Chapter 159: Spider-Man Returns
"I'm so sorry!" Lin Mingyang shrugged, "About that kiss just now..."
When he said this, Alba remembered the embarrassment of the kiss just now, and her cheeks couldn't help but heat slightly at the thought of this. Alba glared at Lin Mingyang angrily, but his face could not hide the bright and charming style.
"Under normal circumstances, I should have slapped you right now!" Alba said this, making Lin Mingyang's body subconsciously lean back, and then the other party burst out laughing, and the laughing figure in his eyes became more and more intense, "You must have done this before, but your method is very effective, I think Edmund should be able to completely die this time." ”
Thinking of the photographer of the "cup", Lin Mingyang also felt a little guilty in his heart, of course, this little self-blame was quickly replaced by the excitement of a beautiful woman Fang Ze, and he was even evil and proud in his heart, and Alba's "intimate contact" in reality and the lens were completely two feelings.
"You used to put a foot on me, and you forgave you for offending me just now, but the whole thing can't just be left at that!" Alba hugged his hands and turned a blind eye to Lin Mingyang's "innocent" expression, after all, he let Lin Mingyang take advantage, although the other party's reasons were above board, Alba was still a little angry in his heart. "First of all, you have to be responsible to the end, if there are other people who come to disturb me in the future, you must take on the role of the flower protector and let your annoying guys retreat!"
"If there is still a scene like that just now, I will definitely do my best!" Lin Mingyang nodded with a wicked smile, "But I have a question, what if you can't find a boyfriend because of me?" Whether our relationship is true or not, unless you find someone better than me, there will be a lot of pressure on me to have my 'ex-boyfriend' presence. ”
"So you're also responsible for explaining it to him!" Alba felt that what Lin Mingyang said was very reasonable, so he was quite unreasonable and added another one.
Lin Mingyang smiled: "I'll tell your future boyfriend in the future, brother I'm sorry, buddy brought you a green hat, do you think he can accept it?" ”
Now Alba was embarrassed, she gave herself an unsolvable problem, and in the end she really couldn't think of a better solution, so she stomped her foot and brutally used the little surname, "I don't care, anyway, you are responsible for explaining it to him!" ”
"Okay!" Lin Mingyang spread his hands helplessly, "If you have any unreasonable requirements, let's put them forward together!" ”
"In the future, the performance must be according to the script that has been negotiated in advance, and you will never be allowed to act like today!" Alba pouted and said angrily.
"Today's situation is special!" Lin Mingyang smiled a little weakly, but at the end he still made a request: "The script must be written by me, you know this is my forte." ”
"Yes!" Alba readily agreed to Lin Mingyang's request as a "scoundrel", but she also had additional conditions: "You have to ensure that the plot content designed must meet the G-level standard." ”
"G-grade that's the standard of cartoons, we're not filming youth dramas, how about PG-13?" The other party asked for a price, and Lin Mingyang naturally sat on the ground to repay the money, "I also want the performance effect to be more realistic!" ”
According to the American movie rating system, PG-13 has a few kissing scenes at most, Lin Mingyang's request is not too much, if it is R-rated, then it is time to strip and go to bed. Alba thought about it for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement.
As soon as the two reached an agreement, a staff member of the "New Spider-Man" crew recklessly broke into the corridor where they were talking, and when he saw Lin Mingyang and Alba, he gasped with relief, "I finally found you two!" The premiere is about to begin, and the director asked me to make sure you're ready. ”
Seeing that the time for the premiere is approaching, but the two heroes and heroines of the film have been missing for a long time, the director Sam Raimi is in a hurry, he asks people to look around, this guy is one step late, and then misses a good show.
Lin Mingyang and Alba nodded at the same time with a tacit understanding, "We'll go over right away!" ”
――――"Coming soon below are two very important characters in the film. The host deliberately dragged out his voice: "Okay, I hear someone in the audience already chanting the name of one of them, so let's welcome Spider-Man and his girlfriend with a round of applause!" ”
The light shining on the host dimmed, and a strong light hit the curtain that slowly opened in the center of the stage, and Lin Mingyang, who was dressed in a black simple dress, elegantly led Jessica Alba and walked out slowly, causing a burst of lively screams from the audience.
The host came to the two of them and then quipped, "Felix, when you came up, the audience seemed to be calling your name, and everyone seemed to forget that there was a dazzling lady standing next to you." ”
"Is there one?" Lin Mingyang deliberately pretended to be stupid, "Why do I think everyone's applause and cheers were given to the two of us at the same time?" ”
The host seemed to be deliberately making things difficult, "I obviously heard the screaming of the audience just now, but it was all the voice of a lady!" ”
"That applause must have been given to Alba by the men present!" Lin Mingyang once again exerted his wit and humor.
"Alba, do you feel pressured to work with Felix?"
The microphone was handed to Alba, and the host's questions at the beginning were a little ill-intentioned, she pondered it carefully, and said very cautiously: "In life, he is a very easy-going guy, and he has a good relationship with everyone in the crew, but when performing, his attitude will become very serious, and sometimes even a little stubborn." ”
"Were there any memorable moments during the shoot that made you particularly memorable, and I mean when you were with Felix."
"We used to bump into each other in the air when we were hanging Weiya, but I don't think it's a good memory because it's always me who gets hurt." When it comes to this, Alba seems helpless.
In order to facilitate interaction, the organizers arranged several large sofas on the stage, and all the main creators sat on the sofas, and Lin Mingyang and Alba sat on the right hand side of director Sam Raimi. The film's main creators appeared one after another, and except for a few leading actors, photographers and producers, the rest of them were seated in the front row of the venue.
The lights of the entire stage are dimmed, before the interactive session begins, a trailer is to be played, after the Sony Pictures logo at the beginning of the film, the trailer opening is a shocking scene, Lin Mingyang's incarnated Spider-Man is holding spider silk in his hand, and he is agitated down from a high altitude, and the strong sense of falling from a high altitude is matched with the whistling wind, which firmly catches people's eyes at once. The shot flashed by, but it left a deep impression on the minds of all viewers.
In the 5-minute trailer, all the similar highlights are just skimmed by like a dragonfly, and the back-and-forth clips make it feel dizzying. As an appetizer before a big meal, this trailer did work very well, most notably at the end of the screening, when many people still leaned forward, and when they leaned back in their chairs, most people had regret in their eyes. There was so much excitement in the trailer that everyone present had an urge to enjoy the film in its entirety.
The lights on the stage slowly turned on, and the host leaned on the back of a sofa with his arms propped up, his tone as casual as if he was talking to an old friend, and handed the microphone to Sam Raimi, who had the most say on the issue.
"After watching the trailer, I'm sure most of the audience will have the same feeling as me, this film looks very exciting, but I'm sure there are many people who will be just as confused as me. A good trailer doesn't mean that the movie itself has enough highlights, we all know that the trailer always cuts out the most wonderful passages to present to the audience, which is a common method used in movie promotion, which often misleads people's judgment of a film, so will this movie be as wonderful as we imagined? ”
"The film took less than three months to shoot, but the post-production took a year and a half." Sam Raimi took the microphone and changed to a more comfortable position on the couch, "We're not trying to stall for time, you see Spider-Man waving the spider silk in his hand in this film, and our digital animation production team is indebted, they were nominated for an Oscar for the first Spider-Man, and this time I have reason to believe that they can bring home the next Oscar-winning statuette." ”
The reason why this film is so long in post-production is also related to Sam Raimi's stubborn temper that likes to be more serious. He's sure to make sure that the parts of the film are perfectly connected, and in the process, he has to rely on the backbone of the production team behind the film.
In order to ensure that the action scenes of the film are both safe and spectacular, there is one person in the production team behind the scenes who played an important role in the decision, he is the stunt master John Ferreser, today he is sitting on the right hand side of Sam Raimi, he has designed many action scenes in the film, and when the host asked him the most satisfied set of shots, he mentioned the thrilling battle that took place between Spider-Man and the Sandman.
The scene in the film begins when the "Sandman" is suddenly attacked by a jet of water spewing out of a burst water pipe and is eventually washed into the sewer leading to the subway. In Remy's original imagination and setting, the "Sandman" had to melt completely under the impact of the powerful water.
"It's the most water-intensive scene I've ever made. We used about 50,000 gallons of water, which was then ejected out of a tube through a device 50 feet away from the location. However, we modified the hollow part in the middle of the tube and installed a flow restrictor there, which allowed for full control of the size of the water column. The used water can be recycled through a pump with a flow rate of 3,000 gallons per minute, which means that it only takes five minutes to refill the large tank for the next reshoot. ”
"We had a total of eight hidden cameras working together for this set of scenes, and here we had to use a sandman made entirely of CG because the sheer pressure of the water was not something Thomas Church or any stuntman could handle."
Although more than 90 minutes of the 120-minute "The New Spider-Man" are composed of computer special effects, Sam Raimi is not superstitious about special effects: "CG technology is a fantastical cinematic tool for action movies, and it does some parts that cannot be done by human beings. But for the field that humans can reach, I still hope that the actors can do it! ”
"Spider-Man does almost all of the difficult moves, if you use real people to perform, will it be dangerous when filming?" The host asked curiously.
"I think several of our leading actors have more say in this issue!" Sam Raimi grinned as he kicked the "ball" to someone else.
"Felix, just now Alba complained that filming with a tightrope was painful, do you feel this way?" As the biggest actor in the crew, Lin Mingyang bore the brunt of the host's questions.
"It's not particularly painful, but it's very time-consuming. This process includes a lot of preparation, but the time for filming is short. It was very difficult for me to put on that gear, it took half an hour, the camera crew needed an hour to set up the equipment, and then everything the stunt team did had to be rehearsed, they had to connect me to the wire cables, and then lift me up, everybody was in place, and the fans were blowing. Lin Mingyang described the whole shooting situation to everyone.
"They shouted 'action!' Then it's done in 20 seconds or less, and I do a motion and they shout 'cut!' Then they put me down and did it again. I just moved on the tightrope for 20 seconds, then waited for the next 20 seconds, and a month went by. ”
"Did your filming of The New Spider-Man help the director of his own work?"
"So far, I've directed five films. Two of them were completed before the start of filming of "The New Spider-Man", but neither of them was very expensive. I think I'm probably going to move closer to Mr. Sam in the future, because he's directing big movies, you know there's often five groups shooting at the same time, and he's going to direct the main one, and then there's a bunch of people lining up with movie monitors for him to look at the shots of the other crews, and he's going to review them. The special effects team has been waiting, and he's also working on other films, and someone will send in a videotape of the audition. ”
"I don't think he has had a minute off in six years. But I never saw him lose his cool and enthusiastic good temper. So I've been trying to have his last name, because I'm definitely not as good as I am now. A lot of people are asking me why I didn't make a big-budget film, not because of a lack of investment, but because I don't think I'm quite ready right now, and it may take a while. ”
"And what about screenwriters?" The host changed the subject again, "I heard that director Sam Raimi didn't approve of the plot arrangement of Black Spider at first? ”
"Mr. Sam Raimi was supposed to belong to the 70s readers of the original comics, and 'Poison Spider' appeared in the 80s... He may not be familiar with the comic book plot, but the producers are very supportive of my plot idea, after all, movies are an art that 'pleases' the audience, and now is the time of the rise of comic book fans in the 80s, after all, "Spider-Man" is everyone's fantasy, not just one person. Everyone wants to see their familiar characters appear. ”
"But there are also fans who complain that the script you adapted does not completely respect the original work!"
"If it's just a copy of the original book, we can take the comic and remake it directly, so that even the script can be omitted. No other film company would do that, and my consistent principle for adaptations is to respect the main idea of the original book and then recreate it on the specific plot. In the comics, Spider-Man is a superhero, and in the movie script, I didn't write him as a heinous villain, you can see familiar characters on the screen to stage different stories, and I think this is the real charm of the movie adaptation. ”
"I heard that the film ends with a suspenseful ending, is that preparing for the next episode?"
Lin Mingyang explained: "I did leave a suspense at the end of the plot, but it was a new clue, and it was not very related to the previous plot, but only related to the sequel." The only thing I can reveal at the moment is that Spider-Man will return to normal life in the sequel, and the troubles he encounters are not only evil villains, but also troubles that normal people may encounter in life, such as relationships, family, and responsibilities. ”
The host's questions in this link are just a guide, and the main creators on the stage will generally take the initiative to break some tidbits about themselves.
"What about you, Alba, did you find anything memorable during the shoot?" Lin Mingyang no longer had any oil and water to squeeze, and the host pointed the microphone at Jessica Alba again. Under his questioning, Alba "accidentally" revealed the sprained foot.
"Oh my God, are you really hurt?" The moderator asked with concern.
"It was only a slight sprain, but thanks to Felix's miracle ointment from China, my foot was miraculously healed the next day!"
"Is there really that ointment?" Such an exaggerated efficacy made the host very skeptical.
Alba shrugged, "If you don't believe it, you can try it too!" ”
At this time, the host had to ask Lin Mingyang for verification: "Felix, does that ointment really exist?" ”
Lin Mingyang smiled: "This is a secret!" ”
(To be continued)