"Ho, da-"

"Hiss, your steps are a little more steady, now go straight over, grab him by the shoulder with your left hand, punch him in the face with your right hand, and then grab him. ”

In the very large and huge motion capture stage room of the Flame Film Studio, the crew of "Firefly" is in full swing for many days of martial arts training, and the martial arts action team is also designing experimental shots. At this time, the team members, nearly three times as many starring stuntmen are either slowly and sloppily choreographing movements, or smoothly and quickly rehearsing a scene, but in fact, this work has been started for a long time long before the training camp.

There will be a lot of action scenes in "Firefly", huge and indoor, with gunfights, spaceship battles, and hand-to-hand combat, that is, martial arts scenes. Robert Downey Jr., Wu Yanzu, Heath Ledger, Gina Torres, Jessica Alba and other leading actors in martial arts scenes must undergo special kung fu training, depending on each person's actual role and their own fighting foundation, formulate different training content and different training intensity.

The martial arts scenes in the script include Captain Marr, Janeny, Zoe and others vs. Reva, Blue Glove vs. Civilian, Blue Glove vs. Covenant Police Officer, Blue Glove vs. Marauder Group, Blue Glove vs. Marr, Reva vs. Civilian, Reva vs. Blue Glove, Reva vs. Marauder Group, etc...... In terms of character combat effectiveness, Reva is the first, and the blue glove is second, and because of the role setting, the equipment of "Blue Glove" has huge strength, meltable function, etc., and Heath-Ledger is relatively relaxed when fighting against the "monster group";

If "The Matrix" is Keanu Reeves and "Tales of the Night" is Kate Beckinsale, then "Firefly" will be Jessica Alba, and the focus of the film's shootout is not her, but the martial arts scene is Reva. So naturally, although Jessica has a first-class dance level and a good kung fu foundation among non-martial arts actors, she is still the one who trains the hardest, at least 7 hours a day, and is so tired that she falls asleep directly at night, and her newlywed life comes to an abrupt end.

At this time, Jessica was also not far away training punching speed, sweating, shouting from time to time to vent; not long ago she practiced hanging the tightrope in mid-air, hanging the tightrope seems very simple, but in fact, to maintain body balance in the air, and then control the movement of the limbs, make kicks, punches and other movements, it is very difficult, you need to have enough strength and balance to do.

"It's getting more and more terrifying......" Seeing her fierce spirit, Joshua, who was watching and assisting from the side, gritted his teeth, her combat power rose sharply, which was not a good thing for him.

Robert Downey Jr. and Wu Yanzu are also training under the guidance of the assistant commanders, and Heath Ledger is cooperating with director Wang Yang and action director Donnie Yen to practice some storyboards.

The position of action director of "Firefly" finally found Donnie Yen, 40-year-old Donnie Yen learned a variety of fighting techniques since childhood, and was discovered by Yuan Heping in Hong Kong in the 80s, so he starred in a series of action movies, which is Yuan Heping's apprentice, but this important member of Yuan's family class soon came out of the team, in addition to his acting career, he also directed "The Legend of Wolf Warrior", "New Tangshan Big Brother" and other films, and served as "Blade Warrior 2" in 2002 and "Shanghai Noon 2" in 2003 and other films, and gradually became famous around the world.

Wang Yang is not looking for Yuan Heping, who is famous and works happily with Ang Lee, Quentin Tarantino, and the Wachowski brothers, and Cheng Xiaodong, who is also very prestigious, but not looking for Donnie Yen, not in vain to be different. It's just that Cheng Xiaodong is too elegant and beautiful, and Yuan Heping's fierceness is not his ideal style; moreover, he is not a director who can't fight, Yuan Heping's set will affect his first attempt at martial arts, and even later, he needs more dominance, more suitable feelings and styles.

But he doesn't want the coldness of the type of "Blade 2", not the similar "Tales of the Night", "Resident Evil", "Kill Bill......", "I want to fight very explosively, it has nothing to do with the scenes, props, and special effects, it's just that it's very violent and brutal, and it's that kind of boom, boom, bang! It's very heavy, fast, and powerful, but sometimes it can also be a very soft move, with skill." Ruiva is like Tai Chi, strong with a little elegant, but not too much, and has the heavy impact of Bajiquan; blue gloves are more clean and neat, focusing on killing holes, when there are gloves, the strength is infinite, and sometimes it is as fast and fierce as Muay Thai; Mal is more thrilling, and Janeny pays more attention to strength and crazy expression......"

Of course, this is not "Wing Chun" or "Ip Man", and the design of action shots does not care whether it is Tai Chi, Baji Boxing or Muay Thai, it is all a kind of "kung fu" after fusion, or free fighting, and there is no fixed routine for fighting like actual combat.

If you hold on to the moves and routines when you fight in actual combat, you must have died miserably, and you can fight as you please, maybe the same move, different genres have different dismantling techniques, different move names, but in the end, it is often the same. Although integration is the right way, genres always have different styles, especially the style on the screen, how to achieve this integration, to achieve a smooth and unified style, is the problem that the director and Wu Zhi have to solve.

Wang Yang has had a lot of martial arts ideas since he was a child, and often designs some fight scenes without plots, and in many times of communication, Donnie Yen can understand his intentions very well, and his sharp style is also suitable for style, so Dannie Zhen took the title of action director of "Firefly".

"Hmm. Hearing the director's instructions, Heath Ledger, who was standing on a large blue pad, answered, and walked slowly and calmly towards the martial arts actor who was a few steps ahead, the male martial artist pounced on him fiercely with his open hands, Heath Ledger avoided it sideways, and his left hand wearing blue gloves directly grabbed and pressed the shoulder of the male martial artist, and his right hand quickly and forcefully smashed a few punches into his face, Huo Di pulled him over as if hugging, and said softly: "Thank you." ”

This is a very important line of Blue Gloves in the script, his language style is very concise and direct, often only a few words in a sentence, almost all of them are everyday words, his actions do not need to be explained and do not need nonsense, except for a few scenes, and after every killing, Blue Gloves will say "thank you", whether it is a predator, innocent civilians, Covenant officials, gangsters, anyone.

Heath Ledger is still figuring out what tone to use to say this "thank you", and the blue gloves have killed countless people in the whole script, is there any difference in each "thank you"?

"Very good!" Wang Yang clapped his hands and praised, the effect felt good, if you follow the storyboard script and storyboard, then the whole marauder will explode and melt into a puddle of water, which is the ability of the "Blue Glove".

"Huh. Heath Ledger continued to practice, and after getting along these days, he found that this young director seemed to be particularly fond of saying "very good", and everything would be encouraged and praised, compared to the set of "Brokeback Mountain", it is simply a "brave new world", and the phrase "well done" and "very good" on the set of "Brokeback Mountain" is so rare, and it is very refreshing to hear it, but now it is ...... He was a little nervously numb.

But this feeling is really good! I hope this big director won't turn his face as soon as filming starts like Ang Lee. Heath Ledger had these thoughts flashing through his mind, and he felt that he was ridiculous, and he had to be praised and given sweet candy to eat, but he admitted it.

"I'll take a look over there. Wang Yang patted Donnie Yen on the shoulder, asked him to continue to be in charge of Heath Ledger's action design, and walked to the other leading actors: "Robert, you have some muscles, but you don't have the strength and speed, you can't punch fast, practice how to use your strength!" Downey, who was covered in sweat, shouted: "I don't have the strength? wrestle with me!" Wang Yang turned around and left mockingly: "Why should I fight with my subordinates? Hey, Susan, what's wrong?"

"This is a challenge!" Donnie's roar suddenly stopped in the middle of his roar, and when he saw the brown-haired woman in front of him, Susan Levine, one of the names of the producers of "Firefly", his old face suddenly changed, and he greeted happily: "Hi, Susan!" Susan smiled back: "Hi." ”

Watching Wang Yang and Susan Levine talk about the management of the stuntman and walk away, until he couldn't even hear the slightest sound, Donnie came back to his senses and continued training, is his day of ending his singleness coming?

"Daniel, your fist is heavier, and it smashes down like a hammer!And your feet, like this!", "Come on, come on!, good!", "Jessica, you slide over like a horse, you don't need a horse, and then turn sideways and give the predator on the left a few quick punches, his chest, neck, and face!...... Wang Yang walked around the motion capture stage room, running all over the venue, demonstrating the movements to the leading actors, discussing the camera design with Donnie Yen, watching everyone swing their fists and legs, sweating like rain, he felt more and more itchy, and he really wanted to fight! Recently, there have been no physical entertainment activities at night, and he has fallen from the peak to the bottom all of a sudden, and he is really about to go crazy! and he can't disturb the training of the leading actors, he touched his chin and looked at Donnie Yen next to him, a little underfilled...... "I want to fight ten!" On the blue cushioned stage, Wang Yangpeng took a stance, looked at the martial arts members of the action team around him, and with stunned faces, he hugged his fists and said: "Come here! I need to personally experiment and stimulate some shots." ”

"Wow, wow......"

After spending the morning in the flame studio, just like the previous day, Wang Yang went to the Image Engine headquarters on Fifth Avenue in West Vancouver in the afternoon. What does a special effects company equal to having funds, talents, and technology? Today, the graphics engine is already one of the top special effects companies in the industry, and it is not as good as the leading brother Industrial Light and Magic, but it is not inferior to "The Lord of the Rings 3", and it has begun to have some leading technologies in animals, motion capture, explosions, etc.

In addition to doing special effects for film and television works such as "Raging Speed" of the Flame Group, the graphics engine is not idle, it has participated in the production of special effects for many blockbusters, and has just taken over part of the CG drawing business of "Sin City". Now every animator and member of the graphics engine knows that the Tranquility with an investment of 200 million yuan will carry them to the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

In the same company, "Firefly" naturally follows the special effects team of "District 9", visual effects supervisors: Sean Walsh, Richard Kidd, Sean Walsh also shoulders the important position of computer production director and special effects team leader, Steve Nicholas is animation director, modeler Brian Mack, etc...... This team has hundreds of people, CG masters and special effects talents from all over the world, which is enough to realize the imagination of any director.

"Jan, are you okay? What's the problem?" In the office, the round table is full of drawings, and the computer screen shows a rotating 3D firefly spaceship, Sean Walsh looks at Wang Yang suspiciously, this young director grinning, is there any dissatisfaction?

has been working together for a long time, and Sean knows that Wang Yang's ideas have always been novel and amazing, demanding and chasing perfection, and even the shrimp insect people with more than 4,000 pixels said, "Can it be more realistic?" Now these spaceships, science fiction cities, etc. are not comparable to shrimp insects. Fortunately, the technology is the same and progressive, clay modeling, 3D scanning, topological ossculinization...... The prototype of this Tranquility is "very smooth and soft", and it is magically "textured".

Of course, Tranquility has not yet carried out formal texture mapping, which is the strength of the graphics engine, and the principle of shrimp and insect people is similar, as long as you fill in the materials one by one, so that the pixels are as high as 4000, 5000, you can be lifelike, to ensure that even "Star Wars Prequel 3" is not so delicate. It's just that the materials needed for those textures still have to take a lot of work to make, and various parameters have to be adjusted slowly...... Special effects production has always been a boring undertaking that requires patience.

"No, I'm fine. Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders, and kneaded his right shoulder a few times with his left hand, it was enjoyable, but he was also beaten lightly, and he had to rub some medicine and wine when he went back to the apartment at night. He glanced at the table with Sean Walsh, Valey Pfister, art director Kevin Kavanaf and others, and continued: "I wish our special effects could be more in some of the details of the scene, in other words, to create the feel of a sci-fi world. ”

Wang Yang picked up a drawing on the table, and everyone saw the lively city streets painted on the paper, and he said: "Because this is the edge of the desolate and backward galaxy, just like the west, there is no clean science fiction in the center of the galaxy, but some details are definitely different from 2004, what about the traffic lights in the future? ”

"Hehe!" everyone chuckled, slow motion is indeed one of Magic Young's favorites, and it seems that there are quite a few of them in every movie.

"SINCE BULLET TIME CAME OUT IN THE MATRIX, IT SEEMS LIKE THE HIGH-SPEED CAMERA HAS CHANGED FROM PRADA TO CASUAL-CORNER, FROM CANNES TO HOLLYWOOD, EVERYBODY IS USING IT! BUT SO WHAT? I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A LOT OF CHARM ABOUT THE HIGH-SPEED CAMERA, NOT JUST BULLET TIME, WE CAN FIND SOME NEW AND SUITABLE EFFECTS. In fact, I've experimented with a high-speed camera to get punched in the cheek, and it's beautiful! Those facial muscles, the whole head will tremble and twist like water waves......"

"Ahhh......h Ahh......h

In Vancouver at night, in the spacious living room, listening to this cry of pain and coolness, Danny wagged his tail restlessly, and was so anxious that he circled around the sofa. On the sofa, Jessica frowned tightly, clenched her silver teeth, and put her slender left leg on Wang Yang's knee, he smeared some medicinal wine on his hand, rubbed her around her left ankle vigorously, and asked, "How do you feel?" Jessica sighed with enjoyment: "Oh GOOD......"

Wang Yang smiled and continued to knead and massage, looking at this delicate foot, ** calf, he couldn't help muttering: "But I'm not good!" She didn't sprain her ankle, and the medicated wine just eliminated the fatigue accumulated in the joints. However, the high-intensity training these days has also made her suffer a lot, and there will only be more after the film starts, looking up at her, he asked, "Is it hard?"

It's only been a little over a week now, can her body withstand this intensity of kung fu training? He is still a little worried, if people are in a state of fatigue for a long time, they are prone to illness, especially people like her who are born with insufficient immunity...... Is it really impossible to write, and martial arts are not enough?

"It's hard, but I'm fine! Jessica grinned, and while it wasn't as happy as her honeymoon to get back to work, it was a very fulfilling week, and she knew that the more sweat she put in, the better Firefly would be. "Please!" Seeing the worry on his face, how could he not know what he was thinking? It was really annoying! Jessica was a little angry: "Sometimes I really want to beat you up, don't think I'm a vase! It's just beautiful, and it will break when you touch it." Wang Yang said repeatedly: "What do you say, I don't have it." ”

She kicked him with her left foot and said seriously: "I know you don't, but you take too much care of me, I know kung fu, I know yoga, I can do street dance...... No matter what hardship I suffer, as long as I don't kiss naked, I can do it!" she shouted, "Jessica—you can do it!

"Of course!" Listening to her loud shouts and echoes in the room, Wang Yang nodded, putting aside those worries, just as she believed in him, he also unconditionally chose to believe her and support her, and said seriously: "You can do it!!"

"Yes! Jessica leaned back on the sofa and silently made up her mind, she must train hard, exert her best strength, and play Reva well! What "Magic Yannemesis", what "Barbie"...... To hell with that, she suddenly cried out again, "Oh...... Oh GOOD......"

(To be continued)