The vast majority of the set, such as the massive brass cable posts and air intake pipes, is either made of foam rubber or wrapped in a thin layer of foam neoprene.

It can be said that the set is a rubber building, and most of the stuntmen are attached to the hull by ropes, and some will fall and be caught by an airbag.

And it's not just the stuntmen who jump down from the deck, but also the photographers...... They had to hold the camera, sit on the ground and slide up, caught by the mat underneath, in order to get the best shots.

Obviously, such a plan is full of unexpected factors, Li Xiaole's predecessor was killed by doing dangerous stunts, and he didn't want his crew to have an accident.

Such a huge physical special effects, as well as all kinds of dangerous actions require careful arrangement, and the average director would have collapsed a long time ago, such as art director Fred almost fainted directly when he heard this plan, in his words:

"If this scene is filmed like this, it is simply deliberately creating an accident in order to defraud the insurance company of compensation!"

And all this seems to be extremely difficult, but for Li Xiaole, it is a familiar road, you must know that he is a professional stuntman, he has never seen any danger, he has personally participated in all the actions he designed, it can be said that no matter how dangerous these scenes look, in fact, they are very safe, when filming the sinking of "Titanic", the actor broke his leg and broke his ribs, which will never happen to him.

The only thing left is the arrangement of the last task, that is, how to kill the captain of this ship, this shot is flooded by the sea to give people the most direct sense of impact, and it must be shot with a strong sense of realism.

Li Xiaole had the crew create a set for the cockpit at the bow of the ship, a watertight cabin filled with air, entering and exiting from the top, fifteen feet underwater, each window was subjected to a ton and a half of pressure, the glass was pre-treated, and the electronically controlled detonator would blast it one by one, and the sea water would rush in, illuminating the shocking effect in the cabin when it sank.

Li Xiaole specially selected the captain's stuntman, a white man named Hayes, who is very flexible, nicknamed "Plastic Man", Li Xiaole made him wear two sets of air supply devices, a "hookah" respirator, a pipe attached to his leg, and another gas tank hidden in his clothes.

"Isn't this wearing too much, I can swim, and isn't there a lifeguard next to me......" The stuntman Hayes felt that Li Xiaole was making a bit of a fuss, and couldn't help complaining, loading these things made his body too bulky.

"Have you ever been drowned in fifteen feet of water?" Li Xiaole glared at him angrily and said:

"After the explosion, as soon as the water rushes in, it stirs up fragments of ash and dirt, forming a pot of muddy soup where you can't see anything, and if you get trapped and you don't have an air supply, you're likely to drown, because it's hard for lifeguards to spot you in such low visibility."

"Scared ......" The stuntman couldn't help but turn pale when he heard this, and smacked his tongue and asked, "Director, have you ever shot a similar scene and died?" "Obviously scared.

"Yes." Li Xiaole said with a serious face, patted the white buddy on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, you are the third...... There is a 50% chance that you will be safe. ”

This is the tradition of their stuntman actor Lao Bird, in the face of someone who is not in his own martial arts team, he must be scared and scared when the crew shoots dangerous scenes, so that he will know the words of the obedient old buddies in the future, and only by being obedient can he live~~

Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Xiaole finished saying this, the photographer who was squatting on the opposite side of the wall, wearing a suit of diving equipment and ice hockey protectors tied to his legs, fell to the ground with a "plop" sound...... I fainted on the spot......

Finally, after 20 days of preparation, and almost everyone in the crew was exhausted, the filming of this shipwreck scene was finally ushered in, and it was also the final scene of the last day.

For this reason, Li Xiaole also called and asked Ha Zhiyuan, who is in China, and Lei Ting, who is in the United States, to come over and watch the highlight of their 4-month shooting.

Li Xiaole rented a small yacht and parked it in the safety of the sea closest to "Lancastria", while he put two 55-inch LCD screens on the bow deck as lens monitors to watch the close-up of the shooting process.

Li Xiaole put the duck neck and peanuts brought by Ha Ji Won from China on the square table, and together with Ha Ji Won, Lei Ting, Emma, and Fred, while eating these snacks, he opened a few bottles of agave, and was ready to enjoy this most finale scene.

"I'll look at this if you came so far away~" Ha Ji Won asked Li Xiaole, who was eating peanuts, with a smile.

"Of course, when an arsonist commits a crime, he will watch the fire burn down the building, and my purpose in making this movie is to have a good time in this moment." Li Xiaole smiled and threw a peanut in his mouth.

"I think you're using this $30 million shipwreck scene as a fireworks salute to coax women." Lei Ting leaned on the recliner and hummed disappreciably, this guy is obviously a ****, and the scholar Zhou Youwang is the prince of the Beacon Opera......

"Am I like such an unprofessional director?" Li Xiaole stared at him and pretended to be serious.

"Like poles." Ha Ji Won and Lei Ting nodded in unison, and then clapped their hands with a smile and tacitly.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" But Emma next to her couldn't help but hug Li Xiaole and said loudly: "Director Li, he has only slept for 3 hours for many days for this scene, how can you talk about him like that......

After speaking, Emma turned her head angrily and asked Li Xiaole, "Why hasn't Director Li started yet?" ”

"I'm waiting for the sunset." Li Xiaole looked at the skyline by the sea and said as a matter of course.

"Why do you have to wait for sunset, don't you use your own rain and later synthesis of light? Can you shoot it now? Fred was puzzled by the fact that there were so many people on call, and that the 2,000 extras were all charged by the hour, and the longer they worked, the more money they would cost.

"Because it's only at sunset that we see the most beautiful picture here." Li Xiaole raised the cup of tequila, turned his head to look at Ha Ji Won and Lei Ting and smiled.

Emma, who was still talking for Li Xiaole just now, was stupid...... The director of the relationship made so many people wait all the time, just to wait for a perfect picture to pick up girls!? Fred couldn't help but laugh and cry.

Li Xiaole and Ha Ji Won, Lei Ting, Emma, Fred are eating duck neck and drinking tequila, while waiting for the sunset to come, Emma eats duck neck so spicy that she only sticks out her tongue, so that everyone can't help laughing, after four months of heavy filming work, this kind of relaxation makes Li Xiaole feel relaxed and happy.

But now only he is in a relaxed mood, and all the other people in the crew are extremely nervous, you must know that there is only one chance for this big scene, if they fail to shoot, then there will be no "Lancastria" for them to come again......

At this time, behind the isolation zone on the shore in the distance, there were also dense groups of ordinary Indian citizens, all of whom had received the news to watch the final scene, and everyone was anxiously waiting for that moment to come, they wanted to see what the Chinese director could shoot.

Finally, as the sun slowly set and slowly began to approach the position of the sea horizon, Li Xiaole's eyes lit up, and he stood up excitedly and said, "Here it is~~~~"

Everyone stood up and looked into the distance, only to see the warm sunlight dancing across the outline of "Lancastria", so beautiful that people couldn't help but take their breath away.

Li Xiaole picked up his mobile phone and issued the most difficult instructions to all the staff of the crew for this filming work: "You can start." ”

Immediately, after half a minute, everyone saw that the calm sea water was driven by the whirlpool horsepower of one hundred and fifty wave makers, and began to slowly roll up monstrous waves, and the "Lancastria" like the Woolworths Building began to rise and fall violently in the waves under the pull of the night pressure steel cable, and the storm sprayed artificially hit the hull majestically, and the 458 different lights created a painting-like lighting, making the whole "Lancastria" seem to have an amazing beauty~~

When the humming sound, this 80-foot stretch of huge scenery was erected from the horizontal plane, everyone who saw this "catastrophic" scene was shocked~~

Sura Sharma's fall in the lifeboat drew exclamations, and above him, a crane lifted a basket containing photographer Sven Nickwiss and his assistant, both of whom were fastened with safety ropes, and the crane driver lifted them both at the speed of "Lancastria's" rather swift love, and they swept past Sura Sharma and the cast and rose to a height of forty feet to highlight the sinking of the ship.

At this time, Sven Nickwis and his assistant were more than a hundred feet above the ground, swaying with the basket under the crane......

When the stern of the ship reached its highest point, 2,000 extras, according to the previous precise arrangement, jumped down from all angles, bumped into each other, or smashed into the steel beam and bounced off.

As the leading actor Sura Shama at this time, he saw the giant headlights installed on the eighteen cranes shining towards him, and then the photographer Sven Nickwis appeared in the air and flew past him, so for a moment the two looked at each other, and their hearts were suddenly shocked: "How did we come to this place?" How could we be alone in such a scenario? ”

All the people watching this scene from the shore opened their mouths wide and turned pale with fright, and even many Indian women screamed at the scene, many of them almost forgot that this was just a movie shooting scene at this moment, and completely regarded everything in front of them as if it was happening in front of their eyes, as if a real and terrifying shipwreck happened in front of their eyes......