On August 17, 2013, "Interstellar" was announced. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Later, the film's star Matthew McConaughey said that he did not audition, but only chatted with director Shen Lin for an hour.

After reading the script a week later, I decided to join.

Scarlett Johansson is even more so, she said that she has never even met the director, only that she is a very young Asian who has written "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad", and these are enough!

After the start of filming was announced, on the same day, the crew moved to Alberta, Canada, for live-action shooting.

Except for most of the space scenes in the whole "Interstellar", which needs to be filmed in the studio, the rest of the filming is live-action, mainly in Alberta, Canada, and by the way, Iceland.

Iceland was filmed primarily for the frozen planet.

Shen Lin's height in shoes is 1.8 meters, which is about the same as the average height of Lao Mei, and it will not be too inconspicuous when standing with the crew!

The entire crew is almost 80 people, mainly referring to the behind-the-scenes personnel, plus less than 100 actors, after all, it is a live shooting, and there is no need for so many people.

The whole scene had been prepared in accordance with Shen Lin's requirements half a year ago, and the endless cornfield made the whole venue look very empty!

It fits the atmosphere of the film very well!

Cook Dick assigned Shen Lin three assistant directors, Darius de Andrade, Gary Harvey and Brandon Lamberdine.

Shen Lin set the first day of filming as a chase scene in the cornfield!

There is no doubt that there are many difficulties!

First of all, Shen Lin wanted to show not only aerial footage on the screen, but also intense real-time scenes in the car!

There are still lines and performances, Shen Lin is not particularly worried, if the actors selected by Disney can't even achieve the most basic performances, then Kukdick is simply ashamed of the title of Disney's No. 3 person!

The plot is like this, Cooper sent his two children to school, attended a parent-teacher conference by the way, and actually ran into a drone on the way!

Cooper was so excited that he decided to track down the drone, but the main purpose of the drone's appearance was to induce a gravity anomaly!

Shen Lin asked Cooper's pickup to follow the drone closely and be able to carve out the strip in the rows.

This is very important, commercial movies need to be cool, and the strips drawn are cool!

Participating in the chase scene on the ground is Cooper's truck, a new 2013 Dodge that has been worn by the art department to make it look like it's been driving for years.

By the way, Dodge gave nearly $3 million in sponsorship fees!

It's still too little, if you change to other famous directors, you can have at least five million sponsorship fees!

The strip is the trajectory of a thrilling chase scene, and it's sure to be dangerous when the truck drives through the cornfields at speeds of up to 70 mph!

Therefore, it is impossible for the actor to be on the stage in person!

Even if the actors want to, the child protection law doesn't!

In order to ensure the vastness and realism of the shot, Shen Lin wanted the IMAX camera to shoot close to the actors.

By the way, to briefly introduce that the weight of an IMX camera is 80 kg!

How to achieve the safety of the chase and capture everything with a camera as Shen Lin envisioned?

The entire team utilized a "pod platform" system instead of towing the truck with a camera car.

The roll cage is mounted on the roof of the truck and is operated by a stunt driver control device.

Of course, the overall shooting can't let Matthew operate the pickup, and the close-up shots of Matthew and the two little actors are not really staying in the car, but the simulated driving position on the spot!

And the camera is where Shen Lin wants them to be.

Cottle, who was in charge of the props, later recalled in an interview about the film, "After the pod platform was installed, the actors in the car were deep in the cornfield, but the driver of the truck from the roof had a good view, so it was a 100 percent safe and cool way to get the chase we wanted." ”

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After everything was prepared, Shen Lin finally called the beginning of his first big production in Hollywood!

The crew was divided into two groups of shooting, and Shen Lin's camera was aimed at Matthew and two young actors who were safely staying in the middle of the cornfield.

As for the scene of the real speeding truck driven by the special effects crew, he did not follow the filming and handed it over to the first assistant director, Darius.

"Daddy, we lost it?"

"Of course not, wait a minute, I'll make it go around in circles!"

"Wow! that's cute!"

"You try, yes, that's all!"

Finally the drone stopped.

By the way, this drone is also a real-life unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, of course, it is not operated by Matthew, after all, this is an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft of the old American military!

"The control centers in the United States and Germany closed their doors ten years ago, so it flew for at least ten years!

Cooper's reaction to seeing the drone was thrilling, and it fit the character - he's an astronaut himself!

"Click! good, next scene!"

Probably looking at the monitor, Shen Lin was very satisfied with the performance in this section.

The next scene is still a cornfield.

This is when air rich in C-90 comes in handy.

'Wind and sand' almost does not need to be simulated, it is directly on the spot.

"I heard you didn't have a pleasant conversation at school?"

"You heard? We seem to have forgotten who we are, we are explorers, pioneers and not guardians!"

"When I was younger, there were new things coming out every day, new concepts, new tools, and there were 6 billion people at that time! It's scary to think about! Everyone is so greedy, hey! The world hasn't gotten that bad!"

"Once upon a time we looked up at the stars and thought about our place in the stars, now we can only bow our heads and worry about our world in the dust. ”

The conversation between Matthew and John Litgaard didn't need to be repeated a second time, both of them were acting schools.

John Litgaard has starred in a series of movies and TV series, although he rarely plays the leading role, but he is definitely the golden supporting role in many Hollywood movies, a standard old drama bone!

But Shen Lin still shouted, 'Click!'

"Who's in charge of the props? Change this beer bottle!"

Shen Lin's voice was not loud, but it was very loud, "I want a wine bottle without a label, not this one with the name of Budweiser!"

The person in charge of the props team hurriedly ran over, and without waiting for him to explain anything, Shen Lin said directly, "You have ten minutes to solve it!"

Shen Lin's words did not carry any emotional color, and they were completely businesslike.

This crew, not his crew, only has a working relationship between them, and whoever makes a mistake in their work will be responsible for it.

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Any director, especially an outsider, must first be able to stand in the crew before he can truly lead the entire crew.

Lao Mei naturally has a feeling that Lao Tzu is the best in the world, especially Hollywood, and they have a natural hostility towards Asians.

Therefore, Shen Lin never thought of leading these people, as long as they didn't cause trouble!

Besides, these people still have the minimum professionalism.

Taking money to do things is the most basic principle of Hollywood, and if you can't do this, these people won't have the qualifications and status they have now.

Moreover, Shen Lin also serves as the executive producer of "Interstellar", no matter how you look at it, this young Asian has the right to fire these people!

After that, the shooting still didn't go too well, and a lot of things were constantly adjusted, from the set to the camera position.

The newly established crew needs to run in, and on the other hand, Shen Lin does lack enough Hollywood shooting experience!

If it weren't for the actors' performances being brilliant enough, today's filming might have been difficult!

The long hours of shooting all morning had made John Little, who was a little older, so tired that he made some small complaints through his assistant.

During the break, the director's assistant naturally conveyed the actor's dissatisfaction to Shen Lin, "John Littlegaard's assistant mentioned a few words to me, he said that Mr. John has been too busy with work recently, and his health is not very good, and he hopes that the following shots used to run in the crew will be placed on other actors." ”