1novels Chapter 128 The Scene That Created History
Chapter 128 The Scene That Created History
When Castor was about to give up, he recalled his oath when he joined the FBI. This scene was actually added by Jed, which was not in the original.Anyway, "Face Changing" has been changed beyond recognition by Jed, and I don't care about more changes.This scene was originally dismissed by John Woo as "flattering", but it was still kept by Jed.The reason why he is here to flatter the US government, especially the FBI, is to prevent John Woo from being saved if the "911 incident" really happens in the future.
Jed is only a producer and screenwriter himself, and he is also an American, especially a descendant of the founding father of the United States... These few lines alone are enough to convince Americans that he is not a traitor.But what about Wu Yusen?He is Chinese, and he made such a "criminal textbook" movie. Who can guarantee that the FBI will not trouble John Woo in the future?So Jed had to make this movie very ideologically correct. The main theme of the whole film is that although the terrorists are strong and the US government is somewhat bureaucratic, the American civil servants and police officers are still very dedicated.
Don't think that the U.S. government doesn't like this. The U.S. government loves those film and television creators who take the initiative to flatter.Due to the restrictions of American laws, the U.S. government cannot promote itself in the country, so even if the U.S. government is blackened into a pig by the American people, they can only endure it.Therefore, when encountering film and television producers who are willing to flatter, the US government is still willing to support them in all aspects.
To put it simply, it is Michael Bay, who has flattered the U.S. military since "Into the Deadly Island", but when it came to "Transformers", the U.S. military directly hooked up with Michael Bay.You give me a lot of hype about the bravery of the US military, and I will arrange for real US troops to participate in your filming.In the end, several scenes of "Transformers" are shot exactly according to the tune of American conscription advertisements, with the latest weapons emerging one after another.
Although the filmmakers themselves and film critics are very disgusted with this kind of flattery to the government, it has to be said that such a scene is still extremely inciting to the common people.In the eyes of the general public, Castor is an FBI agent who was abandoned by the government but still sticks to his beliefs. We have such capable agents in the United States, so why are we afraid of terrorists?
At this time, some people in the FBI began to investigate the so-called face-changing plan. Although this plan was known and implemented in a small area, some clues still fell into the eyes of those who cared. FBI deputy director Hicks was curious about this strange source of intelligence, because no matter how he looked through the files, he couldn't find the secret codename after Castor went undercover.Especially after the secret code successfully predicted the New York subway bombing, Hicks decided to investigate the secret code by himself.
Soon he knew some clues about the face-changing project, but after tracing it down, he accidentally discovered that the laboratory that carried out the project had mysteriously disappeared, and all personnel had also disappeared.The last message he found in all the records was "someone was involved in this plan". After referring to the recent abnormal behavior of the big devil "Sean", Hicks suddenly realized that someone inside the FBI had already executed this plan. Plan, the face-changing object is Sean.But which agent carried it out?No one knows this.
And what makes Hicks sweat all over is that all the FBI has a lot of staff, which means that the real Sean has also lurked into the FBI by changing his face.This made Deputy Director Hicks a little dumbfounded. The undercover arranged by the FBI did not play its due role, but let the undercover of the other party sneak into his own interior.Hicks would not easily alert the undercover agent. Since he dared to sneak in and has not been discovered until now, then this person is indeed smart enough.
Hicks temporarily pressed down to dig out his undercover thoughts, and turned to study the information provided by Sean.It mentioned that terrorists would hijack planes and crash them into the World Trade Center, thereby attacking the U.S. economy in order to profit from the international foreign exchange market.However, this information was criticized as "nonsense" by the analysts, and it was only backed up in the file, and no one was reminded.
Hicks immediately hung up the phone to the researchers in the intelligence analysis class, "I want to know, is it possible that our plane was hijacked and hit the World Trade Center?"
"Your Excellency, how is this possible? The source of this information is not credible, so the information is naturally nonsense."
"I don't care about the source, I just want to go back to, are our security measures enough to avoid problems like this?"
"I can't guarantee it, because there is no 100% security measure." The analyst said, "But this is a delusion."
Hicks stopped talking to the people in the analysis class, but ordered a few key personnel to go straight to New York from Washington, DC.But at the same time, a hijacked plane has broken into the sky over New York.Despite repeated calls from New York's air traffic control bureau, the plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
This scene was shot by John Woo using IMAX rubber rings, so the field of vision is very wide.In addition to using computer special effects for simulation, there are also many shots that are shot by setting the scene.The shots that are both true and false become extremely real after computer synthesis, especially seeing a huge plane crashing into the building through the eyes of the staff in the office building is still very shocking.
Countless people at the scene were heard exclaiming, and then the plane exploded, and then aviation kerosene was poured on the building, causing a fire.The heat caused changes in the building's steel frame, and the building began to crumble.But before the high-level personnel were evacuated, the World Trade Center began to collapse.In order to make the scene of the collapse more real, John Woo once again resorted to the technique of editing pictures on TV news.A plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, and naturally it was broadcast live by various TV stations across the United States.
Even Director Hicks, who was flying to New York, already knew about it. He knew that he was one step too late this time, and he could only watch the south tower of the World Trade Center collapse like this.
"God, how did this happen?" The audience behind asked in low voices in horror, "Did Wu really send a plane to crash into the World Trade Center? It's so real! It's terrible! If it's true happened, what should I do?"
Critics struggled to remember the flaws in the scene, frustrated that the whole scene couldn't have been more real.As if Wu Yusen is not afraid of the audience's criticism, at least eight cameras were used to shoot the whole scene.With ingenious editing and powerful special effects, the whole shot of the plane crashing into the World Trade Center is unbelievably real.
Since there is no fault to be found, the film critics can only admire this shot.Not every director can manage such a big scene. The bigger the scene means the more cameras and the more people involved... This means that there are more possibilities for mistakes.This time not only tests the director's lens language function, but also tests the director's on-site mobilization ability.Obviously, John Woo handles this scene brilliantly.
Just when everyone was still reminiscing about that classic shot, the movie has come to the end.Director Hicks finds Sean and confirms that he is the real Castor, which means that Castor is the Sean Archer that the FBI is looking for.During the roundup of the FBI, Castor wearing a Sean mask finally blocked Sean wearing a Castor mask in a church, but what made Casto feel entangled was that Sean was holding him at this time youngest son.
Seeing Casto, Sean smiled and put the young child into the stroller, then took out a portable player and stuffed the earphones into the child's ears.The child looked at the world with innocent eyes, and all the sounds of the movie disappeared, and the whole world seemed to only have ERA's "Mass".In ERA's solemn mass, Sean and Castor took out their pistols and launched a desperate gun battle in the holy church.In the awe-inspiring sound of music, white doves flew over the glass of the church, guns were knocked continuously, and bullet casings continued to fall... But there were no gunshots, only the sacred diffuse music.
The shots here are all in slow motion, and Wu Yusen boldly adopted the method of shooting with a long shot and one shot to the end.When the film critics saw this scene, tears rushed into their eyes. This is the style of John Woo, and John Woo has used his poetic shots to the extreme, and the violent shots become as delicate and beautiful as works of art.
Several film critics wrote in their notebooks, "Just for this shot, John Woo deserves a standing ovation. "Face Changing" is a success, both artistically and at the box office!"
When the music ended, a bullet from Castor in the mask of Sean went into the chest of Sean in the mask of Castor.As the music ended, the real Sean slowly fell.Casto walked up to his young son and took off the earphones.The child still looked at the man in front of him with his transparent eyes, then smiled, and the picture was out of focus.
As the subtitles rolled, applause broke out in the auditorium.Wu Yusen had to take the crew to the stage early and bowed to thank the audience, and the audience responded to Wu Yusen with even bigger applause.The reporters could not wait to surround Wu Yusen, they had too many questions to ask.Whether it is a subway explosion or a plane crashing into a building, there are too many topics to talk about.
In particular, the criminal route designed by the main creators such as John Woo is almost perfect. Many reporters are asking "worried about being copied by criminals", but John Woo said that they have provided the security loopholes they investigated to the California government in the form of documents And the federal government, they believe that the government must be able to handle these things very well.
"Hey, man! You must watch "Face Changing" this summer, it's so exciting!" Some viewers couldn't wait to show off to their friends, "And you'd better go see the 3D version in the IMAX theater, otherwise you will definitely regret it A long, long time."
According to an interview conducted by a local Los Angeles TV station outside the premiere, almost all the audience gave the film an "excellent" rating, which immediately put pressure on other Hollywood film companies.Originally due to Jade's insistence, the production cost of "Face Changing" was very high, but such a good reputation means that a box office dominant work has appeared again.Last year, "Independence Day", "Mission: Impossible" and "The Bravery" took turns to dominate the summer box office. This year's summer movies will be dominated by Galaxy movies again?