Hollywood Road

Between filming, Jessica Alba deliberately found Murphy and introduced her new boyfriend to him.

"Murphy, this is my boyfriend Drake Gitt, a shortstop for the New York Yankees." She went on to introduce, "This is Murphy Stanton, the best young director in Hollywood."

"It's nice to meet you, Murphy."

The tall and strong man across from him stretched out his hand first, and Murphy shook his hand, "It's nice to meet you, Drake."

Although they were very polite to each other, they lacked common topics. Although baseball can be said to be the second largest professional sport in North America, Murphy didn't know anything about it.

"I have something to do." Murphy pointed to the set and said to Jessica Alba, "You can take Drake around."

"Yeah." Jessica Alba nodded and said assuredly, "From tomorrow, I will rehearse."

Murphy smiled and turned to the set.

Back behind the camera, he talked a few words with Philip Raschel, and then he brought in a Western swordsman who was the action director, and exchanged the precautions for the next action scene, and sat back in the director's chair. When I went up, I happened to see Jessica Alba walking out of the studio with the shortstop named Drake Gite.

Murphy sighed slightly. To a large extent, he changed Jessica Alba’s career as an actor, or even changed his destiny, but Drake Gitt still appeared. .

He wouldn't be stupid enough to interfere in Jessica Alba's private life. It was a thankless and thankless thing. Since she chose Drake Gitt, she must bear the corresponding results.

The rest time quickly ended, the filming restarted, and Murphy threw these aside and devoted himself to work.

In front of the camera, Sean Bing, who plays Ned Stark, and Miller Clayton, who plays James Lannister, wield two great swords, but their movements are not consistent at all, and sometimes they only complete one split. Murphy will stop the chop, and the action scene without editing looks absolutely not as exciting as the finished film.

Even if the shooting is occasionally extended for a few seconds, the movements of Sean Bing and Miller Clayton are slightly clumsy by today's popular Hollywood standards, but this is what Murphy wants.

But more often, the two people's stunt doubles were shot on the court.

The filming of this highlight lasted for nearly half an afternoon, and ended with Ned Stark being pierced in the thigh by a trash soldier.

In many epic films or TV series, the protagonist is always the enemy of 10,000 people. Even if they are besieged by countless people, they can deal with it calmly. Even if it is a sneak attack from behind, it will not pose any threat to them.

But this method is not suitable for "Game of Thrones", there will be no super characters like Legolas in this series.

To be precise, there will be super masters in the series, but good skills are only relatively speaking.

The former "Song of Ice and Fire" has an alias in North America: "A.Song.of.Kill.and.Fuck", in which Kill rarely has a knightly end, most of them are torture, and there are few Fuck in it. Making love is mostly rape.

The so-called super masters, in fact, are not much more powerful than ordinary fighters, and there is absolutely no scene of 10,000 enemies, so when masters are in trouble, they are often abused miserably.

For example, James Lannister, a recognized super master, was caught alive by a few mercenaries because he was tired from fighting with Brienne, and was also chopped off his hands, and Brienne was almost raped.

Brienne could be considered a genuine Yulin Tiewei, but when she was intact, she was desperate when she saw the enemy's 8 soldiers, and she was bitten off by a mercenary one by one.

The Hound is the king's number one guard, and also considered a first-class expert. He and his elder brother's soldiers are one to three. Although he killed the enemy, he was fatally wounded and was abandoned by Arya.

This is also one of the reasons why many people don’t catch a cold with Daenerys Targaryen, because in this very realistic and abusive world, she is the only one who drives the plug-in all the way, invincible, invincible, and pampered. grow.

Of course, Jon Snow is also very buggy. No matter where he went, the people who mingled with him fell dead or were abused, but he relied on incomparable good luck to go straight on.

Having said that, no matter how close it is to reality, this is still a TV series after all, it is impossible to have a little halo of the protagonist.

After the transition, the action scene continued, Murphy began to shoot some close-up shots, just like the previous shots, using stunt doubles on a large scale.

It is very simple to distinguish which shots were performed by the actor and the stunt doubles. Action shots with frontal close-ups are often done by the actor himself. Those who can't see their faces are almost always performed by the stunt doubles.

Careful people can also find that, whether it is a movie or a TV series, almost 90% of the time in an action scene, the face cannot be seen clearly.

The fighting scenes of "Game of Thrones" are not necessarily difficult to shoot, but in order to show the real fight, it will inevitably cost a lot of money.

Because of the investment here, Murphy has to shoot relatively good action scenes at a relatively low cost. He has also learned a lot from the previous cooperation with Tiger-Chen, and there are still not many problems dealing with these action scenes.

Murphy uses the simplest way to shoot action scenes, which are mainly divided into two types. One type can be collectively called a simple punch, and the other type can be named a brutal blow.

A simple punch is a general term for the easiest way of shooting action movies. It is widely used in the film industry all over the world, and the effect is quite good.

For example, in David Fincher's "Fight Club", Edward Norton used this simple technique in his first punch. Later, this method was used in many places in the film.

In the filming of "Game of Thrones", all the actors are willing to perform such a performance, because this kind of stunt does not require too much skill, as long as they can accurately grasp the time, in the words of Sean Bin, "It's quite enjoyable to act."

Murphy wants to shoot a fierce punch or sword. The basic method used is very simple. Just let an actor hit the vital part of the opponent's head and neck with an empty punch or a long sword.

Of course, it’s not difficult for outsiders to guess this little trick, so the director can’t choose the wrong shot. If that’s the case, the result would be ridiculous, and the original illusion created by borrowing would be completely useless.

In order to take this simple punch, Murphy used a telephoto lens. The telephoto lens has the effect of compressing space. Using a telephoto lens will make the distance between objects appear shorter than the actual distance.

A hard hit is also a collective term for many shooting methods. It can be summed up in a simple way. Sometimes, with a heavy punch or a long sword, the character directly knocks down the bad guy and is neat and tidy.

All the action scenes that Murphy shoots will not last too long, and often the winner can be distinguished in a few rounds. He needs the effect of a hard blow.

To get this kind of action shots, he, the director, must make sure that the actor's strike is very powerful and perfect.

Such shooting methods also need to be changed, and the camera must move closely with the actor's punching or sword shooting.

In order to show the speed and strength of this blow.

The angle of the camera is very important. It must be close to the victim and facing the direction of the protagonist’s attack. If a telephoto lens is used, the camera should not be too far away from the actor. Murphy must make sure that the camera captures two actors at the same time. .

However, the camera should not be too close to the actor. If it is too close, the victim will take up most of the shot. Shooting at this angle will make the audience feel that they are the victim and cannot feel the protagonist’s blow. The indulgence or cruelty.

Therefore, when Murphy uses this method to shoot, always keep in mind that the attacker is the key point, and the center view is used when shooting, the effect will be quite good.

As long as the shot is done, a powerful blow in reality will become handsome and heroic.

Although Murphy's shooting in Northern Ireland was exhausting, the team was still orderly and calm. No matter where the filming was taken at any time and any place, the crew's camera had never been shaken for no reason.

After filming the action scenes, the crew encountered some problems when they moved the transportation to the glacier on location, and finally had to choose to shoot a group of shots outside the hotel. A nearby rock more than a thousand feet high became ice. Column, but these did not stop Murphy from shooting.

It is already December, and the weather in Northern Ireland is not forgiving, but Murphy feels very comfortable with the crew's work attitude and equipment operation.

Whether it's Northern Ireland, which has relatively harsh conditions, or Malta, a small Mediterranean island with a pleasant climate, Murphy's three code-named "Dragon", "Wolf" and "Lion" crews have been shooting much smoother than planned.

The theme, filming location, complete filming plan and budget of this series, as well as the superb skills of the photographers and the efforts of the actors, are all key to smooth work in Murphy's eyes.

The busy work continued until around Christmas in 2005. The crew just gave two days off for those who did not work. Most of the other main cast and crew members were still under the leadership of Murphy, with Belfast as the center point. Various locations have seized the current snow season time to shoot.

Because Murphy could not return to Los Angeles to spend Christmas, Gal Gadot, who would return to Israel at this time in previous years, did not fly to Tel Aviv. Instead, he followed the latest crew from the crew and took a special chartered flight to Belfast.

As in the past, Murphy did not go to the airport to pick her up, and Gal Gadot took the crew's special car directly to the location.

Unlike the previous person, there is another girl who came with Gal Gadot this time.