The white building complex is located under the sky, consisting of the main building and the east and west wings, with a unique neoclassical style, coupled with the star-striped flag fluttering above the main building, which looks dignified, elegant and atmospheric.

The ghost of John Adams' wife, Abigail Adams, is rumored to have washed clothes in the East House; Dolly Madison's ghost haunts the rose garden; Lincoln's bedroom was a frequent visit by "Honest Abel"; Marilyn Monroe also walked through a secret passage to meet her master.

This is the political center of the United States, the official residence of the self-proclaimed most hospitable head of state in the world, the famous White House!

And this building, today, surrounded by nearly ten cameras and under the gaze of dozens of people, will be completely blown up by Duke!

"Everyone, back off! Back off! ”

Standing on a steady stage, Duke held up a megaphone and kept shouting, "Don't step on the turf in front of the White House again!" Mr. Ben Watts, if you knock down the grass and trees on the turf again, I'll tie you to the White House and blow you up! ”

Duke's loud warning was a camera assistant who was introduced by Naomi Watts and was inspected by John Schwartzman and Duke before joining the film crew, who is also the brother of the Australian actress.

"The White House is ready!"

"The Oval is ready!"

"Kennedy Gardens are finished!"

"Place Lafayette is set up!"

There was an 'ok' sound from the set, special effects and model teams, and Joss William's pyrotechnics team entered and began wiring the upper floors that had been set up under the White House.

Of course, this is certainly not the real White House, but a scale-down model deliberately replicated by the crew, which is not only more than 70 feet long, but also the model team has almost realistically restored all the buildings and scenery in the front yard of the White House according to the current layout.

"Was there a shot in a Hollywood movie that directly blew up the White House before?"

Sitting on the stage, Duke asked Robin Grande, who was standing next to him, "Or something like that." ”

"There should be."

The production manager nodded, then shook his head, "But there aren't many that really make an impression." ”

"Robin." Duke held his chin in one hand, "What do you think of using the image of the bombing of the White House as the first propaganda poster?" ”

"Charles and I feel the same way." Robin Grande clearly agrees.

"Maybe we will make zuò and ...... after the sample is released"

After the promotion of the two films, Duke also had more considerations, "It can be sent to the White House first, let the Bill Clinton family watch it, no matter what he thinks about it at that time, it can be used as a publicity point, right?" ”

"Good idea." Robin Grande wrote it down in his notebook.

As the set-up drew to a close, Duke stepped off the stage, circled around the White House twice, and after making sure there were no problems, he returned to the monitors and waited for Joss Williams' team to finish the final work.

"Fireworks, ready!"

Hearing the voice coming from there, Duke shouted to the film crew, "John, lower the boom, and the number one camera will shoot as planned." ”

Wide-angle shots, medium shots, and close-up shots with a blended upward angle were all part of Duke's expertise in shooting explosive action shots, and he worked with John Schwartzman to nail out the camera position and how to shoot it at the very beginning of the set.

Adjusting the monitors, Duke carefully observed the effect of each camera, made a few more fine-tunings, took the megaphone next to him, and shouted to the White House, "Clear the field!" For the last time, clear! ”

Even if the model was shot in the studio, it was still military, and Duke didn't want anyone to stupidly bump into it and have some kind of accident and invite a guild or something like that.

"Cleared!"

An assistant director shouted.

"Jos......" Duke pointed the megaphone at the pyrotechnic group, "Twenty seconds to the countdown!" ”

The vicinity of the White House became empty, as if aliens had really arrived, and under the cover of darkness, it seemed extraordinarily quiet and gloomy, as if this was not the presidential palace, but a hell full of executioners.

“10,9,8……”

On the other side, the countdown of the pyrotechnic team was loud, alerting everyone that a heavyweight explosion was about to happen.

"3, 2, 1, detonate!"

The bright fireball rose in an instant, not only was the White House blown to pieces, but even the lawn in front of the White House cracked and flew into the sky, the flames spread rapidly, engulfing the garden trees in front and behind, and the administrative center of the United States was completely destroyed by Duke!

“great！” Duke stood up from behind the monitor and shouted in satisfaction, "Well done! The first shot of the boot is smooth! ”

The audience erupted in applause, and dozens of people celebrated the successful blowing up of the White House.

"Transition!"

After the firefighters extinguished the flames of the explosion, Duke shouted again, "Next target, the Capitol!" ”

A director is the commander of a crew, but also the soul of a crew, and the characteristics of a director often affect the entire crew, and there is no doubt that after working together, Duke's team has always been able to get the job done with relative ease and excellence when shooting explosions and visually striking scenes.

For half a day, Duke led the crew to carry out continuous operations, destroying the White House and the Capitol one after another, and after an hour's rest, he came to the Empire State Building.

However, the Empire State Building is no longer a building, but is connected to the whole of Manhattan, and the crew is going to blow up the economic lifeblood of the United States and the world's financial center.

"Duke, something is wrong."

While the others were still setting up the venue, Joss William approached, "According to our plan, the explosion will be centered on the Empire State Building, and then the flames will spread outward, but the flames after the explosion will mostly burn upwards and it will be difficult to spread around. ”

"Why don't you blow up Manhattan all at once?" He asked tentatively.

"No, no......"

Duke shook his head, according to the setting, the flames of the explosion spread from point to surface, and the special effects team of Industrial Light & Magic has already started the computer special effects of laser weapons in turn, if it is rashly changed, it will have to overturn a lot of preliminary preparations.

Even if the preliminary preparation is perfect, there will still be various difficulties encountered during shooting.

Walking up to the Manhattan model, Duke looked at the model fixed to the chassis and frowned along with Joss William, who had come with him, clearly thinking about a solution.

After a circle around the model chassis, Duke called the heads of several departments.

"In this way, the camera position is fixed on the model chassis." Duke gestured with his hand as he spoke, "Then use the boom to hang the Manhattan upright, or use the Empire State Building as the point of explosion, after the explosion, the flames should rise upwards, and we will only shoot the half of the Manhattan above the Empire State Building......"

Duke walked over to the model, pointed to the Empire State Building, and slid back, "After hanging up, the part below the Empire State Building is properly blacked out, and the camera highlights the explosion and fire in the upper half." ”

"This way it works." José Williams, in order to ensure that the shooting went smoothly, said, "I will take someone to make a real one out of other discarded models first." ”

Even if it was a scale model, in order to save money, Manhattan only made one piece.

About half an hour later, Joss William's side came with feasible results, the departments were restarted, three small cameras were fixed on the chassis of Manhattan at different angles, and after Joss Williams arranged them himself, the crane arm was mobilized to slowly lift the model.

It was another routine clearance, and after Duke shouted to start, the Empire State Building was reduced to rubble with a bang, and half of Manhattan was engulfed in flames.

Sitting in front of the monitor, Duke went back and forth to see the effect of the two shots, although it was not as expected, but it was okay.

"That's all for today." He gave the order to call it a day, "After packing up, you can leave work!" ”

One after another, Duke sat in front of the monitor, watching the footage of today's shooting, and when he saw the explosion of Manhattan that he had just finished filming again, the words came from behind him with a monotonous nasal voice.

"The alien's laser column exploded, and the flames did not rise upwards, but spread around, which is too unreasonable, how do you explain it then?"

"Why explain?" Duke looked back at Sophia Coppola, "This is alien technology, a weapon that is hundreds of years more advanced than Earth, we don't need to explain it at all!" ”

If you really want to explain these problems one by one, then don't shoot action movies and sci-fi movies, don't talk about anything else, the famous screen hero Rambo, according to common sense, I don't know how many times I should be damned.

"When did you come back?" Duke asked.

"This afternoon." Sophia pulled a chair next to her and sat down next to Duke, "I got off the flight from London to Los Angeles, and I came straight here." ”

"Good work." Duke picked up the coffee pot, found a new cup, and poured her a cup of coffee, "Is it going well?" ”

"You know over there in New York." Sophia took a sip of coffee before saying, "We've taken it because Broadway is going to restart the show, and it's going to take a little bit of effort and cost a little more than expected, $2 million." ”

After all these phone calls, Duke nodded, "What about London?" ”

"It's not very smooth." Sophia sighed, "Your Duke's studio is just an empty shell without any influence, and it's too difficult to get the copyright to this huge work." ”

"That's ......," Duke pondered for a moment before he said, "continue to talk to them, keep in touch with them, and maybe something will change when 'Sun' comes out." ”

If "Day" can achieve the expected results, then he will be Hollywood's first-rate commercial film director, and even stand in the top ranks of commercial films, and his signature will be even louder.

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