Chapter 219 - Arrogance

Producer and star of the two very different identity at the same time in a person, even in the "forest big all birds have" Hollywood, such a situation is also very rare. According to normal logic, the main actor in the shooting of the director to command, and the director in the "general direction" and have to listen to the producer's greetings. Lin Mingyang in the dual role of producer and star, which makes him and director Jon's relationship has become very "chaotic".

There is often a scene like this on the set, where the director, Jon, will often take the script before shooting to "discuss" with Lin Mingyang how to shoot the next scene. Usually, it is Jon who first explains his ideas, and then Lin Mingyang makes changes.

Lin Mingyang didn't stretch his hand too far on the filming, knowing that the director is the soul of the movie, and only a free soul can create a good work. Except for the modifications on the details, he would not intervene in Jon's shooting in most cases.

However, as the producer of the movie, he did provide a lot of help to Jon. As a very typical Hollywood genre movie, Man of Steel also remained a traditional Hollywood commercial first, where deep themes or artistic values must give way to visual effects and entertainment in such entertainment-oriented commercial movies. The main audience of this kind of movie is obviously teenagers between the ages of 14 and 25, who are fond of hot scenes and high-intensity visual impacts, and who are stimulated by fast editing and high-decibel sound effects and get satisfaction from them.

Man of Steel, like any other big blockbuster, is full of stunning visual effects such as flying cars, explosions, and even flying into the sky and the sea, in order to create a Hollywood blockbuster that will delight the audience in the theater. Lin Mingyang commissioned industry heavyweight visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic to handle most of the visual effects shots in the movie.

Lin and Jon had some initial disagreements about whether or not to use computerized special effects to synthesize the footage. Jon, a comedy director, was unfamiliar with CGI and initially thought that using CGI would diminish the realism of the movie.

But Lin Mingyang insisted that it was impossible to make a high-tech movie like Iron Man without using CGI computer effects. He told Jon that Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic is the current leader in CGI computer effects animation. Their past works like the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series and Transformers have successfully blended digital effects with real images. Industrial Light and Magic's special effects crew can help bring Iron Man to life on the big screen for this movie.

Lin Mingyang showed his "brutal" side on this issue, and after explaining his reasons, he directly raised the identity of the producer. Fortunately, Jon himself "figured out" this problem, otherwise Lin Mingyang waved his hand, this matter is still his decision.

With the technical assistance of Industrial Light and Magic, the movie to visually create the effect of fire has not been a problem, but Lin Mingyang needs to be the perfect combination of visual and auditory, for which he invited the TV series "Prison Break" composer Lemmy Zavatti for the film's original music.

According to Lin Mingyang's request, Lemmy used heavy metal rock as the main tone of the film's soundtrack, just like the film's protagonist, who is mischievous, often unpredictable and unpredictable, and not as noisy as in Transformers, but often humorous.

The successive five trailers have been more than a hot scene action, really hung the appetite of the fans. On Christmas Eve of 2007, MGM held a small internal test screening. At this time, the film's post-production was still in the midst of intense, but MGM needed to make a judgment on the film to determine the film's release schedule and pre-release publicity strategy.

There were no media reporters, no professional critics, and in addition to MGM's internal executives, there were fifty ordinary moviegoers attending the small-scale screening, all of whom were randomly selected by the computer from the list of people who signed up for one of the promotional activities organized by MGM on the Internet, in order to prevent leaks of the content of the plot. In order to prevent leaks, they were required to sign a confidentiality agreement with MGM before watching the previews, with a penalty of up to half a million dollars.

Eckles, who had a lot of work on his hands, ended up stepping into the theater at the right time, and when he sat down, the screen showed the towering mountains and the desolate next door. The topography of the terrain in this opening scene alone could naturally remind the viewer of Iraq, which is occupied by the U.S. military.

As expected, the camera image from the distance to close-up, in the Gobi rolled up the rolling sand is a team of U.S. armored vehicles, background music at this time suddenly rang, a come up is the classic "back-in-black" rock debut, the exuberant rhythm and the opening credits of the dreary contrast, Eckles obviously feel around a lot of young people's eyes began to put out a different kind of gleam.

The U.S. Army armored car fleet seems to be on an important mission, all the soldiers look alert and nervous, the choice of such a soundtrack more or less "anachronistic" feeling, in the audience wondered at the time, the camera screen to one of the armored car interior, it is hard to imagine that a high degree of security in the armored car, but there is actually placed a It is hard to imagine that in the highly guarded armored car, there is a silver portable CD player, from which rock music emerges.

The U.S. soldier sitting in the passenger seat glances towards the back seat from time to time, an action that can't help but make the audience interested in the "big man" sitting in the back. The movie's writer-director did not immediately satisfy the audience's curiosity, but threw out a more "tempting" suspense, the camera screen towards the back of a turn, first of all, into the audience's eyes is a glass of road bumps and shaking with the ice martini, holding the glass of wine in the hand of the owner is obviously enjoying the music and wine, sitting next to him that young American soldier sitting beside him was looking at him with a curious expression.

The suspense was finally revealed, crossing his legs and enjoying presidential treatment in the military Humvee, Lin Mingyang's bearded look was mature and slightly disheveled, drawing a low gasp from the audience. Ecks sees Lin Ming Yang every day, so his performance at the preview screening was considered one of the calmer ones.

Ecks sat in the first row, and he heard someone behind him whisper, "Oh my god, is this Felix Lin? Why do I feel as if I'm seeing a young Al Pacino?"

"How could Al Pacino be as flavorful as Felix is now...the way he grows his beard is really fascinating, especially that disheveled and melancholic look in his eyes, my god!"

Such comments reached Ecks' ears, and he just smiled slightly. The facts proved that Lin Mingyang was very suitable for the role of Tony Stark, humor, charm, passion, he had all of these elements. But Ecks also had to admit that Lin Ming Yang's performance had really come a long way, or at least had fully deserved his Oscar-winning crown. In this opening scene alone, he has portrayed the man's intelligence, arrogance, confidence, flirtatiousness, humor, cynicism and righteousness, and has vividly portrayed the character of "Iron Man" Tony in the opening scene.

After this "stunning" appearance, followed by a funny conversation in the car. Lin Mingyang used a humorous tone to mobilize the dull atmosphere in the car, and then the soldier sitting on the passenger seat jokingly asked: "Sir, I have a question, I heard that all the cover girls of Maxim Magazine in the past 12 months have slept with you?"

Other people talking about his private life in public, Tony in the movie didn't take offense, his answer was even more amusing, "You're not entirely right, the one in March clashed with my schedule, but fortunately the December one was a twin!"

After this harmonic dialogue, the corners of the audience's mouths emerged with unspoken smiles, and even though they didn't know if the film's writer-director had a deeper meaning in arranging such a line, they all knew that Lin Ming Yang's private life in reality, I'm afraid, wasn't much worse than what was depicted in the film.

Other people are still just guessing, but Eckles knows in his heart, and Lin Ming Yang's private life and those women, every one of them are Hollywood's best, first compared to, Maxim magazine cover girl will seem a little childish.

"Any more questions?" The continuation of the dialog pulled Ecks' attention back to the screen, at this time the atmosphere in the car was getting more and more active, both the real Lin Ming Yang and the Tony in the movie were masters of creating atmosphere. At this point the much younger looking American soldier sitting next to him tried to raise his hand with some hesitation, a move that was stopped by Tony.

"Don't be a fool, what's the point of raising your hand?"

The other man offered to take a picture with Tony, which Tony readily agreed to, and the young American soldier pulled out his camera and handed it to his companion sitting in the front row. The two men came together in front of the camera, and at this point Tony still didn't forget to gag.

Just as this joyful and humorous atmosphere reached its peak, the young American soldier was urging his companion not to change the camera settings, quickly take a picture, driving in front of an armored car was suddenly hit by a missile attack, was blown to pieces.

The unanticipated explosion immediately catches the viewer's eye, and the sudden attack causes the American soldiers protecting Tony to die one by one, while the enemy never shows up on camera at all. Tony stumbles to escape from the armored vehicle, but a missile lands next to him. Tony is blown away, and despite wearing body armor, fragments of the bomb penetrate the protection, and the snow-white shirt on his chest is stained with crimson blood.

According to the law of immortality in Hollywood movies, Tony will certainly not die at the beginning of the movie, but the audience who were there still had a sweat on their hands, but then the scene turned, the burlap hood over Tony's head was removed, and he fell into the hands of a group of terrorists.

Thirty-six hours earlier, a gala awards ceremony had summarized Tony's life in general terms: his first circuit board at age four, his first engine at age six, his graduation from MIT at age seventeen with the highest grades, and his inheritance of billions of dollars at age twenty-one, and that was just the beginning of the impressive list of accomplishments.

The trophy awarded by the military for his outstanding contribution is just something he can throw to a passerby; his conversation with Christina, a reporter from Vanity Fair magazine, exposes his witty, frivolous and humorous nature.

In this conversation, Tony, played by Lin Mingyang, utters the first classic line of the movie: "If you want to be safe from bullies, the stick has to be thicker than the others." When Christina asks him back, "Haven't you ever had trouble sleeping to make war money?" With an innocent look on his face, Tony tells her, "I plan on having a few sleepless nights with you."

With ease, he tricked the beautiful reporter from Vanity Fair into bed. In the eyes of the American audience, the battle under the bed was nothing but child's play, and during the movie, Eckles even heard some of the audience around her discussing in whispers whether or not the actor who performed the "bed scene" was Lin Mingyang himself.

For this issue, no one present than Eckles probably have more right to speak, he is very clear in his heart, Lin Mingyang certainly do not mind and the model playing a beautiful reporter to have a close contact, but the film's leading lady is Kate. Eckers don't even have to think about it to know that when shooting this set of shots, the one rolling around on the bed is definitely not Lin Mingyang, in front of Kate, he won't make this kind of "low-level mistake".

Eckles knows it in his heart, but that doesn't mean other people can understand it. In the previous promotional video, the female lead was clearly said to be Kate Beckinsale, but she has not yet appeared, as the male lead Lin Mingyang has already had sex with an unknown beauty. The audience's doubts were slowly revealed as the movie went on.

The director probably arranged this to further show Tony's frivolous personality before he became Iron Man, women are like the clothes he wore, in the morning he got up and threw them on the bed, but never remember each other's names. The island-style villa is a sight to behold, Tony's mansion overthrows the convention of New York producing superheroes in Hollywood movies, and this time the crew set Iron Man's residence in Malibu, California, fully satisfying the imbalance that audiences outside of New York have been experiencing, and especially allowing fans from California to rejoice, as finally thanks to the blessing of this movie, the night scenes of California, Malibu and the Santa Monica coast can be The movie was a great success, especially for fans from California, who were finally able to see the beauty of California at night, Malibu and the Santa Monica coast in the movie, instead of the same tired Manhattan skyscrapers.

Followed by the Audi R8, a huge private jet, all highlighting Tony's extravagant personality, many viewers now understand that Lin Mingyang's Iron Man is definitely not the material for a modest hero.

Comics born of superheroes like show business "idol", relying on the "appearance" and give the audience sensory enjoyment to make a living, easy to red but also easily eliminated, the competition is cruel and fierce. Many of these heroes have already had their sequels made and have no choice but to make a prequel. Even with the support of a loyal following, it's hard not to get repetitive and tired, and the need for new characters is strong. If a newcomer can carry on the spirit of traditional comic book heroes, but also come out of the shadows with a new characterization, skills, and story, then the audience will definitely buy it.

Knowing that honest heroes are becoming less and less popular, and seeing that Superman, who took America by storm in the 70's, almost didn't even keep his 200 million dollars in his 2005 comeback, MGM has made the already flamboyant Tony even more flamboyant, and the already gifted Tony even more gifted. The bottom line is that the Man of Steel in the movie, Tony, isn't perfect, which is why it's more realistic.

Most of the superheroes viewers have seen in past films grew up as good, law-abiding young men of good character. Even Batman, who is also very rich, seldom spends time drinking and is completely nerdy. Yet their greatness often distances or frustrates the audience. Tony, on the other hand, is a troubled man, with all the flaws that the rich are most likely to have: spendthrift, flirtatious, arrogant, snobbish, flowery, cocky, gangly, the complete opposite of Spider-Man, Superman, and other decent and coy men, neither civilian nor humble, and he started out as an arms dealer, and likes to be called the "death dealer". The Death Dealer".

Despite the fact that Lin Mingyang's role is quite different from the superhero the audience remembers him as, the moviegoers at the screening were still very interested in the movie. Superheroes fight against evil forces although it is their main task, but after all, they are not robots, but flesh and blood with feelings of people, whether the audience like them, personality charm is important. Lin Ming Yang's performance in the film always exudes wildness and restlessness, as well as a kind of toughness and uncompromising, and his unique charisma is well brought out in the movie, which is fresh because of the big difference with the previous heroes.

Add to that the fact that he's a great joker and flirt, and most importantly, very rich, and there's zero resistance from women. Unlike other heroes who are usually so prude and dull, Tony is straight and relaxed, splashing his sense of humor around wildly, even with the robots, yet he is steady and not frivolous, with a leader's air that makes everyone around him be bowed down and willing to be at his mercy.

And heroes need beautiful women, of course, and this time the vase in the movie is full of them. Painted Estee Lauder's light makeup, set off the original has been elegant enough Kate Beckinsale this performance is more gentle and introverted, subtle and dignified, in the understanding at the same time, but also all the time does not show the charm of the personality of the intellectual beauty of the female.

The most wonderful dialog in the film are from the two conversations, and obviously let a person feel the ambiguity between them, not like Spider-Man and the love of that kind of chick pinch, but each other to enjoy the pleasure of flirting. I have to admit, Kate's "Little Secretary" is the only female character in any superhero movie that makes the audience feel like she's not just a vase, but also helps to bring out her intelligence and charisma, which alone adds a lot of points to the whole movie.