Just after Christmas, Duke left the island, and after arriving in Brisbane, he asked someone to take Scarlett? Johnson was sent back to North America, and although he had only been on the island for a little over a day, he had already sensed that certain problems could turn to the worst if he didn't pay attention to them.

Maybe it's influenced by her parents' divorce, Scarlett? In his conversations with him, Johnson mentioned more than once that monogamy is completely contrary to human nature......

Duke knows very well that he is not a good person, let alone a decent gentleman, and he also likes sexy and beautiful women, and has always chased fresh and beautiful excitement, but he also has his own bottom line, since entering Hollywood, he has not really touched any underage women, and he also knows that his control in this regard is extremely limited like most men.

Therefore, there are some things that are out of sight and not the best way to deal with them, after all, Scarlett? Johnson is not yet sixteen years old.

And once this kind of thing breaks through the bottom line at the beginning, with his self-control ability in this regard, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain the bottom line in the future.

The reason why people are different from beasts is that being able to control their own ** is undoubtedly one of them.

Putting these things aside for the time being, Duke returned directly to New Zealand, where the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was just halfway through, and there was still a huge amount of work waiting for him.

Three days later, the crew reassembled in Wellington, and Duke first gathered key members of the team for a brief meeting to determine the specific progress of all aspects and prepare for the next step of filming.

In Zach? After Schneider left the crew to prepare for the sequel to "The Matrix", the crew could only change from the original three-way to Duke and Anna? Prinz's two-sided shooting was a little slower than before.

"I've finished filming most of Eowen's scenes."

After the treasurer said that the current accounts are being spent, Anna? Prinz mentioned her aspect of the shoot, "Ella? Most of Fischer's plays are done. Only a few shots remain against the Witch King of Angmar and Minas Tirith. ”

Kate? The actress recommended by Blanchett has not been seen by Duke since the audition, and most of her roles are played by Anna? Photographed by Prinz.

Duke nodded, flipped through his schedule, and said. "Anna, in the next stage, you are filming the scenes of Faramir and Frodo, Sam and Gollum, in terms of motion capture, how much do you refer to Andy? Serkis's opinion. ”

With Anna? Prinz filmed more scenes, and Duke gradually gained confidence in her and began to give her some important scenes.

He turned to the production manager again, "Charles, when will the extras I want be available?" ”

"When we arrived in the valley of Nelson. You'll see. "Charles? Rowan only had two days off for Christmas, and he had already contacted a large number of extras, "The male models who played the elves also arrived at Nelson. ”

Richard? Taylor took the initiative to speak, "Weta Studios is ready, just waiting for the shooting." ”

Duke is going to shoot the Battle of the Valley of the Helm, a famous fortress in Lohan that, like the rest of the Lord of the Rings, doesn't have a ready-made template to use. It's all based on the description of the novel, and it's all newly created. And the special effects of the exterior of the Valley of the Holy Helmet and the White City Minas Tirith, the crew was outsourced to Weta Studios.

The next day, the crew split in two again, Ilya? Wood and Andy? Serkis and other actors stayed on set in Wellington to follow Anna? Prinz filmed, and Duke led the group to a mine near the small city of Nelson. Prepare to shoot the location scene of the Battle of the Valley of the Holy Helmet.

To the west of the mine is a valley formed by mining, which is the prototype of the Valley of the Holy Helm, and to the south of the mine, is Minas Tirith, which is built on the mountain, but the model of the Holy White City has not yet been completed. For the time being, it's just a prototype.

In contrast, the Valley of the Holy Helm has been renovated by Weta Studios, and as soon as you enter the valley, you can see the quaint texture of the Horn Fort and the deep stream wall at the bottom of the valley.

Of course, the two look far less magnificent than they are in the novel, after all, they are making a movie, and the budget of the crew is limited, so it is impossible for Duke to be like James? Cameron was so crazy to build a one-to-one model.

Although the Valley of the Helmet is not as cumbersome as Roslorian built, and the architectural style of the Fort of the Horn is also simple and practical, without too many eve-like cumbersome decorations, it took more than half a year for Weta Studio to complete the construction of the exterior of the Valley of the Holy Helmet, and even Duke has been to the site for more than ten inspections and filming expeditions.

In total, Studio Weta built two models of the fort at different scales, the first of which was a four-scale model, built on the valley, supported by steel and wood, covered with high-density polystyrene panels, carved with a water press, sprayed with plaster and finally painted......

This treatment makes the texture of the city wall perfectly reflect the vicissitudes of life and antiquity.

However, except for some of the places used for standing people and filming the war, most of the other places are in vain for cost savings, especially the surface of the Horn Fort wall, which is wrapped around the outside of the support frame, is definitely not as strong as it seems, and even the outer wall of the Valley of the Holy Helmet can be destroyed with fingernails.

Most of the deep creek wall is also a one-to-four scale model, the crew just built a section of the city wall of the same scale, also to save money, the height of the city wall is enough, but the thickness is not enough, the most important thing for this section of the city wall is the inward staircase, so that Legolas can be handsome and cool.

Then there's another 1:35 model, which is mainly used for long shots and backgrounds.

The crew was stationed on the outskirts of the valley, and Duke went to see the extras and male models for the first time, needless to say, the male models naturally starred in the elven troops supporting humans, and the extras were almost all tall and strong men, and they played the strong orcs army created by Saruman.

The two sides that are actually fighting in front of the camera are played by special stuntmen, and the most important role of these people is to act as a background painting.

After watching these extras, Duke walked into the Valley of the Holy Helm, and today because of time, he will only do some preparations, and will not shoot on location, John? Schwartzman, Hannah? Serena, Jimmy? Carter and Bill? Morris, the head of the different functional departments of the crew. They followed.

Passing through the gates of Fort Clarion, Duke walked up to the top of the city, standing on a command podium overlooking the valley, and although it was only a one-to-four model, the fortress still seemed large enough.

It's just that a staff member is always on the side. Remind Duke and the others not to touch all the standing walls, because that is a standard tofu scum project.

"Hannah......" Duke pointed to the location of the gate in front of the left, "and place the blue curtain on the left side of the passageway." ”

Then, he said to the other side, "Bill, put your bow and arrow launcher at the junction of the Deep Creek Wall and Fort Horn. ”

In this battle, there are a large number of shots of thousands of arrows firing at once, and in order to highlight the authenticity, the crew deliberately made a number of bow and arrow transmitters. Hundreds of stewed arrows can be fired at once.

"John," he finally called out to the DP, again pointing to the city gate, "I need a lot of side panorama shots attacking the city gate, you find the right place to set up the camera and shoot with a wide-angle lens." ”

Duke is just a director, and one of the most important jobs is to coordinate the various functional departments of the crew.

Like he said. Cinema is never the product of individual heroism, but the work of a large number of brilliant people.

Several people circled around Fort Horn and the Deep Creek Wall. discussed a lot of matters in the filming, and it was not until mid-afternoon that I returned to the crew's station.

Although it is the Nth time that I have seen the filming location, whether it is Duke, or John? Schwartzman, neither of them had any relaxation at all.

Especially the director Duke. Tomorrow is about to start filming one of the most important scenes of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and he meets Ian again? McLean, Vigo? Morteson and Orlando? Bloom and other main actors exchanged their roles with them, and then went to the props and costumes group to check the final preparations for various props and costumes.

in this war. The races that appear are extremely mixed, and the weapons and armor alone include the leather armor and chain mail of the Lohan soldiers, the full-body plate armor of the strong orcs, the exquisite armor of the elves, etc., and you can't go wrong with any of them.

Especially the costume team, they will have to get up in the early hours of tomorrow morning, together with the makeup team, to dress up for the actor who plays the strong orc, and it will take at least six hours for an ordinary stuntman to become a terrifying strong orc in front of the camera!

It was only after watching it in general in the crew, it was dark, and Duke returned to his trailer only to find Ivanka? Trump also rushed to the crew.

"Didn't you say you were going to spend New Year's in New York?"

Walking into the outer compartment of this large trailer, Duke sat across from Ivanka, "Why did you come back so soon?" ”

"It's a bit boring in New York, and every day is a different pie." Ivanka seemed to have a headache, "You're already working on your future when I'm my age, and my peers in New York ......"

She said helplessly, "Most of them will only eat, drink and have fun, and if I stay with them for a long time, I think I will also fall, and I might as well go back to work." ”

Tina? Faye is still in Los Angeles to deal with some affairs of the Duke's studio, and Duke can't do without a trusted assistant, Ivanka? Trump's return to New Zealand also meets his needs.

Subsequently, the crew kicked off the battle of the Holy Helmet Valley, and this quiet valley became a place of hustle and bustle, with shouts and roars not only appearing frequently, but even the occasional howls of frequent death.

However, during the filming, Duke found that the mountains on both sides of the valley were not particularly strong, and specially asked people to purchase a batch of hard hats from Wellington in case some crew members approached the mountain for filming.

Large-scale war scenes like this have always been Duke's housekeeping skills, and filming has been going smoothly until the orcs rush to the gates of Fort Horn, which encounters the greatest difficulty. (To be continued......)

PS: This is the last update in July, thank you for your continued support! It's just that there is something at night, and it is going to be updated automatically.

I insisted on three changes throughout July, which is really not easy for a part-time writer, and the manuscript is about to fall to single digits. Friends in the group know that I am going to get married at the end of September, and there are a lot of things during this time, so we will insist on working hard to update!

Finally, it's the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass!