"No, no, no, Jobez, this is not good, you are a Soviet-Russian style Great Hall, not a Chinese style. Wang Jie looked at the large studio that was cleaned up, and shook his head along the three long five-star red flags hanging down on the wall, and the giant portrait of Taizu hung on the other side.

"I remember giving you enough information, why did it look the way it did?" he questioned ILM's prop master, "Don't tell me, you didn't look at those things at all. ”

"How could it be. Prop master Jobate said with some grievances, "I've carefully analyzed those materials, and if you look at those settings, it will make Forrest Gump's extraordinaryness seem a little ridiculous." ”

"So be it. Wang Jie said helplessly, anyway, it was just a few seconds of footage, and he didn't plan to take it too seriously.

The next step is the official shooting, but Hanks and the Chinese extras he found have to wave their rackets into the air, and the table tennis in reality cannot be as sharp as imagined, so the movement trajectory can only be added in the later stage. In fact, throughout the movie, Forrest Gump's super table tennis is like this.

But that doesn't mean Hanks can swing his racket around while shooting, and the team hired a coach to design some movements for the trajectory of table tennis, which can't be said to be reasonable, but at least it looks like that.

In addition, there are major events that Forrest Gump participated in in post-production, such as the riots caused by the "black and white school" in Alabama, or Kennedy's reception of the national college star team, and Nixon's award of medals to the heroes of the Vietnam War. Because Forrest Gump had to be put into the black-and-white footage, Hanks had to stand in front of a green or blue curtain, shaking hands with the air and talking to the air as if the historical figures were standing in front of him.

"It's not easy for me to imagine that there are a lot of people standing around me and trying to talk to them whenever you shout to start. Hanks said of the shoot during the break.

"Come on, Tommy, if that wasn't easy, then Harrison or Sam would have collapsed. Wang Jie retorted that it is obviously more troublesome to imagine in a limited scene - "Star Wars" or "Jurassic Park" - than this kind of play completely by one's own imagination in front of the blue screen.

The footage took about three days before the crew moved to San Jose, where Forrest Gump would be filmed catching shrimp. This is a very important scene, Lieutenant Dan completely cheered up because of Forrest Gump, whether it is Lieutenant Dan's "I haven't thanked you for saving my life", or Forrest Gump's "I think he probably reconciled with God", these lines and scenes are classic and meaningful.

Wang Jie originally planned to shoot this scene in Alabama, but the conditions there are not as good as Los Angeles after all, and California is also a coastal area, as long as the camera and post-production are edited slightly, the audience will not be able to tell the difference.

This is another story about the American dream, Forrest Gump, who couldn't capture anything at first, because of his persistence, finally won a bumper harvest after surviving the storm. Of course, the movie wants to depict more than that, but also the friendship between Lieutenant Dan and Forrest Gump, and the slow transformation under the influence of this stupid and stupid man, but Lieutenant Dan here is also the most eye-catching, especially the scene of sitting on the mast in the storm and shouting loudly.

At that moment, he thought he was going to die, he was finally free, no longer living like a walking corpse. But what he didn't expect was that he and Forrest Gump not only survived, but also made a lot of money because of shrimp fishing, and Lieutenant Dan finally understood that a person's value does not disappear because of setbacks, the key is whether you look for it or not. But he also knew that Forrest Gump didn't care about these things in his heart, he just wanted to help his friends as much as he could, so he finally stopped talking. On a dilapidated fishing boat bought by the crew, Wang Jie talked to Gary Sinis and Tom Hanks like this.

The crew was busy around, setting up the things needed for the shoot, such as the large spotlights that stood on either side. It's afternoon, the sea is sparkling, a bright scene, and the shooting needs to be in the situation just after the rainstorm, so you need to use strong light to create a dim environment on the lens, and then add distant dark clouds in the post.

"Alright, guys, let's get started now. After Sinis and Hanks put on their makeup and all the personnel were in place, Wang Jie clapped his hands and started shooting. The shots here are all short, and as long as the emotions of the two actors are in place, everything will go well. Shots of the storm certainly won't be shot here, those things can only be created in the studio.

"To put it simply, if the script is not changed according to their intentions, they can only say sorry?" Adrian looked at one of his assistant directors and asked, and waved his hand after confirming: "Okay, then let the Pentagon go to hell, the guns contact Blackwater International, as for the helicopter, Blackwater International will be called to transfer one immediately, and the rest will be done with CG in the later stage." ”

After returning to the studio from San Jose for about a week of indoor footage, Wang Jie immediately arranged for someone to prepare things to shoot the Vietnam War scenes in "Forrest Gump". Originally, he thought that he might be able to borrow some equipment from the military, but later learned that if he wanted to get the support of the military, he would first have to show the script to the commissioner of the Ministry of Defense, and if the other party was not satisfied with some things, he would have to revise it according to their requirements.

In other words, if you want to gain the support of the Pentagon when filming war scenes, you must highlight the positive image of the American military in the script. Like the plot in "Forrest Gump", it is 100% unpassable, but don't worry, in this case, as long as the producer is willing to modify it according to the Pentagon's wishes, the military can also support and sponsor it, such as using all kinds of weapons at will - from small rifles to large aircraft carriers - to assist in filming, and only need to pay a very low fee. If you don't want to change it, then please go back from where you came from.

Despite this, Wang Jie still asked people to contact and try, even if they really couldn't pass, at least they could try it. So he didn't pay attention to it after confirming that he was rejected, but it was just a few shots, and it didn't cost much. Although Wang Jie has a close relationship with the Bush family, he does not want to find someone because of this trivial matter, after all, the favor must be repaid after all.

"Prepare as soon as possible, next Monday we'll go to William's Farm to start filming, and by then I hope the camp is set up. Wang Jie said so admonishingly, and then announced the end of today's shooting.

After a few more words of explanation to the assistant director and others, he began to walk outside the studio.

On March 15th, Forrest Gump began filming about the Vietnam War at William Farm, and with the efforts of the props team and Blackwater International security personnel, all kinds of military props needed and the entire camp were completed.

"As I said, without the guys from the Department of Defense, we would still be able to shoot war scenes. Wang Jie said triumphantly.

"Come on, how can this bit of footage be considered a war scene. Gary Sinis, who was fiddling with the prop gun, poured cold water on him, and Hanks and Denzel, who played Babu, also laughed quietly.

"Shut up, Gary, this is one of the few plays you have with two legs, be careful with me. Wang Jie said jokingly, just at this time, the director's assistant came over to tell him that everything was ready, and he immediately clapped his hands and shouted: "Okay, guys, let's get ready to start!"

This part of the "Vietnam Battlefield" is relatively easy, at least Lieutenant Dan's legs don't need special treatment, so there is no need to worry about goofs during shooting, plus with the assistance of instructors from Blackwater International, this group of shooting is quite smooth, and there are a lot of interesting places, Hanks used the line "fire in the hole" to tease Wang Jie. This is a term commonly used by the U.S. military to circumvent their own explosives, and at the time of the call, Lieutenant Dan was having people throw grenades into the cave, which was exactly what it literally meant.

The most difficult thing to shoot should be the scene where Forrest Gump runs to save people, the previous ones are okay, but the shot when holding Babu is not so easy. In this scene, Forrest Gump has to run out with the Molotov bomb before it falls, so it is impossible to use the montage of "pick up" and then switch to "put down" as before, and Hanks must run at least 100 feet with the almost 200-pound Denzel Warzenton in his arms, which is not an easy task.

After thinking about it again, Wang Jie first asked the stuntman to try to run once, then hung a steel wire from Denzel to support his weight, and then let Hanks run again, and finally filmed the explosion scene. As for the next jets and incendiary bombs, they need to be added with CG in the later stage, just like Forrest Gump's large helicopter when they first arrived at camp.

On April 5th, after filming the anti-war demonstrations in the reflection pool under the HSD monument, as well as various exterior locations in HSD, Wang Jie announced the official completion of the film, and the whole crew immediately cheered, everyone could finally put down their mood and rest, after a few months of filming, everyone felt very tired, and a trip may be a good choice.