Having worked with Ridley Scott twice before, Matthew knows Ray's habits better, and he likes to shoot with multiple cameras, which is cinematically challenging, but also fun.

Both Matthew and Ridley Scott want the films to look real, that is, to shoot on location as much as possible.

The scene about Matthew in the crew was filmed in two parts, one in the studio in Dobiel, Queensland, and the other in the desert more than ten miles away from the studio.

Since it is impossible for the crew to go to Mars to shoot, how to create a Mars is very important for the movie, and Ridley Scott is very experienced in shooting space, so this time he found a lot of old partners who have worked together, and built a total of more than 20 scenes in the studio and desert.

Especially in the desert area, the area is not large, but it provides a rich and diverse terrain instead of simple gravel and wasteland, which is the main reason why the crew chose to shoot the exterior here.

Matthew and Ridley Scott still have some arguments about this, and the color balance of the images provided by NASA is relatively neutral, that is, the color tone is the same as that of the Earth, plus there are different cameras taking photos of Mars with different lenses, so it is impossible to determine what the real Mars should look like.

Later, Ridley Scott, with the assistance of NASA professionals, incorporated this into the analysis, set the desert area, and then tuned the camera to match all the color tones and white balance with the desert survey image.

Like Martian rocks, craters, volcanoes, and dust storms for distant prospects, all designs are based on real Martian phenomena provided by NASA.

"Mars is not only beautiful, but also dangerous. ”

On the set of the studio, Ridley Scott told Matthew, "Every step of the way is a challenge for the lead actor, and everything can go wrong." ”

He admonished, "So, all your actions must look in accordance with the norms, and you must be careful!"

Matthew nodded slightly, "I understand." ”

From his point of view, there are actually two protagonists in these scenes where the male protagonist struggles to survive on Mars, one is him, and the other is Mars that is presented as realistically as possible.

Matthew took the helmet handed by the stylist, put it on his head, and then went to a Martian rover and carefully checked the equipment on his body.

The stage is covered with the same sand and gravel as the location, and is relatively flat due to the stationing of the exploration team on Mars, but there are occasional rocks that protrude slightly reddening from the ground, and the vistas and sky are all generated by post-production.

So, the filming location was all shrouded in a green screen, as if it had been built inside a huge tent.

Ridley Scott asked Matthew a question, Matthew gave a thumbs up, and Ray announced the start of filming.

Matthew dragged the cart through a pile of solar panels and walked to a place with fine soil not far away, he was very slow, and every step was very careful, as if it was very difficult.

The male protagonist in the script is already injured at this time, plus the heavy spacesuit and ventilator on his body, and the rest of his life just after the catastrophe, it must be like Ridley Scott said, every step on this Mars is a challenge, and you must be careful.

Matthew, slower than a walk, dragged the cart to his destination, removed the shovel from the cart, carefully removed the gravel from the ground, shoveled some dirt vigorously, and loaded it into the cart's body.

Then he shoveled more dirt and put it in.

"Hiss......"

As soon as he loaded the dirt into the body, Matthew let out a gasp of cold air, holding a shovel with one hand and pressing the other hand on his abdomen, as if it was in pain.

He rested for a while, and then continued his work, but his movements became slower, and he looked like an old man in his seventies and eighties.

With most of the cart loaded, Matthew put away the shovel and dragged the cart back, much slower than when he came.

"This dirt alone is not enough, I need a luminous device. Matthew muttered as he walked, "Although the soil composition of Mars is somewhat similar to that of Earth, there are no microorganisms, where can I find them?"

Thinking of this, Matthew couldn't help but stop, gasping and looking around, there was nothing else to see around but the green screen, but his gaze seemed to be looking at the vast wilderness of Mars.

In a place like Mars, the desire to survive is stronger than Robinson's if you want to live alone.

Matthew thought for a moment, "There it is!" he dragged the cart and continued to walk towards the base, "I'm going to grow potatoes on Mars scientifically!"

Unlike previous sci-fi films, in this film, Matthew does not have action scenes in the real sense, and if you want to make the one-man show on Mars attractive, in addition to the spiney sense of the Martian survival story, you also need plump characters with full texture.

In Matthew's own words, Mark Watney seems to be a tragic character trapped on an alien planet where birds don't, but in fact he is a very optimistic character, with an indomitable good attitude, a good teammate who never leaves, and a glittering protagonist aura.

That line can also show Matthew's portrayal of the character of the actor Mark Watney.

The original book is not known for the depiction of character personalities, nor does it have deep thinking or anything like that, and Matthew and Ridley Scott have no intention of deepening the theme, so the male protagonist is completely confused and tangled in his heart or anything.

When Matthew creates a character, he only needs to overcome problems calmly and calmly, sometimes reveal his true feelings, laugh when he is happy, and complete the task with just the right explosion when he is frustrated, which is easy for him to be in the theater for a long time.

To be precise, while Ridley Scott uses the camera to tell a tech nerd story, Matthew has to sell moe from time to time in the creation of the character.

For example, in the scene design, the male protagonist will clumsily draw circles on the ground in a heavy spacesuit, frowning and stirring dung, being swept to the ground by the air waves of the hydrogen explosion, helplessly complaining about Captain Lewis's bad music taste, and countless episodes of secondary two illnesses declaring "I am a Martian colonist!", "I am a space pirate!", "I am Iron Man!".

In short, this melancholy fog of alien disorientation will be dispelled little by little by the sunshine he shows.

Matthew and Ridley Scott have discussed more than once that such a hard science fiction story with technology as the first expression can better combine freshness and realism, and build a tension across space.

The core of the production of this film is actually the hardcore sci-fi, the soft and cute Matthew, and Ridley Scott, who wants to make a comeback.

Of course, NASA's technical support is also indispensable.

NASA showed great enthusiasm for working with Matthew from the beginning, and it was not difficult to guess what they had in mind – to seize this opportunity to give themselves a long face.

The Mars manned exploration program has always been on the agenda of NASA, and the so-called Mars-1 colonization program has been in an uproar in the past two years.

On this basis, the display of relevant science and technology can be expanded within a limited range, from the design of spacecraft and spacesuits, to the living rooms and rovers used by astronauts on the surface of Mars, giving priority to functional realization when appropriately playing a futuristic design, and to a large extent close to the existing functional style.

Many of the details in the crew's design are even directly copied from the daily life of NASA astronauts, such as the astronauts cruising between cabins in weightlessness, and remotely performing how to drink water for their families.

In fact, Matthew and Ridley Scott know very well that in the end, this film is like a Martian version of a survival reality show to some extent, and the biggest selling point is how the actor uses limited resources to save himself in this barren world, and how NASA's geniuses mobilize their ingenuity to complete the rescue across hundreds of millions of kilometers when the leader is tearing apart.

These seemingly intractable puzzles and unexpected solutions form the essence of the whole story - how to accomplish a specific task with limited resources, and in the abstract, how to find a solution to a problem given the initial conditions and boundary conditions.

In hard science fiction films, it is not difficult to open the brain hole, but it is difficult to open it well, and it is even more difficult to open it scientifically.

"The Martian" is a futuristic drama that looks like it has to be backed by science, with consultants from NASA, JPL and the European Space Agency on the crew, and 80 percent of the stuff is believable from a current scientific point of view.

Matthew has long identified the core of shaping this character - not bowing his head in the face of fate and insisting on facing difficulties with an optimistic and positive attitude.

The biggest challenge in this film is "being alone." ”

As we all know, one-man shows have always been difficult to perform, and it is even more difficult to perform brilliantly.

Since Matthew only needs to shoot in Australia and will not go to NASA and other places to shoot, from his personal point of view, this Martian is not so much how NASA racked his brains to rescue himself, but he took this opportunity to broadcast a personal talent show of young and middle-aged science and technology houses to the earth - making water, making air, growing potatoes with his own poop, digging nuclear power engines by hand, traveling thousands of miles to find the abandoned Pathfinder in order to communicate with the earth, and finally flying all the way to the sky in an "open-top spaceship".

For this reason, Matthew also specially found someone to watch the live show.

It's a pity that in this era, personal live streaming is still in its infancy, and it is far from being as prosperous as it once was.

With the start of filming in Australia, the promotion of the film is also on the agenda, and for a film to be remembered, publicity and hype are essential.

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