After completing the highway chase, "Terminator 2" began shooting the last scene, the most important steel factory battle!
Shay helped Yang Ye find an abandoned steel mill in Northern California and then rebuilt it so that it looked functioning.
The most critical one is the steel pool. The props team welded a large iron bucket and filled it with water, oil and powder to create the illusion of molten steel.
More than three hundred light bulbs were installed at the bottom and around the barrel, and all of these light bulbs were coated with warm-colored gel.
Coupled with auxiliary equipment such as reflective panels and diffusers, the overall environment presents an orange atmosphere.
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Yang Ye, John Woo, Lin Qingxia and others were standing on a high place discussing the shooting. A slightly wretched-looking man walked into the shooting scene with a little beauty.
The sun was shining brightly outside and the climate was pleasant. As soon as he entered the set, he was hit by a heat wave that almost suffocated him.
“Damn, it’s so hot!”
Yang Ye glanced down and waved, “Uncle Zhan, what brought you here?”
Huang Zhan laughed and said: "You are making such a big noise in Hollywood. I know about it from as far away as Hong Kong, so naturally I want to come over and see it."
Yang Ye said: "You didn't come here from Hong Kong on purpose, right? "
Huang Zhan said matter-of-factly: "That's right!"
Yang Ye looked at the little beauty beside him and said clearly: "I understand, when Miss Lin asks, I will Just say you are discussing film art with me in California!”
Huang Zhan gave a thumbs up: “Enough of a friend!”
Needless to say, it was a lie that this guy came to the United States to visit Yang Ye's class, but it was true that he came to the United States with his little girlfriend to travel and have an affair.
As Huang Zhan said this, he came towards the crowd and was shocked when he saw Yang Ye.
It turned out that Yang Ye’s face was covered with makeup. He didn’t notice it when he was far away. When he got closer, he saw that his skin was damaged and the metal skeleton inside was exposed. It looked very scary!
Yang Ye smiled and said: "It's just makeup, don't be nervous!"
Huang Zhan stared at Yang Ye's face and took a closer look: "This is too realistic!"
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Yang Ye shook his head: "It's not that true, but it's really not easy to see when making a movie."
Huang Zhan nodded, smiled and greeted Lin Qingxia, Wu Yusen and others. Everyone was old We are friends, just a few words, very affectionate!
Huang Zhan wiped his sweat and said: "Isn't it too hot here?"
Yang Ye said: "There is no way, we have to simulate the environment of the steel plant."
As soon as he finished speaking, the lights on the set suddenly went out, leaving only a few lights for illumination.
The group of people suddenly fell into a dark environment. Yang Ye and Huang Zhan were several meters apart and could only see each other's shadows.
Huang Zhan said in surprise: "What's going on?"
Yang Ye said: "The environment on site must be controlled at 110 degrees and cannot be overheated, otherwise the props will melt and people will be affected. No. So the lights have to be turned off for five minutes every half hour!”
The British territory in Hong Kong likes to use imperial units, and there are many Americans in the crew now, so Yang Ye said it in degrees Fahrenheit. It's about 43 degrees Celsius.
Actually... these rotten units are not even used by the damn British themselves.
"Damn, no wonder it's so hot!"
Huang Zhan said, suddenly slapping his thigh: "Oh, I shouldn't have come!"
Yang Ye said inexplicably: "What's wrong? "
Huang Zhan said depressedly: "The character you played was already dead in the first part. I have been thinking about how you are going to be resurrected. Now I understand, it turns out to be a robot.
< br>This should be revealed while watching the movie. Now that I know it in advance, it’s half the fun. I’m leaving!”
Huang Zhan said, holding the little beauty's hand and leaving.
Yang Ye shouted from behind; "We will take the real shot later. It's very exciting. Are you sure you don't want to watch it?"
"If you don't want to watch it, I'm leaving." Huang He didn't even look back, as if looking back would reduce his enjoyment of watching movies in the future.
“We’ll treat you to a drink that night and help you catch the wind!”
“Okay!”
A group of people couldn't help laughing when they saw Huang Zhan running so fast.
Lin Qingxia said: "I think he shouldn't be called Huang Laoxie, he should be called Old Naughty Boy!"
Yang Ye clapped his hands and said: "Every department is ready to start shooting! "
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What we are filming now is the scene where the T1000 knocks off Lisa Yang's gun, then turns her fingers into spikes and pins her to the wall.
This scene lasted less than a minute, but it was extremely exciting and extremely difficult to shoot!
Yang Ye is deliberately cultivating talents, so he often calls Zhang Yimou and John Woo over a few days before the filming of a scene.
As well as his royal martial artist Yuan Bin, the stunt team's Ke Shouliang, Luo Lixian and others, everyone sat together to discuss the shooting plan.
Yang Ye will let everyone speak freely, and then Zhang Yimou will talk about how he should shoot it if he were the director, how the dialogue should be changed, and whether there should be more emotion in the play.
After Zhang Yimou finished speaking, Yang Ye asked John Woo to talk about how he planned to design and how he planned to shoot...
After everyone expressed their opinions, Yang Ye finally made a concluding speech.
Yang Ye might say: Mouzi, the shooting plan you just mentioned is very good, and the logic of the storyline you proposed, Lao Wu, is also good...
Finally come up with your own plan. , compare each other and evaluate the pros and cons.
In short, when everyone comes together, it’s like making up a show on the spot.
If you look at European and American action movies, Yang Ye will not completely copy the original version.
On the one hand, the background of the story has to be changed, and logical problems may arise accidentally. At this time, having someone discuss it is a good way to make up for it.
On the one hand, the action in early European and American action movies was too spicy and often needed to be redesigned.
Of course, in a science fiction movie like "Terminator 2", the action design should not be too fancy. It only needs to be slightly improved during hand-to-hand combat to serve as the icing on the cake.
Logically speaking, since it is a high-performance robot, it must know fighting skills.
It’s just that Hollywood back then didn’t know how to film this, so it couldn’t do anything about it. Starting from “Terminator 3”, the action scenes have obviously improved to a higher level.
Speaking of which, the time between each installment of the original Terminator series is too long. From the first installment in 1984 to the sixth installment in 2019, it spanned nearly half a century.
Due to the large time span and lack of overall planning, the actors kept changing. Four people were replaced for John Connor alone. By the sixth film, Connor was simply eliminated.
The time span is long, and the originally stunning setting is no longer unusual in later generations.
Fans are getting old and their enthusiasm for watching movies has been exhausted.
The protagonist keeps changing, and there is no sense of substitution.
The superposition of various elements creates a classic series in vain.
In today’s time and space, we need to plan carefully!
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Since Lin Qingxia cannot fight, many scenes cannot be shot directly, so we need to find a way.
Yang Ye said: "For example, the shot of Zunlong knocking off Qingxia's gun, if it were shot normally, it would definitely be a close-up shot of the action of shooting!
But this is not possible. From the position we are standing in now, shooting like this requires Qingxia to throw the gun just right, otherwise the shot will be fake.
If Zunlong uses force to knock off Qingxia’s gun, there will be a problem that the range of movement is too large and the next shot cannot be smoothly connected!
So how should we take pictures? We did not take a close-up shot of the gun being knocked off, but used other actions to achieve this scene, giving the audience the illusion that the gun was knocked off. ”
Although Yuan Bin is a martial arts instructor, in fact, when he was with Yang Ye, he always listened to Yang Ye and was just an executor.
Yang Ye’s words made him question : If you don’t shoot the gun down, do you still want the audience to think it was shot down?
He had doubts, and the others were even more confused!
Yang Ye didn’t care and started to do it right away. Because he wanted to shoot Lisa Yang being nailed to the wall by the T1000, the makeup artist had to weld a sharp thorn on the wall and Lin Qingxia’s clothes.
From the visual effect, the audience feels that this sharp thorn has penetrated Yang Lisa’s arm! Because it is impossible to actually penetrate it with a sharp thorn when shooting.
Yang Ye said to Zunlong: "Guoliang, when you poke it later, it will look like this!"
Yang Ye put a sharp thorn on his finger and thrust it out violently, but it looked like he was pushing forward, but actually he was drawing downward.
Zunlong nodded, and Yang Ye said to Zhang Yimou: "Mouzi, you must pay attention to your cooperation and grasp the timing. When Guoliang pokes forward, your camera must be raised just right."< br>
In short, the sharp thorn is fixed on Lin Qingxia's shoulder, but it must be hidden under the camera beforehand. When the sharp thorn in Zunlong's hand strikes, it will be exposed in a good way. .
The photographer and the actors must cooperate properly, otherwise, if it is too early or too late, everything will be wrong!
Wu Yusen was impressed by Yang Ye's careful design and exquisite calculations.
When filming "A Better Tomorrow" before, Yang Ye came up with the magic trick of lighting cigarettes with U.S. dollars.
Now when filming "Terminator 2", John Woo has discovered that behind a simple shot, Yang Yechu's extremely exquisite shooting skills are often reflected.
For example, they previously filmed Yang Han preventing the Terminator from killing people and pushing away the Terminator's gun, only for the Terminator to fire a shot into the empty space behind the car.
In order to enhance the visual effect, this gun must have a flash of fire.
Wu Yusen was still thinking about adding a device to the gun, but Yang Ye said: "Behind the car, use a light flash and use a frame of white grid to represent it."
The solution to the problem is that simple.
Wu Yusen thought that the current shot of piercing the arm required the use of computer special effects.
Because it was previously involved in turning the fingers into slender metal cones on the T-1000, which relied on a combination of traditional models and computer special effects.
The entire animation process actually has three "key frames". Ziqi Company produced three metal fingertip models, ranging in shape from short to medium to long, for the actors to wear in turn for filming.
Ziqi Company then filled in the changes between the three states in the computer.
Unexpectedly, Yang Ye honestly used real shooting methods to achieve this most exciting and exciting scene.
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Yang Lisa was immediately pinned to the wall by T1000. Yang Lisa showed a painful expression, her facial features were twisted together, but she endured and remained silent.
T1000 said expressionlessly: "Call Yang Han out!"
Yang Lisa just panted, but never cried out in pain, because once she cried out in pain, her son might look back.
"Does it hurt? Ask Yang Han to come out!"
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"OK, pause!"
The next scene shows T1000's fingers slowly growing longer. Aiming at Yang Lisa's eyes, special effects must be used.
"Hands fixed, don't move!"
The staff came forward to fix Zunlong's hand, and then changed the finger cots for him. Short, medium, and long finger cots were replaced respectively. They were all photographed before they were finished!
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In the next shot, T1000 aimed a sharp thorn at Yang Lisa's eye: "Call Yang Han back!"
Yang Lisa said coldly: "Dream !”
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"OK, change the equipment, Qingxia, don't move yet!"
The staff immediately stepped forward, first took off Zunlong's clothes, then tied his left hand, and then put on a special prop suit .
"OK, Mr. Yang, come on, continue shooting!"
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T800 held up an iron bar and slammed it down, immediately cutting T1000 into pieces Became two halves.
T1000 leaned back, struggled a few times, grabbed the iron rod, and kicked T800 away.
The staff immediately came forward to take off the prop clothing and put on another prop clothing.
This prop and clothing is in a state of healing but not completely healed!
Then T1000 and T800 started to fight hand to hand and changed their clothes again.
In order not to betray anyone, the crew of "Terminator 2" paid attention to details bit by bit.
Moreover, in order to maintain the environment of the steel plant, the filming location was always very hot.
They will have to take a break after filming, otherwise no one will be able to bear it.
All of this made the filming progress very slow.
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In the evening, Yang Ye and Wu Yusen invited Huang Zhan to drink.
Lin Qingxia was very familiar with Huang Zhan, but she was too tired from filming during the day, so she only came over to say hello and then went to rest.
Before leaving, he kissed Yang Ye on the face and said, "Don't be too late!"
When Lin Qingxia swayed away, Huang Zhan had a wet face. Said: "Being able to take Beauty Lin into your pocket is really a role model for our generation!"
Yang Ye complimented: "You also have Beauty Lin in your family, a talented woman from Xiangjiang, which is enviable!"
< br>Wu Yusen mocked himself and said: "One of you is dating a beautiful girl, and the other is a talented girl, I am envious of you!"
John Woo's wife Niu Chunlong was originally a scriptwriter on Chang Cheh's crew, and she has a relatively ordinary appearance. At that time, John Woo was Chang Cheh's assistant director, and the two got to know each other through work.
Huang Zhan patted John Woo on the shoulder and said: "Brother, you can protect your wife who is a loser and still treat her like a guest. This is a role model for men. Anyway, I can't do it, Aye, you can do it. "
Yang Ye shook his head quickly: "I can't do it!"
"Hahaha!" The two laughed together and drank!
Wu Yusen said helplessly: "Just make fun of me!"
After chatting for a while, Huang Zhan said seriously: "Ah Ye, actually I am here to be a lobbyist!"
Yang Ye said, "Who are you talking about?"
Huang Zhan said: "Miss Deng Lijun!"
Yang Ye frowned and said: "Can you say it again?"
"Damn, what you said is wrong, don't interrupt, okay?"
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"Okay, what are you doing as a lobbyist? Lobbying Lijun Deng not to go to the mainland to attend the CCTV Spring Festival Gala?"
After hearing this, Huang Zhan was stunned for a moment and asked: "Ms. Deng is going to the mainland to attend the Spring Festival Gala?"
"The mainland sent an invitation, and she wanted to go, but it was very difficult. Isn't that why you came here?"
"No, I didn't know she was going to the mainland to attend the Spring Festival Gala. Besides, this has nothing to do with me!”
“Then why are you here?”
"I was entrusted by the Golden Melody Award Organizing Committee to persuade Miss Teresa Teng to accept the Golden Needle Award!"
"Oh!" Yang Ye nodded and said, "The Golden Melody Award should have given the Golden Needle Award to Li Jun long ago. Jun, is Lijun unwilling to accept it?"
Huang Zhan nodded and said: "The Golden Melody Awards organizing committee contacted her several times, but she declined them all. I sent her over."
"Have you met Lijun in San Francisco?"
"Yes, I asked her to meet her in a coffee shop. She talked about the Golden Needle Award. She rolled up her sleeves to show me her muscles, said, her arms are not thick enough, and then left!"
Yang Ye smiled and said: "It's her style, so you came to me?"
"I think no one can persuade her except you!"
Yang Ye After thinking for a while, he said: "Let me try it!" (End of Chapter)