The train roared past, it came strongly, and then left quietly, running over the road and taking away several lives.

After this scene, Han Qiu began to shoot footage of a road chase shootout.

Compared with trains, American citizens are not surprised by the scene of gunfights. Almost every day, there are shootouts in the United States, either filming or really killing.

Of course, the vast majority of those who dare to blatantly put guns on the street are actors.

is like the shot taken by Han Qiu at this moment.

To be honest, Han Qiu's impression of the United States is okay, the country is not full of gunfights like in Hollywood movies. The real danger is those countries in Africa that are still at war, and even Han Qiu feels that Britain is more dangerous than the United States.

Grandma's, who is it that there are frequent terrorist attacks in this place.

In the final analysis, in Han Qiu's heart, Huaxia is the safest place, and there is no country like it......

In the evening, after the day's work was completed, Han Qiu returned to the hotel a little tired. After taking a shower, I lay down on the big bed, and it didn't take long for me to fall asleep.

In the dream, Han Qiu took Zhou Yuxin's hand and walked on the railroad tracks.

The two of them each stepped on a single track, relying on the pull from each other's hands, carefully maintaining their balance.

Han Qiu: "Yuxin, where do you say we will go if we go on like this?" ”

Zhou Yuxin: "I don't know, there is no end to this track." But ....."

"But what?"

"As long as I'm with you, it doesn't matter where I go."

"Even hell?"

Zhou Yuxin: "Well, even hell. ”

Hearing this, Han Qiu walked to the middle of the railroad tracks and gently pulled Zhou Yuxin into his arms. On his face, a happy smile gradually emerged.

........

Magic City.

It's late at night in the U.S., and it's still daylight.

In the seaside villa, Zhou Yuxin was cooking lunch in the kitchen, while Han Xia was working on the side.

"Sister Yuxin, when did you and my brother get married?" Han Xia asked with a big grin.

Zhou Yuxin's face turned slightly red: "Why do you suddenly care about this?" ”

"I'm not worried about you."

"Your brother said it would take a while."

Han Xia stretched out his voice and said helplessly: "I have to wait~~~~"

Zhou Yuxin smiled: "You, you, don't worry about it, your brother and I know it." ”

Han Xia pouted: "Okay, okay, anyway, it's you who got married, not me." ”

"Alright, stop pouting, you can hang the oil bottle. Come, help me get the food out. ”

Han Xia picked up the dishes and shouted outside the kitchen, "Ha Erxian, come out and gnaw on the bones." ”

"Whew~~~~~"

.......

A few days later, Han Qiu finished filming the street shootout scene and transferred to another place in Los Angeles to film.

This is an abandoned game company building, made of steel and glass, and now Han Qiu is going to temporarily renovate it to shoot an "absurd" shot.

It's morning, and in the lobby on the first floor of the game company, the staff is arranging the scene back and forth, and the cameras have been fixed by the crane.

In addition, many group performances in suits and leather shoes are also ready, shuttling through the transparent corridors.

In the center of the hall, a large circular staircase stands in the middle. The ladder spirals up in a quadrilateral, just like a DNA helix molecule, except that the DNA is arc-shaped, which is square.

The staircase is about two stories high, and after spiraling to a certain height, a fault appears, and further on, there is a "cliff".

Just looking at it this way, it doesn't really feel much, like a ladder of unfinished construction.

But from a certain point of view, this staircase has an infinite amount of magic, enough to break through the constraints of space.

In the corner of the hall, Han Qiu and Xiao Zhang "admired" a display screen, in which the picture was this staircase, which was taken by a camera fixed in the sky.

It's just that from this point of view, the fault and the starting point are connected together, making this staircase more and more strange the more you look at it. Obviously, the stairs are getting higher and higher, but I followed the path of the stairs in a circle, and finally found that I had returned to the original point.

Isn't it from low to high? The ladder is also higher and higher?

Crawling and crawling back to square one for Mao?

This is the so-called visual arts.

Otherwise, it is impossible for the Penrose Ladder, which only exists in high-dimensional space, to "appear" in three-dimensional space.

Xiao Zhang rubbed his chin, and the more he looked at it, the more energetic he became, "Director Han, how is my Penrose ladder design?" ”

Han Qiu nodded: "It's okay, it looks a little bit of spatial confusion." ”

This is Han Qiu's idea for Xiao Zhang, using visual confusion to embody the geometric paradox of Penrose's Ladder in the real world.

Similarly, there are many surrealist works that cause spatial confusion due to visual confusion.

For example, in some 3D art museums, there is a room that can make people "bigger and smaller". When a person walks from one corner to the other, you will be shocked to find that he has become shorter.

But in reality?

A person's height certainly doesn't change that much in just a few seconds, and it's just a visual distortion that causes this phenomenon.

Xiao Zhang suddenly sighed: "Dream is really a magical place, I used to have nightmares sometimes, dreaming that I kept climbing the stairs, but no matter how I climbed, I couldn't climb the end." Director Han, did you say I met the Penrose Ladder? ”

Han Qiu shook his head.

Xiao Zhang was puzzled: "Isn't it?" I think it's very much in line with the Penrose Ladder. ”

Han Qiu hooked the corners of his mouth and teased, "Who would have dreamed of this thing consciously dreaming of the Penrose Staircase?" I guess it's that the stairs in your dreams are too long, and if you hold on, you should climb to the end. ”

Xiao Zhang: "....."

.......

Moments later, filming officially began.

Zhang watched Natalie and Joseph talk and laugh on the Penrose Steps, and his heart was unconsciously filled with pride.

Look, you can accomplish the feat of spatial confusion without special effects, isn't this awesome?

He suddenly felt that it was a very wise decision to take over Han Qiu's task in the first place.

I am a prop master, and when Inception becomes popular in the future, my fame can also be famous all over the world, right?

Zhang has this confidence, not only because of the Penrose Ladder, but also because of other props.

For example, the "gravityless floating" device.

.........

After completing the shot of Penrose's Steps, the crew moved to Warner's studio and began filming this "weightless" shot.

This shot takes place in the second layer of the dream, because the owner of the dream is in a state of weightlessness in the first layer of space, which directly causes the entire world in the second layer of the dream to lose gravity.

Without gravity, the man would have floated.

And to find a natural gravity-free field in the real world, it is 99% impossible. The other 1% is artificially created.

There must be a gravity-free field in the place where astronauts are trained in NASA, but it is impossible for people to go in and shoot there.

In addition to this, there are other ways to create gravity-free fields. The Earth's gravity is towards the center of the earth, and as long as you find an outward opposite force and cancel it out, you can also create a gravity-free scene.

For example, there was once a director who made an outer space movie, and in order to create a gravity-free environment, he used the method of "vomiting comet". It is to make the aircraft perform multiple parabolic flights at high altitude, each flight can create a zero-gravity state for 25 to 30 seconds.

The crew used this time to shoot shot by shot

But the price is a bit high, the lens is not easy to control, and the time is still short, so you can't shoot long shots.

In addition, there are also some underwater simulations of a weightless environment or something, or simply use special effects: except for a face, all parts of the body are synthesized by special effects.

But in this way, it is too fake.

Therefore, some directors can't create a gravity-free environment, so they can simply simulate this effect.

Isn't it just floating?

Then use a puppet device to get it.

Don't say it, there are really directors who do this. They invited professionals from the puppet theater club, and then tied ropes to the actors' limbs, so that the professionals could "play" with the actors as puppets.

This is the simplest and most brutal gravityless performance.

Grossly outrageous.

Anyway, Han Qiu couldn't imagine the feeling of those actors being hung in the air and their limbs being manipulated by others.

Therefore, Han Qiu would not shoot like this.

In the end, Han Qiu and Xiao Zhang combined up and decided to shoot with a technique similar to a puppet device.

It's just that the rope is only tied around the waist, not the limbs, and there is no puppeteer behind the rope to control.

Everything depends on the actor's own will to act.

And to create a gravity-free floating effect, it is also very simple: generally speaking, the crane is hoisted upright. If you want to float in a hall, you need to hang a wire directly above it.

Just doing this, if you want to show the effect of gravity, it is too difficult, and the actor can't play it. Because gravity still exists after all, few people can overcome gravity in the vertical direction and perform a gravityless effect in the air.

So, if it doesn't work right, then vertically.

This gravity-free shot takes place in a hallway and in the rooms next to each other, and Xiao Zhang and Han Qiu erect this hallway.

That's right, the two walls at either end of the corridor, one becomes the "bottom" and the other becomes the "ceiling". It was like a rectangle lying horizontally on the ground, standing upright.

The wire is still hanging from the "ceiling", and the gravity is still towards the center of the earth. It's just that the camera doesn't shoot upright, but along the erected corridor, from the bottom up.

In this way, from the direction of the camera, gravity "does not exist", and the actors have much easier performance.

In fact, gravity is still there, and it still controls the actor's movement up and down. But in the camera's "eyes", gravity controls the forward and backward movements. The gravity in the up-and-down direction disappears.

This is the ghost idea that Han Qiu and Xiao Zhang came up with.