The police blockbuster "storm" starring Andy Lau will be released in the mainland on December 12. The biggest selling point of the film is, in the words of director yuan Jinlin, "the city war that blows up the sand and rocks". The most shocking scene is the scene of blowing up the whole central area of Hong Kong. (article / elder sister K)
How to blow up central: huge investment to build a 1:1 real scene and then blow it up
The biggest selling point of "storm" is the indiscriminate bombing from the beginning to the end. The so-called "100 minute non-stop" movies are full of bullets and flying sand and stones every minute. Andy Lau has repeatedly stressed that the front heavy weapons confrontation took more than 20000 bullets to shoot. However, compared with the central explosion which exploded to the city collapse, the city gun battle in front of 20000 bullets can only be regarded as a shop Mat.
The most impressive road cracking and urban collapse movie that audiences have seen before is Los Angeles, which was twisted under the impact of the mainland plate in 2012. Although storm is only about the explosion of natural gas pipeline, it also overturns the whole central area, just like the end of the world. During the release of 2012 director's new work "the shocking crisis", some Chinese media once asked in an interview: will you go to China to blow up a landmark building? The director's answer is: I can blow up any landmark building in the world in front of the studio and computer in Los Angeles. In contrast, the level of special effects in China is obviously lagging behind. Even though yuan Jinlin, the director of storm, has deep special effects skills, he still can't escape the use of brute force in the shooting of special effects scenes. In order to shoot the scene that blows up Central Hong Kong, the crew of storm built a 1:1 central and then blew it up again.
Director yuan Jinlin said that in order to make the central explosion 'spacious', they used nearly 1200 live scenes to show the crisscross streets, dense high-rise buildings and crowded streets full of buses, taxis, cars and police cars. At the end of the natural gas pipeline was blown down, the effect is to build a platform about 5 meters high and more than 20 meters long. There are many underground holes on the platform. The actors run on the platform full of underground holes, and then synthesize the street view of central through special effects to present the disastrous scene.
The negative impact of the devastating explosion is that this pure modern play can't even get an embedded advertisement. Yuan Jinlin says helplessly: "because the whole scene exploded so badly that no one came to advertise. It's not that we don't want to implant, but that no one came to advertise at all. "Of course, this kind of helplessness, but also with a little show off, after all," storm "in the special effects scene bold attempt and technical breakthrough, has been recognized by many people in the industry.
Why do you want to blow up central: not for the plot, just for 'exploding a new pattern of Hong Kong Film'
There are only five or six bandits, but there are a large group of police. The enemy armed with millions of US dollars worth of heavy armed forces to fight with the police. The villain did not forget to blow up the underground gas pipeline and overturn the whole central ring at the last moment; Yuan Jinlin, the director of Hong Kong film, explained that the theme of police and bandits accounts for most of the history of Hong Kong films, but most of them are shooting two bullets in the downtown area and running to the suburbs or warehouses to fight alone. Therefore, in order to create a new pattern of Hong Kong police and bandit films, Yuan Jinlin, who made the first film, was encouraged by Andy Lau Big city war.
As a result, we have seen the street gun battles that have been accurately calculated and strictly rehearsed for each route in the film, the indiscriminate bombardment of heavy armed forces, and the complete collapse of Central Hong Kong. As like as two peas in the movie, Yuan Jinlin even found that every street was exactly the same as the movie in the pursuit of "let's go shopping in Hongkong". The exact operation and operation of the line were studied. Every explosion and gunplay must be filmed in the busy market before the rigorous rehearsal. This requirement will undoubtedly greatly increase the shooting cycle and cost. Even yuan Jinlin, who wanted to shoot the 'city war', didn't expect to blow up so much in the end. Andy Lau, another investor in the film, insisted on this. He said: "I have never seen a 3D police and bandit film made in Hong Kong. This time, there are so many action scenes and a lot of explosion scenes in storm. So I decided to use the new technology to show new ideas in our police and bandit films. For our audience, it must be watching police and bandit movies for many years A surprise experience. Some people will ask if it is necessary. I don't think it is necessary, but we should do it. '
This means that the big bang and 3D are not for the plot, but for the higher mission of "exploding a new pattern of Hong Kong film". Although we don't know whether the "innovation" invested by huge amount of money can make the audience pay for it, at least the special effects technology of Chinese films has made a small step forward.