In the midst of a busy shooting, the time turned to 2006, and the arrival of the new year had no impact on the "Transformers" crew.

In the small town of Basadena, the crew rented a temporary parking lot and several nearby houses as filming locations.

In order to shoot the scene about second-hand cars here, General Motors provided the crew with nearly 300 vintage cars, including the old Camaro sports car incarnated by the bumblebee.

As one of the main targets of the advertisement, GM's Chevrolet also specially created two concept versions of the Camaro sports car for the crew, which have unique attributes from parts to engines, and only four other sports cars with the same standard equipment will be launched in the world.

Of course, the regular version of this sports car is not expensive, and Chevrolet itself is aimed at the youth market.

It's a pity that Ryan doesn't have a special hobby for cars or anything, otherwise he would definitely get a unique bumblebee.

The actor he plays also does not have a very special hobby for cars, but as a person who has just stepped into society, like most young Americans, he urgently needs a job to make ends meet and a car to travel.

A cheap used car is undoubtedly the best option.

"Scene 32, Act 17." Michael? Bey himself shouted, "Start now!" ”

Five cameras were set up in the parking lot at the same time in order to record the rivalry between the male and female protagonists from all angles.

"Michaela!"

The owner of a second-hand car dealership sees Ryan walking into the parking lot. Shouting to his daughter, "A customer has come to the door." ”

Then, a pair of long, straight and seductive legs stepped out of the door first. Alexandra dressed up in a body-tight shirt and legging shorts? Ambrosio walked towards Ryan.

"Hey, is there anything I can do to help you?" She greeted Ryan, "You look familiar." ”

"I live around here, just moved in." Ryan walked over to a car and patted the rusty roof hard, "I need a car." ”

"That's a Citroen from 1985."

Although the acting skills are not very good, but a long-term modeling career. Jean Alessandra? Ambrosio knew how to show off himself in front of the camera, "You can drive away for only six thousand dollars." ”

"Six thousand dollars?" Ryan shook his head, and immediately moved away from the broken car, which seemed to fall apart at any moment.

He walked along the old cars lined up. Walking forward, the shrewd woman beside him offered an unacceptable price at all.

It wasn't until he approached an old Camaro sports car that Ryan stopped. The car looks unusually old. But with the coating of a racing car, it is more attractive than other cars.

"How much does this car cost?"

With that, he pulled the car door open and sat in, and the cameraman, who was originally lying in the back seat, immediately propped himself up and gave Ryan a close-up of the logo on the steering wheel that wiped off the dust.

"Five thousand dollars!"

After quoting the price, the sexy beauty outside seemed to be a little puzzled, and muttered in a low voice, "Why don't I remember this car?" ”

"Hey. That ......"

"Sam." Ryan got out of the car.

"Sam, what do you think?"

The saleswoman seems to be very experienced. Walking around and playing with her two long legs, "Sometimes it is not the driver who chooses the car, but the car who chooses the driver, which is the fate between humans and cars." ”

She walked to the front cover of the car and made an extraordinarily sexy pose, "Look, you walked here, you took a fancy to this car, this is a unique Camaro racing car, you go to other markets, you will never be able to buy it!" ”

"Look, the stripes on this car, I'm sure it's been in an all-American event!"

"How much?" Ryan asked.

"Five thousand dollars!"

"Three thousand dollars at most!"

"Please stay away from my car!" The woman walked over and closed the door.

"Hey, Miss......"

"Michaela." This woman seems to have a lot of personality.

"Miss Michaela."

For a person like the male protagonist who has just stepped into society, the other party seems to be very difficult to entangle, "You just said that it is the car that chooses the driver." ”

"No car likes a driver who picks the door!"

“Cut！”

Michael, ringing behind the camera? Bey's voice, "Miss Ambrosio, can you be a little more expressive?" ”

These days, this happens from time to time, although Michael? Bei's requirements are not high, but the other party is not a real actor after all, compared to the charm when he shows off his figure, the changes in his face during the performance are naturally much worse.

For this, Michael? Bei even deleted many lines of the heroine, making the character who was originally a vase completely become a super vase that is more dispensable than in the movies of the previous life.

Surely, when the heroine appears in the shot, the camera spends most of the time capturing Alessandra? Ambrosio's sexy figure and beautiful legs, in the commercial blockbuster, the pure vase heroine, is the most popular thing for the audience.

Maybe Alexandra? Ambrosio doesn't look too pretty in reality, but it's really very photogenic, and most of the shots that have passed, Ryan and Michael? Bei was very satisfied, and it completely played the role of embellishment of the film.

That's enough, for an Angel of Victoria's Secret, can you ask for more?

It took a full morning to shoot the footage of the car dealership, and at the end of the shooting, the crew detonated the window glass of all the used cars, and the debris flying all over the sky looked extraordinarily spectacular, even if there was no explosion of fire and smoke. In the hands of Bei and his team, they also played like a perfect game.

Because of the fact that the location has been filming for a while, and the Disney publicity has been slowly unfolding, since the New Year, more and more media and reporters have appeared around the crew, and they, like all paparazzi, will seize every opportunity to find out the progress of the film and the inside scoop. In order to get exclusive.

At noon, several persistent reporters stopped Ryan in front of the microphone and voice recorder they had sent. With the words ABC TV and the Disney Family Online logo, Ryan still said a few words in the face of his own media, so that Disney's publicity plan could be better developed.

"Mr. Jenkins, can you tell us about your purpose in making Transformers a live-action movie?" Similarly, Disney's media reporters know what to ask. "There's a lot of news that you really like the series?"

"Yes, I love this series very much." Ryan nodded without hesitation, "I loved this series of cartoons very much when I was a kid. ”

"As for why you want to make a live-action movie version."

He continued. "I don't think there's ever been a movie in the history of filmmaking that has shown a truck turning into a 20-foot-tall machine on the screen, and I wanted to make a tribute to the classic cartoons of the past, to find out the imagination that Hollywood has lost for years. There will be many moments in the movie that have touched us. Even if it's someone over thirty years old. When I saw the movie, I still felt like a 10-year-old child's eyes. ”

"But there are a lot of people who are criticizing ......"

The reporter who didn't know which newspaper in the back took out several conceptual design drawings of Optimus Prime released by the crew, "Such machines don't have any sense of reality, and their slender and slender bodies can't bear their weight at all." ”

"Who said they were machine people?" Ryan spread his hands and said, "They're mechanical lifeforms!" It is a higher life with thoughts, feelings, hobbies, and dislikes just like human beings. They should have a beautiful streamlined body just like humans. ”

Ryan emphasized. "Remember, they're not the boxy, bulky machines made of steel, and if they were to be designed to look like clumsy machines, it would look fake and boring, because they don't look like intelligent life in an alien system, but rather like inferior machine products made by the Japanese."

ILM has spent the last few months designing computer animations of the transformers, carefully comparing every detail on the car model, and at first they designed the transformation process to follow the laws of physics, but the result was that it didn't look exciting or smooth enough

For such a movie with special effects as its main selling point, this is simply a fatal wound.

Later, ILM proposed a plan to use liquid metal on the surface of Kong's character, but Ryan refused, and he only replied to ILM - this is a Transformer, not a T1000!

In the end, ILM opted for a 'Rubik's Cube' style that completely abandons the laws of physics, so that Transformers will look more fun, realistic, dynamic and fast, whether static or dynamically transformed, rather than like clumsy beasts.

An important decision in the ILM stunt process was to keep the wheels in touch with the ground for as long as possible, so that the machine could maintain its motion while deforming, thus maintaining a basic sense of realism.

Ryan's opinion got Michael? Bei's unanimous approval, both of them know where the selling point of the movie is, the boxy thick and bulky Transformers, for such a commercial science fiction film, it is simply a disaster.

He also specifically let the tiger? Chen collected two kickboxing performances and footage of action movies that incorporated judo, Muay Thai, and other fighting styles, and provided them to ILM's special effects animators to look at in order to make the fight scenes look more beautiful.

Also, Michael? Before becoming a film director, Bei had directed many car commercials, and he knew how to make the mechanical life closely related to cars in the picture look more realistic, and his proposed ray tracing method was unanimously approved by ILM.

Similar to the literary drama between the male and female protagonists, not Michael? The type that Bay is good at, he won't put too much energy into it, and after ending the scene of Sam and Michaela's acquaintance, the crew moved to the US military base again and began to shoot hot explosion shots.

However, Ryan wants to leave the crew first, and he has already promised the other side of the Pacific to visit Wèn this month as the chairman of the board of directors of Disney. (To be continued......)