Made in Hollywood

For Duke, satisfying ordinary fans and audiences is far better than others. This is also his most basic criterion for filming and producing this "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." ∷∷,

A long, long time ago, in a distant galaxy, a screen science fiction epic about friendship, faith and loyalty opened its first chapter. 37 years later, its seventh story is about to set sail, and this side is called "planet" The banner of "War" is also handed over to the concerted efforts of the new generation of film industry workers who grew up with its legend.

Returning to Los Angeles from San Diego, Duke plunged into the huge studio of the Hughes Aircraft Factory and began to shoot the few remaining shots.

"There are too few people,"

Standing on the high platform in the innermost part of the studio, Duke looked at the dense stormtroopers below and said to Anna Prinz, "Are there extras?"

Here is a shot of a general of the First Order giving a speech. The scene set by Hannah Serena is based on the situation when Hitler gave a speech to the Nazi SS during World War II. This also follows the Star Wars. People who have seen the original Star Wars trilogy are not difficult to find that the uniforms of the emperor’s army resemble Nazi military uniforms.

As for the Sith Emperor, he was the incarnation of Adolf Hitler.

To a certain extent, Duke still uses this hidden setting without any worries. In the Western world and the entire planet, anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler can be said to be the most basic political correctness and value orientation. one.

Indeed, there are many people in this world who sympathize with or even admire Nazis and Hitler, but few people are so stupid as to directly promote it, unless he is a brain-dead like Lars von Trier.

The Danish director has always had problems with his head. He not only considers himself the God of the film industry, but also the God of all mankind. Often throw out some amazing words to attract attention to gain attention.

For example, the so-called "dogma95" declaration, not to mention the other directors he requested, even he has never done it himself.

But often walking by the river, when there are always wet shoes, this director with a problematic head. Naturally, they will mess up their own hype.

In 2011, Lars von Trier brought his new film "Melancholia" to the main competition unit of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. His lack of silence made the whole of Europe shocked.

The director, who has never been astonishing, blurted out, "I have always been proud of my Jewish identity; then I met the Danish director Susanna Bill, whose work "Better World" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film that year. After that, I became a little unhappy. Then I found out that I was actually a Nazi believer, and my family came from Germany, which made me very excited. What can I say? I understand Adolf Hitler very well. I even sympathize. he."

This was not over yet. In the face of the room full of media, Lars von Trier still ranted, "I am a Nazi."

Not to mention other people, even the leading actors of "Depression" Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gansber were shocked, and it seemed that the film director they knew was not sitting next to them.

In the end, Lars von Trier was directly expelled from the Cannes Film Festival and France.

Anti-Nazis can be said to be the most basic rule, in things like movies. To make remarks that sympathize with the Nazis is simply a dead end.

And Star Wars. Although there has never been a direct expression, anyone with a discerning eye can understand that the villain who has been flogged by the bright side is the Nazi universe version.

Due to the insufficient number of extras, Duke turned around on the high platform and said to behind him, "Tina. Everyone who asked the crew not to participate in the filming was dressed as a storm soldier, and the people who came to the crew to visit..."

This situation is normal. In scenes that require a large number of people, it is not surprising that other members of the crew will make a temporary guest appearance in Hollywood, when Duke filmed the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Just did the same thing.

The rest of the crew who were not directly involved in the filming work all wore the costumes of Stormtroopers, even Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu were no exception, so that they finally made up enough of the Stormtrooper camp in front of the green screen, and the remaining perspective shots The storm soldiers can be added through the late g.

Compared to the busy day of preparations, the shooting seemed too smooth. After only repeating three times, Duke announced that the shot was passed.

In the subsequent shooting, Duke remained cautious and focused. How to grasp the essence of the old version of Star Wars is not difficult for Duke. The really tricky question is how to create a new chapter with the personality of the times.

People born after 1990 and 2000 have become the main force in the film market. They don’t understand the entanglement between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, the names of lightsaber and black warrior, and even "I am "Your father" has been attached to the meaning of more cultural symbols, rather than a symbol that only Star Wars fans would love.

As a screenwriter, director and producer, Duke must ensure that even if it is not a generation that grew up with Star Wars, it is not a problem to understand "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

After all, the real protagonists of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" are the two "rookie" actors Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu who debuted in mainstream Hollywood commercials.

To get these two roles, in the words of the media, they are definitely lucky, but the audition process they went through was also painful, long and deceptive, because the sign of Star Wars was too loud. During the audition, Du For confidentiality reasons, Ke even specially created a set of fake scripts for the actors to audition.

After being elected as the lead role, the burden of these new actors has not been reduced in the slightest. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" also requires the actors to face "real guns and live ammunition" during performances. The two protagonists must be fully armed and run wild in the desert to avoid explosions. Duke will never deny the professionalism and special effects production of the entire team.

Of course, Duke's job is also quite heavy.

For Duke, the most important thing about "Star Wars" is that it is not just anything innocent, in fact, this is why he chose this movie so.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is not only an epic masterpiece, but also extremely delicate and touching; it is serious and meticulous in some aspects, but sometimes it is laughable and hilarious; it has heavy dark elements and tension The conflicts of interest, but at the same time it is really interesting, warm and romantic.

It can be said that this story contains everything. It is a story about friendship, about trust, about dedication, about loyalty, and about believing in yourself. All these forces unite us tightly.

What Duke has to do is to use its existing materials and characters to produce a new story, and there is no need for the audience to have watched "Star Wars" before. The audience will see Han Solo in the movie, but watch this one. They don’t need to know him before.

If movie fans have seen Han Solo in the previous movies, they might watch his performance from a different angle.

The other protagonists of this movie make their debut, and the audience can follow their eyes and see the world in this movie together.

In the mainstream movie market in this world, some people only know "Star Wars" from the game; some people only know one or two plots in the cartoon; some people only hear about it from their friends, but they have never I haven't watched it, but everyone knows how "Skywalker" and "Lightsaber" are, even if not everyone has seen this series of movies.

There are also many places where people have never watched these movies, so Duke knew that shooting such a movie requires a visual shock, an eye-catching action plot, and a sense of confrontation between light and darkness.

These are eternal themes.

"Star Wars" itself, the first film in the series, is very simple and straightforward in many ways. Some people may think that many of its elements are outdated today because they are too simple.

But it is still a beautiful, interesting, touching, and sweet story. Its protagonist is the weak grassroots and those who are not elites and have no power. They would never think that they are capable of fighting the greatest evil forces. .

There are huge mysteries in this, there are still many problems that have not been solved, and there are many things that Duke leads the entire team to explore. , But it doesn’t matter, because even if you don’t need to know anything, it is enough to be attracted by it.

The audience has all the elements that an epic movie can think of, it already has tense stories, fierce battles, dramatic conflicts, and magnificent scenes.

But for Duke, the key to the success of the movie is that the audience should like and care about the characters in the play. These are the core of the movie. So a cold spaceship does not mean anything. Only the people the audience likes are in that spaceship. Only then did its navigation become meaningful.

Duke's goal is to make the audience want to see what happened on it.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" needs to have epic emotions, but also show amazing special effects.

Since the formal formation of a team, Duke and his collaborators have completed many incredible movies.

As time entered the end of July, Duke successfully ended all filming of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and immediately moved to post-production.

This time, unlike the past, there are fewer special effects productions. For the emotional effect, Duke used a lot of live shooting.

The shots taken in real scene are equally good, there are many characters and scenes, you may not believe that they were taken in real scene, but they are indeed.

In post-production, many times Duke uses gi to remove something, not to add something, such as removing mechanical operators, wires, prominent controls, or other things like that.

In the busy late work period, Duke also has an important task to receive media from China. (To be continued.)