Made in Hollywood

In the scene being filmed, the boss of Bullet Town, after being blinded by Ferosa, swept wildly with two guns while speaking out.

The first two sentences are as bold and graceful as an epic, I am the scales of justice, the conductor of the death choir.

The last line was literally, Roar, Brother Koch!

Brother Koch is apparently his nickname for his two guns.

So who are the Koch brothers? They are David Koch and Charles Koch, two contemporary American billionaires. They are famous for being active in politics, conservative and hawkish, and they are fanatical supporters of the Republican Party.

Now is the election year in the United States. In the current Republican campaign, the Koch brothers claim to donate 500 million US dollars. Many people believe that they can influence the Republican nomination.

They are also considered war madmen by the American left, and they support policies that will lead to a world nuclear war.

Hollywood has never been far away from politics. Duke just wrote the framework of the script. When several screenwriters wrote it, they obviously brought some personal political views into it, which was also ignored by him as the director at the beginning.

After Duke found out, he deleted these things immediately. There was no need for him to mock some political figures in the film.

As the time approached Christmas, the shooting would not always be smooth sailing, and some factors were beyond Duke's control, such as the weather.

The climate of New Mexico is a typical desert climate, warm and dry, with plenty of sunshine and low humidity. Although there are some places where the annual rainfall can reach 1000 mm, the area where the Gypsum Desert is located is definitely not one of them.

However, just a few days before Christmas, a light rain came unexpectedly, and it continued to fall non-stop. This is definitely not the climate that a wasteland world that lacks water and rain should have. Duke simply suspended the shooting, but fortunately, the progress on site was slightly ahead of schedule, and it would not cause much delay.

When Duke was free, Sarah, the deputy editor of the Los Angeles Times, came to the door and wanted an exclusive interview on the film.

For the sake of publicity, Duke did not refuse. Just set up a few large sun umbrellas in the light rain, and talked about this movie while enjoying the rare rainy scene of the wasteland.

The fine raindrops hit the sun umbrella, making a slight noise. The weather was a little bit cold. Sarah tightened her coat and turned on the recording pen.

You didn't hold any auditions for the lead and heroine of this film... she asked first. Why Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron?

I like to look for those moments where the spark strikes and the mind blows.

Duke paused for a moment to better organize his thoughts, The trembling you can feel as soon as that person walks into the room is a process of intuitive experience, just like when we meet a specific person. You have a kind of Intuition. Yes, they are the right people. That special feeling when people fall in love, there is always an ideal type inside you, in your inner world. When you meet someone, and this person Somehow it fits this ideal type. Cast selection is a similar process.

As we all know, you discovered Charlize Theron. Sarah turned to the heroine. She always does something incredible in your productions. Her best roles are in your films. Middle. Why is that?

I still remember the first time I met Sally.

For the sake of publicity, Duke never minded nonsense, We just met and talked, and my first impression is that she is quite smart, quick-thinking, and has a certain kind of restless energy in her body. Sally is full of energy, Unpredictable and fun. It always reminds me of working with kids, you never know what that little guy is going to do next, which is amazing.”

Sarah was very smart, and instead of digging deeper, she asked, What are you most afraid of during filming?

Catastrophe, unpredictable disaster.

Pointing to the raindrops dripping from the outside of the umbrella, Duke said, For example, climate change, it rained. We built everything, rehearsals started, we repaired the roads and did all the rehearsals, and it rained.

We have known each other very early. I have watched all your films, and basically interviewed you at your studio or premiere. Sarah picked up the hot tea on the table, Except for Chicago, all your films It can all be attributed to the category of action movies, do you have a special feeling for action movies? Also, how do you grasp the action scenes of Fury Road and other movies?

For me, action movies are a special, higher form of cinematic art.

Any kind of movie has its merits, and Duke mused for a moment before adding, When you're shooting an action scene, you can't think, 'Oh, let's just smash a lot of things,' you can't treat that It. You have to try to create a very clear syntax, not just a violent collision.

Compared with the rambling words just now, what Duke said in answering this question is basically true. This is an era of rapid development, and photography technology is constantly changing with each passing day. In the past, everything had to be shot in real time. Manipulating images at will like this today.”

I remember when we were shooting Speed ​​and Dead Island, we shot as much as possible on location. Today, if we need to, we can shoot a lot of frames and then composite them easily with computer technology, and, now If you look at videos and action movies from more than ten years ago, you will find that they are very slow. Our whole society is getting faster and faster, and I have to speed up the pace of Fury Road.

The rainy day not only caused the production crew to temporarily suspend work, but also took away many reporters. After completing the interview with Duke, reporters including Sarah left New Mexico one after another.

However, the light rain only lasted for a little over a day. When the sun was high above the sky again, the blazing sun only took a short time to dry up the not-so-humid earth, and Duke was able to let the crew start filming again. .

Perhaps it was due to taking a day off to accumulate enough energy, and after restarting shooting, the progress of the crew was very smooth, but Duke still deliberately emphasized a few points, especially to his art director Hannah Serena.

He mainly emphasized two points. One is to make the colors as rich as possible, so as to distinguish them from the dark and monotonous unsaturated colors of other apocalyptic themes; , Survivors will look for anything that brings a little beauty.

Fury Road is like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which allows Hannah Serena to fully use her skills. She appropriately blends the scenery into the grand and magnificent environment background, making the whole world more beautiful. For a unified picture, thousands of miles of yellow sand and thousands of miles of blue sky, blue and yellow constitute the basic colors of the background.

The strong contrast effect of this pair of primary colors echoes and switches, the sky with dark blue filter effect on the rolling sand dunes, the cramped and depressing earth-colored rock wall fortress, the black ghost stumbling in the blue night sky curtain of the dead oasis, with a touch of blood. The hazy sandstorm, like the large color block composition directly splashing paint buckets, constantly hints at the desolation of the wasteland world...

According to Duke's idea, as long as the quality of his films is guaranteed, if Hannah Serena can't get the art direction award from the academic school after the release, it can only be said that the academic school will throw away even the most basic fairness Yes, the eyes that look at sci-fi and action movies are full of naked and undisguised discrimination.

Of course, with Duke's perception, he wouldn't be surprised that such a thing happened.

The filming is nearly halfway through, and one-third of the modified cars have been blown to pieces by Joss Williams' pyrotechnic crew. Filming in the desert and wilderness is undoubtedly very hard work, and the crew members have been staring at each other for dozens of days , When the wind is strong, the sand drilled around is simply crushing.

There are also various animals in the desert. Although the crew has a dedicated snake driver, there are times when they cannot take care of them.

Somehow, a lizard got into Anna Prinz's trailer. Fortunately, it was a non-toxic type. Even so, she didn't want to live alone anymore, so she simply moved into Tina Fey's trailer.

As for the trouble caused by mosquito bites, it can only be said to be a small trouble.

After all, this is a desert, not a well-equipped Warner Studio. All Duke can do is to finish shooting as soon as possible and leave this hellish desert.

Frankly speaking, he doesn't like this climate environment very much.

When filming Independence Day and Transformers before, Duke has been to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, but the shooting at that time was only a week at most, and the military was used as logistical support, which is far from what it is now.

There was also an accident in the next shooting. Duke and John Schwartzman installed the IMAX camera on the front of the car again to increase the visual impact of the shot, but the environment in the desert area was too complicated. This car installed The camera's modified car brakes accidentally and crashes into Firoza's war machine.

Since the two refitted cars were specially reinforced and the speed was not fast, neither the vehicles nor the actors had any accidents, but the delicate and bulky IMAX camera was crashed.

The representative of the IMAX company who was stationed on the crew was almost crazy about it. There were not even ten IMAX cameras in total, so one can imagine how precious they are.

The crew must pay compensation, which is an unexpected expense, and according to Duke's request, two IMAX cameras must be used for cross-shooting, and I can only wait for IMAX to transport the cameras to the New Mexico studio as soon as possible.

The filming was suspended again. Due to the approach of Christmas, Duke simply gave the whole crew a holiday. After the Christmas holiday, the IMAX cameras were also delivered, and the crew assembled again in New Mexico. (to be continued ~^~)

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