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If you want "Independence Day" to make a big hit, careful preparation and refinement of the shooting of each point is essential. Although it is only filmed without actors at present, most of the main actors have entered the crew. They not only have to receive appropriate training from the military, but also have to rehearse the supporting roles. Whether it is a director or an actor, if you don't work hard, you will definitely be eliminated by Hollywood.

Time slowly turns to December, and the early stage is about to enter the end. Duke still leads the crew to shoot special effects scenes, especially those shots that need to be synthesized using computer CGI, which is at the highest priority level. He must leave enough production time for the Industrial Light and Magic special effects team.

It is a computer special effect that is completely burned with US dollars, and there is no shortcut to it. The CGI special effect that takes half a month and takes one month to create is placed on the big screen, and the effect is different from heaven and earth.

The spaceship, alien mothership, alien models, F-18 and F-16 models were unveiled in front of the camera one after another. With the most basic material images, the special effects group began to synthesize huge air battle scenes while perfecting the explosion scene.

Inevitably, explosions sounded in several studios every day, far more frequently than when filming "Breaking into the Deadly Island", many people were tortured by Duke to the point of neurasthenia in just over half a month.

"Auntie Lea is here to visit the set."

Hearing Sophia's words, Duke, who was standing on the shooting stage, nodded, turned around and waved to the direction of his mother outside, without giving up on the work at hand.

"Joss, the countdown is on the twentieth!" he shouted to the megaphone.

As the rumbling explosion sounded, a model of an alien spacecraft of thirty feet fell in the explosion and hit the ground covered with green screens. When Duke shouted to pass, the firefighters who had been waiting around rushed up and took fire extinguishers to spray the scattered Mars.

Although the investigation results of the last fire have always shown that it was just an accident, Duke paid a lot of attention. Not only will the film be copied and sent to the bank vault the day after the filming was copied, but Warner Studios also equipped the crew with enough safety officers.

Don't think that Hollywood has a complete industrial system, and fire will disappear from the long river of history. Just this month, a fire broke out in the crew of "Forrest Gump" on Paramount's set. Moreover, Robert Zemekis is far more unlucky than Duke. The fire not only burned a large number of props and photography equipment, but also burned some films. Even if most of the films are safe and sound in time for rescue, they have to re-convene the crew to re-film.

It is said that the fire is also an accident. As for whether it is a real accident, perhaps only God knows.

The crew temporarily entered the rest phase. Duke got off the lift and gave some instructions to associate director Zach Schneider. He walked to the outside of the venue and waved to his mother at a distance.

"Mom..." He walked over quickly, "Why do you have time to come?"

His mother is a busy man. She is now flying in New York and Los Angeles and occasionally travels to Europe.

"A commercial crew in Santa Fia is filming in the studio." Mrs. Leah's eyes fell on the little girl next to her, "Ska said she missed you, I'll take her over to see it."

"Hi, Duke." The little blonde girl shook her hand at him.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, Ska."

Nodding at her, Duke asked directly, "How are you familiar with the characters? Tell your mom that starting next week, you will need time to come to the crew to rehearse the scenes with Bill Pullman."

"Oh, I get it."

She held Mrs. Leah's hand and followed Duke toward the studio's rest area. "I don't think this character is too difficult, and she spends most of her time acting as a background painting."

"Mom, sit here."

Hearing his mother to sit down at a rest table, Duke said to a female assistant next to him, "Elie, come two cups of coffee and one cup of juice."

"Hey, Duke!" Scarlett said dissatisfiedly after sitting down, "Have you heard what I said to you?"

"certainly."

My mother was able to bring Scarlett Johnson over with me, and obviously liked this goddaughter. Duke pushed her the juice from her assistant, "You go ahead, Scarlett."

"That..." the little girl's shining eyes turned, picked up the juice, and hid her smiling face behind the cup, "Can you add a few more lines to my character?"

Her eyes kept looking at Duke's face. Seeing that his face had changed slightly, she quickly said, "Just ten sentences! No... three sentences are fine..."

"I'll help you add an extra show."

Duke will not make jokes about work, nor will he change things at will if others say a few words. Even if this is his mother's goddaughter, "Maybe you should fly a fighter plane and bomb an alien spacecraft, Ska!"

Scarlett Johnson pouted and slowly lowered his head, "Forget it."

"Ska..." Mrs. Leah stretched out her hand and rubbed the little guy's head. "Parity is a beautiful moral quality. Waiting now can bring about success in the future."

"Yeah," she nodded vigorously, "I understand, godmother."

Perhaps someone supported her. When Mrs. Leah turned her head and talked to Sofia Coppola who came over, Scarlett Johnson wrinkled her nose and quickly stuck out her tongue at Duke. Duke didn't even look at her. This little girl is a real troublesome, but she has a relatively close relationship with her family.

Sofia also sat down there, and she talked with Mrs. Leah about some of the movie.

"Duke's thinking is not something that ordinary people can understand." Sophia's words are full of ridicule. "According to the script setting, the key weapon for humans to defeat aliens in the end is a computer virus. I am not very proficient in computers, but I think viruses are based on computer languages ​​and some systems. Are aliens and the technology systems in the same computer language as the ones we use?"

Mrs. Leah laughed directly, "I, as a mother, can't guess what he is thinking most of the time."

"Dear..." Duke put down his coffee cup and looked at Sophia, "This is a science fiction film, and it doesn't require so much rigorous logic. If the most reasonable setting is followed, the aliens will definitely occupy the earth, and our films will lose money because of the lack of audiences."

"But you can't deny it, Duke." Sophia saw someone waved on the other side and stood up. "Many of the settings in the video are too rough."

"I'm going to work, aunt."

"Sofia, come to Santa Monica if you have time."

The rest time is about to end, Duke finds a female assistant and prepares to take her mother to visit.

"Let's go see the aliens." Scarlett Johnson couldn't wait to jump out of the chair and pulled Mrs. Leah up. "I saw it once when I came last time. It was as scary and terrifying as it was."

After returning to work, the studio didn't take long to explode again, just like the media commented, Duke would never give up until it was turned upside down.

The explosion scenes that can be filmed in studios or studios are basically concentrated in this period of time. North American landmark buildings have long been destroyed in front of the camera. As for why they choose landmark buildings when attacking aliens, instead of more important military targets, does this need explanation?

Anyway, Duke believes that there is no need for explanation at all. This kind of science fiction film is the first thing to do to make the audience happy. When they watch familiar buildings turning into ashes in the explosion, the soaring adrenal gland count is enough to cover up some logical loopholes.

"Independence Day" is different from "Life and Death" and "Brave the Deadly Island". This is a film that completely uses visual effects as its selling point.

Perhaps, I will really start the era of visual effects in Hollywood?

Duke will also have these ideas when filming. After all, in the future, mainstream commercial blockbusters in Hollywood will embark on a simple, rough and direct way to make money.

While Duke was filming, Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox also formulated a detailed promotional plan based on initially maintaining the topic of the film, and officially determined the release date of the film in mid-December - premiering in North America on June 30, 1994 and officially released in North America on July 1. This way, the first weekend of the film was connected with the Independence Day holiday on July 1, 2 and 3, which may completely inspire the public's enthusiasm for watching the film, named "Independence Day".

There is no doubt that this is a film full of great Americanism. In the words of Sophia's ridicule Duke, she even wants to change the National Day of other countries in the world. If it were the Duke who used to be, she would naturally be rejected and disgusted with this type of film. But from the current standpoint, "Independence Day" will be successful, it will be enough to bring him huge benefits.

The butt determines the head. This sentence makes sense. From Duke's current position, why should he give up such a video?

The first thing he faced was North American audiences, and the ones he made were also commercial movies. First of all, he had to please North American audiences. Although the themes and certain aspects of the film will inevitably arouse the disgust of many people in other countries and regions, don’t forget that movies that are super popular in North America can always sweep the overseas market.

In other words, as long as Duke can ensure the quality of the movie, he doesn't have to worry too much about the reaction of the overseas market.

However, whether the summer film can be successful depends not only on the quality of the film and the promotion efforts, but also on competitors in the same period. The most typical example is that if "Breaking into the Deadly Island" directly hits "Jurassic Park", the box office results will definitely not be as outstanding as they are now.

Therefore, while Duke was busy filming, he also asked Warner Bros. to collect a list of films that will be released in June and July next year.

Although there is James Cameron's "The True Lies" in mid-July, it is more than two weeks before "Independence Day", and the two sides will not have too fierce competition.
Chapter completed!