Made in Hollywood

Although the script has already been completed, Duke is still making some adjustments during the entire preliminary preparations. After all, under his influence, the entire Marvel series has undergone some changes. The most typical one is Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow. .

Natasha Normanoff's role and the role of the entire Avengers organization have been increased. Correspondingly, her role in the "Avengers" film will be one of the most people.

However, the length of the film set by Duke is only about 130 minutes, and Scarlett's role is heavy, which means that the role of others will be reduced.

Even if Duke, as a director, can reduce many unnecessary controversies for actors, this key aspect involving their own interests, whether it is the actors themselves or their agents, will inevitably strive for it.

Use reasonable and legal means to fight for the benefits you deserve. Even the director, Duke, can't say anything.

Robert Downey Jr. once found Duke and told him in private, "There must be me at the beginning of the film, Duke, shouldn't Tony start the shot?"

Although not explicitly stated, Robert Downey Jr. meant obviously that he wanted Duke to modify the opening scene of the film in the script.

But Duke refused without hesitation, but he also comforted Robert Downey Jr., "Iron Man will always be'Iron Man', and he will still'turn flowers and grass' everywhere and make troubles. Isn't this impossible? changed."

As long as the actors are like Robert Downey Jr. and use methods acceptable to Duke to knock on the side, he will not mind. Although it is impossible to make changes because of this, he will also show an attitude similar to all talks.

In Duke's plan, Iron Man is naturally the most important character in the film, followed by Captain America and Black Widow. Thor and Hulk are mainly used in battle scenes, while Hawkeye is basically playing soy sauce.

The role of Iron Man is easy to say, even the funny lines that Duke is not good at. There will also be a dedicated screenwriter responsible for writing.

How to reflect the importance of Captain America and Black Widow in the entire Avengers based on the existing script. This is what Duke has been considering.

The role of Black Widow has changed dramatically from previous movies.

Unlike the previous Marvel series, in the movie "Captain America", Marvel introduced the origin and background of the role of Black Widow in detail.

Natasha Romanov was born in 1928. Due to the death of her parents in a fire, she was raised by a Soviet soldier.

When she was two years old, she was photographed by Soviet intelligence agencies. During World War II, she became part of the "Black Widow" project. The "Black Widow" project is a human transformation project for orphans with developmental potential. The selected orphan girls will receive fighting training and genetic modification in the secret base, making them look younger than their real age.

She usually used the identity of a ballerina to conceal her true career, and she was also married under the arrangement of the Soviet government. Later, due to the suspended death of her husband, Natasha, who was in the dark, could only return to the organization to continue her studies. Eventually became the chilling black widow.

To some extent, Duke is very eccentric, but he prefers the role of Scarlett Johansson, which is normal.

In Duke's changes, as a female superhero. The gender characteristics of "Black Widow" will be infinitely downplayed in the film.

Although there will be occasions where she relies on her female identity to get some work convenience, but as an inherent member of the "reunion", her perseverance and performance will defeat the gender itself. It's hard to realize that this character who works and fights with the "best men on earth" is of the opposite sex.

And this can be regarded as a standard value of equality between men and women to some extent. She has never been a vassal of someone or an identity like a "girlfriend".

Even the only ones were saved because of mutual help among partners rather than plot promoters.

Captain America can be said to be the focus of Marvel’s next phase of plans, and it really wants to talk about popularity. Steve Rogers is second only to Tony Stark among the six. He is not only a key figure in the existence of the Avengers, but also The core that can unite other members.

The important thing is. His popularity in the North American market is beyond doubt.

From the very beginning, Captain America has been a well-deserved symbol of the American spirit-sense of justice, mission, and morality. Firm values ​​and outlook on life.

But it is precisely because of this perfection that makes Captain America extremely lonely. The "divine nature" in him is too strong, almost overwhelming the existence of "human nature", but he regained his consciousness after 70 years of freezing, facing everything that is right and wrong, such loneliness and loss can almost shake everything people.

Withdrawal, fear and communication with the crowd are the inevitable responses after living in isolation, but Captain America will only struggle silently and quietly, looking for his responsibilities and belonging in the new world.

His pain is as silent as his loneliness. It is the existence of the "Reunion" team that gave him a new life. After being confused and lonely, Captain America will reposition his own value and complete the return from the "superego" to In the process of "self", he neither blindly follows nor loses his trust in others, and his leadership qualities will be fully reflected in Duke's setting.

Compared to Captain America, the Hulk is also lonely, but his choice is not to blend in with the crowd, but to stay away from the crowd. His loneliness comes from the over-expanded "self", and his own "superego" ", felt pain and struggle with the overwhelming advantage of the reckless "I", which formed an extremely contradictory and destructive Hulk.

Although Bruce Banner usually looks like a gentle doctor, his heart is always roaring with the angry Hulk. In the tug-of-war between reason and instinct, the Hulk is in such an angry and painful situation all year round. The incomprehensible loneliness also makes it difficult for him to truly regard himself as a human being. He has been swaying in the link of self-recognition, and his doubts and divisions of self make the Hulk more dangerous.

However, Duke will not focus too much on the Hulk, he will only be the fist of the Avengers.

Time slowly advanced to September of 2011. Under the aura of Oscars, Duke’s previous film "Gravity" finally withdrew from the North American market and all overseas film markets this month after a long screening. In the nearly ten-month screening, the film experienced a stage where the box office skyrocketed, but there was also a lack of interest in the later stage.

But the final box office of the film is still amazing.

In the end, "Gravity" ended its tour of theaters with US$371.26 million in North America and US$868.94 million globally.

Although the film production cost, publicity cost, and Oscar public relations investment were too high, the box office just recovered the cost, but it is not difficult to achieve large-scale profits with peripheral copyrights.

Compared to "Gravity", which costs soaring due to time constraints, the total investment in "Avengers" is much lower.

The total production cost of the film is finally set at 200 million U.S. dollars. Except for the horrible expenditure of actors' salary, the biggest investment is still special effects production. In the first half of the year, Industrial Light and Magic, which became an asset under Duke's name, is a natural commitment For the special effects production of this film.

In addition to several special effects teams in the San Francisco headquarters, the branches of Industrial Light & Magic in India, London and Singapore will also undertake a lot of rendering work for the film.

When Duke was preparing the film, industrial light and magic had already begun modeling and production of many cg lenses with completely determined scenes.

For example, the full cg environment lens of the Sky Mothership was put on the agenda by Industrial Light & Magic early.

In order to be able to create complex cg special effects lenses, they created a lot of large-scale green screen sequences, which will provide convenience and flexibility for the rendering of the lens.

Just about the cg of the Sky Mothership, nearly 130 special effects shots will be used.

These shots are divided into two effects: night and day. Duke requires the finished picture to show two different scenes. One of the scenes is that when the sky mothership flies over the clouds, the back of the sky mothership can be seen from the screen.

For the processing of this lens, Industrial Light & Magic added the extension of the hull and created many visual effects, including clouds, skyline, external hull, and foyer. These digital backgrounds are all double-layered.

These productions are quite challenging. Industrial Light and Magic first chose to make a huge Sky Mothership according to Duke's requirements, and the Sky Mothership looks completely different in the day and night in the two environments...

In mid-September, Marvel Pictures’ CEO Kevin Fitch accepted an interview and revealed the latest developments of the "Avengers" crew in the interview.

"Yes, "The Avengers" is already on!"

Then, he pointed to the huge poster of the Avengers hanging on the wall of the office, and said to reporters, "And I want to say it again, look at these actors, look at these protagonists, it's like rock music Yes, it's incredible."

Kevin Fitch was very excited, "In San Diego, when they walked on stage together, you saw these charming actors on stage together. If you don’t feel a chill in your spine, then you must have no pulse. Basically, You can put yourself in the coffin and go back to your hometown."

"Nowadays, Director Duke Rosenberg is directing at the scene. I have seen his script and it is really great. I see the work to be done next, I see all kinds of designs, and then they all belong to this The world is over, "The Avengers" will become a superhero movie. I am hesitant to say more, but we are very, very excited about it."

Just like Kevin Fitch said, in the studio of Warner Studios, Duke has opened the scene of shooting. (To be continued.)

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