"Oppression, must oppression! It is necessary to make the audience feel suffocated and turn around and want to run away when watching a scene. It should be presented in front of the audience in an oppressive manner, and everyone should understand that this is hell, so that the audience can feel like they are in the devil's bloody mouth!" Spielberg said at the regular meeting.

"Tom ......"

Spielberg called for Tom Hanks, who was following the cast.

"In the next week's training, you will move here, and you will have to communicate with Jos's pyrotechnics team in a timely manner and familiarize yourself with the location of the pyrotechnics, I don't want to see any of you get hurt. ”

"I understand. Hanks nodded seriously, Hanks's biggest actor is the liaison of the entire rescue team.

Although this is an extremely chaotic landing operation, the crew must not be chaotic, even if a very small soft explosive is used, a movement route diagram will be set in advance, but the actors still have to be coordinated, if Li Fulong, the main actors in the rescue team, are injured, it will definitely delay the filming progress.

"It's hard to imagine how the soldiers of the war had such great courage and sacrifice to walk through this death zone?" Li Fulong sighed to Hanks.

"There are only two kinds of people left on the beach, those who are already dead and those who are about to die. Come on, follow me!" Li Fulong could understand the soldiers' charge on the shrapnel-ridden beach.

Spielberg actually prefers to shoot in the order of the storyboard, because this allows the actors to have a better grasp of the characters and the plot, so that they will not be unable to adjust the rhythm of the performance because of the jump of the plot.

This was a plan that Spielberg had thought of a long time ago, and naturally he had his considerations.

Under the command of Li Fulong and his assistants, actors such as Li Fulong kept jumping off the landing craft, charging, falling, getting up, encountering preset explosion points, simulating the "miserable" state in the rain of bullets, or pretending to fall down when "shot". And then come back to life and do it all over again.

I don't know how many times I have to repeat it a day, sometimes Li Fulong feels that in addition to being tired, making movies is quite simple, just keep running and jumping.

Some people scurried around, like rats with their tails lit, some people jumped from the landing craft and drank a few large mouthfuls of seawater, and almost choked to death; some people were obviously blown up, but they rushed to kill without hesitation, as if they would never die; some people ran and ran and turned their heads, and when they asked, they realized that they had tripped over themselves, causing the people behind them to have a close contact with the helmet of the former, and missing a front tooth.

The day's drills were finally over, and people were so tired that they turned their backs. Li Fulong, the main actors, also sat together to summarize and review.

The drill lasted for seven days, and even a temporary soldier felt like he could go to battle and die like a soldier.

Even the most picky people will think that it is okay, as long as Spielberg gives an order, the rat should be holding his head and running away, he should lie down and pretend to be dead, and he will not even know his own mother when he comes.

When the actual shooting came, the brutality of the war was evident here, and Spielberg recorded everything with a hand-held camera, eliminating the traditional moving rails, and presenting the constantly shaky images in front of people's eyes will be the equivalent of a news documentary made by a war photographer.

Li Fulong can't tell whether this is true or not, he is a hard-working actor, he cherishes this opportunity very much, trains actively, asks Hanks for advice when he has nothing to do, and before coming to this beach, he has read the script countless times, figuring out the characters and story clues.

But as he rode aboard the bumpy landing craft and looked out at the black, oppressive beach, he felt like a real soldier from World War II, and he began to think about it, and he realized how terrified the soldiers of 40 years ago were.

Immersive, or real, is the best instructor of acting, and the performance theories learned before are so pale and powerless at the moment.

When the flesh was flying, when the explosions around him exploded one after another, his brain went blank, although a voice in his heart told him that it was filming, but he was instinctively afraid.

The whole shooting scene was extremely chaotic, and the Irish extras who served as the background painting, according to their own settings, some fell at the door of the landing craft cabin, some died on the way to charge, and some hid behind obstacles......

In the most critical position, Spielberg personally controlled a hand-held camera to capture Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller, the Oscar-winning actor and Hollywood superstar, who also showed excellent professionalism, even if his whole body was almost soaked in the cold water, he still tried his best to complete his role.

The wounded rolled on the ground, the cowering soldiers huddled together and trembled, and there was no strong man under war, only cruelty......

The sound of gunshots, the wind, the sound of water, the sound of explosions and the sound of miserable howls were mixed together for a while, and since the documentary shooting method was adopted, the method of live recording would inevitably be used.

The sun slowly sets below the sea level, and the day's filming finally comes to an end, and the ravaged shapeless beach gradually regains its quietness, because it is far from the city, except for those who have finished the scene and left. Most of them live in a nearby town or on a trailer driven by the crew.

The filming on the second day was a blasting scene, and Spielberg also took care of Li Fulong and gave two lines.

"Attack with a blaster!

On the beach, Tom Hanks' loud voice was unusually loud, and he was lying in a crowd of soldiers shouting,

"Attack with blasters!" Li Fulong repeated his shout.

"Aim at the bunker!" shouted Tom Hanks.

"Aim for the bunker!" Li Fulong then repeated again.

"Aim at the bunker!" shouted the sapper behind him.

The blaster was constantly thrown into the sand pit behind the sand bank by the sappers, and Li Fulong and others, who had already practiced several times, hurriedly lay on the ground and hugged their heads tightly.

Not far behind them, Spielberg nodded to the pyrotechnic group, and the other party pressed the wire-controlled detonator, and the continuous explosions sounded one after another, and the entire beach seemed to tremble, and a lot of flying sand splashed down on Spielberg's side, and the momentum was extremely amazing.

For the next few days, the crew was filming the scenes after the Allied invasion of the beach, until the Christmas holidays, the scenes of the landing battle gradually came to an end, except for a few close-up scenes, the rest were some large-scale destructive explosion scenes.

The crew had to dismantle the temporary fortifications on the coast in the end, and in order to save money, Spielberg simply used a relatively labor-saving method. Blow up some buildings directly in the big battle.

Most of these buildings are vain, and they can be violently demolished without too much explosives.

In this movie, Spielberg can shoot this act of killing prisoners according to his own ideas, or according to the behavior of a real World War II veteran, you can justifiably think that the Germans should be killed, and you can also take it for granted that the American soldiers are immoral, but the truth is as simple as this:

The two German soldiers who laid down their arms and surrendered were killed, in fact, Czechs, and they said in Czech: "Please don't kill me, I'm not a German, I'm a Czech, I haven't killed anyone, I'm a Czech!", they didn't want to help the Nazis kill people, but in the end they were not liberated, and no one cared about them on the battlefield.

Li Fulong thought of China's domestic war movies, it seems that this is a very sensitive topic, and the deepest impression he remembers is that in a certain movie, the RB devil officer was killed at the end, just because the devil officer resisted stubbornly, so the killing was justified, and it was even more pleasant, the devil was likely to choose to surrender, but the director or screenwriter didn't let you surrender, because you can't be killed if you surrender.