Chapter 948 Personal Talent Show

Having worked with Ridley-Scott twice before, Matthew is more aware of the old Ray's habits. He likes multi-camera simultaneous shooting. From a cinematographic point of view, the film is challenging, but also very interesting.

Whether it's Matthew or Ridley-Scott, they all want future films to look real, which means shooting on location as much as possible.

The scene of Matthew in the crew was shot in two parts, one in the studio in Dobier, Queensland, and the other in the desert more than ten miles away from the studio.

Since it is impossible for the crew to reach Mars to shoot, how to create a Mars is very important for the film. Ridley-Scott is very experienced in shooting space, so this time he found a lot of old partners who have worked with him, In total, more than 20 scenes were built in the studio and in the desert.

In particular, the desert area, which is not large in area, provides a rich and varied terrain, rather than simple gravel and wasteland, which is also the main reason why the crew chose to shoot the location here.

During the preparation period, the most worrying part of the crew was what color Mars should be. Matthew and Ridley-Scott still have some arguments about this. The color balance of the image provided by NASA is relatively neutral, that is to say, it is the same as the earth tone. , and there are pictures of Mars taken by different cameras with different lenses, so it is impossible to determine what the real Mars should look like.

Later, Ridley-Scott, with the assistance of NASA professionals, incorporated these into the analysis, set the desert area, and then adjusted the camera to match all the tone and white balance with the desert landscape image.

Like the Martian rocks, craters, volcanoes, and dust storms that the vista requires, all designs are based on real-world phenomena on Mars provided by NASA.

"Mars is not only beautiful, but dangerous."

On the set of the studio, Ridley-Scott told Matthew, "Every step in the process is a challenge for the hero, and everything can go wrong."

He exhorted, "So, all your movements must look in line with the norm, and you must be careful!"

Matthew nodded slightly, "I understand."

From his point of view, there are actually two protagonists in these scenes where the male protagonists are struggling to survive on Mars, one is him, and the other is Mars as realistically presented as possible.

The crew began to make the final preparations before shooting. Matthew took the helmet handed by the stylist and put it on his head. Then he came to a Mars cart and carefully checked the equipment on his body.

This studio is covered with the same sand and gravel as the location. Since it is the station of the exploration team on Mars, the terrain is relatively flat, but occasionally there are rocks that protrude from the ground and are slightly reddish. As for the distant view and sky, it all depends on the later make to generate.

So, this filming location is all shrouded under the green screen, like it's built in a huge tent.

Ridley-Scott asked Matthew here, Matthew gave a thumbs up there, and Lao Lei immediately announced the start of filming.

Matthew dragged the cart, passed through a pile of solar panels, and walked to a place with fine soil not far away. He was very slow, and he took every step carefully, as if it was very difficult.

The male protagonist in the script has been injured at this time, plus the heavy space suit and ventilator on his body, and the rest of his life just after the disaster, it must be like Ridley-Scott said, every step on this Mars is Challenge, be careful.

Matthew dragged the cart to the destination at a slower speed than walking, took the shovel from the cart, carefully removed the gravel on the ground, shoveled some soil, and put it into the bucket of the cart.

Then, he shoveled more soil into it.

"hiss……"

As soon as the soil was loaded into the bucket, Matthew made a sound of gasping for air, leaning on the shovel with one hand and pressing the other hand on his abdomen, which seemed to hurt.

He rested for a while, and then resumed the work just now, but his movements became slower, looking like an old man in his seventies or eighties.

After loading more than half of the truck, Matthew put away the shovel and dragged the cart back, much slower than when he came.

"Only these soils are not enough, I need light-emitting equipment." Matthew muttered as he walked, "Although the soil composition of Mars is somewhat similar to that of Earth, there are no microorganisms. Where should I go to find microorganisms?"

Thinking of this, Matthew couldn't help but stop, panting and looking around, he couldn't see anything but the green screen, but his eyes seemed to be examining the wilderness on Mars.

In a place like Mars, the desire to survive alone is stronger than Robinson.

Matthew thought for a moment, "Yes!" He dragged the cart and continued to walk towards the base, "I'm going to grow potatoes on Mars and fly scientifically!"

Different from the sci-fi films shot in the past, in this film, Matthew has no real action scenes. If you want to make the one-man show on Mars attractive, in addition to the skinny feeling of the story of survival on Mars, it also needs to be full of texture. plump characters.

In Matthew's own words, Mark Watney seems to be a sad character trapped in an alien planet, but he is actually a very optimistic character, with a good attitude of perseverance, and a good teammate who never gives up. , and the glittering protagonist halo.

That line can also be seen in Matthew's shaping of the hero Mark Watney's character.

The original book is not good at depicting characters' personalities, nor does it have deep thinking or the like. Matthew and Ridley-Scott have no intention of deepening the theme, so there is no need for the male protagonist to be confused and tangled.

When Matthew creates a character, he only needs to overcome difficulties with calmness and calmness, reveal his sincerity at times, laugh when he is happy, and burst out just right when he is frustrated to complete the task.

To be precise, while Ridley-Scott uses the camera to tell a tech nerd story, Matthew has to sell his character from time to time.

For example, in the scene design, the male protagonist will clumsily draw circles on the ground wearing a heavy space suit, frowning and stirring manure, being overturned by the air wave of the hydrogen explosion, reluctantly complaining about Captain Lewis' poor music taste, and countless times Chuunii's episodic declaring "I'm a Martian colonist!" "I'm a space pirate!" "I'm Iron Man!".

In a word, the misery and misery of this alien lost will be dispelled little by little by the sunshine he shows.

Matthew and Ridley-Scott have discussed more than once, so that hard science fiction stories with technology as the first expressive force can better combine freshness and realism, and build tension across space.

The core of this film's production is actually the hardcore sci-fi, the soft and cute Matthew, plus Ridley Scott who wants to make a comeback.

Of course, technical support from NASA is also indispensable.

For cooperating with Matthew, NASA has shown great enthusiasm from the beginning, and their idea is not difficult to guess - seize this opportunity to give yourself a long face.

The Mars manned exploration plan has always been on NASA's agenda. In the past two years, the so-called Mars No. 1 colonization plan has been very noisy. For space scientists and middle-2 teenagers who "journey is a sea of ​​stars", Mars has always been The most suitable experimental site for the space colonization program.

On this basis, the display of related science and technology can be expanded within a limited range, from the design of spacecraft and space suits to the living rooms and rovers used by astronauts on the surface of Mars, When giving full play to the futuristic design, priority is given to the realization of functions, and to a great extent close to the existing functional styles.

Many details in the design of the crew even directly copied the daily life of NASA astronauts, such as the astronauts cruising between the cabins in a weightless state, and remotely performing the bridge section of how to drink water for the family. Hengsheng.

In fact, both Matthew and Ridley-Scott are very clear that in the end, this film is, to a certain extent, like a survival reality show on Mars. The biggest selling point is how the male protagonist uses limited resources to This barren different world achieves self-rescue, and how NASA's geniuses use their ingenuity to complete a rescue that spans hundreds of millions of kilometers when the leaders are tearing up.

These seemingly impossible problems and unexpected solutions constitute the essence of the whole story - how to use limited resources to complete a specific task, abstractly speaking, how to solve the problem given initial and boundary conditions. get a solution to the problem.

In hard science fiction films, it is not difficult to open big brain holes, but it is difficult to open well, and it is even more difficult to open scientifically.

"The Martian" is a drama set in the future, it seems that there must be a scientific basis, the crew has consultants from NASA, JPL and the European Space Agency, from the current scientific point of view, 80% Everything is real and believable.

Matthew determined the core of shaping this role a long time ago - not bowing his head in the face of fate, and insisting on facing difficulties with an optimistic and positive attitude.

The biggest challenge of starring in this film is "being alone."

As we all know, a one-man show has always been difficult to perform, and it is even more difficult to perform well.

Since Matthew only needs to shoot in Australia and will not go to NASA and other places to shoot, from his personal point of view, this Martian rescue is not so much how NASA racked his brains to rescue himself, but he took this opportunity to show The earth broadcasts a personal talent show of young and middle-aged science and technology houses - making water, making air, planting potatoes with their own poop, digging nuclear power engines, traveling thousands of miles to find the abandoned Pathfinder to communicate with the earth, and finally driving The "open-top spaceship" flew all the way.

For this reason, Matthew also specially found someone to watch the live show.

It is a pity that in this day and age, personal live broadcasting is still in its infancy, and it is far less prosperous than it used to be.

As the crew started filming in Australia, the promotion of the film was also put on the agenda. If a film wants to be remembered, publicity and hype are essential.

Please remember this book's first domain name: . Mobile version reading website: