Time is always irresistible, and into September, Jeff? Robinoff came to Sydney for an interview with Duke, and then Warner Bros. began to make formal contact with Duke's studio about the Harry Potter series. Faye sent back to Los Angeles to assist and supervise Nancy? Josephson's negotiations with Warner Bros.

At the same time, after four months of preliminary preparation and more than three months of actor training, "The Matrix" officially began filming at Fox Studios.

There were no reporters, no special ceremonies, no noisy press conferences, and the film was filmed in an extremely quiet atmosphere.

As Keanu is involved? Reeves' hair problem, Duke first filmed scenes that were all virtual worlds.

Although can you make Keanu? Reeves wears a green hat and then wipes his hair off in post-production, but that would definitely increase the cost, and it would be better to stagger the shooting.

While the training has just been completed, whether it is several protagonists or stunt doubles, Duke is shooting a lot of action scenes first.

"I know, you still don't know what the film is about."

When the various departments of the crew were almost ready, Duke walked to the set up studio, like most Hollywood crews, many actors only have character scripts, and do not have a full version of the script, in fact, they don't understand the overall framework of the film at all, but these are not important, "You only need to complete the scenes of the script, complete your respective scenes according to my requirements, and you can leave this hell." ”

Although the amount of training and exercise for up to 100 days is not comparable to that of the professional level, for these actors, it is tantamount to a double torture of physical and psychological torture.

"Tiger ......"

Duke to the Tiger? Chen tilted his head, and the latter walked over to Keanu? Reeves and Lawrence? In front of Fishburne, he gave one last explanation of the action routine, and he left the dojo. Came to the back of the camera.

Yuan Heping is sitting here in charge of this scene, and professional things are naturally done by professionals.

Since there has been enough communication in the past few months, Duke nodded to Yuan Heping and walked directly behind the monitor on the other side.

Hong Kong-style martial arts films. After the completion of the production is very fancy and beautiful, not to say that the character does not conform to the principle of human body lì, in short, it is quite eye-catching, but the shooting is definitely not good-looking, in the tiger? Under Chen's guidance, Keanu? Reeves and Lawrence? Fishburne's fight seemed to be slowing down, and the two of them, as Duke expected, didn't even learn the surface of kung fu, and the fight was soft and powerless. It looks pretty empty.

However, this just fits the setting of the virtual world, and what Duke wants is a show, anyway, it is a science fiction film, and no matter how stupid the audience is, they will not think that kung fu can really fly around.

Not only that, but the filming of Hong Kong-style action scenes, because the action is too complicated and fancy, the shots are much shorter than Hollywood's reckless fights. Often shooting for more than ten seconds or even a few seconds, Yuan Heping will shout to stop. And then let the tiger? Chen corrects the movements of the two leading actors.

Duke sat behind the monitor, just controlling the overall situation on the set, and the action scenes were completely handed over to Yuan Heping to take the camera.

This can be said to be one of his greatest strengths, although living a long life may not be better than the real elite in this world, but the psychological maturity is not the same, he knows that he has talent and accumulation in film. is also not an all-rounder, maybe Yuan Heping made a complete movie, and it is not even as good as his original one, but in the filming of this kind of Hong Kong-style fight, the other party is undoubtedly better than him.

Sit here. Duke is both watching and learning, he is already deeply branded with Hollywood, and naturally has the eclectic side of Hollywood.

Learning to absorb the strengths of others for your own use is something that any successful director is constantly doing.

Of course, Duke will not use these Hong Kong-style shooting methods in the future, and he will not make pure kung fu films.

On the first day, the shooting was just a well-designed ground action, and by the second day, there were a lot of scenes of hanging wires, although Keanu? Reeves and Lawrence? Fishburne also had some training, but Duke made it mandatory to use a professional double unless it was necessary for a close-up of the face or sideways.

The filming period of the film is only two and a half months, and if there is an accident with the stand-in, there are stunt doubles that can be replaced, and once the main actor is injured, then this part of the scene will be interrupted.

Every day that the crew delays, it consumes money.

After observing the two-day shooting time, Duke has to admit that the Hong Kong-style zuò does have something unique when shooting scenes like Neo and Morpheus fighting, and even obviously leads Hollywood by an equal order of magnitude to the routine and simplification of action methods, and it is not a fluke that Hong Kong-style action films can be popular in Hollywood and even the whole of North America at the turn of the century, but Hollywood regards them as outsiders, and they also regard themselves as outsiders, and the time for popularity is too short for various reasons.

Perhaps it would be very appropriate to use the addiction to death to describe the future situation of kung fu films in North America.

There are many shadows of kung fu in the future Hollywood action scenes, but they are no longer kung fu at all, from Batman's simple and rough fights to Captain America's sharp and swift attacks, all of which are Hollywood's innovations after absorbing kung fu stunts and combining them with other fighting methods.

The illusion of Hong Kong films wanting to enter Hollywood was soon completely shattered.

Not to mention the current Jack? Chen, Jeter? Li and Yuan Heping and others, even if it is Bruce? In his most glorious years, Lee did not make kung fu films mainstream in the North American market.

This is an extremely exclusive media market, as long as you study it a little, it is not difficult to find that the North American cinema chain is insulated from more than 99% of the films in other parts of the world, and the entry of Hong Kong films into the North American market is just a fantasy.

The decline of Hong Kong films is inevitable, and it is not something that one person or a group can save, for reasons other than throwing away movies, since "Jurassic Park" landed in that city, Hong Kong films have been approaching the end, and when this year's big ship rushes to the world, Hong Kong films have only one way to go - go north!

Ironically, the city's cans. I can't tell the difference at all, the north doesn't need them, but they have to the north.

Not to mention the film industry, and without the support of the North, the rest of the city's industries would soon collapse as well.

Among them, there are a large number of people in their film industry who can't distinguish between shapes and shapes. I don't know how to make progress every day, I only know how to guard the pitiful things in my hands, and I don't want to make progress.

For example, during the training and filming of "The Matrix", Duke heard more than once that someone communicated in Mandarin - to keep everything at the bottom of the box......

Is it useful to keep it without leaking? Completely useless!

Because Hollywood people don't need to understand the profound and complex parts of kung fu at all, they only need the most outward skin, to put it more directly, that is, how to make the filmed fights more light, fast and beautiful!

These don't need to understand what kung fu really is.

The current Hong Kong-style action director team has a crushing advantage over Hollywood action directors in this regard, if they are willing to actively seek change. Combined with the actual needs of the North American audience, absorbing the strengths of other action fighting, and designing action routines that are more suitable for the world market before kung fu does not cause aesthetic fatigue, it is not impossible to grab a huge piece of cake in the Hollywood action direction market!

In Hollywood, there are indeed all kinds of discrimination, but there is one thing that can suppress discrimination, and that is profit! As long as it brings benefits. Hollywood can take black people for God!

This is a very simple truth for Duke. But Yuan Heping obviously didn't want to change, but Duke didn't mean to remind him, the two sides were originally just simple business cooperation, and there would be no other relationship.

If the team was from the north, maybe he'd give a reminder, but from that city. Forget it.

Hollywood is the epitome of the business world, those who can adapt can stay, and those who can't adapt will naturally be eliminated.

Every time it's time for literary drama. Duke would take over control of the shooting.

"Lawrence!" He sat behind the camera and said to the black man who had just finished the test shoot, "Your expression is not right!" You are Neo's guide and believe that he is the savior. Therefore, when you lead him to understand the real world and the virtual world, you should express the ......"

After a moment's thought, Duke found the right wording, "Be more like a magic stick!" ”

Philosophical thinking or something, that's something that audiences and critics should pay attention to, in Duke's cognition, the prophet of the film is a big stick, and Morpheus is a small stick......

"I understand!"

Lawrence? Fishburne closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and said, "I think I've found my form!" ”

is completely different from "Chicago", in the filming of this film, Duke does not have high requirements for the acting skills of the actors, the first thing is to be cool, from the actors to the costumes to the scene design, it must be cool and scum; Again, it must be in line with the content of the film, showing a little mysticism in a timely manner, but it can't really become a complete magic stick movie, this is a standard commercial film after all, with a philosophical connotation or something, just touch it a little.

"Do you think I can take you down, be faster and stronger than you? More muscular? ”

Lawrence in the lens? Although Fishburne doesn't have a trench coat magic mirror, the demeanor of the magic stick can still be described as cool to scum, "Neo, do you need to breathe here?" ”

“cut！”

With Duke's shout, the camera of this literary drama is announced, and the scene in the martial arts arena is over.

Although Kung Fu is on display here, the martial arts hall is more like Japanese architecture, and Duke had considered pure Chinese architecture, but in Robin? After being reminded by Grande and the set decorator, he voluntarily gave up. (To be continued......)

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