New York, on set.

Li Lianlian held a prop gun in his hand, and at the same time as he shook his arm violently, his fingers quickly pulled the trigger, and the imaginary bullet drew an arc to hit the target behind the obstacle.

Li Lianhua, who was on the side, turned around and walked towards Li Mu with a smile after making the same move.

"Director, can this bullet turn be realized in reality? Either the bullet goes around a big circle, or the bullet trajectory changes a little, is it possible to really achieve it in reality? ”

"Probably not, after the bullet is discharged, there is no force that can correct the trajectory of the bullet, but it is actually possible to create a bullet that can turn through scientific and technological means, and the principle is equivalent to that of a precision-guided projectile."

At this time, the special effects director sent by the special effects company came to find Li Mu.

The plot of the movie "League of Assassins" is actually very ordinary, a cowardly and timid middle-aged office worker, living in a rental house where a train passes by every few minutes, but he suffers from severe "anxiety disorder", he has not slept a good night's sleep every day, and his buddies take advantage of themselves everywhere in reality, although the protagonist is unhappy, he just doesn't have the courage to resist.

talked about a girlfriend but had a leg with his buddy.,The superior is a fat pig who weighs 400 pounds.,With a little bit of power, he changes tricks all day long to make things difficult for the protagonist.,Often holding a stapler in front of the protagonist and pressing it constantly.,Make a noise that makes the protagonist almost collapse.。

Until one day, when the protagonist was shopping in the supermarket, he vaguely noticed that someone was following him, but when he turned around, he found a super hot beauty standing behind him, and since then this stupid middle-aged man has started a cool road.

When the killer points a gun to his head and orders him to knock off the wings of the flies in front of him, the protagonist who holds the gun for the first time magically does it.

It turned out that his anxiety disorder was not really an anxiety disorder, but his heart beat more than 400 times a minute, which filled his blood with adrenaline, which allowed him to observe and react faster than ordinary people.

It turns out that his brother, who has been missing since he was a child, is not really missing, but has become the top killer of the Killer Guild, and was shot dead on the roof of the Metropolis not long ago.

Since then, the protagonist has started a life of cool and explosive hanging - bullets that can turn, run on speeding trains, and complete various difficult assassination characters issued by killers.

This is a typical Hollywood blockbuster template, although there are highlights in the plot, but overall it is still a little old-fashioned, and the real selling point of this film is actually the upgraded bullet time in the movie, the high-to-explosive car chase scenes, and the endless variety of gun exhibitions.

And there are quite a few of these pictures that can't be done by live shooting at all.

For example, in the scene of jumping off the building at the beginning, Li Mu couldn't really hang the actor to the top of the building so high to shoot.

Another example is the scene where the protagonist knocks out his buddy's front teeth at the beginning, the scattered keyboard keys and front teeth must have been made with special effects, and they will not really knock out the actor's teeth.

There are also tumbling cars, trains falling off cliffs, and inverted bullet trajectories - all of these shots need to be done by means of special effects.

Even the swarm of bomb rats at the end relied on special effects.

Therefore, in the whole process of filming, the weight of the special effects director who is stationed in the crew in advance by the special effects company is extremely important, and it can even be said that this person is Li Mu's most important consultant in the crew.

Where and how to shoot, what kind of special effects will be used, which shot should be abandoned, and the post-production special effects cannot be completed at all, all of which need to be communicated at any time during the shooting process.

"Director, the scene of jumping over the building is divided into two parts, one part is completed outdoors through live shooting, using 3-D digital scanning technology (3-D Cyber-scanning), fixing a 3D photocopier to the drone, using about 15 seconds to control the camera to leap from this side of the building to the other side of the building, shoot a Skyclave shot, and finally combine the Skyclave shot with the actor scenes filmed in the studio, so that this scene is completed." The special effects director pointed to the storyboard manuscript in his hand and explained to Li Mu.

Li Mu nodded.

The special effects director added: "All the bullet slow-motion tracks in the film will be completed in this way, such as the circular bullet trajectory shot by the fox at the end, we also have to shoot a circular empty shot along the circular trajectory with a 3D camera, scan and model the actors standing in a circle, and finally combine the empty shot with the actors' scenes." ”

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After talking to the special effects director, Li Mu turned around and came to Cheng Long and Yuan Heping, who were talking about action design at the moment.

This time Li Mu gave Cheng Long and Yuan Heping considerable autonomy in action design, one of the major selling points of "Assassin" is the peak duel between Cheng Long and Li Lian, the two action superstars, most of the fighting scenes of the two protagonists in the original movie are in gunfight mode, if Li Mu does not make necessary adjustments to the scenes, the audience may be dissatisfied at that time.

Cheng Long and Yuan Heping were on the rise, and when they raised their eyes, they just saw Li Mu, Cheng Long smiled and beckoned: "Director, come here, I just designed another action scene with Director Yuan Heping, and it must look good after it is played." ”

Li Mu walked over with a smile, Cheng Long and Yuan Heping even talked about the gesture and Li Mu signaled, Li Mu listened very seriously, and when the two finally finished speaking, Li Mu smiled and said, "It looks good, I will call Teacher Li Lian in a while, let's study and study together." ”

"Okay, come to my room at night, let's study it carefully."

"Okay." Li Mu nodded.

Through this period of contact, Li Mu found that as two kung fu superstars in the Chinese world, Cheng Long and Li Lianlian's personal styles are actually completely different.

Cheng Long has strong ambitions on the set, how to shoot here, how to fight there, Cheng Long wants to get involved, and he has a strong desire to control the movie.

In this regard, Li Lian is very different, he doesn't want to meddle in anything other than his own role, he will shoot how the director asks him to shoot, the director asked him to feel the action of shaking his hand when shooting, and he took it seriously and simulated it many times, and Cheng Long had already dragged Yuan Heping to study the play at this time.

After several people studied the action design, Cheng Long talked about the core premise of the film with great interest - the killer will determine the assassination list through the texture woven by the "fate loom".

"The script is good, but there are too few Chinese cultural elements in the script, I wonder if we can add more Chinese elements to the movie? This also helps to spread the excellent Chinese culture to foreigners. ”

"Uncle Long, how do you want to add it?"

"I mean, since the killers are so powerful, it shouldn't be the only ones in the West who have this kind of organization. The two major civilizations of the East and the West, the West has, and the East must also have, so can we set up that such an organization also exists in China? ”

"The Western killer union studies the texture of the loom to determine the target of the assassination, while our Chinese killer alliance throws copper coins or burns animal bones to cause cracks on the surface, and finally determines the object that the assassination union needs to get rid of by interpreting the distribution of copper coins and the direction of the cracks."

After hearing this, Li Mu said: "Uncle Long, this movie was aimed at the Western market at the beginning of the project, and the lack of Chinese elements is indeed the shortcoming of this movie, but in the future, we will have the opportunity to make a film that carries forward Chinese culture, let's follow the script for this movie." ”

Cheng Long nodded after hearing this, and said, "Well, what you said is right, we will have opportunities in the future." ”