After filming indoor scenes at Warner Studios for two weeks, the crew turned to the streets of Los Angeles and began shooting outdoor scenes. The studios and open-air studios at the studios must be adjusted accordingly. Director Peter Borg's plan is to complete all outdoor scenes before September, and then end all shootings in October, and to switch to post-production from mid-October.

The schedule that Warner Bros. finalized for "Superman Hancock" is next summer's Independence Day holiday. If you count this way, the post-production time is relatively more abundant.

This video will use a lot of CGI generation technology. As the name suggests, Hancock is a superman. Many action scenes are not something that ordinary people can do at all. They all need to be shot in front of the green screen.

Turning from Warner Studio to the streets of Los Angeles, the crew's first stop was Century City.

On an ordinary weekday morning, the sun had just risen, and busyness began to begin in front of the shopping center near the Death Star Building. Dozens of police cars from the Beverly City Police Department roared, tightly surrounding a store temporarily rented by the crew of the Century City Shopping Center.

The crew reached an agreement with the Beverly City Police Department early in the morning, and the Beverly police were happy to assist in the filming.

Just like the Pentagon, many government departments such as the police, the CIA and the FBI have all set up Hollywood liaison offices, which are specifically responsible for handling business dealings with Hollywood.

Not only ordinary police cars and policemen, but also an explosion-proof car and a sat team came to the shooting site.

Director Peter Borg is extremely busy. For him, he has never been able to directly direct such a big scene.

Fortunately, he had not directed the film directly, but he had participated in it on the spot. Before directing the film alone, he had always served as deputy director for Michael Mann, and had assisted Michael Mann in filming films such as "The Story of Fire" and "Murder by Borrowing a Knife", especially the police and gangster gun battle full of classical and realistic style in "The Story of Fire". He was also one of the coordinators on the scene.

He still has some experience in how to deal with such a scene.

Moreover, his teacher Michael Mann also came here, but Michael Mann didn't speak easily and just stood aside and watched.

In a huge trailer, Matthew finished his makeup and took the costume and put it on. The crew initially designed a tight costume similar to a comic superhero, which needed to be lubricated before he could put on his body. He rejected it without thinking. After discussing with Aziva Gosman and Peter Borg, he changed it to a black close-fitting equipment similar to the police Kevra body armor.

Such clothing is easy to wear, and it will not affect flexibility when shooting action shots.

He has seen Scarlett Johnson wearing prop tights. Those superhero tights are completely different from those of athletes. The first consideration of athletes' tights is always to facilitate the practicality of sports and movements. The first element of the so-called superhero tights is all the visual effects of wearing them on the body.

In order to have excellent visual effects in the lens, such as thick, tight, airtight, and adding padding to the chest and buttocks are the norm.

Wearing a costume that looks like Kevlar's body armor, it's actually very lightweight. Matthew also tried to move his hands and feet and confirmed that it would not affect his movements. Then he walked out of the makeup trailer.

He stood at the door of the trailer and looked at the side door of Century City Shopping Center. The set was basically arranged. Dozens of police cars surrounded a bank with glass curtain walls. There was also a police car in front, with fragments of plexiglass props scattered around it. A blonde actress stood behind the car and was talking to the deputy director of the crew.

Matthew looked at it, then entered the set and saw director Peter Borg. Next to Peter Borg was a gray-haired old man standing. The old man was wearing his eyes, gentle and elegant, and looked very stylish.

Peter Borg was still in charge of the crew, and Matthew walked up to the old man, who was very famous in Hollywood. Although he had never seen him before, he knew him.

"Hello, Mr. Michael Mann." He reached out and said hello.

Michael Mann also saw Matthew, shook hands with him, and said with a smile, "Hello, Matthew. Just call me Michael."

Matthew said politely, "I didn't expect to see you here."

"I am friends with Peter." Michael Mann did not mention that Peter Borg was his assistant. He pointed to the towering Death Star Building next to him. "I'm going to go to Caa today to do business, and just pass by here and come and have a look."

Matthew had heard Aziva Gossman say that before Peter Borg was independent, he had been Michael Mann's assistant. It is estimated that Michael Mann came here to see his students.

The two of them got together and chatted for a few words, and the topic was also centered around the movie, so they naturally talked about the scene they were about to shoot now.

"Looking here..." Matthew said with emotion, "I remembered the "Stealing Fire" you filmed. That gun battle scene has become a classic."

Michael Mann smiled and said, "It's a pity that the overall response of the movie was not very good."

But Matthew said, "With such a scene, "The Story of Fire" is an eternal classic."

Nowadays, among the top ten classic scenes of the 1990s movies selected by many media, the gun battle scenes of "The Story of Fire" are often among them. Because the pace of the whole film is so slow that it is so slow that he has never finished watching it, but the police and gangster gun battle scenes robbed by the bank have been repeatedly watched many times.

With the automatic firepower in hand, several robbers suppressed dozens of police officers and couldn't raise their heads. In the end, Robert De Niro and Fang Jimo fought out of the police's blockade circle with their strong vitality.

Compared with the movie itself, the drama is extremely widely spread and has even become a textbook for many film academies, and its influence surpasses that of movies.

A robbery occurred in North Hollywood in 1997. Two robbers held automatic rifles and left more than 100 policemen helpless. Afterwards, the police searched their homes and saw the video "The Story of Fire".

It is said that before the robbers robbed the bank, they had watched this gun battle scene repeatedly.

Society is influencing Hollywood movies, and Hollywood movies are not affecting society. Many Hollywood directors, screenwriters, scene designers, etc., in a sense, are all geniuses in criminal design.

Therefore, after the 9/11 incident, the Washington authorities had gathered many Hollywood directors and screenwriters to gather together to make these practitioners in the film industry think about how to carry out terrorist attacks on the United States if they were terrorists...

Although Hollywood never admits that criminals are imitating Hollywood movies, many of the criminal methods in Hollywood movies are imitated by criminals, but they are real.

The scene was soon all arranged, and director Peter Borg explained a few words to Matthew, and the shooting began.

The first shots were some special stunt shots, such as those jumping with wire hanging or other dangerous actions. Matthew would not come on stage and shoot them in person. They were all completed by special stunt stand-in. In Hollywood, the crew basically would not let the leading actor play in person, and even if the leading actor wanted to go on stage in person, it would not allow him to.

The first choice is insurance. For example, Matthew's shooting this time, the crew paid up to tens of millions of dollars in personal safety insurance he purchased. The representatives of the insurance company on the crew saw him shooting dangerous shots and could directly fight the director.

Secondly, this is also responsible to the crew and all investors. Once the starring actor is injured, the film will inevitably be delayed and time will be costly.

Finally, Matthew himself paid great attention to this point. Now he is not a penniless actor, and big stars must have the awareness of big stars.

This is not irresponsibility, but rather a manifestation of responsibility and professional qualities.

No one will say anything, whether it is the audience, the media, or the crew, because this is the normal situation.

When shooting the stunt shot, there was also a little accident. A Matthew's stunt stand-in completed the shot of Hancock falling from the sky. When he jumped off a car control platform, he jumped a little, and his ankle sprained and his entire ankle swollen. The crew immediately sent a special car to take him to a nearby hospital.

However, the filming did not stop and the crew continued to operate. Matthew had more than one stunt stand-in, and the injured one was naturally treated by someone. Generally, there would be enough money to compensate. Just change to another stunt actor on the spot.

Although Matthew has maintained fitness and free fighting training for many years, he will not overestimate himself. For similar shots, even if he, a person with high athletic talent, completes it, no one can guarantee that he will not be injured.

As a person who is rich, family, career and has a lot of life to enjoy, he will not take fearless risks.

If it were five or six years ago, if the crew had the need, he might have appeared in person, but a person's mentality and thoughts changed with the environment and his own situation. Now he is still very hardworking and dedicated, and ensuring personal safety is a prerequisite.

Matthew spent most of his time watching, and most of the time, after the stunt actor completed the stunt action scenes, he went on stage to shoot the next frontal shots, and the post-production edited these shots together, with no problem at all.

Most difficult action scenes are actually shot in this way. As long as you pay attention to Hollywood action movies, it is not difficult to find that in almost all action scenes, the frontal shots of the leading actors are limited, and they are often interspersed in action scenes. This is basically done twice during shooting. The stunt actors shoot action scenes, and the leading actors are responsible for the frontal shots and then cut them together.

He went to the crew of "Iron Man" some time ago and watched an action scene of Black Widow filmed by Scarlett Johnson. Scarlett Johnson's stunt stand-in is a man of similar height to her!

I don’t know how it would be if the audience felt like seeing the sexy Black Widow making various seductive fighting moves and drooling, and learned that most of them were shot by a man with various pads under his tight uniform.
Chapter completed!