The roar of the orcs continued to sound, Duke stood on the top of the Horn Fort, looking at the causeway in front of the city gate in front of the left, a team of strong men dressed as strong orcs, carrying the crashing wood and rushing out of the queue, came to the city gate, against the foam stones falling above, and launched an assault towards the city gate.

Although this crashing wood is not as good as a real war tool, it is a real guy made by the crew, and it was transported to the location by truck only the day before yesterday.

Nearly fifty sturdy orcs carried the bumper wood and slammed it into the wooden gate of Fort Horn with a dull sound, and the gate seemed to be strong and undamaged.

The strong orcs struck again, once, twice, three times...... The gates stood still.

After more than a dozen hits in a row, the strong orcs obviously had no strength, these stuntmen were not Saruman's war planes after all, and Duke also called for a stop and rest at the right time.

However, after resting for half an hour and starting shooting again, the orcs still couldn't break through the gates of Fort Clarion, and the thin wooden gate seemed to be really impassable.

“Cut！”

Shouting to stop again, Duke left the walls of Fort Clarion and walked down the stairs to the city gates, which had been opened, and Bill from the props team had rushed over to ask the stuntmen for their opinions.

"It's so sturdy!" The orc actor at the head said, "We can't bump into each other at all." ”

Sean as Kim Li? Davis, leaning on his big axe, quipped beside him, "Cohen, it's not that the door is too strong, it's that you're too unprofessional, and you bang on the door like an elf." ”

"Sean!"

That stuntman obviously has something to do with Sean? Davis was familiar with it and gave him a middle finger directly, "You can come over and give it a try." ”

Duke raised his hand, signaled the guys to be quiet, walked to the door and knocked, the door was indeed not thick......

"Take a ten-minute break. One more time. He said.

Ten minutes flew by, and Duke didn't return to Fort Clarifle, standing by the camera behind the city gate, which was protected by a dense metal shelf to prevent it from being smashed open by scattered wood chips.

But. The gates are not broken, and these protections do not help.

Filming began again, standing behind the city gate, Duke could hear the crash like thunder, the stuntman was obviously not working, but the thin city gate was standing still in the violent impact.

"Stop!"

This is not the way to go, and Duke once again calls for a halt to the shooting, turning to the head of Weta Studios. "Richard, where are the gates ordered?"

Richard? Taylor smiled awkwardly.

The atmosphere of the crew was a little tense, and Duke casually made a sneer, "I just want to find these people to make a door for me, and the door they make can definitely block the impact of reporters and paparazzi." ”

Everyone around laughed.

Duke walked over and patted Richard? Taylor snapped his shoulder, "Re-make a city gate, I don't want such a good quality." ”

He turned his head. shouted to the crew, "This scene is suspended. We moved to shoot the fight scene on the city wall. ”

A large number of Orcs and Lohan soldiers were transferred to the walls of Fort Clarion to shoot, the footage here is very scattered, most of them are scenes of Orcs slaughtering Lohan's militia, the war is going on here, if it is not for the foreign aid brought by Gandalf, the human and elf reinforcements will definitely be defeated.

These scenes are not difficult. The time spent on filming was far less than the time spent putting on makeup and touching up the orcs, and the entire shoot was intermittent.

Duke's director's camera is set up on the highest command platform, which can clearly see the whole situation. In addition to Mr. Trump, there is another assistant to the crew who is here to assist him in his work.

Compared to the assistant, he was busy with all kinds of things related to shooting. Most of the time, Ivanka is dealing with Duke's personal problems, and she is much more leisurely, she sits in the corner, quietly looking through the concept artwork and some storyboard artwork of the crew.

Although she worked as Duke's assistant, Ivanka has never been a true movie lover, and in the series she is filming, she has neither read the original nor have any interest in reading the original book.

However, after seeing too many concept drawings and actual shooting, she really had a hard time understanding some places, and sometimes she would ask a few questions when Duke was taking a break.

She flipped through a few conceptual drawings of the city of Lorhan and Idoras, and had been looking at them for a long time, and when she saw that Duke had stopped working, she couldn't help but pick up her coffee cup and send it over.

"Thank you." Duke took the coffee, took a sip, saw that Ivanka was still standing behind, and asked, "Something?" ”

"Well, there's something I don't quite understand." Ivanka put the concept art in front of Duke, "Edoras is the seat of the royal palace of the Kingdom of Lohan, how did you design it like this...... Dilapidated, just a simple wooden city? ”

Duke knew that she hadn't read the original book, and that she had asked similar questions before, so she explained simply, "The country of Lohan is a country dominated by nomads, and their way of life is mainly nomadic, and although Idoras is the seat of the royal palace, it is actually just a winter town for the Lohan people. ”

He used to be the one, and he has seen countless people ask like this on the Internet, and they obviously ignore one point, what do nomads want to do in a luxurious city?

The most majestic building in the entire kingdom of Lohan, the Fort Horn, was not built by the Lohan people, but by Gondor.

Ivanka nodded, but didn't leave, looked at the orcs and Lohan soldiers who were touching up their makeup, and asked, "Also, as the king of Lohan, Xiyodon has too few soldiers, right?" When he was attacked, he could only gather the people......"

Hearing this, Duke put down his coffee cup and did it for Ivanka? Trump patiently explained.

This is also related to the fact that the Lohan people are nomadic people, most of the army of the Lohan Kingdom are herdsmen in peacetime, and they are only recruited in wartime, and several army commanders in the country only control a small team of about 120 people composed of their own family members on weekdays, mainly from his territory, and are all fully armed knights trained in battle.

For example, when Iomo was expelled by Heyodon, the knight who slaughtered the orcs led by him was his guard.

There is also the Battle of the Valley of the Holy Helmet, the war described by Tolkien in the original book, almost all of them are Spring and Autumn brushwork, before the Battle of the Valley of the Holy Helmet. Lohan had already had two large-scale engagements with Saruman's army, but the limited length of the film made it impossible to show them all, and the Battle of the Valley of the Holy Helm, which Tolkien had almost understated, became the focus of the Twin Towers.

A book can depict war briefly, but a movie can't. Every movie must have a climactic scene at the end, otherwise what will attract the audience? A bland and soothing narrative?

Therefore, Duke will make the battle of the Holy Helmet even more heroic.

For Ivanka? Trump explained, and Duke finally simply said, "Evie, you just have to go and read the original, and all doubts will disappear." ”

The film will not be shot exactly according to the original book, and in fact, Hollywood does not really follow the original film, but Duke still adheres to the main line and theme of the original book.

It was afternoon. The crew moved to the side of the deep stream wall, and the elves of the brigade began to appear.

Since the crew has been stationed here, the model who plays the elf has been the focus of the entire crew, similar to the situation in the whole of Hollywood, and there is no shortage of gay men and bisexuals in Duke's crew, and Hannah? Serena, a female high-level who likes men, these men with toned bodies will inevitably become the objects of being **.

However, these people all know where the bottom line of Duke's tolerance lies. will not be too messy and delay the filming progress of the crew.

Hollywood is one such circle. Even Bill? Gates came, but he couldn't change the state of his personal life in this circle, and Duke had no intention of making changes, and a person who wanted to contend with a huge industry was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Most of the problems in this circle cannot be solved by a director who has made a good movie.

Be realistic. Movies are just a tool for directors to embody their values, and if you think that movies can change Hollywood and even the world, isn't that a fool's dream or what?

The dawn of the new millennium passed quietly, the end of the world did not break out, and Duke went to see the dawn of the new millennium. There is no special feeling, it is still like a clockwork that has been wound up, busy and orderly to advance his shooting work, two thousand years have come, and he does not have much time to waste.

At least until the Lord of the Rings trilogy is completed, he hasn't wasted the capital of time.

After nearly half a month of busyness, the scene in the Valley of the Holy Helmet is gradually coming to an end, and the new gate of Weta Studios for the Horn Fortress has finally been shipped, and it can be filmed for this important scene of the strong orcs breaking the city.

Compared to the previous city gate, which could not be broken no matter how much it was hit, this time the city gate can be described as a standard tofu scum, and after Duke shouted to start, the stuntman only hit it three times, and a hole was broken in the door......

"It's a little worse."

After shouting to stop, Duke sighed, but it didn't matter, the appearance of the old and new doors was the same, and he could have edited the footage from the previous shot into this shot, which was only a small meaning in the post-production.

The orcs broke down the door, and Aragorn led the crowd to fight back, which was undoubtedly extremely inspiring on the big screen.

This was also the crew's last scene in the Valley of the Holy Helm, but Duke made a lot of changes, first explaining that the horses were hidden in Fort Horn beforehand, and second, increasing the number of cavalry.

Although this is a magic movie, it is too false that a dozen cavalry rushed out of Horn Fort, which was easier than harvesting wheat, and put down countless strong orcs.

Duke expanded the indoor area of Fort Horn, increased the elven troops among the survivors, increased the number of cavalry to dozens, and most of them died after rushing out, and several protagonists did not die, and there were also reasons why these people were desperate to protect.

The scene of the cavalry charge was relatively troublesome to film, but fortunately, it could rely on the post-CGI addition, and it was enough to have about twenty horsemen during filming, until mid-January, when the crew ended the filming of the Battle of the Valley of the Holy Helmet and returned to Wellington.

Duke is also leaving New Zealand temporarily, and he is also the executive producer of the last two parts of "The Matrix", and he has to go to Sydney. (To be continued......)

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