Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

The scene in the mental hospital took about twenty days to complete. Next, the crew had to face a bigger challenge, which was the road chase scene.

In this scene, T1000 drives a big truck to chase Yang Han, and T800 rides a motorcycle to save people.

The most exciting part of this scene took place in the stormwater canals of Los Angeles.

In order to be able to shoot smoothly, United Artists applied to the government and paid a fee to intercept the river water and redirect it, leaving a section of the river for filming.

Everyone on the crew was stunned by Yang Ye's operation. No wonder he said it would cost 300 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot this movie, and there was no limit.

This horse is burning money like crazy every minute and every second, and it makes big moves at every turn.

Although the water in the river has been drained, it is very slippery. Riding a motorcycle or driving in it is a huge challenge and very dangerous, let alone filming a car chase scene. This is simply asking for death.

There is also a scene in this scene where Yang Ye has to fly directly from the road into the rainwater river on a motorcycle. The gap between the road and the river is more than five meters, which is simply a hellish level of difficulty.

Before the filming started, the crew held a meeting to discuss the shooting plan.

After hearing what Yang Ye wanted to achieve, Luo Lixian and Ke Shouliang of the Raptors stunt team both looked embarrassed.

Yang Ye asked: "Can't do it?"

Luo Lixian said: "If it is just a car chase, that's it, but the storyboard has a scene where Brother Guoliang drives a truck and hits Xiao Wu Jing. This is too dangerous. If you are not careful, Xiao Wu Jing will be rolled under the truck. ”

Ke Shouliang said: "Wu Jing is too young. Neither of us can be his substitute. It is also difficult to find such a young motorcycle master!"

Wu Jing is quite brave. He said on the spot: "Director, I ride a motorcycle very well, I can do it by myself!"

Yang Ye touched his head and smiled: "I know you are brave, but you can't act recklessly. Safety is the most important thing."

Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "Shoot separately and use rear projection!"

John Woo said: "Isn't the back-projection method too outdated? And the effect is very fake, and it has been eliminated long ago."

The so-called rear projection is to project images on a screen behind a car or other object to simulate movement.

For example, if you hang a screen behind a stationary car, and the picture inside is always showing the road going backwards, then the car will look like it has been driving forward.

This technique was commonly used before the 1970s. As audiences became more and more thrill-seeking, production companies increasingly pursued real-life filming in order to cater to the audience.

As a result, the rear projection method was gradually eliminated.

Yang Ye said: "Find a way to upgrade the equipment and make the effect more realistic."

Then Yang Ye gave his idea, and after a discussion between the props team, lighting team, and photography team, a special device was created.

It is a circular track suspended above the car, with lights on the track that can move forward or backward.

Moving lights reflect off the car and actors' faces, giving the illusion that the car is moving.

The so-called movie is the use of light and shadow to perform magic. This device perfectly solves the problem of too fake effects of traditional rear projection technology.

After talking about the car chase plan, the next focus is the speed car plan.

A Harley Davidson motorcycle weighs more than 200 kilograms, and including the rider, the total weight exceeds 300 kilograms.

Flying from a five-meter-high road into a river, it is impossible for the motorcycle and its rider to withstand the impact when it lands.

If it flies directly like this, even if the rider is lucky enough to survive, he will at least be disabled for life.

The solution for the filming team to get along is to hang wires and cables.

Pull a cable from the air, and then use two wires in front and one behind to hang the motorcycle on the cable, fix the person on the car, and slide down.

This is still very dangerous. In order to create the effect of a motorcycle flying down from the sky, the cable cannot be hung too tightly. If you make a mistake, the consequences will be disastrous!

As a leading actor, naturally he would not take this risk.

In the original movie, it was Schwarzenegger's stunt double, Kent, who performed the action for him.

As for Yang Ye's version, Ke Shouliang was naturally the stand-in for Yang Ye in this scene. He is the number one trapeze artist in Asia.

However, in order to bring the most shocking effect, this will be a frontal shot, to see Yang Ye's face.

Therefore, the props team specially made a latex headgear that was exactly the same as Yang Ye's and asked Ke Shouliang to put it on to achieve the fake and real effect.

Flying down from such a high place, it is a large panoramic view, and wearing sunglasses, it is difficult for the audience to distinguish it.

Just use editing and change the close-up of the landing to Yang Ye himself riding a bicycle.

Of course, Ke Shouliang's life is also life and cannot be given away directly.

Another plan everyone came up with...Modification!
Since we don’t need to actually drive down on a motorcycle, let’s make a fake motorcycle with the character riding on it and posing.

The prop team first dismantled the parts of a Harley motorcycle, leaving only the main part.

Then use lighter materials to copy these spare parts and put them back together, and a modified motorcycle is completed.

In this way, the weight of the vehicle including the person and the vehicle is less than 200 kilograms, which is reduced by one-third, and the risk is greatly reduced.

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After a week of preparation and rehearsal, everyone's cooperation was relatively tacit.

At this time, the intercepted rainwater channel was also dried by the sun, and shooting could finally begin.

"Terminator 2, scene 20, first shot, first shooting, Action!"

T800 rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, wearing sunglasses, speeding along the rainwater river.

In the river, T1000 was driving a truck to chase the target Yang Han.

After T800 caught up, he drove the motorcycle with one hand and held a Winchester M1887 shotgun in the other hand. He aimed it at the truck and fired.

Then a nice swish of the gun cocked, and another shot.

Turn around and fire a shot, the posture is extremely cool!

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This shotgun is very slender and compact. In fact, it doesn't go well with the overly large and muscular Governor, but it goes well with Yang Ye.

In the original version, in order to make the governor more powerful, Cameron came up with the cool operation of turning the gun and loading it. When the governor tried it, he was really powerful X10.

Of course Yang Ye imitates others, especially this gun is actually more suitable for Yang Ye. He plays handsome, and the effect is very impressive.

However, this trick is not original to Cameron. It was leftover from the classic western movie "True Grit" played by veteran Hollywood actor John Wayne in the 1960s.

John Wayne, one of Hollywood's greatest actors, died in the seventies, and the governor was like a little brother to him.

Of course, in reality, this shotgun cannot be loaded like this, unless the fingers are removed.

The prop gun used in the movie was modified, with the trigger guard cut off and the lever guard enlarged.

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In order to successfully shoot the car chase scene, Yang Ye specially selected a Freightliner FLT flat-head crane that was the same as the original version. Brother Zhuzi also transformed into this thing in Transformers.

I chose this car because its front is like a wall. You can put a lens in front of its front wheels and face the front of the big truck to get an extremely shocking effect!

When filming the frontal shots, Zun Lung drove the truck, and Luo Lixian drove a filming vehicle in front of the truck.

Yang Ye came on stage in person, sitting in the car with a camera and filming Zun Long Racing.

Because Yang Ye is more stable than all photographers, in this regard, Zhang Yimou, the director of photography, can only write a big word of "submission".

Chasing cars, speeding cars, and blasting things, it took a total of three days to complete. At this time, a special rear-projection device was also made. After trying it out, the effect was very good. The crew returned to the studio to shoot the scene of the car crash.

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Illustration: The way the car crash was filmed... was that there were two actors in the front posing, and a screen in the back showing the video.

Please note that when the governor lifts John from the car in the movie, he is actually hoisted using wires.

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In the movie "Terminator 2", the action scenes are gradual. As the plot progresses, each scene becomes more exciting and larger in scale.

After filming the car chase scene in the rainwater river, the crew started filming the sub-scene about Skynet.

The Skynet scene features arguably the world's largest gunfight and the largest highway chase in history.

In order to pursue a realistic explosion effect, Yang Ye decided not to use models and really blew up the Skynet building.

In addition, there were more than a dozen cars and a real helicopter, which were blown up on the spot. Of course, these cars, planes, etc. were only shells.

In order to film this scene, the crew rehearsed for half a month, applied for road closures, and hired a pilot to fly a helicopter.

In order to provide lighting for night shooting, the crew of "Terminator 2" rented all the lighting equipment in Hollywood.

Moreover, ten Titan rocker arms were rented, which was unprecedented in scale!

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For a crew from Hong Kong to create such a big fight in Hollywood, for some people, this is even a bit provocative.

So, during the official filming, many news media came to watch.

And some Hollywood celebrities, such as Spielberg, also put down what they were doing and came to watch.

This gave the crew of "Terminator 2" a sense of mission and pride!

Because they think that so many foreigners come to watch us filming shows that we are awesome!

So, everyone was very energetic and wanted to show their skills in front of the ghost guys to open their eyes.

In fact, Yang Ye's team has come to Hollywood to film movies more than once or twice.

Back then, he led a team to North America to film "First Blood". The professional action and stunt team once opened Hollywood's eyes.

Later, he filmed the first and second episodes of "Kill Bill" in Hollywood.

Having worked with Yang Ye for a long time and achieving good box office results every time, this group of people have a sense of arrogance.

Therefore, even though many foreigners came today, including some awesome Hollywood filmmakers, they were not nervous.

On the contrary, everyone is full of energy and wants to tell these ghost guys: What the hell is professional!

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The field outside the Skynet building was covered with cardboard boxes.

Ke Shouliang, wearing a T1000 police uniform and helmet, drove a motorcycle, aimed at the helicopter parked in mid-air outside the building, increased the accelerator, crashed through the window with a "boom", and rushed out.

Halfway through the motorcycle's flight, Ke Shouliang immediately let go, and the wire hanging on his back took him flying backwards, falling to the ground and hitting the carton with a "boom".

"Oh, I bought it!"

The reporters who came to watch exclaimed, they had never seen this before!

Diao Wei Ya was invented by Hong Kong filmmakers. Before the 1990s, Hollywood despised Diao Wei Ya.

Because they felt that Diaowei Ya’s movements were fluttering and not the real movement trajectory.

However, since the 1990s, Hollywood's attitude towards Wi-Fi has become very important, and its level has developed rapidly, surpassing Hong Kong in less than ten years.

Because Hong Kong Diao Wei Ya only needs to be cool and doesn’t care about anything else.

But in Hollywood, they have to calculate the physical trajectory of the character's movement and try to make it look real and believable.

For example, when jumping from one roof to another, you will notice the parabola when shooting in Hollywood, but in Hong Kong shooting, it is just a rope swinging directly over, no matter what!

The difference between the two... To use a simple analogy, Sun Wukong's flying is to fly in the clouds and mist. Superman's flight seems to be more in line with the rules of physics, flying on his stomach.

"Rescue!"

Yang Ye shouted, and a staff member immediately came forward and pulled Ke Shouliang out of the carton.

"Xiao Hei, are you okay?"

"No problem, Mr. Yang!"

"Okay, let's rest first and clean up the scene. Axian, have the explosive sites been buried?"

"It's buried, Mr. Yang!"

"Okay, all departments, please pay attention and prepare for the next one!"

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Yang Ye handed the guide tube to John Woo and told him: "Pay attention to communicating by radio. If it doesn't work, call stop at any time. Make sure to ensure safety!"

John Woo solemnly said: "I understand!"

Yang Ye nodded and went on stage carrying a machine gun.

"Start shooting, smoke!"

A fierce gun battle unfolded in an orderly manner with the full cooperation of all departments.

Yang Ye stood upstairs, holding the Gatling Bodhisattva, aiming at the Tutu Tutu Tutu downstairs...

Downstairs, the extras acting as policemen cried for their fathers and mothers and ran away with their heads in their hands.

Luo Lixian controlled the remote control, and police cars were blasted accurately. The whole scene was very spectacular!

Although it looks very chaotic, due to the rehearsal for a long time in advance, it is actually chaotic and orderly.

Blowing up the car was just a trivial matter. When everyone retreated in an orderly manner in the chaos, Yang Ye also led Lin Qingxia and Wu Jing to a safe area, and a bigger scene came.

"Are you sure there's no one there?"

"there is none left!"

"Turn on the high-speed camera, listen to my command, prepare...ten, nine, eight...three, two, one, blast!"

Following the order, there was a loud "boom" and the entire building was blown up on the spot.

The huge fireball generated by gasoline lit up the dark night, and the scene was extremely spectacular, just like a battlefield.

Twelve cameras with remote controls installed around the building recorded this exciting scene.

"Clap clap clap clap!"

The staff and onlookers all applauded. This scene was really exciting.

Spielberg asked excitedly: "Have you rehearsed?"

Yang Ye said jokingly: "No! Do it again?" (End of Chapter)