Chapter 424 The heart is broken
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The camera hanging on the boom was high and slid down the track, shooting down the green screen set in the studio.
On the undulating green ground, more than thirty men, carved from marble, raised their shields over their heads in uniform movements and quickly squatted on the ground. The dark golden thick shield covered all their figures, as if everyone had turned into dark golden turtles.
After a large panoramic view, the camera lens on the boom was turned off, and immediately a cameraman with Stenikon came to Matthew to capture the footage of him and several other major actors.
"Persian coward!"
Matthew's big open mouth showed white teeth, which looked quite fierce and a bit ferocious.
In his understanding, Leonida, the Spartan king, was not only brave and good at fighting, but also decisive, and would not have any kindness to treat the enemy.
The concept of not killing a gun will never appear in the Spartans.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
James McAvoy, who was hiding under the shield, laughed.
Michael Fassbender next to him asked, "What are you laughing at?"
James McAvoy said, "I can't help but want to say, fight in the shade!"
"Ha ha……"
Michael Fassbender smiled like a shark, and then everyone around him started to laugh.
Soon, everyone stood up.
At this time, director Zach Schneider's voice also heard, "This one is passed, change the shield!"
The prop artist entered the set and sent a batch of shields filled with arrows to every actor. Matthew took a closer look and saw half of the props and arrows on the shield, which should be easily broken.
The crew needs simple adjustments and the shooting takes several minutes.
The shooting has been more than a week. Due to the sufficient preparation of the preliminary training, everything went very smoothly. The shooting of the battle scene between the Spartan warriors and the Persians has gradually reached the end.
In the plan, Zach Schneider only planned 60 days for the filming of this film, and the film will be completed by the end of May at the latest. If the current progress can be maintained, it is estimated that the filming will be completed in about 45 days.
Without going out, all the shots are taken in the studio, which can be said to save a lot of time.
While the crew adjusted the lights and cameras, Zach Schneider found Matthew's side.
"How is the King feeling?" Zach Schneider asked, looking at Matthew.
Matthew shrugged slightly, turned the prop spear in his hand, and said, "Without ten or eight queens, this king is too frustrated."
A kind laughter sounded from the actors behind him.
James McAvoy said behind Matthew, "I haven't heard of any king with ten or eight queens."
"Don't you know?" Matthew pointed to the direction of the Pacific Ocean and said, "In the far east, across the Pacific Ocean, there were ancient kings, three palaces, six courtyards, seventy-two concubines."
He didn't know how to translate the last sentence, but he used it directly. After saying it, he immediately explained, "In addition to the queen, the king has dozens of little wives."
"So many?" Dominic West, who plays the centurion, replied, "Can the king satisfy so many women alone? There must be many cheating people among his wives."
Michael Fassbender also said, "A man with so many women can't live long."
"Okay, okay..." Zach Schneider saw the topic running further and further away, so he quickly clapped his palms and said, "This topic will be discussed later."
Although he is very short and has little qualifications, director Zach Schneider is still very authoritative on the set, and everyone immediately became quiet.
Zach Schneider looked at Matthew again and said, "The following movements must be imposing! It must also show the determination of the Spartan king! Go forward and never look back!"
Matthew nodded and said, "Don't worry, this is what I'm best at."
Zach Schneider thought about it and it was indeed the case. Matthew's ability in literary dramas is not very outstanding, but it would be too easy to show a person's courage, strength and decisiveness in the form of an action drama in the camera, and it would be so easy, and it could also give people the feeling that the character should have been like this.
Then, Zach Schneider left the set, and a cameraman was lying on a special scooter, aiming at Matthew from a raised angle.
This is a very simple lens language. Matthew has been an actor for so long, so it can be seen that Zach Schneider wants the picture to raise Leonida's image in a similar way to admire.
Even in historical records, the image of the Spartans may not be very glorious.
Recently, Matthew has had a lot of communication with Zach Schneider, and James McAvoy, a well-informed and curious guy, talks in his ears every day. He also knows a lot of the records about the Spartans.
For example, the social system of the Spartans was very harsh slavery. Similar to the slave society on the other side of the Pacific, residents conquered by the Spartans would become slaves Black Rouths, and every Spartan warrior on the battlefield would have two to three Black Rouths to serve them.
At the time of need, these black Rox will be armed and pushed to the battlefield.
It is said that Black Rox also has another function, which can help Spartan women solve their physiological needs.
James McAvoy once said that once the Spartans attacked a place called Mesenia. The process was very difficult and it took twenty years to win and return to Sparta. Since men all went out to fight for twenty years, Spartan women had to solve their needs, perhaps to give birth to new warriors, and had a relationship with Black Rous, and gave birth to a group of children, and were called "sons of virginity" by the Spartans.
Matthew guessed that every Spartan warrior who returned to Sparta must be broken inside.
The assistant director came over and placed the game card in front of the camera, and shouted, "The Spartan Three Hundred Warriors, Scene 52, Act 25, now begin!"
In front of the camera, Matthew held a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, standing tall like a mountain.
He gasped twice violently, and every muscle in his body stretched out in the most perfect way.
Then, Matthew suddenly raised his right hand holding the spear, and the spear fell heavily. The hard spear rod swept across from the outside of the shield. All the arrows inserted on the shield broke and flew up, floating around like blood flowers.
Immediately afterwards, he landed heavily on the ground and looked into the distance like a rock. He seemed to discover the enemy situation again. He rushed to another camera first and shouted loudly, "No Spartans will be killed today!"
“Huha…”
The actors behind Matthew burst into a collective roar, and as they did during rehearsal, quickly forming a formation, raising the shield, and pointing the spearhead straight ahead.
After a long period of training before shooting, the effect is fully revealed.
"Perfect!" Zach Schneider shouted loudly at this time, "good.jop!"
Obviously, he was very satisfied with this shot.
The scene was all over, and Zach Schneider said again, "Replace the filming, go to venue 12!"
Matthew and others also completed their work today, put down their props and weapons, left the set together, and walked towards the dressing room.
Just so happened that Brazilian actor Rodrigue Santoro, who played Xerxes, came towards him. The other looks instantly attracted the attention of all Spartan actors, including Matthew.
Rodrigue Santoro is tall and has no hair on his half-naked body. Many places are covered with gold chains and golden metal rings. This shape looks really unique.
For some reason, Matthew thought of a sentence he had seen before, and I was me, a fireworks of different colors.
This is completely dressed as a lively monk.
Of course, movies cannot be used as documentaries. If Matthew really reads the script, he will find that there are too many things to complain about. For example, Xerxes's monk dress is probably not able to hold on in the scorching Persian plateau for a day. The heavy armored infantry that Sparta is proud of relying on heavy armor to fight against the Persian army mainly based on projection troops. If all of them are half naked, the 300 warriors will have become hedgehogs.
This is not the first time Matthew has seen Xerxes' look.
When he lived on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, he had watched this video and had watched countless complaints about Xerxes on the Internet, and some of them still have a vague impression of them.
Combined with those complaints, he couldn't help but complain in his heart: "The Persian King Xerxes was played as a bald head who likes to wear gold chains and doesn't wear clothes. I wonder if the original author Frank Miller's design is really uncultured or has other meanings."
Matthew had no doubt that if this video appeared in Iranian theaters, it would definitely cause an uproar and might attract protests from Iranians.
But then again, the chances of Hollywood movies entering Iran are very small now. Even if there are occasional ones that can be entered, they are still illegal channels.
Of course, the crew did not expect "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" to enter Iran, nor did they expect Iranian audiences to contribute box office revenue. No one would care about the reactions of Iranian and Iranian audiences.
Matthew has been here for a long time and is also aware of some basic social and political situations. For example, countries like Iran have long been kicked out of the world map by Americans after the incident of the US Embassy in Iran and become a member of a non-civilized country.
Although his cultural cultivation is limited, Matthew can also feel that Hollywood movies reflect American culture and society in many ways.
Chapter completed!