984: Shooting
To be honest, "Iron Man 3" is not easy to shoot, especially after "Avengers" became popular, especially after "Avengers" became popular.
"Iron Man" is now in a tough state except for the organization that is unrivaled, no other "Avenger" can achieve such a sensational effect when he goes solo!
In the "CPPCC" camp of DC, only "Batman" who entered the "realism" river can compete with it, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Stark has become the "spokesperson of Superhero in the new century".
Looking at the unique comic hero culture in the United States, although there are many characters in the development of hundreds of years, one of them has always become the leader in different eras. Under the interpretation of Christopher River in the last century, Superman became the endorsement of comic heroes with the label of "perfection". He is handsome, tall, strong, and invincible steel body. After taking off his cloak, he is shy and gentle, and every angle interprets perfection. In the world promotion stage of American comic culture, such an image is undoubtedly the best "American endorsement" - a firm and unscrupulous appearance and a connotation of elegance and civilization.
After entering the new century, people's definition of perfection began to gradually shift. The 21st century is an era of selling corruption and cuteness. Apart from the selling points of "male sex" of selling corruption, the cute and elegant men's style has become popular, and coupled with the "perfect personality" in psychology: when people reach middle age, men and women will gradually integrate the personality traits of opposing genders to achieve "perfection". Therefore, middle-aged uncles have both male firmness and courage, as well as female delicateness and warmth. On the contrary, women are the same. So little loli loves uncles. These have become the reasons for the popularity of "Iron Man".
And the more people look forward to it, the greater the pressure to create.
In order to make "Iron Man 3" surpass the previous work, Li Donglai had to do a tough move.
Upgrading the armor suit is a must. Reversing the rhythm is also a must. What is important is that the protagonist must be abused so hard that he can rebound and work harder. Anyway, superheroes cannot be beaten to death.
To present the real Iron Man in the camera, the Iron Man evolutionary armor needed requires a realistic model that is exactly consistent with the gorgeous Iron Clothes in the computer in reality. These work has been done very well in the first two parts, but the demand for props in the third part suddenly increased by more than ten times.
Li Donglai needed dozens of Iron Man suits to fly into the sky under intelligent operation, and can also act as a bomb when necessary. This suddenly increased the work of the prop group, and Li Donglai is a person who has high requirements for details. He made a movie very quickly, which also required a perfect behind-the-scenes team.
After many experiments, they finally solved the problem that Robert Downey Jr. can still make keen fights when wearing the new Iron Man suit.
"Haha. This smells so disgusting." Because the crew had to shoot snow scenes in summer, the crew had no choice but to make artificial snow on the ground, but they encountered difficulties. Even at night, it still melted quickly. There was no way. Finally, Li Donglai came up with a bad idea. He simply used fertilizer. Then Robert Downey Jr. performed hard in the pile of fertilisers and tried hard to make such a complaint.
Li Donglai turned a deaf ear to him, "Donny, it was great just now, but it was still a little bit too close. To cheer up, you frowned so many times just now, making your whole face look ugly. You are the most good actors in the opera. How many times do you want me to shout?"
Robert Jr. was criticized and rolled his eyes. He took the initiative to interrupt his chatter, "Okay, let's have another one."
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The crew did not have Bingbingfan's scene today, and she has been staying in the crew. She thanked Li Donglai from the bottom of her heart for making her become the second protagonist. She didn't dare to provoke Li Donglai because there were too many eyes around him, but secretly let him enjoy all the gentleness.
The role of Man Man is Ben Kingsley. The scientist Aldridge Kilian, who happened to meet 13 years ago, is played by handsome Guy Pierce. With Bingbingfan, the female botanist Maya, they are working with Li Donglai for the first time. They didn't know Li Donglai's working status before.
Now that I have cooperated, I know how Li Donglai dispatched the site.
During the entire shooting process, people can always be in an exciting dynamic rhythm, but there is no sense of oppression of "the adrenal glands are secreting". Of course, this has to be thanks to the natural and smooth connection between the action scenes.
What is most surprising is the control of the characters. In addition to the old faces in the series (Stark, Little Pepper, War Machine), this time, a considerable number of supporting characters have been added, such as Dr. Kilian, Mandarin, Botanist, Security Guard, the US President, the little boy and even the handsome guy who confronted Tony several times, etc.
The full number of people will naturally bring strong plot pressure, but under the command of Li Donglai, these characters still maintain enough scenes. It is really not easy to interact and promote the plot within a 2-hour and 10-minute limit, and shape the personalities of their respective characters in a relatively complete manner.
Although they can't see their performance on the movie screen now, Li Donglai's shooting style will definitely not have too few scenes in the movie. Because Li Donglai's shots are too few. As long as he likes the shots, most of them are rarely shot from multiple angles. As long as he can finish the editing, it will be considered complete.
Doing so will undoubtedly greatly improve the shooting efficiency, but it also confuses the actors who have first contact, "Will nothing happen like this?"
"It's okay."
The old-fashioned Robert Downey, the old god of old, said: "The things he shoots are the favorite for editors because they have very little work. Don't worry about the movies, the things from the past are enough to prove it."
Yes, even producer Kevin Feige is not very worried. In fact, he used to dare to find a new deputy director for Li Donglai, but now "The Avengers" is a big hit, and he rarely even refutes Li Donglai's opinions.
The only weakness lies in the acceptance of the original comic fans. After all, Li Donglai is too bold in the adaptation of "Iron Patriot" and "Mandarin", but there is no obstacle to acceptance for us who do not have a comic background. The most important thing is, "Since Li Donglai insists on it, it's such a pleasant decision."
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The shooting quickly moved the position, and this time I came to the enviable seaside villa of Iron Man. Li Donglai played even harder, and he directly simulated and exploded the entire villa.
Looking at Li Donglai, he looked at Robert Downey Jr.'s expression just now in the camera, and Gwyneth Paltrow next to him also found that he was frowning and dissatisfied.
"Li, what's wrong? Do you think it's not good just now? This episode has been filmed for a day, and I think there is no problem." Gwyneth is also an Oscar winner. In the Hollywood crew, it is not only the big-name director who has the right to speak. The opinions of the star are also very important.
"Well, I acted very well, but I always feel a little fake. I don't express enough emotions..." Li Donglai pinched his chin and shook his head. "I don't think he was acting well before. Why did he suddenly raise his requirements for him when he got here?" Kevin Feige also asked curiously. In his opinion, Robert Downey Jr.'s acting skills are already top-notch, at least he claims to be a genius in acting. This is not arrogant.
"No. My standards have not changed." Li Donglai shook his head and said, "In the third part, Iron Man wants to shape a soul, the soul of the movie. Because he is even more miserable, even his family has been beaten up. The previous Iron Man image symbol has been well established. So in the sequel, if you want to break through the previous work, you don't rely on big scene special effects. Those who have done too much in "Avengers". We want to make "Iron Man 3" like a real human movie, then what we need to do is to build the weak side of the character Tony Stark. When it is truly weak."
Almost all movie fans in this world have a very big misunderstanding in superhero movies. That is, "popcorn-free movies" just use big scenes to attract people. As long as they fit the image of a superhero, it will be the same for anyone to play the protagonist.
I heard that Christian Bale will no longer star in "Batman", so they immediately chose the new Batman, and Ben Fleck is the candidate. But it is basically difficult to surpass Nolan's Batman, because his Batman is too deeply rooted in people's hearts, and this is the same.
Of course, this is also an impression given by most previous superhero movies, because traditional superhero movies, to put it bluntly, shoot comic stories so that comics can see the comics from childhood appear in the form of real people in the movie. But this is actually the simplest superhero movie. Strictly speaking, it cannot be called a movie at all, it can only be called a real-life feature film remake of comics.
The so-called movie is called the Seventh Art because the movie is refined and sublimated based on original works such as novels, dramas or comics, and then evolved into an art form that is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Among all superhero electric comics, comic fans are actually the stories of the omnipotent comic heroes of "Superman" and "Batman", and do not treat them as a "normal person". But if comics are the art of building "heroes", movies are the art of "people".
If the comic is not refined, the movie will become a simple hero comic... This is not what Li Donglai wants. He knows that there is only one point of combination among these two arts, that is, the hero side, that is, the true appearance of Tony Stark when he loses everything and faces a stronger enemy after losing everything.
"I think Lee is right."
Suddenly someone interrupted the conversation, and everyone looked at Robert Downey, the little one with wound makeup on his face.
He said seriously: "Li is right. Now my symbol is no longer Robert Downey Jr., but Tony Stark. This is the role of character building. But if you still shoot like before, it will be at most "Iron Man 2". We should return to nature, of course, not to say that we don't have big scenes, after all, the audience is still exciting."
Hearing Robert Downey Jr.'s serious words, Li Donglai smiled, "Thank you, man. You still understand me."
Gwyneth smiled and said, "I know, you are a pair of good friends."
"Oh, no." The two of them retorted, "No."
Kevin Feige looked frustrated, "Well, since you all think it's right, then do it. I'll take charge of the logistics."
Chapter completed!