Made in Hollywood

Although the script has already been completed, Duke is still making some adjustments during the pre-production. After all, under his influence, the entire Marvel series has undergone some changes, the most typical of which is Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow .

Natasha Normanov's role and her role in the entire Avengers organization have been aggravated. Correspondingly, in the finished film of "The Avengers", her role will be one of the most.

However, the length of the film stipulated by Duke is only about 130 minutes, and Scarlett's role is heavy, which means that other people's roles will be reduced.

Even if Duke, as a director, can reduce many unnecessary disputes among actors, this kind of key aspect involving their own interests, whether it is the actors themselves or their agents, will definitely strive for it with all their strength.

Using reasonable and legal means to fight for the interests he deserves, even the director Duke can't say anything.

Robert Downey Jr. once approached Duke and said to him privately, "I must be the opening film, Duke, shouldn't Tony be the first shot?"

Although not explicitly stated, it was clear that Robert Downey Jr. wanted Duke to revise the film's opening scene from the script.

But Duke refused without hesitation, but he also comforted Robert Downey Jr., "Iron Man will always be 'Iron Man', and he will still be 'flirting' everywhere, causing trouble and so on. changed."

As long as the actors, like Robert Downey Jr., use methods acceptable to Duke to insinuate, he won't mind. Although it is impossible to make changes because of this, he will also show an attitude similar to everything that can be said.

In Duke's plan, Iron Man is naturally the most important character in the film, followed by Captain America and Black Widow. Thor and Hulk are mostly used for fight scenes, and Hawkeye is basically playing soy sauce.

The role of Iron Man is easy to say, even if Duke is not good at funny lines, there will be a special screenwriter responsible for writing.

How to reflect the importance of Captain America and Black Widow in the entire Avengers Alliance based on the existing scripts is an aspect that Duke has been considering.

The role of Black Widow. Has changed dramatically from what the movie used to be.

Unlike the previous Marvel series, in the movie "Captain America", Marvel introduced the origin and background of the character of Black Widow in detail.

Natasha Romanov was born in 1928 and was raised by a Soviet soldier after her parents died in a fire.

She was picked up by Soviet intelligence at the age of two, and during World War II became part of the "Black Widow" program, a body modification program for promising female orphans. The selected female orphans will receive combat training and genetic modification in a secret base, making them look younger than their real age.

She used to be a ballet dancer to cover up her real profession, and got married under the arrangement of the Soviet government. Later, because of her husband's fake death, Natasha, who was kept in the dark, could only return to the organization to continue her studies in grief. Eventually becoming the chilling Black Widow.

To some extent, Duke is very partial, but he is partial to Scarlett Johansson's role, which is normal.

Among Duke's changes. As a female superhero, the gender characteristics of "Black Widow" will be infinitely downplayed in the film.

Although from time to time there will be scenes where she relies on her female identity to obtain some work convenience. But as an inherent member of the "Avengers", her perseverance and performance will overcome gender itself, making it difficult to realize that this character who works and fights with a group of "best men on earth" is a member of the opposite sex.

And this can be regarded as a standard value of equality between men and women to some extent. She has never been someone's vassal, or the status of "girlfriend".

Even the only being saved is due to the mutual help of the partners rather than the plot pusher.

Captain America can be said to be the focus of the next stage of Marvel's plan, and when it comes to popularity, Steve Rogers is second only to Tony Stark among the six. He is not only a key figure in the existence of the Avengers, but also The core that unites the other members.

Importantly, his popularity in the North American market is beyond doubt.

From the beginning of his birth, Captain America has been a well-deserved symbol of the American spirit - a sense of justice, a sense of mission, a sense of morality, firm values ​​and outlook on life.

But it is precisely because of this perfection that makes Captain America extremely lonely. His "divinity" is so strong that it almost overwhelms the existence of "humanity". After 70 years of being frozen, he wakes up again and faces things. Everything that is right and wrong, such loneliness and loss can shake almost everyone.

Loneliness, fear of communicating with the crowd is an inevitable reaction after living in isolation, but Captain America will only struggle silently and quietly, looking for his own responsibility and belonging in the new world.

His pain is as silent as his loneliness. It is the existence of the "Reunion" team that gave him a new life. After being confused and lonely, Captain America will reposition his own value and complete the return from "superego" to During the "self" process, he does not follow blindly or lose trust in others. The leadership temperament will be fully reflected in Duke's setting.

Compared with Captain America, the Hulk is also lonely, but his choice is not to blend into the crowd, but to stay away from the crowd. His loneliness comes from the over-inflated "id", and his own "superego" ", feel pain and struggle with the overwhelming advantage of the wanton "self", which forms an extremely contradictory and destructive Hulk.

Although Bruce Banner is a gentle doctor on weekdays, his heart is always roaring with the angry Hulk Hulk. In the tug-of-war between reason and instinct, the Hulk has been in such an angry and painful situation all year round. The incomprehensible loneliness also makes it difficult for him to truly regard himself as a human being. He has been swaying in the link of self-awareness, and his doubts and divisions about himself make the Hulk even more dangerous.

Duke won't be getting too much ink on the Hulk, though, he'll just be the fist of the Avengers.

Time has slowly advanced to September 2011. Under the halo of Oscar, Duke's previous film "Gravity" finally withdrew from the North American market and all overseas film markets at the same time after a long screening this month. , During the nearly ten months of screenings, this film experienced both a stage of soaring box office and a situation of lack of interest in the later period.

But the final box office of the film is still amazing.

In the end, "Gravity" ended its trip to theaters with a score of US$371.26 million in North America and US$868.94 million worldwide.

Although the box office has just been able to recover the cost due to the high investment in the film's production costs, publicity costs, and Oscar public relations, it is not difficult to achieve large-scale profits with peripheral copyrights.

Compared with "Gravity" whose cost has increased sharply due to time constraints, the total investment of "Avengers" is much lower.

The total production cost of the film was finally set at 200 million U.S. dollars, of which, apart from the terrifying expenditure of the actors' remuneration, the biggest investment was still the production of special effects. Industrial Light \u0026 Magic, which became an asset under Duke's name in the first half of the year, took it as a matter of course. special effects for this film.

In addition to several special effects teams in the San Francisco headquarters, ILM's branches in India, London and Singapore will also undertake a lot of rendering work for the film.

When Duke was preparing for the film, Industrial Light and Magic had already started modeling and production of many CG shots whose scenes had been completely determined.

For example, the full CG environment shots of the Helicarrier were put on the agenda by Industrial Light \u0026 Magic early on.

In order to be able to create complex CG special effects shots, they made many large green screen sequences, which will facilitate the rendering performance of the shots and increase flexibility.

Just for the CG of the Helicarrier, nearly 130 special effects shots will be used.

These shots were divided into night and day effects, and Duke requested that the finished picture can present two different views. One of the scenes is that the rear of the Helicarrier can be seen from the picture when the Helicarrier flies through the clouds.

For this shot, ILM added hull extensions and created a number of visual effects, including clouds, skyline, exterior hull and foyer, which were double-layered for digital backgrounds.

These productions are quite challenging. Industrial Light and Magic first made a huge helicarrier according to Duke's requirements, and the helicarrier looks completely different in the two environments, day and night...

In mid-September, Kevin Feige, the CEO of Marvel Pictures, accepted an exclusive interview and revealed the latest developments of the "Avengers" crew in the interview.

"Yes, "The Avengers" is on!"

Then, pointing to a giant Avengers poster hanging on the wall in his office, he told reporters, "And I want to say it again, look at these actors, look at these protagonists, it's like a rock music Yes, it's unbelievable."

Kevin Feige was thrilled, "In San Diego, when they walk on stage together, and you see these amazing actors on stage together, if you don't get a chill down your spine, you don't have a pulse, basically, You can put yourself in a coffin and go home."

"Today, director Duke Rosenberg is directing on set, and I've seen his script, which is fantastic, and I've seen what's going to be done, and I've seen designs, and then they don't belong in this The world is over, "The Avengers" is going to be a quintessential superhero movie. I'm hesitant to say more, but we're very, very excited about it."

As Kevin Feige said, Duke has already kicked off the filming in the Warner Studios studio. (to be continued ~^~)

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