Chapter 399: The Joker (1st Update)
"The Dark Knight" was successfully launched in Chicago, the second largest sin city in the United States.
This is the second billionaire blockbuster that Hu Yifei took over. Compared with many superheroes in Hollywood, Batman is also one of Hu Yifei's favorite heroes with thoughts and connotations. Besides him, it's Magneto. Magneto aside, compared with superman, Spider-Man and other comic book heroes, "Batman" is a relatively ordinary one, neither superman-like alien born aliens, nor Spider-Man-like genetic mutations, with his body can become a superweapon.
He is a real earthling, he has no talent, what he needs is solid training, he really sweats more in peacetime and sheds less blood in wartime. At the same time, he firmly believes that knowledge is power, and he needs advanced equipment to arm himself, but fortunately, Batman can rejoice, "Uncle is not short of money." ”
The poor rely on mutations, and the rich rely on equipment!
When the crew was first formed, Hu Yifei was not in a hurry to catch up with the schedule, he already had some experience in running in the crew.
The large crew with hundreds of millions of investments naturally cannot be compared with a small crew like "Juno", which is already a small society. He knew that in the previous time period, he should give more time for the crew to run in up and down, and also give the actors some buffer time to enter the play. And this time period is defined as less than two weeks.
Therefore, the workload in the first two weeks is not much, and it can be regarded as a slow start.
Rao is so, this movie is still a life-changing event for some people. The same is true for Christian, who is still Batman despite the change of director. The same is true for Kate Beckinsale, who plays Batman's girlfriend. There are also many new young faces, who may have just graduated from college campuses, and the Batman crew is their first job.
In Chicago, where the rain was drizzling, everyone in the crew of "The Dark Knight" was filming on the set of the tail hatch, and Hu Yifei shouted the first "action!" ”
It's been a week, and the progress of the shooting watch is slow.
Valey Pfister and others, who have worked together many times, have obviously found that this time the director's requirements are much higher, if "Juno" is a bit relaxed, then it has now soared to the point of harshness, fortunately he is not a stinky temper.
But Hu Yifei has a quality that other directors do not have, he can often find exactly the shot he wants, and he doesn't drag. This is even more obvious than in "Inception".
The crew has to change scenes every few days, which means that the scenes in one venue are already OK.
It seems that the recommendation is slow, but in fact, it is slow and stable.
Because most of the staff are old crews of "Inception", they are already familiar with each other. Even with the addition of Warner and some of Charles Rowan's team, the integration is not bad.
Most of the actors have had the experience of working together in the first film, and Michael Caine, who plays the butler Alfred, has already worked together in "Inception", so they are no strangers. The most important thing is that everyone is a group of actors with superb acting skills, and they didn't give Hu Yifei, the director, much chance to criticize, and he was happy to do so.
If it is said that the director is researching the actors in the early stage, then the actors will also make a comparison in their hearts.
After all, it is a change of director of the series halfway, which is likely to lead to a collapse halfway, and there are naturally special requirements for the director's ability.
Hu Yifei has a good record in "Inception", but no matter how good that movie is, it is just a movie that has been drawn, and it is a thing of the past. If Hu Yifei can't make "The Dark Knight" better, then he will be the next Kevin Costner. After winning the Oscar for Best Director at the age of 36 for "Dances with Wolves", he received 7 consecutive nominations for the worst actor in the Golden Sour Plum, including 3 awards; 1 time worst director; 4 times for the worst film, 1 award.
Why bother Hu Yifei this time, he has to play an important role in his own movie.
Even if he doesn't play the main role, he has to play the villain.
This point is actually quite criticized by the American media, after all, this is an American comic, and there seems to be no Oriental face in the comic.
In Hollywood, there are not a few people who can direct and act on their own, but not many can do both. Hu Yifei, a director who is a little too young, a Chinese director, is destined to be placed in a conspicuous position when he enters Hollywood, and he is watched with a magnifying glass.
The crew also wants to see what kind of filming skills this new director who has won the global super box office of $900 million.
Fortunately, they were not disappointed, and Christian Bale was the first to feel the difference.
Hu Yifei commanded the scene in an orderly manner and knew the entire crew well. Especially for the scenes I want to film, I can find the content very accurately and give it to the director. Although the preparation will take a lot of time, once the filming begins, Hu Yifei will give everyone who works with him for the first time an alternative experience, as if he has the whole movie in his head, and now he is just moving the images in his mind to reality.
It's so ...... It was a surprise.
Christopher Nolan doesn't have a sober brain like Hu Yifei, and he can make up the whole picture of a movie in his mind. As a director, he often wants to break his head for the picture he wants. Multiple attempts at test shooting, reshooting, and so on. But these are very few here in Hu Yifei, this is his excellence.
Hollywood mostly implements the producer system, and it is often a big producer who has the final say in the entire crew. But in this crew, Hu Yifei said everything, and even the producer Charles Rowan, who was supposed to talk about things, became a fart and errand runner, and sent him for him.
Hu Yifei is like a king, the spiritual guide and action commander of the crew, every word and deed and every move affects the entire context of this crew of thousands of people. The same is true for movies, starting from nothing, piling up the whole world one shot at a time.
This is the realm of God, Hu Yifei does not know what other people feel about him, but he is becoming more and more accustomed to enjoying the pleasure of this creation.
Today, however, is a little different, and this studio is having a big acting collision, which has been merging shots that have not been filmed for the time being. But today Hu Yifei will appear for the first time, and many people are interested.
"No, my makeup."
For today's play, Hu Yifei got up at five o'clock in the morning and asked the makeup artist to put on makeup. It was only halfway through the process that he vetoed it.
Makeup artist Lindy Hemming looked at him unknowingly, this is a clown makeup that was set in advance before the start of filming, and now it is about to start filming but was vetoed by Hu Yifei. She didn't understand how the clown could draw if he didn't paint like that? This clown face is already very innovative, she didn't add a red nose to Hu Yifei, did she?
Hu Yifei touched his long hair that he had deliberately raised, and said, "I want to dye my brown-green hair, have you seen the scars?" Tear my lips open and draw a smiling face with a knife turned inside out. Then apply with colored powder. ”
Lindy frowned, "Galen, are you sure you want to draw like that?" That might look ugly. ”
"I'm pretty sure, go ahead Lindy."
"Well, you're the boss anyway." (To be continued.) )