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If you watched “Creed”, or just watched the trailer of “Creed”, then you must be impressed with the scene of the Boeing 747 crashing into a building and exploding.
The ultimate picture quality will make you feel “all this is too real”. And this scene also made Nolan board the hot search again, because the plane that was bombed badly was real.
Actually, Nolan originally planned to shoot this scene with miniatures and scenery, and then supplemented with visual effects. But this seems not enough “Nolan”, he really wants to make this film more dramatic.
It happened to be inspecting the filming location in Victorville, California, when the crew discovered a large number of old planes. After careful calculations, I found that “buying a real-size airplane for shooting is more efficient than shooting a model or using CG special effects”.
In the BBC interview, Nolan also happily admitted that he had “impulsive consumption”. However, in order to “be diligent and thrifty”, the aircraft engine was removed and sold. This saved a lot of costs. “After all, airplane engines are still very expensive.”
Nolan is being interviewed by BBC
Even with “careful calculations”, Nolan still spent $205 million to shoot the movie “Creed”. The cost is second only to the $250 million in “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises”.
Not real shot, not Nolan
Similar to “buy a plane and then blow it up”, Nolan did nothing less. It’s commonplace for senior movie fans.
In his last film “Dunkirk”, all the flying scenes are real shots. The MK1 fighters that appeared in the movie were borrowed from a rich man, and two were worth 10 million US dollars. The scenes of the plane crashing into the sea and the burning scenes are real.
The burning fighter in Dunkirk
After the fighter jet fell into the sea, in order to show how Jack Laudon (playing as Collins in the film) did his best to escape from the cabin Nolan strapped an IMAX camera worth more than $500,000 to the fighter jet. But the speed of the plane crash was too fast, which caused the camera’s protective measures to fail, and the entire camera was soaked in water.
Fortunately, the film in the machine was “rescued in time”, and the precious images in it were rescued, otherwise Nolan would have to bear the cost of this part of the film and the re-shooting.
Nolan: Still try to keep smiling
When representing naval battle scenes, Nolan decided to use real naval destroyers instead of using computer three-dimensional animation technology (CGI) to build.
In order to save costs, the “ghost” he cut out soldiers and military vehicles from cardboard. Placed in the far background of the lens to create the effect of a large army. Even with a bit of “little cleverness”, 62 ships appeared on the scene during the shooting.
Extracted from the trailer of “Dunkirk”
In order to reproduce the scene of the retreat of 333,000 Allied forces, Nolan called 1,500 extras, called a crane and a Spitfire, and took the picture to his satisfaction. .
Intercepted from the “Dunkirk” trailer
In the process of filming “Interstellar”, in order to reflect the plot setting of “The least suitable place for growing corn on earth has already grown corn”, Nuolan spent half a year in Alberta, Canada. In the province, 3000 acres of corn were planted.
Alberta, Canada, has a very changeable climate. The lowest temperature in winter can reach minus 50 degrees, and there are often hail in summer. Nolan needs to pay special attention to weather conditions to grow good-growing corn.
However, the title of “Nuoshen” is not in vain. Under the careful cultivation of him and his team, 3000 acres of cornfields are growing very well, so there is a cornfield that is invisible in “Interstellar”.
taken from the trailer of “Interstellar”
The farmer Nolan, who was delayed by the filming of the movie, also made a fortune from selling corn, which is not to be called a “business ghost”.
Nolan once excitedly recalled the corn harvest
Nolan did not choose to use computer special effects for the several spaceships that appeared in the movie, but used almost one-to-one large models to shoot them. Each spacecraft weighs 10,000 pounds. After being disassembled, it is transported by a cargo plane to the filming location, and then reassembledInstalled. It sounds troublesome, but Nolan doesn’t like tossing, but enjoys it.
If you have watched “Inception”, then you must have an impression of this shocking scene: Leonardo’s Dom Cobb was pushed into the bathtub and triggered the first dream crossing. Cobb’s feelings about water in the upper world are transferred to the dreams of the lower layer, producing a surreal effect: the entire Japanese palace is submerged by torrential water.
Intercepted from the trailer of Inception
And this is not a computer special effect synthesis. Nolan asked the special effects team to build a huge Japanese palace, and arranged 26 large water tanks in the palace, about 19 tons of water gushing out, there is a picture of “water overflowing golden mountains”.
For the avalanche scene of the fifth dream in the movie, Nolan also went to Canada to shoot. In a snow mountain chase, even though the actor Tom Hardy can’t ski, Nolan “tied” him to a snowmobile and let him drive down the mountain at high speed.
Tom’s heart may be: anger, shaking, cold
If you have watched enough of Nolan’s works, you will find that in his movies, there are almost out of ten big scenes of building explosions, and he basically chooses real shots for these scenes.
For example, in “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises,” the scene where the Joker blows up the hospital, the hospital that was blown up is the real (there is a saying Nuolan bought a disused building for $5 million).
And Nolan once said that if he doesn’t make movies, his ideal profession is an architect. Some netizens teased that Nolan might be thinking, “If I can’t get it, I will blow it up.”
There are numerous relevant cases regarding Nolan’s obsession with real-life shooting. If Nolan is asked to shoot “Game of Thrones,” maybe he can find three dragons.
In addition to being obsessed with real shooting, Nolan has also been very fond of shooting movies with 65mm IMAX film machines in recent years.(70mm film is used for screening). Even though the digital camera is so mature, Nolan still pursues the invincible quality of film.
But the price is “burning money.” In “Creed”, Nolan’s crew used about 480,000 meters of IMAX film to complete most of the scenes. On average, a tire-sized film was used every three minutes.