On August 17, 2o13, "Interstellar" was announced to start filming.

Later, the film star Matthew McConaughey said that he did not audition, but just chatted with director Chen Lin for an hour.

After reading the script a week later, I decided to join.

Scarlett Johansson is even more so. She said she had never even met a director, but only knew she was a very young Asian. She had written "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad", which was enough!

After the announcement of the start of the filming, the crew moved to Alberta, Canada on the same day for real-life shooting.

Except for most of the space scenes in the entire "Interstellar" that require the studio shooting, the other shootings are real-life shooting, mainly focusing on Alberta, Canada, and by the way, Iceland.

Iceland's shooting is mainly for extremely frozen planets.

Chen Lin’s height in his shoes is 1.8 meters tall, which is about the same as the average height of the Americans. It would not be too inconspicuous to stand with the crew!

The entire crew has about 80 people, mainly referring to the people behind the scenes, and there are less than 100 actors. After all, it is a live shooting, so there is no need for so many people.

The entire scene was already prepared half a year ago as Chen Lin’s request, and the endless cornfield made the entire site look very empty!

It fits the atmosphere of the video!

Cookdick arranged three deputy directors for Shen Lin, Darius de Andrade, Gary Harves and Brandon Lambertin.

Chen Lin set the first day of shooting as a chase scene in the cornfield!

There is no doubt that there are many difficulties!

First, Chen Lin wants to show it on the screen not only aerial shots, but also intense real-time scenes in the car!

There is also a performance part of the line, Chen Lin is not particularly worried. If the actors selected by Disney cannot even achieve the most basic performance, then Kukdick is simply too ashamed of the title of Disney's No. 3 character!

The plot is like this: Cooper sent two children to school and attended a parent-teacher meeting. He actually encountered a drone on the way!

Cooper was very excited and decided to track the drone. In fact, the main purpose of the drone was to cause gravity abnormalities!

Chen Lin asked Cooper's pickup to follow the drone and be able to cut out the area from row to row.

This is very important. Commercial movies need to be awesome, and the areas drawn are awesome!

Participating in the chase scene on the ground is Cooper's truck, a new 2o13 Dodge, which was worn by the art department and made it look like it has been driving for many years.

By the way, Dodge Company has given nearly three million US dollars in sponsorship fees!

It’s still too little. If you change to other famous directors, you can get at least five million sponsorship fees!

The zone is the trajectory of a thrilling chase scene, and it is certainly dangerous when the truck drives through the cornfield at a height of up to 70 mph!

Therefore, it is impossible for an actor to act in person!

Even if the actors want to, the Child Protection Act is not willing!

In order to ensure the vastness and reality of the camera, Chen Lin wanted the Imax camera to be close to the actors to shoot.

By the way, let me briefly introduce it. The weight of an Imx camera is 8o kg!

How to achieve the safety of pursuit and capture everything with a camera as Chen Lin imagined?

The entire team utilized the "pod platform" system instead of towing the truck with a camera truck.

The roll cage is mounted on the roof of the truck and is operated by a stunt driver.

Of course, Matthew cannot be allowed to operate the pickup truck. Matthew and the two young actors were given the close-up. They were not really staying in the car, but were simulated on-site driving positions!

And the camera is where Shen Lin wants them to be.

Cottel, who was in charge of props, later recalled in an interview with the film, "After installing the pod platform, the actors in the car were deep in the cornfield, but the drivers who controlled the truck from the roof had a good view, so it was a 100% safe and cool way to capture the chase scene we wanted."

“anet!”

After everything was ready, Chen Lin finally called out the beginning of his first major production in Hollywood!

The crew filmed in two rounds, and Chen Lin's camera was aimed at Matthew who was safely staying in the middle of the cornfield and two young actors.

As for the scenes of the real speeding truck driven by the special effects personnel, he did not follow up and took it to the first deputy director Darius.

"Dad, are we lost?"

"Of course not, wait a moment, I'll let it go around!"

"Wow! So cute!"

"You try it, right, that's it!"

Finally the drone stopped.

By the way, this drone is also a real-time drone reconnaissance aircraft. Of course, it was not operated by Matthew. After all, it was an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft used by the US military!

"The control centers in the United States and Germany closed ten years ago, so it flew for at least ten years! Hand me the big wrench!"

Cooper's reaction after seeing the drone was very excited, which was very consistent with the character - he himself was an astronaut!

"Crack! Very good, next scene!"

After looking at the monitor, Chen Lin was very satisfied with this performance.

The next scene is still cornfield.

At this time, the air rich in c-9o comes in handy.

‘Wind and Sand’ is almost no need to simulate it, it is just on the scene.

"I heard that your conversation at school wasn't very pleasant?"

"You heard it? We seem to have forgotten who we are, we are explorers, pioneers, not guardians!"

"When I was young, new things came out every day, like new concepts and new tools. At that time, there were 600 million people! It was scary to think about it! Everyone was so greedy, hey! The world has not become that bad yet!"

"Once upon a time we looked up at the stars and thought about our position in the interstellar world, now we can only lower our heads and worry about our world in the dust."

The conversation between Matthew and John Litgo didn't need to be done again, both of them were acting.

John Litgo has starred in a series of movies and TV series. Although he rarely plays the leading role, he is definitely the golden supporting role in many Hollywood movies and a standard veteran actor!

But Chen Lin still shouted 'Click!'

"Who is responsible for the props? Change this beer bottle!"

Chen Lin's voice was not loud, but it was very loud, "What I want is a wine bottle without a label, not this one with the Budweiser name!"

The head of the prop team rushed over and without waiting for him to explain anything, Chen Lin said directly, "You have ten minutes to solve the problem!"

Chen Lin's words do not contain any emotional colors, and are completely a business-based attitude.

This crew is not his crew, they only have a working relationship. Whoever has a mistake in their work will be responsible for it.

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Any director, especially outsiders, must first stand firm in the crew before he can truly lead the entire crew.

Americans are born with the feeling that I am the best in the world, especially in Hollywood, where they have a natural hostility towards Asians.

Therefore, Chen Lin never thought of leading people like this, as long as they don’t cause trouble!

Besides, these people still have the minimum professional qualities.

Taking money to do things is the most basic principle in Hollywood. If you can't even do this, these people will not have the current qualifications and status.

Moreover, Chen Lin also serves as the executive producer of "Interstellar". From any perspective, this young Asian has the right to fire these people!

The shooting was still not very smooth afterwards. From the site setting to the camera position, many things were constantly being adjusted.

The newly established crew needs to be run-in. On the other hand, Chen Lin does not have enough Hollywood shooting experience!

If the actors hadn't performed well enough, today's shooting might have been difficult!

The long shooting throughout the morning made John Litgo, who was a little older, exhausted, and he also made some small complaints through his assistant.
Chapter completed!