King of Hollywood

In New York City, Brooklyn, a certain apartment building on Fulton Street and an area outside it were marked out early to not allow vehicles to pass through. Residents living nearby didn't know what was going on at first, but as various vehicles arrived and the utensils removed from the vehicles were set up, they quickly understood.

No one was surprised, not even many onlookers. This kind of situation is quite normal in New York. As the most famous city in the United States, many movies or TV series are filmed here every day. It wasn't until teams of fully armed police officers got out of the cars and quickly formed a tactical formation that some residents were aroused part of their interest.

They won't launch some rescue or capture operation in the name of filming, right? Someone thought so teasingly. This is of course impossible, and these "police officers" began to become disorganized in less than two minutes. Even so, many people still find it very interesting, and they have to stop and watch for a while when passing by.

However, for Adrian, who is directing and tidying up the set, it is not so interesting.

"Charlie, tell Raymond to tell the extras to hurry up and get ready for the first test shoot right away. Also, tell Trevor to come to me right away." Adrian, who was flipping through things, wrinkled Charlize was not so ordered.

"Understood." Although the glamorous female secretary was more glamorous than before, she seemed very unhappy with a sullen face. She turned and walked away without waiting for Adrian to speak again.

Adrian shrugged noncommittally, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth because he thought of something, and then began to discuss with other people. The first scene is the only big scene in the whole movie, well, it’s not a big scene, it’s just that the SWAT police are stuck outside Leon’s apartment trying to go in and catch him, and the important intense scenes are all inside the building , outsiders just surround here and maintain order.

If it was just this, Adrian would not arrange for this part of the camera to start. The key is that besides these, the explosion scene is very important, so he had to negotiate with community agencies and some government departments to set aside half of the street for filming.

As early as when he was filming the drag racing scene of "Scent of a Woman", he knew how annoying these institutions are. Sometimes they don't work, and sometimes they don't work there. So before that, he asked someone to contact the other party. Anyway, it's just such a scene, so it's easy to worry about it after the filming is over.

"Very good, that's it, let the blaster prepare." After Adrian explained the matter, he immediately walked to the RV. The two main actors had already changed into costumes and were talking about their lines.

"How is it, Jean, are you feeling okay?" Adrian greeted loudly, hugged Jean Renault, and then looked at the messy-haired guy in a suit and leather shoes, who looked evil.

"It's an honor to meet you, Count Dracula, do you need me to kiss your hand?" Adrian said in an exaggerated tone.

"I think I have to remind you, Mr. Adrian, first of all, I'm a man; second, I'm currently single." Gary Oldman raised his eyebrows and said, the stubble on his slightly raised chin was specially left for the movie. Trembling.

Renault next to him immediately burst out laughing, but Oldman still didn't feel satisfied, and added another sentence: "It seems that the rumor that you have a lot of research on British culture is not credible."

"I never said that I have a lot of research on British culture." Adrian didn't care about his teasing, smiled and stretched out his hand, "I'm glad you can join this movie, Gary, you are not as good as the rumors It’s the same as the ones in the movie, although they all play some dark characters, but they are still a lovely and interesting person in private.”

"Thank you for the compliment. I'm also very happy to work with the famous director of Miracle." Oldman, who was holding hands with Adrian, suddenly laughed, obviously enjoying his compliment.

"Okay, I'm going to shoot the explosion scene now, and I look forward to your performance after the end." After a few pleasantries, the production manager ran over to say that everything was ready, and Adrian then left and came behind the camera .

"Attention all departments, the 16th scene of the 79th scene is ready to start filming." After everyone returned to their positions, the director raised the board in his hand and shouted, and slapped it down two seconds later.

The scene suddenly fell silent, and the camera started to rotate. Adrian folded his arms and stared at the exit of the apartment. One second, two seconds, there was a loud bang, smoke and flames sprayed out from it, and several professional substitutes in explosion-proof police uniforms immediately rolled away on the spot as if they had been impacted by the air wave.

The explosion scene in the shooting is completely different from what you see on the big screen. There are not so many flames, and most of them are smoke, which is neither gorgeous nor shocking. This requires adjustments in post-production, such as increasing contrast, speeding up camera transitions, or slowing down playback.

This is Adrian's first time directing an explosion scene, so he not only used two cameras to shoot from different angles, but also specially hired an experienced assistant director to help.

"Basically qualified, according to your requirements," assistant director Masterson explained to Adrian, pointing to the picture on the monitor, "you can make the picture brighter in post-production, and then slow it down, so that it has a sense of dignity And impact."

"Is there nothing that needs improvement?" Adrian asked while rubbing his chin.

"If it's according to your requirements, you don't need to make too many improvements," Masterson's answer is very clever, "It's already very good to be able to shoot such an effect in one shot."

"Then take another shot, as a backup, and then take another shot according to your feeling, and I will let the blaster do it according to your request." Adrian said immediately, if this is the case, take a few more shots, just right There is a place and a time. Otherwise, if it is found that something is wrong and needs to be retaken, it will be too troublesome and too bad.

After shooting twice in this way, the whole morning has almost passed. Before each shooting, the demolitionist and prop master have to arrange all kinds of props, and after each shooting, someone has to go forward to clean up the work immediately. , these take a lot of time. Especially the cleaning work after filming, don't think that you can take advantage of the loopholes and continue blasting without doing it. People from community agencies are watching by the side, and these are all written into the agreement.

Adrian didn't care about these, as long as the movie effect met his requirements, it didn't matter to spend a little more money. As for the two main actors, they are still preparing very dedicatedly.

After a simple lunch, the crew rested for an hour and started working again. It took about 40 minutes to shoot the scenes related to the police outside, and Adrian started filming the first confrontation between Renault and Oldman.

This scene is that when Renault successfully got out of the special police and walked towards the exit, he was shot and killed by Oldman who had been guarding here for a long time. The grenade also killed Oldman.

The shot here is quite allegorical. When Leon, the killer, finally got some warmth from Matilda and began to change his habits and hope to become more like a normal person, he walked towards the door full of light. When he was about to escape from here, a gun stretched out from the darkness behind him and pointed at his vest, causing him to fall down at a place only one step away from the light.

Even so, he still killed the big villain Stan with his last breath, and Stan's final reaction was also very interesting. When he saw the huge pile of grenades hanging on Leon's body, he just cursed calmly "Damn" , which shows how far his madness has reached.

However, Adrian didn't have much thought to analyze these meanings, that's for movie fans and film critics, and even if he really left some deep meaning here, movie fans and film critics can interpret it differently. So instead of thinking about these flashy things, it's better to spend your energy on telling the story.

From the point of view of the story, Leon must die, and dying together is the best ending. Quite simply, even if he escapes, as long as Stan doesn't die, he and Matilda are living in a tense atmosphere, and the length of the movie does not support another confrontation with Stan. What's more, an unsatisfactory ending is more memorable and meaningful.

Of course, there is another most important reason, that is, film critics or the mainstream society will not tolerate such... "abnormal love" in movies. Although they themselves are not unclean, if they want to express the plot of the little loli falling in love with the strange sorghum and living happily together in the movie, it will inevitably attract unprecedented criticism.

Of course, film directors can also insist on their own creations. After all, here is... um... free, but they will definitely be marginalized and rejected by mainstream society. Adrian will only do that when his head is wet.

This is also one of the reasons why Luc Besson's version of "The Killer Is Not So Cold" did not do well at the box office in the United States. Except that it is a French movie, some explicit lines in the movie—— The United States seems to be more explicit - and affects the perception of film critics, and these film critics affect a large number of movie fans.

So when Adrian wrote the script, he deliberately dealt with these places, such as making the relationship between the two more blurred, mixing family, friendship and love together. The lines have also been carefully repaired, and some shots were discarded or replaced with others, just like Matilda jumped out in a bra to play a certain movie role and let Leon guess where, although the bra is hanging outside, but Adrian replaced it with another role-playing. In a word, try to reduce the possible sexual temptation scenes as much as possible, and increase the warm part.

Of course, the premise of doing this is that the main plot is not affected. Adrian believes that after his own modification, this movie will only be more successful than the original version. ()