Chapter 113 The stuntman in the fire explosion!(1/2)
A scene was mainly a scene between Butt and Ellen. Butt escaped from De I through a lot of hardships, but when he returned home, he learned from his servant that Ellen had an ambiguous relationship with a strange man. Then he followed Ellen and found that she had entered a man's carriage. He looked at the carriage, heartbroken.
Butt was holding a long sword in his hand and waiting for Ellen to come back at home. When Ellen appeared at the door, he raised his long sword and stabbed Ellen. Ellen was stunned by the sudden change. Although she loved Dracula, she also loved the man in front of her who was tortured and disfigured.
She knelt under Butt's sword and told Butt that it was a misunderstanding, telling him how he met Dracula and how the Romanian count broke into his life bit by bit.
Butt didn't believe it, and Ellen told the whole story all the causes and consequences. Butt only realized that the man who had close ties with Ellen was Dracula who imprisoned himself in the castle.
Angry, Butt wanted to rush out of the house to settle the score with Dracula. When Ellen begged him, Van Helsing, Martin and others arrived.
Van Helsing told Allen that the man she loved was the famous vampire Dracula, and that her friend Lucy had died. Under the persuasion of everyone, Ellen finally agreed to follow Van Helsing's plan and use herself as bait to attract Dracula's arrival.
Everyone was shooting very hard. The performances of Jiabao, James and others were more exciting than each other. I sat behind the camera and insisted on guiding all the local operas.
After shooting all the shots, the crew moved out of the manor overnight.
Everyone was busy moving the items from the manor to another church in Pirate Lane, where the final part of the video will be completed.
Heidi and Lenny took the bus first, and the others followed.
This is a not-so-large Gothic church, to be precise, a chapel. Although it is small, it has a very complete structure. It has a courtyard, a bell tower, a hall, a cathedral, and its architecture is exquisite. What's more, because of its disrepair, the church is a bit dilapidated, and the gloomy and decadent style is very consistent with the overall style of the movie.
The church is the property of Sir Laputa, and for this film he was willing to give the church full rights to me, and even if I told him that the church would be blown up in this film, he would agree.
When I got out of the car, my whole body was soaked in sweat, and the sky was dim and the sky was dark. It was full of stars.
Heidi and Lenny helped me into a room in the church that had been arranged long ago to rest. The nurse took my temperature. It was almost as high as the fever.
I asked her to get me some IVF, hoping that it would be better after tonight.
Gans, Stenborough and others led the crew to my room as soon as they arrived here. Everyone was deeply worried about me, but I drove them out to set up the set.
I was lying on the bed so dizzy, my head full of movie scenes from the past, and those that have been filmed and have not been filmed, flocking to my mind.
That night, Heidi and Lenny stayed up all night, and they were waiting by my bed. They took turns to watch me until the sky was bright and the fish belly was white in the east.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, I woke up. Although I was very weak, I was in good spirits.
I asked Heidi and Lenny to help me out, and then sat next to me as Dunar brought people to set up the scene, and watched Stenborough take some small shots.
Gans took people to the courtyard outside the church for some special effects equipment arranged in the movie.
If there is no accident, the filming will start at night.
All day, I was in a good condition and I actually ate more lunch than usual. Everyone looked at me and thought I had recovered almost, so I was very happy.
After dinner, Stenborough and others checked the storyboard script for the last time. After confirming that there was no problem, the makeup artist changed me into Dracula's costume.
The first scene was Van Helsing. Butter and others took Ellen to the church on a fast horse. They tied Ellen to a high cross in the church courtyard and piled up firewood at her feet. Van Helsing used holy water and cross to make the whole courtyard a huge trap. Then, he asked Martin to ignite the firewood at Ellen's feet.
There was nothing difficult to shoot in this scene. I handed it to Stenborough and took people into the caucus room of the church.
The tomb chamber is not very big, only a dozen people were buried inside. These people were all people with certain identities who died a long time ago, but all had no descendants. For the remaining eight or nine empty coffins, we chose one as the place where Dracula lived.
I wore a warm outfit, wrapped it with a layer of waterproof film, and then put on the extremely disgusting Dracula's bat-like set. The makeup artist applied thick white powder to my face, painted blood-red lips, and put on fangs. After all, I lay in the sarcophagus, and Griffith asked someone to slowly cover the lid of the coffin.
Lying in the dark, I could only feel the chill of the sarcophagus. In this place, after a while, a real dead person might have lie down. He sleeps here, where I once lie.
Thinking of this, a strange feeling arose. Before that, I had never deeply felt the feeling of Dracula sleeping in the dark and cold caucus and missing her bride.
Despair brings a little hope, and persistence brings such deep love.
At this moment, I'm not Andre
"Start the shooting!" Griffith's voice outside was vaguely heard.
The lid of the sarcophagus slowly moved away to overlook the camera and panoramic view. The camera pulled closer little by little, and when the lid slid to the ground, Dracula's pale and cold face appeared in the camera.
He hurried in the coffin and slept quietly, his eyes slightly closed, and did not cover the layers of white spider webs.
Ellen's shot, she screamed wildly on the cross, the fire surrounded her, and if she didn't take action, she would be burned to ashes
Dracula slowly opened her eyes. He remembered the grand scene when he married the bride Elizabeth. His subjects cheered warmly. At that time, S attack destroyed all this. He led his troops to fight, but what he won was the news of the tragic death of the bride.
Tears flowed out of his eyes.
The cross, the promise given to him by the bishop, the sad expression of Elizabeth when he jumped into the river, the lingering scene between him and Ellen... scenes of the past came to his heart. Then, in the darkness, he slowly opened his eyes.
The sarcophagus shattered, he stood up and held his sword tightly in his hand!
He looked at the portrait of Christ in the church tomb, then he felt cold and waved his hand, and the portrait turned into ashes in the fire.
"I will always be enemies with you, feed on blood, let your world and your subjects live in darkness and fear forever!" Dracula murmured, spreading his wings to the burning portrait!
The shadow he left on the stone wall behind him was so tall that it almost enveloped everything in the church.
He growled and his body flew quickly to the top of the church.
I was hung with nearly ten steel wires on this scene, and two machines were installed on the top of the church, and ten people were responsible for it.
All questions.
At the same time, the smoke bombs placed in advance on the church walls and directional blasts detonated at the same time. In a sea of fire and explosion, Dracula's ascension seemed extremely rapid and exciting.
"cut! Hurry up and put the boss down and headed to my standing position.
I was slowly put down. Although I had done a lot of safety work in advance, I was still strangled by the steel wire.
Griffith took people to untire me, and then someone handed me a glass of water.
"How is the effect?" I asked.
Griffith gave a thumbs up: "Perfect! More perfect than Virgin Mary!"
"That's good! Let's go out and prepare for the next shot." I let out a long sigh.
After coming out of it, Stenborough's shooting work was over. After everyone gathered together and discussed it briefly.
I can say without hesitation that no one has ever taken such a stimulating scene in decades since the invention of the movie in 1895.
In this shot, Dracula rushed out with flames and smoke from the top of the church. He hit the top of the church and collapsed. Then the whole church collapsed and sank into a sea of fire. Dracula ascended to mid-air and stopped. Behind him was a huge moon, which was not white, and blood-red! Because there was no color film at this time. In the post-production, this blood-red moon will be painted red by man. There is no such huge moon in nature. It was made by the crew. Light tubes and luminous paper are placed inside. Before shooting, an airplane will fly over the church and enter the designated position.
The church in front of me, about 20 meters high, will turn into dust in a few minutes!
Dracula rushed out of the top of the church, the collapse of the church, and other series of shots must be shot strictly in accordance with the pre-set. Failure is absolutely not allowed, because we only have one chance!
"Are the church's directional blasting team ready?" I asked Stenborg.
“It’s ready.”
"Have the Lockheed flight arrived!?"
"It's already here and ready to take off at any time."
"Have you checked the camera, rocker arm?"
"Boss, I've checked it for more than twenty times, no problem."
Stenberg, Griffith, Dunar, Stiller and others stood neatly behind me, and the scene ahead of us was extremely chaotic. Everyone was checking carefully one by one to confirm
My heart was tightly nervous. The difficulty of this shot was quite large in later generations, such as blasting, helicopters, cameras, actors, etc., and there was only one small problem in many aspects, and all efforts would be useless. More importantly, whether it was successful or not, the church would collapse in the detonation, in Hollywood. There was no second church that was exactly the same as it, so we must not fail.
"The last blasting test is completed! No problem!"
"The last inspection of the light group has been completed! Everything is normal!"
"Eight cameras of the photography crew enter the designated location!"
"The plane can take off!"
"The Moon's stunt team is ready to take off!"
...
Passing commands came over. When the last group of people were ready, everyone's eyes focused on me.
I stood up, took a deep breath and walked towards the church: "Okay, prepare to start shooting!"
"Boss, it's so dangerous! You're in poor health. I'll shoot this scene for you!" Stenberg rushed over and stopped me.
"Yes, boss. This scene is a blast. The church collapses again. It has to fall under the plane and rise to a height of dozens of meters. Your body has not recovered yet. It's too dangerous! Let me go!" Gans also disagreed with me going up to shoot.
"I'll go!"
"I'll go!"
...
The crowd around me was boiling, and everyone came over to surround me and asked for my wishes.
I looked at these subordinates, and at Griffith, who was already gray in the crowd but was holding me and trying to go up by himself. Looking at Bala, who was completely different from me, and looking at familiar faces, I couldn't help tears falling.
"Stop it!" I yelled, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at me together, and no one made a sound.
"Danger, I know the danger! As a director, I know better than any of you. I know that if there is any negligence in the shooting process, I also know that if the steel wire on my body is broken, I will fall down from a height of dozens of meters and fall to death! But who told us that we were the ones who made movies! I went up and wasn't it dangerous if you went up?! My life is life, your life is not life?! Stay here honestly! Fat man, get the camera ready for me, Stenborough, David, I will give you a few on-site dispatches. Don't worry, I'm a tough life, God won't want me now!"
I walked out of the crowd and walked towards the place where the costumes were placed, but when I walked in front of me, the costumes that were originally placed there disappeared!
This costume is specially made and very thick. During the shooting, the actors will be wrapped in like dumplings. I saw it here just now, but why did it suddenly disappear?!
"Condor! Who took my costume?!" My nose was almost pissed.
"Boss, Jack!" Stiller beside him pointed to the distance and shouted to me.
I looked around and saw Jack walking awkwardly towards the church in my costume.
To be continued...