The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 388 Five Action Scenes of "Matrix II"

On the overpass.

Chen Jingxing, who was wearing a hard hat, didn't open an umbrella, and was already sweating profusely after walking under the scorching sun for more than ten minutes.

The frenzy of the summer movie market created by "Spike II" has come to an end. Although the movie is still being released, the box office has become thinner day by day.

Times have changed. There may be movies in the world that can last for several months or even more than half a year, but "Spike II" is obviously not.

This phenomenal film has accumulated nearly 43 billion at the box office. Judging from the current box office trend, there is no room to continue to create miracles. DreamWorks has no intention to continue to postpone the key. Ⅱ" will be officially launched on streaming media.

The movie channel seems to have tasted the sweetness of last year's national day special broadcast of the main theme of domestic movies, so this year there will be a National Day film show, "Spike II" will be the opening movie, competing with the National Day party for ratings, who made us the sixth princess, even if CCTV is also not in our eyes.

The summer vacation has come to an end, but the scorching heat has not left with the end of "Spike II".

The beginning of autumn is too early, and the end of summer has come, but the "end of summer" has not yet come out. The temperature in the north, especially in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, is even higher than that of the great heat.

Qiuhu was too violent and the original construction period continued to be delayed.

Chen Jingxing covered his forehead with his hands, and looked at the half-built road ahead from the overpass.

This will be the last filming scene for The Matrix II.

This road action scene in the original version is still used by Chen Jingxing. This scene is indeed a classic scene. What Chen Jingxing needs to do is to make it more exciting and shocking.

Therefore, just like the original version, Chen Jingxing decided to build a real road for live shooting, not just a road, but even an overpass.

Originally, the producer had consulted with the authorities. As long as DreamWorks paid for it, it would not be impossible to close the road for Chen Jingxing to shoot. However, this part of the action scene in "Matrix II" will cause great damage to the road, and the damage is not small. The only way left is to build the road by yourself.

Of course, because it doesn't really have the function of a highway after all, it is actually a fake highway, but even so the cost is as high as hundreds of millions.

The person in charge of the construction company who accompanied Chen Jingxing looked at Chen Jingxing's expression and thought that the big employer was dissatisfied with the progress of the construction, so he quickly said: "Originally there are still ten days to complete the project, but if we work harder, it can be shortened to one week."

Chen Jingxing turned around and walked towards the three-story building not far away, and replied after hearing the words: "No need, the shooting schedule is not urgent, there is no need to make the workers work hard."

Chen Jingxing knew that the way to shorten the construction period mentioned by the person in charge of the construction party was nothing more than increasing the working hours, so he politely refused.

Because the weather was too hot and the summer heat was too heavy, the working hours were changed to morning and evening at the request of DreamWorks, and the working hours of the day were actually reduced. After all, DreamWorks was hailed by the media as the most likely to reach a market value of [-] billion. Stocks, there is really no need to dig and search in this regard.

Huaguo film and television circles had a lot of fatalities when they were filming, and more accidents when they were building sets. Chen Jingxing, who cherishes feathers, is cautious about this aspect, so DreamWorks is also keeping a close eye on these outsourced jobs. .

The person in charge of the construction nodded yes, and looked at Chen Jingxing's back with admiration in his heart. Not to mention his ignorance, he had never seen such a proud film and television company.

It is not uncommon to say that a film and television city is built for filming, but it can attract tourists, and even attract other film and television projects, and the cost can be recovered slowly.

Such a section of expressway and overpass built on this wasteland will be blasted and demolished in the future, but there is no way to use waste, and tourists will not come to this wilderness to enjoy a section of expressway. It is more than ten kilometers away from the new city. Whether the city will be able to develop here in the future is another matter.

Of course, if you don’t build on the wilderness, the cost of using the land alone is quite expensive. After all, the land close to the city is either agricultural land or urban industrial land, residential land or commercial land. There's a lot of construction going on up there.

Chen Jingxing walked into a building next to the highway, looked at the people who were lying on the window and looked out, and said, "How is it? Although there is no electricity nearby, the generator is still ready and the air conditioners are turned on. , and in another half a month, it is estimated that the temperature will not be so high."

Yan Xiaoyue raised her hand and slapped half of her cheeks imitating a fan twice. Her forehead was already sweating, and she said with a smile, "It's okay. When I was filming "The Sword of Yue Nv", I squeezed through the RV with others. The conditions are much better, and you don’t have to live here every day.”

This building is specially used for storing equipment, and also for film crews and actors to rest when filming. After all, it is far away from the city, and it is not a movie theater. Relying on a caravan cannot provide enough rest space.

Even though the action scene on the road is not as good as the hero and the man in black, but the high martial arts scene can rely on special effects, but this kind of scene is the most difficult to shoot.

And it will also be the one with the largest number of people in all the scenes shot by Chen Jingxing.

At that time, there will be dozens of cars running on the road together, which requires dozens of special drivers, plus crew members, it will be a big group of people eating and drinking.

Lv Hongzhe, who played the leading role, still stared at the various cars parked on a large concrete floor outside the window and sighed: "Director, your skills are really big, these cars alone are worth tens of millions. ?”

Even though Lu Hongzhe knew the script long ago and knew that this scene would be filmed on a road, he would still be shocked to come here in person. Hundreds of cars in the script were destroyed in collisions and explosions. The car, and the thought that it would be basically destroyed by a scene made him a little speechless.

Bao Shengming, the actor who plays the captain, is quite open-minded: "Otherwise, can we invest [-] million yuan? The cost of our film is only second to "Gravity"?"

"The vehicles are all provided by the sponsors." Chen Jingxing shook his head when he heard the words. Last year, "Matrix" was just released, and there were many sponsors looking for it. Because there was a road scene in "Matrix II", so Chen Jingxing The second time was quite generous, picking a car brand.

One must know that in "The Martian", Chen Jingxing refused the sponsorship, not even the sponsorship of dairy products or beverages.

However, although these hundreds of cars are provided free of charge by the sponsors, the budget of the entire movie is still more than 5 million. Of course, this is a relatively generous budget. Chen Jingxing's own movies often leave a lot of space. This is " Lessons learned from overspending on The Martian.

Chen Jingxing is not good at controlling the budget. This is his Achilles' heel as a commercial film director, but who makes him the boss of DreamWorks? For the sake of the rising stocks, even the big housekeeper Xu Wenshen has no complaints.

The 5 million budget to build roads is only one of the reasons. The main actors have higher salaries, the second part has bigger scenes, and more action scenes are also reasons.

Compared with the original version of "The Matrix", the biggest change of Chen Jingxing's "Matrix" is actually the change of force value.

Not only the protagonist's force after being resurrected from the dead and becoming the savior, but also the force of normal awakened people has increased a lot compared to the original version.

This makes the audio-visual experience of "Matrix I" completely surpass the original version, and it is also an important reason why it can get more than 8 million U.S. dollars in the global box office-of course, Huaguo mainland contributed 4.76 million U.S. dollars.

The most amazing sci-fi concepts and creative ideas are commercial achievements such as "Fatal Identity" and "Signal".

Only with a stimulating audio-visual spectacle can a qualitative change be produced and a huge box office reaped.

But this created obstacles for the second and third parts.

Excessive force will not allow the hero to continue to "learn" Huaguo Kung Fu with others in the sequel.

How can the hero's high martial arts and his companion's low martial arts organically exist in a movie at the same time?
Both high-wu and low-wu must be both, because high-wu has the visual spectacle of high-wu, and low-wu also has audio-visual charm that high-wu can't show.

Chen Jingxing arranged five action scenes in "Matrix II".

The first scene is the battle between the hero and the guardian of the saint - "Da Luo".

The code of "Da Luo" is essentially the "savior" of the previous generation.

The savior of the previous generation chose to save mankind among the two options given by the Lord God, and he himself dissolved in the matrix, and his code became a part of the matrix.

All programs, including the code of the "scavenger" man in black who hates the matrix, is dissatisfied with the meaning of his existence or "purpose", and wants to be free, all contain codes of saviors from generation to generation.

However, the core program still survived under the protection of the sage, or it was secretly intercepted, shaping the program "Da Luo".

Therefore, the guardian of the saint also has part of the power of the savior to a certain extent, and can compete with the protagonist one or two.

This is a high-arms battle.

In the second scene, after the sage gave the way to save the country of Huaxu, the captain, heroine Jiang Xian and other teammates tried to rescue the locksmith who could lead to the source of the matrix code.

This action scene is low-armed combat, which includes scenes of highway racing, chasing, fighting, collisions, and explosions.

The reason why the male protagonist didn't come to help him in time was because the third battle was also going on at the same time.

The third battle is between the hero and the resurrected man in black.

At this time, the man in black is already a super virus not much worse than the male protagonist, and also has the ability to infect and assimilate humans and programs.

The battle takes place by the sea, on the sea, and in the sea.

The man in black can infect the program and naturally also infect the creatures in the sea. The animals in the matrix are also programs, naturally including giant whales, crazy sharks, and fish schools.

There is no doubt that this is a unique high-level martial arts battle, and it is also the highlight of "Matrix II", and Mo's special effects artists are also quite troubled by this.

The second and third battle scenes are carried out at the same time, and the audience will enjoy the exciting low-martial arts action scene and the shocking high-martial arts action scene at the same time.

In the end, when the man in black found that he could not assimilate the hero and could not trap the hero, he gave up the fight. The hero was freed and then rushed to the battle scene of his teammates at supersonic speed, and rescued the heroine and the captain at a critical moment.

The fourth battle scene is the journey to the "source code" after rescuing the locksmith. The channel leading to the source code is set up with a "firewall". Stronger than teammates.

The fourth battle included not only the battle with the guards of the "Firewall", but also the battle with the man in black who also wanted to go to the "Source Code" to find the Lord God through the firewall. The two had a fierce battle in the "Firewall" , Of course, the abilities of both of them were greatly suppressed by the "firewall".

High-low-high-low, the four battles in the matrix are carried out at the correct rhythm, and the two levels of action scenes can be perfectly arranged in the plot without violating the harmony, and there will be no high-level martial arts and low-level martial arts contradiction.

Even if the hero is invincible throughout the whole process, he can also create an exciting and dangerous plot.

The fifth and final action scene is set in the real world.

The squid robot chased the spaceship, and humans escaped from the ship. They escaped from the capture of the electronic squid in the underground tunnel, and were finally chased and killed by the electronic squid.

The male protagonist stepped forward, fixed the electronic squid, and let it self-destruct, and then fainted.

This will also be the biggest suspense left in the second part.

Because there are dialogues between the saint and the hero, and the main god and the hero, the amount of information in "Matrix II" will not be much less than that of the first part.

And because of these five action scenes, the audio-visual spectacle of the second part will definitely exceed that of the first part, and the level of excitement will be higher.

　The second is at 12 o'clock

　　
　
(End of this chapter)