(This chapter owes a few days, and I stayed up until a little more than a little last night to get today's code out, and the other alliance leader and the group's gagen are tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.) ）

In the makeshift dressing room of the studio, Matthew put on metallic combat boots, walked back and forth, felt very fit, nodded to the costumer, and then stood in front of the makeup mirror, his stylist temporarily acted as a makeup artist today, and immediately walked over with his assistant to apply some grease to his hard muscles, so as to make the muscle lines clearer.

Matthew wears only a pair of dark red shorts except for the boots on his feet, and there is a strange sculptural beauty when he stands here.

In addition, he has a fake beard on his face, and he looks far more mature than his actual age.

After the stylist applied the grease, carefully examined it up and down, and after making sure that there was no problem, he stepped aside, and the costumer came over with a red cloak and put it on Matthew.

Then, the costumer took the short sword borrowed by Zack Schneider and handed it to Matthew, who took it and hung it on his waist, looked in the mirror himself, and felt that there should be no problem.

"Is that okay?" he asked the stylist.

"Great!" the stylist said, holding his chin and walking around Matthew, "Matthew, this movie doesn't need a plot or action design at all, and if you walk in front of the camera like this, you will fascinate a female audience." ”

The stylist is a woman who has been working with Matthew for several years, they are very familiar with each other, and they are not so polite, her eyes fell down on Matthew's vigorous upper and lower body, and exclaimed, "It's really a waste for you not to advertise top men's underwear brands!"

Matthew shrugged, "The main reason is that my coffee position is too low for no one to look down on." ”

He didn't care, because this female stylist was a well-known gay in the circle.

After the styling, Matthew stopped staying, got out of the dressing room, and came to the studio, the small studio is now surrounded by green screens, and even the ground under his feet is paved green, Zack Schneider wears many hats, standing behind the camera at the moment, discussing the lighting with the gaffer.

When Matthew passed, he didn't disturb the two of them, but walked around the shooting location twice, although it was all green screen, it was also necessary to familiarize himself with the shooting environment.

In the center of this small green screen, there was a large pit less than a meter deep, and the pit was also covered with a green screen, and he looked down twice, and the bottom of the pit was a thick green soft mat.

Footsteps sounded, and a black man as strong as an iron tower approached, and Matthew turned his head to make sure he didn't know him.

Zack Snyder finished explaining to the lighting engineer at this point, came to Matthew's side, and said, "This is an actor I borrowed from your agency. ”

Matthew nodded, when Zack Schneider informed him to come over a few days ago, the two communicated, and today is the scene where the Persian waiters came to Sparta to demonstrate, demanding that Leonidas submit to Xerxes, and Leonidas directly killed the messenger.

Since it was only a preview footage, it was impossible for Zack Snyder to gather so many actors, and there would be no other characters in the scene, just Matthew and the black actors.

To be precise, a black actor is just an ornament, and according to Zack Snyder's request, a black actor doesn't need to speak his lines, just cooperate to get Matthew to kill him.

"Kenneth!" Zack Schneider called the black actor over and beckoned Matthew to come with him to the green screen pit, "Matthew, you finish your lines first, and then kick Kenneth head-on." ”

He also said to the black actors, "You've shot a lot of action scenes, and you've done a lot of good work with Matthew's movements. ”

The black actor was dressed in a thick outfit with metal rings on his face and nose, and he looked vicious.

"I know how to do it. The black man nodded.

Zack Snyder explained to Matthew and the black actor the precautions for standing and moving, and went to the camera, and Matthew also took advantage of his free time to exchange a few words with the black actor in order to have the most basic tacit understanding.

Especially in action scenes, coordination is very crucial, he can't really kick the black actor down, with his current strength, if he kicks it solidly, the black actor is estimated to be unable to get up for half a day.

On the camera's side, Zack Schneider raised one hand, and his assistant operated the other camera, turning to Matthew's side.

The situation is special, and everything can only be kept simple.

"Let's go!" Zack Schneider's voice came.

Matthew looked down at the ground and said softly, "Water and earth......"

"Stop!"

As soon as the first line was finished, Zack Schneider shouted a halt and reminded Matthew, "British accent!

Matthew raised his hand and said, "I ignored it. ”

He forgot that in most of Hollywood's costume epic films, no matter where the actors come from, they will basically say a British accent full of classical meaning.

"Wait a minute!" Matthew, who had been trained in this area but hadn't used it lately, said to Zack Snyder, "Give me a few minutes and I'll get a feeling." ”

Once again, Zack Schneider reminded, "It's best to have the stage tone of Shakespeare's plays." ”

It was a bit difficult, and Matthew spun around on his own, muttering for a good five minutes before returning to his place and saying to Zack Schneider, "Let's try again." ”

Zack Schneider nodded slightly, waited for Matthew to get ready, and shouted again, "Go!"

"Water and Earth ......"

Matthew changed into a classical British accent, his expression was quite deep, and his voice was subdued, "Earth and water!"

He suddenly drew his short sword, turned to point at the black actor, and there was more sarcasm in his expression, pointing to the big pit behind the black actor, and said, "There is a lot of earth and water down here, go get it yourself!"

With the dagger clenched tightly in his hand and the muscles in his arms tightened, Matthew instantly became more ferocious and terrible than the black actor, and shouted, "You have come to me with the head and crown of a king conquered by Xerxes! You have insulted my queen! You have threatened my subjects with slavery and death! Persian!"

He put away his sword and took a step back, as if it had just been a threat.

Matthew turned his head and looked at the camera lens behind him, his eyes extremely determined!

“This .is . Sparta!" Matthew shouted angrily, turned and raised his legs, and his long legs kicked out like lightning.

The black actor had been prepared for a long time, and just before Matthew's big foot kicked him, he flew straight backwards and fell to the bottom of the pit.

"Stop!" Zack Schneider's voice rang out, "get here first." ”

The black actor who fell at the bottom of the pit struggled to his feet and tried to climb up, but Matthew reached out and pulled him, and when he climbed up, he put away his dagger and came to Zack Snyder's side.

"How?" he asked.

Zack Schneider hooked up the monitor next to him, adjusted it, started playing on the monitor, and said, "The overall effect is okay." ”

Matthew stood next to him, looking at the screen on the monitor, and because of his lack of professionalism and limited ability to do so, he could only see him and the black actor playing in slow motion surrounded by a green screen......

"It's a high-speed slow-motion ......," Zack Schneider said at the time, "but there's no post-processing at the moment, and high-speed slow-motion is only playing at 24 frames per second." ”

"Hmm. Matthew nodded.

I know a little bit about this, Hollywood movies, especially action movies, are mostly shot at high magnification and projected at low magnification.

For example, the normal situation of a movie is to show 24 frames per second, shoot at 48 frames per second when shooting, and then play at 24 frames per second during the projection, presenting slow motion.

Matthew has the impression that Zack Schneider is a good player in this area.

He couldn't intervene in this kind of thing as an actor, so he watched the broadcast footage and went to another venue to prepare to shoot a one-man show by Leonidas.

Picking up a spear, Matthew came to a green screen that rose high and low on the ground.

Zack Schneider, who had already operated the camera mounted on the slide, turned around, stopped five feet in front of Matthew's side, and said, "Are you ready?"

Ma Xiu was brewing emotions, did not speak, just nodded.

Zack Schneider gestured to the other side, and a fan spun as he shouted, "Go!"

The wind blew, causing Matthew's cloak to flutter, and he stood on top of the green screen, holding a spear in his hand, looking up diagonally.

The cape floats up, and Zack Snyder gradually zooms out of the camera, only to feel that Matthew in the lens is as amazing as a sculpture carved by Michelangelo, exuding the sunshine, strength and wild beauty of a man all over his body.

When filming "Dawn of the Living Dead", he found that this is a very tough and tough actor, and now it seems that he is even better than expected.

With such an outstanding Leonida, coupled with his high level of restoration of illustrations, Zack Schneider is sure to impress Frank Miller.

Zack Schneider manipulated the camera and took a 360-degree shot around Matthew, sighing in his heart, no matter how you look at it, this is a tough and wild Spartan warrior!

The camera returns to square one, and Zack Schneider exclaims, "Stop!" and he gives Matthew a thumbs up, "Awesome, perfect!"

Matthew pointed his spear on the ground, lowered his arm, and said, "If you don't stop shouting, my joints will stiffen." ”

This kind of posing shooting, which looks simple, is not so easy to do.

Returning the spear to an assistant, Matthew went over to talk to Zack Schneider for a few words before filming the next shot.

Overall, the shooting went well, Zack Schneider prepared for several months, and the trial shot was completed after only two days of shooting, but the shooting could only be regarded as the beginning, and there was still a lot of post-production to be done to achieve the effect that Zack Schneider expected.

After Matthew's filming, the follow-up contact with Zack Schneider was given to Helen Herman, who himself was preparing for the release of "National Treasure". 10