For Duke, satisfying ordinary fans and audiences is far more than anything else, which is also the most basic principle for him to shoot and produce this "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Pen%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info【Fengyun Novel Reading】

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the first chapter of a screen sci-fi epic about friendship, faith and loyalty began, and 37 years later, its seventh story is about to set sail, and the banner called "Star Wars" is being completed by a new generation of film industry workers who have grown up with its legend.

Returning to Los Angeles from San Diego, Duke plunged headlong into the huge studio at Hughes Aircraft Factory and began shooting the few remaining shots.

"There are too few people,"

Standing on the innermost platform of the studio, Duke looked at the dense stormtroopers below, to Anna? "Are there any extras?" ”

Here will be footage of a speech by one of the generals of the First Order, by Hannah? This scene of Serena setting is borrowed from the situation when Hitler gave a speech to the Nazi SS in World War II, which also follows the consistent tradition of Star Wars.

As for the Sith Great, how do you think it's Adolf? The embodiment of Hitler.

To a certain extent, Duke still uses this hidden setting, and he will not have any worries, in the Western world and even on the whole planet, anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler can be said to be one of the most basic political correctness and value orientations.

It is true that there are many people in this world who sympathize with and even worship the Nazis and Hitler, but few people are stupid enough to proclaim this kind of thing directly, unless he is Russ? Feng? Tyre's brain-dead.

The Danish director, who has always had a problem with his head, considers himself not only the god of the film industry, but even the god of all mankind, and often throws out surprising words to attract attention in order to attract attention.

For example, the so-called "95" declaration, not to mention the other directors he asked for, even he himself has never done it.

But often walk by the river. There are always times when your shoes get wet, and the director, who has a problem with his head, will naturally mess up his hype.

In 2011, Russ? Feng? Tyre brought his new film "Melancholia" to the main competition unit of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. His silence shocked all of Europe.

The director, who has always been unassuming, blurted out, "I've always been proud of my Jewish identity; And then I met Susanna? Bill Danish director, whose film "A Better World" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film that year, and I was a little unhappy after that. Then I found out that I was actually a Nazi. My family is from Germany, which excites me. What else can be said? I understand Adolf very well? Hitler, even sympathized with him. ”

And that's not all, in the face of a room full of media, when Russ? Feng? Tyre still said, "I'm a Nazi." ”

Not to mention others, even Kirsten, the star of "Melancholia"? Dunst and Charlotte? Gainsburg and the others were shocked, as if the director of the film they knew was not sitting next to them.

The end result, Russ? Feng? Tyre was expelled directly from the Cannes Film Festival and France.

Anti-Nazi is arguably the most basic criterion, in something like a movie. To make sympathetic statements about the Nazis is to kill yourself.

And Star Wars, although it has never been directly expressed, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the villain who was whipped by the bright side is the cosmic version of the Nazis.

Due to the lack of extras, Duke took a turn on the high stage and said behind him, "Tina, let everyone else on the crew who is not involved in the filming dress up as Stormtroopers, and there are also people who come to the crew to visit the crew......"

This situation is the norm. It's not surprising that the rest of the crew makes temporary cameos in Hollywood in scenes that require a large number of people, and Duke did the same thing when he filmed the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Other members of the crew who are not directly involved in the filming work. All dressed in Stormtrooper costumes, even Daisy? Ridley and Daniel? Wu is no exception, so he finally got enough of the Stormtroopers camp in front of the green screen, and the Stormtroopers in the remaining long shots can be added through post-CG.

Compared to the busy preparation of the day, the shooting seemed too smooth, after only three repetitions. Duke announced that the shot was passed.

In the follow-up shooting, Duke still maintained enough caution and concentration, how to capture the essence of the old version of Star Wars is not difficult for Duke, the real tricky problem is how to create a new chapter with the personality of the era.

People born in the 1990s and 2000s have become the main force of the film market, and they don't know Das? Vader and Luke? Skywalker's tangled past, lightsaber, Black Knight, and even the "I'm Your Father" meme have been embraced with more cultural symbolic meanings than just Star Wars fans.

As a writer, director, and producer, Duke must ensure that even if he is not a generation that grew up with Star Wars, he will not have a problem understanding Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

After all, the real protagonists of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" are the two "rookie" actors who made their debut in mainstream Hollywood commercial blockbusters - Daisy? Ridley vs. Daniel? Wu.

To get these two roles, in the words of the media, they are definitely the lucky ones, but the audition process is also painful, long and deceptive, because the Star Wars sign is too loud, and at the audition, Duke even created a fake script for the actors to audition for reasons of secrecy.

After being selected as the leading actors, the burden of this group of new actors has not been lightened in the slightest, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" also requires the actors to face 'real guns' during their performances, and the two protagonists must run wildly in the desert to avoid explosions in full gear, and Duke will never deny the professionalism and special effects production of the entire team.

Of course, Duke's job as a director is also quite heavy.

One of the most important things about Star Wars for Duke is that it's more than just anything, and that's why he chose the film the way he did.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is not only an epic masterpiece, but also extremely delicate and moving; It's serious and meticulous in some ways, but it's laughable and hilarious at times; It has heavy dark elements and tense conflicts of interest, but at the same time it is really funny, warm and romantic.

It's a story of friendship, trust, dedication, loyalty, belief in yourself, all of these forces that unite us.

What Duke has to do is use the materials and characters it already has to make a new story, and it doesn't need the audience to watch "Star Wars" before, the audience will see Han in the movie? Solo, but to watch this movie they don't need to know about the former him.

If fans have seen the previous Han? Solo, you might be watching his performance from a different angle.

The other protagonists of this film are making their debuts, and the audience can follow their gaze to see the world in this movie.

In this world's mainstream movie market, some people only know Star Wars from the game; Some people only know one or two episodes in cartoons; Some people have only heard about it from their friends and have never seen it themselves, but everyone knows about Skywalker and Lightsaber to some extent, even if not everyone has seen the series.

There are also many places where people have never seen these movies at all, so Duke knows that making such a movie requires a sense of visual shock, an eye-catching action plot, and a sense of light and darkness against each other.

These are eternal themes.

Star Wars itself, the first film in the series, is in many ways very simple and straightforward, and many of its elements may be considered by some to be obsolete today because they are too simple.

But it's still a beautiful, funny, touching, sweet story in which the protagonists are the underprivileged grassroots – those who are not elites, who have no power, who would never have imagined that they are capable of confronting the greatest forces of evil.

There are huge mysteries involved, there are still many questions to be solved, and there are still many things that Duke and the whole team need to explore. , but it doesn't matter, because even if you don't need to know anything, it's enough to be attracted to it.

It has all the ingredients that an epic movie can think of - a tense story, fierce battles, dramatic conflicts, magnificent scenes, it has it.

But for Duke, the key to the success of the movie is that the audience likes and cares about the characters in the play, and these are the core of the movie, so a cold spaceship does not mean anything, only the people the audience likes are on that spaceship, and its voyage becomes meaningful.

Duke's goal is to make the audience want to see the story happening on it.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens needs to be emotionally epic while also biting and displaying amazing special effects.

Since officially forming a team, Duke and his collaborators have completed a number of incredibly great films.

As the clock ticked into late July, Duke finished all the filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and moved on to post-production.

This time, unlike in the past, there were fewer special effects production, and Duke used a lot of live action shooting for the emotional effect.

The live-action footage is just as good, with a lot of characters and scenes that you might not believe they were live-action after watching them, but they are.

In post-production, a lot of times Duke uses CGI to remove something, not to add something, like a mechanical C-column, wire, protruding controls, or whatever.

In his busy post-production schedule, Duke also has an important task of hosting media from China. (To be continued.) )