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In the studio of Warner Bros., on a field set up as a laboratory, the crew of "I Am Legend" is in full swing. Director Guillermo del Toro seems to have completely recovered from his injury and sits firmly with the director. Behind the monitor, I stared intently at the synchronously transmitted footage from the camera.

Wearing a white coat and a pair of experimental eyes, Matthew opened the medical freezer in front of him, took out the tray containing the vaccine, and carefully carried it to the front of the experimental bench that looked like a hospital bed.

On the experimental bench, a well-dressed female actor lay there, not only her hair was shaved, but she didn't even know what to use to smear her body into a weird gray-white color, so she couldn't see her true colors.

Putting down the tray, Matthew carefully examined the apparently female Night Demon, then lowered his voice and monologue as he experimented.

"The test subjects are women. Between the ages of 18 and 20, the dose of sedatives required is about six times that of a normal person." The actress was very cooperative, breathing very quickly, and her chest rose and fell rapidly. "The body temperature is 106 degrees Fahrenheit. , heartbeat 200 beats per minute, shortness of breath."

Matthew turned to look at the medical monitor. The camera behind him, like his eyes, also turned to the monitor. "The blood oxygen level is about three times that of a normal person."

He took out a flashlight and looked into the eyes of the actress, "The pupils are fully dilated and do not respond to light."

Having said that, Matthew put away his flashlight, tilted his head suddenly, and then bent over to look at the female Night Demon's shoulder, paying full attention to it, as if he had found something very attractive to him.

On the director's monitor, Guillermo del Toro saw Matthew's finger brushing the butterfly mark on the female Night Demon's shoulder, and he couldn't help nodding slightly. After interrupting the shooting for so long, Matthew's condition was still very good. This morning After a short adjustment, I regained the feeling of the role in the afternoon.

"If an actor like Matthew can also be nominated for the worst actor in the golden raspberry, 80% of the actors in Hollywood are unqualified." Guillermo del Toro thinks that the golden raspberry is completely in the Bullshit, of course there is a **** over there.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand when you think about it. The movies starring Matthew have high box office, great influence, and good income, but they are not the so-called traditional set of calming down and studying acting skills. hatred.

As a result, some people, unable to suppress him in terms of box office and business, simply disgusted him with golden sour plums.

However, from the contact between the two, it is not difficult for Guillermo del Toro to find that Matthew's mentality is very good, and he doesn't care about awards at all, including golden raspberry and Oscar, which is particularly free and easy.

A star actor, someone who is bent on finding black spots, has never found it, even Tom Hanks, a model in Hollywood circles, is no exception.

Therefore, Guillermo del Toro believes that the mentality of the actor is very important, so that he can maintain his original intention in the midst of abuse or praise, without losing himself.

He talked to Matthew about his original intention before. Although he didn't know what Matthew's original intention was, it could be seen from Matthew's speech and behavior that Matthew had never forgotten his original intention.

"The skin has a strong reaction to ultraviolet light." Matthew was still acting while monologue on the set. "Symptoms and samples confirmed that... the subject has been deeply infected by the KV virus."

Then, he opened the syringe and vaccine, "Vaccine test, No. 6 compound of serum GA-391, now start human experiment."

Soon, under the watchful eyes of the camera, the experiment ended in failure, and when Matthew pushed the female Daredevil into the isolation room of the laboratory, Guillermo del Toro announced the end of the long shot.

"Half an hour off!" shouted Guillermo del Toro.

It took a lot of energy to shoot a long shot of just a few minutes, whether it was the actors or the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew.

Matthew walked out of the set, let out a long breath, took a sip from the water glass handed by Bella Anderson, took off his white coat and handed it over to the makeup artist who came up, stretched a long waist, and was a little tired. , All of his shots are shot today, and this film has almost always been his one-man show so far.

Such scenes require him to concentrate more, and also need to break out in a timely manner, and sometimes even super-level performance.

Matthew has never been frightened by the long shots of action scenes, but it is very rare for him that such long shots of monologue scenes can be completed at one time.

After drinking some water, I went back to the resting place to sit for a while, just as director Guillermo del Toro came over, Matthew simply went over to chat with him for a while.

"Tired?" Matthew asked.

"It's all right." Guillermo del Toro shook his head, "I've recovered."

He turned his head to look at Matthew, "The performance just now is very good, the long-shot shooting is very demanding on the actors, and if there is a small error, it will be re-shot."

Matthew has always been a good person. "The main reason is that you did a good job in scheduling in the morning, which made me feel like a character in time." He came to Guillermo del Toro because he had something to ask for advice, and instead asked, " What do you think is the most important thing in production for a film like ours, a commercial masterpiece based on the real world?”

"There are many." Guillermo del Toro didn't quite understand what Matthew meant, but still said, "The actors, the director, the soundtrack, and the editing are all important... Well, the script can also be considered a more important item."

Matthew asked this question because of the "Fast and Furious" series, and Guillermo del Toro's answer was completely different from what he wanted to ask.

"Gilmore, you may have heard that I jointly bought the copyright of the "Fast and Furious" series with others, and are going to invest in continuing to shoot." Matthew simply stopped going around in circles and asked directly, "I will be the producer of the film. Filmmaker, what I want to ask is, from the perspective of a director, what should we pay attention to in this kind of commercial blockbuster?"

"So that's how it is." Guillermo del Toro suddenly realized, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Matthew, the situation of each film is different, I can only combine the film "I Am Legend" , tell me my opinion, I can't guarantee whether it can help you or not."

Matthew, a true newbie in the production business, said immediately, "Just say it."

Guillermo del Toro considered for half a minute before slowly saying, "I took over the director of 'I Am Legend' and persuaded Akiva Goldsman to follow my ideas and make this commercial production. Interlinking the fictional elements of science fiction with the real world makes the entire film entertaining and aesthetic."

He paused for a while and then said, "For commercial films that are not divorced from the real world, the relationship between fiction and reality must be properly handled."

Matthew listened very carefully, and even if Guillermo del Toro said "I Am Legend," he hoped that Guillermo del Toro would get some useful information for the "Fast and Furious" series from Guillermo del Toro's words. thing.

The "Speed ​​​​and Passion" series will be the first time he has truly set foot in the production industry and has the power to kill or kill a film. This kind of power seems to be very large, but it must be used with caution.

Guillermo del Toro added, "I have always believed that the success of a commercial blockbuster cannot be achieved only by the grandeur of the pomp and special effects of the blockbuster, but also by the proper handling of the elements of fiction and reality."

He saw Matthew thinking, and gradually slowed down, "Matthew, the creation of a movie is not easy, especially a large-scale commercial movie, it is ten times more complicated and difficult than making an independent art movie, you need Uncover the nuances of the film that resonate with the audience and bring it to the screen.”

Matthew nodded slowly, and Guillermo del Toro had a point.

Since the beginning, Guillermo del Toro simply said a few more words, "Take "I Am Legend" as an example, and Akiva Goldsman and I have the same conception and production process for it, There is no doubt that there are a lot of fictional elements in the film, but the construction of these fictional elements mostly comes from inspiration in real life. Like the same, the film also comes from reality and is higher than reality, in the use of fictional techniques中~www.readwn.com~ cannot be divorced from reality.”

He simply gave an example, "Take the male protagonist you play as an example, the film actually shows the life of Robert Neville, the four-year life span, the protagonist has been fighting in loneliness, the only one who accompanies him is Only his dog. It gives a real life vibe to it, the movie seems to show how four years of a man's life is spent, and this man also has a lot of stories and fragments of life. So, just Let the film have a plot that attracts the audience on the basis of connecting with life."

Hearing this, Matthew frowned and thought. Guillermo del Toro's words made him think of something, but he couldn't catch it for a while. A certain idea always flashed in his mind to hide from him.

Guillermo del Toro is enough, after all commercial films have similarities and differences.

Matthew gradually grasped the thoughts in his mind. What Guillermo del Toro just said can be summed up into one point. In the words of when he once lived on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, that is - grounded!

A commercial movie based on the real world like "Fast and Furious" needs to be grounded!

This kind of movie does not need a high-level presentation method. The characters are all small people who have been in the bottom society, so that most ordinary audiences sitting in front of the screen can find some similarities with themselves from them...

The protagonists of the movie seem to be you, me, and him. They are like a collection of high-powered cars in the movie. In life, they are like the imagination of very ordinary audiences or ordinary audiences. thing.

"Thank you, Gilmore."

Just after Matthew finished saying this, he suddenly thought of a good way to be grounded in this kind of social structure in North America.