time, this summer blockbuster gathered will smith, bill pullman, Jeff Goldblum and other stars, among which the images of aliens and the experimental scene of "5 1 area" were very shocking, because in previous science fiction films, aliens were often imaginary invisible creatures, while Independence Day not only produced realistic alien props, but also applied computer special effects to them in a large area. Finally, we saw wonderful pictures of will smith bickering with aliens and even hand-to-hand combat, especially when Smith dragged dying aliens into the "5 1 zone", which was even more dishonest. Smith punched and kicked and cursed a lot of slang. The scene design is very classic. Independence Day, which combines computer special effects, doomsday, heroism and American humor, achieved a global box office success of more than 800 million dollars that year, which opened the door to emmerich's career in Hollywood.

So the director of Godzilla in 1998 is emmerich. Godzilla, the monster in the film, first escaped from the Sea of Japan, and then launched a devastating attack on Manhattan, new york. Later, we learned that Godzilla just wanted to find a place to lay eggs quietly, but in the end he was killed by helicopter and missile fire. But because the plot of this movie is so stupid, just like a computer game, it didn't get a good reputation in that year. Matthew broderick, the hero of this film, was laughed at by his peers for starring in this film. 1992, Samsung Pictures of the United States was authorized by Dongbao of Japan to shoot Godzilla. Originally expected to be filmed and released in 1994, it was finally released in 1998 after many twists and turns. At the request of emmerich, the shape of Godzilla was redesigned to make it more flexible. However, after the film was released, this "improved version" of Godzilla was not loved by traditional fans of Godzilla.

There is a huge gap between the traditional images of Godzilla in the United States and Godzilla in Japan and the expectations of fans. It is said that at the beginning of filming, Sony Corporation of Japan (the shareholder of the film company) gave the producer a memo with details of Godzilla. However, the screenwriter of this film, This rumor was released by Time magazine when the film was released, but this rumor with strong American bad taste style may be just a reporter's joke. Of course, the film's handling of monsters is realistic without losing its aura, and it has won nearly $300 million at the box office around the world. Therefore, until today, when it comes to disaster movies, emmerich's version of Godzilla is still a classic at the forefront.

Between Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow, emmerich directed the Patriot starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger in 2000. In this film, mel gibson plays a farmer. After his son was killed by a crazy British officer, he took up arms, became the leader of the colonial militia, joined the American revolution, and was determined to avenge his son. After the release of Patriot, it did not continue the previous box office popularity of Independence Day and Godzilla, but in terms of comments, it was overwhelmingly praised by fans and the most hesitant statement of film critics. Many people think that making costume films is not suitable for emmerich, so two years later, he regained his glory with The Day After Tomorrow.

The success of The Day After Tomorrow once again established emmerich's position in the field of disaster films. The film is full of stars, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, emmy rossum, Selaward and other old and new stars. In the film, the idea that destructive weather will eventually form because of human destruction of the environment and the intensification of global greenhouse effect is very fresh, but it is close at hand. After the release, it topped the box office list and set off a global movie craze. The poster of the Statue of Liberty, whose film was frozen, has also become the object of fans' keen collection.