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The matter of Zack Schneider and "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta", Matthew will put aside for the time being, and Helen Herman will be staring at it for the time being, and he still has the filming of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" to complete.

After returning to the set, Matthew and Charlize Theron first went to the nearby Nevada wilderness to shoot some of the location scenes, which were very few and were completed in less than five days, and then the crew went to Atlanta to shoot some location scenes in the city, and returned to Warner Studios in Burbank near late August, and the most important and crucial scene in the whole script, the family war between the Smiths began.

The studio has been set up as a luxurious home environment, with an oak dining table filled with a variety of delicacies, and a candle-lit table in the center of the table, supporting the dining room warm and romantic.

But the two people in the restaurant are going toe-to-toe.

After nearly a month of running-in, Matthew and Charlize Theron are not only getting better and better, but also cooperating more and more tacitly.

At the beginning of the shooting, Matthew stood at the table with a bottle of red wine, looked at Charlize Theron who was sitting behind the table, he picked up the wine glass in front of Charlize Theron, poured her a glass of wine, and handed it over, Charlize Theron took the wine glass, but did not drink it, glanced at the wine glass vigilantly, and put it on the table.

Matthew's eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze instantly sharpened, his fingers suddenly released, and the wine bottle fell to the ground.

Charlize Theron seemed to react subconsciously, reaching out to grab the wine bottle, her arms were long enough, her palms were big enough, and she had practiced with Matthew many times before, so she easily grabbed the wine bottle.

Matthew looked at Charlize Theron with interest, and Charlize Theron was looking at him as well.

At this moment, director Doug Liman seems to see sparks jumping between the two, one is wild as fire, the other is cold and sexy, and they are simply the perfect couple partner.

Charlize Theron suddenly let go, the bottle fell to the ground, and the wine gurgled out.

"I'll clean it up!"

"I'm going to get a towel!"

Matthew and Charlize Theron staggered past each other, each running towards their goal.

Matthew and Charlize Theron, two videographers carrying Steadicam on their shoulders, took off his blazer, hung it in the hallway, turned and went into the study, opened a drawer, and took out a pitch-black pistol with a silencer from the back of the drawer.

With a gun in both hands, he turned out of the study, looked around vigilantly, and said, "Jane, where are you?"

"Great!" the voice of director Doug Liman rang out, "this one is over! ”

Matthew casually handed the pistol to the temporary assistant who came over, and while walking in the direction of the dining table in the room, he unbuttoned his shirt, took it off and handed it to the costumer who greeted him, only a vest was left on his upper body, he came to the table, pulled out the chair and prepared to sit down, the costumer had already returned with another shirt.

Matthew stretched out his arms and asked the costumer to change for himself.

Charlize Theron also changed her clothes at this time, entered the dining room from the other side, pulled out the dining chair, and sat opposite Matthew.

After changing his clothes, Matthew sat down as well.

"Are you ready to be beaten up by me?" asked Matthew deliberately.

"You were beaten by me. Charlize Theron smiled, "You beat me up, most of it is a stunt double." ”

As soon as the two spoke, director Doug Liman walked over, pulled out another dining chair and sat down, looked at Matthew first, then at Charlize Theron, and said, "In the next few scenes, except for the gunfight scene at the beginning, other hand-to-hand combat, kitchen utensils and other household items should be used as much as possible. ”

Matthew and Charlize Theron both nodded.

"You have to always remember that this is a family war and a war between husband and wife. ”

He didn't say more, this is a simple and relaxed commercial entertainment movie, whether it is him as the director, or Matthew and Charlize as the two leading actors, there is no need to read too much into the script and dig into the inner world of the characters.

If this is done, a purely commercial entertainment film will not be far from being finished.

Not only Doug Liman, Matthew also thinks so, since "The Mummy Returns" as the Scorpion King, he has never delved into the inner world of the character, on the one hand, the setting of the character is simplified, and on the other hand, it is impossible to slow down the film to express this.

During the preparation period, he communicated with Doug Liman, Doug Liman specially talked about the "Matrix" trilogy, thinking that the Wachowski brothers are very good negative teaching materials, the first part of "The Matrix" focuses on entertainment effects, and appropriately adds some more profound elements to the entertainment, but the film is not to explore profoundness, but to let profoundness serve entertainment, so it has been a huge success, especially in terms of word-of-mouth, and the later videotapes and DVDs are simply crazy.

In the next two sequels, the Wachowski brothers did the opposite, and as a result, the word-of-mouth declined, and "Reloaded" was better, after all, there was a foundation for the first part, and the box office was also eye-catching, but in "Matrix Revolution", the box office and word-of-mouth fell sharply.

Doug Liman also said at the time that if the Wachowski brothers couldn't reverse the production concept, they would definitely get worse and worse if they played these mystical things in commercial masterpieces like the last two "The Matrix".

In today's commercial entertainment films, fast pace and simple and straightforward plots are indispensable conditions for success.

After the explanation, Doug Liman left the cafeteria, and the action director walked in to coordinate the action camera shoot with Matthew and Charlize Theron.

What follows will be a real family battle.

During the fifteen-minute break, Matthew and Charlize Theron were not idle, and then filming began again, and the two took turns to fire at the scenes from the bedroom to the kitchen, from the kitchen to the hallway, and from the hallway to the living room, with the precise assistance of the pyrotechnician, to beat the carefully arranged scenes of the crew to pieces.

After the shootout, the two got into a fight, there are no long shots here, they are basically short shots of two or three seconds, and unlike Matthew, in the part of the scene where Mr. Smith beats Mrs. Smith, Charlize Theron also uses a stunt double.

At the same time, the photo frames, wall clocks, kitchen utensils and vases carefully prepared by the props team have become the combat weapons of the two.

Like a real husband and wife at war, Matthew and Charlize Theron smashed the elaborate home to pieces.

Doug Liman had previously told Matthew that the actors' performances alone could not support the dramatic character relationships of the Smiths, and that the things around them should also have some kind of suggestion, and their house in the suburbs became a ready-made "prop".

It's not just a space where you can eat, drink, and live, but it's a marriage that hints at danger and destruction, and their lives are full of secrets, lies, and burnout.

The design of the house of the two is very luxurious, the style is complex and the concept of space is very large, but it lacks warmth and soul, more like a show, rather than a home, even after living in this house for six years, there is still a space that John Smith and Jane Smith have never touched, and those hidden and difficult to find "dark grids" symbolize the true identity of the people who live here.

For example, John Smith's seemingly ordinary tool shed has a hidden space the size of a cellar with piles of cash, bazookas, grenades, and all kinds of pistols, and Jane Smith's high-end oven, which is a must-have for housewives, is actually a secret storage room for high-tech weapons......

Until John Smith and Jane Smith have a showdown about their true identities, the house, a symbol of discordant relationship, is razed to the ground.

In the words of director Doug Liman and screenwriter Simon Kinberg, the scene appears to be a game of death between two trained ace killers, but they end up facing the problems that many married couples face: love turns into boredom and deception over time, living together under one roof without soul communication.

Both John Smith and Jane Smith have skills that ordinary people can't hope for, but what they fight for is not to kill each other, but how to live with another person for the rest of their lives.

After three days of filming, the action scene came to the final stage.

In the ruins of the living room in front of the camera lens, Matthew and Charlize Theron are facing each other with guns, each aiming the muzzle of the gun at the other's vital point.

At first, the two of them had sharp eyes and fierce faces, like a quarrelsome couple, eager to shoot each other's heads immediately.

Matthew looked at Charlize Theron, her face was covered in blood and the muscles in her face were moving all the time.

After this cooperation, he found out that the acting skills of this Oscar-winning actress are roughly on the same level as him, and he completely understands that in this era, people who can win Oscars may not rely on acting skills.

After a few seconds of confrontation, Matthew's expression on his face relaxed, he sighed softly, put down the gun first, and said, "I can't do it." ”

Charlize Theron clenched his phone abruptly, closed his eyes, and seemed to want to shoot, raising his voice and shouting, "Come on!!"

"If you think about it...... "Matthew threw the gun away, "shoot." ”

Charlize Theron's fingers were on the trigger, and he couldn't get his hands down several times, and finally spat out a sentence, "I...... I can't do it!"

Matthew stepped forward, pulled away Charlize Theron's pistol, grabbed her slender and powerful arm, and pressed her against the flat wall behind her.

However, filming of this scene stopped at this point, because the next scene was larger, and Charlize Theron's contract had a clause requiring the crew to clear the filming.