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Chapter five hundred and sixty-six smart actors

Robert Downey Jr.'s miserable cave life lasted only for a week, and Duke restored his status as a tall, rich and handsome man. The crew left Hughes Airport and moved to the beach villa area in Malibu, and began to film Tony Stark's luxurious private life.

In the script setting, Tony Stark is not only a billionaire, but has a net worth of nearly 10 billion US dollars, but also a person with extremely high-profile lives.

His purpose, from a certain point of view, is to only buy expensive ones, not the right ones.

If Peter Parker, Steve Rogers and others are just civilian heroes, then Tony Stark is a standard rich hero.

Of course, besides being rich, he is also a playboy.

In the rented beach villa, Duke looked at the decorations of the room for the last time and consulted the opinions of a top designer who specialized in serving the rich. After confirming that there was no problem with the room serving as the background, he nodded to the venue.

"Scene 2, Act 17," the recorder placed the recorder in front of the camera, "Start now."

In the luxuriously decorated beach villa, Lily Aldridge from the Victoria's Secret Angels team walked to the camera.

"Tony, Tony..."

Just like the wife of a vanishing husband in the morning, Lily Aldridge was wearing a loose men's shirt and wandering around the huge living room of the villa, but failed to find his own goal. He couldn't help but look around curiously.

She first admired the layout of the room, and then walked to a closed door. She was probably used to walking on the stretcher. During the whole process, she naturally showed off her beautiful figure in accordance with Duke's prior requirements and tried her best to play the role of a vase.

Lily Aldridge walked to the door and saw a button. He couldn't help but press it curiously. A synthetic mechanical sound immediately remembered, "You have no right to enter! You have no right to enter!"

In the video, this is Jarvis' voice, but the one hanging there is actually a recorder. Lily Aldridge presses the play button.

Duke made a gesture to the camera team. The main camera lens controlled by John Schwartzman himself immediately moved away from Lily Aldridge and turned to the center of the living room of the villa. The heroine of this film, Rachel McAdams, was already standing there in a black commercial suit.

"This is Jarvis. He is the housekeeper here." Rachel McAdams lifted the clothes in his hand, signaled to Lily Aldridge, and said, "This is your clothes, which have been dry-cleaned and ironed."

She pointed outside the villa again, "The special car is waiting outside, and you can go anywhere you want to go."

Lily Aldridge turned and walked over, "You are the famous Pepper Boss."

"That's right." Rachel McAdams nodded slightly.

"I didn't expect that it's been so many years." Lily Aldridge's tone was obviously sarcastic, "Tony also asked you to do dry cleaning and pick up clothes."

"I will do whatever Mr. Stark asked me to do."

Perhaps infected by Lily Aldridge, Rachel McAdams also used a sarcastic tone, "It also includes sweeping him out of the house with the remaining garbage. Is there any problem?"

"cut!" Duke stopped at this time and said, "Rachel, your question."

Rachel McAdams was quite sensible. As soon as Duke called to stop, he immediately realized what the problem was and said immediately. "Is my tone so sarcastic just now? Pepper Potz is a quiet and mature female assistant. Even if it is ironic, he should speak it in a more steady tone."

"That's it." Duke made a gesture to the surroundings and asked the departments to prepare. "Do it again in five minutes."

However, the second filming still failed. The problem lies with Lily Aldridge. After all, she is not a professional actor and cannot always maintain the same state as before.

Duke was not in a hurry. After taking photos patiently, he finally announced it was approved.

Then, Rachel McAdams returned to the makeup trailer to change his clothes, and Duke began to shoot some Tony Stark's separate shots to show his technical otaku side. Everyone has their own interests and hobbies. What is the biggest hobby of a super rich and skilled maniac like Tony Stark?

Of course, I have to do some techniques that others cannot do, such as making steel war suits.

Robert Tony Jr. has always maintained his condition. Although some shots require several times to pass, Duke is very satisfied with his performance and the shooting progress is slightly faster than planned.

In the inherent impression of many people, anyone who starred in big-scale commercial films has average acting skills, but in fact, Robert Downey Jr.'s acting skills are quite outstanding. Even if it is not Tony Stark, a role tailored for him, he can handle it easily after realizing it.

Even, in Duke's opinion, his acting skills may not be worse than some Oscar winners.

However, even Duke cannot deny the fact that acting as a superhero, especially a popular superhero, is very easy to be fixed, causing the actor's acting path to narrow after leaving this role, and even acting in other movies becomes a box office poison.

Robert Downey Jr. and Johnny Depp are undoubtedly typical of this.

But this is the world. There are gains and losses. Where can a person take away all the benefits?

About an hour later, Rachel McAdams, who had changed his makeup, returned to the villa. Duke gave her a few simple explanations and began to shoot the scene between her and Robert Downey Jr. The actress from Canada may not be as good as Robert Downey Jr. She occasionally makes some mistakes, but she is smart enough to always find her mistakes in time and correct herself.

Any director likes smart actors, Duke is no exception. Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams' relatively outstanding performance can save the crew a lot of trouble.

The filming was carried out step by step according to the plan formulated in advance. Duke has maintained a slightly ahead of the shooting plan. He planned a three-month shooting period for this film and left more time for post-production. This film used many special effects scenes, even exceeding the movie "The Lord of the Rings 3: Return of the King", which used the most special effects.

This is closely related to the rapid development of special effects technology. A few years ago, it took $20 million to do special effects, but now it can be done with more than $10 million or even less.

For example, motion capture, around 2000, there were not many companies good at motion capture. Vita Studio is undoubtedly the leader. Today, Vita Studio still retains the leading position, but many companies' special effects capture technology has also made great progress. Using special effects capture to capture those vivid monster characters has become a trend in Hollywood.

For those scenes where there is stillness or little movement, Robert Tony Jr. can be photographed in a prop-steel suit, but all combat scenes must be achieved through motion capture in front of the green screen.

Robert Downey Jr. was a literary actor in the past and was not good at this.

In order to consider the shooting effect, Duke found Andy Serkins, whom he had worked with, and in addition to shooting, he taught Robert Tony Jr. some experience in this area.

Andy Serkins, who once played Guru, had a very average live performance, but he was recognized as the number one person in Hollywood motion capture.

After the release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers", many people believed that the Oscars should award him the Best Supporting Actor Little Golden Man, but Andy Serkins did not even get the nomination, and the Academy would never award the performance award to an animation synthetic character.

But in the evaluation of a lot of media, just like the Lord of the Rings trilogy frequently included in the rankings of the top 100 classic movies in the world, Andy Serkins created Gollum through motion capture and his 'My Baby', is also a frequent visitor to the list of classic characters and classic lines in various movies.

Since the rental Malibu villa cannot be used for too long, after shooting the indoor scenes, Duke did not return to the studio that Burbank had built, but continued to stay here to shoot footage of Tony Stark's daily life.

The roar of the motor sounded, and a silver latest Audi sports car drove from a distance. After a beautiful tail swing, it stopped in front of the villa. Robert Downey Jr. wore a dark casual suit and Tony Stark's iconic beard and walked out of the car. Although he was middle-aged, his every move was full of the charm of a mature man, and it was difficult not to attract attention.

To some extent, Tony Stark is also a vase character, and his destructiveness to female audiences is no less than Legolas.

"Good job, Donny!" Duke shouted through, walked to the Audi sports car, and gently patted the hot front hood, "How is this sports car?"

“Very great.”

During the filming period, Robert Downey Jr. also got along with Duke, and then joked, "Audi sponsored so many cars for the crew, let me drive this one home."

"sure."

Before he could wait for Robert Downey Jr. to be happy, Duke said again, "But wait for the crew to shoot all the filming."

Audi is one of the main sponsors of this film. They have reached a strategic partnership with Marvel Studios. In the future, all Iron Man movies will have priority sponsorship rights for car advertisements.

Of course, this is also related to Duke. Even the role of Batman who almost lost the possibility of turning around on the big screen has gained a new life in Duke's hands, let alone Iron Man, who was originally very popular?

Rather than saying that Audi is investing in Marvel Studios, they are investing in Duke's movies. (To be continued.)
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