The roaring sound of motors resounded through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, and two muscle sports cars sped through the streets, so fast that people couldn't even see the appearance of the cars, as if they were just two silver-gray lightning bolts gliding by.

Even the footage captured by the high-speed camera is not particularly clear.

"It's so enjoyable!"

Standing under the large sun umbrella in a temporary rented open-air café on the street, Paul Walker couldn't help but the envy in his eyes, "This is the speed that a man should drive!"

Gal Gadot answered, "It's more than 150 miles per hour, and the average person can't control it, it's too dangerous." ”

Matthew nodded in agreement, and said in an accentuated tone, "With such a fast speed, if there is a little accident, the car will definitely be destroyed and killed." ”

"You two!" Paul Walker looked at Matthew and Gal Gadot and shook his head, "I just sighed, do you need to say that it's so serious?"

Tyrese Gibson chimed in, "I wouldn't dare drive this fast anyway. ”

The two cars drove back again, much slower than they had been when they had gone.

Matthew didn't say more, but deliberately looked at the route of the car, and in order to shoot a few street drag racing scenes, the crew spent a lot of money to hire a lot of professional drivers, and closed four streets in Rio de Janeiro.

In New York, it's impossible to block four main roads like this, unless it's an early morning shot, but in Rio de Janeiro, it's easy to get along with money.

Even, the local government of Rio de Janeiro also sent a large number of police to assist the crew in closing the street for filming.

The two cars were parked on the side of the road near the open-air café, and Matthew and Paul Walker walked over to get in the car for filming.

The two pros had just filmed him and Paul Walker, and the crew would shoot it again, and then edit it into them driving wild.

Matthew came to the Mercedes-Benz, which was a filming car that Mercedes-Benz had made for him, and he was very familiar with it.

Paul Walker was already in the car, excitedly fiddling with the purpose-built Dodge Challenger.

Justin Lin then walked over and reminded Matthew and Paul Walker, "Be careful to follow the predetermined route!" and he specifically told Paul Walker, "Steady your speed and be consistent with Matthew." ”

Almost everyone on the crew knew that Paul Walker had drag racing tendencies.

"Don't worry!" Paul Walker nodded, "I'll take notice." ”

With Justin Lin's order, filming soon began.

A Mercedes-AMG, a Dodge Challenger, slowly starts, at a speed of no more than thirty miles, towards the front.

The car was slow, but Matthew and Paul Walker maneuvered frequently in the car so that the photographer in the back seat of the car could take the required footage.

Two cars arrived at the intersection and then stopped.

Filming paused, Matthew and Paul Walker did not get out of the car, but waited for Justin Lin's orders.

"Let's go!"

Justin Lin's voice came over the loudspeaker, Matthew stepped on the accelerator, and the Mercedes-AMG rushed out, but the speed still didn't exceed thirty miles.

A car chased after them, and then "bang-bang-" gunshots rang out one after another.

Matthew lowered the window, controlled the car with one hand, raised the stub with the other, and shot at the car that had been rushed to the side.

The muzzle of the prop gun spewed out gunsmoke, the co-pilot glass of the car next to him shattered, and fell to the ground with a clatter, the stuntman in the driver's seat fell as if he had been shot, and the "out of control" car rushed to the side of the road.

More cars caught up at this point, and the gunshots rang out again.

Soon, the rear window glass and passenger glass of Matthew's car shattered.

At this moment, a black motorcycle appeared from behind the pursuer like a ghost, and the rider's long hair fluttered, and although he was wearing large windproof sunglasses, it was still easy to tell that it was Gal Gadot.

Gal Gadot caught up with those pursuers, with an extra pistol in his hand, and fired continuously at the front, causing burst-like air currents in the tire parts of several cars.

Of course, there were no accidents with these cars.

Filming stopped at this point, Matthew, Paul Walker and Gal Gadot withdrew from the set, and the rest of the speeding, crashing, rollover, and explosion scenes were naturally done by stuntmen.

Matthew and Paul Walker's characters are both in the car and basically don't have to play, but Gal Gadot doesn't wear a helmet in this scene design, and occasionally shoots some frontal close-ups with a tragic live background.

Gal Gadot's Giselle appears without a helmet, which seems a bit unreasonable, but after Matthew and Justin Lin discussed, they still adopted this design, after all, there are too many unreasonable action scenes in the film, and it is not bad for this point.

Like the previous film, Giselle is an independent and strong character, for example, in the design of this scene, the two protagonists, Sean and Brian, use Giselle as the most important surprise soldier in ambushing the gang, so that Giselle's design as a firearms expert is vividly displayed.

Matthew knows very well that the "Fast and Furious" series is the opposite of the "Twilight" series, the latter's audience is concentrated on young women, and the former's audience is definitely male-dominated, but the huge difference in investment scale between the two determines that "Twilight" can ignore male audiences, while "Fast and Furious" series must be able to attract some female audiences.

In addition to the natural appeal that he and Paul Walker have, the character of Giselle is actually designed specifically for female audiences.

Strong, independent and does not need to be saved by men, but will save men at critical moments, the character design is in line with the preferences of female audiences nowadays.

It is no exaggeration to say that in this day and age, the princess characters in movies who are always waiting for the prince to save are outdated.

Even Disney Animation Studio, the Prince and Princess Maker, has begun to have designs for princesses to take the initiative to step out of their birdcages and see the world.

It won't be long before strong female characters become an important branch on the big screen.

The filming of the crew has been taking place on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, with vehicle collisions and scrapping almost every day, with the occasional explosion and several blocks away.

Unlike when filming, there was almost no interference, the traffic in this area of Rio de Janeiro quickly eroded, and by the time the crew was filming in the post-production, there were frequent traffic jams on several nearby streets.

However, few Brazilians came to trouble the crew, except for a small gangster.

There was a small gang who didn't know what was going on, infiltrated the four streets where the filming was taken, and then injured one of the prop masters of the crew, only to be brutally suppressed by the crew's security team.

Since then, no gangs from Rio de Janeiro have come to cause trouble.

Rio de Janeiro is very poor in terms of security, in addition to being the city of God, it is also the capital of crime, which is well known, but everyone knows that the top crews from Hollywood are not easy to mess with, those big gangs are not stupid, there are so many businesses to do, why provoke these international groups, and those small gangs can't even deal with the security hired by the crew.

The filming of the street car scenes and action scenes has been going well, and by mid-March, the filming of the crew in Rio de Janeiro had reached the final stage.

Filming in Brazil was coming to an end, most of the cast had left Rio de Janeiro, and Matthew was soon left alone with the main cast.

Finally, on March 20, the crew finished their last scene in Rio de Janeiro and returned to Los Angeles.

But back in Los Angeles, before he could rest, Matthew threw himself into publicity.

Studio Thirteen, Skydance Pictures, and Disney Studios jointly convened a press conference that he and Justin Lim needed to attend in order to coincide with the film's pre-promotion.

The idea that large-scale publicity can create more box office and revenue has long been deeply rooted in Hollywood.

In September last year, Paramount Pictures bought out and released "Smart: Ghost Shadows" to create another miracle of small-budget horror films winning big box office.

This film, which was filmed and produced by only three people at a cost of $11,000, sold more than $100 million at the North American box office!

Everyone was amazed and were talking about the return on investment ratio of $11,000 and $100 million.

Only insiders know how much Paramount Pictures has invested in the film, and after seeing that the film has the potential to be a big hit, Paramount Pictures spent more than $6 million on copies alone in order to expand the scale of screening.

Although it didn't cost much to buy out the copyright, the investment in publicity and distribution was not more than $20 million.

Without large-scale publicity, there would not have been a success for this film.

At the press conference, in the face of interviews with many reporters, Matthew unreservedly touted the film he had invested in.

"We started making Fast & Furious 5 to be a high point in the series, and we wanted it to be the highest in the series in every way, from the length of the car chase scenes, to the complexity of the relationships between the characters, and even in terms of production costs. ”

In front of the camera lens, Matthew looked very confident, "I have full confidence in "Fast and Furious 5", because the whole film is more recognized by the audience than the other, this is a movie series that has been going up, and then in the fifth part, we need to make a phased summary of the whole series, so many ideas that I wanted to use before but did not put into the movie for various reasons, as long as it is worth operating." ”

He specifically talked about filming in Brazil, "There is a scene that takes place on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, the protagonists are chased by dozens of police cars and travel through the city, I have never seen such a scene, it is really shocking! Such action scenes are something that the audience has never seen before, and most importantly, they are all live-shot! So this movie will definitely become the most classic work in the series!"

After this year's Oscars, Studio 13, Sky Dance Pictures and Disney Studios made efforts at the same time to carry out a certain scale of pre-promotion for "Fast and Furious 5", and the film was hyped up.

Meanwhile, in New York, someone is on the move.