Chapter 703 Scene 703 The most difficult finish
Gary Loew was caught off guard, and a "ah" cry came out, and the wine splashed his eyes so uncomfortably that tears flowed out, and this scream also made all the production companies and theater executives look over.
Wagner watched dumbfounded, and Tom Cruise, who was chatting with Spielberg, also rushed over and asked them what was going on.
"Ray, why are you doing this?" Wagner asked with wide eyes as he looked at Lei Ting, who was holding an empty wine glass with a cool expression.
"Look at the side." Lei Ting motioned to her to pay attention to her surroundings with an expressionless face:
"The people in the theater chain are paying attention to this, I'm sure that the 'well-known player theater chain' has already invested in the big six, if we promise him to reduce the share, then he will take this contract to other companies in the Century Cinema Alliance, so that others will know that we have fallen into a desperate situation, and when "Youth Pi" is not released yet, our theater alliance will be crossed."
Wagner and Tom Cruise immediately understood that Lei Ting's strength was seen by others here, and now they are embattled, once they show weakness, these guys will pounce, and now the stronger they are, the more confident they are in Black Pearl, and they can stabilize the situation.
After wiping his eyes with his hand for a while, Gary Loew recovered, looking at the people next to him with a smile and looking at him with such an embarrassed look, he was embarrassed and angry, and pointed at Lei Ting and scolded uncontrollably: "You damn Chinese ****!? Rushing up and waving his fist, he wanted to beat Lei Ting.
The tall Wagner's first reaction was to block in front of Lei Ting to protect her~~
But before Gary Loew's fist could swing down, Tom Cruise had already come over with an arrow, and with a jab, "bang" hit him in the face, and the bearded man immediately snorted again and fell to the ground, and the nosebleed came out on the spot.
"Call an ambulance, and if you want to sue me, call my lawyer." Tom Cruise pointed to the employee of the "Well-known Gamer Theater" next to him, and threw over a business card of his lawyer, which came in handy at this time in order to shoot the fighting skills trained by "Iron Man".
Seeing this scene, the wife of Warner President Jeff Robinoff, who was not far away, stood up and applauded, and then the wives of the major high-ranking people on the scene, as well as other ladies, applauded Tom Cruise's heroic behavior.
Obviously, the hero of "Iron Man" saved the beauty and won the hearts of all women, and the men on the scene could only shrug their shoulders helplessly, watching Tom Cruise show off with envy, everyone knew in their hearts that Gary Loew could only consider himself unlucky this time......
Even if this matter goes to court, Tom Cruise's heroic act of saving the United States will be a few days of community service at most, which will enhance his "hero" image...... And Gary Loew's stupidity has led to the loss of the value of his company's image, which he probably can't afford......
Tom Cruise smiled and accepted the applause of the ladies present, then turned back to Wagner and Lei Ting and squeezed his eyes and said, "How about it, this time I showed the strength of our company." ”
"I really don't know what to say about you." Wagner saw that Tom Cruise's hands were already bleeding from broken skin, so he quickly took out a tissue and held the wound for him, muttering: "You men, one or two, are like this......"
"Hey, I can't let Director Li's beloved woman get hurt." Tom Cruise smiled manly.
"Do you think you helped me?" Lei Ting, whose face was like frost, put the ceramic dinner plate back on the table with the ceramic plate in her hand, and said coldly: "You helped him." ”
Tom Cruise and Wagner were stunned, neither of them had seen when Lei Ting picked up the plate......
Seeing that the people around him were looking at this side with complicated eyes, Wagner sighed and said with a wry smile: "Okay, now we only have one way, we can only pray that Director Li can make a masterpiece......
Yes, the Black Pearl Company is in desperate need of a masterpiece right now...... But looking at this short film, it seems that they have no hope at all.
There is also a huge price to pay for making such a movie, and Wagner does not know how much Li Xiaole himself has paid for this movie.
There has never been a movie like this, which requires the director himself to enter the country so many times, for the most perfect effect, Li Xiaole plays the role of a tiger and acts with Sura Shama every day, and the scene in the indoor pool is fine, but the real sea surface in the Indian Ocean is not so easy.
The air in the Indian Ocean is hot and humid, and it is very abrasive, and Li Xiaole and Sura Shama refresh themselves by serving vitamin B2 and drinking wheatgrass juice.
During filming, Li Xiaole definitely didn't drink coffee, because coffee would make his tough personality more agitated and make the rest of the crew suffer.
During the filming process, he and Sura Martha had to face different challenges, for him, he was very unaccustomed to the hot and humid air of India, and he would be dizzy when he basked in the sun for a long time on the boat, while Sura Shama was more afraid of seasickness, although he was very persistent, but when he encountered strong wind and waves, he would vomit and diarrhea.
The two of them gritted their teeth while filming, and survived the 107th day of filming, and for Li Xiaole, he still had to edit and do other directing work at night, so when Lei Ting and Wagner asked him to screen a short film, he couldn't get anything at all, because he was too busy...... There's no time for that.
And now that it's all coming to an end, they're going to shoot one of the last and most difficult shots of the film's shooting plan - the sinking of "Lancastria".
Li Xiaole doesn't want this 10,000-ton giant ship to be like the original, with only a dozen actors, and only filming a small corner of the ship under the cover of darkness and perfunctory, he wants to let "Lancastria" sink slowly like "Titanic", so that the audience can feel the real shocking effect.
To achieve this, he brought in 2,000 Indian extras from the Bollywood side of New Delhi, just because there was a shot that asked 1,500 people to run towards the stern of the capsized ship at the same time, as in the real scene of a sinking ship.
And the whole process of sinking, Li Xiaole invited two-time Oscar winner Tommy Fisher to lead, the physical special effects director, who helped James Cameron throw trucks, blow up houses, and destroy giant ships in "Terminator 2" and "Titanic", but obviously, the difficulty of "Life of Pi" this time is more difficult than the previous two movies, making the two-time Oscar winner at a loss.
If the "Lancastria" set was erected, it would have been taller than the Woolworths Building in New York, and Li Xiaole came up with the solution of digging a huge deep pit in the shallow sea, and then pressing "Lancastria" into that pit with steel cables.
At the shooting session, Li Xiaole drew this idea on a napkin and introduced it to Tommy Fisher:
"The cables are connected to a set of hydraulics that we have already customized, so that we can not only sink the set vertically, but also tilt it to two different angles~~ when sinking, and it should work well."
"How did you come up with this idea!?" Tommy Fisher looked at this drawing with a surprised face, because this technique was invented by James Cameron when he was filming "Titanic", and so far it is still a technical secret, and it has not been disclosed to the public, and even Tommy Fisher himself does not know how the details of the technique are completed.
"I'll figure it out for myself." Li Xiaole pursed his mouth, this method was made public by James Cameron when he remade the 3D version of "Titanic" a few years later, he wrote it down at the time, and never expected that he would be able to use it one day.
"Are movie geniuses all the same brains...... Tommy Fisher couldn't help but sigh, this is the first time he has discovered that there are directors in this world who can compete with James Cameron in film technology......
"What are your two lines?" Tommy Fisher looked closely at the picture on the napkin and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"This adjustment of the hull balance will shine into a buoyant-like motion pattern." Li Xiaole gestured with his hand and explained: "This is like the steel wire tied to the backs of those actors flying in the air in Hong Kong martial arts films. ”
Tommy Fisher, an expert in physical special effects, was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he completely understood that Li Xiaole's method was more ingenious than James Cameron's, and he even combined the skills of Chinese action directors to manipulate the human body with a tightrope......
Buoyancy vs. gravity...... Isn't this a similar amount of force in the opposite direction of two directions, he used the tightrope of the action movie upside down, which is simply too creative~~ After Tommy Fisher figured it out, he was also amazed in his heart~
This is simply too ingenious, and when it is filmed like this, the effect must be much more realistic than "Titanic...... Tommy Fisher became even more excited when he thought of this, and he seemed to realize that he might be making a movie that was even more magnificent than the box office champion of all time......
After determining the big way of the wreck, it was time to determine the details in the shooting, and there were two complex shots, the first of which was the capsizing of the aft deck.
A ninety-foot-long section of the set rises completely upright from a horizontal state, like a seesaw, at which point Sura Shama is thrown into the lifeboat and thrown overboard.
It's an extremely large-scale spectacle, and the stunt team spends six days a week practicing for more than a month, and if something goes wrong, the consequences can be severe, Sura Sharma may hit something underneath or knock over other actors, or fall off the set and hit the actors......