After filming the scene where the male protagonist Downey visited the US military base, there was a series of explosion scenes.
Before the explosion, Downey, who had already mastered acting as a demon, performed even more superbly. In the camera, he played Tony Stark happily accepting photos from American soldiers. He had a relaxed and humorous atmosphere. Suddenly, the scene changed.
A rocket flew in front of the helicopter with a "boom"!!
Close-up shot: In the explosion of fire waves rising into the sky, fragments of glass and metal filled the entire shot.
The most dangerous thing about shooting such explosion scenes is the control of the destructive power of gunpowder. In particular, it is necessary to register with the authorities in the shooting area and estimate the losses and injuries that may be caused.
Yi Feiyang has shot movies with war scenes before, but the explosions there were nothing compared to now.
In particular, the reason why Hollywood blockbusters can be called blockbusters is because their explosion scenes are very destructive and shocking.
"Okay! Cut! That's the end of today's shooting!" After watching the explosion footage, Yi Feiyang gave a thumbs up and gave the order to complete!
At this moment, people who had been tired all day were too lazy to even shout out cheers. If they really had to shout, it would be: "I'm so exhausted!"
…
After dinner, Yi Feiyang did not go directly into the tent to rest. Instead, he walked outside, found a higher place, lay on the dry and cool desert, and smoked a cigarette.
After a while, footsteps were heard, and Donnie walked over with a bottle of whiskey, "Hey, would you like a sip?"
Downey handed the wine to Yi Feiyang.
Yi Feiyang took it and took a big sip. It was hot and scalding hot!
"This desert is really strange. It was boiling hot during the day, but now it's extremely cold!" Yi Feiyang said.
"Yes. This is the characteristic of the western desert of the United States. There is a huge temperature difference between day and night!" Downey sat next to Yi Feiyang, silently sipping wine. "I thought I could quit, but I still want to take a few sips."
"You don't have to quit this. Men, sometimes they need to get drunk!" Yi Feiyang muttered, "The desert is so beautiful right now, isn't it?"
Under the huge starry sky, there are only two figures, Yi Feiyang and Tang Ni. In the distance are densely packed tents. In the dim place, this quiet west is breathtakingly beautiful. Even further away is the vast desert, which stretches as far as the eye can see. The wind blows.
There is a gentle breeze and there are big stars above the head. This kind of scenery makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Yi Feiyang and Downey just sat like that, not talking for a long time, one smoking a cigarette and the other drinking. It seemed that just talking would break this beauty.
"Hi, Yi. Actually, there is something I have always wanted to say to you..." After an unknown amount of time, Downey turned around and whispered.
"Oh, really?" Yi Feiyang looked at him.
Donnie shrugged: "It's a simple sentence, thank you, man!"
"Thank me? You seem to have already said this, don't you?"
"No, this time is different!" Downey said with some embarrassment, "When we were filming today, if it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have been able to feel it!"
"Is that all for this? Haha, I'm the director. This is my responsibility and my duty!" Yi Feiyang found it funny.
"No, it's different for me. Breaking away from a shit-like life and gaining your recognition is a great opportunity for me!"
"Then you should seize this opportunity! Man!" Yi Feiyang said with a smile, "For you and for our drama!"
Yi Feiyang sighed after finishing speaking.
Looking at Yi Feiyang's tired and slightly sad face, Downey suddenly said: "Are you worried about this drama?"
"You have seen it, yes, I am very worried about it competing with Colombia's "Spider-Man"." Yi Feiyang said, "Actually, I was not so competitive before, but this time, I don't know why.
, I told myself deep down in my heart that I must win "Spider-Man" and win Sam Raimi!"
"Maybe I know," Donnie said suddenly, "because you are a man!"
"Am I a man?"
"Yes, men have conquered and defeated women, especially those who are as high-minded as you are now, and you will not give in easily!"
"Haha, it's not that I refuse to admit defeat, it's mainly because there is such a big company behind me, and there are so many company employees..." Yi Feiyang smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"But you are a legend in Hollywood, aren't you? I can see it. This time everyone worked so hard and were so united. They totally thought you could lead them to victory." Downey's eyes flashed.
"Me? I think so. But you know, I'm just a mortal. Such a heavy burden is on my shoulders. I don't know if I can lift it." Yi Feiyang sighed and turned his face.
Said: "Whenever I have time, I am really too tired."
"I know you're tired, man, yes, I know." Downey patted Yi Feiyang's shoulder, his voice becoming infinitely gentle.
Yi Feiyang: "..."
Silence spreads again.
This silence made Yi Feiyang's heart start to beat wildly.
Kao, these two grown men are here... what are they doing?
"Ahem, Donnie, okay, I'm much better now, but I have to go to rest first, um, yes!" Yi Feiyang patted the dust on his hands and prepared to stand up.
Then he saw Yi Feiyang looking at Yi Feiyang in an ambiguous or strange way, and Yi Feiyang had goosebumps all over when he looked at her.
No way, could it be that he wants to...
I saw Donnie slowly leaning towards Yi Feiyang.
do what?
Gay?!
Damn!!!
Yi Feiyang considered whether to punch him or kick him away.
Just as Yi Feiyang was thinking about it, Downey opened his hand towards Yi Feiyang's shoulder...
Day, I want to die!
Yi Feiyang couldn't hold it any longer.
Snap!
Donnie quickly flicked something off Yi Feiyang's shoulder. Yi Feiyang took a closer look and saw that it was a scorpion. After the bullet hit the ground, it burrowed into the sand.
Donnie took a breath. "It's okay. This is a poisonous scorpion, Yi, you are so lucky!"
Yi Feiyang: "..."
For a long time, I misunderstood the other party's intentions. God, it's a good thing that I didn't take action, otherwise the other party might have been disabled!
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome---and, did you just want to flatter me?"
"How do you know?"
"There is murderous intent in your eyes!"
"You see it like this?"
"I've always been very sensitive."
"Then I want to say that it was a misunderstanding just now."
"I understand!" Donnie shrugged and smiled, "Actually, I am an artist but not a person!"
Yi Feiyang was speechless again.
However, this very interesting episode further shortened the distance between Yi Feiyang and Downey. As a director and an actor, when the distance is shortened, it is definitely beneficial to the movies they shoot. At least, both parties
Communication becomes more harmonious and convenient.
…
After three consecutive days of arduous filming, Robert Downey Jr. performed very steadily. He played the cynical young man character of Tony Stark so perfectly that everyone couldn't stop praising him.
During this period, Yi Feiyang gave almost no restrictions to Downey, allowing him to play at his own pace. But what people didn't expect was that the crew's extremely smooth progress suddenly changed during the filming of "Tony Stark Becomes..."
"Steel" was interrupted when it was not a difficult scene.
The filming scene was set up in the Western Desert. Dozens of Arab actors dressed as terrorists were wearing military uniforms and holding various guns. In the iron cage next to them were several white American soldiers covered in blood.
Quietly wailing... A few cold corpses were lying next to them... Vultures were circling in the sky.
Under the escort of terrorists, Downey in ragged clothes walked out of the cave, looked at the dazzling sun in the sky, and gently blocked the sun with his handcuffed palms. This was when his character Tony Stark was detained and tortured by terrorists for two weeks.
After that, I saw the sun for the first time.
Downey looked blankly at the wailing U.S. troops in the cage, and then at the various firearms and ammunition randomly placed around him facing the "Stark" logo, in a daze...
The leader of the terrorists asked Ethan, a Middle Eastern scientist working as a translator next to him: "What is he thinking?"
"I was thinking that you have a lot of weapons made by me." Downey looked at him, anger and pain appeared on his face.
"Cut~!" Yi Feiyang suddenly shouted to stop and interrupted the filming, then clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, let's take a rest first."
Before Downey finished his performance, Yi Feiyang shouted to stop, and everyone including Downey showed helpless expressions...
You know, the filming went smoothly for several days in a row, and the director Yi Feiyang never stopped it, but now... this made everyone feel very frustrated.
Seeing Yi Feiyang lowering his head and looking at Downey's expression just now in the camera, Fat Jack beside him also noticed that he was frowning and looking dissatisfied.
"Boss, what's wrong? Do you think it was bad just now? I see you have been filming this part for a whole day, I think there is nothing wrong with it." Fat Jack has been following Yi Feiyang for a long time and has almost become a roundworm in his stomach. Of course,
In fact, as the assistant director, Fatty also helped Yi Feiyang a lot.
"Well, Downey's acting was completely wrong..." Yi Feiyang shook his head.
"How could it be wrong? Didn't you train him before and let him act like this?" Fatty asked curiously. In his opinion, Downey's role was absolutely exactly the same as what Yi Feiyang had asked for before. He was cynical, bohemian, Tang
Ni's performance was excellent.
"No, the character of Tony Stark is changing, not static!" Yi Feiyang said with a deep frown: "If that was Tony Stark before, then now, he will become steel.
Xia."
"Is there any difference?" The fat man was stunned.
"Of course, these are two completely different concepts. Iron Man is a character created in comics. Specifically, he is a hero with a soul! And Tony Stark is the secular incarnation of Iron Man.
Yes, it is a vulgar thing." Yi Feiyang explained to the fat man in a deep voice:
"Although Iron Man is just a visual symbol, any director or actor can make a good film. If we want to make "Iron Man" like a real movie, then what we need to do is to make Tony Stark the character
Characters are established.”
Almost all movie fans in the world will have a very big misunderstanding about superhero movies, that is, "popcorn-style movies with no connotation" just use big scenes to attract people. As long as it fits the image of a superhero, who will play it?
The protagonists are all the same.
Of course, this is also the impression given by most previous superhero movies, because traditional superhero movies, to put it bluntly, are to film the comic stories again, so that comic fans can see the comics from their childhood in the movie.
Appears in real form.
But this is actually the simplest superhero movie. Strictly speaking, it really can’t be called a movie at all, it can only be called a live-action feature film that is a remake of a comic book.
The reason why movies are called the seventh art is because movies are refined and sublimated based on original works of art such as novels, plays, or comics, and then evolve into an art form that is more deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Among all superhero comics, what comic fans really care about are the stories of omnipotent comic heroes such as "Superman" and "Batman", instead of treating them as "normal people". But if comics are
The art of constructing "heroes", and movies are precisely the art of "people".
If the comic is not refined, this movie will become a simple hero comic... This is not what Yi Feiyang wants. He knows that there is only one point of union between the two arts, and that is the hero's
One side is the original face of Tony Stark in "Iron Man".
The success of the original "Iron Man" was not due to how handsome Robert Downey Jr. was in his iron suit and fighting villains. It was precisely because he created a Tony Stark who was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
"You know? What I want now is to see how many people have been killed by the weapons I made. Stark, who has a deep sense of guilt and guilt, can only become a real person if he regrets the sins of his weapons business."
Iron Man!" Yi Feiyang said with a deep breath.
The fat man seemed to understand. Maybe in his opinion, Iron Man was Stark, and Stark was Iron Man. How could these be two people?!
But Yi Feiyang didn't want an ordinary "Iron Man", he wanted an "Iron Man" that surpassed the original version. If not, he thought he had failed completely. Thinking of this, he beckoned for Robert Downey Jr.
He came over, put his arm around his shoulders and said:
"Hi, Downey, you played Tony very well before, but now that Tony has been on the verge of life and death, he has seen the weapons he made create so many terrorists, and even saw the scene where terrorists beheaded Americans, I need this role.
To give a performance and make a change... What I need is a charming and real heroic image."
"I understand, I've tried to express it..." Downey smiled bitterly. He had actually been thinking about it for a long time and had just used a variety of ways to express it, but Yi Feiyang was obviously not satisfied with it.
This is the difference between movies and life. Men who can control their emotions in life are usually very reserved and seem a bit enigmatic, making it impossible for people to understand the meaning behind his words. But if it is expressed so truly in the movie, it will
It will make the audience confused and confused... If there is "space time", the protagonist's heart can be shaped through side stories and supporting characters' lines. The protagonist can just pretend to be cool, but "Iron Man"
"This type of movie does not have this "space and time" at all...
For example, George Cruise and Michael Keaton have tried to portray Bruce Wayne in "Batman", which has caused the audience to have an emotional ambiguity about this character. Many times, they don't know what Batman is thinking...
…It’s hard for movie fans to accept.
To put it simply, the two logics of creating a deep protagonist and a fast-paced superhero movie are fundamentally contradictory and completely incompatible. Therefore, most actors who play the protagonists of superhero movies appear to be very simple and empty.
That's why.
Robert Downey Jr. is looking at Yi Feiyang now, hoping that he can point out where his dead end lies.
Yi Feiyang did not disappoint him and said with a smile: "No, in fact, many times the changes in the character's inner world are not expressed by expressions or words, but by the eyes! And you lack the change in the eyes!".
Change in eyes?!
Downey had some reverie.
In fact, the reason why Yi Feiyang said this was because he remembered a popular Japanese drama in his previous life called "Hanzawa Naoki".
The name of the male protagonist in this drama is Sakai Masato. He is a well-known drama fanatic in the Japanese entertainment industry. He can be said to be a late bloomer. And his most talked about is his ninth acting skill---no matter he is happy, angry or sad, he is the same.
A smiling face!
For this kind of acting, some people mocked him as "facial paralysis", and some said he couldn't act at all, but Yi Feiyang felt that it was definitely not easy for a person to express all his psychological activities with his eyes.
things.
I wonder, who can express joy, anger, sorrow and joy with just their eyes?!
"Now, Donnie, try, yes, slowly try to fix your expression into a single smile, and then use your eyes to express your mood at this moment, that kind of self-blame, regretful mood---note
Look, you are trapped in the enemy's hole now, and every move you make may bring disaster to you, so you must face everything with a smile, but deep in your heart, you are boiling,
Fiery..." Yi Feiyang used a guiding tone and told Downey about the "Hansawa Naoki" style of acting.
For Downey, this is new.
You know, Americans advocate freedom, so they are very extroverted in most things. As we have seen in movies, they have rich expressions and exaggerated body language.
Therefore, he is also very open in terms of performance,
Like Yi Feiyang is doing now, it's very rare for Downey to restrain himself and leave only a smiling expression, but to express his inner emotions again.
But Downey is Downey after all!
Coming from a family of performers, he had the talent for acting in his bones. After listening to Yi Feiyang's words, he quickly became enlightened, or enlightened.
During the filming process, it became more exquisite and unique. In comparison, Gyllenhaal, who played the terrorist leader, was somewhat dwarfed. This also laid the foundation for the subsequent acting competition.
