On the wasteland of the U.S.-Mexico border, a long convoy camped near the wall, and a series of furious cars drove off the cargo trailer, and the crew began to work nervously and busily, including a small team up the nearby hillside, a Mercedes-Benz E63AMG and a Dodge Challenger drove to the edge of the hillside facing the wall, ready to start filming.

Subsequently, Matthew and Paul Walker walked up and stood in front of the two cars.

The crew set up the set very quickly, and after the cameras were set up, director Justin Lin first went to the back to tell Gal Gadot, who was coming over on a motorcycle, and then came to Matthew and Paul Walker.

"Matthew, Paul, remember to liven up the atmosphere!" Justin Lin solemnly admonished, "And, Matthew, don't forget to kiss Gadot at the end." ”

"I know. Matthew replied.

Paul Walker nodded lightly at Justin Lin.

Justin Lin returned to his position as director, and immediately gave an order, and the shooting quickly began.

Matthew sat on the front of the Mercedes E63AMG, staring silently at Mexico on the other side of the wall, vaguely seeing a town, Paul Walker picked up a stone from the ground and threw it hard at the wall.

"This wall has never stopped drugs and smuggling. Paul Walker said suddenly.

The roar of motorcycles came from down the hillside, and a rider in a black leotard and a black helmet drove down the road and stopped on the opposite side of the Mercedes.

The rider propped up the bike, took off his helmet and hung it on the handlebars, revealing Gal Gadot's tough face.

Matthew immediately greeted him and stood right in front of Gal Gadot, who smiled, straightened his loose hair, and kept his eyes on Matthew.

"I thought you weren't going to show up. Matthew said.

"You saved my life. Gal Gadot's hair fluttered in the wind, "I want to return the favor." ”

She slipped her hands into the pockets of her pants, highlighting her waist and legs, "I'll help you find Braga." ”

As he spoke, Gal Gadot took out a note from his pocket and handed it to Matthew, who took it, looked down, and said calmly, "Thank you." ”

Gal Gadot suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm, reminding, "Sean, you guys are committing suicide if you go there!"

The expression on Matthew's face didn't change, "I don't have a choice. ”

He turned and prepared to leave.

But Gal Gadot's hand didn't let go, and he added, "I know you said I was what I said that day, but I didn't want to admit that I was attracted to you. ”

She took a step forward and put her hands on Matthew's muscular chest, as if she was very reluctant.

Matthew didn't hesitate, and according to the set scene, he hugged Gal Gadot and kissed them on two red lips.

The two kissed each other hard.

Then, Gal Gadot took the lead in letting go of Matthew, staring into his eyes tightly, and said, "Come back alive, I'll be watching you, you must come back alive." ”

With that, she turned away, stepped on the motorcycle, put on her helmet, and left without looking back.

Paul Walker clasped his hands to his chest and said a line specially designed by the crew, "Make a suggestion, if we can come back alive, you can take care of it, don't let this girl down." ”

Matthew looked in the direction the motorcycle was going and said, "This is just the beginning." ”

"OK!" shouted director Justin Lin, "this scene is over, let's move to the back of the hill!"

The crew began to busily pack up the equipment they were responsible for, Matthew returned to the Mercedes Benz sedan, opened the car door and prepared to get into the car, only to find Paul Walker on the other side laughing all the time, and he was almost unable to close his mouth with a smile.

"Paul......" said Matthew to the other side, "is it so funny?"

He didn't ask, Paul Walker still laughed secretly, and Paul Walker couldn't hold back anymore and laughed out loud.

"Haha...... Haha......"

Matthew stretched out his finger and pointed at him, "What's so funny." ”

Paul Walker gasped and said, "Don't you think this line is particularly appropriate for you?"

Matthew shrugged slightly, "This was meant for me. ”

The screenwriter designed such a line, communicated with him in advance, and also got his consent.

As I've said before, he doesn't mind what other people think of his private life, and it's okay to make it into an interesting scene in a movie if he needs to.

The crew moved very quickly, packed up the cameras and light shields and other equipment, and evacuated one after another.

Director Justin Lin reminded him before getting into the car, "You two should go straight back to camp!" and then he instructed his assistant, "Let's go first." ”

Soon, Matthew and Paul Walker also got in the car and left the hillside, but instead of returning directly to the camp, the two followed Justin Lin's car and went around the back of the hill to see what was going on.

This scene has nothing to do with them, but a scene between Gal Gadot and Daniel Wu.

Filming lasted until noon, when the group returned to the convoy of vehicles, where the crew would be stationed for the rest of the film to shoot the car-chase, fights and shootouts that are the climax of the film.

Of course, Matthew and others will not personally get in the car to participate in the filming of drag racing scenes, just like before, they only need to sit in the car and pose and shoot some shots of operating the vehicle, and when it comes to post-production, it can be achieved through editing.

Before coming over, the scene where Gal Gadot wanted to personally participate in the battle with drug dealers on a motorcycle was directly rejected by Matthew, and the main actors still have a lot of scenes to shoot in the future, and if there is an accident, the progress of the entire crew will be greatly affected.

Over the next week or so, collisions, speeding cars, shootouts, rollovers, and so on all became the theme of the set, with cars crashing over almost every day, and scrapped vehicles being towed one after another.

Fortunately, cars in North America are relatively cheap, you can get a very good car for 20,000 or 30,000 dollars, and the crew's capital budget is quite sufficient, and it is nothing to crash into a dozen or twenty cars.

The biggest single expenditure of the crew is actually Matthew's salary, as a box office star who is now so popular that he is purple, of course Matthew will not be stupid enough not to be paid because he has half of his investment in this film.

Everything is done according to the normal rules of the circle.

His salary is a base salary of $20 million, plus a 5 percent share of the global box office.

No one in the whole crew, including David Ellison, could say anything, because everyone knew that this was Matthew's most normal salary.

In contrast, the salaries of other actors are much lower, although Paul Walker received a salary of $8.5 million in "Blue Sea Tracking", but the poor box office of this film made his subsequent salary plummet, this time the salary of $6 million, part of which is due to the bonus effect of the sequel film.

Jordana Brewster has almost no works in recent years, and her roles are all soy sauce, especially after marrying producer Andrew Furm last year, she hasn't worked anymore, and she is actually a third-tier star at most, and her salary is only one million dollars under the effect of the sequel movie bonus.

As for the actors in the other two important roles, Gal Gadot is paid $100,000 and Daniel Wu is $200,000.

Part of the salary gap between the two comes from seniority, and part of it is because of gender.

Strictly speaking, Gal Gadot has a lot more scenes than Daniel Wu, but this is the reality of Hollywood, where men and women are seriously unpaid for equal work.

The proportion of the salary of the entire crew is very healthy, and it is strictly controlled within 30%, which is a relatively low proportion of salary in Hollywood.

Matthew will never allow the actor's salary alone to exceed half of the crew's investment, in that case, the normal shooting and production of the film will inevitably be affected, and the final result will definitely be a relatively rough work.

There is not much money to shoot big-budget commercial films, and how much money is spent on filming and production, you will get the corresponding finished film.

Overall, Fast & Furious 4 doesn't have any major problems with the financial side and gets new sponsorship investment as soon as the crew needs it.

Just before the crew came to the U.S.-Mexico border to film, a car company from Japan took the initiative to find the crew because of Matthew's fame and appeal, and wanted to provide the crew with a batch of sponsored vehicles, especially Brian O'Connor's car.

But when Matthew got the news, he asked the bearded Jack to refuse directly.

On the one hand, the crew is now short of cars and money, and the addition of a new sponsor during the filming phase can disrupt the normal filming schedule, after all, director Justin Lim and the stunt crew have already selected the vehicles and designed the scenes.

On the other hand, the brand itself, the name of Subaru made him a little off-putting.

In any case, such a sponsor can bring extremely limited help to the crew, and refusal is the most appropriate option.

Filming at the U.S.-Mexico border has been going relatively smoothly, thanks to the well-prepared director Justin Lim and the stunt crew, especially director Justin Lin, who envisioned a lot of situations about the film long before he was officially decided to be the director, and he learned the lessons of the failure of "Tokyo Drift" and emphasized the two points of speed and fury in the shooting.

All the action scenes of the crew are basically completed in the car, to be exact, in the process of drag racing.

Matthew also saw how tough Hollywood's stunt drivers are during the filming, and it can be said that Hollywood can shoot so many crazy and classic drag racing scenes, and these stunt groups are indispensable.

Unfortunately, these people are marginalized in Hollywood.

After half a month of filming, the scenes here are gradually coming to an end, and the filming is going smoothly, but the crew has not encountered trouble, this is a relatively barren area on the US-Mexico border, and drug dealers and stowaways are not uncommon.

Fortunately, the crew has a sufficient number of security personnel, patrolling and protecting them 24 hours a day, and those people also know that they can't see the light of day, and they won't take the initiative to provoke such a large crew.