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The camera suspended from the boom slid down the track, overlooking the green-screen set in the studio.

On the undulating green ground, more than thirty men carved out of marble raised their shields above their heads and quickly squatted on the ground with uniform movements, and the dark golden rough shields covered all the figures, as if all the people had turned into dark golden turtles.

After a large panoramic overhead shot, the camera lens on the boom turned off, and immediately a cameraman with Steadicam set up came to Matthew's vicinity to capture footage of him and several other main actors.

"Persian bastard!"

Matthew's big open mouth revealed Bai Sensen's teeth, which looked quite fierce and a little hideous.

In his understanding, Leonidas, the king of Sparta, was not only brave and good at fighting, but also decisive in killing, and did not carry any mercy towards his enemies.

The notion of surrendering a gun or not killing would never have appeared in the Spartans.

"Hahahaha......"

James McAvoy, hiding under the shield, laughed.

Michael Fassbender, next to him, asked, "What are you laughing at?"

James McAvoy said, "Can't help but want to say, fight in the shade!"

"Haha......"

Michael Fassbender smiled like a shark, and everyone around him laughed.

Soon, everyone stood up.

At this time, the voice of director Zack Schneider shouting to stop also came, "This is over, change the shield!"

The prop master entered the set and delivered a batch of shields full of arrows to each actor, and Matthew took a closer look, and the props and arrows on the shield were all sawn in half, and they should be easy to break.

The crew needed simple adjustments, and it took a few minutes to shoot.

Filming has begun for more than a week, and due to the very thorough preparation of the preliminary training, everything is going very smoothly, and the filming of the battle scenes between the Spartan warriors and the Persians has gradually reached the final stage.

In the plan, Zack Schneider only planned for the filming of this film for 60 days, and the film must be completed by the end of May at the latest, and if the current schedule can be maintained, it is estimated that the shooting will be completed in about 45 days.

There is no need to go out on location, and all the shots are shot in the studio, which can be said to save a lot of time.

While the crew adjusted the lighting and cameras, Zack Snyder found Matthew's side.

"How does the King feel?" Zack Schneider asked, looking at Matthew.

Matthew shrugged slightly, turned the prop spear in his hand, and said, "There are no ten or eight queens, this king is too embarrassed to be a king." ”

The actors behind him burst into a good-natured laugh.

James McAvoy said behind Matthew, "I don't know of a king who has ten or eight queens. ”

"You don't know?" said Matthew, pointing in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, "in the far east, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, where the ancient kings had three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines. ”

The last sentence he didn't know how to translate, so he used the transliteration directly, and after he finished speaking, he immediately explained, "In addition to the queen, the king has dozens of little wives." ”

"So many?" Dominic West, who plays the centurion, continued, "The king can satisfy so many women alone? ”

Michael Fassbender also said, "A man with so many women can't live long." ”

"Alright, alright......" Zack Schneider saw that the topic was getting farther and farther away, quickly clapped his palms and said, "This topic will be discussed later." ”

Although he is very short and not very qualified, Zack Schneider is still very authoritative on the set, and everyone immediately quieted down.

Zack Schneider looked at Matthew again and said, "The following actions must be imposing! It must also show the determination of the king of Sparta!

Matthew nodded and said, "Don't worry, that's what I'm best at." ”

Zack Snyder thought about it, this is indeed the case, Matthew's ability to write is not very outstanding, but it is too easy to show a person's bravery, toughness and decisiveness in the form of action scenes in the camera, and it can also give people a feeling that the character should be like this.

Then, Zack Schneider left the set, and a cameraman was lying on a specially made scooter, and the camera was pointed at Matthew's side at an upward angle.

This belongs to a very simple lens language, Matthew has been an actor for so long, and it can naturally be seen that Zack Schneider wants the picture to elevate the image of Leonida in a similar way to admiration.

Even in historical records, the image of the Spartans may not be very glorious.

In recent times, Matthew has had a lot of communication with Zack Schneider, and James McAvoy, a well-informed and curious fellow, has been talking about the Spartans every day, and he has also learned a lot about the black history of the Spartans.

For example, the social system of the Spartans was a very harsh slavery, similar to the slave society on the other side of the Pacific, the inhabitants who were conquered by the Spartans would become slave blacklors, and for every Spartan warrior on the battlefield, there would be two or three blacklots to serve them.

In the event of a need, these blacks will be armed and pushed into battle.

It is said that the helots also had a role to play and could help the Spartan women with their physiological needs.

James McAvoy once told that once the Spartans went to attack a place called Messenia, and the process was very difficult, and it took twenty years to return to Sparta in victory. Since the men had been out to fight for twenty years, the women of Sparta, in order to meet their needs, and perhaps also to give birth to new warriors, had a relationship with the Helots, and gave birth to a number of children, who were called "virgin sons" by the Spartans.

Matthew guessed that every Spartan warrior who returned to Sparta must have had a broken heart.

The assistant director walked over, put the sign in front of the camera, and said loudly, "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta, Scene 52, Act 25, start now!"

In front of the camera, Matthew holds a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, standing tall like a mountain.

He gasped violently twice, and every muscle in his body stretched out in the most perfect way.

Then, Matthew suddenly raised his right hand holding the spear, and the spear fell heavily, and the hard shaft of the spear swept past the outside of the shield, and the arrows inserted in the shield all broke and flew up, floating around like blood flowers.

Immediately afterwards, he landed his spear on the ground, looked into the distance like a rock, and seemed to have once again spotted the enemy, and rushed to the other camera first, shouting, "No Spartans will die today!"

"Huha......"

The actors behind Matthew collectively let out a roar of rage, just like in rehearsal, quickly forming a formation, their shields raised, and their spearheads pointed straight ahead.

After a long period of training before shooting, the effect is obvious.

"Perfect!" Zack Schneider shouted at this point, "Good.Jop!"

Obviously, he was very happy with this shot.

The scene was all over, and Zack Schneider said, "Transfer to shooting, go to venue 12!"

Matthew and the others also finished today's work, put down the props and weapons in their hands, and walked out of the set together, walking towards the dressing room.

It just so happened that the Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro, who played Xerxes, came to meet him, and the other looks instantly attracted the attention of all Spartan actors, including Matthew.

Rodrigo Santoro is tall, half-naked with no hair on his body, and many places are covered with gold chains and golden metal rings, which really looks like a real difference.

I don't know why, Matthew thought of a sentence he once read - I am me, a firework of different colors.

This is completely a living monk dress.

Of course, the movie can't be seen as a documentary, if Matthew really reads the script, he will find that there are too many things to complain about, such as Xerxes's monk dress is estimated to be unable to hold up for a day in the scorching Persian plateau, and the heavy armored infantry that Sparta is proud of rely on a heavy armor to fight against the Persian army dominated by projection troops, if they are all half-naked, 300 warriors will have become hedgehogs.

This isn't the first time Matthew has seen Xerxes' look.

When he lived on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, he had watched this film, and he had also seen countless complaints about Xerxes on the Internet, and some of them were still vaguely impressed.

Combined with those complaints, he couldn't help but complain in his heart at this time: "Xerxes, the king of Persia, was played as a bald head who likes to wear no clothes with gold chains all over his body, I don't know if the original author Frank Miller's design is really uneducated, or if it has another deep meaning." ”

Matthew has no doubt that if the film were to appear in Iranian theaters, it would cause an uproar and provoke protests from Iranians.

But then again, the chances of Hollywood movies getting into Iran are very small these days, and if they do so, they do so through illegal channels.

Of course, the crew didn't expect "The Three Hundred Spartan Warriors" to enter Iran, let alone Iranian audiences to contribute box office revenue, and no one cares what the reaction of Iran and Iranian audiences will be.

Matthew has been here for a long time, and he is also aware of some basic social and political situations, such as the fact that countries such as Iran, after the incident at the US embassy in Iran, have long been kicked off the world map by the Americans and become a member of the uncivilized country.

Although his cultural attainment is limited, Matthew can also feel that Hollywood movies reflect the cultural and social realities of the United States in many ways.

After removing the makeup, Matthew joined Helen Herman, who rushed to the crew, and went directly to the Warner Building not far from Warner Studios, Warner Bros. is the distributor of "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" and the producer and distributor of "I Am Legend", and now both films have to start the necessary pre-publicity, as the male protagonist of the two crews, Matthew is the main publicity point of Warner Bros.