Made in Hollywood

In the converted studio of the Hughes Aircraft Factory, several agents protected a gray-haired old man, constantly shooting the opposite side with shotguns, as if there were powerful enemies in the air opposite.

"The Air Force has responded!"

"They're going to send F-22 Raptors to Las Vegas," shouted a sharp black agent hiding behind a computer desk.

"Cut!"

Behind the director's monitor, Duke stopped, "This is over!"

More than a dozen staff members immediately walked into the filming venue to clean up the mess, while Duke led the crew to film.

In the shot just shot, black people can be said to be a very necessary choice, but Duke did not make a funny non-mainstream, he is not Michael Bay, he will not join the absurd and funny shit, and directly cut off the black character, Replaced by black agents from the Seventh District.

Every director has his own style. Even if the filming is also a commercial film, there is a huge difference between Duke's and Michael Bay's styles.

The crew left the venue, which was almost destroyed in the shooting scene, and moved to the other side of the studio. The most striking thing here is the towering Megatron model. Although it is only made of polystyrene, it is also Lifelike, not to mention processed by the camera lens, even to the human eye, it seems to have vitality.

As Duke said, what the film needs is not a bulky and cold machine, but an advanced intelligent life like human beings.

Duke is orderly directing the operation of the entire crew, and it has been nearly a week since he returned to the studio to shoot. Compared with the shooting of "The Dark Knight", he has less stringent requirements on the performance of "Transformers", whether it is Sam or Mikaela also does not have much room for actors to play, let alone Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard's acting skills are more than one level worse than Heath Ledger and Christian Bale. Even if their acting skills are similar, these two roles make it impossible for them to play.

Sam is just the voice of the teenage audience on the screen, Mikaela's existence is simpler, a vase.

The relatively simple request also allowed the filming to proceed fairly smoothly, although Duke noticed a sharper conflict between Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard. But he didn't pay much attention to it at all. After he warned, both of them were smart and didn't put the contradiction into the shooting.

At least it didn't affect the shooting.

This is enough for Duke, the Hollywood crew never gets along, and as long as it doesn't affect the film, Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard have nothing to do with him even if they regard each other as their number one enemy.

Duke wouldn't be foolish enough to think he said a word. Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard would let go of their conflicts and become loving friends.

In fact, most of Hollywood's crews are in this state now.

In this circle of fighting for fame and fortune, it is true that there are no actors who have a strong relationship, but no one will casually believe and approach other people.

Shoot a video. Then the main actor of the film becomes his own friend, and only a director with a water in his head would do such a stupid thing.

Such as Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, how to see these two are good friends, but Duke in the circle is clear. The partnership between the two is far greater than the friendship between them.

Most of the actors who have worked with Duke are just simple working relationships.

Fighting in Hollywood for so many years. Duke is well aware of the complexity and change of this circle, let alone friends, even former best friends like Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts will turn against each other for competing for a role.

It can also be said another way. None of the actors Duke worked with would be part of his team, including Tom Hanks.

His production style is also determined, the actor's acting skills are not a particularly important part.

From entering Hollywood to the present, in the films that Duke has shot, the only roles that actors can fully play are Captain Miller and the Joker.

The various departments of the crew took their place one after another, and Duke also walked up to the huge Megatron model and explained a few words to Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard. The former explained the truth of Megatron's coming to earth through his lines. The latter has basically no lines, but the camera will still take care of it properly. She must show her sexy figure as before.

"The twenty-seventh scene, the nineteenth act..."

The voice of the field recorder quickly sounded, "Start now!"

A group of people looked at Megatron with astonished eyes and walked towards it. Agent Simmons of the seventh district introduced, "This is NBE-1!"

"Sorry, sir," Andrew Garfield interjected, with his hands in his pockets, "I didn't mean to interrupt you, but this is Megatron! He's the leader of the Decepticons!"

"He's been frozen since 1935," another agent said, pointing to Megatron. "Your great-great-grandfather discovered it, the greatest discovery in human history."

The close-up camera swept past Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard, who was next to him, and stayed on Amber Heard's body for two seconds, giving her a close-up close-up. Only then went to Agent Simon's side.

"What you see is the source of modernization." The agent of the seventh district walked up and down with his hands behind his back, "chips, lasers, spaceflight, cars, all of which were reverse engineered on him. get."

He walked up to Andrew Garfield and made a special accent, "NBE-1, that's what we call him!"

Maybe it's because the actors are not very demanding. The few scenes in the morning went well. Even in group scenes, the number of NG appearances was relatively small. In the afternoon, several scenes involving the source of fire and robots were also After a few shootings, it was announced and the crew was able to finish work ahead of schedule.

Although the crew ended work ahead of schedule, Duke did not finish his work. Back at Warner Studios in Burbank, he went to the special effects studio set up by Industrial Light and Magic to check the progress of the special effects production.

The number of special effects shots to be used in this film far exceeds that of Iron Man.

The opening work of "Transformers" can be said to be the one with the best professional reputation and the most organized plot in the entire series, but it is also the one with the fewest appearances of Transformers, not to mention the first actor Optimus Prime Shan. It's too late, even if it's other shots, Transformers is basically a flash.

In Duke's hands, he performed a considerable operation on the film, the most typical of which was to streamline the plot and characters, thereby giving more time to the film to Transformers.

Especially Optimus Prime, according to his conception, Optimus Prime must appear at most about twenty-five minutes after the beginning of the film.

The result is a reduction in the role of human beings.

This will inevitably lead to criticism from some professionals, but who cares about them?

After the film is released, the audience will care about the fate of the Transformers, the fight scenes, audio-visual effects and special effects.

The number of appearance shots of Transformers increases, and the special effects shots will also increase. It takes a year to complete the special effects of such a film. From the time of determining the design and shape of the Transformers, the special effects artists of Industrial Light and Magic Busy special effects production.

However, Duke will also limit the reliance on computer graphics of Transformers and background elements in action scenes, most of the crashes and explosions are mostly shot live, with camera footage placed in the vehicle impact and explosion scenes for the scene to see. look more exciting.

The design of Transformers is extremely complex. Even a simple action like turning a wrist requires dozens of visual components. Each gun of Ironhide is composed of about 10,000 parts. Bumblebee uses a panel to act as an eyebrow. Multiple parts of the face are also rotated to show the effect of a smile, and the eyes of all Transformers characters have been dilated and brightened.

Among them, Duke also specially instructed Industrial Light and Magic to lighten the eyes of Optimus Prime and other characters moderately, so that some audiences would not be able to distinguish between Autobots and Decepticons because of the chaotic scenes.

This way the distinction becomes very simple, the red eyes are the Decepticons, and the blue-green ones are the Autobots.

Industrial Light and Magic has been designing and producing computer animations of Transformers' deformations for the past few months. They carefully compared every detail on the car model. At first, the deformation process they designed followed the laws of physics, but this way The result is that it looks neither exciting nor fluid enough

For such a movie with special effects as its main selling point, this is simply fatal.

Later, ILM also proposed an unreliable plan to use liquid metal on the surface of the King Kong character, and was trained by Duke. He only replied to ILM one sentence - this is Transformers, not T1000!

Until now, ILM has opted for a 'Cube' style that completely abandons the laws of physics, so that whether it's static or dynamic deformation, Transformers will look more interesting, real, dynamic and fast, rather than like clumsy beasts.

An important decision in the ILM stunt production process was to keep the wheels touching the ground for as long as possible, so the Autobots could deform while maintaining motion, maintaining a basic sense of realism.

These plans have also been approved by Duke. He knows where the selling point of the movie is. The boxy and bulky Transformers are simply a disaster for such a commercial sci-fi film.

In addition, Duke specially asked action director Jimmy Carter to collect several free-kick performances and videos of action films incorporating judo, muay thai and other fighting styles, and provided them to the special effects animators of Industrial Light and Magic for observation, in order to make the film in the film. The fight scenes look better.

Special effects production is undoubtedly the top priority of this film. During the studio shooting, Duke and ILM continued to communicate and exchange views on this. By the time Duke left Los Angeles and went to Las Vegas, special effects production had already been completed. Basically on the right track. (To be continued ~^~)

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