Made in Hollywood

Turning to December, some of the scenes in the studio ended. Duke pulled the entire crew to Las Vegas. After all, Las Vegas is a busy city. The shooting time was Tina Fey and It was finalized after many consultations by the Las Vegas City Hall.

Despite the strong support from City Hall, Duke didn't have much time to shoot, and the ending scene was only filmed for a week. Fortunately, all Transformers will be generated using CGI in post-production, and they don't have to shoot their shots.

However, Duke is still fully focused. Before shooting each shot, the effect of Transformers must also be considered. The shooting speed is not fast, but it just keeps running according to the plan.

But there are always accidents during the shooting, and Duke sometimes comes up with new ideas and temporarily changes the shooting plan.

"Stop, pause for half an hour!"

The sound of a loudspeaker sounded on the set, and after the entire crew was called to stop, Duke jumped off the director's camera on the slide, walked to the other side of the street, and then climbed up the slightly higher steps to observe the entire set condescendingly. .

This is the most famous Las Vegas Strip, only now it's not only temporarily closed, it looks as if it's just been invaded by aliens, and the streets are littered with junk cars and tarmac.

Standing on the steps, looking at the M1A2 main battle tank in the distance, Duke thought for a while, made up his mind, and decided to increase the scene of the battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons again.

He called the film crew's directors of photography, fireworks, stunts, and props to the makeshift studio, and called in Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard, the hero and heroine.

He simply said to Joss Williams and John Schwartzman, "I'm going to add a more punchy shot here."

Then, Duke turned to Andrew Garfield and beckoned to the assistant behind him, "Bring the source of fire here!"

The assistant immediately fetched the prop fire source. Handed it to Duke.

"That's it, Andrew."

This is a temporary addition, and there is no such thing as a script. Duke pointed to the tall building in front and elaborated, "You hold the source of fire. Run to the predetermined building."

"Follow me and run again."

Duke took off his baseball cap, handed it to the assistant behind him, took off his sunglasses, hung them in his jacket pocket, ran a few steps forward, and said to Andrew Garfield, who was following him, "Then. The F-22 Raptor came down."

"Let's go for a run together."

The two ran to the car model set up by the props group, and Duke stopped first when they were about twenty feet away.

"Andrew, after you ran here." He turned to look at each other, pointing to the three cars that were loading up on the catapult. said,

"Starscream fell and overturned the cars, blocking your way. Then Tin and the ambulance rushed in from behind and engaged Starscream violently. You ran past them while the chaos."

"I understand."

Having been on the set for so long, Andrew Garfield also knows the style of the film and knows that Duke is going to add more battles and explosions.

"Also." Duke beckoned to him, and Andrew Garfield followed him to the pyrotechnic team. Duke pointed to some thumb-thick ropes and said, "This is a detonating cord. There will be a lot of arrangements on the ground during filming. You must rush over quickly to avoid tripping over them."

This is a commonly used blasting prop in Hollywood. Although the explosion is amazing, its power is not large, but Andrew Garfield also pays attention to it. After all, it is really bombed, and even if it does not hurt, it will definitely not feel good.

The shooting of an explosion scene is not only expensive, but also very cumbersome. It took nearly two hours just to set up the scene. Fortunately, this kind of scene does not require high acting skills of the actors, otherwise Duke would shout 'CUT' ', it would be no less than a disaster for the crew.

After checking the preparation progress of the crew, Duke stood behind the camera on the slide, raised the megaphone and shouted in front of the camera, "Andrew, are you ready?"

Andrew Garfield took the 'fire source' handed by his assistant, gave Duke a thumbs up, took two deep breaths, and looked forward.

"start!"

Hearing Duke's shout, Andrew Garfield vigorously avoided the two cars that rolled to the ground and rushed towards the building not far away. in the arms.

His speed was very fast, but in more than ten seconds, he ran over dozens of feet. Seeing that the target was getting closer and closer, when he rushed to the door of a Lauder store, Andrew Garfield looked up. Sky.

Despite the fact that there was only air there, he had an appropriately horrified expression when he saw Starscream, and quickly stopped.

"Boom! Boom!"

More than 20 feet ahead, three sedans were overturned by Starscream, which did not exist in the filming. Fire and smoke rose. Three GM-supplied cars were ejected by catapults, and Scattered Sparks rushed towards them. Sky.

Holding the source of fire with one hand and covering his head with the other, Andrew Garfield turned his head and shouted, "Iron! Ambulance!"

After waiting for about three seconds, several places in front and behind were detonated at the same time, and the smoke and fire of war showed that the battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons had begun.

"Skin! Ambulance!"

According to the character's setting, the male protagonist Sam is not the sultry high school student he used to be, and he does not lack courage at the critical moment, "Cover me! Cover me and rush over!"

After speaking, he rushed forward again, dodging a burning car on the side of the road, gradually increasing his speed, and at the same time nimbly jumping over the detonating cord arranged on the road.

Andrew Garfield's speed is getting faster and faster. Wherever he rushes, fire and gunpowder explodes. After adding special effects in the later stage, Starscream is chasing him!

"Boom!"

Just over twenty feet to his left, another car flew into the air in the explosion.

Against the wafting smoke, Andrew Garfield rolled on the black mat paved on the road, hid behind a small truck, gasped a few times, and stretched his head to look in the direction he came from. .

Naturally, there are no two groups of robots that need to be added by CGI in the later stage, but explosions and firelights are still appearing frequently. Cars bounce, roll or collide, all seem to prove the intensity of this non-existent battle. .

Three cameras had been chasing after Andrew Garfield, and a camera assistant set up the Steadicam, ran out of the hidden camera position, and approached to give him the greatest close-up.

"OK!"

The explosion finally came to an end. Although it was not particularly satisfactory, it basically achieved the desired effect. Duke raised the megaphone and said, "Well done, this one is over!"

Whether it is the props team or the fireworks team, they have cooperated with Duke for more than ten years, and the tacit understanding between the two parties is beyond doubt.

A successful director not only represents himself, but also has a large and successful team behind it.

"Duke, great job!"

Taking advantage of the break between filming, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldnow walked over and said, "We've ruined a street in Las Vegas."

Although this is a bit exaggerated, the street that was closed for filming is indeed terrible.

Even if no roads and buildings were damaged, the destroyed cars and props "tar blocks" that flew after the explosion were all over the road.

Don't worry too much about this, the crew has already contacted a special cleaning company, and someone will enter this street and clean it up.

"Here, the U.S. military will help kill a few Decepticons."

This is the person in charge of Hasbro, and Duke said briefly, "Since Transformers are living bodies, they will also die. They are not invincible."

"I support your point of view."

Standing behind the camera with his arms crossed, Brian Godnow looked at the ravaged and disfigured street and said to Duke, "I think we've already reached a consensus on this point, Transformers are powerful, but not invincible. Yes, although I don't understand the military, I also understand that any powerful existence has its limits."

"Humans are indeed weak compared to these huge alien lifeforms." Duke took a step to the side and pointed to the bumblebee model lying on the trailer not far away, "but we are facing these mechanical lifeforms. The body is not completely powerless to resist, as you said, they are very powerful, but not invincible, and some human heavy weapons will also cause damage to them."

"You can measure this aspect." Brian Goldnow is very clear that Duke said this, in fact, to respect Hasbro, the original manufacturer.

According to the agreement between the two parties, Hasbro does not have much say in the script and filming. Even if Duke does not explain, Hasbro has no right to interfere.

But Duke understands the importance of smooth communication and tacit cooperation to the success of the film, not only with Hasbro, but also with the U.S. military.

The Pentagon has provided numerous sponsorships for the filming of the film. If calculated according to the market price, it is worth tens of millions of dollars, and the cooperation between the two parties will not be the only one this time. Due consideration must be given to promoting the image of the U.S. military.

Although there will not be a situation where the U.S. military cannot find opponents on earth and can only fight aliens in the previous life, if humans are too weak, they will not be welcomed by the audience. After all, the people who watch movies are still a group of humans, and It's not a mechanical life form on the planet Cybertron, and Duke is not James Cameron. He won't come up with some movie plots of aliens surrounding and annihilating humans.

While Duke was filming in Las Vegas, Anna Prinz led a film crew to the Hoover Dam, where some scenes of the male and female protagonists would be filmed, but most of them were used to provide footage for post-production.

With Anna Prinz's abilities, it's not difficult to deal with such a shoot. (To be continued ~^~)