Chapter 220: Sister Stone Teaches Taylor Swift to Act

2009, the beginning of the New Year.

Looking at the domestic and international scenes, these few years before and after were an era of vigorous growth for the film and entertainment industry.

In the Chinese-speaking world, there were excellent films such as "Crazy Racer", "Cow", "Let the Bullets Fly", and "The Stolen Years";

Hollywood saw a cluster of special-effects blockbusters like "Avatar", "2012", "Transformers 2", and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

Especially "Avatar's" powerful sweep across the globe, shattering "Titanic's" box-office dominance of many years and shocking the world, thereby triggering a series of Hollywood technological upgrades.

Virtual cameras, facial capture, motion capture, and combined digital stereoscopic cameras,

plus the optimization of IMAX 3D special effects,

although this film's plot seems average by today's standards, it had a certain impact on Hollywood and even world cinema.

These technologies did exist in films before; motion capture was used in "The Lord of the Rings" and "Jin Gang", among others.

but "Avatar" was indeed a film that gathered the best of all and standardized production.