Chapter 566: A Clever Actor
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Robert Downey Jr.'s miserable cave life lasted only a week, and Duke restored him to being rich and handsome, and the crew left Hughes Airport for a beach villa in Malibu to begin filming Tony Stark's lavish private life. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the setting of the script, Tony Stark is not only a billionaire, with a net worth of nearly 10 billion dollars, but also a person with an extremely high-profile life.
His aim, in a certain way, is to buy only the expensive ones, not the right ones.
If the likes of Peter Parker and Steve Rogers are just civilian heroes, then Tony Stark is a standard plutocratic hero.
Of course, in addition to being rich, he is also a playboy.
In the rented seaside villa, Duke took one last look at the furnishings of the room, consulted with a top designer who specializes in serving the wealthy, and after making sure that there was no problem with the room that served as the background, he nodded to the field notes.
"Scene 2, Act 17," the reporter said, placing the sign in front of the camera, "now begins." ”
In a lavishly furnished seaside villa, Lily Aldridge from the Victoria's Secret Angels team walks up to the camera.
"Tony, Tony......"
Like a wife waking up in the morning to look for her disappeared husband, Lily Aldridge, wearing a loose men's shirt, walked around the villa's huge living room, but did not find her target, and couldn't help but look around curiously.
She first admired the layout of the room, and then walked to a closed door, probably accustomed to the relationship of the stretching table, and the whole process, she showed her beautiful figure very naturally according to Duke's request in advance, and tried her best to play the role of a vase.
Lily Aldridge walked over to the door, saw a button, and pressed it curiously, and a synthetic mechanical voice immediately remembered, "You don't have the right to enter!" You don't have the right to enter! ”
in the film. It was Jarvis's voice, but what hung there was actually a tape recorder, and it was Lily Aldridge who pressed the play button.
Duke gestured to the camera crew. The main camera shot, controlled by John Schwartzman himself, immediately moves away from Lily Aldridge and to the center of the villa's living room, where Rachel McAdams, the film's heroine, is already standing in a black business suit.
"This is Jarvis. He's the steward here. Rachel McAdams lifted the clothes in her hand, gestured to Lily Aldridge, and said, "This is your clothes, they have been dry cleaned and ironed." ”
She pointed to the outside of the villa again, "The special car is waiting outside, ready to listen and dispatch, you can go anywhere you want." ”
Lily Aldridge turned and walked over, "You're the famous Pepper Port." ”
"That's right." Rachel McAdams nodded slightly.
"I didn't expect it to be so many years." Lily Aldridge's tone was overtly sarcastic, "Tony also asked you to do the job of dry cleaning and picking up clothes. ”
"What did Mr. Stark tell me to do. I'll do whatever I do. ”
Probably infected by Lily Aldridge, Rachel McAdams also used a sarcastic tone, "Including sweeping him out of the house with the rest of the garbage, is there any problem?" ”
“cut!” Duke then shouted and said, "Rachel, your question. ”
Rachel McAdams was quite perceptive, and as soon as Duke shouted to stop, he immediately realized what the problem was and said immediately. "Was my tone too sarcastic? Pepper Boz is a quiet and mature female assistant, even if it is ironic, it should be said in a more stable tone. ”
"That's it." Duke gestured to the surroundings and told the departments to prepare. "Do it all over again in five minutes." ”
However, the second shoot still did not pass, and the problem was Lily Aldridge, who is not a professional actor after all, and it is impossible to always maintain the same good condition as just now. 、
Duke wasn't in a hurry either. After patiently patting a few times, it was finally announced.
Then, Rachel McAdams returns to the makeup trailer to change his clothes, and Duke starts to shoot some individual shots of Tony Stark to show his tech nerd side, everyone has their own interests and hobbies, what is the biggest hobby of a super-rich and technocratic like Tony Stark?
Naturally, it's about getting some technology that no one else can do, such as making steel suits.
Robert Tonny Jr. has been in good shape, and although some shots take NG several times to pass, Duke is very happy with his performance, and the shooting progress is slightly faster than planned.
In many people's inherent impressions, anyone who starred in a big-budget commercial film has average acting skills, but in fact, Robert Downey Jr.'s acting skills are quite good, even if it is not Tony Stark, a role that seems to be tailor-made for him, he can cope with it after waking up.
Even, in Duke's opinion, his acting skills may not be worse than some Oscar winners.
However, even Duke can't deny the fact that starring in superheroes, especially popular superheroes, is very easy to fix, resulting in the narrowing of the actor's acting path after leaving this role, and even starring in other movies becomes box office poison.
The former Robert Downey Jr. and Johnny Depp are undoubtedly typical of this.
But this world is like this, there will always be gains and losses, where can a person take all the benefits.
About an hour or so, Rachel McAdams, who had finished changing her makeup, returned to the villa, Duke gave her a few simple words, and began to film the rivalry between her and Robert Downey Jr., the actress from Canada may not be as good as Robert Downey Jr., occasionally making some mistakes, but smart enough to always find their mistakes in time and correct themselves.
Any director likes smart actors, and Duke is no exception, and the relatively excellent performances of Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams can save the crew a lot of trouble.
Filming was carried out according to the pre-made plan, and Duke maintained a slightly ahead of the shooting plan, and he planned a three-month shooting deadline for this film, leaving more time for post-production, and this film used a lot of special effects scenes, even more than his most special effects film "Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King".
This is inextricably linked to the rapid development of special effects technology, which took $20 million a few years ago to get a good effect, but now more than $10 million or less can be done.
For example, motion capture, around 2000, there were not many companies that were good at motion capture, Weta Studios was undoubtedly the best among them, and now Weta Studios still retains the place of the leader, but many companies' special effects capture technology has also made great progress, and the use of special effects capture to shoot those vivid monster characters has become a trend in Hollywood.
For those scenes that are still or have little movement, Robert Tony Jr. can be shot in a prop steel suit, but all the battle scenes must be realized in front of the green screen through motion capture.
Robert Downey Jr. in the past was a literary and artistic actor, and he was not good at this.
In order to consider the effect of the shooting, Duke hired Andy Serkis, who had worked with him, to teach Robert Tony Jr. some experience in this area in addition to filming.
Andy Serkis, who once starred in Gollum, is recognized as the first person in Hollywood motion capture, although his live-action performance is average.
After the release of "The Lord of the Rings 2: Two Towers", many people thought that the Oscar should award him the Golden Man for Best Supporting Actor, but Andy Serkis didn't even get a nomination, and the Academy couldn't award the acting award to an animated composite character anyway.
But in the rather multimedia evaluation, just as the Lord of the Rings trilogy has been frequently included in various lists of the world's top 100 classic movies, Andy Serkis's motion capture-based Gollum and his phrase 'My Baby' are also frequent visitors to the list of classic characters and classic lines of various movies.
Since the rented Malibu villa could not be used for too long, after filming the indoor scenes, Duke did not return to the studio that had been set up in Burbank, but continued to stay here to shoot footage of Tony Stark's daily life.
The roar of the motor sounded, and a silver latest Audi sports car drove from a distance, and after a beautiful tail flick, it stopped in front of the villa, Robert Downey Jr. wore a dark casual suit and Tony Stark's signature beard, and walked out of the car.
In a way, Tony Stark is also a vase character, and his lethality to female audiences is even less than Legolas.
"Well done, Donnie!" After Duke shouted pass, he walked over to the Audi sports car and gently patted the front hood, which was still hot, "How is this sports car?" ”
"It's great."
During the filming, Robert Downey Jr. also got acquainted with Duke, and joked at this time, "Audi has sponsored so many cars for the crew, let me drive this one home." ”
"Absolutely."
Before Robert Downey Jr. could be pleased, Duke added, "But wait until the crew is all done." ”
Audi is one of the main sponsoring advertisers for this film, and they have reached a strategic partnership with Marvel Studios, and they have the right of first refusal to sponsor car advertisements for all future "Iron Man" movies.
Of course, this is also related to Duke, even a character like Batman, who almost lost the possibility of turning over on the big screen, has been reborn in the hands of Duke, not to mention Iron Man, who was originally extremely popular?
It's not so much that Audi is investing in Marvel Studios, it's that they're investing in Duke movies. (To be continued.) )
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