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As an audio-visual art, the charm of film lies in the "presentation", and Duke's editing of the plot and dialogue is also a disguised way to make the audience more involved in the process of watching the movie. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Nowadays, a large part of the reason why many commercial films are scolded for being brain-dead is that they are afraid that the audience will not understand them, such as explaining through lines, or arranging a large number of connecting scenes.

In the opening ten-minute editing of "Fury Road", he will not explain at all, but only explain all the relevant information that the audience wants to know through the picture, including the world setting, character personality, conflict reasons, story direction, etc.

In other words, one aspect of editing is to tell the story through the picture, which is not difficult to do, because audiovisual language is a compulsory course for every director.

In the editing room, Duke and Mike? One of Dawson's opening scenes, a lizard wriggling his ugly body, has to be mischievous to Tom? At the feet of Cruise, and then turned into a dead lizard in Cruise's mouth, in addition to showing the aura of the male protagonist, there is also an important background explanation - this is a world of the jungle!

"For the vast majority of viewers, the excitement of watching this film mainly comes from its action scenes."

At the beginning of the day's work, Duke explained to the entire post-production team, "It's the same car chase and fight, how can 'Fury Road' be refreshing?" The most obvious feeling for the audience is the length of the action sequences. ”

The audience is undoubtedly the focus of Duke's filmmaking.

He added, "I divided the film into three main action sequences, all of which had to last more than 10 minutes!" ”

Mike? Dawson took Duke's words and said, "Compared to other Hollywood action movies that are only a few seconds stunning, our editing is to make this film as hearty as possible." ”

Theoretically, anyone can shoot action scenes for a long time

。 But whether it can make the audience excited or even fascinated is a whole matter of another level.

Exactly, from the design of the action itself. to the rhythm of the movements, to the contrasts and echoes between paragraphs. Counting the presentation of the shots, all reflect the director's directing and editing ability.

In fact, from the perspective of the design of the action itself, Duke's version of "Fury Road" is similar to those road movies cult films in Hollywood, still focusing on vehicle styling and personal stunts.

But after all, he is a director who pays attention to technology, and the shooting uses more advanced technology, and the action performance is more like a "spectacle". For example, the 150 or so modified vehicles of different shapes are already equivalent to a "monster show" in the automotive industry. But they also have to chase and collide together, and then explode violently, and then most of these incredible stunts are actually completed by stuntmen and stunts......

Taken together, these perceptions provide a novel thrill that is incomparable to other action movies with serious homogenization.

Compared with the spectacle effect of the action itself, the editing within the action paragraphs and the echoing rhythm between the paragraphs can better reflect his current level and skills as a film director.

Duke likens the film to a grand opera, and the three main car chases are undoubtedly the most colorful.

These three scenes, in his and Mike? Dawson's clip. Gradually, the "movements" are reflected in their respective brilliance in terms of content and "melody".

Three action scenes, through clever techniques, were edited together by Duke. It can also implicitly and accurately show the upgrading and change of the relationship between the male and female protagonists, and complete the task of advancing the plot and improving the characters' personalities.

In fact, the relationship between such action sequence editing and film expressiveness, Duke borrowed some techniques from Ang Lee, Ang Lee's "Color? Three Scenes of Sex in The Ring. loves drama, don't look at it as incompatible with the "action" mode, in fact, it is the same as what he uses.

An action movie director like Duke who strives for perfection will also edit and design enough variations in a single action scene through post-production. Let the simplest action become as full of rhythm as music.

For example, in the rough cut of the car chase scene in the third paragraph. He had several main characters, several supporting characters plus two main villains, and those tricks that swung on the high pole. Everyone has their own moment of performance, and every time they "perform", it is a complete thrilling design, one after another.

The purpose of this is very simple, that is, to let the audience's heart, correspondingly, also experience the ravages again and again, and the degree of enjoyment in retrospect, is like experiencing many times*.

Admittedly, these techniques of expressing action are nothing to a director like Duke, who is based on action elements, but he clearly wants the new film to be more "beautiful" - the end of the world is iron-blooded, deliberately beautiful, bizarre and striking.

In post-production, Duke is pursuing a bizarre and striking beauty, a deliberately amplified and enhanced aesthetic.

So, in addition to editing, Duke also has an important job, which is the processing of the color of the picture.

The super-saturated tones he wanted could make the world in the film as rich as a comic book world, in the words of his former life on the other side of the Pacific, a real "bright blind man's kryptonite dog eyes".

For the treatment of tones, the photographer and the editor need to have a certain commonality in terms of concept. Schwartzman and editor Mike? Dawson has also formed a unique aesthetic tacit understanding, which can transform camera movement and editing into an unprecedented and extreme aesthetic.

The editing also makes the combination of shots in many scenes look crisper and more powerful.

In terms of more specific lens processing, Duke also has a lot of elaborate little means, so that those simplest shots, through John? Schwartzman's camera and Mike? Dawson's clip glows with breathtaking beauty.

For example, in the middle of the film, during the chase, the heroine puts down the front guardrail and shovels up the loess to extinguish the fire, which can make people get goosebumps.

In addition, Duke needs to further enhance the "crazy" atmosphere through editing, whether it is the almost cult-like locomotive worship of the villain believers, or the nervous interpretation of the main and supporting characters, and even the processing of many martyrdom-meaning death scenes, coupled with the maddening soundtrack, the audience will feel as if they are not watching a movie when watching a movie, but in the sacrifice of a post-apocalyptic cult, even if they are exhausted by the dense sensory stimulation, they must shout hoarsely and rush to heaven

What he pursues in post-production is this kind of "magical" beauty, so that the seemingly simple film has magic and endless room for aftertaste!

In addition, in the editing of many fight scenes, Duke borrowed the dynamic editing in "Spy Shadow", when the shots such as hitting and flying, the latter shot is slightly repeated, which can make the momentum appear more natural and beautiful.

To make a great film, you need to be very careful and strict from start to finish, and no frame can be sloppy.

There is not a single character that is not exquisitely shaped, there is not a single scene that is not exquisitely set, there is not a single shot that is not rich in content, and there is not a single edit that is not well thought out, which is the basis of making a great film.

At the time of the fine cut, Charlize? Theron and Tom? The footage of Cruise's close fight is only a minute and a half, but Duke uses a combination of 96 shots. It took Dawson three full days.

He really wants to know how the directors who can cut a standard-length film in ten days or even a week do it, and if so, how to ensure the quality of the film?

If you really want to be a good director, you don't have to listen to film critics, and don't care too much about this and that of theorists, Duke's experience over the years clearly tells him that making and commenting on films are completely different.

Audio-visual is the most basic skill of film, just as language is the basis of the article, color and composition are the basis of painting, a director, only in the continuous pulling, filming, and reading of the film, can the audio-visual skills be integrated into his own intuition.

Every shot of the film is conceived-scripted-storyboarded-live-filmed, and every shot has to consider the lighting, lens focal length, movement, composition, and camera position, and sometimes in order to shoot a shot, Duke has to direct the crew to set up the lighting and set up the camera for several hours.

And he will never be able to do these alone, relying on a strong and tacit team.

It's the same with post-production, it's not the director's job alone.

While Duke was working on post-production, publicity for Fury Road was underway.

In April, Duke and IMAX held a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, where they announced that they had officially signed an agreement to work together on five IMAX films over a five-year period, including IMAX2D and IMAX3D, and "Fury Road" was the first of them.

Richard, the new president of Duke and IMAX? Gerfang sang a hymn of praise to the other.

"IMAX's trajectory is outstanding, and together with the partnership with 3D technology, it will bring audiences the ultimate cinematic experience like never before." Duke said.

Richard? "The strategic cooperation between director Rosenberg and IMAX is an important step for us to expand our film marketing and release strategy cooperation, and we believe that this cooperation will bring better box office to the film in the future." ”

At the same time, IMAX will vigorously promote Fury Road.

Two starring Charlizes? Theron and Tom? Cruise also makes frequent public appearances, especially Charlize? Theron, whose image of shaved long hair is even more striking.

Warner has also made a big fuss about this, and many media outlets have reported things like, 'Do you like the bald goddess, and you still think she's sexy'. (To be continued)

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