my movie years

Chapter 225 Martial and literary drama

In the brightly lit tunnel, cars drove in one after another, including large trucks pulling containers, more than a dozen police cars, and swat special police cars provided by the Chicago police.

What will be filmed here will be several hot car chase scenes.

Since the crew received the full support of the Chicago city government, there was plenty of time to temporarily close the tunnel area for filming.

Since the conditions are so good and the crew has a lot of money, Zhang Hao simply gave up building models and green screen shooting, and learned from Christopher Nolan to do a real shot.

The explosion scene in the hospital earlier has spread all over Hollywood, and everyone can't help but secretly scold Zhang Hao as a lunatic, but this can't stop Zhang Hao from continuing to firmly implement the live-action method.

Zhang Hao commanded the crew in an orderly manner, and worked with actors and crew members from time to time, carefully checking every job to ensure that there would be no problems.

In addition, the Batmobile and Batmobile specially made by Lamborghini have been shipped.

The vehicle is divided into two parts, one part is normally usable, and the other part has been specially modified and equipped with an IMAX camera.

The scenes here are all shot by IMAX cameras, because of the high degree of difficulty, except for some close-up shots, Zhang Hao used a stand-in to shoot, and only Heath Ledger himself played in person.

This is not to say that the stunt doubles are safer than the actors. In fact, as stunt doubles, they have more experience than the actors, and the shooting effect is better than that of the actors themselves.

Checking a circle of props, Zhang Hao walked up to the big truck where the clown attacked Harvey Dent.

After just one glance, Zhang Hao realized something was wrong, and he immediately called the person in charge of props and vehicles over: "Did you miss something?"

The person in charge of the prop car took a closer look and found the problem: "I'm sorry director, I'll paint it right away."

"As soon as possible, don't delay the shooting." Zhang Hao nodded slightly, and turned to check other preparations.

Big vans aren't much of an issue either.Just forgot to scribble a letter.But placed on the outside of a large truck, the meaning of this sentence becomes that laughter is the best poison.

But the meaning of this sentence does not match the character of the clown, it is impossible for the clown to say such words.

Therefore, at the very beginning, Zhang Hao designed to add a bright red S in front, which turned into massacre is the best poison.

After the preparations, the shooting kicked off quickly.

Although the speed of the vehicle is not actually fast, and the movement of the camera is more used to create the illusion of the vehicle traveling at high speed, the shooting is still divided into countless fragments.

Except for Heath Ledger's clown, which is fixed on the truck container by the additional seat belt, the rest are basically stuntmen.

Here Christian Bale didn't play at all, and the clown played because there was no dangerous action scene, so Zhang Hao felt relieved to let Heath Ledger himself play.

Police car, swat car, bulletproof prison van with Harvey Dent on it, police car, police car.

In addition, in the air, drones transformed by IMAX and DJI equipped with IMAX cameras have appeared one after another, and shots of explosions and car rollovers have also appeared in the shooting.

There is not much difficulty in acting in these stunt scenes, but the shooting speed is not fast.

A lot of preparation work took too much time, a crash and rollover shot of only a dozen seconds.Often it takes an hour or more to prepare.

The scene under the tunnel was filmed for three full days before Duke switched to Batman scenes.

IMAX cameras were also installed on the front of the special Batmobile and Batmobile to ensure that the shots of Batman driving fast have enough visual impact.

In Chicago, not only the explosion scenes were filmed, but also many literary dramas. The scenes at the end of the film were all shot in an abandoned unfinished building in the suburbs of Chicago.

Perhaps it was because the protagonists were not used in the explosion scene recently, so that the protagonists were a little relaxed. The crew filmed for two hours in the cold wind of Chicago night, but failed.

Zhang Hao had to call the two actors Christian Bale and Gary Oldman over: "It seems that the vacation I gave you is too long, so that you can't keep up."

Gary Oldman smiled embarrassedly, Christian Bale was covered by a mask, and his expression could not be seen.

Zhang Hao said seriously to the two actors: "The reason why Batman and Gordon had this last conversation is because they knew that if Harvey Dent's coin-tossing behavior after he became Two-Face was made public,
Then the Joker has truly won the battle for Gotham's soul, and the city will lose all hope. "

Both actors entered into a state of thinking, and Zhang Hao continued: "If even Dante finally loses the standard of good and evil and enters pure chaos, which is the so-called state of fairness, then Gotham will follow the clown's previous hope. develop like that.

So Batman told Gordon to let the public believe that the people Dante killed were all killed by Batman, so that Dante can maintain an upright image of a martyr. "

Zhang Hao and Christian Bale said: "Your character has to bear a heavy burden for this city and become a real dark knight."

Turning around, Zhang Hao told Gary Oldman again: "You are a pragmatist. For the hope of Gotham, you can only make such a choice."

Seeing the two actors thinking, Zhang Hao clapped his hands and said, "Let's take a break for 15 minutes, you guys think about it more, and we will shoot in 15 minutes."

Perhaps it was Zhang Hao's narration that helped, or it might be that there were too many NGs before, and everyone in the crew suffered from the wind of the night, and the two actors were a little embarrassed.

In short, after the filming, the state of the two actors improved significantly, and the scene ended quickly.

Bruce Wayne, dressed as Batman, looked firmly at Sheriff Gordon, decided to shoulder the heavy burden, and said, "Call them in now."

Sheriff Gordon hesitated, "They'll come after you."

"Yes, you will hunt me down, you will curse me, you will set the dogs after me, because it has to be!" Batman said firmly.

Although under the cover of the mask, you can't see any expression of Batman played by Christian Bale.

But his tone did not waver, "Because sometimes the truth is not enough. Sometimes, people are entitled to more. Sometimes, people's beliefs must be rewarded!"

After speaking, he didn't stay any longer, stood up and limped towards the place where the Batmobile was parked, leaving only a black cape back for the camera lens.

Zhang Hao made a gesture, and the young actor who played Gordon's son slowly walked to the camera and came directly to Sergeant Gordon.

Gary Oldman has good details here, moving his body slightly to cover the body lying on the ground, preventing children from seeing Harvey Dent's body.

"Batman? Dad, why did Batman run away?" the little actor asked in confusion.

Sheriff Gordon looks over to where Batman disappeared, "Because we have to get him."

The little actor's expression was even more puzzled, "But he didn't do anything wrong."

Looking at the young actor's performance, Zhang Hao nodded with satisfaction. This young actor named Finn Wolfhard was recommended by his screenwriter father.

His father has a cooperative relationship with Warner Pictures, and under the same conditions, Warner Pictures will also sell favors.

It doesn't matter whether you are in Hollywood or China, it's the same everywhere. If you have contacts and background, the road will be much easier.

Finn Wolfhard was lucky, his family background gave him a lot of help.

But whether it can be mixed into the first line depends on the growth path of this little child star.

In Zhang Hao's impression, Finn Wolfhard later starred in Wang Fei's "Stranger Things" series, which was pretty good.

Netflix had also purchased the film and television adaptation rights of "The Three-Body Problem" with Liu Qiu before. At this time, "The Three-Body Problem" hadn't won the Hugo Award, but it already had a lot of influence in the science fiction circles around the world.

Of course Liu refused, and made it clear that Zhang Hao had already taken down the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem".

Netflix gave up as soon as they heard it. Afterwards, the person in charge of Netflix series production accepted an interview with the media and expressed regret for not being able to win "Three-Body Problem".

At the same time, the person in charge also said that if anyone can make "Three-Body Problem", that person must be Zhang Hao.

In fact, Zhang Hao has been thinking about how to start the "Three-Body" project.You must know that he was reborn because of the poor performance of this project.

So he has no idea yet, and the adaptation of "The Three-Body Problem" can only be put on hold later.

Speaking of this scene, Finn Wolfhard is very good, completely acting out the confusion and innocence of a child, which is exactly what he wanted.

Children represent innocence, and their judgment standards are often the most human nature. In the eyes of innocent children, Batman is completely a good person.

This ending is a bit dark, and it always has to give the audience some hope, and Gordon's son represents exactly this kind of hope.

This is also a choice that mainstream commercial films must make. After reading the script, Charles Rowan reminded Zhang Hao: "This is a big commercial production first, and then other things."

So not only here, there is also a scene in the film where two people hold each other's detonators.

According to the shooting method of the artwork, the people on the two boats must have detonated each other after struggling.In this way, the film is bound to explode, and the audience and mainstream media will follow suit.

No reason, although human nature has a greedy, selfish and cowardly side, it is undeniable that human nature still yearns for beauty.

If the boat blows up, the audience will definitely explode, and the box office will also explode, and explode in reverse.

So Zhang Hao chooses hope and gives hope to the audience.

In addition, it was a black man who threw the remote control out of the boat, and it was a black criminal with a big waist and a vicious face.Here in North America, the one who throws the remote has to be a black person, and only a black person.

The reason, everyone knows...

In the final shot, Gary Oldman looks in the direction Batman left and speaks his final lines emotionally:

"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the hero it needs.

So we're going to hunt him down because he can stand it all, because he's not our hero, he's a silent guard, a watchful guardian, a dark knight! "

After blowing in the cold wind for more than four hours, it was close to midnight that the scene in the unfinished building came to an end.

The outdoor scene in Chicago lasted until the end of the year, after which Zhang Hao would hand over some scattered shots to the assistant director for shooting, and he would lead the crew to shoot in Tokyo.

Little Days had been the second largest film market in the world before, and was later overtaken by the mainland market.

Although the villain is set as a small-day person instead of the original big-haired person, it doesn't matter.Could it be that the son dared to reject his father's movie?

Even if it will attract criticism from the media after the release, Zhang Hao doesn't care. How many people in China would care about the opinions of Little Days?
Those who care, are they human?
Besides, if people in the small days spit too much, it will inevitably lead to counterattacks from the mainland media.

He is a native mainland director, and the mainstream media in the mainland will definitely protect him.

Out of profit considerations, even Little Day's father's media will not help Little Day, and the media under Warner Pictures will definitely protect Zhang Hao's reputation.

If there is a war of words, Zhang Hao is also happy to see it succeed, after all, there will be enthusiasm if there is a topic.

When Zhang Hao took the "Dark Knight" crew to Tokyo to shoot, Warner Pictures' promotion of "The Dark Knight" was proceeding in an orderly manner.

"The Dark Knight" has a dedicated Twitter account, and even applied for a Weibo account in the mainland.

This is because "Gravity" broke through 3 million US dollars here, allowing Warner Pictures to see Zhang Hao's appeal in the mainland market, so it increased its promotional efforts in the mainland market.

Not only that, other Hollywood film companies have noticed the mainland market. They thought it had potential, but they didn't expect it to be so strong.

Therefore, more Hollywood blockbusters urgently need to enter the mainland market to get a share, and the most urgent ones are Disney and [-]th Century Fox.

After years of accumulation, Disney has built two Disneylands in Shanghai and Hong Kong Island, and has become one of the top partners on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

On the opposite side, Disney's influence is only stronger than that of Warner Pictures.

Disney has already planned to hold the premiere of "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" in the mainland, and at the same time launch a week-long promotional tour of Asia.

Asia is Zhang Hao's traditional sphere of influence, and Disney's wave is equivalent to digging out Zhang Hao's hometown.

Twentieth Century Fox took a different approach. Isn’t Warner Pictures cooperating with Chinese directors? Then I also find a Chinese director to cooperate with, and it’s over.

Looking at the Chinese film circle, before the rise of Zhang Hao, he was widely recognized in the world as a Chinese film director, and there was nothing but Guoshi.

It happened that the president of [-]th Century Fox was interested in the Great Wall of China, so he planned to shoot a movie about the Great Wall.

So after some discussion, [-]th Century Fox sent a team to contact the National Teacher.

After breaking up with Zhang Weiping, Guoshi produced a literary film "Return", which won 3.02 million box office, breaking the box office record of domestic literary films held by "The Undertaker" directed by Zhang Hao.

After that, he has been out of work, just filming a promotional video for the Winter Olympics, and then busy with other things.

Twentieth Century Fox came looking for him, but the national teacher couldn't make up his mind, so he simply called Zhang Hao and asked for his opinion.

Zhang Haoxin said, if you want to shoot, you can shoot, if you don't want to shoot, you can refuse, why do you have to ask me?
I thought so in my heart, but Zhang Hao didn't say so, but said very pertinently: "If [-]th Century Fox decides to let you direct, you must ensure that the project's leading right is in your hands, and you can't let [-]th Century Fox Fox interferes with your creation."

The subtext of this sentence is that foreigners talk like farts, and they must ensure their absolute power over the project.

Of course the national teacher understood the meaning, he asked, "Will they not intervene when you make a film for Warner Pictures?"

"Intervene? How can Warner Pictures intervene with a director whose previous film's box office has exceeded [-] million dollars?" Zhang Hao laughed.

The national teacher thought so too. Unlike him, Zhang Hao is not only recognized by awards, but also has real business achievements in the international market.

Can bring benefits, Zhang Hao is the father.

On the contrary, if one day he loses money, Zhang Hao probably returns home with his seniors in despair.

With this in mind, the National Teacher didn't think too much about it, and readily agreed to [-]th Century Fox's invitation to direct a film project called "The Great Wall".

Because it was directed by Guoshi, Guoshi joined LeTV Pictures after leaving New Screen, so LeTV Pictures also participated in investing in this project.

In addition, China Film Group also participated in this Sino-US co-production project and acted as the mainland distributor of the film.

The news could not be kept hidden for long before it was exposed by domestic and foreign media.

The domestic media rejoiced for a while. Apart from Zhang Hao, another director went to the world and began to direct the Hollywood blockbuster co-produced by China and the United States.

Although it is said that this director is a national teacher, the national teacher has already tried to go to the world.

But this is still a morale boost for the exploring Chinese film circle.

(End of this chapter)